This is France we're talking about, not some two bit country like Iraq or Bosnia that we can just invade any time we feel like.
So it would take three weeks instead of two?
Comparing nothing but military might, the world consists of one Ultrapower and a bunch of pipsqueaks. There is nothing in France's arsenal to stop the US military from invading France, not even if all the hairy armpit girls stood upwind.
Or are you seriously saying that the French government ought to be subject to American laws and values?
It does make for a good thought experiment! France could be like China before the Opium Wars, more or less at the mercy of Americans operating out of Treaty Ports, Marseille and Eurodisney. We will addict them to Wisconsin cheeses and California wines.
I don't forsee any American takeover of France, what good is it?
I do think if they say "non" to borrowing their airspace on the way to business in Africa, SW Asia, Eastern Europe, or West Asia -- the US should fly right on through. Our pilots' comfort is worth much more than good relations with a bad country.
Or how dissenting voices regarding the Iraq invasion were barely heard?
What's the weather like, so far up your own ass?
How could you miss eight months of "he's rushing to war?" How could you miss the Useless Nations discussions and votes? How could you miss the opinions from CNN ABC NBC CBS PBS NPR MSNBC Reuters and AP?
It's always the same: Leftists don't observe, neither do they think. Only a willful ignoramus could have missed the crapflood of
protest
led by the media.
Why do political parties need money? To pay for television advertising. Why do they need television advertising? Because people do what the television tells them to.
This is the problem, people do what the television tells them. Who raises the money, who gives the money, why, how, and so on are the merest minutiae compared to the real problem. The average voter is a moron who can be swayed by 30 seconds of TV.
Which party controls the educational agenda that
produces these morons? Which party has dumbed down the population in order to create people stupid enough to vote for them? Which party enjoys the chauvinistic fealty of the NEA? Which party controls the colleges?
It ain't the Libertarians. It ain't the Republicans. Inarguably, the Guilty Party is the Democrat Party. They've created millions of Dummycrats!
we don't fear our gas tanks exploding, do we? Why should we fear that hydrogen / fuel cells wouldn't be made just as safe?
Gasoline is a favored fuel precisely because it is so safe. A simple tank is sufficient container.
Pressurized hydrogen gas is much more dangerous. The simple tank must become a pressure-holding vessel. I think this is what the general fear is.
There are ways of storing hydrogen that don't involve high pressure hydrogen gas in a tank. They're not as simple as a tank, nor as light when empty, but they aren't rolling Hindenburgs.
The Superconducting Super Collider was canned for political reasons. The congress wanted to crack down on something for budget reasons, and there were 2 big targets: the International Space Station or the SSC.
Specifically, the Democrats in Congress wanted revenge on Texas for electing two Republican Senators. SSC and ISS were "Texas" projects.
It had very little to do with the budget and everything to do with the pettiness of the Democrat Party.
(I expect to be modded down for this observation due to the
pettiness
of leftist moderators)
somebody should point out to the HMO's how much money they'd save with Linux! They'd be onto it in a shot
I recently upgraded a small bio lab that does insurance work from Mac OS 9 to OS X. Everything went very smoothly until we faced the limitations of OS X's faxing.
"How important are faxes in this day and age?" I asked. I found out that the whole medical insurance industry is still run via twenty-page faxes and nobody will accept email of the exact same data or scans of the documents. This is doubly stupid because they don't print the incoming faxes, they just go to disk.
It was probably a huge leap for them to stop using the abacus. They might get clued in to email by mid-century. Linux? You're a starry-eyed dreamer!
Claiming that the universe and man were created by a mere coincidence is like claiming that the wind below sand on a piece of silicon and carved a Pentium processor core by coincidence.
Very simply, We the Media should be required reading in journalism schools for students and professors.
Journalists go to schools?
Imagine the courses!
JRN 100 The Five W's: George W. Bush Stinks, George W. Bush has Cooties, George W. Bush is Mean, George W. Bush is Dumb, and George W. Bush is a Blue Meanie Dumb Cootie.
JRN 200 Casting Aspersions: Learn which adjectives to use when describing the idiotic George W. Bush and the brave genius patriots who correctly despise him.
JRN 250 Rumors - Gateways to Truth: A newspaper is nothing without rumors. Learn to tell whoppers and fool people for fun and profit.
JRN 300 Context is Your Enemy: Students will understand which facts to leave out of stories and how to present events out of order. This is a writing-intensive course.
JRN 350 The Dreaded Tech Beat: Learn to cope with things you do not understand at all by making your writing buzzword-compliant.
JRN 400 Sports - Journalism's Crowning Achievement: Hype and fluff are the indespensible tools of the Sports Reporter. Students will learn to use a thesaurus to seem intelligent when discussing trivia about games.
