"The "precision" you're using the terms? Liberal and Democrat are interchangeable, but Conservative and Republican aren't? Republicans have a pretty good stranglehold on the bulk of giant disasters and wasteful spending."
Look closely; Republicans are the Conservatives that got into office. They're doing the massive wasting, and it's gotten us almost as unhappy on this side of the aisle as you are, on yours. I've screamed when I learned the money-and-men headed to be border had been cut off and diverted. I screamed when Bush picked Harriet Myer for the court. I screamed when McCain/Feingold broke the ever-sacred First Amendment. Alas, Bush isn't a great Conservative.
If you'll look closely, even though the war (well, the part that's on TV is the occupation, and we're winning) the defeceit has been dramatically reduced. It in was in the news last week. It's because "Reganomics" or "Supply Side Economics" is working again, the SIXTH time it's been tried. The third time was under JFK, by the way.
It *shouldn't* cost more and more to cover the basics, but when each and every item in the budget is getting a 9%-every-year standard, and someone doesn't get it, the Democrats cry "Oh, you're CUTTING the budget! Children will starve!" and the media amplifies it.
So, on tap in the next decade or so are millions of senior citizens with no way to pay them, tens-of-millions on Welfare, and the houses we built for them, all needing money we don't have, and the hospital system, because there's too much government in it (Medicare/Medicade demanding prices) we'll be out of business.
WE NEED TERM LIMITS.
Only 3% of Congress changes after elections. We're electing people who are only good at one thing: getting elected. Almost no one there has had a real job, ever! How can we expect them to do anything *but* vote where the money is?
Democrats are the first to buy votes with your tax money. See last week with Hillary pushing $5,000 to every child. See the S-CHIP plan for poor children, having "poor" defined by $80,000 a year, and "children" defined as old as 25. This is textbook Liberalism.
There once stood a Democratic Party worth mentioning. It sourced people like Truman and FDR. But since Vietnam they've become SO much more Liberal it's false advertisement to call them Democrats. Teaching my pre-schooling masterbation? No thank you, Jocyln Elder. Still trying to put a bounty on the heads of the unborn? Back off, secular scientists. Take "God" off of everything? Piss off, ACLU.
If you think there's no difference between the parties, please, for the love of God, DON'T VOTE anymore!
The liberal mind is so interesting; capable of much technical knowledge, yet devoid of self-control and wisdom; the programming runs deep. Calling me a 'Fucktard' doesn't promote your insistance, win the argument, or do anything but embarrass yourself.
There *is* a war going on. These people in Greenpeace are just one small unit in it. The masters of the 'progressive' movement own 80% of the media....they're just coming to terms with no longer owning 100%. Back in the day Walter Cronkite saw the Tet Offensive with all the blood and guts and declared it a loss. But the truth is, some 80,000 VC died in a very short time, damaging them critically- the war was almost won, yet because Cronkite spoke it, the president was convinced and we had 'lost'.
They yearn for the days before Fox News, the internet, and Matt Drudge. Their game is coming apart, but I fear not fast enough. Their goal is the same; divorce us from tradition, de-educate us, empty our collective pockets, and make America unable to come to the rescue for the next century like it did, last century.
And you, with your bluster and assumptions...you're just another bot in their arsenal. When you scream 'Partisan', you're fulfilling their rhetoric of those 'holy' days where there was no partisanship: just their viewpoint. No alternative views; no dissent; fascism. And when you call me a 'fucktard' you show what you were before they brainwashed you: some garden variety know-nothing kid.
Thanks for illuminating my point; I won't bother with a reply.
Thank you for again proving my point: switch to profanity and claim defeat.
You *can't* say the same about the Conservatives. (Notice the precision with which I'm using the terms, here...not all Republicans are Conservative.) Conservatives are almost Libertarian, and a lot of people agree with the general stance of both.
Now, as is present in any gathering of any number of people, hipocracy and corruption can be found...there's one in every bunch. A lot of people use this argument to stay away from church, but it never stops them from visiting the grocercy store, somehow...
But the core Conservative ideals are what everyone wants. Less government. Less intrusion. Less taxes, strong military for protection, adherence to the Constitution. But just the other day Hillary was suggesting $5,000 for each child born...no word on where the money will be coming from, but I know they pay taxes. And her masterpiece of deception is universal healthcare. It sucks in Britian, Canada, Cuba and France, I have the idea it'll suck here, too.
Some thoughts before you warm-up to "free" healtcare: the same government in which you mistrust the Federal Reserve, the draft, tax loopholes, set outrageous taxes on fuel, buy $600 toliet seats....do you *really* want to put your *life* in their hands?
Yeah, about two or three weeks ago; "We have no income taxes", remember? I though it was pretty funny, myself, until I realized one political party was using the same rhetoric.
Insane...I think it was (and I'm guessing on the spelling:) Al-Zaraheiri.
"And you were doing so well. You actually had me agreeing with you until this. But you're just another divisive, partisan fucktard. Oh well."
Precisely. I'm having a debate, you're having a name-calling session. Rarely is the open-mindedness and enlightenment so, so....."progressive".
And by the way...that "progress"? It's destination is socialism.
And how can I not be partisan? One side is using the same verbage as the terrorist, going on about global warming and the housing market, the other is trying to keep free speech open (not getting the 'fairness doctrine' re-instated. One party is certain that teaching masterbation to kindergarteners and pushing drugs, the other is against it.
So partisan? Sure. You have to pick a side. Do it with reason, not knee-jerk heart-strings. And clean up your language- it's a sure way to indicate you've lost the argument, every time.
There's a reason why the founder left; it's gotten so far off-mission he couldn't stand it anymore.
The problem with the left is that the newbies are swept in on the lie that they're open minded, inclusive, real thinkers-and-feelers. To them, the world is so important, they just have to feel bad about it. (Thought not really doing anything about it; maybe send money.)
