Don't equivocate republicans with conservatives. Conservatism is a political ideology, along with liberalism and socialism. "Republican" is one of the U.S's national parties. Yes, it is reasonable to say that many conservative minded people vote republican, but that does not mean that every conservative votes republican, nor does it mean that every republican is conservative.
Then again, the modern day "liberal" that Rush Limbaugh likes to rail against is not the same as the liberal political ideology. The modern "liberal" leans in the socialist direction. The original liberal ideology, however, is much more in line with libertarian beliefs: less government control of the individual, everyone has an equal oppurtunity to make or break themselves. The arguments in liberal ideology come from the definition of an equal oppurtunity. Some believe that it is the oppurtunity that needs to be equal, which means that the government shouldn't provide anything for anyone. Others believe that the government is responsible for providing everyone with at least a minimal quality of life, so that they may use their oppurtunity.
Conservatives focus on the community. It is their belief that the community should provide for it's less fortunate. Keep in mind that community != government. This is the small town mentality, where everyone knows each other and sees each other at Church. Their spending is not to conserve money, but to conserve the community.
Socialists believe that it's the role of the government to provide it's citizens with everything required to live life. This is all well and good, but with anything government based, it is very susceptible to corruption and bloat. Communism is the extreme economic form of the socialist political ideology.
Also, if you look at how economic systems work, you'd realize that the increase in debt under Reagan was not only due to his finality in finishing the cold war, but also due to the fallout from economic policies put into place under Carter. Worse yet, the policies under George H.W. Bush had the effect of stimulating the economy under Clinton, while his policies had the effect of exploding an economic balloon. It's tiresome to listen to the democrats take credit for the surpluses in the 90's, just because there was a democrat president. If anything, Clinton is most responsible for the economic crash that we had four years ago.
The question called for a specific instance of a time when they changed their mind. Kerry didn't supply the necessary specificity for the answer to be correct. Instead, he tries to spin the question into an assualt on Bush. He's full of shit.
At least Bush didn't make himself look like an ass with a non-answer, or a shitty answer.
I'm completely amazed for completely different reasons. He is, first and foremost, a man running for re-election. You can be assured that Kerry or who ever in such a position, is not going to start bragging about past mistakes right before an election. I'm sorry, but that's the reality we live in. Ding GWB for it if you must, but you simply don't understand politics if you think you would get any other class of answer from any other man in an election year (right before election).
If I were running, I would try to honestly answer the question with a meaningful (ahem, Nader) answer. It's not because I would wish to crucify myself in front of all Americans, but to make myself more personable. It's a lot easier to identify with someone who aknowledges that they make mistakes, it's easier to feel sorry for them, and it's easier for them to feel that they are voting for a real person. When you have someone that is extremely uptight about their appearance, the general response is rejection. It's inhuman to be perfect.
This looks like it's supposed to be a joke, albeit unfunny. How the hell does something like this get modded "Insightful?" It's about as insightful as my left ass-cheek.
Then again, leave it to the left-leaning ass-cheek moderators to mod up a troll as "insightful," even though it doesn't address the rather thoughtful gp.
I spent half of my databases class learning datalog, which, I imagine, is an offshoot of prolog. I'd have to say that writing queries in datalog is superior to anything that you can do in SQL, you just need to be able to think in that way.
Most people are accustomed to procedural stuff, and SQL has been hacked upon to fit into that mold. A simple SELECT statement is more like setting rules on a state machine, but when you get into transactions, cursors, if statements, temporary tables, etc., it becomes more like a super-verbose programming language.
I use SQL exclusively at work, and I suffer because I have to maintain stored procedures that grow into the thousands of lines, when a simple program written in C# or Java could do the equivalent in a couple hundred. The reason for the stored procs is that it's easier to schedule a stored proc to run at a certain time every day, week, or whatever. I'm certain that some of these queries would be vastly simplified if there were Datalog extensions to SQL Server.
Kerry: That's preposterous! My party's bottom line is to find and kill the terrorists with other people's troops, while ours can have dinner with their spouses.
Bush: It's hard work, being president. The witch-doctor told me to "oooh eee ooh ah-ah, ting tang, falla walla bing bang."
And the masses of American lemmings will oooh and ahhh with the two mindless dopes that are vying for control, and be upset with the stir caused by Badnarik. Yes, I'm a cynical American, and I hate the choices presented by the dems and the 'pubs.
