Name a single innocent person who was tortured, raped or killed by anyone associated with the Cuban revolution who wasn't punished severely for it. At least two Cuban soldiers in Angola were executed for raping an Angolan woman. Can your army say the same?
Then you should also know why the missiles were there--which is that the US invaded Cuba in 1961, the invasion was crushed, but the US didn't give up and was planning to invade again in 1962 (Google "Operation Mongoose") this time with US troops instead of spoiled rich kids who thought the Cubans would welcome them back with open arms (they did "welcome" them back with arms but not the kind the country club types expected).
More risk in new stuff. Capitalism today=major risk aversion. Why there are remakes, sequels, prequels, films based on video games and tv show sketches from Hollywood, copycat comedies and reality shows on TV, and no investment in new plant or equipment or employees from industrial capital.
Ah yes, the "terrorist with a dirty bomb" scenario, which is wheeled out to justify any kind of government activity from spying to torture and murder. This is one of the dumbest examples you could think up. OK, a guy the cops say is a terrorist and further say he knows where there's a dirty bomb that'll go off--when? In an hour? Ten minutes? Whatever. So torture the guy. He holds out for a while. Finally gives in a tells you where the bomb is--amazingly, somewhere far away and hard to get to. Oops, it's not really there? OK, torture him some more. He gives in. This time he means it. Oops, not there either? Sorry. BOOM. You think terrorists with dirty bombs aren't prepared with all kinds of wrong or misleading information?
"extremely incompetent management" that allowed slacking off. New management is not allowing slacking off, or at least trying to put a lid on it. I don't see a "scapegoat" here.
Maybe we could all find name sponsors for our web pages or even IP addresses: "Welcome to The [corporate name here] Jodido47 Web Site" or [corporate name here]192.168.1.1
And you could ad the banning of many billboards along US highways many years ago, which caused no end of moaning and groaning about how business was going to be ruined. I doubt anyone even remembers that this happened any more.
1. "blacks" is not a business. Visa can do business with whomever.
2. In the US there are laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of skin color. Refusing to do business with black-owned businesses, for no other reason than skin color, is illegal, although a pattern of discrimination has to be proven.
They have reached a well-known stage in project management. After the project is launched, and fails to reach its stated goals, we enter the blame stage. Microsoft blaming the PC makers, PC makers blaming Microsoft, is proof that Windows 8 is a failure. Success has a thousand parents but defeat is an orphan.
Obviously never worked in an actual refinery. The idea that the poor little oil companies are "strangled" by govt regulation? If a refinery stops making profits for the owner it gets shut down. Refineries are operated on risk management, not govt regulations. And the first question refinery management asks is, how long can we go without shutting all or part of the refinery down?
I'm against letting the government decide what "hate" is. If you don't like what someone is saying, answer it, don't ban it. If you can't answer it, then shame on you. Don't ask the government to cover for you.
You obviously don't live in or near New York. No one who saw FEMA up close here would say "the disaster was well handled." In fact is was Katrina II, differing only in scale.
I agree that the crapware complaint is overrated, also because it's really not that big a deal to get rid of it, although I will admit that most people probably don't know how. On the other hand those "most people" probably aren't that bothered by it because they probably don't know any better. It's really more of an esthetic or moral problem than a performance problem, though, isn't it? I mean we're all bothered by it because we're professionals but crapware (a lot of it, admittedly not all of it) has little or no impact on how the machine operates.
Actually, when the storm came ashore in New York, it had been classified by the National Hurricane Center as a "post-tropical cyclone." Whatever that means.
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Name a single innocent person who was tortured, raped or killed by anyone associated with the Cuban revolution who wasn't punished severely for it. At least two Cuban soldiers in Angola were executed for raping an Angolan woman. Can your army say the same?
Then you should also know why the missiles were there--which is that the US invaded Cuba in 1961, the invasion was crushed, but the US didn't give up and was planning to invade again in 1962 (Google "Operation Mongoose") this time with US troops instead of spoiled rich kids who thought the Cubans would welcome them back with open arms (they did "welcome" them back with arms but not the kind the country club types expected).