But as it progresses, you see a lot of real hate from there. Just tune into Air America; the hate is on display. I don't say this to start a flame war, but to illuminate a problem. A few weeks ago something Limbaugh never said was put in front of a Senator for response. It snowballed and snowballed while the truth was sitting right there on Limbaugh's site. As it gained momentum after a few days with all the liberal media (the majority of expressed thought in this nation) continued to bash him for something that never happened. Nine days later and still no correction on AP. CNN let the little detail of the truth slip by. It would appear that all the open-minded, enlightened "journalists" never bothered to check the transcripts; they wanted the story to be true.
That's about the time the ember hit the gasoline.
Harry Reid, another public servant with no intention of finding the truth, had 40 of his Democrat friends sign a letter meant for the owner of ClearChannel to have him shut down. This private citizen was in the crosshairs of American Abuse of Power gone mad...but Rush is the owner's friend...while repeating the story over and over through the days of the week with no sign of the left seeking the truth, he put it up for auction on eBay, matched whatever the highest bid would be, and waited a week.
It broke eBay three times. The top bid was $2,200,100 or so, with all the money going to MC-LEF, a charity for the people the Left insisted Rush had attacked: children of dead Marines and/or Government workers.
At the very last moment, Harry Reid spoke in ways suggesting that, though they (he and Limbaugh) had differences, "they were working on making the most of this" suggesting he had *anything* to do with it at all. And that'd be the hypocrisy, right there.
Conservatives are about truth, ideas that work, and doing things without governmental controls, but the private sector instead. Liberals have one facade they portray to grab the whiny-hearts, the undecided, the people who know no history, and those with hate to spare. It's a big tent, the Democrat party...tree huggers, herbalists, hippies, union thugs, foreign spies, and bigots. There's just one idea: making people victims. When they're victims, they election on "we'll get those republicans, this time!" and they never do.
Ask any black man. How long has the "War on Poverty" been going on? I suspect with the gang-shootings that take place in those welfare hotels, more have died there, than in the Iraq occupation. This is cruel, people: as descendants of slaves, we have a duty to help them more than just throwing crumbs and letting them watch TV and wish for a better life. Welfare isn't an answer for *anyone* past the first year. Everyone needs to work, start a small business, and live the good life. Don't they deserve it, too?
Greenpeace is just another robot organization of this party. They feel empowered by Gaia herself to slash out at people "destroying" the planet...but we're not. And the vanity of such an idea is beyond me. Have these people never seen a satellite photo? We're so VERY small on this planet....and it was made for us to occupy.
Who points out people as black/American Indian/whatever? The Left. Who tries to buy votes with taxpayer money as a central plank? The Left. Who would have you programmed, rather than think for yourself? The Left.
Democrats talk about "bringing jobs to the area"? Like so many fireflies. Republicans talk about how YOU can start your own company, how YOU can have the American Dream. It's part of their mindset, and part of the campaigns. It's also why so many support things like
I work with a storefront that has Linux clients, but the first card off the deck is always Exchange and all that middle ware. Almost everyone in town is on it...if that weren't the case, I'd be able to live like the rest of you, blowing wads of cash on things decreed as 'cool' at least once in 7 years. (The time I've been required to stay here for my aging Mom.)
What kind of alternatives exist to this crazy mindset?
It's actually a little worse than that, even. Remember when people were doing all kinds of new things around 1996-97? Win95 had just come out and things looked bright....and people were funding startups that were amazing.
They don't do that anymore. Not for at least 10-15 years.
Nowdays the modern investor knows better than fund something that lives on Windows, because they know Microsoft will 'reap' whatever grows in that garden. This is the most solid, anti-innovation act that they've done.
Tom Beardon posited this kind of activity way, way back. He says that 'scalar waves' are generated by crossing phase-opposing transmissions, and with it, you can pull or push energy from the intersection. This is work that Tesla was contemplating to put a huge solar cell on the moon (where there is always sunshine) and beam it back to Earth.
I couldn't confirm his quantum-physics (duh!) but everything else he said was either something I'd seen, something I'd heard from other sources, or questionable-but-likely.
If he's still at his address, you might contact him at tbeardon@aol.com. (Better yet, look for "scalar waves" on Google.)
Unlike most of you, I've been computing since 1978. Myriad computers were available at the time, very expensive, and just getting started. All ran CP/M, TRS-DOS, or some BIOS monitor for scanning barcodes from the Scelbi-Byte series. There was a sense of ownership; and it belonged to you, and only you. You could really _love_ that little box that came from so far away- it was a canvas on which the future you would write.
I remember writing machine code, wirewrapping until 3AM, using the logic probe and oscilloscope....getting excited to see a single LED flash in the right order, meaning you got it right. It was lonelier than now, but it was both fun and a technical challenge. I used to LONG for overhearing a conversation that mentioned computers- that meant the person was, like me, trying to connect with other hackers (in the original sense of the word). But now when I overhear a conversation at a restaurant on computers, it's just another poor sap with another virus he doesn't understand, getting ripped off by a local service depot and feeling helpless.
In these 'appliance' days, almost every home computer user sees it now as a necessary evil; the box that eats money...the box that collects spam and spends it's time driving you crazy. It's astounding how many people deeply hate their Windows machines. It's much less pronounced on the Mac, btw.
But Linux is that freedom all over again, and improved. It's the connection with other users, figuring out how to interface with new gadgets like digital picture frames and sensor networks. And it's easier than ever to get in touch with someone just like you, thousands of miles away, grouping in clusters to have the same kinda fun.
Sure, it kicks ass against the bad guys, it's cheaper and much more reliable. But the keyword here is *fun*. And now, not just by adding hardware, but hacking software with the help of your friends, is commonplace.
For me the key thing that keeps me in Linux is the _fun_. I love all my machines.
Right, and Soros and the Democratic party in the present.
It should send shivers down your spine with 13 different news outlets describe the same political news using the same catch-phrase...but if you don't listen, for example, to Limbaugh where he plays them, you'll never notice the programming taking place...
Like with Harriet Myer (who was a bad choice, btw) "Chronyism" from CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, and on and on.
