Yea? Well that went both ways. The Aztecs murdered and stole from the Maya and other tribes. The Northeast was in a perpetual state of war before the Europeans came over.
Says who? The US Constitution thats who says what the US Census is for.
Article 1, Section 2: "The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct."
You want more data collected and used in different ways? Change the Constitution.
What the heck does the NRA have to do with the BATF going cowboy and attacking a giant complex of buildings where every adult had weapons when they could have just arrested Koresh when he went to town?
Don't whine about that NRA in this, its the DoJ and BATF who dropped the ball and got that mess going.
"Women used to be chattel, we had slaves, corporations had private armies that could kill striking union members with impunity, young children were forced to work twelve-hour shifts in factories and mines, American Indians were slaughtered by roving army units and bands of vigilantes, mob lynchings were commonplace, college was available only to the very rich, antibiotics and blood transfusion hadn't been invented yet, and so on. Heck, at the outset, only white male landowners could vote."
Thanks for that People's History rant, but it isn't true.
Women in the US were never "chattel", sure they couldn't vote for a while but they could own property, divorce, have a job, own land and pay taxes they sure got to pay taxes. The middle and upper class Southern woman all but pushed the Southern society into the Civil War and shamed the men into volunteering to go to war.
Some states had slaves, some Indian Tribes had slaves, not everyone in the United States did and at the time many countries had slavery or serfdom.
Corporations did hire some private security forces, they they weren't "armies" anymore than the striking workers were "revolutionary vanguards".
Child labor sucked, no doubt about that.
"American Indians were slaughtered by roving army units and bands of vigilantes". Sand Creek is the only instance of this where there was a real "slaughter" of civilians by "roving army units". In the course of the Great Plains and Southwest Indian Wars from 1859-1900 there were roughly 13,500 American Indian fighters and never more than 10,000 US Army and Marine Corps personnel in the theatre, in combat the casualty rates were about 1:1.5 in favor of the US Army. The Indian Wars were not great slaughters and its insulting to the memory of the soldiers and warriors who fought on both sides to call it that.
Really? All the "Modern American cities" I've lived in aren't like that.
Portland OR Seattle WA Denver CO Anchorage AK
Anchorage is more car heavy than the other places because well, its cold here alot of the time and people in cold weather cities usually have more cars per person. Heck Anchorage which is the newest of those cities doesn't have on the street parking for the majority of the city streets.
I've had vehicles registered in South Dakota, Oregon, Washington and Alaska.
Alaska - Embossed serial reflective sheeting with three letters and three numbers - ABC123
Oregon - Embossed serial reflective sheeting with three numbers, a space and three letters - 123 ABC
South Dakota - Screened serial reflective sheeting with 1-9 two letters, a space and three numbers. The 1-10 are county by size. 10-66 one letter, a space and three numbers. The 10-64 are county by alphabetical, 65-66 are unorganized counties (Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations).
Washington - Embossed serial reflective sheeting with three numbers, a dash and three letters or three letters and four numbers
In personal computing, I'd say Apple is the most innovative computer maker. When the field it was operating in consisted of SGI, Dell, HP, Compaq, IBM Personal Computing, Apple, Sun, Gateway.
I'll pick Apple out of 'em. Of course out of the companies that made computers and OS, who is left in that market? Apple.
The United States of America has never ever been a direct Democracy and they never pretended to be. The United States of America is a Republic, stronger at the Federal level than it used to be and should be, but thats besides the point.
At the local level its a representative democracy (in some places direct democracy). We elect people to hold an office, school board, water board, sheriff, sometimes Judge, Mayor, town councillors, etc. We elect people to the county/parish and state offices.
It used to be that the state appointed the Senators but now its an elected position, so we vote for Congressmen and Senators to represent us at the national level and we get to vote for who we want as President and then the Electoral College votes for the President.
I'm damned glad that the US isn't a direct democracy, the people are too damned fickle.
I had this argument when I was in Europe and the Middle East with folks.
"America is culturally invading other countries..." Wait, what? "Ooh McDonalds is open lets get fries! They have the best milk shakes have you ever had one?!"
Don't go to American movies. Don't download American music. Don't play American video games. Don't buy from American companies.
Short list of American companies to avoid... Dell, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Cisco, Google, GM, Ford, Coca-Cola, Pespi, IBM, Blizzard, EA,/.'s parent company, fark.com, CNN, Fox, New York Times, Manchester United and AT&T.
