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The U.S. government has been dominated for a long time by people who think that violence is the only way to solve problems. For example, see History surrounding the U.S. war with Iraq: Four short stories. See the heading, "The U.S. government has bombed 24 countries since the Second World War."

U.S. military commanders literally do not have the social sophistication to see any other method than violence, and they are backed by similarly minded U.S. citizens, many of whom have never seen a war they didn't like.

Also, there is an extreme conflict of interest. Weapons makers hire retired military leaders, so supporting violence supports getting a good job after military service. As former U.S. President General Dwight D. Eisenhower said in a famous speech, beware of the "military-industrial complex". Here's a quote:

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

"We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes."

Another quote:

"The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present - and is gravely to be regarded."

President George W. Bush operates under extreme conflict of interest, also. His family is heavily invested in The Carlyle Group, which is a major owner of weapons manufacturers. That puts pressure on him to see only violent possibilities.

United States citizens often have only 2 weeks vacation each year, and they work more than the people of other nations besides Japan. They simply don't have the time to try to understand their government. They can only hope that everything is all right. But it isn't. For example, see Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.

Brazil is a country of about the same land size as the U.S. (excluding Alaska). Brazil is dominated by people of European descent, as is the United States. However, it has been more than 100 years since the Brazilian government has been involved with aggression against its neighbors. (Brazil did support the Allies in the Second World War.) Somehow, Brazilians have found a way to live in the world without killing other people.

The U.S. government has been dominated for a long time by people who think that violence is the only way to solve problems. For example, see History surrounding the U.S. war with Iraq: Four short stories. See the heading, "The U.S. government has bombed 24 countries since the Second World War."

U.S. military commanders literally do not have the social sophistication to see any other method than violence, and they are backed by similarly minded U.S. citizens, many of whom have never seen a war they didn't like.

Also, there is an extreme conflict of interest. Weapons makers hire retired military leaders, so supporting violence supports getting a good job after military service. As former U.S. President General Dwight D. Eisenhower said in a famous speech, beware of the "military-industrial complex". Here's a quote:

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

"We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes."

Another quote:

"The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present - and is gravely to be regarded."

President George W. Bush operates under extreme conflict of interest, also. His family is heavily invested in The Carlyle Group, which is a major owner of weapons manufacturers. That puts pressure on him to see only violent possibilities.

United States citizens often have only 2 weeks vacation each year, and they work more than the people of other nations besides Japan. They simply don't have the time to try to understand their government. They can only hope that everything is all right. But it isn't. For example, see Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.

Brazil is a country of about the same land size as the U.S. (excluding Alaska). Brazil is dominated by people of European descent, as is the United States. However, it has been more than 100 years since the Brazilian government has been involved with aggression against its neighbors. (Brazil did support the Allies in the Second World War.) Somehow, Brazilians have found a way to live in the world without killing other people.

Know your government.

Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government

If U.S. government leaders truly respected the soldiers in Iraq, the soldiers would not need charity.

It's illogical to vote Republican in 2004.

You're right about people in the U.S. making a lot of money from U.S. government violence. George W. Bush's family is heavily invested in the Carlyle Group, which owns weapons manufacturing companies. See: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.

If U.S. government leaders truly respected the soldiers, the soldiers would not need charity.

It's illogical to vote Republican in 2004.

You're right about people in the U.S. making a lot of money from U.S. government violence. George W. Bush's family is heavily invested in the Carlyle Group, which owns weapons manufacturing companies. See: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.

If U.S. government leaders truly respected the soldiers, the soldiers would not need charity.

It's illogical to vote Republican in 2004.

I'm very interested in being intellectually honest.

This is not a case of politics as usual. The Bush administration is involved in widespread corruption. As I mentioned above, I put links to 3 movies and 35 books that all say that the U.S. government is more corrupt now than it has been in the memory of living people: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. Some of the authors are former Bush administration officials.

I'm independent myself, but I like some of those who call themselves Republican. I like McCain. I like Giuliani. I can see both of them have their inner conflict and their shortcomings. I'm not expecting government leaders to be perfect. However, deliberately selling government power to special interests is different than being imperfect.