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I wouldn't give Java the credit for C#. If anything, it was Delphi that C# was built upon. The only thing that C# "borrowed" from Java is the idea of a VM, and even that functions in a different way than the Java one.
If the number of reps increased, we'd have to rename "pork" to "beef" or "elephant." It's a problem when you have too many cooks, because it spoils the pot. An increase in the numbers would decrease the bill-making efficiency.
Then again, maybe slowing down congress is just what this country needs. We already have too many federal laws.
Yeah. Give someone access to the physical computer with an extra hard disk, or a jump drive, and there's very little that you can do. The only thing, I imagine, is setting a bios password.
Now, one of my buddies had a Compaq laptop which had a bios password that he didn't know. He drained the CMOS battery, in hopes of resetting the password. This had the effect of breaking the whole thing. He called Compaq, and they said that he'd have to replace the motherboard.
Now, if you can implement security like that, the only other thing that someone could do is take your HD out, put it in another computer, and read off of that drive. I'm not too sure about ACL's, but even those can't stop someone from reading the physical media. (Unless your entire system is an image mounted on the loopback device with heavy encryption... hmm. Get those tin-foil hats out.
Probably simpler (and more realistic) than the omnipresent ventilation ducts in Deus Ex 2, anyway.:-)
I think that they borrowed that idea from Half Life. There was so much duct-crawling in that game that I had a crick in my neck from ducking my head in real life.
He wasn't talking to anyone in the "back room." At least, no one that exists. I suspect that Bush has schizophrenia. He was probably telling the war-monger to let the soft-spoken nice guy finish.
Then again, I still say that he's still a better realistic alternative to Kerry. The Libertarians will get my vote, but I have extreme doubt that they'll win.
It's the open beta. It's pretty much: "You sign up, you get to play." Blizzard gets everyone addicted, closes the beta, and makes a killing on their release.
Yes. It's a representative democracy, in that he represents the interests of his constituents. Every decision should be up to what he believes is best for his state, not what is best for his party.
Shit, even placing emphasis on the word "representative" proves my point, by the very definition of the word. If Kerry wanted to do polls, he could do so. He could also listen to those in the state that he represents in congress. Unfortunately, he's too busy riding the political donkey in the backyard to represent his people.
Oh, and BTW, the only reason Kerry voted against the resolution is that he wanted a version of the bill that included the removal of tax cuts on the rich to pay for it. Since it was clear that the version without the removal of tax cuts was going to pass, he voted against it as a protest.
Regardless of his reasons, he still voted against it.
Then again, that's an abuse of his position, now isn't it? Instead of voting in line with what his constituents require, he decides to vote along his own personal views, or his party's views. I'm sorry, but a senator has a responsibility to the people that voted him in, and not to the party that helped dupe them into voting for him.
If you are interested in contributing to the XULMaker project please contact me, Franklin de Graaf. In particular, I would especially appreciate some help from a graphic designer to do/redo the element icons, etc.
You are also invited to join the mailing list and read the newsgroup. This is where most of the discussion about XULMaker will take place.
That should take care of most questions, or at last Mr. de Graaf can answer them. I didn't post his email, but the link for it is on that mozilla page at the bottom.
The French army, while certainly a lot less as mighty as the American one is still not a joke, by far. They have good equipment, good training, and can be efficient in conflict (unless against the Germans, happily, we are now friendlier with the Germans than ever).
Funded by Iraqi money, and running on Iraqi oil!
France won't agree to the war in Iraq, because it destroys the lush deal it had with Saddam.
I don't recall Bush ever saying that he wanted a draft. How is this flip-flopping?
Flip-flopping is more like voting yes to take action, voting no to increased funding for military equipment, then calling out the president for not providing said equipment. And who did that, pray tell?
Of course, if it happens that you do not do your job as a soldier, drafted or not, and disobey orders in that respect, you will end up dead. That's what the punishment for treason is.
When it comes to being a soldier, drafted or not, it is the values and protection of your country that come before your own. There is a country's trust on you, and if you willingly fail because you do not agree, you face steep punishment. This is why you can get shot for falling asleep or being drunk while doing guard duty.
If you don't really like the rules of the country, work to change them. While doing that, it's your duty to abide by what is in place. If you don't want to do that, leave the country.
My parents solved my original X-Wing and Tie-Fighter addiction by setting a password in the BIOS. Then they'd keep the fucker turned off.
