Doesn't the same apply to Germans and Japanese? Yet IIRC there is still a large US military presence in both countries. And in Iceland. And in a bunch of other places.
I suspect many Iraqis prefer to have US soldiers than a civil war. I haven't taken a scientific poll, so I can't prove it.
Easy(ish) to prove the allegations themselves false.
What evidence would you accept as proving the allegations to be false? Any document the NSA could produce might be a lie, created the mislead the public.
Here's to a new age of respect and mutual understanding with the rest of the world.
If the rest of the world doesn't respect us, how come so many countries are still letting us have military bases on their soil? Germany and Japan, for example, could have asked US troops to leave.
People aren't really given much option except to live inside of the system that is controlled by the profit-driven 'corporate' mentality, and it winds up having more influence than any system of government ever has.
Find enough like minded individuals and start a Kibbutz. There's plenty of unused land in the US you could buy for cheap. It will be hard work, but the current easy life we have comes, to a large extent, because of corporations.
It's not enough for me to have been financially conservative. If my customers haven't been, they're going away, and they'll take a lot of their income with them.
As an employee, I consider myself to be a one man operation, with one huge customer. Luckily, my employer/customer seems to be conservatively managed. But I don't know the quality of their customers.
It is probably a spread spectrum solution that is difficult to jam. If you do manage to transmit powerfully enough to jam it, you advertise your location and something else (artillery or manned bomber) will pay you a short visit.
Exactly. It makes sense that crime by unemployed people goes up in a recession. But the main risk in a company's systems being hacked by insiders. If you have an effective termination process, which includes revoking access, laid off ex-employees are no longer insiders.
However, I'm sure this kind of service is important for some companies, such as Kroll Ontrack, to survive the recession.
If complying with SEC rules is such a problem, there's an easy solution. Have the real (US) company owned by a corporation in a different country, and do the IPO in that country. US entities are allowed to invest in foreign countries and vice versa.
The fact that companies still prefer to have their IPO in the US means that it's not such a big problem, or that the extra trust engendered by the SEC is worth the extra cost.
Because typically the right wing thinks that national security is worth giving up some personal liberty (except when it comes to personal guns).
Actually, right wing people thing that personal guns enhance national security. To be more accurate, the right wing assumption is that criminals and terrorists will be able to get guns anyway (they can get illegal drugs, for example), and it would be better if their potential victims were armed too.
well have no fear, the same program guarantees that other people will help pay for your disability or retirement in the event you need it,
Disability? Maybe. Retirement, out of what funds? Retirement (whether private or government) is based on two main assumptions:
1. People in their fertile years work hard to raise large families, so each generation is a lot bigger than the previous one.
2. People die soon after retirement anyway, so their retirement doesn't cost that much.
Both assumptions are false for my generation. We'll be lucky to have the same number of workers in my kids' generation we have in this one, there aren't enough Sarah Palins who raise five kids.
Objects that are designed by people (and, presumably, other intelligences) tend to be simpler than those created by nature. For example, compare the straight lines of a road with the wavy shape of a river.
Are they? From reading people who have first hand experience (military, serving or ex-) I got the opposite impression. They are suffering casualties, which is expected in war. But they are winning overall.
We all love to laugh at the TSA, and the fact is that an open society such as the US will always be vulnerable to terrorism. Yet we haven't seen any attacks since 9/11/01. Either we haven't made anybody mad enough to attack us (yeah, right), or we kept those who would attack us otherwise occupied. For example by making them attack US soldiers in Iraq instead of US civilians in here.
High-tech stuff and training doesn't quite cut it when you fight to pay for college studies when you get back home, but the enemy is fueled by a hysterical desire to see you die, preferably in horrible ways.
Anybody who enlisted or re-upped in 2002 or later just for college funds is stupid. Almost everybody who isn't an officer have to have enlisted or re-upped in the last six years because of the way the contract works.
Either the majority of our military is stupid (and they have tests to prevent that), or they are fighting for more than a college degree.
If you want to split hairs the crime of "conspiracy to commit a crime" has already happened, but it does not, by itself, cause any damage.
That's the reason it's a separate crime ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(crime) ) - precisely because the planned crime, the one that would have hurt somebody, did not occur yet.
Sorry for jumping on you here, but I think that the way your post is expressed - implying that a corporate taxpayer deserves representation - is a dangerous subversion of democracy.
It's a dangerous subversion of democracy, but it's also the real situation in the US(1). The CEO of Chrysler has as much voting power of a single welfare recipient. To whom do you think elected officials listen?
Besides, while corporations don't have votes, they do have employees. I'd be reluctant to vote for a candidate whose policies will hurt IBM. When your employer suffers, you usually suffer too.
(1) Arguably, it's also the system working as designed. Many of thhe founding fathers were scared of democracy, and much preferred an aristocratic republic on the Roman model.
will you arrogant americans stomach your citizens being arrested in set traps worldwide ?
As long as after the arrest they are treated no worse than citizens of the country where they got arrested, no problem.
If you get arrested in a foreign country, your consul can try to make sure you're not treated worse. There is no requirement to treat you better. US citizens have been arrested, jailed, and even executed in foreign countries.
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Doesn't the same apply to Germans and Japanese? Yet IIRC there is still a large US military presence in both countries. And in Iceland. And in a bunch of other places.
I suspect many Iraqis prefer to have US soldiers than a civil war. I haven't taken a scientific poll, so I can't prove it.
Easy(ish) to prove the allegations themselves false.
What evidence would you accept as proving the allegations to be false? Any document the NSA could produce might be a lie, created the mislead the public.
Well, with a big enough claim, questions start getting asked. Big questions.
Is it true? Prove it!
Is it false? Prove it!
It might be possible to prove these allegations are true. How would you go about proving they are false?
That's kinda difficult when you're forced to accept a constitution that gives up your military power and puts the U.S. in charge of your defense.
In 1950 it would have been nearly impossibly for Japan to change its constitution and tell U.S. troops to leave.
That was over 50 years ago. If Japan were to vote itself a new constitution today, the US would accept it and if so requested US troops would leave.
A Kibbutz doesn't use its own currency. Members of a Kibbutz own their property in common, and vote on who should get to use what.
Here's to a new age of respect and mutual understanding with the rest of the world.
If the rest of the world doesn't respect us, how come so many countries are still letting us have military bases on their soil? Germany and Japan, for example, could have asked US troops to leave.
Guess there just weren't enough H-1b visas issued, huh?
Companies decided it's cheaper to offshore. The five jobs are still being created, they are just being created in India.
People aren't really given much option except to live inside of the system that is controlled by the profit-driven 'corporate' mentality, and it winds up having more influence than any system of government ever has.
Find enough like minded individuals and start a Kibbutz. There's plenty of unused land in the US you could buy for cheap. It will be hard work, but the current easy life we have comes, to a large extent, because of corporations.
It's not enough for me to have been financially conservative. If my customers haven't been, they're going away, and they'll take a lot of their income with them.
As an employee, I consider myself to be a one man operation, with one huge customer. Luckily, my employer/customer seems to be conservatively managed. But I don't know the quality of their customers.
Do you think we don't need an air force? Or that we shouldn't try to run it in such a way that will minimize casualties?
No UAV is capable of fighting a mannned air craft and winning.
On a one to one basis, maybe no. But what about a ten to one basis? UAVs are a lot cheaper, and a lot more expendable.
If you can occupy the enemy's airforce with some UAVs, while others bombard the airstrips, you win.
It is probably a spread spectrum solution that is difficult to jam. If you do manage to transmit powerfully enough to jam it, you advertise your location and something else (artillery or manned bomber) will pay you a short visit.
Exactly. It makes sense that crime by unemployed people goes up in a recession. But the main risk in a company's systems being hacked by insiders. If you have an effective termination process, which includes revoking access, laid off ex-employees are no longer insiders.
However, I'm sure this kind of service is important for some companies, such as Kroll Ontrack, to survive the recession.
That is a reason to open source it, so it will be easy for others to develop better UIs which keeping the same database (and therefore compatibility).