"They" are the people who want corruption in government. They are a very diverse lot. Some are nothing but criminals. Some are business people who want government muscle to help them raise their profits. Many are people who are highly conflicted, and could not have positions of power in an honest situation. Many are religious extremists who care about nothing but their extremism. "They" are people who can accept all the contradictions of being a Republican, as mentioned in this list that has been circulating by email:

It's tough to be a Republican.

The "stock market" is heavily involved in deliberate government corruption.

The Bush administration has been appointing heads of government agencies who reduce the role of those agencies. After they destroy the effectiveness of the agencies, they go back to running their businesses, and the corruption gives them more profit.

Another way they corrupt government is to starve the agencies of operating funds.

For a discussion of starving the SEC (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, regulates the stock exchange), see this article: Keeping the SEC on a Starvation Diet. The corrupters don't want their stock manipulations discovered. They want more of this: Enron fraud, this: WorldCom fraud and this: Tyco fraud.

This is all part of extremely widespread corruption in the U.S. government. Even the 3 movies and 34 books linked in this article are not enough to tell the story: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.

They are corrupting the IRS (U.S. Internal Revenue Service, collects taxes), too. The corrupters definitely do NOT want their tax returns to be audited, so they arrange that there is not enough money for audits: Bush Request for IRS Not Enough, Report Says

They are corrupting the patent office the same way. That's why there are so many crazy patents.

The CAN-SPAM Act is not a "bust", as the Slashdot story says. The CAN-SPAM Act does exactly what it was designed to do. It helps the spammers.

The CAN-SPAM Act is part of extremely widespread corruption in the U.S. government. Even the 3 movies and 34 books linked in this article are not enough to tell the complete story: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.

More political humor: It's tough to be a Republican.

My uncle, who was one of the research program chiefs, said exactly the same thing as the professor, but in the 70s or late 60s. They've spent many billions, and apparently have achieved very little.

My understanding is not only do people not want to risk their jobs, but they don't actually have a plan. Anything that would handle the material, or even observe it, must be able to withstand extremely high radiation levels.

The whole thing sounds like extreme government corruption to me. United States government corruption worries me so much I put together some links to 3 movies and 35 books about it: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.

It is important to realize some facts about the Hanford clean-up:

• First, the problems they are talking about happened very early in nuclear power plant research, in the 50s and earlier. They are not so sloppy now in the storage of nuclear waste. Back then, they made extremely severe problems for themselves, which are very difficult to correct.

• Second, there is a huge amount of government fraud, apparently. My uncle was the head of one of the groups at Battelle studying the problems. The way they talk now about the cleanup is exactly the way they were talking in the 70s. Apparently nothing has been done, but they continue to milk the issue for money.

There are tanks at the Hanford site that constantly boil, and have boiled for more than 40 years, because of the heat from radioactivity. They have made devices to examine the boiling. Back in the late 60s they decided they would try to stabilize the tanks by "glassifying" them. The wanted to turn the entire radioactive mass inside a tank into a solid mass of glass.

They are talking about this now, too, and they are giving the same completion date, "15 to 30 years from now". That's why I say that apparently nothing has been done, even though they have spent many, many billions.

What is apparently happening in this story is that they are trying to scare the public so that they can get even more money.

Here's more about U.S. government corruption: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.

There may be some corruption the 3 movies and 35 books linked in the article did not document.

How can anyone have a casual look at links to 3 movies and 35 books that say the same thing, and deny that there is something happening? Especially when some of the authors are Republicans, and former officials of the Bush administration?

I've found that people really, really, really don't want to accept that their government is largely corrupt.

Instead of accepting, for example, the video clip in Fahrenheit 9/11 that shows George W. Bush holding hands with Saudi Prince Bandar, those who want to deny reality attack Michael Moore. But no one denies that the clip is real, or that the Bush family calls him "Bandar Bush". But many people deny the obvious conclusions.

Here's the link again. I suggest you have a closer look at the summaries of the 35 books: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.

Maybe it went like this:

StorageTech execs: We were going to commit suicide this month, but we decided on an alternative method of self-destruction. We'll sue to prevent someone from testing our product to make sure it works.

And then we'll get our trademark on Slashdot! We'll be the leader in company deathcycle management.

