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USS Ronald Reagan Commissioning Tomorrow
wessman writes "Being an employee at Northrop Grumman's Newport News shipyard, I cannot help but be proud to see one of our products commissioned by the U.S. Navy, especially considering how long it takes to build a $5 billion Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. And I'm sure the other 18,000 workers here feel the same way. The ship is being commissioned Saturday, July 12 at the Norfolk naval base. It is obviously the most technically advanced carrier in the fleet, taking the term "hardware" to new levels. Pick a local story. From the Hampton Roads Daily Press: Anchors Aweigh, Changes Abound Aboard Carrier, Some Wanted CVN-76 Named after Daredevil Flier, 20,000 Expected for Reagan's Rite, USS Constellation Retiring Too Soon?. From the Virginia Pilot: The Carrier Reagan - Ahead of Its Class, Carrier Construction is All in the Family, Former President's Son Michael Reagan Excited about Commissioning."
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Finally, though Microsoft is not mentioned, people might start to understand what a monoculture of poor quality software enables.
There, now it's a real slashdot article.
Congress is in charge of spending, not the President.
It is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
While the Republican party likes to claim that Reagan's hard-line policies were responsible the collapse of the Soviet Union, it's not clear that that was the case. In fact, hard-line American policies made it easier for the Soviet government to justify repressing its own people.
Sure. So persuasive when you back it up with...
After all, the US had invaded the Soviet Union in 1918
No they didn't. The Soviet Union didn't even exist in 1918. The western powers participated in the Russian civil war in 1918-20 by allying with the forces opposed to the Communists. Small numbers of troops from western nations participated, but those were mostly British and French. The assertion that the the US invaded Russia in completely false.
and the Treaty of Versailles required that German troops to continue occupying large areas of conquered Russia after the war
No it didn't. Versailles required the Germans to give back large pieces of territory in the East, primarily to Poland. It isn't like there were large pieces of Russian territory in the East occupied by the Germans by 1920. Besides, Versailles was hardly dictated by the Americans.
so how could they trust the US when it was building up its military?
Claiming that the events that transpired after WWI directly affected Soviet attitudes towards the US 70 years later is a joke. That it kept the Communists in power longer even more so. Try picking up a history book before you go making ridiculous assertions.
Do you even know anything about perl? -- AC Replying to Tom Christiansen post.
Dear Abby:
My husband is a liar and a cheat. He has cheated on me from the
beginning. When I confront him, he denies everything. What's worse is
everyone knows he cheats on me. It is so humiliating! Also, since he
lost his job two years ago he hasn't even looked for a new one. All he
does is sit around the living room in his underwear and watch TV while I
work to pay the bills. And since our daughter went away to college he
doesn't even pretend to like me. He keeps calling me a lesbian. What
should I do?
Signed Clueless
Dear Clueless:
Dump him. You're a New York Senator now. You don't need him anymore.
Berto
see how long a man remains a pacifist when forced to witness the rape of his wife
pacifism is a noble goal for humanity
emphasis on the word "goal" as opposed to "reality"
we are in the dark ages of mankind
in the future they will write about the time we live in, and shudder to contemplate how the world ever survived our time
the truth is, world peace is something that is fought for and earned and secured, not something that congeals out of the ether in a massive display of denial about the evil side of human nature... read: the modern definition of "pacifism"
don't get me wrong: blind nationalism is moronic, but blind pacifism is equally moronic
simple as that really
you need to defend noble ideals like freedom and equality until the world is mature enough to support them without the sword
we don't live in that time yet, we are not that mature
denial about that fact does not make any reality except the reality of a fool
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it