While I am typing this, the Iraq war has cost, in dollars, $590,785,085,624.
Which is considerably less than the $825 billion Obama stimulus package.
Almost 6 years of war (of which I spent 1 in Iraq), we will have spent less than the Obama Stimulus Package.
Did you ever wonder why South American countries hated us because of the Iraq war? I'm not sure why they would care...Maybe its because Central America received $46mil in 2003 when the war started, then it dropped to $20mil the next year.... and to $19mil the next. Uh ohes, the US isn't giving us our welfare check! Damn Bush and his Iraq War! Western Europe went from $60mil/year to $31mil/year from 2003 to 2006. Sad fucking face.
Of course France and Russia were making dolladollabills selling weapons for oil to the Iraqis under the table...undermining the entire UN Oil For Food program. They, of course, then take the high road by announcing their disdain for the war.
Don't get me wrong dude, Iraq was a bad idea from the beginning. Bush was betting on WMD, and he was wrong. He had good reason though, we prolly have merchant copies of the receipts somewhere. But for most of Americans, this war had ZERO impact on them...I see people enjoying SUV's, movies, restaurants, buying useless bullshit at Christmas...just like they always have. While I was in Iraq, you kept living your lives....just like you should.
And like I said, the withdrawal deal was signed months before the messiah took office. why not give him credit for the WWI armistice?
This country was founded on the ideal of liberty. Just about everyone in this country has sacrificed their liberty for: safety, convenience, labor protections, consumer protections, defense contracts, welfare, faith-based initiatives, congressional pet projects, think-of-the-childrens, there-aught-to-be-a-laws, licensures, etc.
I don't really like Obama's stances, and I didn't vote for him. But calling him an asshole for doing something you do in a heartbeat? That's dumb.
No. 125: Direct military leaders to end war in Iraq
From politifact.com, who is obviously non-partisan. Of course, the withdrawal deal was in the works for over a year and signed months before Obama took office...but by all means, collectively remember that Obama ended this war that affected almost none of you.
Viruses have been in warez before there was an internets. Good old self-attaching batch file trojans we put in (the 24 microfloppies of) Chuck Yeager's Air Combat back in the BBS days.
Viruses (et al) never crippled the BBS community, the sneaker-net community, the IRC community, or the torrent community. So a sucker now and then has to do a clean install... but pirates be hardy.
if you have a verified trustworthy hash code
You mean like a Tiger Tree Hash? Or apple can charge $99 bucks for code signing and walled pirate garden.
No, by all means, put them in my back yard. I'll take two. Just don't put them all over nature.
You know how a networks value is the square of the nodes? Metcalfe's law? Well the health of a natural area is like that but inverse to the amount of man-made stuff. A road through a wilderness area to some windmills fragments habitat and reduces the viability of all species there. In the haste to build clean energy, lets not destroy our natural areas.
Patriotism as derived from Father as in patrilinear decent as the basis for most early agrarian societies that gave rise to the nation-state. In modern use, pride in country.
Bigotry has no real etymology, only shifting meanings as the politically-correct deem it usefully applied to others. (like fascism). In modern use, intolerance of opinions or lifestyles other than ones familiar.
Race delineates differentiable groups within the same interbreeding taxonomic group.
Pride isn't a zero sum game. I can be proud of my country without implying inherent infallibility compared to your country. And insofar that my country has never been a single race or ethnicity, I reject the idea that a patriot is a bigot.
you really think it's acceptable to make that kind of generalization, just so long as you mean white. wow.
And that 8th largest economy is now the 10th largest economy thanks to bullshit labor laws and wealth redistribution taxes driving companies to Nevada, Utah, etc.
But Afghanis and Iranians are mostly Persian, not Arab. And we don't seem to demonize the Kuwaiti's much. The left-leaning people like to demonize the Saudis.
When I was in Iraq, I never heard to be on the look out for a Muslim or an Arab. It was usually "a guy missing 2 fingers and an eye, driving an x colored, y model vehicle that rides low to the ground" or something like that. (Bomb making has a harsh learning curve I guess).
Some people have political hay to make by spouting hyperbole like "labeling one race as the enemy" like they know what the fuck they are talking about.