If Israel wasn't there Iran would be trying to go nuclear because of Saudi Arabia. If Iraq hadn't been pummeled in 1991 it'd be Iran's "justification" for going nuclear. Or Pakistan would be.
Its easy to blame Israel for Iraq and Iran trying to go nuclear but thats just it, the easy answer. Its similar to the justification for the US/UK to go nuclear, Germany was the motivator but when they failed the threat became Imperial Japan and then the Soviet Union.
And when we look at the rhetoric, Israel has never threatened a neighbor with nuclear weapons, the closest they came was to fly high performance fighters over Cairo, Aswan High and Damascus during the October War to show that the integrated air defense networks wouldn't protect against a strike.
Iran on the other hand has been more vocal about intentions towards Israel. "...the Zionist Regime that is a usurper and illegitimate regime and a cancerous tumor should be wiped off the map."
SawStop is a electro-mechanical device, and a brilliant fix too, this is an example of a patent that works and an inventor that should be able to make some money off the design for a period of time.
Its also hard to figure out the East German government is going to let the Berlin Wall come down, that Romania is going to kill their dictator, Iraq is going to invade Kuwait or that the Soviet Union is going to have an attempted coup and fall.
I'd be more comfortable with an intelligence directorate that isn't a private club of Ivy League elites and one with more ties to the DoD. More of a Mossad than CIA.
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Yea? Well that went both ways. The Aztecs murdered and stole from the Maya and other tribes. The Northeast was in a perpetual state of war before the Europeans came over.
And this too, damn me for not previewing it right
http://factfinder.census.gov/jsp/saff/SAFFInfo.jsp?_pageId=sp4_decennial&_submenuId=
Says who? The US Constitution thats who says what the US Census is for.
Article 1, Section 2: "The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct."
You want more data collected and used in different ways? Change the Constitution.
What the heck does the NRA have to do with the BATF going cowboy and attacking a giant complex of buildings where every adult had weapons when they could have just arrested Koresh when he went to town?
Don't whine about that NRA in this, its the DoJ and BATF who dropped the ball and got that mess going.
What if you are white or South Asian and were born in Africa and moved to the US?
Or where born here of white or South Asian African parents?
The US Census is for and should only be used for Congressional seats (congressional apportionment), electoral votes, and government program funding
"Women used to be chattel, we had slaves, corporations had private armies that could kill striking union members with impunity, young children were forced to work twelve-hour shifts in factories and mines, American Indians were slaughtered by roving army units and bands of vigilantes, mob lynchings were commonplace, college was available only to the very rich, antibiotics and blood transfusion hadn't been invented yet, and so on. Heck, at the outset, only white male landowners could vote."
Thanks for that People's History rant, but it isn't true.
Women in the US were never "chattel", sure they couldn't vote for a while but they could own property, divorce, have a job, own land and pay taxes they sure got to pay taxes. The middle and upper class Southern woman all but pushed the Southern society into the Civil War and shamed the men into volunteering to go to war.
Some states had slaves, some Indian Tribes had slaves, not everyone in the United States did and at the time many countries had slavery or serfdom.
Corporations did hire some private security forces, they they weren't "armies" anymore than the striking workers were "revolutionary vanguards".
Child labor sucked, no doubt about that.
"American Indians were slaughtered by roving army units and bands of vigilantes". Sand Creek is the only instance of this where there was a real "slaughter" of civilians by "roving army units". In the course of the Great Plains and Southwest Indian Wars from 1859-1900 there were roughly 13,500 American Indian fighters and never more than 10,000 US Army and Marine Corps personnel in the theatre, in combat the casualty rates were about 1:1.5 in favor of the US Army. The Indian Wars were not great slaughters and its insulting to the memory of the soldiers and warriors who fought on both sides to call it that.
Then they can do their own damned study and spend their own money to do it rather than piggyback on a Federally mandated study.
Really? All the "Modern American cities" I've lived in aren't like that.
Portland OR
Seattle WA
Denver CO
Anchorage AK
Anchorage is more car heavy than the other places because well, its cold here alot of the time and people in cold weather cities usually have more cars per person. Heck Anchorage which is the newest of those cities doesn't have on the street parking for the majority of the city streets.
Sorry but the license plates in the US are not standardized beyond a size and ratio.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_license_plate_designs_and_serial_formats
I've had vehicles registered in South Dakota, Oregon, Washington and Alaska.
