I would mod you up if I had mod points. Win Xp ruined my Christmas. On the other hand, I bougth an eMac, the thing has worked 1 month flawlessly. Certainly, it's not has fast like my Atholon XP 1800, but it isn't noisy and the quality and stability was worth the money.
...have been very active this year. But the raid was done by PGR (Procuraduría General de la República), the equivalent (by function anyway, not by skill) of the american FBI. Since justice procurement get's every year a smaller budget than the pollitical parties(public funding almost equal to the goverment's education budget for next year), executive branch and Congress, it's not hard to buy your very own judge down Rio Grande:-(
...In Mexico starting next year. But, since the kidnappers most of the time are cops/former cops, soon will be the jails full of Kazaa users, and the streets full of kidnappers.
Somehow the ""lawmakers"" came to the conclusion that depriving a man of is freedom an his familly of all their money is equivalent to let Sony without US $100 of revenue.
First, the "Dessert Storm" whas such a sucess, thas it's unveliable that Iraq after that heavy bombing could have, build or develop weapons of mass destrution. If Iraq indeed does have those weapons, then Cheney, Swarkpoff (sp?), Powell and the top brass of the US millitary sould be put on trial for their incredible incompetence.
Surelly you know the difference between killing/defeating Sadamm Hussein and killing/bombing an entire country, civilians includded. I have been close to a place bombed (200+ deaths,and that whas nothing compared to a Daisy cutter or a cruise missile) and I can assure you, its a vission that you cannot never forget, that's why I oppose the bombings.
The iraqui people doesn't deserve the horror of Sadamm, but they don't desserve the more terrifiying horror of american boms raining on them.
The north Pole faune. Souldn't the artic commision be looking for the causes of the change, instead of loking for commercial applications for the destruction of the north pole?
Not doing so would mean falling in the same semicolonial state that almost all Latin America suffer currently. Any sovereign state sould be looking for the best interest of their citizens, not of the american trusts.
You just mirror the image of the monitor in the TV, and play/see any game or DVD without worriying (sp?) for lack of space for all the viewers. It also works wonderfully for teaching in small groups.
At te current rate, what will be the difference between the Chinese goverment and the goverment of Japan and USA in a couple of years? Sadly, looks like the people need a Tiannanmen square massacre at home to wake up.
The current trend in both goverments makes them more closer to a confederation than to an open war. The great firewall of China some day will cover the USA too. My pity for americans. So used to be free that they didn't notice when they became slaves.
This is the most reasonable course of action. But, sometimes people get redirected to KP sites even if they are not looking actively for it. With the current lack of judment that permeates all the branchs of the USA's goverment, a lot of people will be behind bars for the crime of enabling JavaScript.
One of the few things that Mexico has better than the USA is the voting system. It's very simmilar to the canadian system, but they add more steps:
-The name list also have the picture of the voter (sp?)
-Voter ID cards are punched, after receiving the ballot papers
-Since the ID cards to vote are provided in good faith, they mark one finger in your right hand to prevent the casting of multiple votes by the same citizen.
-the boxes are transparent, placed in an highly visible place.
-the vote count in each polling boot is displayed in place, after being reviewed and signed by all the volunteers and representatives of the pollitical parties. the boxes are sealed in a similar fashion and submited to the electoral autority
-All the irregularities reported by citizens or parties go to the ellectoral courts.
Fist of all, I'm glad that you are all right, 3 or 5 guys from my city died that day:-(, I ran to the WC to cry when I heard that one of the towers collapsed, and yes, I believe that the bastards that planned it deserve to die.
That said, I whas talking about the stuff that THE AMERICAN GOVERMENT AND CORPORATIONS do outside the country. Since America still has a semblance of being a Republic with democratic ellections, the americans, has citizens and shareolders have the duty and the power to force their goverment and corporations to behave in an ethical (Sp?)way, regardless of the country in which they are operating, instead of the double standard that they comonly use.
If you want a list of american backed/imposet dictators, here it comes:
Victoriano Huerta, Mexico, 1913-1916. The revolution that ended Porfirio Diaz's dictatorship brougth to power the democratically ellected Francisco I. Madero. The blodly coup d'etat agains Madero whas planned in the american Emmbassy, and Huerta's goverment was inmediately (duh!!) recognized and backed by the american goverment.