It's important to realize that the DMCA is not the only corrupt aspect of the U.S. government: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.

How does a court that does not understand technical things interpret a law that was written by people who didn't understand technical things? This way:

"... contrary to their assertions, defendants are not saved by 17 U.S.C. 117.3 That section was passed in 1998 as part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to protect computer technicians who risked violating copyright law just by turning on the machines they were to service. Thus, the statute provides that it is not an infringement for the owner or lessee of a machine to authorize the making of a copy of a computer program if the program is copied solely by turning on the machine for the purpose only of maintenance and repair and 1) the copy "is used in no other manner and is destroyed immediately after the maintenance and repair is completed," and 2) any part of the computer program that is not necessary for the machine to be activated is not accessed or used. 17 U.S.C. 117(c). Defendants copy the Code by turning on the machine; however, they do so not just for repair, but also for the express purpose of circumventing plaintiff's security measures, modifying the Maintenance Level, and intercepting plaintiff's Event Messages."

"The evidence further shows that plaintiff requires its employees to sign confidentiality agreements and that it denies its customers any rights to the Maintenance Code and Event Messages."

Earlier in the injunction, the court said, "Plaintiff's storage systems are, at their most basic, a large number of tape libraries that plaintiff collectively calls Silo Systems. They have three components: 1) a Library Storage Module, 2) a Library Control Unit, and 3) a Library Management Unit. The first is a very large box-like structure (14' x14' x 8') and a piece of hardware with robotics that is operated by software in the Control and Management units. It typically contains thousands of tapes, tape drives and a robotic arm to store and retrieve tapes as directed."

The court says that it is entirely acceptable that you can buy the room-size hardware from StorageTek, but you can't test it to see if it works: "Plaintiff [StorageTek] also services the customers' installations by means of diagnostic software, the "Maintenance Code," which it uses to identify malfunctions and problems in the customers' storage system. Although the storage systems are programmed with the Maintenance Code along with the functional operations software, the Code is not sold, and only plaintiff has access to it."

It seems to me only fair that StorageTek be required to give the injunction to all prospective customers, so that customers can see the circumstances in which they would be backing up their important data.

In my opinion, a customer would be crazy to trust their data to a company that may go out of business at any time because of incredibly bad management decisions, and amazingly adversarial business practices.

A scene like this will be repeated wherever StorageTek systems are sold: Computer tech: "Oh, you say we're getting a StorageTek system? I'll just put a copy of the injunction on the CEO's desk, with a note saying that we may be sued if we test the system."

A friend asked me which books I would recommend and I wrote a short article with links to several books: Read the Recent Great Books.

I made the point with him that the wisdom in the ancient great books had been largely absorbed into our culture. It's the recent great books that include ideas not everyone knows.

By far, by far, the biggest limitations in anyone's ability to program computers are due to inner conflict. Someone who can approach and deal with his or her inner conflict will be far more able to concentrate and will be far more creative. So the best book to become a good programmer may not always be a programming book.

Also, it is the solemn responsibility of everyone to help run his or her own country, especially at times of crisis like that in the United States. So, part of being a complete person is taking an interest in politics. If enough people don't, the U.S. may become effectively a dictatorship. Here are links to 3 movies and 35 books that say there are serious problems: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.

The book "Gestalt Therapy" in the first article linked above discusses an interesting fact: If you stare at something long enough, it will disappear from your consciousness. Similarly, if you try to do nothing but programming, you will find that your brain slows to a crawl. Only people who have a complete range of activities and interests are fully successful programmers.

For ideas about how to be creative, read the books of the humorist, Dr. Richard Feynman, linked in the first article. Oh, and Dr. Feynman also won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his discoveries in Quantum Electrodynamics.

A friend asked me which books I would recommend and I wrote a short article with links to several books: Read the Recent Great Books.

I made the point with him that the wisdom in the ancient great books had been largely absorbed into our culture. It's the recent great books that include ideas not everyone knows.

By far, by far, the biggest limitations in anyone's ability to program computers are due to inner conflict. Someone who can approach and deal with his or her inner conflict will be far more able to concentrate and will be far more creative. So the best book to become a good programmer may not always be a programming book.

