The last I remember, we installed the Shah, he was later overthrown by the Islamic extremists (in 1979)? So, no we didn't make them into a theocracy.
As for Mosaddegh he was about to nationalize the oil fields that we developed and was dealing with the Russians so it was right to depose him at the time. It's naive to look at the dirty geopolitical games of the cold war outside the context as if USSR never existed and USA was doing all that just for fun.
That's all unimportant. Iran is run by a belligerent theocratic dictatorship that the world would be better off without, just like in case of Saddam. The rest is just a matter of tactics.
Why are you so sure that it's a broken system? The huge explosion of innovation and new technology during the patent era (ditto for art under copyright era) is not enough for you?
Your entire post is made up of the liberal's standard mythology - evil rich corporations are taking away our rights etc. I am too lazy to reply to all the nonsense in there but let me just make two points: subcontracting is not the same thing as privatizing. Military/Police/CIA/Courts are not being privatized and nobody on the right or in the Tea Party (btw not sponsored by corporations) has suggested that they should be. Public Schools, Public Utilities are being privatized all over the world, especially in Europe, and if they are not they should be, and you give no reasons why they shouldn't be except ridiculous ones (all our kids will end up in fundamentalist schools!?).
War is hell and all that but sometimes a decision to go to was is the right decision. Like we were right to go to war with Germany for example, or like G.W. Bush was right to go to war with Iraq.
Right, just when you are drowning in debt it's time to spend billions on a massive program to do something with no commercial value whatsoever. You can just as easily create jobs by paying people to scratch their butts but guess what, broken window fallacy is called fallacy for a reason.
I don't know, when I was living in (a very nice part of) San Francisco, local liberals did a pretty good job of not allowing chain or fast food restaurants into the area (resulting in "quaint" locally owned establishments charging $15 for a cheeseburger), enacting very high sales taxes and high parking rates and other measures that did an excellent job of ensuring that there were no smelly poor people polluting the main shopping street. All with good intentions of course.
If the sensitive systems are connected to the internet (and they often are), and if standard security procedures are not followed (and they rarely are), then the risk is really quite significant.
I think so. The rest of the media, CNN, NBC, ABC, Washington Post, NYT, are so far up the ass of the Democratic party that they might as well be called it's propaganda wing. It is a positive thing that there is a different view aired on at least one news TV channel (in addition to WSJ and radio of course).
I don't think so. MSNBC is just as biased as Fox and CNN is pretty close, at least when it comes to web sites. I don't watch any of those actual channels so it might be different there.
Am I the only one who thinks that Arianna Huffington is a self-serving money grubbing bitch who switched from being a hard core conservative to being "liberal" just because she saw a better market opportunity there?
Incidentally, the ruling is spot on. There was no expectation of getting paid until after the sale of the site to AOL for big $$$ when they suddenly had an open-source coder like epiphany: Hey, others are making millions from my work and I'm getting nothing!!! Sorry dumbass, don't work for free next time.
My used car salesman would love you as a customer. NK regime is not as crazy as it looks. It already has all the nukes it needs, this deal does not dismantle them. Why not make a deal with Obama by giving him what he needs in an election year (a bogus promise of peace that appeals to his naive base) and it gets what it needs, free food supplies for its starving population who are starving because if the regime's policies in the first place. Win-win! After the election it's just another attempt at a deal that didn't work, oh well.
There are perfectly good, rational long term reasons for humans to colonize Mars, such as not keeping all our eggs on one planet etc. But yeah, there is the right way to do it (low cost missions,building an unmanned base, private industry involvement, initially through competitions and grants, later through land deeds, leading to space tourism that may decades from now become economical) and the wrong way (throwing billions at NASA to send first human on Mars for reasons of bogus science and national prestige).
He actually speaks very well (without teleprompter) and was almost entirely gaffe free and given a low budget campaign he is doing remarkably well. Something to think about for MI Democrats before they go out and vote for him thinking there is no way he can beat Obama. Bush Jr. won. Twice.
Say there is a Russian spy who recruited an American soldier to steal military secrets, took them from him through a secure internet channel and 'distributed' them to foreign intelligence services. Your post applies to him as well:
He did not steal the files! He is not an american citizen! And when he did obtain the files, he was not on American soil! And he is not bound by any law prohibiting the distribution of these files, and certainly not under any NDA.
It is interesting that you think that what people eat, how much they exercise and whether they walk or drive is not dependent on personal choice but on the work of "social engineers". If that really is the case then that is a far bigger problem than diabetes.
Actually its their game and their contract and they can have it both ways and another four ways too if they want. If you don't like what they are offering in exchange for your money (call it license, or product or whatever you wish) then don't buy it. It really is like that in the real world and it's a good thing because that is what freedom is like. If I offer to buy your coffee table and you set the price to $100 million plus a kidney then I have the right to refuse it but I don't have the right to steal it from you just because I don't like your terms. If you don't like it then get angry and scream a lot, cause then the companies will do things your way just like your mom did when you were a baby.
It's a shame cause RQ-4 Global Hawks are sexy. But yeah, the days of spending crazy money on cool toys are over, at least for now. I'm all for strong national defense but I'm sure that our military can do the same job with a lot less money if they really put their mind to it.
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The last I remember, we installed the Shah, he was later overthrown by the Islamic extremists (in 1979)? So, no we didn't make them into a theocracy.
As for Mosaddegh he was about to nationalize the oil fields that we developed and was dealing with the Russians so it was right to depose him at the time. It's naive to look at the dirty geopolitical games of the cold war outside the context as if USSR never existed and USA was doing all that just for fun.
