The Federalist and anti-Federalist papers were originally anonymous broadsides and newspaper articles. Sometimes the ONLY way to express a controversial opinion in a closed society is anonymously. Considering the con-gress just eviscerated the searches must have individual warrants clause of the 4th amendment I think the U.S. is increasingly becoming a closed society. This is just another example IMO of our rights being stripped from us right before our very eyes.
And no INAL, but I think any reasonably intelligent person can parse words well enough to engage with laws and in fact ought to if "democracy" is to mean anything at all.
"Salvage logging--removal of dead, diseased, or insect-riddled trees--is a good thing for old growth forests. It makes them less vulnerable to wild fires and creates room for new trees to grow."
Bzzzt what actually happened is a lot of healthy surrounding forest was cut as well. As well as removing nutrients essential to restoring the soil in the fire damaged eco-system. Try your timber company propanda on someone who wasn't there, maybe you can fool them.
I sure as hell can blame Clinton, hint Dims never work the media to get people to oppose bad legislation because they support it as well.
Actually BOTH the Democraps and Ripoffagains sold the owl down the river. Clinton's "salvage logging" of old growth forests ring a bell? When I did tree sitting with Earth First! we never carried water for Democrats and saw them as every bit as much the enemy as Repubs.
OTH I think you CAN say that you DO get bad outcomes sometimes with capitalism at least in regards to the food system. It was diseased meat BTW that led to FDA inspections of meat that saved many lives, see Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" to see how that looked. Perhaps we DO need a "nanny" state to tells us that living on fatburgers alone equals early death.
Note I am not saying that pure socialism is great, I do think capitalism works well to make innovative gadgets like cell phones, computers, and cars, etc, OTH it epic fails regarding basic human rights like food, shelter, health care, etc. IMO the Europeans are way ahead of the U.S. in figuring out the right mix of socialism and capitalism to make a happy, healthy and wise population. An isolationist foreign policy like Sweden or Switzerland would help too IMO.
Do you do that empowering their actualization of value added team playing in the channel?
Steve Jobs OTH is not a PHB but as he said an "artist that ships." I suspect he doesn't use business school jargon because he is too busy doing real things like making sure the interface is intuitive and polished BEFORE shipping unlike the Windows and Linux model of ship early, ship often, hack, hack, hack (in both the good and bad sense of hack BTW).
I have a G5 tower and an itouch now and have had a classic and an LCIII in the past and they are pretty much OK. OTH I was pretty bummed when my 1200 dollar iBook only lasted a couple of years due to the infamous logic board problem:
I also had the original SATA drive fail on my G5 tower and it makes the infamous power supply beep, beep, beep, sound...
While I think OS X is the best OS going I've never had those sorts of hardware problems on a P.C. I'd love to be able to LEGALLY put OS X on cheap and cheerful p.c. hardware, I know it won't happen but I do think it would be better and cheaper.
Actually the Bush administtation DID give a tax break on large vehicles to make them more affordable than their actual impact on the world:
"Congress recently passed a tax bill, as proposed in President Bush's economic stimulus plan, that offers a $100,000 tax credit for business owners who purchase any vehicle weighing 6,000 pounds or more when fully loaded.
When Wizinsky's accountant told him about the credit last year, the amount was much less, at $75,000, but it was enough to encourage Wizinsky to trade in his Mercury Marquis for the Excursion.
"It sounded too good to be true," said Wizinsky, a health care consultant in Novi, Mich. "But it was true. So I bought the SUV. For a small company like mine it's a significant credit."
Yeah never mind minor niceties like international law, or basic human decency. You would have made a good Nazi, victory for dubious goals, at any cost is your ONLY consideration. And no it's not a violation of Godwin's law when a person is actually advocating Nazi war tactics.
I liked the part environmental impact. Now remember boys and girls after violating international law and illegally foreign civilians clean up your messes. That is American morality in a nutshell focus on the trivial and utterly miss the big picture. And I say that as both an American citizen and environmentalist, but also above all a humanist.
P.S. The real irony is your sig About Linux people being "very friendly" when calling me selfish for driving calmly, slowly, and carefully. Hypocrite much?
It's you that's the self centered jerk if you hurry people and risk lives to shave mere seconds off your commute thus no "irony" at all. The amazing backwardness of calling someone "selfish" for counseling people to drive calmly and cautiously is astonishing to me. It's exactly people like you that give Americans their well deserved reputation of being flaming assholes throughout the world, wow, just wow.:(
And your the asshole whose head got smashed through a car windshield to "save" ten sends time. I'd rather be a slow driver than be an assclown guilty of vehicular manslaughter or dead to save a minutes time.
How is something I have seen with my own eyes over and over again flambait? I can even give you the exact location the Ypsilanti high school on Packard ave between Ellsworth and Huron in Ypsilanti Michigan.
I have seen more ASSHOLES in big SUVs driving 50 in the 25 mph SCHOOL ZONE there than I could even count on both hands. Because I drive strictly the speed limit in the school zones because I do actually care about kids I am tailgated just about EVERY time I go through that area and I'd say more than 70% of time it's some asshole in an SUV.