Like "Phony soldiers" repeated lock-step, amplifying *even more* something that never happened. It's like all the so-called 'leaders' in the media are all on IRC, just before the decide to publish. Everyone but Fox News. (Not to mention all the cable news shows, The View, and every other place the programming can take hold.) Spooky.
Well, see, that's the problem with a populace with no real sense of history. Comparing what Bush is doing to Der Fuhrer is like comparing cotton candy to jeans. Yeah, both have mass...
Sit down with the History Channel for a few nights. Learn what the "Night of the long knives" was all about. Learn how he annexed a friendly nation, then planned a 'stunt' to invade Poland. And we're YEARS away from throwing people into ovens. And Bush? He gets a consistently bad rap at EVERY opportunity from the George Soros-purchased press, and that's all you listen to; Rush Limbaugh is a HUGE fat man, bigoted and spreading hate...Fox News Channel has mind-altering lies.
Except Rush hasn't been fat for about 10 years, he's consistent on being racially fair, and Fox News is so popular *because* it doesn't take marching orders from the 80% of the media tied to what was the Democrat Party. Nevermind- your mind is made up!
Fascism is not headquartered in the Republican Party- not by a long shot. About 1/3 of them are Liberal, signing on with the latest hoax, Global Warming, as well as the continual efforts to buy votes by spending my tax money. I'm a *little* less ticked at my party, as you are, with yours.
Wanna talk Fascism? Someone from Media Matters holds a mike in front of a Congressman. "Rush Limbaugh called the soldiers 'Phoney Soldiers'! What do you have to say about that?" Except he never said such a thing.
But that didn't stop the AP, and let's face it, all the other cells of mind-numbing media from jumping on the story, despite the transcripts on his website, no one bothered to check. THEN they took it to the floor of the Senate where they called him everything but a white man, taking up the time we pay for, to present a lie, that is easily proven to have never happened.
THEN Harry Reid and 40 of his Liberal buddies, still armed with the lie, sent a letter to the head man over at Clear Channel, who is one of Rush's friends. The original paper demanded that he be shut down- that his hate was too high. (Except, it never happened.)
The original, with the signatures of all 40 Democrat signers is now up for bid on eBay, as an example of what the government was designed NOT to do: harass a private citizen. Last I heard, the bids were over $100,000.
I say all of this because this is the third or fourth time your party has exercised Fascism in the last couple of months. You have to understand, liberalism can't compete in a debate; it has too many years being tried to have merit. But the Liberals are here to take your power: that's what the universal healthcare is about. Never mind it will break the bank, nevermind we'll lose the top learning centers in the world, never mind it will be as ignorant and horrible as the one in Britain, Canada, or (gulp) Cuba....they want that power....and all they had to do to get it from you is program you.
About the war:
The muslim extremists have been fighting it for about 50 years; we've just not decided to respond until now. Time after time Saddam shot missiles at our planes, defending the no-fly zones at the UN's request, without calling off the ceasefire. Clinton didn't want to rock the boat.
Having the battle of chaos versus civilization right next door to the central point of muslims is a GREAT way to show them that they can make their own government. They need no king. They don't even have to have body parts cut off, if they transgress. Do you have any idea what this is going to mean?
Checkpoint Charlie; a spot on the Berlin wall separating East and West Berlin. People wanted out of Soviet Russia so bad, they risked their lives getting out. Ask anyone over 40. When Iraq becomes it's own state, and it's a tourist attraction, and life is beautiful, people living under the kings and theocracy will rebel in droves. Al-Jazeera won't be able to lie about the squalid living conditions in Morocco, or report how bad things are in any "normalize" muslim-owned country any more: too many people wil
I'm usually a big fan of keeping the government out of my business...but if just ONE nuclear bomb goes off, it's gonna effect the 'civil rights' of something like 10,000,000 people in the initial blast, and who knows how many more will die from the dust, radiation ('cause it won't be a 'clean' nuke, and at ground level or below) and all the other reasons.
There has yet to be a case filed where such surveillance has injured anyone that *wasn't* a terrorist. If you've been inconvenienced, please step up.
I fear the Fed *more* when it decides it's going to decide when I get my medical care, if at all.
The Bible is pretty silent about things like this. Not because they aren't cool challenges for people to understand, not because they aren't dangerous to our existence (at some VERY late date) but just because they don't matter.
The Bible is a message from God, written in the hand of obedient men. Things like this just aren't that important to the reason we're here. And to be honest, I'm not sure what the specifics of this work are; people will go to years of training and mind-busting classes to get to this level of effort, yet when posed with a single document, they write it off as fairy tales. Or suggest the translations multiply, but they don't. Each one comes from the million-or-so originals. They're based on scientifically-proven understandings, and the Bible has provided several surprises.
So look to the stars; enjoy God's majesty. But don't be tricked into thinking the Bible is anything but scientific proof and cross-checked. Sure, lots of 'contradictions' are bandied about by people who haven't taken the time to research it, but I'm finding none. And the more I'm learning, the more consistent the message is.
A good place to start to get past the cruft of human-influnce (AKA church misunderstandings like the 6,000 year thing) would be http://equip.org./ Hank Hanegraff answers every question you can give'im. He's a good guy, and NOT one of those starry-eyed, programmed-robot types.
No, God's pretty much holding his own...but since people are *human*, there's room for misinterpretations, misunderstandings and some people being downright rude in His name. And even more have taken up a personal vendetta to ensure the Word is mocked and discredited.
If you were to do an actual, in-depth study of the various "Bibles", you'd find only one that has consistent credibility. It's based on something like a million documents, about 5,000 covering just the New Testament alone. Sure, the autogrypha (originals) are gone...they were probably lost with those who *died*insisting*Christ's*existance*. (Who would die for a lie?) The multitude of documents, from different places on the globe have errors, sure- but the essence is always the same, even in the Dead Sea Scrolls which were 1,000 years before the copies we had before. Study of these documents, and cross-checking them gives us a scientific basis for credibility.