Guatemala, 1956, another coup d'etat against a democratically ellected presidet. his sin? being leftist. Planned by the CIA, in the middle of the Cold War.
September 11, 1993, Augusto Pinochet seizes power in Chile, backed by gess who? the american goverment, killing the president Allende, and in 1974, doing the first terrorist attack in Washintong DC, killing 2 prominent enemies of his blodly regime.
More close in time, the USA was almost the only country in the world that recognized the new goverment in Venezuela afther the coup d'etat against the democratically ellected president Hugo Chavez; twisted completelly the ellections in Nicaragua, after the not so veiled menace of drestroying the contry's economy if they voted for Daniel Ortega, who whas a leftist president of Nicaragua in the 80's.
in the end, it's one thing to fight against the enemy we have at home, an other if we have to fight the American almost unbeatable power too.
It's the fact that american citizens don't give a damn about what are doing outside the USA their goverment or corporations. Sweatshops? Well, they are better than without work, isn't it? Puppet goverments and dictators in the middle east or Latin America? Well but they are our allies, aren't they? Oh! they are killing people! well, they must be killing comunist or terrorist freaks, rigth?
It's irrelevant if you are actively targeting civilians or not, if you end killing civilians no matter if you regret it, YOU ARE KILLING CIVILIANS.
Examples: The bombing of the wedding party, the attack in may against a small village in Afganistan, in wich american troops killed a 85 year old "gunman", the dettention of all males and the subsecuent pillage of the defenseless village at the hands of a gang of bandits, this will make the afgans very thankful of their american saviors.
My company (goverment owned), 2 years ago bought 500 PC's. The failure rate is around 35-45%. Out of the box was 20-25 %.
Yes, the company bought the cheapest offer (by law really we didn't have any other choice:-( )basically white boxes rebranded Olivetti, using the same cheap components that you will find in any cheap computer shop.
Of course, now Olivetti has been sued and forced to pay a really, really BIG fine; replacing at least power supply EACH week.
The sad thing is that most companies are going to the same path of Olivetti, using the cheapest and crappy components they could find, thanks to the price wars, with the exception of Apple (and to some extent Sony); I suppose it is because people thend to think of Apple=expensive, then Apple sells stuff worth the money.
"You can't tell me that their is any linux distro that can match Windows ease of use."
There is one, AFAIK, Mandrake 8.x The only thing easier to install and use than Mandrake is the Mac OS.
The graphic instalation, partitioning (WOW!!) and configuration utilites of Mandrake easily beat the windows 98/Me/2000/XP installer.
The problem are some dumbass hardware makers that don't provide linux drivers by default with the equipment, or provide a pathetic support for the open source drivers developers, for example, ATI, I still am waiting for the complete linux driver for my All in Wonder Radeon, with TV tuner, capture and all the stuff, not only the video card:-(
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He was the one that inspired; no, more accurately, draw the best path that the founding fathers of America followed after creating their new nation. In the process they put flowers and signal posts at the sides of the road.
The Freedom license fee is to be bombed back to the stone age, just ask the serbs, afgans and vietnamese.
For Latin America, there is an special EULA that states that latinos will enjoy freedom only under the goverment of proamerican puppet presidents or benign military dictators, trained in the School of Americas.
President Bush,addresing members of the White House press corps Wednesday, denied all allegations of falsehood regarding the Iran-Contra affair*, covert CIA operations in Central America, his "no new taxes" pledge and several other matters currently being dodged by individuals who may or may not be conected to the BUsh Administration.
"I did not, nor have I ever, betayed the trust of the American people by lying to them when I claimed, as I did, to have no knowledge of these aforementioned affairs," Bush said. "Furthermore, I empathically deny ever commenting on the matters, of which I had no knowledge, and I am still uncertain as to what extent my knowledge may be implicated".
Bush went on to say that any alleged remarks he may have made on the issues were taken out of context.
* This was about Bush, father, to update change Iran-Contra to War on terrorism
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I would mod you up if I had mod points. Win Xp ruined my Christmas. On the other hand, I bougth an eMac, the thing has worked 1 month flawlessly. Certainly, it's not has fast like my Atholon XP 1800, but it isn't noisy and the quality and stability was worth the money.