What other explanation makes sense for going to war against Iraq? Hint there were no WMDs even Bush will admit that now and critics like former weapons inspector Scott Ritter were telling us that in 2002. Further 17 of the 19 911 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, and none were from Iraq. Further as a secular dictatorship Saddam had no use for Al Queda, it's only AFTER the U.S. invasion that Al Queda appeared in Iraq.
Thus any idea that the war on Iraq is tied to U.S. interests or the war on (some) terror is sheer fantasy. If we really wanted to go after terrorism and it supporters we would have invaded Saudi Arabia and it's nest of wahabi Al Queda supporters, but we couldn't do that because they have the biggest oil reserves in the world and are friendly to U.S. corporate interests, right?
The two possibilities left for the Iraq war then are to steal the oil (or keep it being traded in Euros or some other oil variant) or defending Israel.
I seriously hope it's the former for I tremble for the fate of the poor long suffering Jewish people if it comes out we invaded Iraq on behalf of the Likud/AIPAC minority faction of Israel which is certainly NOT in our national interest.
So I stand by what I said, as bad and totally unacceptable as a few smashed windows are, they pale in comparison to 500 billion wasted dollars, 4000+ wasted American soldiers lives, and a million dead Iraqis all for a lie.
Impeach, convict and hang Bush for war crimes IMO. Bush in bombing domestic populations and for example being commander and chief when FORTY percent of the civilian buildings were destroyed in Fallujah is guilty of blatant crimes against humanity under the Geneva conventions which forbids bombing civilian populations:
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The Federalist and anti-Federalist papers were originally anonymous broadsides and newspaper articles. Sometimes the ONLY way to express a controversial opinion in a closed society is anonymously. Considering the con-gress just eviscerated the searches must have individual warrants clause of the 4th amendment I think the U.S. is increasingly becoming a closed society. This is just another example IMO of our rights being stripped from us right before our very eyes.
And no INAL, but I think any reasonably intelligent person can parse words well enough to engage with laws and in fact ought to if "democracy" is to mean anything at all.
Mod parent up tis was an important case:
http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2007/02/Josh_Wolf.html
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/2/12/exclusive_imprisoned_journalist_josh_wolf_speaks
Ad hominem much?
"Salvage logging--removal of dead, diseased, or insect-riddled trees--is a good thing for old growth forests. It makes them less vulnerable to wild fires and creates room for new trees to grow."
Bzzzt what actually happened is a lot of healthy surrounding forest was cut as well. As well as removing nutrients essential to restoring the soil in the fire damaged eco-system. Try your timber company propanda on someone who wasn't there, maybe you can fool them.
I sure as hell can blame Clinton, hint Dims never work the media to get people to oppose bad legislation because they support it as well.
Hint #2 Wall St. is Obama's biggest funder.
Actually BOTH the Democraps and Ripoffagains sold the owl down the river. Clinton's "salvage logging" of old growth forests ring a bell? When I did tree sitting with Earth First! we never carried water for Democrats and saw them as every bit as much the enemy as Repubs.
OTH I think you CAN say that you DO get bad outcomes sometimes with capitalism at least in regards to the food system. It was diseased meat BTW that led to FDA inspections of meat that saved many lives, see Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" to see how that looked. Perhaps we DO need a "nanny" state to tells us that living on fatburgers alone equals early death.
Note I am not saying that pure socialism is great, I do think capitalism works well to make innovative gadgets like cell phones, computers, and cars, etc, OTH it epic fails regarding basic human rights like food, shelter, health care, etc. IMO the Europeans are way ahead of the U.S. in figuring out the right mix of socialism and capitalism to make a happy, healthy and wise population. An isolationist foreign policy like Sweden or Switzerland would help too IMO.
You mean Steve W. is even more autistic than Steve J.? Who'd have thunk it?
Very true they even gave one to George Dubya Bush who has a proven room temperature I.Q.
PHB alert!
Do you do that empowering their actualization of value added team playing in the channel?
Steve Jobs OTH is not a PHB but as he said an "artist that ships." I suspect he doesn't use business school jargon because he is too busy doing real things like making sure the interface is intuitive and polished BEFORE shipping unlike the Windows and Linux model of ship early, ship often, hack, hack, hack (in both the good and bad sense of hack BTW).
jailbreak iphone or ipod touch (takes about 5 minutes) install terminal, and ssh away. You were saying...
I have a G5 tower and an itouch now and have had a classic and an LCIII in the past and they are pretty much OK. OTH I was pretty bummed when my 1200 dollar iBook only lasted a couple of years due to the infamous logic board problem:
http://www.applefritter.com/node/10193
I also had the original SATA drive fail on my G5 tower and it makes the infamous power supply beep, beep, beep, sound...
While I think OS X is the best OS going I've never had those sorts of hardware problems on a P.C. I'd love to be able to LEGALLY put OS X on cheap and cheerful p.c. hardware, I know it won't happen but I do think it would be better and cheaper.
