Your engaging in group think and that's dangerous.
The only thing I ever did is vote for Bush in 2000, and the reason why is I believed him when he talked about small government. You want to complain about that and point fingers go ahead. I hope it makes you feel good to have someone to blame as our country continues to slide into the shitter.
It's not as if the democrat candidates and their socialist policies are any better. I can not vote for Bush or McCain for the SAME REASON that I can not vote for Obama or Clinton.
I would call myself a conservative. I'm a member of the Republican party, but I am absolutely sickened by they way the party has been acting since about 1996.
1. An admiration and affection for things military and an instinctive respect for armed authority, Yes, I use to wonder how the people of Imperial Japan and Germany allowed their governments to develop such a militaristic mindset.. I wonder this no more.. its happening in America. The Republican party was NEVER the the party of "war", We believed in a strong national defense never offense.
2. Xenophobia and hostility to foreign ideas and influences, especially non-assimilating immigrants, Correct. Republican circles are now using illegal aliens as a scapegoat for problems with liberal polices, instead of attacking those policies. For example.. I often hear conservatives say things like "Illegal should not have benefits, those benefits are only for citizens." What does that mean? Does that mean you support socialism but your just greedy about who gets it? The policies are the problems not the immigrants so much.. if you put out milk you will get stray cats.. the solution is to take away the milk not shoot the cats.
3. Nationalism and flamboyant display of nationalist imagery, Partly.. know what the difference between a nationalist and a patriot is? A nationalist supports his country as it exists now in all things that it does. A patriot supports the founding concepts of our government and the principles that created it, but not necessarily the government as it currently exists.
4. A cynical deployment of religion (see Leo Strauss), I'm not terribly religious, but I think it is wrong to force your views on others. Public school is a great example of a battleground between various groups. Those battles exist because government school must be one size fits all.. a "equal" education. This is why we have raging battles over, Creationism vs Evolution, Prayer in school, Pledge of allegiance, Gay marriage.. you name it. If the state did not provide mandated "equal" education but instead there were private schools, then these arguments wouldn't exist and people would send their children to the type of school they wanted them to attend.
5. Accusations of betrayal and disloyalty against critics, Those that would use force on others are the biggest danger to freedom in the world.
6. Gleeful expansion of the policing power of the state. I agree as well. There is all this talk about "security" now.. Well there is no "statue of security" in NY harbor. The Declaration of Independence does not say "Men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are security." The concept of America, is the concept of limited government, as little as humanly possible to provide us with LIBERTY not security. Our government's job is not to make sure you are safe, its job is to make sure you are free.
Sadly it seems.. people have forgotten such things. The words "Freedom and Liberty" are bastardized now in some peoples minds to mean more war, and might makes right..
I don't know WHAT neo-cons are.. but I do know they are confused on what country they live in that much is for sure.
Point to note also, just because we broke the constitution before and oppressed the natural human rights of the Nazi's (yes, all men, even Nazi's, have rights.) does not mean we must continue to do so in the future.
Scrameustache is right, many were turned over for bounty. There is nothing wrong with making the government prove they have a reason to hold these guys. If they *are* evil terrorists, then it should be easy for them right?
I did not say the source must be divine, I said god or nature. It can be divine if you so believe that garbage, but technically your right exist because you and nobody else lays a claim of ownership on your body. All rights come from property and since you own your body you have a right to liberty (to be free from another man's enslavement.)
To see the distinction of where the "creator" concept comes from picture this. If you create a chair, you are the owner of that chair, you can use that chair to your will and even give that chair to another. This is the context that the words "endowed by their creator" is referring to. Not to god. We don't know what give us our mind.. but whatever it was, it also clearly gave us rights.
This is a philosophical concept true, but it also the concept of property exists in nature. A bear has no understanding of man's philosophical concept of "rights" but it does understand property.. and if you enter its den, you will find it believes in defending that property. Now granted it does not understand these concepts very well.. but it does exert its authority over property rights.
You can look at some of the arguments by Madison and Hamilton, to see why society does not and can not grant rights to others. (simply put, exactly where did they get the power to do so? That's right.. nowhere, that means they don't have it.)
What scares me is that you're willing to allow terroists (you may not be aware that they are our ENEMIES - they want you and me DEAD) US Constitutional rights. They are not US citizens - they are self-declared (and US-declared) enemies of our Nation. Face it, you're only happy about this decision because you hate G.W. Bush because the liberals in the media told you to. You have not an independent or original thought in your very-closed mind. Get a clue, traitor. You are a fool.