Some of the New Testament copies are from the early first century, and there's no translation-loss. There have been literally thousands of people checking and cross-checking these documents for centuries. Do you really believe so many people would dedicate their lives to quests for the truth, if it were all just made up?
And let's not forget that in Christ's time the Hebrews were in Roman Slavery...they couldn't POSSIBLY care less about Christ, yet their journalists reported the crucifixion and the resurrection. One of them was named Juvenile (which is probably where we get that word.)
It's been only recently that science has turned on religion; many of the names-we-know in the old days were men of God, trying to understand Him. They were paid with church money to advance. But these days it's hip to think this entire scene, as rare as it is in the universe, just *happened* to come out livable, just happened to get the myriad features right for us to live, and for so long on this planet. I'm sorry, I just don't have that kinda faith.
For centuries church detractors chided the Bible for talking about the Hittites, believing they never existed. Then a few decades ago someone turns over a shovel in the middle east and BAM! Hittite capital. See Wikipedia for details. Similarly detractors chided the Bible for "getting the Babylonian leaders wrong", yet science has turned up that the link in the chain had TWO leaders at one time, one in the battlefield, one in the government. And the Bible called _that_ one, too.
Other religions talked about the Earth on the back of a fish, which, when it jumps out of the water, the floods came. Still others discuss a long stream, covered in a ceiling of stars, but the Bible says it's suspended from nothing...and suggests it's north pole points to the center of the galaxy (in not so few words).
I'm here to ask you to believe something I'm just coming to terms with: The Bible has no errors. OH, I know...everyone has a favorite chestnut, but when you study them in context, you see they're not errors at all. But of course, you _have_to_ actually decide to look.
The Bible had the proportions for the first sea-going vessel; Noah's ark. (And, no, it *didn't* carry 16,000,000,000 species- the document's writing could be satisfied with the space of a rowboat.) It describes surgery as being 'OK' while men of the time thought it witchcraft. It has so many levels and such a delicate tapestry of prophecy and fulfillment so as to humble even Shakespeare. And when you mess with the code, trying to make it say something else, a wave of contradictions appear. It's an incredible book.
There are a *lot* of such surprises waiting for you in the Bible. There's a lot of fury and chaff coming from many churches, but if you want the actual, stated, only-using-the-Bible understanding of the Bible, that'd be Hank Hanegraff. http://equip.org./ He has all the answers, not from attitude, not from style, but from actual scientific proof: cross-checking the Bible's many source documents. His "Bible
These are the same people pronouncing the war in Iraq as a "loss" and Hillary's handing out jugs of money to buy voters.
Can we trust that they're actually doing _this_ or is there other code in the bill to let them control our diet, our choice of laundry detergent or cats?:>
I'm just saying...we can't really trust anyone in there, now.
Scientists are whores, aye? Spread the doom-n-gloom (never mind if it's all made up) and you can make a bundle.
I'm tellin' ya guys, this is just another hoax. See also:
Killer Bees that will attack people on the streets as early as 1979 The coming Ice Age that will engulf NYC before the year 2000 The invisible Ozone Hole that'll burn off our skin Killer Earthquakes, cats sleeping with dogs, it's all over.
There *is* a climate change going on. But CO2 (now called a 'pollutant' by the EPA) doesn't cause it, it corrects it.
There is no 'perfect' climate...how do we know the change won't be better?
These are the people who can't predict the weather past 3-5 days; how can they tell us in 20 years we'll be under sea water?
The media is sure in control of those who can't be bothered with the facts.
And in balance, recall the recpient of the first Nobel Peace Prize: Orville and Wilbur for the aeroplane. With it, wars would be impossible.
Well, sure; the structural parts I mentioned...though I've seen a mahogany glider attempt the speed record of over 100 mph; the Halifax was an enormous bomber made almost completely of British wood, carrying several thousand pounds of bombs and a crew of 7-8; wood can do some impressive things.
But the bigger problem, and what probably pushed the stress levels was the way it was starting to spiral. SRBs offer little control (without controlled fins or whatnot).
Ya know what I'd *love* to see? An radio controlled Firefly! There's a lot of math in getting and controlling the downward trust to keep it aloft...
It looks like they have enough thrust; that's sometimes hard to guage, without a CAD-style development program. If you'll look close, either the thrust is uneven, or the center of balance was off.
I'd like to see it again with changes:
1. Strengthen it length-wise. That's where the structure collapsed.
2. Replace the SRBs with ducted-fans
3. Either use a custom-built Linux system for guidance, or at least a decent R/C system.
Their design, other than the structural weakness looks reasonably flyable; even more than I thought it would. But the SRBs can be a cruel mistress; they don't shut off or throttle down no matter what.
If they could rebuild with ducted fans, a decent R/C system could use the mixing magic of these systems to actually steer it by way of the fans. For up, decrease the uppers, increase the lowers- you get the idea.
I doubt it'd be _landable_ but that's what the parachutes were for, in the first place.
These guys put a lot of work into this; a little more and a company could be crankin' them out for the entire world of Slashdotters out there.
My newest machine is about 7 years old; I'm in a pinch that thousands of hours of intense concentration can show no way out. I play UT, surf, do all the things everyone else does, I even have an icon that'll bring up random episodes of Firefly, since there's plenty of power for media.
But I load OpenOffice and the world stops.
I fear that Thunderbird, under the direction of OO will become bloated and laggy as well! I had a friend who didn't know any better; her P2/300 was on loan to show her how to use Linux. She waited over 2H for it to load. It was insane. These guys really need to profile their code.
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"The "precision" you're using the terms? Liberal and Democrat are interchangeable, but Conservative and Republican aren't? Republicans have a pretty good stranglehold on the bulk of giant disasters and wasteful spending."
Look closely; Republicans are the Conservatives that got into office. They're doing the massive wasting, and it's gotten us almost as unhappy on this side of the aisle as you are, on yours. I've screamed when I learned the money-and-men headed to be border had been cut off and diverted. I screamed when Bush picked Harriet Myer for the court. I screamed when McCain/Feingold broke the ever-sacred First Amendment. Alas, Bush isn't a great Conservative.
If you'll look closely, even though the war (well, the part that's on TV is the occupation, and we're winning) the defeceit has been dramatically reduced. It in was in the news last week. It's because "Reganomics" or "Supply Side Economics" is working again, the SIXTH time it's been tried. The third time was under JFK, by the way.
It *shouldn't* cost more and more to cover the basics, but when each and every item in the budget is getting a 9%-every-year standard, and someone doesn't get it, the Democrats cry "Oh, you're CUTTING the budget! Children will starve!" and the media amplifies it.
So, on tap in the next decade or so are millions of senior citizens with no way to pay them, tens-of-millions on Welfare, and the houses we built for them, all needing money we don't have, and the hospital system, because there's too much government in it (Medicare/Medicade demanding prices) we'll be out of business.
WE NEED TERM LIMITS.
Only 3% of Congress changes after elections. We're electing people who are only good at one thing: getting elected. Almost no one there has had a real job, ever! How can we expect them to do anything *but* vote where the money is?
Democrats are the first to buy votes with your tax money. See last week with Hillary pushing $5,000 to every child. See the S-CHIP plan for poor children, having "poor" defined by $80,000 a year, and "children" defined as old as 25. This is textbook Liberalism.
There once stood a Democratic Party worth mentioning. It sourced people like Truman and FDR. But since Vietnam they've become SO much more Liberal it's false advertisement to call them Democrats. Teaching my pre-schooling masterbation? No thank you, Jocyln Elder. Still trying to put a bounty on the heads of the unborn? Back off, secular scientists. Take "God" off of everything? Piss off, ACLU.
If you think there's no difference between the parties, please, for the love of God, DON'T VOTE anymore!
The liberal mind is so interesting; capable of much technical knowledge, yet devoid of self-control and wisdom; the programming runs deep. Calling me a 'Fucktard' doesn't promote your insistance, win the argument, or do anything but embarrass yourself.
There *is* a war going on. These people in Greenpeace are just one small unit in it. The masters of the 'progressive' movement own 80% of the media....they're just coming to terms with no longer owning 100%. Back in the day Walter Cronkite saw the Tet Offensive with all the blood and guts and declared it a loss. But the truth is, some 80,000 VC died in a very short time, damaging them critically- the war was almost won, yet because Cronkite spoke it, the president was convinced and we had 'lost'.
They yearn for the days before Fox News, the internet, and Matt Drudge. Their game is coming apart, but I fear not fast enough. Their goal is the same; divorce us from tradition, de-educate us, empty our collective pockets, and make America unable to come to the rescue for the next century like it did, last century.
And you, with your bluster and assumptions...you're just another bot in their arsenal. When you scream 'Partisan', you're fulfilling their rhetoric of those 'holy' days where there was no partisanship: just their viewpoint. No alternative views; no dissent; fascism. And when you call me a 'fucktard' you show what you were before they brainwashed you: some garden variety know-nothing kid.
Thanks for illuminating my point; I won't bother with a reply.
Thank you for again proving my point: switch to profanity and claim defeat.
You *can't* say the same about the Conservatives. (Notice the precision with which I'm using the terms, here...not all Republicans are Conservative.) Conservatives are almost Libertarian, and a lot of people agree with the general stance of both.
Now, as is present in any gathering of any number of people, hipocracy and corruption can be found...there's one in every bunch. A lot of people use this argument to stay away from church, but it never stops them from visiting the grocercy store, somehow...
But the core Conservative ideals are what everyone wants. Less government. Less intrusion. Less taxes, strong military for protection, adherence to the Constitution. But just the other day Hillary was suggesting $5,000 for each child born...no word on where the money will be coming from, but I know they pay taxes. And her masterpiece of deception is universal healthcare. It sucks in Britian, Canada, Cuba and France, I have the idea it'll suck here, too.
Some thoughts before you warm-up to "free" healtcare: the same government in which you mistrust the Federal Reserve, the draft, tax loopholes, set outrageous taxes on fuel, buy $600 toliet seats....do you *really* want to put your *life* in their hands?
To do so, would be stupid, no?
Yeah, about two or three weeks ago; "We have no income taxes", remember? I though it was pretty funny, myself, until I realized one political party was using the same rhetoric.
Insane...I think it was (and I'm guessing on the spelling:) Al-Zaraheiri.
"And you were doing so well. You actually had me agreeing with you until this. But you're just another divisive, partisan fucktard. Oh well."
Precisely. I'm having a debate, you're having a name-calling session. Rarely is the open-mindedness and enlightenment so, so....."progressive".
And by the way...that "progress"? It's destination is socialism.
And how can I not be partisan? One side is using the same verbage as the terrorist, going on about global warming and the housing market, the other is trying to keep free speech open (not getting the 'fairness doctrine' re-instated. One party is certain that teaching masterbation to kindergarteners and pushing drugs, the other is against it.
So partisan? Sure. You have to pick a side. Do it with reason, not knee-jerk heart-strings. And clean up your language- it's a sure way to indicate you've lost the argument, every time.
There's a reason why the founder left; it's gotten so far off-mission he couldn't stand it anymore.
The problem with the left is that the newbies are swept in on the lie that they're open minded, inclusive, real thinkers-and-feelers. To them, the world is so important, they just have to feel bad about it. (Thought not really doing anything about it; maybe send money.)
But as it progresses, you see a lot of real hate from there. Just tune into Air America; the hate is on display. I don't say this to start a flame war, but to illuminate a problem. A few weeks ago something Limbaugh never said was put in front of a Senator for response. It snowballed and snowballed while the truth was sitting right there on Limbaugh's site. As it gained momentum after a few days with all the liberal media (the majority of expressed thought in this nation) continued to bash him for something that never happened. Nine days later and still no correction on AP. CNN let the little detail of the truth slip by. It would appear that all the open-minded, enlightened "journalists" never bothered to check the transcripts; they wanted the story to be true.
That's about the time the ember hit the gasoline.
Harry Reid, another public servant with no intention of finding the truth, had 40 of his Democrat friends sign a letter meant for the owner of ClearChannel to have him shut down. This private citizen was in the crosshairs of American Abuse of Power gone mad...but Rush is the owner's friend...while repeating the story over and over through the days of the week with no sign of the left seeking the truth, he put it up for auction on eBay, matched whatever the highest bid would be, and waited a week.
It broke eBay three times. The top bid was $2,200,100 or so, with all the money going to MC-LEF, a charity for the people the Left insisted Rush had attacked: children of dead Marines and/or Government workers.
At the very last moment, Harry Reid spoke in ways suggesting that, though they (he and Limbaugh) had differences, "they were working on making the most of this" suggesting he had *anything* to do with it at all. And that'd be the hypocrisy, right there.
Conservatives are about truth, ideas that work, and doing things without governmental controls, but the private sector instead. Liberals have one facade they portray to grab the whiny-hearts, the undecided, the people who know no history, and those with hate to spare. It's a big tent, the Democrat party...tree huggers, herbalists, hippies, union thugs, foreign spies, and bigots. There's just one idea: making people victims. When they're victims, they election on "we'll get those republicans, this time!" and they never do.
Ask any black man. How long has the "War on Poverty" been going on? I suspect with the gang-shootings that take place in those welfare hotels, more have died there, than in the Iraq occupation. This is cruel, people: as descendants of slaves, we have a duty to help them more than just throwing crumbs and letting them watch TV and wish for a better life. Welfare isn't an answer for *anyone* past the first year. Everyone needs to work, start a small business, and live the good life. Don't they deserve it, too?
Greenpeace is just another robot organization of this party. They feel empowered by Gaia herself to slash out at people "destroying" the planet...but we're not. And the vanity of such an idea is beyond me. Have these people never seen a satellite photo? We're so VERY small on this planet....and it was made for us to occupy.
Who points out people as black/American Indian/whatever? The Left.
Who tries to buy votes with taxpayer money as a central plank? The Left.
Who would have you programmed, rather than think for yourself? The Left.
Democrats talk about "bringing jobs to the area"? Like so many fireflies. Republicans talk about how YOU can start your own company, how YOU can have the American Dream. It's part of their mindset, and part of the campaigns. It's also why so many support things like
I work with a storefront that has Linux clients, but the first card off the deck is always Exchange and all that middle ware. Almost everyone in town is on it...if that weren't the case, I'd be able to live like the rest of you, blowing wads of cash on things decreed as 'cool' at least once in 7 years. (The time I've been required to stay here for my aging Mom.)
What kind of alternatives exist to this crazy mindset?
It's actually a little worse than that, even. Remember when people were doing all kinds of new things around 1996-97? Win95 had just come out and things looked bright....and people were funding startups that were amazing.
They don't do that anymore. Not for at least 10-15 years.
Nowdays the modern investor knows better than fund something that lives on Windows, because they know Microsoft will 'reap' whatever grows in that garden. This is the most solid, anti-innovation act that they've done.
But they can't stop Linux!
Tom Beardon posited this kind of activity way, way back. He says that 'scalar waves' are generated by crossing phase-opposing transmissions, and with it, you can pull or push energy from the intersection. This is work that Tesla was contemplating to put a huge solar cell on the moon (where there is always sunshine) and beam it back to Earth.
I couldn't confirm his quantum-physics (duh!) but everything else he said was either something I'd seen, something I'd heard from other sources, or questionable-but-likely.
If he's still at his address, you might contact him at tbeardon@aol.com. (Better yet, look for "scalar waves" on Google.)
Unlike most of you, I've been computing since 1978. Myriad computers were available at the time, very expensive, and just getting started. All ran CP/M, TRS-DOS, or some BIOS monitor for scanning barcodes from the Scelbi-Byte series. There was a sense of ownership; and it belonged to you, and only you. You could really _love_ that little box that came from so far away- it was a canvas on which the future you would write.
I remember writing machine code, wirewrapping until 3AM, using the logic probe and oscilloscope....getting excited to see a single LED flash in the right order, meaning you got it right. It was lonelier than now, but it was both fun and a technical challenge. I used to LONG for overhearing a conversation that mentioned computers- that meant the person was, like me, trying to connect with other hackers (in the original sense of the word). But now when I overhear a conversation at a restaurant on computers, it's just another poor sap with another virus he doesn't understand, getting ripped off by a local service depot and feeling helpless.
In these 'appliance' days, almost every home computer user sees it now as a necessary evil; the box that eats money...the box that collects spam and spends it's time driving you crazy. It's astounding how many people deeply hate their Windows machines. It's much less pronounced on the Mac, btw.
But Linux is that freedom all over again, and improved. It's the connection with other users, figuring out how to interface with new gadgets like digital picture frames and sensor networks. And it's easier than ever to get in touch with someone just like you, thousands of miles away, grouping in clusters to have the same kinda fun.
Sure, it kicks ass against the bad guys, it's cheaper and much more reliable. But the keyword here is *fun*. And now, not just by adding hardware, but hacking software with the help of your friends, is commonplace.
For me the key thing that keeps me in Linux is the _fun_. I love all my machines.
Right, and Soros and the Democratic party in the present.
It should send shivers down your spine with 13 different news outlets describe the same political news using the same catch-phrase...but if you don't listen, for example, to Limbaugh where he plays them, you'll never notice the programming taking place...
Like with Harriet Myer (who was a bad choice, btw) "Chronyism" from CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, and on and on.
Like "Phony soldiers" repeated lock-step, amplifying *even more* something that never happened. It's like all the so-called 'leaders' in the media are all on IRC, just before the decide to publish. Everyone but Fox News. (Not to mention all the cable news shows, The View, and every other place the programming can take hold.) Spooky.
In Linux, there's no 'vending machine' mindset; they won't be charging every time you turn around, just because there's "no other game in town".
Under Windows? Forget it.
Well, see, that's the problem with a populace with no real sense of history. Comparing what Bush is doing to Der Fuhrer is like comparing cotton candy to jeans. Yeah, both have mass...
...and all they had to do to get it from you is program you.
Sit down with the History Channel for a few nights. Learn what the "Night of the long knives" was all about. Learn how he annexed a friendly nation, then planned a 'stunt' to invade Poland. And we're YEARS away from throwing people into ovens. And Bush? He gets a consistently bad rap at EVERY opportunity from the George Soros-purchased press, and that's all you listen to; Rush Limbaugh is a HUGE fat man, bigoted and spreading hate...Fox News Channel has mind-altering lies.
Except Rush hasn't been fat for about 10 years, he's consistent on being racially fair, and Fox News is so popular *because* it doesn't take marching orders from the 80% of the media tied to what was the Democrat Party. Nevermind- your mind is made up!
Fascism is not headquartered in the Republican Party- not by a long shot. About 1/3 of them are Liberal, signing on with the latest hoax, Global Warming, as well as the continual efforts to buy votes by spending my tax money. I'm a *little* less ticked at my party, as you are, with yours.
Wanna talk Fascism? Someone from Media Matters holds a mike in front of a Congressman. "Rush Limbaugh called the soldiers 'Phoney Soldiers'! What do you have to say about that?" Except he never said such a thing.
But that didn't stop the AP, and let's face it, all the other cells of mind-numbing media from jumping on the story, despite the transcripts on his website, no one bothered to check. THEN they took it to the floor of the Senate where they called him everything but a white man, taking up the time we pay for, to present a lie, that is easily proven to have never happened.
THEN Harry Reid and 40 of his Liberal buddies, still armed with the lie, sent a letter to the head man over at Clear Channel, who is one of Rush's friends. The original paper demanded that he be shut down- that his hate was too high. (Except, it never happened.)
The original, with the signatures of all 40 Democrat signers is now up for bid on eBay, as an example of what the government was designed NOT to do: harass a private citizen. Last I heard, the bids were over $100,000.
I say all of this because this is the third or fourth time your party has exercised Fascism in the last couple of months. You have to understand, liberalism can't compete in a debate; it has too many years being tried to have merit. But the Liberals are here to take your power: that's what the universal healthcare is about. Never mind it will break the bank, nevermind we'll lose the top learning centers in the world, never mind it will be as ignorant and horrible as the one in Britain, Canada, or (gulp) Cuba....they want that power.
About the war:
The muslim extremists have been fighting it for about 50 years; we've just not decided to respond until now. Time after time Saddam shot missiles at our planes, defending the no-fly zones at the UN's request, without calling off the ceasefire. Clinton didn't want to rock the boat.
Having the battle of chaos versus civilization right next door to the central point of muslims is a GREAT way to show them that they can make their own government. They need no king. They don't even have to have body parts cut off, if they transgress. Do you have any idea what this is going to mean?
Checkpoint Charlie; a spot on the Berlin wall separating East and West Berlin. People wanted out of Soviet Russia so bad, they risked their lives getting out. Ask anyone over 40. When Iraq becomes it's own state, and it's a tourist attraction, and life is beautiful, people living under the kings and theocracy will rebel in droves. Al-Jazeera won't be able to lie about the squalid living conditions in Morocco, or report how bad things are in any "normalize" muslim-owned country any more: too many people wil
SNL hasn't been funny for 25 years...and...the Daily Show? Honestly, how many high schoolers ARE there? :>
I'm usually a big fan of keeping the government out of my business...but if just ONE nuclear bomb goes off, it's gonna effect the 'civil rights' of something like 10,000,000 people in the initial blast, and who knows how many more will die from the dust, radiation ('cause it won't be a 'clean' nuke, and at ground level or below) and all the other reasons.
There has yet to be a case filed where such surveillance has injured anyone that *wasn't* a terrorist. If you've been inconvenienced, please step up.
I fear the Fed *more* when it decides it's going to decide when I get my medical care, if at all.
The Bible is pretty silent about things like this. Not because they aren't cool challenges for people to understand, not because they aren't dangerous to our existence (at some VERY late date) but just because they don't matter.
The Bible is a message from God, written in the hand of obedient men. Things like this just aren't that important to the reason we're here. And to be honest, I'm not sure what the specifics of this work are; people will go to years of training and mind-busting classes to get to this level of effort, yet when posed with a single document, they write it off as fairy tales. Or suggest the translations multiply, but they don't. Each one comes from the million-or-so originals. They're based on scientifically-proven understandings, and the Bible has provided several surprises.
So look to the stars; enjoy God's majesty. But don't be tricked into thinking the Bible is anything but scientific proof and cross-checked. Sure, lots of 'contradictions' are bandied about by people who haven't taken the time to research it, but I'm finding none. And the more I'm learning, the more consistent the message is.
A good place to start to get past the cruft of human-influnce (AKA church misunderstandings like the 6,000 year thing) would be http://equip.org./ Hank Hanegraff answers every question you can give'im. He's a good guy, and NOT one of those starry-eyed, programmed-robot types.
No, God's pretty much holding his own...but since people are *human*, there's room for misinterpretations, misunderstandings and some people being downright rude in His name. And even more have taken up a personal vendetta to ensure the Word is mocked and discredited.
If you were to do an actual, in-depth study of the various "Bibles", you'd find only one that has consistent credibility. It's based on something like a million documents, about 5,000 covering just the New Testament alone. Sure, the autogrypha (originals) are gone...they were probably lost with those who *died*insisting*Christ's*existance*. (Who would die for a lie?) The multitude of documents, from different places on the globe have errors, sure- but the essence is always the same, even in the Dead Sea Scrolls which were 1,000 years before the copies we had before. Study of these documents, and cross-checking them gives us a scientific basis for credibility.