Also, it is the solemn responsibility of everyone to help run his or her own country, especially at times of crisis like that in the United States. So, part of being a complete person is taking an interest in politics. If enough people don't, the U.S. may become effectively a dictatorship. Here are links to 3 movies and 35 books that say there are serious problems: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.

The book "Gestalt Therapy" in the first article linked above discusses an interesting fact: If you stare at something long enough, it will disappear from your consciousness. Similarly, if you try to do nothing but programming, you will find that your brain slows to a crawl. Only people who have a complete range of activities and interests are fully successful programmers.

For ideas about how to be creative, read the books of the humorist, Dr. Richard Feynman, linked in the first article. Oh, and Dr. Feynman also won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his discoveries in Quantum Electrodynamics.

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"I'm not saying Moore's film isn't misleading."

In a way, Fahrenheit 9/11 is misleading. Two other movies and 35 recently published books explain that the problems are far, far worse than the movie says. This article provides links to reviews of each of them: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. Slashdotted? Try http://www.hevanet.com/peace/usgovcorruption.htm

Two other movies and 35 recently published books support everything Michael Moore says in Fahrenheit 9/11 about U.S. government corruption, and much, much more:

Supporting Material: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. Slashdotted? Try http://www.hevanet.com/peace/usgovcorruption.htm

There were several books published before and during the Clinton administration about former U.S. President Bill Clinton. However, the situation with Clinton and previous presidents was not even remotely comparable. There are many more books discussing the Bush administration, and the negative issues are far, far more serious.

There are links to reviews of all the movies and books in the article linked above, but no BitTorrent links yet. For those, try again later.

I recommend the ABC BitTorrent client for Windows, too.

Two other movies and 35 recently published books support everything Michael Moore says in Fahrenheit 9/11 about U.S. government corruption, and much, much more:

Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. Problems with Slashdotted? Try http://www.hevanet.com/peace/usgovcorruption.htm

There were several books published before and during the Clinton administration about former U.S. President Bill Clinton. However, the situation with Clinton and previous presidents was not even remotely comparable. There are many more books discussing the Bush administration, and the negative issues are far, far more serious.

Both of the other movies, Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War and Unprecedented - 2000 Presidential Election are available by BitTorrent, also.

There are links to reviews of all the movies and books in the article linked above, but no BitTorrent links yet.

I agree that Michael Moore has his limitations as a film maker. What can we expect from a blue-collar, self-taught guy? He's not perfect, he's just the best we have right now.

But we should not be discussing Moore. We should be discussing the immense body of information about U.S. government corruption from which he has drawn.

I found TWO OTHER movies equally as convincing, and 35 books full of information about the corruption. In case you didn't see the link in the grandparent post, here it is again: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. http://www.hevanet.com/peace/usgovcorruption.htm if the other is slashdotted.

You said above, "Yahoo reports around $21 million. IIRC Spiderman made around $110 million in the opening weekend." First, the weekend is not over! I think Spiderman opened in as many as 4,000 theaters, Fahrenheit 9/11 in 858? The arithmetic is shocking, if it holds true. A documentary about politics and government corruption doing as well as Spiderman????? In a country where 50% don't vote????

I'm amazed that people get upset about slight inaccuracies in Moore's presentation, and ignore the HUGE corruption that is the point of his presentation. It doesn't matter when the Saudis actually flew, and it is not possible to determine. The book House of Bush, House of Saud says 140 Saudis flew inside the U.S. during a time when no one else was flying. The REAL point is that the Bush administration holds the rich Saudis, including brothers of the guy who bombed the U.S., in higher esteem than almost anyone else, definitely including Secretary of State Colin Powell. Why? Because they are in the oil and weapons business together. That's corruption.

It's not just the fact that Michael Eisner of Disney did not want Disney to distribute the film. Fahrenheit 9/11 won the highest prize, the Palm D'Or, at the recent Cannes competition! It is only the second documentary in history to do so. The film received the longest standing ovation in the history of the Cannes festival!

This story in Fahrenheit 9/11 is relevant to Slashdot because the situation is far worse than Michael Moore says. I put together links to 2 other movies and 35 books that say there is an extremely serious problem: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. Slashdotted? Try:
http://www.hevanet.com/peace/usgovcorruption.htm. Michael Moore is reporting things EVERY Slashdot reader and every person in the world needs to know. It they get their way, you WILL become poorer.

