Or may be because an UNBIASED Fox News wouldn't hire a windbag like her, unlike librul networks? Yeah.. too bad any comment with liberal bias in it gets instantly modded up as "Insightful" on/.
Let's switch places. I live in NYC and it makes me sick that my vote - which I had to work very hard for, unlike you - basically doesn't count 'cause NY will never vote Republican in any senate or Prez elections. Never mind my local races (state/city assemblies), where the coice is usually between rabid ultra-left democrats and even-more-rabid commies. Please don't point out Bloomberg - he is a Democrat in disguise.
Well, i'll agree with you the moment YOUR sanctimonoius ass stops using any oil producs OR anything produced by oil-based economy. Yes, that includes fedexing your computer parts - they were made with help of oil, and shipped too.
> Gates hasn't used his smartness well. He used it selfishly in fact. Though I appreciate his business acumen, I don't think I could ever respect him for it.
Oh... so... how much have YOU donated to charity in the last 5 years?
I can sort of understand it used in hotels, where you may not want to waste room space by a monitor, and the monitor is used for some minor task such as weathcr-cheking/orders/etc...
But why would anyone want a monitor in their mirror at home???
#1: OK, small nitpick: Lehman's HQ was in WFC3, NOT in WTC1. However, it did have presence in all 4 buildings mentioned.
#2: While thoretically Lehman was migrated more-or-less OK (we did have off-site backups, backup datacenter, etc...), in practice the only thing that saved them was the working-to-death of IT people in the next week.
Many of backups were made on the same-site servers. Restores were difficult, obviously. (read: almost impossible in some cases).
Many servers didn't have decent failover h/w in the backup datacenter. Hint: the datacenter was increased by over 100% in 4 days, based on my visual estimates while carrying servers up there).
FYI, I was "blessed" with starting off with a 24-hour shift, and then pulling 12-hour night shifts for over a week. Considering the fact that 9/12/01 was my 1-month wedding anniversary and that both Mrs. and myself were in WTC1 when the plane flew into it, one can see how I was a bit upset at the management, ESPECIALLY since my own application failed over with no problems - i'd rather have spent more time with her. What did I get for all that effort? Yay! A plaque, with an image of WTC. Nice gesture, Mr. CEO!:(
1) Oh? So major American news are choke full of antisemitic stuff?
2) What do riots have to do with anything I wrote?
3) American news are generally NOT government's official news. Even if CNN is Democratic lapdog and Fox is toeing somehwat Republican line (a lot less failfully, however - O'Reilly is on a major crusade against Jeb Bush, as one example).
4) And what makes YOU such an expert on Egypt or Egyptians? Other than wanching CNN, I mean. Have you actually READ any of the materials or at least quote sform their media?
> you count mitigating the factors that cause crime, like poverty or mental illness
Oh... so... Mike Tyson or any other sports stars or movie stars (black or white) which commit crimes do it because they are poor? Or all those shootings among rappers.
The problem with your thinking is that crimes aren't committed because people are poor. I came to the USA poor as dirt - with a LOT less money and worse situation than many people in "poor" neighbourhoods. Somehow, that didn't make me commit any crimes. Oh, and how is being poor going to make someone do drugs (which you have to BUY!)?
See, crimes (i'm discouning mental illness) are committed because a person has no self-discipline, and/or is raised in a culture which tolerates crimes. No amount of money would fix those two problems. However, fixing those problems WOULD make the social groups involved less poor, because the same lack of self-discipline and propensity to break the law help those people stay poor. If you study hard (instead of hangin' in the 'hood with brothers), and work hard, you'd be a lot more successful than if your only productive time is when you're shooting 'hoops. Yes, I'm biased - not aginst blacks, but against slackers. I saw the same thing happen to white slackers in USSR and in USA too. It's a cultural, not racial issue.
> Having lived with a Jewish roommate, i can remember the look of horror on her face as she tried to interpret it into kosher food concepts.
Uhm... IANAR(abbi), but what's there to interpret with such difficulty? Animal blood is not kosher. Period. Presense of a milk in the mix is irrelevant, then. (Now, if blood WAS kosher, then the question would also be simple: does it count as "meat" product or not?).
Yes, and the only thing holding atheists on a warpath back from prohibiting any religious expression is the same separation.
