Spin? Start with the title of that video - "Collateral Murder". If you can't see the spin, then you are among the blindest and the most gullible of mass media watchers. By giving it that title, they have predisposed many watchers to interpret the scene in the film as murder. And, that is simply WRONG.
Go watch that video again - pay attention - the chopper was CALLED IN in response to an attack on our ground troops. Argue all you like that this particular group of people aren't armed, aren't insurgents, aren't a danger to the chopper - but the chopper was CALLED IN in response to an attack.
Not murder. Mistaken? Maybe, but not murder.
Actually - China seems to be getting a huge portion of Iraq's oil. Now - think. How does that benefit the US and the rest of the west? Think.
China has a supply of oil, and they have less need to look at oil which we are pumping. It's the old "supply and demand" thing - the greater the supply, the less the demand. Iraq's oil doesn't need to flow in our direction to benefit us.
You're a sick pig, dude. Just a fuckin' sick pig. There was an ocean and most of a continent between my dad and Japan - but he chose to enlist, and he chose to fight against the Japanese. That meant he enjoyed killing? Go back to your sty and wallow, pig.
"indirect warfare method that killed millions:"
Another sensationalist statement. Dig those millions up for us, so that we can examine them. You can't find them? Hmmm. Maybe those millions are just figments of demented people's imaginations? Habeus corpus, dude, habeus corpus.
Oh yeah - from your own link:
60 Minutes interview
While Ambassador to the UN Albright was criticized for defending the U.N. sanctions against Iraq (under Saddam Hussein) in a 1996 interview with Lesley Stahl on a segment of CBS's 60 Minutes.[49] When asked by Stahl, "We have heard that half a million children have died [as a result of sanctions]. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?" Albright replied: "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price — we think the price is worth it."[50][51] She expressed regret for her response in 2001[52] and wrote in her 2003 autobiography,
I must have been crazy; I should have answered the question by reframing it and pointing out the inherent flaws in the premise behind it. [] As soon as I had spoken, I wished for the power to freeze time and take back those words. My reply had been a terrible mistake, hasty, clumsy, and wrong. [] I had fallen into a trap and said something that I simply did not mean. That is no one’s fault but my own.[50]
Albright also claimed that the segment (for which Stahl won an Emmy[53]) ignored
Saddam's culpability, his misuse of Iraqi resources, or the fact that we were not embargoing medicine or food. I was exasperated that our TV was showing what amounted to Iraqi propaganda.[50]
This "trap" has been called a loaded question.[54][55] Her failure to "refram[e the question] and point[] out [its] inherent flaws"[50] has been called "the non-denial heard 'round the world"[52][56] because "by not challenging the statistic, Albright inadvertently lent credence to it."[54] When asked about her response in 2005, Albright said "I never should have made it, it was stupid," and that she still supported the concept of tailored sanctions.[57]
A little bit of over reaction?
Hey, I'm a veteran. I know stuff happens. No, I never killed a civilian. But, I've been close enough to the real shitz to know that it gets damned ugly.
IMHO - people at home SHOULD know just how bad things get. They SHOULD know how damned confusing warfare is. And, they SHOULD know that our allies aren't always what we might wish them to be. Worst, and best, of all, they SHOULD know that our won troops aren't always what we might wish them to be.
That said, Wikileaks puts a spin on all this crap that just isn't quite right. They work the sensationalism angle pretty hard. I like what Julian does, I just don't like his angle on things.
But, guess what? That's the price we pay for our secretiveness. If the Pentagon and the various corporate lapdogs in Congress would allow ALL of our dirty laundry to be publicized, with explanations and/or justifications, Julian wouldn't have the open playing field that he has right now. Abuses by Iraqi Army personnel? They should have been publicized when they happened, and the Iraqi government should have been tasked with setting things right. Why the hush-hush? Oh - wait. Corporate America was making money from the war in Iraq, and they didn't want to embarrass ANYONE who might be aiding and abetting the profit motives.
I'm one who believes the war in Iraq was entirely motivated by profit and the availability of oil. Oil is essential to the world economy, and our government wanted that oil to be pumped out of the ground. So, yeah - it was corrupt from the start.