JRN 450 Science Sucks Ass (course prerequisite JRN 350): In this advanced course students will learn to misquote scientists, construct non sequitur arguments, miss the point, and bring their own prejudices to their stories.
JRN 500 (Capstone) Bias: Students will wear shoes with different thickness soles to learn about slanting. Course ends with field trip to cattle ranch to watch real B.S. being made.
Talk to some soldiers in the theater now and I think you'll find a remarkably different story than what's told in the news.
Exactly right.
It's a shame the press is such a partisan.
Isn't it painful to read/watch the clueless imbeciles of the fourth estate make their way through a tech story? Just today, Reuters had a hell of a time with the word "code" in their article about IBM's DB donation to Apache.
Why should we trust these f&cks when it comes to foreign affairs?
In my chats with those over there, I point out that not everyone over here believes the B.S. from CNN/BBC/NYT/NPR/AP/Reuters. Only the gullible people, like the numbskulls who had a party in Boston last week. I let them know that the real Americans know they are doing great and important work.
How many schools have they set up? How many millions and millions of vaccinations have they performed? Clean water and electricity are more plentiful than ever. This good stuff does not get reported. The press would have to do some work to cover it, get out of the hotel room -- fat chance.
But some idiot sets off a bomb, and the terrorists' allies in the press unload a barrage of overcoverage for the terrorists' allies here in the USA to wallow in and cry over.
I'm glad that CBS had the cajones to break the Abu Gharib prison scandal. If they hadn't reported it, the public would've never heard about it.
Yeah, those daily Pentagon press conferences were so hard to catch. The story "broke" way back in January.
What you were impressed with is the photographs CBS showed many months later. Without context, a snapshot is worth ten thousand words of propaganda!
Just look how completely you bought the hype.
War is heartless. I consider it the duty of the press to make that reality known. People die. Many people. Families are left broken and in pain. But if the government doesn't have to tell us that, why would it?
Because everybody already knows this?
Except imbeciles who must constantly remind themselves and others that guts blood and mud cast an awesome reek. These imbeciles, soi-disant "liberals" who are consistently on the side of Totalitarianism, always act surpised when a combatant or civilian is killed.
Unless the civilian is living under a Leftist Totalitarian (yeah, almost synonymous) regime like Cuba, China, North Korea, or Saddamite Iraq. When a Leftist kills, he's doing it for the good of humanity!
It is the duty of the press to report. Not to distort in the name of some unobtainable "peace" during which only enemies of the Left are killed (quietly, silently, behind veils of concrete, iron, and mass terror). Not to function as an Organ of the American Democrat Party.
It is also the duty of the press to behave responsibly. If CBS were to come across the itinerary of a medical convoy, they should not broadcast its location to local guerillas. Likewise, should Geraldo actually know something, he shouldn't draw a map on live TV.
(Sometimes, I consider what would happen if we applied "liberal logic" (oxymoron natch) to Freedom of the Press. Back when the First Amendment was drafted, the presses were hand-cranked. Today, we have fully automatic presses that anybody can buy for under a hundred dollars. These assault presses can be used to ruin lives through slander.
Clearly, what is needed is a waiting period, perhaps a week, while the reporter cools off and checks facts!)
I want to see the harsh realities.
Then go there. (Please.)
Those realities are news.
Reality is not necessarily news. Water flowing downhill is not news. Man bites dog is no longer news. Operationally insignificant combat losses and correspondingly tiny collateral losses are not news.
Unless you have an axe to grind or a barely-hidden agenda to push.
You are exactly right: quality control is Wikipedia's fatal weakness.
Wikipedia articles can be, and have been, hijacked by special-interest groups. Bad ancient history, Turkic Scythians! And even worse recent history, especially regarding online culture. Deletion and defacing are the smallest of their problems compared to bias and general idiocy.
Wikipedia is full of cranks. It's on the same mental shelf as Graham Hancock and H.P. Blavatsky. It may be fun/funny to read, but it is so obviously an awful source of information that any Wikipedia article should be backed up with a half-hour of good hard Googling!
Can you just imagine if we didn't spend half of the world's total military spending?
Yes.
Not only would the World Trade Center have been destroyed, but by now the Sears Tower and TRW pyramid as well. When given ultimatums by terrorists, the United States would cower in fear like Spain and the Phillipines, unable to do anything but give in to their demands.
When the pathetic Europeons need us to stop their recurring racist violence, like in the Balkans, we will be able to send one APC and some bottle rockets.
Humanity's freedom is guaranteed by the might of the United States military.