Full disclosure: I am a libertarian with pro-environmental views and a penchant for cool tech like wind power.
On one hand, the rich Kenedy's of the world don't want their beautiful ocean views ruined by wind mills. Bunch of arrogant, rich, hypocrites that I feel pretty much sums up the Democrats.
On the other hand, how pissed would I be if someone installed that shit in my local national/state parks?
We have to ruin all natural areas? Nothing is sacred? We whine when Bush's DOI let exploratory gas drilling in some beautiful areas....I whined too. But does wind get a free pass?
Here's a case where I actually agree with both sides. We need clean energy, and we need pristine natural areas. Build these mufuckin wind farms in farmland.
You know what would be cooler than the government telling me how to spend 15 cents? How about the government going and fucking itself.
I: unplug unsused electronics; hard-switch off powerstrips that supply electronics; buy appliances (other things being equal) based on the kwh numbers; have a pretty good baby freeze; don't need the government or bloggers trying to make choices for me. Free agency, kids.
If electricity costs money, and I use it, I pay for it. If I want to pay more to use more, that's between me and the supplier. Not bloggers, not the government, not you.
Disbanding the EPA's EnergyStar program would save energy and money.
How would skate boarders feel if there was a whole government agency set up to reduce skate boarding?
If you have to pay a corporation a single dollar for the permission to program, you are doing it wrong. How does Apple get a free pass for this kind of shit?
Note that while the API download and simulator are free â" deploying to a real iPhone or iTouch is not, even if it is your own. To do that you have to apply to the iPhone Developer Program which is $99.
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While I am typing this, the Iraq war has cost, in dollars, $590,785,085,624.
Which is considerably less than the $825 billion Obama stimulus package.
Almost 6 years of war (of which I spent 1 in Iraq), we will have spent less than the Obama Stimulus Package.
Did you ever wonder why South American countries hated us because of the Iraq war? I'm not sure why they would care...Maybe its because Central America received $46mil in 2003 when the war started, then it dropped to $20mil the next year.... and to $19mil the next. Uh ohes, the US isn't giving us our welfare check! Damn Bush and his Iraq War! Western Europe went from $60mil/year to $31mil/year from 2003 to 2006. Sad fucking face.
Of course France and Russia were making dolladollabills selling weapons for oil to the Iraqis under the table...undermining the entire UN Oil For Food program. They, of course, then take the high road by announcing their disdain for the war.
Don't get me wrong dude, Iraq was a bad idea from the beginning. Bush was betting on WMD, and he was wrong. He had good reason though, we prolly have merchant copies of the receipts somewhere. But for most of Americans, this war had ZERO impact on them...I see people enjoying SUV's, movies, restaurants, buying useless bullshit at Christmas...just like they always have. While I was in Iraq, you kept living your lives....just like you should.
And like I said, the withdrawal deal was signed months before the messiah took office. why not give him credit for the WWI armistice?
This country was founded on the ideal of liberty. Just about everyone in this country has sacrificed their liberty for: safety, convenience, labor protections, consumer protections, defense contracts, welfare, faith-based initiatives, congressional pet projects, think-of-the-childrens, there-aught-to-be-a-laws, licensures, etc.
I don't really like Obama's stances, and I didn't vote for him. But calling him an asshole for doing something you do in a heartbeat? That's dumb.
No. 125: Direct military leaders to end war in Iraq
From politifact.com, who is obviously non-partisan. Of course, the withdrawal deal was in the works for over a year and signed months before Obama took office...but by all means, collectively remember that Obama ended this war that affected almost none of you.
Viruses have been in warez before there was an internets. Good old self-attaching batch file trojans we put in (the 24 microfloppies of) Chuck Yeager's Air Combat back in the BBS days.
Viruses (et al) never crippled the BBS community, the sneaker-net community, the IRC community, or the torrent community. So a sucker now and then has to do a clean install... but pirates be hardy.
if you have a verified trustworthy hash code
You mean like a Tiger Tree Hash? Or apple can charge $99 bucks for code signing and walled pirate garden.
this just proves that Apple should screen their warez.
the way it looks, feels and acts
If you mean sluggish and bloated, then yes. Microsoft Vista and 7 ARE copying Apple's OS X.
No, by all means, put them in my back yard. I'll take two. Just don't put them all over nature.
You know how a networks value is the square of the nodes? Metcalfe's law? Well the health of a natural area is like that but inverse to the amount of man-made stuff. A road through a wilderness area to some windmills fragments habitat and reduces the viability of all species there. In the haste to build clean energy, lets not destroy our natural areas.
You mean like Apple but without the gay part?
Nice. You just said Microsoft designs with openness in mind.
Patriotism as derived from Father as in patrilinear decent as the basis for most early agrarian societies that gave rise to the nation-state. In modern use, pride in country.
Bigotry has no real etymology, only shifting meanings as the politically-correct deem it usefully applied to others. (like fascism). In modern use, intolerance of opinions or lifestyles other than ones familiar.
Race delineates differentiable groups within the same interbreeding taxonomic group.
Pride isn't a zero sum game. I can be proud of my country without implying inherent infallibility compared to your country. And insofar that my country has never been a single race or ethnicity, I reject the idea that a patriot is a bigot.
bitch.
Once they are up, they don't do anything except sit there and...
...chop up birds.
Kentucky is a tiny little redneck state
you really think it's acceptable to make that kind of generalization, just so long as you mean white. wow.
And that 8th largest economy is now the 10th largest economy thanks to bullshit labor laws and wealth redistribution taxes driving companies to Nevada, Utah, etc.
Patriotism is bigotry.
Only when your country is defined by your race. Are you German or something?
But Afghanis and Iranians are mostly Persian, not Arab. And we don't seem to demonize the Kuwaiti's much. The left-leaning people like to demonize the Saudis.
When I was in Iraq, I never heard to be on the look out for a Muslim or an Arab. It was usually "a guy missing 2 fingers and an eye, driving an x colored, y model vehicle that rides low to the ground" or something like that. (Bomb making has a harsh learning curve I guess).
Some people have political hay to make by spouting hyperbole like "labeling one race as the enemy" like they know what the fuck they are talking about.
Full disclosure: I am a libertarian with pro-environmental views and a penchant for cool tech like wind power.
On one hand, the rich Kenedy's of the world don't want their beautiful ocean views ruined by wind mills. Bunch of arrogant, rich, hypocrites that I feel pretty much sums up the Democrats.
On the other hand, how pissed would I be if someone installed that shit in my local national/state parks?
We have to ruin all natural areas? Nothing is sacred? We whine when Bush's DOI let exploratory gas drilling in some beautiful areas....I whined too. But does wind get a free pass?
Here's a case where I actually agree with both sides. We need clean energy, and we need pristine natural areas. Build these mufuckin wind farms in farmland.
is this the Mu?
who says sci-fi is too preachy?
Oh, and Muslim isn't a race, fucktard.
holding up that neo-Stalinist litho print of Obama
Be serious. He just uses a Macbook.
You know what would be cooler than the government telling me how to spend 15 cents? How about the government going and fucking itself.
I: unplug unsused electronics; hard-switch off powerstrips that supply electronics; buy appliances (other things being equal) based on the kwh numbers; have a pretty good baby freeze; don't need the government or bloggers trying to make choices for me. Free agency, kids.
If electricity costs money, and I use it, I pay for it. If I want to pay more to use more, that's between me and the supplier. Not bloggers, not the government, not you.
Disbanding the EPA's EnergyStar program would save energy and money.
How would skate boarders feel if there was a whole government agency set up to reduce skate boarding?
OMFG. That was awesome!
kissing the asses
Are we talking cute college environmentally-minded girls' asses? Or living in a tree, non-leg-shaving, greenpeace girls' asses?
I renamed the "OO.org Document" icon to "word". Set the defaults to save as ms .doc files. Works great.
Note that while the API download and simulator are free â" deploying to a real iPhone or iTouch is not, even if it is your own. To do that you have to apply to the iPhone Developer Program which is $99.
To be fair, Kevin Smith (Silent Bob) really coined this line of thought. See Also: Clerks II
haxors without borders.