That's all unimportant. Iran is run by a belligerent theocratic dictatorship that the world would be better off without, just like in case of Saddam. The rest is just a matter of tactics.
Usually but not always. There are times when war, cyber or not, is the best option.
Why are you so sure that it's a broken system? The huge explosion of innovation and new technology during the patent era (ditto for art under copyright era) is not enough for you?
Your entire post is made up of the liberal's standard mythology - evil rich corporations are taking away our rights etc. I am too lazy to reply to all the nonsense in there but let me just make two points: subcontracting is not the same thing as privatizing. Military/Police/CIA/Courts are not being privatized and nobody on the right or in the Tea Party (btw not sponsored by corporations) has suggested that they should be. Public Schools, Public Utilities are being privatized all over the world, especially in Europe, and if they are not they should be, and you give no reasons why they shouldn't be except ridiculous ones (all our kids will end up in fundamentalist schools!?).
Only the government has the right to take pictures from the air? What constitution are you reading?
How do I justify it? Iraqis are better off, Iraq's neighbors are better off, and we are better off as a result of the war.
War is hell and all that but sometimes a decision to go to was is the right decision. Like we were right to go to war with Germany for example, or like G.W. Bush was right to go to war with Iraq.
Right, just when you are drowning in debt it's time to spend billions on a massive program to do something with no commercial value whatsoever. You can just as easily create jobs by paying people to scratch their butts but guess what, broken window fallacy is called fallacy for a reason.
I don't know, when I was living in (a very nice part of) San Francisco, local liberals did a pretty good job of not allowing chain or fast food restaurants into the area (resulting in "quaint" locally owned establishments charging $15 for a cheeseburger), enacting very high sales taxes and high parking rates and other measures that did an excellent job of ensuring that there were no smelly poor people polluting the main shopping street. All with good intentions of course.
Let me correct that for you:
If the sensitive systems are connected to the internet (and they often are), and if standard security procedures are not followed (and they rarely are), then the risk is really quite significant.
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Seriously?
I think so. The rest of the media, CNN, NBC, ABC, Washington Post, NYT, are so far up the ass of the Democratic party that they might as well be called it's propaganda wing. It is a positive thing that there is a different view aired on at least one news TV channel (in addition to WSJ and radio of course).
I don't think so. MSNBC is just as biased as Fox and CNN is pretty close, at least when it comes to web sites. I don't watch any of those actual channels so it might be different there.
Am I the only one who thinks that Arianna Huffington is a self-serving money grubbing bitch who switched from being a hard core conservative to being "liberal" just because she saw a better market opportunity there?
Incidentally, the ruling is spot on. There was no expectation of getting paid until after the sale of the site to AOL for big $$$ when they suddenly had an open-source coder like epiphany: Hey, others are making millions from my work and I'm getting nothing!!! Sorry dumbass, don't work for free next time.
My used car salesman would love you as a customer. NK regime is not as crazy as it looks. It already has all the nukes it needs, this deal does not dismantle them. Why not make a deal with Obama by giving him what he needs in an election year (a bogus promise of peace that appeals to his naive base) and it gets what it needs, free food supplies for its starving population who are starving because if the regime's policies in the first place. Win-win! After the election it's just another attempt at a deal that didn't work, oh well.
Hey the rocket would be powered by green renewable solar power! (except for the launch but that's a minor detail to Prius owners)
There are perfectly good, rational long term reasons for humans to colonize Mars, such as not keeping all our eggs on one planet etc. But yeah, there is the right way to do it (low cost missions,building an unmanned base, private industry involvement, initially through competitions and grants, later through land deeds, leading to space tourism that may decades from now become economical) and the wrong way (throwing billions at NASA to send first human on Mars for reasons of bogus science and national prestige).
He actually speaks very well (without teleprompter) and was almost entirely gaffe free and given a low budget campaign he is doing remarkably well. Something to think about for MI Democrats before they go out and vote for him thinking there is no way he can beat Obama. Bush Jr. won. Twice.
Say there is a Russian spy who recruited an American soldier to steal military secrets, took them from him through a secure internet channel and 'distributed' them to foreign intelligence services. Your post applies to him as well:
He did not steal the files! He is not an american citizen! And when he did obtain the files, he was not on American soil! And he is not bound by any law prohibiting the distribution of these files, and certainly not under any NDA.
Do you get it now?
It is interesting that you think that what people eat, how much they exercise and whether they walk or drive is not dependent on personal choice but on the work of "social engineers". If that really is the case then that is a far bigger problem than diabetes.
I'm thinkin mebbe we oughta move offplanet, make it more expensive to come after us...
Yep, either that or buy your music, whatever's easier.
Well they have to somehow distinguish themselves from the "Just For Laughs Organized Crimes Agency"
Actually its their game and their contract and they can have it both ways and another four ways too if they want. If you don't like what they are offering in exchange for your money (call it license, or product or whatever you wish) then don't buy it. It really is like that in the real world and it's a good thing because that is what freedom is like. If I offer to buy your coffee table and you set the price to $100 million plus a kidney then I have the right to refuse it but I don't have the right to steal it from you just because I don't like your terms. If you don't like it then get angry and scream a lot, cause then the companies will do things your way just like your mom did when you were a baby.
Tom Brokaw: "I do not want my role as a journalist compromised..". How cute. He thinks he's a journalist.
It's a shame cause RQ-4 Global Hawks are sexy. But yeah, the days of spending crazy money on cool toys are over, at least for now. I'm all for strong national defense but I'm sure that our military can do the same job with a lot less money if they really put their mind to it.