For all /. who think "know all about" Cuba: check this article out. From a highly-respected source (in its time), the Associated Press. Spoiler alert--there's not a single true thing in it.
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200202785247365.1073741825.1084043443&type=1&l=7aa048e364
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Consider Ting (www.ting.com)
"Third-world" corruption? Of course there's no corruption in public or private enterprises in the (so-called) first world.
Don't be a dick, the poster's first language isn't English. Did a better job, I'll bet, than you'd do in hers.
More risk in new stuff. Capitalism today=major risk aversion. Why there are remakes, sequels, prequels, films based on video games and tv show sketches from Hollywood, copycat comedies and reality shows on TV, and no investment in new plant or equipment or employees from industrial capital.
"Our" democracy? Whose? The 15-20 percent unemployed? The millions losing their homes? The spied-upon?
Ah yes, the "terrorist with a dirty bomb" scenario, which is wheeled out to justify any kind of government activity from spying to torture and murder. This is one of the dumbest examples you could think up. OK, a guy the cops say is a terrorist and further say he knows where there's a dirty bomb that'll go off--when? In an hour? Ten minutes? Whatever. So torture the guy. He holds out for a while. Finally gives in a tells you where the bomb is--amazingly, somewhere far away and hard to get to. Oops, it's not really there? OK, torture him some more. He gives in. This time he means it. Oops, not there either? Sorry. BOOM. You think terrorists with dirty bombs aren't prepared with all kinds of wrong or misleading information?
"extremely incompetent management" that allowed slacking off. New management is not allowing slacking off, or at least trying to put a lid on it. I don't see a "scapegoat" here.
I'm sorry, was Franco voted in by the people? Or Mussolini?
$80 introductory and then I think it goes to $100. Not too mysterious why there isn't much demand for this.
Maybe we could all find name sponsors for our web pages or even IP addresses: "Welcome to The [corporate name here] Jodido47 Web Site" or [corporate name here]192.168.1.1
And you could ad the banning of many billboards along US highways many years ago, which caused no end of moaning and groaning about how business was going to be ruined. I doubt anyone even remembers that this happened any more.
1. "blacks" is not a business. Visa can do business with whomever. 2. In the US there are laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of skin color. Refusing to do business with black-owned businesses, for no other reason than skin color, is illegal, although a pattern of discrimination has to be proven.
Actually, prices are higher in "the ghetto".
Can you spell Malthus? This idea has been circulating for centuries. Should not be stated as a fact, only as a contingent possibility.
They have reached a well-known stage in project management. After the project is launched, and fails to reach its stated goals, we enter the blame stage. Microsoft blaming the PC makers, PC makers blaming Microsoft, is proof that Windows 8 is a failure. Success has a thousand parents but defeat is an orphan.
Obviously never worked in an actual refinery. The idea that the poor little oil companies are "strangled" by govt regulation? If a refinery stops making profits for the owner it gets shut down. Refineries are operated on risk management, not govt regulations. And the first question refinery management asks is, how long can we go without shutting all or part of the refinery down?
Right--anyone can't afford food, let 'em starve. In the richest country ever.
I'm against letting the government decide what "hate" is. If you don't like what someone is saying, answer it, don't ban it. If you can't answer it, then shame on you. Don't ask the government to cover for you.
You obviously don't live in or near New York. No one who saw FEMA up close here would say "the disaster was well handled." In fact is was Katrina II, differing only in scale.
I agree that the crapware complaint is overrated, also because it's really not that big a deal to get rid of it, although I will admit that most people probably don't know how. On the other hand those "most people" probably aren't that bothered by it because they probably don't know any better. It's really more of an esthetic or moral problem than a performance problem, though, isn't it? I mean we're all bothered by it because we're professionals but crapware (a lot of it, admittedly not all of it) has little or no impact on how the machine operates.
Actually, when the storm came ashore in New York, it had been classified by the National Hurricane Center as a "post-tropical cyclone." Whatever that means.