...have been very active this year. But the raid was done by PGR (Procuraduría General de la República), the equivalent (by function anyway, not by skill) of the american FBI. Since justice procurement get's every year a smaller budget than the pollitical parties(public funding almost equal to the goverment's education budget for next year), executive branch and Congress, it's not hard to buy your very own judge down Rio Grande :-(
subject says it all
...In Mexico starting next year. But, since the kidnappers most of the time are cops/former cops, soon will be the jails full of Kazaa users, and the streets full of kidnappers.
Somehow the ""lawmakers"" came to the conclusion that depriving a man of is freedom an his familly of all their money is equivalent to let Sony without US $100 of revenue.
First, the "Dessert Storm" whas such a sucess, thas it's unveliable that Iraq after that heavy bombing could have, build or develop weapons of mass destrution. If Iraq indeed does have those weapons, then Cheney, Swarkpoff (sp?), Powell and the top brass of the US millitary sould be put on trial for their incredible incompetence.
Surelly you know the difference between killing/defeating Sadamm Hussein and killing/bombing an entire country, civilians includded. I have been close to a place bombed (200+ deaths,and that whas nothing compared to a Daisy cutter or a cruise missile) and I can assure you, its a vission that you cannot never forget, that's why I oppose the bombings.
The iraqui people doesn't deserve the horror of Sadamm, but they don't desserve the more terrifiying horror of american boms raining on them.
Bombs != peace. Never.
The north Pole faune. Souldn't the artic commision be looking for the causes of the change, instead of loking for commercial applications for the destruction of the north pole?
Subject says it all.
Not doing so would mean falling in the same semicolonial state that almost all Latin America suffer currently. Any sovereign state sould be looking for the best interest of their citizens, not of the american trusts.
You just mirror the image of the monitor in the TV, and play/see any game or DVD without worriying (sp?) for lack of space for all the viewers. It also works wonderfully for teaching in small groups.
uf!!
For me was only 4 1/2 years (see ID)I'm so lucky!
At te current rate, what will be the difference between the Chinese goverment and the goverment of Japan and USA in a couple of years? Sadly, looks like the people need a Tiannanmen square massacre at home to wake up.
subject says it all
The current trend in both goverments makes them more closer to a confederation than to an open war. The great firewall of China some day will cover the USA too. My pity for americans. So used to be free that they didn't notice when they became slaves.
This is the most reasonable course of action. But, sometimes people get redirected to KP sites even if they are not looking actively for it. With the current lack of judment that permeates all the branchs of the USA's goverment, a lot of people will be behind bars for the crime of enabling JavaScript.
One of the few things that Mexico has better than the USA is the voting system. It's very simmilar to the canadian system, but they add more steps:
-The name list also have the picture of the voter (sp?)
-Voter ID cards are punched, after receiving the ballot papers
-Since the ID cards to vote are provided in good faith, they mark one finger in your right hand to prevent the casting of multiple votes by the same citizen.
-the boxes are transparent, placed in an highly visible place.
-the vote count in each polling boot is displayed in place, after being reviewed and signed by all the volunteers and representatives of the pollitical parties. the boxes are sealed in a similar fashion and submited to the electoral autority
-All the irregularities reported by citizens or parties go to the ellectoral courts.
-Bad losers winne and cry Fraud!! -_-
Fist of all, I'm glad that you are all right, 3 or 5 guys from my city died that day :-(, I ran to the WC to cry when I heard that one of the towers collapsed, and yes, I believe that the bastards that planned it deserve to die.
That said, I whas talking about the stuff that THE AMERICAN GOVERMENT AND CORPORATIONS do outside the country. Since America still has a semblance of being a Republic with democratic ellections, the americans, has citizens and shareolders have the duty and the power to force their goverment and corporations to behave in an ethical (Sp?)way, regardless of the country in which they are operating, instead of the double standard that they comonly use.
If you want a list of american backed/imposet dictators, here it comes:
Victoriano Huerta, Mexico, 1913-1916. The revolution that ended Porfirio Diaz's dictatorship brougth to power the democratically ellected Francisco I. Madero. The blodly coup d'etat agains Madero whas planned in the american Emmbassy, and Huerta's goverment was inmediately (duh!!) recognized and backed by the american goverment.
Guatemala, 1956, another coup d'etat against a democratically ellected presidet. his sin? being leftist. Planned by the CIA, in the middle of the Cold War.
September 11, 1993, Augusto Pinochet seizes power in Chile, backed by gess who? the american goverment, killing the president Allende, and in 1974, doing the first terrorist attack in Washintong DC, killing 2 prominent enemies of his blodly regime.
More close in time, the USA was almost the only country in the world that recognized the new goverment in Venezuela afther the coup d'etat against the democratically ellected president Hugo Chavez; twisted completelly the ellections in Nicaragua, after the not so veiled menace of drestroying the contry's economy if they voted for Daniel Ortega, who whas a leftist president of Nicaragua in the 80's.
in the end, it's one thing to fight against the enemy we have at home, an other if we have to fight the American almost unbeatable power too.
(sorry about the bad grammar, spelling =)
It's the fact that american citizens don't give a damn about what are doing outside the USA their goverment or corporations. Sweatshops? Well, they are better than without work, isn't it? Puppet goverments and dictators in the middle east or Latin America? Well but they are our allies, aren't they? Oh! they are killing people! well, they must be killing comunist or terrorist freaks, rigth?
It's irrelevant if you are actively targeting civilians or not, if you end killing civilians no matter if you regret it, YOU ARE KILLING CIVILIANS.
Examples: The bombing of the wedding party, the attack in may against a small village in Afganistan, in wich american troops killed a 85 year old "gunman", the dettention of all males and the subsecuent pillage of the defenseless village at the hands of a gang of bandits, this will make the afgans very thankful of their american saviors.
My company (goverment owned), 2 years ago bought 500 PC's. The failure rate is around 35-45%. Out of the box was 20-25 %.
:-( )basically white boxes rebranded Olivetti, using the same cheap components that you will find in any cheap computer shop.
Yes, the company bought the cheapest offer (by law really we didn't have any other choice
Of course, now Olivetti has been sued and forced to pay a really, really BIG fine; replacing at least power supply EACH week.
The sad thing is that most companies are going to the same path of Olivetti, using the cheapest and crappy components they could find, thanks to the price wars, with the exception of Apple (and to some extent Sony); I suppose it is because people thend to think of Apple=expensive, then Apple sells stuff worth the money.
"You can't tell me that their is any linux distro that can match Windows ease of use."
:-(
There is one, AFAIK, Mandrake 8.x The only thing easier to install and use than Mandrake is the Mac OS.
The graphic instalation, partitioning (WOW!!) and configuration utilites of Mandrake easily beat the windows 98/Me/2000/XP installer.
The problem are some dumbass hardware makers that don't provide linux drivers by default with the equipment, or provide a pathetic support for the open source drivers developers, for example, ATI, I still am waiting for the complete linux driver for my All in Wonder Radeon, with TV tuner, capture and all the stuff, not only the video card
He was the one that inspired; no, more accurately, draw the best path that the founding fathers of America followed after creating their new nation. In the process they put flowers and signal posts at the sides of the road.
The Freedom license fee is to be bombed back to the stone age, just ask the serbs, afgans and vietnamese.
For Latin America, there is an special EULA that states that latinos will enjoy freedom only under the goverment of proamerican puppet presidents or benign military dictators, trained in the School of Americas.
If you can't botter yourself to go to vote, why politicians sould botter listening to you.
Republics are made of citizens, not of lawyers and politicians.
(sorry about the crappy spelling =)
"I think some Peruvian government officials have been bought by Microsoft (of course that's normal for Peru)"
I think some USian government officials have been bought by Microsoft (of course that's normal for USA)
The things are really, really bad when we take stuff like this as "normal". When a republic fails, what comes next is tiranny.
President Bush,addresing members of the White House press corps Wednesday, denied all allegations of falsehood regarding the Iran-Contra affair*, covert CIA operations in Central America, his "no new taxes" pledge and several other matters currently being dodged by individuals who may or may not be conected to the BUsh Administration.
"I did not, nor have I ever, betayed the trust of the American people by lying to them when I claimed, as I did, to have no knowledge of these aforementioned affairs," Bush said. "Furthermore, I empathically deny ever commenting on the matters, of which I had no knowledge, and I am still uncertain as to what extent my knowledge may be implicated".
Bush went on to say that any alleged remarks he may have made on the issues were taken out of context.
* This was about Bush, father, to update change Iran-Contra to War on terrorism
From the Onion's "Our dumb century" ISBN 0-609-80461-8