You do not have rights because your an American citizen.. you have rights because your human. Your rights do not come from government, they do not come from the decrees of kings and emperors, they do not come from the majority vote of the governed, they do not come from pieces of paper! Your rights come from God or from Nature, they come from the entity that created you and gave you your mind and your body.
The Bill of Rights is NOT what grants you rights. It is a list of the rights that government can never infringe upon. It creates no limits on you, it only limits the government. Read the Federalist Papers article #84, it is an argument AGAINST the Bill of Rights, the founders were afraid that the Bill of Rights if made law would become a list of the ONLY rights the people had. (they were RIGHT, IT HAS become that list, but now even the Bill of Rights is being ignored too!)
All men have rights. Say it! All men have rights Canadians can not be jailed forever in America for speeding, they have a right to defend themselves and they have a right to trial. All men do.
What's so god dammed wrong with making the government prove these people in prison in Guantanamo deserve to be there. You are aware that some of these people were NOT "arrested on the battlefield".. nor were they "captured by U.S. Forces".. some were turned over by 3rd party groups like the Northern Alliance and other Iraqi's for a BOUNTY. (yeah, no shit for money..)
Where are you from Soviet Russia? You are a traitor, Your the one going against the Constitution, your the one going against American values like LIBERTY and JUSTICE, because here in my nation, the United States, my government has to prove someone guilty before they throw them in a hole forever.. we don't just "say" they are guilty like in Iran.
WTF is with the Republicans anymore? You are not Patriots.. you are Nationalists.. wake the fuck up moron.
If you split up IE 6 and 7 up then Firefox has about 39% and is the most popular browser. Personally I think this is fair as IE 6 and IE 7 are vastly different from a user perspective.
I agree, man with gun in bank != crime. It is up to the bank if such a thing is allowed.. (what ever happened to the idea of private property?)
In order for something to be a crime at all someone needs to be actually hurt, or have his property taken or damaged. If there is no victim there can not be a crime.
Microsoft was once the company who preached a common interface. You can find no end of old articles of Bill Gates describing the future where all applications will look the same and will react the same so users will be familiar with an application they have never seen before.
Well screw that future, Microsoft now has decided that was all a bunch of bullshit and have developed their top 3 applications with radically different interfaces (Office, Outlook, and Internet Explorer) to confuse all of us, and they put it on a OS (Vista) with several different types of interfaces depending on what your doing with it. (dialogs look and act different all over Vista.)
Hea Steve, how about a new motto: "Guidelines? We don't need no stinkin' UI guidelines.. we are Microsoft, you'll love it."
Yeah, he wrote software that detects terrorists after they have committed a crime.. Its key component searches google news. heh.
But really. Lots of people *may* commit crimes. Computers may decide you are likely to rob a bank tomorrow, that does not mean you will. We need to make sure the law is always about what you do not what a computer projects your going to do. The day we jail people who *might* be about to commit a crime is the day we put people in jail for their thoughts.
Ahh true! You should write a book.. it would be dammed better than this one for sure. Are we talking law here? Legally a terrorist is anyone DHS "says" is a terrorist.
I think this book is mis-information put out by al-CIAda.
Not really for the OP but I wanted to mention StartCom if someone was looking for a free cert as opposed to a self signed one. http://www.startcom.org/
*if* the people got angry with this (they wont), do you think it would make any difference?
With the way things are going.. I expect America to be a total police state in 30 years.
No outcry.. no complaints.. just idiots giving our hard fought for freedom of privacy away with stupid remarks like. "Well ya gots nothin ta worry `bout if yoo gots nothin ta hide.."
I think we are doomed.. but I'll continue to fight the loosing fight regardless. Let's e-mail our kings and bureaucrats and bla bla blaa..
Rights in a legal sense don't come from a piece of paper, but they can come from an agreement represented by that piece of paper. I don't have the right to walk over your land, but you and I agree that in return for a million dollars I am allowed to take a short cut from my back door across your yard, then that becomes a "right" that I posses, and you have a "duty" to respect. Uhh.. no, wrong, dind-ding-ding times up. Rights are not transferable. (property is, but the right to YOUR justly owned property can not be traded.)
If you and I agree to such a contract then I have given you a "privilege" to walk over my land. You never have a right because you can't gain or loose any right in the first place and a secondly right would mean you never have to ask in the first place.
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One size does not fit all. Get the oldbar add-on.
"Oldbar makes the location (URL) bar look like Firefox 2. Specially designed for those that dislike the AwesomeBar."