People like the movie because they like the movie! Fahrenheit 9/11 is selling out everywhere. Today in the Sports [!] section of the Kansas City Star is an example. The writer, Jason Whitlock, says:

"Fahrenheit is the most powerful movie I've ever seen. Not even Moore's heavy-handed, pro-Democrat slant could undermine his indictment of Bush's reaction to 9/11. The movie appears to have struck a chord with American moviegoers. I spent all Friday afternoon and evening driving from North Carolina theater to North Carolina theater trying to see the movie. The showings were all sold out. I snagged one of the last tickets to a mid-day Saturday showing."

Judging from the stories, other reactions in the U.S. are even more enthusiastic than this. A theater with 10 screens in Portland, Oregon scheduled 18 showings for today, Sunday, June 27, 2004, in reaction to the movie's popularity on Friday and Saturday.

(Reading the Kansas City Star commentary, 'Fahrenheit' powerful, persuasive, requires free registration. Be wary, the company says it will send you email, so you might give a trash email address, or use a free trash email address at Mailinator.com or DodgeIt.com. Judging from the registration information, if you give a real postal mail address, they may send you unwanted mail, also.)

The movie is breaking all-time theater records all over the United States.

The situation is far worse than Michael Moore says:

Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.

Slashdotted? Try:
http://www.hevanet.com/peace/usgovcorruption.htm

The U.S. Supreme Court has become arrogant, and is not following the law. See the section titled Corruption in the U.S. Supreme Court: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.

This is another marketing scheme by Microsoft employees to get Microsoft in the news and on Slashdot.

I certainly would never have known that a government official in Brazil compared Microsoft marketing people to "drug-dealers", if it weren't repeated in the quiet privacy of a Slashdot story.

Without a lawsuit, most Brazilians would never have heard what the official said. Now millions of Brazilians will know. What will be their reaction? Consider this. Less than two months after the September 11, 2001 bombing of the World Trade Center, at the costume parties celebrating the Brazilian equivalent of Halloween, many Brazilians came as Osama bin Laden. Brazilians and people from other countries think that the U.S. government is arrogant and out of control. Since 3 movies and 35 books published in the U.S. say this too, it can be said that the feeling is strong. Microsoft's legal action will be seen as more arrogance from the United States, probably.

My guess is that it is likely that this new move by Microsoft will only help sell Bill Gates Halloween masks. It certainly won't help sell Microsoft products.

Here's a broad overview of all U.S. goverment corruption, from 3 movies (soon to be 4) and 35 books: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. It definitely looks like you are right, things are not going well.

There's so much material about conflict of interest in the Bush administration that it's difficult to make even a summary: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.

Three movies and 34 recently published books should be news.

The EFF apparently does not realize that the crazy patents are caused by deliberate corruption. Not allowing enough money for an agency to do its job is a deliberate strategy of those who want corruption in the U.S. government. When corrupters don't want government oversight, they just reduce the operating funds. Those who want corruption don't mind if they destroy a thousand things to get one thing they want.

Those who want corruption will introduce bills that, if passed, would give the EFF what it wants, with the secret understanding that the bills won't get passed.

For a disussion of starving the SEC (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, regulates the stock exchange), see this article: Keeping the SEC on a Starvation Diet. The corrupters don't want their stock manipulations discovered. They want more of this: Enron fraud, this: WorldCom fraud and this: Tyco fraud.

They are corrupting the IRS (U.S. Internal Revenue Service, collects taxes), too. The corrupters definitely do NOT want their tax returns to be audited, so they arrange that there is not enough money for audits: Bush Request for IRS Not Enough, Report Says

The Bush administration has been appointing heads of government agencies that have agreed to reduce the role of those agencies. When they have destroyed the agencies, they will go back to running their businesses, and the corruption will give them more profit.

This is all part of extremely widespread corruption in the U.S. government. Even the 3 movies and 34 books linked in this article are not enough to tell the story: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.