What really ticks me off is that none of the anti-xtian crusaders in the US, who get alll up in arms about anyone Christian saying something of the sort, have any issues with Islam and Muslims, for whome the idea of exterminting all non-believers is CENTRAL to their religion. Oh, and i'm not Christian, BTW, before you start yelling at me about my religion launching crusades and Inquisution;)
1) Uhm... a little advice... don't ever plan to visit Utah *grin*
2) While i'd not be sorry at all if they didn't use the word in the first palce, I sort of understand how the idea makes sense considering the relevance of the term to The Book (whichever of the 3 revisions you subscribe to, if any).
I believe the images portrayed in ***Egyptian*** news. Y'know, the state sponsored newspapers being choke full of antisemitic stuff, TV showing programs based on "protocols of zionist elders", etc... Somehow, "cultured" isn't the first word which springs to mind.
Persecuted? Could you please provide an example of *muslims* being persecuted in the USA, specifically based on their religion??? With our Bush declaring a COUPLE OF DAYS after 9/11 that "Islam is a religion of peace" and trying his damnedest best to sell out israel to keep Saudis and co as friends?
I won't comment on the rest of the argument (my ideas about outsourcing are too complicated for my poor language abilities - i'd need an hour to write up a decent response:(
However, the statement above is pure BS and is thus inadmisisble as a valid argument.
When it comes to science education (especially math/CS), USA is at best no better than other countries (for example, Russia, India or China). Perhaps, even worse.
Mostly, it's the fault of US public school being uder firm control of teachers unions on one hand and feel-good "we need to build self esteem of students" "'disadvantaged' students should be given better grades" liberal politicos on the other hand.
Oh, and my opinion of this comes from 1) interational rankings of test results 2) results of international math contests 3) knowing both US and fUSSR public schools systems from experience, their students, and participating in math/CS contests in both countries at youger age (even winning some:)
Go google for more detailed description of the story of a couple of heavily-armed bastards who shot-up several much-lighter-armed cops during a robbery in LA. One link is: http://theoutrage.com/library/000303.html
The link for Soyuz-Fregat is http://www.orbireport.com/Launchers/Soyuz_U-Fregat/. Interestingly enough, it's a new generation of launchers (well, an incremental upgrade:) that IIRC were first used in 2000.
Much as I hate the pope (for fucking around in Middle-eastern politics - effectively on terrorist's side, all his good intentions nonwithstanding) - he hasn't ever said that killing innocent people is good, has he? He did condemn terrorists from his pulpit.
Yeah, I like non-evangelizing religions better, being a member of one. But i don't see how you can use the pope as the example for the "bad" activities I desccribed as a sign taht Islam is scary.
You're right, I guess i didn't use the labels very precisely.... what I meant by "hawks" is exactly what you said - those who would rather NOT fight (and love peace as much as self-declared pacifists) but will if they have to. That classification did NOT include aggressors in the first place (going by bird terminology, those would be "vultures".i guess?:)
Oh, yeah... a perfect world with no weapons... and then the first wacko who enjoys destroying and hurting people (and those always get born, it's human nature) goes around and due to total defenselessness of the rest of the environment, at best hurts a LOT of people, or at worst, if he's power hungry, takes over. Oh, and since you can't ban sticks and stones, then if he is physically stronger, he would have the sme advantage over the rest of the people as any armed human over less armed one. GREAT. Scratch that attempt at utopia.
See, humans come in all forms and shapes. Some are born power hungry. Some evil. Some both. Unless you are protected from them, you are the next victim. The only difference between "pacifists" and "peace-loving people", and those who are "warmongering" and "hawkish", is that the latter are ready to protect themselves and their society from those who would attack it. The former come in two categories - those who simply don't get the real world and think everyone else is 100% peaceful and harmless as a daisy, and those who aren't that naive, but are cynical enough to let the "hawkish" to protect them and their family while acting all nice and dovish and "better than the warmongers".
1) Have listened. Would you care to cite one who has called for murder of Muslim or any non-Christian women and childrem, or for that matter, any men who're not combatants?
2) Even if you find one or two morons lik Graham, or whatever his name is, Christian radio is a vast minority. Fanatics among them are a vast monirity on that radio. A handful of fanatics doen't count aming thousands (or may be hundreds of thousands?) non-fanatical xtian priests worldwide.
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Or may be because an UNBIASED Fox News wouldn't hire a windbag like her, unlike librul networks? /.
Yeah.. too bad any comment with liberal bias in it gets instantly modded up as "Insightful" on
-DVK
Let's switch places. I live in NYC and it makes me sick that my vote - which I had to work very hard for, unlike you - basically doesn't count 'cause NY will never vote Republican in any senate or Prez elections. Never mind my local races (state/city assemblies), where the coice is usually between rabid ultra-left democrats and even-more-rabid commies.
Please don't point out Bloomberg - he is a Democrat in disguise.
Stephen L. Bing, and Alan F. Horn,President & CEO, Warner Bros.?
Please name TWO major republican supporters in Hollywood, excepting Arnie? Tow major financial contributors to them? -DVK
Well, i'll agree with you the moment YOUR sanctimonoius ass stops using any oil producs OR anything produced by oil-based economy. Yes, that includes fedexing your computer parts - they were made with help of oil, and shipped too.
-DVK
> and ohhhhhhh baby, I'm so there. :)
:)
Yes, but I'm sure Sharon Stone isn't
> Gates hasn't used his smartness well. He used it selfishly in fact. Though I appreciate his business acumen, I don't think I could ever respect him for it.
Oh... so... how much have YOU donated to charity in the last 5 years?
I can sort of understand it used in hotels, where you may not want to waste room space by a monitor, and the monitor is used for some minor task such as weathcr-cheking/orders/etc...
But why would anyone want a monitor in their mirror at home???
#1: OK, small nitpick: Lehman's HQ was in WFC3, NOT in WTC1. However, it did have presence in all 4 buildings mentioned.
:(
#2: While thoretically Lehman was migrated more-or-less OK (we did have off-site backups, backup datacenter, etc...), in practice the only thing that saved them was the working-to-death of IT people in the next week.
Many of backups were made on the same-site servers. Restores were difficult, obviously. (read: almost impossible in some cases).
Many servers didn't have decent failover h/w in the backup datacenter. Hint: the datacenter was increased by over 100% in 4 days, based on my visual estimates while carrying servers up there).
FYI, I was "blessed" with starting off with a 24-hour shift, and then pulling 12-hour night shifts for over a week. Considering the fact that 9/12/01 was my 1-month wedding anniversary and that both Mrs. and myself were in WTC1 when the plane flew into it, one can see how I was a bit upset at the management, ESPECIALLY since my own application failed over with no problems - i'd rather have spent more time with her.
What did I get for all that effort? Yay! A plaque, with an image of WTC. Nice gesture, Mr. CEO!
-DVK
Probably, considering Lehman's firing a buncg of people in IT and replacing them with outsouring companies from India.
1) Oh? So major American news are choke full of antisemitic stuff?
2) What do riots have to do with anything I wrote?
3) American news are generally NOT government's official news. Even if CNN is Democratic lapdog and Fox is toeing somehwat Republican line (a lot less failfully, however - O'Reilly is on a major crusade against Jeb Bush, as one example).
4) And what makes YOU such an expert on Egypt or Egyptians? Other than wanching CNN, I mean. Have you actually READ any of the materials or at least quote sform their media?
-DVK
> you count mitigating the factors that cause crime, like poverty or mental illness
Oh... so... Mike Tyson or any other sports stars or movie stars (black or white) which commit crimes do it because they are poor? Or all those shootings among rappers.
The problem with your thinking is that crimes aren't committed because people are poor. I came to the USA poor as dirt - with a LOT less money and worse situation than many people in "poor" neighbourhoods. Somehow, that didn't make me commit any crimes. Oh, and how is being poor going to make someone do drugs (which you have to BUY!)?
See, crimes (i'm discouning mental illness) are committed because a person has no self-discipline, and/or is raised in a culture which tolerates crimes. No amount of money would fix those two problems. However, fixing those problems WOULD make the social groups involved less poor, because the same lack of self-discipline and propensity to break the law help those people stay poor. If you study hard (instead of hangin' in the 'hood with brothers), and work hard, you'd be a lot more successful than if your only productive time is when you're shooting 'hoops. Yes, I'm biased - not aginst blacks, but against slackers. I saw the same thing happen to white slackers in USSR and in USA too. It's a cultural, not racial issue.
-DVK
> Having lived with a Jewish roommate, i can remember the look of horror on her face as she tried to interpret it into kosher food concepts.
:)
Uhm... IANAR(abbi), but what's there to interpret with such difficulty? Animal blood is not kosher. Period. Presense of a milk in the mix is irrelevant, then.
(Now, if blood WAS kosher, then the question would also be simple: does it count as "meat" product or not?).
Then again, that's probably why I'm not a Rabbi
Yes, and the only thing holding atheists on a warpath back from prohibiting any religious expression is the same separation.
;)
What really ticks me off is that none of the anti-xtian crusaders in the US, who get alll up in arms about anyone Christian saying something of the sort, have any issues with Islam and Muslims, for whome the idea of exterminting all non-believers is CENTRAL to their religion.