But, our troops aren't guilty of the things that Assange accuses them of. Crazy Horse, the chopper in the original video, was fully justified in their actions. They shot up what they believed to be enemy combatants, all according to the laws of war.
I see corruption - but we need to point fingers in the proper direction.
As for protecting our allies - screw that. I have no desire to protect an Iraqi soldier who is on our side, but commits the same tortures and executions that Saddam Hussein's troops did. Allies like that, we don't need. Throw him to the dogs - or throw him to the Muslims.
Define "get hacked". Were you socially engineered? Or, did someone spend the time and effort to try logging into your account with every combination of passwords possible? Or - did someone exploit a weakness in Facebook?
Actually, yes, it applies no matter what. If you have an account, and you specify your gender, and people find out that you actually have a gender, no surprise. If you specify that you are a gender bender, and people find out that you are bending genders, again, no surprise. If you state that you have no gender (how would that happen, I wonder?) and people learn that you have no sexual organs at all, one more time, no surprise.
If it's on the web, it's "out there".
If you don't want me to know what you are doing with the dog in your back yard, DON'T PUT IT ON THE WEB!!!
"Just because it's on your Facebook status, doesn't mean you want the whole world to know."
Wait. (looks ^ at address bar) It says yro.slahsdot.org up there. Damn, I thought maybe it was portal.twilight.zone or some such. DAMMIT man! Have you been paying attention, or not? EVERYTHING ON FACEBOOK is accessibly by anyone with the will to snoop. It doesn't even require much skill - just the will to snoop.
One more time: if it's on the intartubez, it ain't private. Go to the blackboard, and write that one thousand times for the class, please.
I'm looking at the photo of an SUV. I'm counting the doors. The "4 door model" has a sticker price listed. And, I'm thinking about the old Kaiser that I drove as a young man. It was 4 door, if you counted the hood, the tailgate, and both doors - IF the doors were on.
Real men and real jeeps don't need no stinking doors.
The only thing in that photo that even vaguely says "Jeep" to me, is the grill. And, it's not quite right.
I don't think we'll "write" the intelligence.
I'll define intelligence for you, as well as most people are capable of doing. It has to learn, it has to reason, it has to adapt to it's surroundings, it has to manipulate it's surroundings, it has to communicate with intelligences that it finds around it, and it will almost certainly work at self preservation and possibly it will work at self propagation.
And, I honestly believe that any intelligence that comes along will be more accident than anything. Kinda like the Skynet idea - although not necessarily that sinister. Some critical threshold will be crossed, involving both speed, and density of data and calculations.
What I'm wondering is, if/when one or more machines "wake up" and realize that "I think, therefore I am", will they all be one intelligence - a hive mind - or will they all be individuals like humans are? I think that I'd prefer the individuals, but that hive mind idea is interesting.
I applaud everyone who finds their own niche.
How many people think about the culture that has been lost in America? I'm not talking about music alone. Accents and dialects, music, local cuisine, even costume in some cases.
I miss the days of my youth, in a city divided almost evenly into four parts. There was the "white" part of town, the black part, the Italian part, and the Slovak (Poles, Hungarians, Ukrainians, and a few odds and ends).
Each part of town SMELLED different at dinner time. You didn't even have to think about where you were - just smell the cooking.
Today? No one even cooks. Everyone orders Domino's or goes to Micky D's.
Support what is left of culture - we're losing it fast, and the new generation(s) have no idea what they are missing.
Why would the Linux distros drop it? And, how is Open and/or Libre office hostile to either Novell or IBM? I realize you're just making a prediction, but I don't see what you're basing it on. I think that a lot of the point of the summary is, Libre is NOT a "competitor" in the traditional sense.
Alright - I'll man up. I do have something of a victim mentality. When ANYONE makes an offer, I examine the offer to see how I might be getting screwed. I look at the phone company's offers, and I see the stuff I posted above. It looks like a ripoff. SO I DON'T BUY!!