Alaska - Embossed serial reflective sheeting with three letters and three numbers - ABC123
Oregon - Embossed serial reflective sheeting with three numbers, a space and three letters - 123 ABC
South Dakota - Screened serial reflective sheeting with 1-9 two letters, a space and three numbers. The 1-10 are county by size. 10-66 one letter, a space and three numbers. The 10-64 are county by alphabetical, 65-66 are unorganized counties (Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations).
Washington - Embossed serial reflective sheeting with three numbers, a dash and three letters or three letters and four numbers
HP invented LEDs?
Marconi Labs invented the LED, TI got the patent for IR LEDs.
The inkjet was patented by Lord Kelvin in the 1860s and Siemens sold them originally.
Note that I specifically said "IBM Personal Computing" not IBM or Philips or hell Marconi.
In personal computing, I'd say Apple is the most innovative computer maker. When the field it was operating in consisted of SGI, Dell, HP, Compaq, IBM Personal Computing, Apple, Sun, Gateway.
I'll pick Apple out of 'em. Of course out of the companies that made computers and OS, who is left in that market? Apple.
Sarahbau didn't say Apple "made the mouse", but that Macintosh was the first widespread use of it, which is true.
Apple didn't design the first PDA, but they had the first semi-popular one, after all the GridPad didn't make it on the Simpsons, but the Newton did.
As for being a flop, they made seven models over five years, so it wasn't like a one shot and flop platform.
Israel still has a strong Communist bent to it.
Which the People's Republic will block with the Great Firewall of China.
The United States of America has never ever been a direct Democracy and they never pretended to be. The United States of America is a Republic, stronger at the Federal level than it used to be and should be, but thats besides the point.
At the local level its a representative democracy (in some places direct democracy). We elect people to hold an office, school board, water board, sheriff, sometimes Judge, Mayor, town councillors, etc. We elect people to the county/parish and state offices.
It used to be that the state appointed the Senators but now its an elected position, so we vote for Congressmen and Senators to represent us at the national level and we get to vote for who we want as President and then the Electoral College votes for the President.
I'm damned glad that the US isn't a direct democracy, the people are too damned fickle.
We got those ideals from Europe. Victorian ideals just hung out here longer.
I had this argument when I was in Europe and the Middle East with folks.
"America is culturally invading other countries..." Wait, what? "Ooh McDonalds is open lets get fries! They have the best milk shakes have you ever had one?!"
Don't go to American movies. Don't download American music. Don't play American video games. Don't buy from American companies.
Short list of American companies to avoid... /.'s parent company, fark.com, CNN, Fox, New York Times, Manchester United and AT&T.
Dell, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Cisco, Google, GM, Ford, Coca-Cola, Pespi, IBM, Blizzard, EA,
If Israel wasn't there Iran would be trying to go nuclear because of Saudi Arabia. If Iraq hadn't been pummeled in 1991 it'd be Iran's "justification" for going nuclear. Or Pakistan would be.
Its easy to blame Israel for Iraq and Iran trying to go nuclear but thats just it, the easy answer. Its similar to the justification for the US/UK to go nuclear, Germany was the motivator but when they failed the threat became Imperial Japan and then the Soviet Union.
And when we look at the rhetoric, Israel has never threatened a neighbor with nuclear weapons, the closest they came was to fly high performance fighters over Cairo, Aswan High and Damascus during the October War to show that the integrated air defense networks wouldn't protect against a strike.
Iran on the other hand has been more vocal about intentions towards Israel. "...the Zionist Regime that is a usurper and illegitimate regime and a cancerous tumor should be wiped off the map."
How the hell would a FOSS apply to this?
SawStop is a electro-mechanical device, and a brilliant fix too, this is an example of a patent that works and an inventor that should be able to make some money off the design for a period of time.
Beef labeling oversight transfer law?
Outstanding word, be a good WoW guild name.
How about Derek Flint as an example of CIA agent?
Really? But he is NSA and former military, which was my point.
CIA = Ivy League/Private Schools
NSA = Military, ROTC, Technology oriented
Its also hard to figure out the East German government is going to let the Berlin Wall come down, that Romania is going to kill their dictator, Iraq is going to invade Kuwait or that the Soviet Union is going to have an attempted coup and fall.
I'd be more comfortable with an intelligence directorate that isn't a private club of Ivy League elites and one with more ties to the DoD. More of a Mossad than CIA.
I love English just because anyone can shove words together and make a new word.
"English is a language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary."