In Australia they did this; taking away millions of guns for hundreds of millions of dollars. What do ya know? Only criminals had guns. Who woulda guessed?
Of course, with such heros as Castro, Stalin, and well, every enemy America has ever had (especially if he kills his own) the Liberals LOVE the idea of doing the same, to us.
This isn't rhetoric; this is proven fact- Jane Fonda on the AA guns of the North Vietnamese, Ed Asner's idolitry of Stalin in a recent quote "He kept such good order!" and every cocktail party where Castro is missed. The party which they now occupy has a former KKK member....but no one ever seems to think about these things.
Only Homer Simpson votes Democratic these days...and take a guess which party will push the remove-all-guns idea? It ain't the Republicans.
Think people, THINK. Don't let the TV do it. Politics is more than headlines.
At the Gibalt School in Maine, they crank out world-class students, with some of the highest scores, anywhere. They even have LAPTOPS instead of school books, starting at the 5th or 6th grade. Their cost? $1024/student/year.
In DC city schools, they crank out some of the worst. Huge numbers drop out, few excell. Laptops? Don't be silly. We're just hoping they don't bring a gun to school. Their cost? $11,000/student/year.
It's about the dull stuff: responsibility, testing teachers, and NOT introducing social experimentation. Unions don't belong in school, and neither do Liberals. Because this is what they bring.
We can always rely on our European friends to move backward to go forward. Just look how many times they rely on the UN when they need something done. They chide us for protecting our children's chilhood while they want to shove homosexuality right up their Fischer-Price world.
So yeah...removing the order to get more order...I'm sure this makes perfect sense to them....and WHY DO WE CARE?
Isn't this "the president presiding over the worst economic times since the depression"? The media, despite being in near-duplicate economic conditions to the Clinton Administration, yet now it's decried as horrible.
So how can there be a _shortage_ of any workers- aren't we 'a paycheck away' from being homeless and flooding the breadlines?
(No, we're not: for the people about to mark me as a troll, this is the point: we're in stellar economic circumstances, the media wants you to think otherwise.)
An uninformed vote is a vote made by the media. People that don't watch the news, don't know what's going on. And people that don't know history will buy anything the TV and the bloggers say.
If you don't know who Cheney is...the specific _reason_ that Rumsfeld should be fired (not just for attitude) then you shouldn't vote: you don't know what's going on.
The climate changes. Not just year to year, but century to century. Heck, about 300 years ago there was actually a "little ice age" that really wracked Europe. Change is normal.
The odd part is, the current change will end the world, and is caused by the key thing liberals hate most: growing capitalism in America. (See also: Kyoto treaty that would hamstring America, while China didn't have to do anything under the accord.)
And exactly HOW do we change something so indescribably huge? Sure- particles. Exactly how to we manages to take so many particles aloft to change the environment, when 100 TONS gets spewed into the air each time a volcano goes off, somewhere in the world. Some people think we occupy 98% of this tiny world; we're insignifigant on the face of this planet.
And aren't these the same people who claimed there would be a "Population bomb" in the 60's, and then claimed a new ice age in 1977? (You can still see it in evidence of Barney Miller where it played a role in one night's episode.) These are the same people that told us that under their care, bigotry and hatred would be a thing of the past....meanwhile it was available in commercial quantities in the wake of Katrina. (A good example of Democrat-only control.)
I'm just so tired of hearing this lie, over and over, and over. And when this one runs out, it'll be something else- like species that are going away (they've managed to manage themselves for billions of years, right?)
So yeah...it's very probable that the current global change is normal, nominal, and NOT caused by anything man-made (since most scientists point to changes that happened before 1940).
Read this; think about it. Consider all the facts. This, too, will go away like the War on Poverty and the Women's Rights movement.
Yeah, mark me as a troll- I LIVED thorough decades of this stuff. I'm just passing it on.
Thank you for being such a good example: I'm only going to invest the time to cite the first remark:
"I hate Donald Rumsfield now because he is one of the major pushers of the agenda for the millitary-industrial complex, just as he has been since the Nixon years. He does not work for the American people or the American government, nor does he look after the interests of the millitary. He is interested in getting as many of our tax dollars to manufactures of defense products and services as possible."
This diatribe describes about a million people in Washington, DC; however not a single hint of *WHAT*HE*HAS*DONE*.
It's all attitude; there's no tangible problem. And people don't get thrown into jail for having attitudes, especially by the 'enlightened and open minded' liberals.
Slow down; think where you heard, what. You're programmed. And don't both with a reply, I'm not comin back to this thread- no point.
The question isn't "where would you go, if you got too mad at America?" the question is "Why are you mad at America?"
If you hate Don Rumsfeld, but can't state why, you're programmed.
If you remember the Clinton years fondly, but you can't remember which of his policies was so good, you might be programmed.
If you think America has a long history of torture and taking over distant countries, you're programmed.
If you despise Fox News, but haven't watched more than seconds of it this year, yep...programmed.
If you think Rush Limbaugh is a bigoted fat man, you're both programmed AND bigoted; he's lost 100+ pounds...about 5-10 years ago.
During the Clinton Administration, we hit (I think it was) 11,000 on the Dow. Unemployment was low like now, and the ABC (and most other legacy networks) touted this as a superb thing- tantamount to throwing a parade. The other day when it hit 12,000 only one of these networks mentioned it, and they couched it as "While the economy is doomed, the stock market hit a new high today". (Yeah, paraphrased.)
The point is, if you don't pay any attention to the actual news, you're gonna get programmed. Listening to the old-world media is a guaranteed lock on this, and feeling depressed.
The Democrats, favored incredibly by the legacy media, need the economy to look bad, the war to go horribly, etc to regain office. So despite and almost duplicate of the glory years of Clinton is sold to us as doom-and-gloom. The economy is every bit as good as it was under Clinton, and this war is loosing about the same number of men if they had stayed home (about 1200/year accordin the Pentagon). It's no disaster- it's just taking longer than we want.
Democrats aren't just bad at foreign policy- they're deadly at it. Hammas was catapulted to what it is now because President Carter **begged** the terrorists to return our people when they were captured by Iran.
Clinton (and Albright) wanted to quiet North Korea, keeping them from doing anything nuclear during his shift, so they GAVE them two nuclear reactors, a bunch of money AND the promise that we wouldn't go checking on them for five years. So they put Il in the dark with a nuclear erector-set. Now they claim that not talking with them is stupid.
Think I'm just a right-wing wacko? Look these up. If you don't, don't bother leaving the USA; you'll get ticked wherever you go, because you don't pay attention. If you do, you might just be surprised how much information you're missing.
Do you think Limbaugh (for example) manages to have such huge audiences, merely by lying about the Liberals/Democrats? Of course not. So why not listen for yourself and hear the information he cites; he's rarely wrong, unless it's about computers.:)
In short, if you hate America...you're not paying attention. Please do, and shut up.
Show me the ravines of people who hate Bush. Bush is not Saddam. Repeat that until you remember it. You've been programmed by the media. Hate Rumsfeld, but don't know why? You're programmed. Hate America and think it's a new revelation to which you've come on your own accord? You're programmed. Stay off of CNN, hate Fox News (because it IS balanced, no matter what you say) and you'll enjoy life better.
With an almost record unemployment rate, and millions of people with money to put into the stock market (which is why it's high), how can you claim somehow there's something wrong with the economy? Yet CNN and the like do.
Listen to CNN's announcement of a new stock high under the Clinton Administration, and listen to the 12,000 mark. Only ABC mentioned this story on the nightly news, and on the radio it was sold as "The market is high, though the rest of us are poor" and similar. When it happened on Clinton's watch it was nothing but a parade, with no reservations.
You've been programmed. Check around. Check your assumptions on things other than "friendly" news sources. Read old books. You're being scammed.
The last five or six years has been a increased intensity of the last 30-40. As time goes by things keep getting more upside down. Bush is a terrorist (though it's Saddam that has ravines full of 400,000 people and Bush can't get a break in the media) America is the terrorist (Though we liberated a BILLION people last century, and because of liberals owning public schools no one today remembers).
In this country the New York Times presented information about the money flow overseas, tipping off terrorist backers. Now, they say they're patriotic, they believe in America, etc.....but if they were FOR the terrorists, what would they do different? And doesn't it scream out loud when American reporters can release information tantamount to treason....several times...and they don't go to jail?
America's less free. Bullshit. I'm so sick of this relativism, this political correctness, and other fallacies I could just spit. Isn't it astounding how many people have lost just who the bad guys are...and just what bad guys do? Insane.
...have just been a coma? Other than what happens in your bedroom, there's very little privacy left in our American lives, NOW. For DECADES. Ever live in a small town?
Once again: not news. Why are these stories regularly posted?
Does *ANYONE* really believe that sanctions (like limiting the visas for certain high-ranking officials and other meaningless inventions of the UN) will change anything at all? This won't be anywhere NEAR over until a city has been nuked. This is going to get ugly; the UN is powerless and corrupt.
Mark my words; there's a reason why N Korea and Iran are working on this at the same time. And don't think the only place the nuke will go off is NYC; Amsterdam, Vienna, Dortmund....almost any city is at risk. Just remember this comment. I've been right so many times before.
Now it exists. Can I get free Mountain Dew to exist? Ok, I'm laboring the point. The truth is it *always* existed, whether we knew it or not. I think it's more to the point of "Dark Matter Proven", dontchathink?
BTW: The Roman Catholic church in a similar way has decided that limbo/purgatory no longer exist; science and religion have a LOT in common.:) Yeah, semantics, I know, but science and religion aren't opposites...though scientists and preachers sometimes are...
Yep: I agree on pretty much all points. Drinking, before the foundation of MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers) started spouting 700 deaths each day from drunk driving. Sure, it's a tiny slice of the 77,000 a day from all causes, but still: it's a preventable problem.
The Arabs/Muslims have a way out of their problems: it's call giving up this silly multi-millenia conflict that can't be resolved. Arafat died with Billions of US dollars. Shouldn't a signifigant fraction of that been used to make power stations, internet, medical centers and so on? Instead he paid them to keep the fire burning. Arab men born to the 'wrong' families seem to be starving and fed only with hate. Where is there bid for capitalism?
He's not alone; I shudder to think how much money has gone down this rathole. Where were the Arabs when this land was called TransJordan? If their religious sites were so truly, mortally important to them, why not just BUY them from the receding world power before the UN started cutting up the (almost completely unused) land?
Rather than picking just one side, I see fault on both; but let's face it: there's no genocide happening in Gaza or the West Bank. Business is conducted there, until a bomb goes off and blood sprays. From my viewpoint it's the Palestinians getting the biggest 'shaft'; their Arab-so-called-brothers wouldn't even take them in for the last 5 decades.
It seems a little bogus, to me, to have one country, in two places, INSIDE another country. Has this layout *ever* worked anywhere else?
What would be so wrong in reaching the mental conclusion of NOT blowing things up? Then, if an Israeli soldier punched out a man and his wife, they could file a lawsuit, not kill unrelated people.
It clear it's not about land: at one point Arafat had an offer on the table he long-sought, back to the 1967 borders, and he turned it down. He and his buddies prefer killing. After 50 years or so, that much is no longer open to debate.
On the other side- what stops Israel from setting fire to both Gaza and the West Bank? If the Israelis are such cruel hosts, why do they put up with this, given the "overwhelming military"? I know that if people started lobbing rockets into my country and no specific country was involved, I'd start turning random towns into Dresden until the host country gave them up.
Terrorists kill without the laws of war- blowing up random people, sometimes their own (like in Bali) and sometimes no one. The intent is to bring about political change, from the eyes of the terrorists.
Problem is, after 50+ years, the tactic is getting nowhere.
And exactly why is is that, every time Israel kills a kid, it's news. Evertime a terrorist kills 30 kids, it's not just as big a deal? The only time terrorists DON'T kill civilians is by accident. Why is Israel held to a different standard?
(kill 50 people a year in Israel on busses, it's no big story; when they retaliate for it, a single dead child makes the phones ring at the UN.)
It's my suspicion that Greater Arabia has serious money problems; their per-capita income over the last 25 years or so has plummeted from $20K to $7K. It's my hunch that the last 30 years has been more about keeping the "Arab Street" distracted from rebellion, more than protecting their "bretheren"...their "bretheren" are still sitting in refugee camps for the last 50 years...tents and other miserable surroundings. Bretheren? Doesn't seem like it.
But back to the media; why is it we never hear *anything* in America about the day-to-day Arab activities- marriages between important people, when certain "celebs" go see a movie, etc? Surely things of importance happen in a place that throttles our world's most precious resource. We never hear a peep.
Say what you will about the doctored photos; the whole wahabi movement seems only intended to maintain the thrones, for the mere price of endless Palestinian AND Israeli suffering.
Can anyone source me confirmation on these hunches?
I'm a LONG TIME Redhat fan. I started at 4.0 and stayed on until FC4. There are several things that Redhat has stopped doing, owed to their business-school strategy that just doesn't work, here.
XCDRoast: the author of this program has his stuff together; he makes it available for many distros and in most places it works, but at Redhat they see fit to edit the code to get along with their SUID plan. It works, but are they going to shoehorn all packages like this? There are _thousands_.
LDAP: the OpenLDAP rpm that comes from the Fedora repo is at least 2 major releases old. Worse than that, it breaks. And it breaks in a way that leaves it completely useless. But I suppose that since they bought Netscape Directory, a bloated, oversized, shotgun-approach to flyswatting, they won't allow anyone to bring the smaller, tighter core product up to speed. In short, if you need LDAP, you use ND or recompile your own from a tarball. Hey, they've got a business to run!
And all those Linux games we *bought* hoping to keep Loki alive? You'll have to fight to make them work, and each time the libraries get upgraded, you'll need to fight'em again. Not in Ubuntu.
Ubuntu has some strengths that are surprisingly wonderful. Very little translation (if ANY) from author to end-user. Using a *better* package manager, rolling projects in, editing the configs, and rolling them back out are painless. No dependency problems.
LDAP lives in/etc/ldap and installs with enough "database" to get you started. Even without the nice LDAP GUI that Redhat made, I think this might be simpler and quicker. No complications, no stupid Java behemoth, just good native code like it should be.
Remember those Loki games? Check the docs for the details; it's, as they say in these parts, "Breezy".:)
Their DOCUMENTATION. It's a Wiki. Not stuffy paperwork that never seems to be complete enough, or out of date. It's a living, growing document that helps us all enjoy the experience. Reading these docs made the LDAP install close-to-instantaneous. It made the Loki libraries the same way. It showed me in far more simple ways how to deal with Apache, which I thought I understood before.
I think it's because Ubuntu has no commercial bias; no reason to do anything other than the author's intentions with their code. There's no reason to do something that you and I don't need, because they have to make a headline. THIS is the right way to do Linux.
I've tried telling them at Redhat, but won't hear me.
Just like TribalVoice with PowWow, just like PCNews or whatever it was, and just like SCO, before they were sold to a (now dying) entity. But the Redhat-of-old was a warm friendly place for many of us to get started, and I'm thankful for that. Now Ubuntu can truly take us into the future, to do even bigger, brighter things!
I remember Dvorak since WAY back...the 8-bit days. Kilobaud Microcomputing and early issues of Byte- that far back. I don't think I've ever heard anything from him that met reality...why do we care, again?
Which administration? I've not seen anything good spoken of this administration since Bush gave the education bill to Ted Kenedy to write. That just confused us all...but not Ted! He acts like he had nothing to do with it, and complains, too.
The mind-programming from the left is really hilarious at times.
AMEN! Lots of ordinary people, doing ordinary things, none of which are interesting. DemocracyPlayer's video content is the same collection of non-interesting noise.
Bureaucracy is the problem. Hand anything to the government and they'll botch the job...sometimes in their buddy's favor. Evidence is all around; see also the $600 toilet seat.
So why do so many people, voting Democratic, think that turning everything over to the government is a good idea? It just boggles the mind.
(To be fair, the Republicans...the non-Conservative Republicans...have been just as bad at spending. Conservatism is about shrinking government, not growing it, and playing by the rules. Katrina was a good example of too much bureaucracy, for example- an extra level between services and people in need.)
Moving these issues to the state level and limiting liability would allow medical organizations to work out their details and keep things straight. Bringing the Fed in there means "billions" of dollars are available for a hangnail-case and a slick lawyer.
I sure wish term limits could ever be enforced; this group of clowns is inept.
...and then they LEAVE California, because the new haven they've created no longer can support the policies- taxes are raised, red tape flows everywhere, property values lessen....well, there's always Colorado to ruin!
This would be funny, but it's already happened. What is it about overpopulated areas that turns out these wackos?
I travelled 46 states and went to PR twice, before I was 15. Each town a new, unique place with different kinds of people. A few years back I got to go back and see a couple of places. Each and every place has the same chain stores, made from the same ideas, same building materials, and arranged in the same kinds of ways. The loss of originality was depressing. I was in Dallas, TX for two weeks and never heard a single "Ya'll"....or even saw anyone wearing cowboy boots.
Chicago, Il, Lexington, Ky, Bangor, Me, Roswell, Nm; soon they'll all look the same, and noplace to go to 'get away from it all' just the same corporate city, or primative camping with no electricity. Sad, really. The west was once very special.
So imagine what it'll be like when "no where, USA" turns in to L.A.? To be honest, I'm actually *glad* it's all ending soon.
If this is on an OS, known worldwide for disappointing users by way of spyware, adware, broken-bits and finacially-motivated schemes....does the difference between role-based and user-based even matter? The OS isn't out yet, and there are already thousands of critters waiting on it.
Nothing's changed since the introduction of WfW many moons ago. Product's late, been denounced by reviewers, people saying they won't migrate to it. Like always. The process never changes, but it *should*. They covet the source code like it's the Coke recipe, and they have tens-of-billions. Don't try to convince me they're unable to patch their own source code, they just prefer not to.
It's not about the code itself, it's about how the entire concept is flawed. Pay more, get less. OR....you'll just "die" from that virus. That's just something that the computer industry hasn't settled on, yet. And I'm certainly not a backer.
Anyone relying on Microsoft for their computing deserves the CircusWare they will eventually get. There needs to be a better way, and now there are several. If MS died today, I would care even less than when I admin'ed it; they were almost-useless as a solution provider....remember "Please re-install your OS"?
Every time someone declares "Americans are willing to do..." we wind up with useless (and pocket-lining) standards, a'la: R12 refridgerant, low-gpf toilets, and a whole host of other crud, much like in 1973.
First, considering the amount of CO2 that's belched out of a single lava blast, I don't think changing my life or muzzling my cat will do a lot of good.
Second, people seem to think we're mighty on this planet; that we're crowded. In fact, it's been estimated that if all 6b people were shoulder-to-shoulder in a square, we'd occupy the state of New Mexico; we're not THAT crowded, it's a media perception.
Third, I don't want another bandwagon.
Mark my words: we're all going to start doing dumb things in the name of "saving the planet" which will make other people rich and not reverse the problem at all. (Besides; it's not the planet we're saving, is it?)
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Bugs, viruses, people lining up to snag your data, music downloads that go POOF! in the middle of the night...
Just how much more crap will you put up with, before trying something new?
In Australia they did this; taking away millions of guns for hundreds of millions of dollars. What do ya know? Only criminals had guns. Who woulda guessed?
Of course, with such heros as Castro, Stalin, and well, every enemy America has ever had (especially if he kills his own) the Liberals LOVE the idea of doing the same, to us.
This isn't rhetoric; this is proven fact- Jane Fonda on the AA guns of the North Vietnamese, Ed Asner's idolitry of Stalin in a recent quote "He kept such good order!" and every cocktail party where Castro is missed. The party which they now occupy has a former KKK member....but no one ever seems to think about these things.
Only Homer Simpson votes Democratic these days...and take a guess which party will push the remove-all-guns idea? It ain't the Republicans.
Think people, THINK. Don't let the TV do it. Politics is more than headlines.
...that we WANT DRM to 'eat' our music weeks after we buy it, we want WGA to hassle us if it thinks we're pirating, and that we WANT viruses.
GroupThink?
At the Gibalt School in Maine, they crank out world-class students, with some of the highest scores, anywhere. They even have LAPTOPS instead of school books, starting at the 5th or 6th grade. Their cost? $1024/student/year.
In DC city schools, they crank out some of the worst. Huge numbers drop out, few excell. Laptops? Don't be silly. We're just hoping they don't bring a gun to school. Their cost? $11,000/student/year.
It's about the dull stuff: responsibility, testing teachers, and NOT introducing social experimentation. Unions don't belong in school, and neither do Liberals. Because this is what they bring.
We can always rely on our European friends to move backward to go forward. Just look how many times they rely on the UN when they need something done. They chide us for protecting our children's chilhood while they want to shove homosexuality right up their Fischer-Price world.
...and WHY DO WE CARE?
So yeah...removing the order to get more order...I'm sure this makes perfect sense to them.
Isn't this "the president presiding over the worst economic times since the depression"? The media, despite being in near-duplicate economic conditions to the Clinton Administration, yet now it's decried as horrible.
So how can there be a _shortage_ of any workers- aren't we 'a paycheck away' from being homeless and flooding the breadlines?
(No, we're not: for the people about to mark me as a troll, this is the point: we're in stellar economic circumstances, the media wants you to think otherwise.)
An uninformed vote is a vote made by the media. People that don't watch the news, don't know what's going on. And people that don't know history will buy anything the TV and the bloggers say.
If you don't know who Cheney is...the specific _reason_ that Rumsfeld should be fired (not just for attitude) then you shouldn't vote: you don't know what's going on.
The climate changes. Not just year to year, but century to century. Heck, about 300 years ago there was actually a "little ice age" that really wracked Europe. Change is normal.
The odd part is, the current change will end the world, and is caused by the key thing liberals hate most: growing capitalism in America. (See also: Kyoto treaty that would hamstring America, while China didn't have to do anything under the accord.)
And exactly HOW do we change something so indescribably huge? Sure- particles. Exactly how to we manages to take so many particles aloft to change the environment, when 100 TONS gets spewed into the air each time a volcano goes off, somewhere in the world. Some people think we occupy 98% of this tiny world; we're insignifigant on the face of this planet.
And aren't these the same people who claimed there would be a "Population bomb" in the 60's, and then claimed a new ice age in 1977? (You can still see it in evidence of Barney Miller where it played a role in one night's episode.) These are the same people that told us that under their care, bigotry and hatred would be a thing of the past....meanwhile it was available in commercial quantities in the wake of Katrina. (A good example of Democrat-only control.)
I'm just so tired of hearing this lie, over and over, and over. And when this one runs out, it'll be something else- like species that are going away (they've managed to manage themselves for billions of years, right?)
So yeah...it's very probable that the current global change is normal, nominal, and NOT caused by anything man-made (since most scientists point to changes that happened before 1940).
Read this; think about it. Consider all the facts. This, too, will go away like the War on Poverty and the Women's Rights movement.
Yeah, mark me as a troll- I LIVED thorough decades of this stuff. I'm just passing it on.
Thank you for being such a good example: I'm only going to invest the time to cite the first remark:
"I hate Donald Rumsfield now because he is one of the major pushers of the agenda for the millitary-industrial complex, just as he has been since the Nixon years. He does not work for the American people or the American government, nor does he look after the interests of the millitary. He is interested in getting as many of our tax dollars to manufactures of defense products and services as possible."
This diatribe describes about a million people in Washington, DC; however not a single hint of *WHAT*HE*HAS*DONE*.
It's all attitude; there's no tangible problem. And people don't get thrown into jail for having attitudes, especially by the 'enlightened and open minded' liberals.
Slow down; think where you heard, what. You're programmed. And don't both with a reply, I'm not comin back to this thread- no point.
The question isn't "where would you go, if you got too mad at America?" the question is "Why are you mad at America?"
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If you hate Don Rumsfeld, but can't state why, you're programmed.
If you remember the Clinton years fondly, but you can't remember which of his policies was so good, you might be programmed.
If you think America has a long history of torture and taking over distant countries, you're programmed.
If you despise Fox News, but haven't watched more than seconds of it this year, yep...programmed.
If you think Rush Limbaugh is a bigoted fat man, you're both programmed AND bigoted; he's lost 100+ pounds...about 5-10 years ago.
During the Clinton Administration, we hit (I think it was) 11,000 on the Dow. Unemployment was low like now, and the ABC (and most other legacy networks) touted this as a superb thing- tantamount to throwing a parade. The other day when it hit 12,000 only one of these networks mentioned it, and they couched it as "While the economy is doomed, the stock market hit a new high today". (Yeah, paraphrased.)
The point is, if you don't pay any attention to the actual news, you're gonna get programmed. Listening to the old-world media is a guaranteed lock on this, and feeling depressed.
The Democrats, favored incredibly by the legacy media, need the economy to look bad, the war to go horribly, etc to regain office. So despite and almost duplicate of the glory years of Clinton is sold to us as doom-and-gloom. The economy is every bit as good as it was under Clinton, and this war is loosing about the same number of men if they had stayed home (about 1200/year accordin the Pentagon). It's no disaster- it's just taking longer than we want.
Democrats aren't just bad at foreign policy- they're deadly at it. Hammas was catapulted to what it is now because President Carter **begged** the terrorists to return our people when they were captured by Iran.
Clinton (and Albright) wanted to quiet North Korea, keeping them from doing anything nuclear during his shift, so they GAVE them two nuclear reactors, a bunch of money AND the promise that we wouldn't go checking on them for five years. So they put Il in the dark with a nuclear erector-set. Now they claim that not talking with them is stupid.
Think I'm just a right-wing wacko? Look these up. If you don't, don't bother leaving the USA; you'll get ticked wherever you go, because you don't pay attention. If you do, you might just be surprised how much information you're missing.
Do you think Limbaugh (for example) manages to have such huge audiences, merely by lying about the Liberals/Democrats? Of course not. So why not listen for yourself and hear the information he cites; he's rarely wrong, unless it's about computers.
In short, if you hate America...you're not paying attention. Please do, and shut up.
Show me the ravines of people who hate Bush. Bush is not Saddam. Repeat that until you remember it. You've been programmed by the media. Hate Rumsfeld, but don't know why? You're programmed. Hate America and think it's a new revelation to which you've come on your own accord? You're programmed. Stay off of CNN, hate Fox News (because it IS balanced, no matter what you say) and you'll enjoy life better. With an almost record unemployment rate, and millions of people with money to put into the stock market (which is why it's high), how can you claim somehow there's something wrong with the economy? Yet CNN and the like do. Listen to CNN's announcement of a new stock high under the Clinton Administration, and listen to the 12,000 mark. Only ABC mentioned this story on the nightly news, and on the radio it was sold as "The market is high, though the rest of us are poor" and similar. When it happened on Clinton's watch it was nothing but a parade, with no reservations. You've been programmed. Check around. Check your assumptions on things other than "friendly" news sources. Read old books. You're being scammed.
The last five or six years has been a increased intensity of the last 30-40. As time goes by things keep getting more upside down. Bush is a terrorist (though it's Saddam that has ravines full of 400,000 people and Bush can't get a break in the media) America is the terrorist (Though we liberated a BILLION people last century, and because of liberals owning public schools no one today remembers).
In this country the New York Times presented information about the money flow overseas, tipping off terrorist backers. Now, they say they're patriotic, they believe in America, etc.....but if they were FOR the terrorists, what would they do different? And doesn't it scream out loud when American reporters can release information tantamount to treason....several times...and they don't go to jail?
America's less free. Bullshit. I'm so sick of this relativism, this political correctness, and other fallacies I could just spit. Isn't it astounding how many people have lost just who the bad guys are...and just what bad guys do? Insane.
...have just been a coma? Other than what happens in your bedroom, there's very little privacy left in our American lives, NOW. For DECADES. Ever live in a small town?
Once again: not news. Why are these stories regularly posted?
Does *ANYONE* really believe that sanctions (like limiting the visas for certain high-ranking officials and other meaningless inventions of the UN) will change anything at all? This won't be anywhere NEAR over until a city has been nuked. This is going to get ugly; the UN is powerless and corrupt.
Mark my words; there's a reason why N Korea and Iran are working on this at the same time. And don't think the only place the nuke will go off is NYC; Amsterdam, Vienna, Dortmund....almost any city is at risk. Just remember this comment. I've been right so many times before.
Now it exists. Can I get free Mountain Dew to exist? Ok, I'm laboring the point. The truth is it *always* existed, whether we knew it or not. I think it's more to the point of "Dark Matter Proven", dontchathink?
:) Yeah, semantics, I know, but science and religion aren't opposites...though scientists and preachers sometimes are...
BTW: The Roman Catholic church in a similar way has decided that limbo/purgatory no longer exist; science and religion have a LOT in common.
Yep: I agree on pretty much all points. Drinking, before the foundation of MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers) started spouting 700 deaths each day from drunk driving. Sure, it's a tiny slice of the 77,000 a day from all causes, but still: it's a preventable problem.
The Arabs/Muslims have a way out of their problems: it's call giving up this silly multi-millenia conflict that can't be resolved. Arafat died with Billions of US dollars. Shouldn't a signifigant fraction of that been used to make power stations, internet, medical centers and so on? Instead he paid them to keep the fire burning. Arab men born to the 'wrong' families seem to be starving and fed only with hate. Where is there bid for capitalism?
He's not alone; I shudder to think how much money has gone down this rathole. Where were the Arabs when this land was called TransJordan? If their religious sites were so truly, mortally important to them, why not just BUY them from the receding world power before the UN started cutting up the (almost completely unused) land?
Rather than picking just one side, I see fault on both; but let's face it: there's no genocide happening in Gaza or the West Bank. Business is conducted there, until a bomb goes off and blood sprays. From my viewpoint it's the Palestinians getting the biggest 'shaft'; their Arab-so-called-brothers wouldn't even take them in for the last 5 decades.
It seems a little bogus, to me, to have one country, in two places, INSIDE another country. Has this layout *ever* worked anywhere else?
What would be so wrong in reaching the mental conclusion of NOT blowing things up? Then, if an Israeli soldier punched out a man and his wife, they could file a lawsuit, not kill unrelated people.
It clear it's not about land: at one point Arafat had an offer on the table he long-sought, back to the 1967 borders, and he turned it down. He and his buddies prefer killing. After 50 years or so, that much is no longer open to debate.
On the other side- what stops Israel from setting fire to both Gaza and the West Bank? If the Israelis are such cruel hosts, why do they put up with this, given the "overwhelming military"? I know that if people started lobbing rockets into my country and no specific country was involved, I'd start turning random towns into Dresden until the host country gave them up.
Terrorists kill without the laws of war- blowing up random people, sometimes their own (like in Bali) and sometimes no one. The intent is to bring about political change, from the eyes of the terrorists.
Problem is, after 50+ years, the tactic is getting nowhere.
And exactly why is is that, every time Israel kills a kid, it's news. Evertime a terrorist kills 30 kids, it's not just as big a deal? The only time terrorists DON'T kill civilians is by accident. Why is Israel held to a different standard?
(kill 50 people a year in Israel on busses, it's no big story; when they retaliate for it, a single dead child makes the phones ring at the UN.)
It's my suspicion that Greater Arabia has serious money problems; their per-capita income over the last 25 years or so has plummeted from $20K to $7K. It's my hunch that the last 30 years has been more about keeping the "Arab Street" distracted from rebellion, more than protecting their "bretheren"...their "bretheren" are still sitting in refugee camps for the last 50 years...tents and other miserable surroundings. Bretheren? Doesn't seem like it.
But back to the media; why is it we never hear *anything* in America about the day-to-day Arab activities- marriages between important people, when certain "celebs" go see a movie, etc? Surely things of importance happen in a place that throttles our world's most precious resource. We never hear a peep.
Say what you will about the doctored photos; the whole wahabi movement seems only intended to maintain the thrones, for the mere price of endless Palestinian AND Israeli suffering.
Can anyone source me confirmation on these hunches?
I'm a LONG TIME Redhat fan. I started at 4.0 and stayed on until FC4. There are several things that Redhat has stopped doing, owed to their business-school strategy that just doesn't work, here.
/etc/ldap and installs with enough "database" to get you started. Even without the nice LDAP GUI that Redhat made, I think this might be simpler and quicker. No complications, no stupid Java behemoth, just good native code like it should be.
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XCDRoast: the author of this program has his stuff together; he makes it available for many distros and in most places it works, but at Redhat they see fit to edit the code to get along with their SUID plan. It works, but are they going to shoehorn all packages like this? There are _thousands_.
LDAP: the OpenLDAP rpm that comes from the Fedora repo is at least 2 major releases old. Worse than that, it breaks. And it breaks in a way that leaves it completely useless. But I suppose that since they bought Netscape Directory, a bloated, oversized, shotgun-approach to flyswatting, they won't allow anyone to bring the smaller, tighter core product up to speed. In short, if you need LDAP, you use ND or recompile your own from a tarball. Hey, they've got a business to run!
And all those Linux games we *bought* hoping to keep Loki alive? You'll have to fight to make them work, and each time the libraries get upgraded, you'll need to fight'em again. Not in Ubuntu.
Ubuntu has some strengths that are surprisingly wonderful. Very little translation (if ANY) from author to end-user. Using a *better* package manager, rolling projects in, editing the configs, and rolling them back out are painless. No dependency problems.
LDAP lives in
Remember those Loki games? Check the docs for the details; it's, as they say in these parts, "Breezy".
Their DOCUMENTATION. It's a Wiki. Not stuffy paperwork that never seems to be complete enough, or out of date. It's a living, growing document that helps us all enjoy the experience. Reading these docs made the LDAP install close-to-instantaneous. It made the Loki libraries the same way. It showed me in far more simple ways how to deal with Apache, which I thought I understood before.
I think it's because Ubuntu has no commercial bias; no reason to do anything other than the author's intentions with their code. There's no reason to do something that you and I don't need, because they have to make a headline. THIS is the right way to do Linux.
I've tried telling them at Redhat, but won't hear me.
Just like TribalVoice with PowWow, just like PCNews or whatever it was, and just like SCO, before they were sold to a (now dying) entity. But the Redhat-of-old was a warm friendly place for many of us to get started, and I'm thankful for that. Now Ubuntu can truly take us into the future, to do even bigger, brighter things!
I remember Dvorak since WAY back...the 8-bit days. Kilobaud Microcomputing and early issues of Byte- that far back. I don't think I've ever heard anything from him that met reality...why do we care, again?
Which administration? I've not seen anything good spoken of this administration since Bush gave the education bill to Ted Kenedy to write. That just confused us all...but not Ted! He acts like he had nothing to do with it, and complains, too.
The mind-programming from the left is really hilarious at times.
AMEN! Lots of ordinary people, doing ordinary things, none of which are interesting. DemocracyPlayer's video content is the same collection of non-interesting noise.
Bureaucracy is the problem. Hand anything to the government and they'll botch the job...sometimes in their buddy's favor. Evidence is all around; see also the $600 toilet seat.
So why do so many people, voting Democratic, think that turning everything over to the government is a good idea? It just boggles the mind.
(To be fair, the Republicans...the non-Conservative Republicans...have been just as bad at spending. Conservatism is about shrinking government, not growing it, and playing by the rules. Katrina was a good example of too much bureaucracy, for example- an extra level between services and people in need.)
Moving these issues to the state level and limiting liability would allow medical organizations to work out their details and keep things straight. Bringing the Fed in there means "billions" of dollars are available for a hangnail-case and a slick lawyer.
I sure wish term limits could ever be enforced; this group of clowns is inept.
...and then they LEAVE California, because the new haven they've created no longer can support the policies- taxes are raised, red tape flows everywhere, property values lessen....well, there's always Colorado to ruin!
This would be funny, but it's already happened. What is it about overpopulated areas that turns out these wackos?
I travelled 46 states and went to PR twice, before I was 15. Each town a new, unique place with different kinds of people. A few years back I got to go back and see a couple of places. Each and every place has the same chain stores, made from the same ideas, same building materials, and arranged in the same kinds of ways. The loss of originality was depressing. I was in Dallas, TX for two weeks and never heard a single "Ya'll"....or even saw anyone wearing cowboy boots.
Chicago, Il, Lexington, Ky, Bangor, Me, Roswell, Nm; soon they'll all look the same, and noplace to go to 'get away from it all' just the same corporate city, or primative camping with no electricity. Sad, really. The west was once very special.
So imagine what it'll be like when "no where, USA" turns in to L.A.? To be honest, I'm actually *glad* it's all ending soon.
If this is on an OS, known worldwide for disappointing users by way of spyware, adware, broken-bits and finacially-motivated schemes....does the difference between role-based and user-based even matter? The OS isn't out yet, and there are already thousands of critters waiting on it.
Nothing's changed since the introduction of WfW many moons ago. Product's late, been denounced by reviewers, people saying they won't migrate to it. Like always. The process never changes, but it *should*. They covet the source code like it's the Coke recipe, and they have tens-of-billions. Don't try to convince me they're unable to patch their own source code, they just prefer not to.
It's not about the code itself, it's about how the entire concept is flawed. Pay more, get less. OR....you'll just "die" from that virus. That's just something that the computer industry hasn't settled on, yet. And I'm certainly not a backer.
Anyone relying on Microsoft for their computing deserves the CircusWare they will eventually get. There needs to be a better way, and now there are several. If MS died today, I would care even less than when I admin'ed it; they were almost-useless as a solution provider....remember "Please re-install your OS"?
Every time someone declares "Americans are willing to do..." we wind up with useless (and pocket-lining) standards, a'la: R12 refridgerant, low-gpf toilets, and a whole host of other crud, much like in 1973.
First, considering the amount of CO2 that's belched out of a single lava blast, I don't think changing my life or muzzling my cat will do a lot of good.
Second, people seem to think we're mighty on this planet; that we're crowded. In fact, it's been estimated that if all 6b people were shoulder-to-shoulder in a square, we'd occupy the state of New Mexico; we're not THAT crowded, it's a media perception.
Third, I don't want another bandwagon.
Mark my words: we're all going to start doing dumb things in the name of "saving the planet" which will make other people rich and not reverse the problem at all. (Besides; it's not the planet we're saving, is it?)