• Clear Skies Initiative: A program to gut the Clean Air Act and substitute weaker anti-pollution regulations.
• Economic Stimulus: Massive tax cuts for corporations and the rich that failed, in theory and practice, to stimulate.
• Energy Security: The barely lessened dependence on Mideast oil to be achieved by drilling in U.S. national parks and wilderness preserves.
• Free Speech: 1) The ... right of pharmaceutical and other companies to make exaggerated or false advertising claims for their products, or 2) the right to raise and spend as much campaign money as you want, in any way you want.
• Healthy Forests Initiative: A policy of blaming forest fires on "tree-hugging" environmentalists and letting logging companies cut down the forests to save them.

That's interesting that you say it is a new McCarthyism. I had come to the same conclusion. We are seeing a general social breakdown in the United States. Consider the Enron fraud and the WorldCom fraud and the Tyco fraud, for example. Large companies are self-destructing.

The U.S. government is another example: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government

McCarthyism cannot be blamed on McCarthy. He was just one crazy person. There are always crazy people. It was the people who participated and didn't speak up that changed McCarthy from one crazy man to a social movement called McCarthyism.

I check Google News frequently, because if the world ended, how else would I know?

I expect there would be a story something like, "The world has ended, if you are still working, you are out of touch."

What is the proper way to behave when the world ends? Do you make backups and shut down your computer?

Don't do anything radical, because it might be a mistake.


Off topic: I put some links together of the 36 books and movies that say that the U.S. government has become corrupt: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.

I agree with the points you are making, but I don't think it is proper to use the term "3rd world countries".

Third world countries? Are those countries with corrupt elections, corrupt judges, and corrupt government leadership?

Is a third world country one of those that is always making war on its neighbors? (The U.S. government has bombed 24 countries since the Second World War. The last Brazilian aggression outside the country was in 1822, I'm told.)

When you say "third world country" you give an impression that the U.S. is superior in every way. That impression is false. In general, Brazilians are much happier than Americans. People in the U.S. use more legal drugs than those of any nation that has ever existed. The U.S. is the most obese country in the history of the world; eating when not hungry is an index of unhappiness.

A higher percentage of U.S. citizens go to prison or jail than any country in the entire history of the world. For example,

President George W. Bush DUI, 1st record of arrest
President George W. Bush DUI, 2nd record of arrest

Vice-President Dick Cheney DUI, record of 1st arrest
Vice-President Dick Cheney DUI, record of 2nd arrest

I agree with the points you are making, but I don't think it is proper to use the term "3rd world countries".

Third world countries? Are those countries with corrupt elections, corrupt judges, and corrupt government leadership?

Is a third world country one of those that is always making war on its neighbors? (The U.S. government has bombed 24 countries since the Second World War. The last Brazilian aggression outside the country was in 1822, I'm told.)

When you say "third world country" you give an impression that the U.S. is superior in every way. That impression is false. In general, Brazilians are much happier than Americans. People in the U.S. use more legal drugs than those of any nation that has ever existed. The U.S. is the most obese country in the history of the world; eating when not hungry is an index of unhappiness.

A higher percentage of U.S. citizens go to prison or jail than any country in the entire history of the world. For example,

President George W. Bush DUI, 1st record of arrest
President George W. Bush DUI, 2nd record of arrest

Vice-President Dick Cheney DUI, record of 1st arrest
Vice-President Dick Cheney DUI, record of 2nd arrest

I agree with the points you are making, but I don't think it is proper to use the term "3rd world countries".

Third world countries? Are those countries with corrupt elections, corrupt judges, and corrupt government leadership?

Is a third world country one of those that is always making war on its neighbors? (The U.S. government has bombed 24 countries since the Second World War. The last Brazilian aggression outside the country was in 1822, I'm told.)

When you say "third world country" you give an impression that the U.S. is superior in every way. That impression is false. In general, Brazilians are much happier than Americans. People in the U.S. use more legal drugs than those of any nation that has ever existed. The U.S. is the most obese country in the history of the world; eating when not hungry is an index of unhappiness.

A higher percentage of U.S. citizens go to prison or jail than any country in the entire history of the world. For example,

President George W. Bush DUI, 1st record of arrest
President George W. Bush DUI, 2nd record of arrest

Vice-President Dick Cheney DUI, record of 1st arrest
Vice-President Dick Cheney DUI, record of 2nd arrest

I agree with the points you are making, but I don't think it is proper to use the term "3rd world countries".