Some of the New Testament copies are from the early first century, and there's no translation-loss. There have been literally thousands of people checking and cross-checking these documents for centuries. Do you really believe so many people would dedicate their lives to quests for the truth, if it were all just made up?
And let's not forget that in Christ's time the Hebrews were in Roman Slavery...they couldn't POSSIBLY care less about Christ, yet their journalists reported the crucifixion and the resurrection. One of them was named Juvenile (which is probably where we get that word.)
It's been only recently that science has turned on religion; many of the names-we-know in the old days were men of God, trying to understand Him. They were paid with church money to advance. But these days it's hip to think this entire scene, as rare as it is in the universe, just *happened* to come out livable, just happened to get the myriad features right for us to live, and for so long on this planet. I'm sorry, I just don't have that kinda faith.
For centuries church detractors chided the Bible for talking about the Hittites, believing they never existed. Then a few decades ago someone turns over a shovel in the middle east and BAM! Hittite capital. See Wikipedia for details. Similarly detractors chided the Bible for "getting the Babylonian leaders wrong", yet science has turned up that the link in the chain had TWO leaders at one time, one in the battlefield, one in the government. And the Bible called _that_ one, too.
Other religions talked about the Earth on the back of a fish, which, when it jumps out of the water, the floods came. Still others discuss a long stream, covered in a ceiling of stars, but the Bible says it's suspended from nothing...and suggests it's north pole points to the center of the galaxy (in not so few words).
I'm here to ask you to believe something I'm just coming to terms with: The Bible has no errors. OH, I know...everyone has a favorite chestnut, but when you study them in context, you see they're not errors at all. But of course, you _have_to_ actually decide to look.
The Bible had the proportions for the first sea-going vessel; Noah's ark. (And, no, it *didn't* carry 16,000,000,000 species- the document's writing could be satisfied with the space of a rowboat.) It describes surgery as being 'OK' while men of the time thought it witchcraft. It has so many levels and such a delicate tapestry of prophecy and fulfillment so as to humble even Shakespeare. And when you mess with the code, trying to make it say something else, a wave of contradictions appear. It's an incredible book.
There are a *lot* of such surprises waiting for you in the Bible. There's a lot of fury and chaff coming from many churches, but if you want the actual, stated, only-using-the-Bible understanding of the Bible, that'd be Hank Hanegraff. http://equip.org./ He has all the answers, not from attitude, not from style, but from actual scientific proof: cross-checking the Bible's many source documents. His "Bible
These are the same people pronouncing the war in Iraq as a "loss" and Hillary's handing out jugs of money to buy voters.
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Can we trust that they're actually doing _this_ or is there other code in the bill to let them control our diet, our choice of laundry detergent or cats?
I'm just saying...we can't really trust anyone in there, now.
Are there really people gullible enough to 'partner' with Microsoft anymore? Does anyone still feel comfortable with them in the room?
These guys just keep doin' the rope-a-dope; it's amazing.
I've been hearing "Longhorn" since about 1989; isn't this the codeword for "The release that's in the works"?
Scientists are whores, aye? Spread the doom-n-gloom (never mind if it's all made up) and you can make a bundle.
I'm tellin' ya guys, this is just another hoax. See also:
Killer Bees that will attack people on the streets as early as 1979
The coming Ice Age that will engulf NYC before the year 2000
The invisible Ozone Hole that'll burn off our skin
Killer Earthquakes, cats sleeping with dogs, it's all over.
There *is* a climate change going on. But CO2 (now called a 'pollutant' by the EPA) doesn't cause it, it corrects it.
There is no 'perfect' climate...how do we know the change won't be better?
These are the people who can't predict the weather past 3-5 days; how can they tell us in 20 years we'll be under sea water?
The media is sure in control of those who can't be bothered with the facts.
And in balance, recall the recpient of the first Nobel Peace Prize: Orville and Wilbur for the aeroplane. With it, wars would be impossible.
Sure; when *all* the news sources spout exactly the same psychobabble, there will be no paritisanship.
(Note to audience: stifling divergent, and even provably-true news content is NOT enlightened.)
Well, sure; the structural parts I mentioned...though I've seen a mahogany glider attempt the speed record of over 100 mph; the Halifax was an enormous bomber made almost completely of British wood, carrying several thousand pounds of bombs and a crew of 7-8; wood can do some impressive things.
But the bigger problem, and what probably pushed the stress levels was the way it was starting to spiral. SRBs offer little control (without controlled fins or whatnot).
Ya know what I'd *love* to see? An radio controlled Firefly! There's a lot of math in getting and controlling the downward trust to keep it aloft...
It looks like they have enough thrust; that's sometimes hard to guage, without a CAD-style development program. If you'll look close, either the thrust is uneven, or the center of balance was off.
I'd like to see it again with changes:
1. Strengthen it length-wise. That's where the structure collapsed.
2. Replace the SRBs with ducted-fans
3. Either use a custom-built Linux system for guidance, or at least a decent R/C system.
Their design, other than the structural weakness looks reasonably flyable; even more than I thought it would. But the SRBs can be a cruel mistress; they don't shut off or throttle down no matter what.
If they could rebuild with ducted fans, a decent R/C system could use the mixing magic of these systems to actually steer it by way of the fans. For up, decrease the uppers, increase the lowers- you get the idea.
I doubt it'd be _landable_ but that's what the parachutes were for, in the first place.
These guys put a lot of work into this; a little more and a company could be crankin' them out for the entire world of Slashdotters out there.
Good start, guys!
My newest machine is about 7 years old; I'm in a pinch that thousands of hours of intense concentration can show no way out. I play UT, surf, do all the things everyone else does, I even have an icon that'll bring up random episodes of Firefly, since there's plenty of power for media.
But I load OpenOffice and the world stops.
I fear that Thunderbird, under the direction of OO will become bloated and laggy as well! I had a friend who didn't know any better; her P2/300 was on loan to show her how to use Linux. She waited over 2H for it to load. It was insane. These guys really need to profile their code.