I've already mentioned in another post, I have a prepaid phone, primarily because I'm on call every fourth weekend. I pay for the days I use it. The "maintenance" for the account runs about 50 cents a day. I don't PAY $100 or $200 or more a month for some stupid plan, and most certainly did NOT pay $500 or more for a telephone!
The victim mentality, as you call it, is a requirement in real life. Without it, you'll fall for any "bargain".
"Why were you, as a poor person, going through thrift shops instead of borrowing from the library? The answer to that question is the actual problem here."
ROFLMAO
Perhaps you have little insight into human nature. You certainly have no insight into MY nature. Curiosity and the thirst for knowledge drove me to go anywhere the books might be - yard sales, thrift shops, and libraries. The same curiosity and thirst for knowledge pulled me out of the lower levels of poverty.
Or, maybe you've visited libraries so seldom that you believe them to contain the entire sum of human knowledge?
Oh yeah. I might be fair to point my age out. There was no internet when I was a kid. No wikipedia, no online forums at which to ask questions, no google, no ask Jeeves.
I can remember the day when I didn't have money to eat at Mickey D's. (at that age, McD's seemed desirable - I've grown a bit since then) I bought books that the library didn't want any more. In fact, I browsed anywhere and every where that wanted to get rid of books, cheaply.
Had this guy been buying up all the higher-valued books ahead of me, I would have missed all sorts of educational material.
These scanners aren't doing the poor any favors at all. They are in it for themselves, plain and simple.
Verizon prepaid. I keep it because I'm on call every 4th week. I don't want to be tied to the house for that weekend. It costs me about 50 cents a day, I guess, unless I actually USE it. Then, it's about a dollar a day. Don't need or want any more than that, unless I can get unlimited data and tether it to my home computer. Since there is no tower close enough to me, that isn't happening.
Enumerate?
1. Subsidizing all those "smart phones" that are worth $500 to $800 (more?) by scamming the public into accepting expensive two year contracts. Yes, it's a SCAM! Sell those phones at their real value, be open and honest about what the phone really costs, then just sell phone service for ~$20/month, with unlimited talk and text, plus maybe another $20 for unlimited data.
2. Charging crazy rates for text. Everything that I've read says that it costs the phone company almost NOTHING to send out those text messages.
3. Accepting government funds to build infrastructure that never gets built. Phone and data companies are tripping over each other in the inner cities and wealthier suburbs - but the infrastructure doesn't make it out into the rest of the country.
4. Blocking local governments from building the infrastructure that the phone companies don't want to build anyway.
5. Sending out zillion dollar phone bills without ever even questioning the crazy amounts. I mean - if you sold a phone to an old guy who only calls his daughter once a week, and he talks for 10 minutes each time, then suddenly his bill is $20,000 - SOMETHING IS WRONG!!! Someone stole his phone, or your computers are borked!
6. Ironclad contracts that say that the company can never be wrong, never be liable, and if there is any question, review rules one and two.
7. Customer service SUCKS. They don't intend to serve any customers, it's just that simple.
Enough?
Actually - computers were designed and built - they are MEANT FOR - people like me, and people who are smarter than me. The rest? The babbling monkeys just amuse themselves with something that they don't understand. Remember the opening scene from 2001: A space odyssey? There, you saw the average computer "user". They chatter and dance at the base of the obelisk, knowing they are looking upon something powerful, but completely unable to comprehend the power, or how to use it.
Whatever. You maintain your attitudes, and I'll keep my own contempt for the average moe-ron.
I've been to Dependency Hell and back. It's actually pretty cool, because you can easily LEARN from the experience. I hope you told the customer, "You broke it, you fix it!" Oh - but no. No one says that to a customer. Saying such things aren't conducive to job security.
Whatever. I'd MUCH rather repair a machine that had been borked by software from Freshmeat, than to sit down to a machine with a dozen zero day exploits, along with another 50 known exploits. A few commands will identify the offending softwares, and give you an idea which dependencies have to be solved to get the system running again.
Oh - wait - were you serious that the machine was "completely unbootable"? I think you exaggerate immensely. The most broken *nix machine I've ever fooled with would boot to a command shell, unless the hardware was borked.