Yeah and it's just a coincidence that the 11 warmest years on record have been in the last 13 years.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071213101419.htm
Sigh head in the sand deniers may quite literally cause millions of people to die. :(
Long posting history with a user ID above 1 million? NEWB!
Actually the Bush administtation DID give a tax break on large vehicles to make them more affordable than their actual impact on the world:
"Congress recently passed a tax bill, as proposed in President Bush's economic stimulus plan, that offers a $100,000 tax credit for business owners who purchase any vehicle weighing 6,000 pounds or more when fully loaded.
When Wizinsky's accountant told him about the credit last year, the amount was much less, at $75,000, but it was enough to encourage Wizinsky to trade in his Mercury Marquis for the Excursion.
"It sounded too good to be true," said Wizinsky, a health care consultant in Novi, Mich. "But it was true. So I bought the SUV. For a small company like mine it's a significant credit."
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Hybrid/story?id=97505
http://www.thegreenguide.com/doc/int/hummer
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2002-12-18-suv-tax-break_x.htm
Is there a terminal app, ssh, and and finder for browsing the file system at the app store?
Until then I'll keep my ipod touch jail broken, it's a miniature Unix based computer and I want to use it that way.
"(And by the way, the only Senator my data mining system got "wrong" was Hillary Clinton -- she ended up placed with the Republicans.)"
I'm sooooooooo shocked!
Not!
Good point I concur.
Yeah never mind minor niceties like international law, or basic human decency. You would have made a good Nazi, victory for dubious goals, at any cost is your ONLY consideration. And no it's not a violation of Godwin's law when a person is actually advocating Nazi war tactics.
I liked the part environmental impact. Now remember boys and girls after violating international law and illegally foreign civilians clean up your messes. That is American morality in a nutshell focus on the trivial and utterly miss the big picture. And I say that as both an American citizen and environmentalist, but also above all a humanist.
P.S. The real irony is your sig About Linux people being "very friendly" when calling me selfish for driving calmly, slowly, and carefully. Hypocrite much?
It's you that's the self centered jerk if you hurry people and risk lives to shave mere seconds off your commute thus no "irony" at all. The amazing backwardness of calling someone "selfish" for counseling people to drive calmly and cautiously is astonishing to me. It's exactly people like you that give Americans their well deserved reputation of being flaming assholes throughout the world, wow, just wow. :(
p.s. mrraven200 in the past response didn't notice I wasn't logged in...
And your the asshole whose head got smashed through a car windshield to "save" ten sends time. I'd rather be a slow driver than be an assclown guilty of vehicular manslaughter or dead to save a minutes time.
How is something I have seen with my own eyes over and over again flambait? I can even give you the exact location the Ypsilanti high school on Packard ave between Ellsworth and Huron in Ypsilanti Michigan.
I have seen more ASSHOLES in big SUVs driving 50 in the 25 mph SCHOOL ZONE there than I could even count on both hands. Because I drive strictly the speed limit in the school zones because I do actually care about kids I am tailgated just about EVERY time I go through that area and I'd say more than 70% of time it's some asshole in an SUV.
What other explanation makes sense for going to war against Iraq? Hint there were no WMDs even Bush will admit that now and critics like former weapons inspector Scott Ritter were telling us that in 2002. Further 17 of the 19 911 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, and none were from Iraq. Further as a secular dictatorship Saddam had no use for Al Queda, it's only AFTER the U.S. invasion that Al Queda appeared in Iraq.
Thus any idea that the war on Iraq is tied to U.S. interests or the war on (some) terror is sheer fantasy. If we really wanted to go after terrorism and it supporters we would have invaded Saudi Arabia and it's nest of wahabi Al Queda supporters, but we couldn't do that because they have the biggest oil reserves in the world and are friendly to U.S. corporate interests, right?
The two possibilities left for the Iraq war then are to steal the oil (or keep it being traded in Euros or some other oil variant) or defending Israel.
I seriously hope it's the former for I tremble for the fate of the poor long suffering Jewish people if it comes out we invaded Iraq on behalf of the Likud/AIPAC minority faction of Israel which is certainly NOT in our national interest.
So I stand by what I said, as bad and totally unacceptable as a few smashed windows are, they pale in comparison to 500 billion wasted dollars, 4000+ wasted American soldiers lives, and a million dead Iraqis all for a lie.
Impeach, convict and hang Bush for war crimes IMO. Bush in bombing domestic populations and for example being commander and chief when FORTY percent of the civilian buildings were destroyed in Fallujah is guilty of blatant crimes against humanity under the Geneva conventions which forbids bombing civilian populations:
http://images.google.com/images?q=fallujah&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title
(Warning disturbing graphic images of U.S. war crimes)
http://www.juancole.com/2005/03/fallujah-tent-city-awaits-compensation.html
War of aggression is what the Nazis were hung for at Nuremberg, justice demands equal application to all war criminals foreign or domestic.