Oh, and i'm not Christian, BTW, before you start yelling at me about my religion launching crusades and Inquisution
-DVK
1) Uhm... a little advice... don't ever plan to visit Utah *grin*
2) While i'd not be sorry at all if they didn't use the word in the first palce, I sort of understand how the idea makes sense considering the relevance of the term to The Book (whichever of the 3 revisions you subscribe to, if any).
-DVK
I believe the images portrayed in ***Egyptian*** news. Y'know, the state sponsored newspapers being choke full of antisemitic stuff, TV showing programs based on "protocols of zionist elders", etc... Somehow, "cultured" isn't the first word which springs to mind.
Persecuted?
Could you please provide an example of *muslims* being persecuted in the USA, specifically based on their religion??? With our Bush declaring a COUPLE OF DAYS after 9/11 that "Islam is a religion of peace" and trying his damnedest best to sell out israel to keep Saudis and co as friends?
For your information, Coptics aren't exactly having as great a time living there as Muslims do...
> And we're arguably better educated.
:(
:)
I won't comment on the rest of the argument (my ideas about outsourcing are too complicated for my poor language abilities - i'd need an hour to write up a decent response
However, the statement above is pure BS and is thus inadmisisble as a valid argument.
When it comes to science education (especially math/CS), USA is at best no better than other countries (for example, Russia, India or China). Perhaps, even worse.
Mostly, it's the fault of US public school being uder firm control of teachers unions on one hand and feel-good "we need to build self esteem of students" "'disadvantaged' students should be given better grades" liberal politicos on the other hand.
Oh, and my opinion of this comes from
1) interational rankings of test results
2) results of international math contests
3) knowing both US and fUSSR public schools systems from experience, their students, and participating in math/CS contests in both countries at youger age (even winning some
What's your basis for your BS argument again?
-DVK
Go google for more detailed description of the story of a couple of heavily-armed bastards who shot-up several much-lighter-armed cops during a robbery in LA. One link is:
http://theoutrage.com/library/000303.html
No go back under your bridge troll.
-DVK
The link for Soyuz-Fregat ist /. :)
http://www.orbireport.com/Launchers/Soyuz_U-Frega
Interestingly enough, it's a new generation of launchers (well, an incremental upgrade
that IIRC were first used in 2000.
-DVK
Nope... what you described is "hawks". My categorization between doves and hawkes did NOT include people who *like* aggression in the first place.
-DVK
Much as I hate the pope (for fucking around in Middle-eastern politics - effectively on terrorist's side, all his good intentions nonwithstanding) - he hasn't ever said that killing innocent people is good, has he? He did condemn terrorists from his pulpit.
Yeah, I like non-evangelizing religions better, being a member of one. But i don't see how you can use the pope as the example for the "bad" activities I desccribed as a sign taht Islam is scary.
You're right, I guess i didn't use the labels very precisely.... what I meant by "hawks" is exactly what you said - those who would rather NOT fight (and love peace as much as self-declared pacifists) but will if they have to. :)
That classification did NOT include aggressors in the first place (going by bird terminology, those would be "vultures".i guess?
-DVK
Oh, yeah... a perfect world with no weapons... and then the first wacko who enjoys destroying and hurting people (and those always get born, it's human nature) goes around and due to total defenselessness of the rest of the environment, at best hurts a LOT of people, or at worst, if he's power hungry, takes over. Oh, and since you can't ban sticks and stones, then if he is physically stronger, he would have the sme advantage over the rest of the people as any armed human over less armed one. GREAT. Scratch that attempt at utopia.
See, humans come in all forms and shapes. Some are born power hungry. Some evil. Some both. Unless you are protected from them, you are the next victim.
The only difference between "pacifists" and "peace-loving people", and those who are "warmongering" and "hawkish", is that the latter are ready to protect themselves and their society from those who would attack it.
The former come in two categories - those who simply don't get the real world and think everyone else is 100% peaceful and harmless as a daisy, and those who aren't that naive, but are cynical enough to let the "hawkish" to protect them and their family while acting all nice and dovish and "better than the warmongers".
-DVK
1) Have listened. Would you care to cite one who has called for murder of Muslim or any non-Christian women and childrem, or for that matter, any men who're not combatants?
2) Even if you find one or two morons lik Graham, or whatever his name is, Christian radio is a vast minority. Fanatics among them are a vast monirity on that radio. A handful of fanatics doen't count aming thousands (or may be hundreds of thousands?) non-fanatical xtian priests worldwide.
-DVK