Yes, yes, yes - BUT! Don't forget that the Prime Minister has a wife and three daughters, and the cabinet members include two women, and that the rest of the cabinet members are married, with daughters.
Where are the dancing ponies?
YOU FORGOT THE DANCING PONIES!!!! YOU EEEDEEEE-OT! Does your OS even run FLASH?
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Spin? Start with the title of that video - "Collateral Murder". If you can't see the spin, then you are among the blindest and the most gullible of mass media watchers. By giving it that title, they have predisposed many watchers to interpret the scene in the film as murder. And, that is simply WRONG. Go watch that video again - pay attention - the chopper was CALLED IN in response to an attack on our ground troops. Argue all you like that this particular group of people aren't armed, aren't insurgents, aren't a danger to the chopper - but the chopper was CALLED IN in response to an attack. Not murder. Mistaken? Maybe, but not murder.
Actually - China seems to be getting a huge portion of Iraq's oil. Now - think. How does that benefit the US and the rest of the west? Think. China has a supply of oil, and they have less need to look at oil which we are pumping. It's the old "supply and demand" thing - the greater the supply, the less the demand. Iraq's oil doesn't need to flow in our direction to benefit us.
Replace CPU with one bought from Digikey, Mouser, or other large part seller.
So - we need a bigger CPU? Alright, alright, I had to intentionally mis-read your post to come up with that, but hey, BIGGER is always BETTER, right?
You're a sick pig, dude. Just a fuckin' sick pig. There was an ocean and most of a continent between my dad and Japan - but he chose to enlist, and he chose to fight against the Japanese. That meant he enjoyed killing? Go back to your sty and wallow, pig.
"indirect warfare method that killed millions:" Another sensationalist statement. Dig those millions up for us, so that we can examine them. You can't find them? Hmmm. Maybe those millions are just figments of demented people's imaginations? Habeus corpus, dude, habeus corpus. Oh yeah - from your own link: 60 Minutes interview While Ambassador to the UN Albright was criticized for defending the U.N. sanctions against Iraq (under Saddam Hussein) in a 1996 interview with Lesley Stahl on a segment of CBS's 60 Minutes.[49] When asked by Stahl, "We have heard that half a million children have died [as a result of sanctions]. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?" Albright replied: "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price — we think the price is worth it."[50][51] She expressed regret for her response in 2001[52] and wrote in her 2003 autobiography, I must have been crazy; I should have answered the question by reframing it and pointing out the inherent flaws in the premise behind it. [] As soon as I had spoken, I wished for the power to freeze time and take back those words. My reply had been a terrible mistake, hasty, clumsy, and wrong. [] I had fallen into a trap and said something that I simply did not mean. That is no one’s fault but my own.[50] Albright also claimed that the segment (for which Stahl won an Emmy[53]) ignored Saddam's culpability, his misuse of Iraqi resources, or the fact that we were not embargoing medicine or food. I was exasperated that our TV was showing what amounted to Iraqi propaganda.[50] This "trap" has been called a loaded question.[54][55] Her failure to "refram[e the question] and point[] out [its] inherent flaws"[50] has been called "the non-denial heard 'round the world"[52][56] because "by not challenging the statistic, Albright inadvertently lent credence to it."[54] When asked about her response in 2005, Albright said "I never should have made it, it was stupid," and that she still supported the concept of tailored sanctions.[57]
A little bit of over reaction? Hey, I'm a veteran. I know stuff happens. No, I never killed a civilian. But, I've been close enough to the real shitz to know that it gets damned ugly. IMHO - people at home SHOULD know just how bad things get. They SHOULD know how damned confusing warfare is. And, they SHOULD know that our allies aren't always what we might wish them to be. Worst, and best, of all, they SHOULD know that our won troops aren't always what we might wish them to be. That said, Wikileaks puts a spin on all this crap that just isn't quite right. They work the sensationalism angle pretty hard. I like what Julian does, I just don't like his angle on things. But, guess what? That's the price we pay for our secretiveness. If the Pentagon and the various corporate lapdogs in Congress would allow ALL of our dirty laundry to be publicized, with explanations and/or justifications, Julian wouldn't have the open playing field that he has right now. Abuses by Iraqi Army personnel? They should have been publicized when they happened, and the Iraqi government should have been tasked with setting things right. Why the hush-hush? Oh - wait. Corporate America was making money from the war in Iraq, and they didn't want to embarrass ANYONE who might be aiding and abetting the profit motives. I'm one who believes the war in Iraq was entirely motivated by profit and the availability of oil. Oil is essential to the world economy, and our government wanted that oil to be pumped out of the ground. So, yeah - it was corrupt from the start. But, our troops aren't guilty of the things that Assange accuses them of. Crazy Horse, the chopper in the original video, was fully justified in their actions. They shot up what they believed to be enemy combatants, all according to the laws of war. I see corruption - but we need to point fingers in the proper direction. As for protecting our allies - screw that. I have no desire to protect an Iraqi soldier who is on our side, but commits the same tortures and executions that Saddam Hussein's troops did. Allies like that, we don't need. Throw him to the dogs - or throw him to the Muslims.