So, in my spare time, I played pickup games of football, capture the flag, soccer, homerun derby, baseball, 500, street hockey, went fishing, rode bikes around, etc. We also played a lot of G.I. Joe/M.A.S.K, Hero's Quest, Monopoly, cards, hide & seek, yada. holy shit. I was really active when I was young. No wonder I was skinny.
Now, I have to go to the gym to keep the pounds off. Playing tackle football at adult weight is dangerous without pads, and flag football just ain't as fun. There aren't near enough people to play pickup games of baseball or softball. I would bike, but it hurts the bum. So, I go to the gym. I lift. I do cardio on machines. And I live a life of the dull.
On weekends, my buddies and I drink beer and watch football. It's cool. It's fun. It's just not as active as when I was little. Oh, I also find that I can't sit and play games for too long, otherwise I start getting wanderlust... and want to go do something dangerous. Like fashioning toothpicks into a South American Amazon Native hair-pick.
Any time that an obsession causes your personality to change, and you cease to be who you once were, it's bad. It doesn't matter if it's non-maleficent or not. It isn't beneficial, and it's bad for the one who is addicted, since they no longer are who they once were.
Then again, too much of anything material is bad. There is a point where Socom ceases to be entertainment, and it becomes required for life itself. The article said that the kid was becoming reclusive in addition to playing in the middle of the night. This is an obsessive compulsive behavior, where the kid's own health was being risked for the satisfaction of playing a computer game.
Sorry, but no, his habit is not harmless. Not only is it harmful to the guy's social and family life, it is harmful to his health.
Only if you don't appreciate your beer. For those of us with more sophisticated tastes, chugging beer is out of the question. Then again, you have to qualify your beer. If all you drink is.* Lite, then go ahead and chug, it helps reduce the percentage of shitty beer in this world.
If you tried quaffing, chugging, and gulping the beers that I drink, you'd be laying on your face in 15 minutes.
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Don't equivocate republicans with conservatives. Conservatism is a political ideology, along with liberalism and socialism. "Republican" is one of the U.S's national parties. Yes, it is reasonable to say that many conservative minded people vote republican, but that does not mean that every conservative votes republican, nor does it mean that every republican is conservative.
Then again, the modern day "liberal" that Rush Limbaugh likes to rail against is not the same as the liberal political ideology. The modern "liberal" leans in the socialist direction. The original liberal ideology, however, is much more in line with libertarian beliefs: less government control of the individual, everyone has an equal oppurtunity to make or break themselves. The arguments in liberal ideology come from the definition of an equal oppurtunity. Some believe that it is the oppurtunity that needs to be equal, which means that the government shouldn't provide anything for anyone. Others believe that the government is responsible for providing everyone with at least a minimal quality of life, so that they may use their oppurtunity.
Conservatives focus on the community. It is their belief that the community should provide for it's less fortunate. Keep in mind that community != government. This is the small town mentality, where everyone knows each other and sees each other at Church. Their spending is not to conserve money, but to conserve the community.
Socialists believe that it's the role of the government to provide it's citizens with everything required to live life. This is all well and good, but with anything government based, it is very susceptible to corruption and bloat. Communism is the extreme economic form of the socialist political ideology.
Also, if you look at how economic systems work, you'd realize that the increase in debt under Reagan was not only due to his finality in finishing the cold war, but also due to the fallout from economic policies put into place under Carter. Worse yet, the policies under George H.W. Bush had the effect of stimulating the economy under Clinton, while his policies had the effect of exploding an economic balloon. It's tiresome to listen to the democrats take credit for the surpluses in the 90's, just because there was a democrat president. If anything, Clinton is most responsible for the economic crash that we had four years ago.
Bullshit.
The question called for a specific instance of a time when they changed their mind. Kerry didn't supply the necessary specificity for the answer to be correct. Instead, he tries to spin the question into an assualt on Bush. He's full of shit.
At least Bush didn't make himself look like an ass with a non-answer, or a shitty answer.
I'm completely amazed for completely different reasons. He is, first and foremost, a man running for re-election. You can be assured that Kerry or who ever in such a position, is not going to start bragging about past mistakes right before an election. I'm sorry, but that's the reality we live in. Ding GWB for it if you must, but you simply don't understand politics if you think you would get any other class of answer from any other man in an election year (right before election).
If I were running, I would try to honestly answer the question with a meaningful (ahem, Nader) answer. It's not because I would wish to crucify myself in front of all Americans, but to make myself more personable. It's a lot easier to identify with someone who aknowledges that they make mistakes, it's easier to feel sorry for them, and it's easier for them to feel that they are voting for a real person. When you have someone that is extremely uptight about their appearance, the general response is rejection. It's inhuman to be perfect.
This looks like it's supposed to be a joke, albeit unfunny. How the hell does something like this get modded "Insightful?" It's about as insightful as my left ass-cheek.
Then again, leave it to the left-leaning ass-cheek moderators to mod up a troll as "insightful," even though it doesn't address the rather thoughtful gp.
I spent half of my databases class learning datalog, which, I imagine, is an offshoot of prolog. I'd have to say that writing queries in datalog is superior to anything that you can do in SQL, you just need to be able to think in that way.
Most people are accustomed to procedural stuff, and SQL has been hacked upon to fit into that mold. A simple SELECT statement is more like setting rules on a state machine, but when you get into transactions, cursors, if statements, temporary tables, etc., it becomes more like a super-verbose programming language.
I use SQL exclusively at work, and I suffer because I have to maintain stored procedures that grow into the thousands of lines, when a simple program written in C# or Java could do the equivalent in a couple hundred. The reason for the stored procs is that it's easier to schedule a stored proc to run at a certain time every day, week, or whatever. I'm certain that some of these queries would be vastly simplified if there were Datalog extensions to SQL Server.
It would go something like this:
Badnarik: .......Something meaningful......
Kerry: That's preposterous! My party's bottom line is to find and kill the terrorists with other people's troops, while ours can have dinner with their spouses.
Bush: It's hard work, being president. The witch-doctor told me to "oooh eee ooh ah-ah, ting tang, falla walla bing bang."
And the masses of American lemmings will oooh and ahhh with the two mindless dopes that are vying for control, and be upset with the stir caused by Badnarik. Yes, I'm a cynical American, and I hate the choices presented by the dems and the 'pubs.
I wouldn't give Java the credit for C#. If anything, it was Delphi that C# was built upon. The only thing that C# "borrowed" from Java is the idea of a VM, and even that functions in a different way than the Java one.
I dunno... Green Bay isn't the team that it used to be. Heck, even the Bears kicked their ass.
heh. heh.
If the number of reps increased, we'd have to rename "pork" to "beef" or "elephant." It's a problem when you have too many cooks, because it spoils the pot. An increase in the numbers would decrease the bill-making efficiency.
Then again, maybe slowing down congress is just what this country needs. We already have too many federal laws.
Yeah. Give someone access to the physical computer with an extra hard disk, or a jump drive, and there's very little that you can do. The only thing, I imagine, is setting a bios password.
Now, one of my buddies had a Compaq laptop which had a bios password that he didn't know. He drained the CMOS battery, in hopes of resetting the password. This had the effect of breaking the whole thing. He called Compaq, and they said that he'd have to replace the motherboard.
Now, if you can implement security like that, the only other thing that someone could do is take your HD out, put it in another computer, and read off of that drive. I'm not too sure about ACL's, but even those can't stop someone from reading the physical media. (Unless your entire system is an image mounted on the loopback device with heavy encryption... hmm. Get those tin-foil hats out.
Probably simpler (and more realistic) than the omnipresent ventilation ducts in Deus Ex 2, anyway. :-)
I think that they borrowed that idea from Half Life. There was so much duct-crawling in that game that I had a crick in my neck from ducking my head in real life.
He wasn't talking to anyone in the "back room." At least, no one that exists. I suspect that Bush has schizophrenia. He was probably telling the war-monger to let the soft-spoken nice guy finish.
Then again, I still say that he's still a better realistic alternative to Kerry. The Libertarians will get my vote, but I have extreme doubt that they'll win.
It's the open beta. It's pretty much: "You sign up, you get to play." Blizzard gets everyone addicted, closes the beta, and makes a killing on their release.
The T-Rex turned into the Ostrich!
More at 7...
Hey. I have a patent on retrieving insects with small sticks. I filed for it just after my first experience using chopsticks.
I'm going to sue the crap out of those monkeys. They can't go using my stick-poker-kill-bug technique...
Yes. It's a representative democracy, in that he represents the interests of his constituents. Every decision should be up to what he believes is best for his state, not what is best for his party.