Note: I am an IBM employee, but this is my personal opinion. I am not involved in Lotus Notes in any way beyond using it.
If complying with SEC rules is such a problem, there's an easy solution. Have the real (US) company owned by a corporation in a different country, and do the IPO in that country. US entities are allowed to invest in foreign countries and vice versa.
The fact that companies still prefer to have their IPO in the US means that it's not such a big problem, or that the extra trust engendered by the SEC is worth the extra cost.
Because typically the right wing thinks that national security is worth giving up some personal liberty (except when it comes to personal guns).
Actually, right wing people thing that personal guns enhance national security. To be more accurate, the right wing assumption is that criminals and terrorists will be able to get guns anyway (they can get illegal drugs, for example), and it would be better if their potential victims were armed too.
Anyone know of any popular "instructional series" comic books/graphic novels?
Larry Gonick's work.
well have no fear, the same program guarantees that other people will help pay for your disability or retirement in the event you need it,
Disability? Maybe. Retirement, out of what funds? Retirement (whether private or government) is based on two main assumptions:
1. People in their fertile years work hard to raise large families, so each generation is a lot bigger than the previous one.
2. People die soon after retirement anyway, so their retirement doesn't cost that much.
Both assumptions are false for my generation. We'll be lucky to have the same number of workers in my kids' generation we have in this one, there aren't enough Sarah Palins who raise five kids.
Objects that are designed by people (and, presumably, other intelligences) tend to be simpler than those created by nature. For example, compare the straight lines of a road with the wavy shape of a river.
...it's called an abortion. Don't make retards; even partial ones.
Any particular reason to restrict this to before birth? Why not kill infants with diseases, the way the Romans did it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide#Greece_and_Rome
What's sad is male-oriented products, e.g. razor blades, with packaging touting their contribution to womyn's diseases like breast cancer.
My wife handles most of our shopping. They need to convince her which brand to buy, even if I'm the ultimate user.
and yet they get their butts kicked.
Are they? From reading people who have first hand experience (military, serving or ex-) I got the opposite impression. They are suffering casualties, which is expected in war. But they are winning overall.
We all love to laugh at the TSA, and the fact is that an open society such as the US will always be vulnerable to terrorism. Yet we haven't seen any attacks since 9/11/01. Either we haven't made anybody mad enough to attack us (yeah, right), or we kept those who would attack us otherwise occupied. For example by making them attack US soldiers in Iraq instead of US civilians in here.
High-tech stuff and training doesn't quite cut it when you fight to pay for college studies when you get back home, but the enemy is fueled by a hysterical desire to see you die, preferably in horrible ways.
Anybody who enlisted or re-upped in 2002 or later just for college funds is stupid. Almost everybody who isn't an officer have to have enlisted or re-upped in the last six years because of the way the contract works.
Either the majority of our military is stupid (and they have tests to prevent that), or they are fighting for more than a college degree.
If you want to split hairs the crime of "conspiracy to commit a crime" has already happened, but it does not, by itself, cause any damage.
That's the reason it's a separate crime ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(crime) ) - precisely because the planned crime, the one that would have hurt somebody, did not occur yet.
Sorry for jumping on you here, but I think that the way your post is expressed - implying that a corporate taxpayer deserves representation - is a dangerous subversion of democracy.
It's a dangerous subversion of democracy, but it's also the real situation in the US(1). The CEO of Chrysler has as much voting power of a single welfare recipient. To whom do you think elected officials listen?
Besides, while corporations don't have votes, they do have employees. I'd be reluctant to vote for a candidate whose policies will hurt IBM. When your employer suffers, you usually suffer too.
(1) Arguably, it's also the system working as designed. Many of thhe founding fathers were scared of democracy, and much preferred an aristocratic republic on the Roman model.
will you arrogant americans stomach your citizens being arrested in set traps worldwide ?
As long as after the arrest they are treated no worse than citizens of the country where they got arrested, no problem.
If you get arrested in a foreign country, your consul can try to make sure you're not treated worse. There is no requirement to treat you better. US citizens have been arrested, jailed, and even executed in foreign countries.