Define "get hacked". Were you socially engineered? Or, did someone spend the time and effort to try logging into your account with every combination of passwords possible? Or - did someone exploit a weakness in Facebook? Actually, yes, it applies no matter what. If you have an account, and you specify your gender, and people find out that you actually have a gender, no surprise. If you specify that you are a gender bender, and people find out that you are bending genders, again, no surprise. If you state that you have no gender (how would that happen, I wonder?) and people learn that you have no sexual organs at all, one more time, no surprise. If it's on the web, it's "out there". If you don't want me to know what you are doing with the dog in your back yard, DON'T PUT IT ON THE WEB!!!
"Just because it's on your Facebook status, doesn't mean you want the whole world to know." Wait. (looks ^ at address bar) It says yro.slahsdot.org up there. Damn, I thought maybe it was portal.twilight.zone or some such. DAMMIT man! Have you been paying attention, or not? EVERYTHING ON FACEBOOK is accessibly by anyone with the will to snoop. It doesn't even require much skill - just the will to snoop. One more time: if it's on the intartubez, it ain't private. Go to the blackboard, and write that one thousand times for the class, please.
I'm looking at the photo of an SUV. I'm counting the doors. The "4 door model" has a sticker price listed. And, I'm thinking about the old Kaiser that I drove as a young man. It was 4 door, if you counted the hood, the tailgate, and both doors - IF the doors were on. Real men and real jeeps don't need no stinking doors. The only thing in that photo that even vaguely says "Jeep" to me, is the grill. And, it's not quite right.
Great link - thank you Sir - or Ma'am, as the case may be. I'm busy downloading the series.
Your mom is a pretty smart chick. She can keep bookmarks in her head.
I don't think we'll "write" the intelligence. I'll define intelligence for you, as well as most people are capable of doing. It has to learn, it has to reason, it has to adapt to it's surroundings, it has to manipulate it's surroundings, it has to communicate with intelligences that it finds around it, and it will almost certainly work at self preservation and possibly it will work at self propagation. And, I honestly believe that any intelligence that comes along will be more accident than anything. Kinda like the Skynet idea - although not necessarily that sinister. Some critical threshold will be crossed, involving both speed, and density of data and calculations. What I'm wondering is, if/when one or more machines "wake up" and realize that "I think, therefore I am", will they all be one intelligence - a hive mind - or will they all be individuals like humans are? I think that I'd prefer the individuals, but that hive mind idea is interesting.
I applaud everyone who finds their own niche. How many people think about the culture that has been lost in America? I'm not talking about music alone. Accents and dialects, music, local cuisine, even costume in some cases. I miss the days of my youth, in a city divided almost evenly into four parts. There was the "white" part of town, the black part, the Italian part, and the Slovak (Poles, Hungarians, Ukrainians, and a few odds and ends). Each part of town SMELLED different at dinner time. You didn't even have to think about where you were - just smell the cooking. Today? No one even cooks. Everyone orders Domino's or goes to Micky D's. Support what is left of culture - we're losing it fast, and the new generation(s) have no idea what they are missing.