And if that's not enough for you, there are spinoffs like this here Internet thingie. If NASA's budget is too small, maybe NASA should be turned into a military operation!
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You will also have to deal with the (smug skinhead socialist) Europeons.
So it would take three weeks instead of two?
Comparing nothing but military might, the world consists of one Ultrapower and a bunch of pipsqueaks. There is nothing in France's arsenal to stop the US military from invading France, not even if all the hairy armpit girls stood upwind.
Or are you seriously saying that the French government ought to be subject to American laws and values?
It does make for a good thought experiment! France could be like China before the Opium Wars, more or less at the mercy of Americans operating out of Treaty Ports, Marseille and Eurodisney. We will addict them to Wisconsin cheeses and California wines.
I don't forsee any American takeover of France, what good is it?
I do think if they say "non" to borrowing their airspace on the way to business in Africa, SW Asia, Eastern Europe, or West Asia -- the US should fly right on through. Our pilots' comfort is worth much more than good relations with a bad country.
MiG-15 had the Rolls-Royce Nene engine , thoughtfully provided to them by the British Labour Party.
That explains why you're so stupid!
What's the weather like, so far up your own ass?
How could you miss eight months of "he's rushing to war?" How could you miss the Useless Nations discussions and votes? How could you miss the opinions from CNN ABC NBC CBS PBS NPR MSNBC Reuters and AP?
It's always the same: Leftists don't observe, neither do they think. Only a willful ignoramus could have missed the crapflood of protest led by the media.
This is the problem, people do what the television tells them. Who raises the money, who gives the money, why, how, and so on are the merest minutiae compared to the real problem. The average voter is a moron who can be swayed by 30 seconds of TV.
Which party controls the educational agenda that produces these morons? Which party has dumbed down the population in order to create people stupid enough to vote for them? Which party enjoys the chauvinistic fealty of the NEA? Which party controls the colleges?
It ain't the Libertarians. It ain't the Republicans. Inarguably, the Guilty Party is the Democrat Party. They've created millions of Dummycrats!
"Office Space" is now classified as a documentary.
Vapor and hyperventilation are all that can be expected from the imbeciles who call themselves "journalists."
Gasoline is a favored fuel precisely because it is so safe. A simple tank is sufficient container.
Pressurized hydrogen gas is much more dangerous. The simple tank must become a pressure-holding vessel. I think this is what the general fear is.
There are ways of storing hydrogen that don't involve high pressure hydrogen gas in a tank. They're not as simple as a tank, nor as light when empty, but they aren't rolling Hindenburgs.
This juxtaposition makes me dizzy!
So, it is lower over, no? Over lower?
How does imbecile prattle like this get modded up?
Specifically, the Democrats in Congress wanted revenge on Texas for electing two Republican Senators. SSC and ISS were "Texas" projects.
It had very little to do with the budget and everything to do with the pettiness of the Democrat Party.
(I expect to be modded down for this observation due to the pettiness of leftist moderators)
I recently upgraded a small bio lab that does insurance work from Mac OS 9 to OS X. Everything went very smoothly until we faced the limitations of OS X's faxing.
"How important are faxes in this day and age?" I asked. I found out that the whole medical insurance industry is still run via twenty-page faxes and nobody will accept email of the exact same data or scans of the documents. This is doubly stupid because they don't print the incoming faxes, they just go to disk.
It was probably a huge leap for them to stop using the abacus. They might get clued in to email by mid-century. Linux? You're a starry-eyed dreamer!
That "Mormony Goodness" you lament led me to a deeper understanding of Satan.
I am hoping that the God-worshipping Cylons will similarly enrich my devotion to Satan .
You don't do much x86 assembly, do ya'?
Journalists go to schools?
Imagine the courses!
JRN 100 The Five W's: George W. Bush Stinks, George W. Bush has Cooties, George W. Bush is Mean, George W. Bush is Dumb, and George W. Bush is a Blue Meanie Dumb Cootie.
JRN 200 Casting Aspersions: Learn which adjectives to use when describing the idiotic George W. Bush and the brave genius patriots who correctly despise him.
JRN 250 Rumors - Gateways to Truth: A newspaper is nothing without rumors. Learn to tell whoppers and fool people for fun and profit.
JRN 300 Context is Your Enemy: Students will understand which facts to leave out of stories and how to present events out of order. This is a writing-intensive course.
JRN 350 The Dreaded Tech Beat: Learn to cope with things you do not understand at all by making your writing buzzword-compliant.
JRN 400 Sports - Journalism's Crowning Achievement: Hype and fluff are the indespensible tools of the Sports Reporter. Students will learn to use a thesaurus to seem intelligent when discussing trivia about games.