Shit, even placing emphasis on the word "representative" proves my point, by the very definition of the word. If Kerry wanted to do polls, he could do so. He could also listen to those in the state that he represents in congress. Unfortunately, he's too busy riding the political donkey in the backyard to represent his people.
Oh, and BTW, the only reason Kerry voted against the resolution is that he wanted a version of the bill that included the removal of tax cuts on the rich to pay for it. Since it was clear that the version without the removal of tax cuts was going to pass, he voted against it as a protest.
Regardless of his reasons, he still voted against it.
Then again, that's an abuse of his position, now isn't it? Instead of voting in line with what his constituents require, he decides to vote along his own personal views, or his party's views. I'm sorry, but a senator has a responsibility to the people that voted him in, and not to the party that helped dupe them into voting for him.
At the bottom of the page:
Contributors Wanted
If you are interested in contributing to the XULMaker project please contact me, Franklin de Graaf. In particular, I would especially appreciate some help from a graphic designer to do/redo the element icons, etc.
You are also invited to join the mailing list and read the newsgroup. This is where most of the discussion about XULMaker will take place.
That should take care of most questions, or at last Mr. de Graaf can answer them. I didn't post his email, but the link for it is on that mozilla page at the bottom.
The French army, while certainly a lot less as mighty as the American one is still not a joke, by far. They have good equipment, good training, and can be efficient in conflict (unless against the Germans, happily, we are now friendlier with the Germans than ever).
Funded by Iraqi money, and running on Iraqi oil!
France won't agree to the war in Iraq, because it destroys the lush deal it had with Saddam.
I don't recall Bush ever saying that he wanted a draft. How is this flip-flopping?
Flip-flopping is more like voting yes to take action, voting no to increased funding for military equipment, then calling out the president for not providing said equipment. And who did that, pray tell?
Of course, if it happens that you do not do your job as a soldier, drafted or not, and disobey orders in that respect, you will end up dead. That's what the punishment for treason is.
When it comes to being a soldier, drafted or not, it is the values and protection of your country that come before your own. There is a country's trust on you, and if you willingly fail because you do not agree, you face steep punishment. This is why you can get shot for falling asleep or being drunk while doing guard duty.
If you don't really like the rules of the country, work to change them. While doing that, it's your duty to abide by what is in place. If you don't want to do that, leave the country.
My parents solved my original X-Wing and Tie-Fighter addiction by setting a password in the BIOS. Then they'd keep the fucker turned off.
So, in my spare time, I played pickup games of football, capture the flag, soccer, homerun derby, baseball, 500, street hockey, went fishing, rode bikes around, etc. We also played a lot of G.I. Joe/M.A.S.K, Hero's Quest, Monopoly, cards, hide & seek, yada. holy shit. I was really active when I was young. No wonder I was skinny.
Now, I have to go to the gym to keep the pounds off. Playing tackle football at adult weight is dangerous without pads, and flag football just ain't as fun. There aren't near enough people to play pickup games of baseball or softball. I would bike, but it hurts the bum. So, I go to the gym. I lift. I do cardio on machines. And I live a life of the dull.
On weekends, my buddies and I drink beer and watch football. It's cool. It's fun. It's just not as active as when I was little. Oh, I also find that I can't sit and play games for too long, otherwise I start getting wanderlust... and want to go do something dangerous. Like fashioning toothpicks into a South American Amazon Native hair-pick.
Any time that an obsession causes your personality to change, and you cease to be who you once were, it's bad. It doesn't matter if it's non-maleficent or not. It isn't beneficial, and it's bad for the one who is addicted, since they no longer are who they once were.
Then again, too much of anything material is bad. There is a point where Socom ceases to be entertainment, and it becomes required for life itself. The article said that the kid was becoming reclusive in addition to playing in the middle of the night. This is an obsessive compulsive behavior, where the kid's own health was being risked for the satisfaction of playing a computer game.
Sorry, but no, his habit is not harmless. Not only is it harmful to the guy's social and family life, it is harmful to his health.
Only if you don't appreciate your beer. For those of us with more sophisticated tastes, chugging beer is out of the question. Then again, you have to qualify your beer. If all you drink is .* Lite, then go ahead and chug, it helps reduce the percentage of shitty beer in this world.
If you tried quaffing, chugging, and gulping the beers that I drink, you'd be laying on your face in 15 minutes.
If men are willing to drink Bud Light, they will be willing to drink anything.