Third world countries? Are those countries with corrupt elections, corrupt judges, and corrupt government leadership?

Is a third world country one of those that is always making war on its neighbors? (The U.S. government has bombed 24 countries since the Second World War. The last Brazilian aggression outside the country was in 1822, I'm told.)

When you say "third world country" you give an impression that the U.S. is superior in every way. That impression is false. In general, Brazilians are much happier than Americans. People in the U.S. use more legal drugs than those of any nation that has ever existed. The U.S. is the most obese country in the history of the world; eating when not hungry is an index of unhappiness.

A higher percentage of U.S. citizens go to prison or jail than any country in the entire history of the world. For example,

President George W. Bush DUI, 1st record of arrest
President George W. Bush DUI, 2nd record of arrest

Vice-President Dick Cheney DUI, record of 1st arrest
Vice-President Dick Cheney DUI, record of 2nd arrest

I agree with the points you are making, but I don't think it is proper to use the term "3rd world countries".

Third world countries? Are those countries with corrupt elections, corrupt judges, and corrupt government leadership?

Is a third world country one of those that is always making war on its neighbors? (The U.S. government has bombed 24 countries since the Second World War. The last Brazilian aggression outside the country was in 1822, I'm told.)

When you say "third world country" you give an impression that the U.S. is superior in every way. That impression is false. In general, Brazilians are much happier than Americans. People in the U.S. use more legal drugs than those of any nation that has ever existed. The U.S. is the most obese country in the history of the world; eating when not hungry is an index of unhappiness.

A higher percentage of U.S. citizens go to prison or jail than any country in the entire history of the world. For example,

President George W. Bush DUI, 1st record of arrest
President George W. Bush DUI, 2nd record of arrest

Vice-President Dick Cheney DUI, record of 1st arrest
Vice-President Dick Cheney DUI, record of 2nd arrest

You may be interested in an article in which I pulled together some links: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. It is still in rough draft form.

The AC post above this comment (now at -1) is so typical. Something terrible happens in technology, and, instead of talking about the technology, technically knowledgeable being attacking each other!

The parent post is exactly right: "I'm an EE in Microelectronics, and I had been very disappointed in Intel's tricks to get MHz up."

Intel agrees! The whole point of abandoning the Pentium 4 is that Intel is dissapointed, also. Certainly the engineers at Intel did not know it would happen this way.

The Inquirer article says the same thing: "The heat dissipation/power consumption problems the company has had with the first 90nm desktop Pentium 4, 'Prescott', may well have convinced it that if it's to bring multi-core CPUs to market, its needs to completely rethink the architecture of those cores."

Not very long ago, AMD had 8 to 10 percent of the desktop market, now the share is closer to 50 percent.

Intel has not been doing well. I've had extensive conversations with people who work for Intel, including people who help design Intel microprocessors. In my opinion, it seems that Intel is suffering from years of bad management. Intel has been a company that treated its employees badly, and now the entire company is suffering.

The self-destruction of Intel seems to me to be related to the self-destruction of other U.S. companies, like Enron and WorldCom and the Tyco . It is my understanding that the self-destruction of these companies is related to a general social breakdown that is happening in the United States. I've written a draft of an article about the problems: Social Breakdown in the United States. (This is only the May 7, 2004, 12:46, draft version.)

Here's a book about what the U.S. government is doing. It's worse than you think: What should be the Response to Violence?

It seems to me that the article is nonsense. There are a lot of links to Amazon because Amazon is running a very active business in selling books.

CmdrTaco said recently that efficient search engines like Google make the web flatter and more democratic. It has been my experience that this is true.

In search results, my book, What should be the Response to Violence? is often ranked just below stories from large news companies.

If you search for "books", you will find Amazon. If you search for something more specific, you may find a small, specialized bookstore.

The rich still get richer, but those who are not rich can now be heard.

The author of the review says, "Managing Mailing Lists is still relevant despite its age." Translation: This book may be useless if you are picking a mailing list manager now.

What is the best mailing list software? What is the best open source mailing list software, if the answer is different?


What should be the Response to Violence?