JRN 450 Science Sucks Ass (course prerequisite JRN 350): In this advanced course students will learn to misquote scientists, construct non sequitur arguments, miss the point, and bring their own prejudices to their stories.
JRN 500 (Capstone) Bias: Students will wear shoes with different thickness soles to learn about slanting. Course ends with field trip to cattle ranch to watch real B.S. being made.
Well, I guess they are Finnished!
Exactly right.
It's a shame the press is such a partisan.
Isn't it painful to read/watch the clueless imbeciles of the fourth estate make their way through a tech story? Just today, Reuters had a hell of a time with the word "code" in their article about IBM's DB donation to Apache.
Why should we trust these f&cks when it comes to foreign affairs?
In my chats with those over there, I point out that not everyone over here believes the B.S. from CNN/BBC/NYT/NPR/AP/Reuters. Only the gullible people, like the numbskulls who had a party in Boston last week. I let them know that the real Americans know they are doing great and important work.
How many schools have they set up? How many millions and millions of vaccinations have they performed? Clean water and electricity are more plentiful than ever. This good stuff does not get reported. The press would have to do some work to cover it, get out of the hotel room -- fat chance.
But some idiot sets off a bomb, and the terrorists' allies in the press unload a barrage of overcoverage for the terrorists' allies here in the USA to wallow in and cry over.
Set Cheney's pacemaker to "Darth!"
Then he could choke that pipsqueak from across the stage just by pointing at him.
That would be awesome.
For the 63rd consecutive week, coming in at #1 on the New York Times fiction list, is the New York Times!
Can you imagine not imagining a Beowulf cluster?
Yeah, those daily Pentagon press conferences were so hard to catch. The story "broke" way back in January.
What you were impressed with is the photographs CBS showed many months later. Without context, a snapshot is worth ten thousand words of propaganda!
Just look how completely you bought the hype.
War is heartless. I consider it the duty of the press to make that reality known. People die. Many people. Families are left broken and in pain. But if the government doesn't have to tell us that, why would it?
Because everybody already knows this?
Except imbeciles who must constantly remind themselves and others that guts blood and mud cast an awesome reek. These imbeciles, soi-disant "liberals" who are consistently on the side of Totalitarianism, always act surpised when a combatant or civilian is killed.
Unless the civilian is living under a Leftist Totalitarian (yeah, almost synonymous) regime like Cuba, China, North Korea, or Saddamite Iraq. When a Leftist kills, he's doing it for the good of humanity!
It is the duty of the press to report. Not to distort in the name of some unobtainable "peace" during which only enemies of the Left are killed (quietly, silently, behind veils of concrete, iron, and mass terror). Not to function as an Organ of the American Democrat Party.
It is also the duty of the press to behave responsibly. If CBS were to come across the itinerary of a medical convoy, they should not broadcast its location to local guerillas. Likewise, should Geraldo actually know something, he shouldn't draw a map on live TV.
(Sometimes, I consider what would happen if we applied "liberal logic" (oxymoron natch) to Freedom of the Press. Back when the First Amendment was drafted, the presses were hand-cranked. Today, we have fully automatic presses that anybody can buy for under a hundred dollars. These assault presses can be used to ruin lives through slander.
Clearly, what is needed is a waiting period, perhaps a week, while the reporter cools off and checks facts!)
I want to see the harsh realities.
Then go there. (Please.)
Those realities are news.
Reality is not necessarily news. Water flowing downhill is not news. Man bites dog is no longer news. Operationally insignificant combat losses and correspondingly tiny collateral losses are not news.
Unless you have an axe to grind or a barely-hidden agenda to push.
Wikipedia articles can be, and have been, hijacked by special-interest groups. Bad ancient history, Turkic Scythians! And even worse recent history, especially regarding online culture. Deletion and defacing are the smallest of their problems compared to bias and general idiocy.
Wikipedia is full of cranks. It's on the same mental shelf as Graham Hancock and H.P. Blavatsky. It may be fun/funny to read, but it is so obviously an awful source of information that any Wikipedia article should be backed up with a half-hour of good hard Googling!
Because it was of, by, and for idiots. Progressive communism is so 20th-century.
Yes.
Not only would the World Trade Center have been destroyed, but by now the Sears Tower and TRW pyramid as well. When given ultimatums by terrorists, the United States would cower in fear like Spain and the Phillipines, unable to do anything but give in to their demands.
When the pathetic Europeons need us to stop their recurring racist violence, like in the Balkans, we will be able to send one APC and some bottle rockets.
Humanity's freedom is guaranteed by the might of the United States military.
And if that's not enough for you, there are spinoffs like this here Internet thingie. If NASA's budget is too small, maybe NASA should be turned into a military operation!