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227
No only in half the world. (is that so complicated? lol)
It is clearly explained on this web site. http://www.timecube.com/
enjoy.
I think maybe your looking at this the wrong way..
;)
It is more like someday we wont need wine.. because everything will be native Linux apps.
Your engaging in group think and that's dangerous.
The only thing I ever did is vote for Bush in 2000, and the reason why is I believed him when he talked about small government. You want to complain about that and point fingers go ahead. I hope it makes you feel good to have someone to blame as our country continues to slide into the shitter.
It's not as if the democrat candidates and their socialist policies are any better. I can not vote for Bush or McCain for the SAME REASON that I can not vote for Obama or Clinton.
I would call myself a conservative. I'm a member of the Republican party, but I am absolutely sickened by they way the party has been acting since about 1996.
1. An admiration and affection for things military and an instinctive respect for armed authority,
Yes, I use to wonder how the people of Imperial Japan and Germany allowed their governments to develop such a militaristic mindset.. I wonder this no more.. its happening in America. The Republican party was NEVER the the party of "war", We believed in a strong national defense never offense.
2. Xenophobia and hostility to foreign ideas and influences, especially non-assimilating immigrants,
Correct. Republican circles are now using illegal aliens as a scapegoat for problems with liberal polices, instead of attacking those policies. For example.. I often hear conservatives say things like "Illegal should not have benefits, those benefits are only for citizens." What does that mean? Does that mean you support socialism but your just greedy about who gets it? The policies are the problems not the immigrants so much.. if you put out milk you will get stray cats.. the solution is to take away the milk not shoot the cats.
3. Nationalism and flamboyant display of nationalist imagery,
Partly.. know what the difference between a nationalist and a patriot is? A nationalist supports his country as it exists now in all things that it does. A patriot supports the founding concepts of our government and the principles that created it, but not necessarily the government as it currently exists.
4. A cynical deployment of religion (see Leo Strauss),
I'm not terribly religious, but I think it is wrong to force your views on others. Public school is a great example of a battleground between various groups. Those battles exist because government school must be one size fits all.. a "equal" education. This is why we have raging battles over, Creationism vs Evolution, Prayer in school, Pledge of allegiance, Gay marriage.. you name it. If the state did not provide mandated "equal" education but instead there were private schools, then these arguments wouldn't exist and people would send their children to the type of school they wanted them to attend.
5. Accusations of betrayal and disloyalty against critics,
Those that would use force on others are the biggest danger to freedom in the world.
6. Gleeful expansion of the policing power of the state.
I agree as well. There is all this talk about "security" now.. Well there is no "statue of security" in NY harbor. The Declaration of Independence does not say "Men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are security." The concept of America, is the concept of limited government, as little as humanly possible to provide us with LIBERTY not security. Our government's job is not to make sure you are safe, its job is to make sure you are free.
Sadly it seems.. people have forgotten such things. The words "Freedom and Liberty" are bastardized now in some peoples minds to mean more war, and might makes right..
I don't know WHAT neo-cons are.. but I do know they are confused on what country they live in that much is for sure.
That's right.
Point to note also, just because we broke the constitution before and oppressed the natural human rights of the Nazi's (yes, all men, even Nazi's, have rights.) does not mean we must continue to do so in the future.
Scrameustache is right, many were turned over for bounty. There is nothing wrong with making the government prove they have a reason to hold these guys. If they *are* evil terrorists, then it should be easy for them right?
Wrong.
I did not say the source must be divine, I said god or nature. It can be divine if you so believe that garbage, but technically your right exist because you and nobody else lays a claim of ownership on your body. All rights come from property and since you own your body you have a right to liberty (to be free from another man's enslavement.)
To see the distinction of where the "creator" concept comes from picture this. If you create a chair, you are the owner of that chair, you can use that chair to your will and even give that chair to another. This is the context that the words "endowed by their creator" is referring to. Not to god. We don't know what give us our mind.. but whatever it was, it also clearly gave us rights.
This is a philosophical concept true, but it also the concept of property exists in nature. A bear has no understanding of man's philosophical concept of "rights" but it does understand property.. and if you enter its den, you will find it believes in defending that property. Now granted it does not understand these concepts very well.. but it does exert its authority over property rights.
You can look at some of the arguments by Madison and Hamilton, to see why society does not and can not grant rights to others. (simply put, exactly where did they get the power to do so? That's right.. nowhere, that means they don't have it.)
Face it, you're only happy about this decision because you hate G.W. Bush because the liberals in the media told you to. You have not an independent or original thought in your very-closed mind.
Get a clue, traitor. You are a fool.
You do not have rights because your an American citizen.. you have rights because your human. Your rights do not come from government, they do not come from the decrees of kings and emperors, they do not come from the majority vote of the governed, they do not come from pieces of paper! Your rights come from God or from Nature, they come from the entity that created you and gave you your mind and your body.
The Bill of Rights is NOT what grants you rights. It is a list of the rights that government can never infringe upon. It creates no limits on you, it only limits the government. Read the Federalist Papers article #84, it is an argument AGAINST the Bill of Rights, the founders were afraid that the Bill of Rights if made law would become a list of the ONLY rights the people had. (they were RIGHT, IT HAS become that list, but now even the Bill of Rights is being ignored too!)
All men have rights. Say it! All men have rights Canadians can not be jailed forever in America for speeding, they have a right to defend themselves and they have a right to trial. All men do.
What's so god dammed wrong with making the government prove these people in prison in Guantanamo deserve to be there. You are aware that some of these people were NOT "arrested on the battlefield"
Where are you from Soviet Russia? You are a traitor, Your the one going against the Constitution, your the one going against American values like LIBERTY and JUSTICE, because here in my nation, the United States, my government has to prove someone guilty before they throw them in a hole forever.. we don't just "say" they are guilty like in Iran.
WTF is with the Republicans anymore? You are not Patriots.. you are Nationalists.. wake the fuck up moron.
Kids crave electrolytes, give kids what they crave.. That is the obvious answer to math, ..besides the fact that it sucks.
Could also eepend if they split IE 6 and IE 7 up.
If you split up IE 6 and 7 up then Firefox has about 39% and is the most popular browser. Personally I think this is fair as IE 6 and IE 7 are vastly different from a user perspective.
Yeah, they might as well add a measure to the bill to make snow illegal for all the effect it will have..
I agree, man with gun in bank != crime. It is up to the bank if such a thing is allowed.. (what ever happened to the idea of private property?)
In order for something to be a crime at all someone needs to be actually hurt, or have his property taken or damaged. If there is no victim there can not be a crime.
Anyone actually *like* Office 2007?
Microsoft was once the company who preached a common interface. You can find no end of old articles of Bill Gates describing the future where all applications will look the same and will react the same so users will be familiar with an application they have never seen before.
Well screw that future, Microsoft now has decided that was all a bunch of bullshit and have developed their top 3 applications with radically different interfaces (Office, Outlook, and Internet Explorer) to confuse all of us, and they put it on a OS (Vista) with several different types of interfaces depending on what your doing with it. (dialogs look and act different all over Vista.)
Hea Steve, how about a new motto: "Guidelines? We don't need no stinkin' UI guidelines.. we are Microsoft, you'll love it."
Yeah, he wrote software that detects terrorists after they have committed a crime.. Its key component searches google news. heh.
But really. Lots of people *may* commit crimes. Computers may decide you are likely to rob a bank tomorrow, that does not mean you will. We need to make sure the law is always about what you do not what a computer projects your going to do. The day we jail people who *might* be about to commit a crime is the day we put people in jail for their thoughts.
You think democrats will get rid of it.. ha. Vote them ALL out.
Well.. when government can pay any price for something what would you expect?
Ahh true! You should write a book.. it would be dammed better than this one for sure. Are we talking law here? Legally a terrorist is anyone DHS "says" is a terrorist.
I think this book is mis-information put out by al-CIAda.
Be careful what you ask for.
http://newteevee.com/2008/03/18/comcast-cameras-to-start-watching-you/
Can I put one in your house?
Not really for the OP but I wanted to mention StartCom if someone was looking for a free cert as opposed to a self signed one. http://www.startcom.org/
*if* the people got angry with this (they wont), do you think it would make any difference?
With the way things are going.. I expect America to be a total police state in 30 years.
No outcry.. no complaints.. just idiots giving our hard fought for freedom of privacy away with stupid remarks like. "Well ya gots nothin ta worry `bout if yoo gots nothin ta hide.."
I think we are doomed.. but I'll continue to fight the loosing fight regardless. Let's e-mail our kings and bureaucrats and bla bla blaa..
If you and I agree to such a contract then I have given you a "privilege" to walk over my land. You never have a right because you can't gain or loose any right in the first place and a secondly right would mean you never have to ask in the first place.
..or more likely just ignored.
The constitution does not have any sort of punishment for people that do.