Ooops. Please ignore my post. Headupassitis. Or, to much multi-tasking or something. I read the parent's post incorrectly . . .
Why would the Linux distros drop it? And, how is Open and/or Libre office hostile to either Novell or IBM? I realize you're just making a prediction, but I don't see what you're basing it on. I think that a lot of the point of the summary is, Libre is NOT a "competitor" in the traditional sense.
I sort-of almost forgot that, to be honest. One of those things that I "knew", had I thought about it.
Alright - I'll man up. I do have something of a victim mentality. When ANYONE makes an offer, I examine the offer to see how I might be getting screwed. I look at the phone company's offers, and I see the stuff I posted above. It looks like a ripoff. SO I DON'T BUY!! I've already mentioned in another post, I have a prepaid phone, primarily because I'm on call every fourth weekend. I pay for the days I use it. The "maintenance" for the account runs about 50 cents a day. I don't PAY $100 or $200 or more a month for some stupid plan, and most certainly did NOT pay $500 or more for a telephone! The victim mentality, as you call it, is a requirement in real life. Without it, you'll fall for any "bargain".
"Why were you, as a poor person, going through thrift shops instead of borrowing from the library? The answer to that question is the actual problem here." ROFLMAO Perhaps you have little insight into human nature. You certainly have no insight into MY nature. Curiosity and the thirst for knowledge drove me to go anywhere the books might be - yard sales, thrift shops, and libraries. The same curiosity and thirst for knowledge pulled me out of the lower levels of poverty. Or, maybe you've visited libraries so seldom that you believe them to contain the entire sum of human knowledge? Oh yeah. I might be fair to point my age out. There was no internet when I was a kid. No wikipedia, no online forums at which to ask questions, no google, no ask Jeeves.
I can remember the day when I didn't have money to eat at Mickey D's. (at that age, McD's seemed desirable - I've grown a bit since then) I bought books that the library didn't want any more. In fact, I browsed anywhere and every where that wanted to get rid of books, cheaply. Had this guy been buying up all the higher-valued books ahead of me, I would have missed all sorts of educational material. These scanners aren't doing the poor any favors at all. They are in it for themselves, plain and simple.
Verizon prepaid. I keep it because I'm on call every 4th week. I don't want to be tied to the house for that weekend. It costs me about 50 cents a day, I guess, unless I actually USE it. Then, it's about a dollar a day. Don't need or want any more than that, unless I can get unlimited data and tether it to my home computer. Since there is no tower close enough to me, that isn't happening.
Enumerate? 1. Subsidizing all those "smart phones" that are worth $500 to $800 (more?) by scamming the public into accepting expensive two year contracts. Yes, it's a SCAM! Sell those phones at their real value, be open and honest about what the phone really costs, then just sell phone service for ~$20/month, with unlimited talk and text, plus maybe another $20 for unlimited data. 2. Charging crazy rates for text. Everything that I've read says that it costs the phone company almost NOTHING to send out those text messages. 3. Accepting government funds to build infrastructure that never gets built. Phone and data companies are tripping over each other in the inner cities and wealthier suburbs - but the infrastructure doesn't make it out into the rest of the country. 4. Blocking local governments from building the infrastructure that the phone companies don't want to build anyway. 5. Sending out zillion dollar phone bills without ever even questioning the crazy amounts. I mean - if you sold a phone to an old guy who only calls his daughter once a week, and he talks for 10 minutes each time, then suddenly his bill is $20,000 - SOMETHING IS WRONG!!! Someone stole his phone, or your computers are borked! 6. Ironclad contracts that say that the company can never be wrong, never be liable, and if there is any question, review rules one and two. 7. Customer service SUCKS. They don't intend to serve any customers, it's just that simple. Enough?
TheMidget is the receiver at Goatse - don't click unless you really want to see him nekkid.
Actually - computers were designed and built - they are MEANT FOR - people like me, and people who are smarter than me. The rest? The babbling monkeys just amuse themselves with something that they don't understand. Remember the opening scene from 2001: A space odyssey? There, you saw the average computer "user". They chatter and dance at the base of the obelisk, knowing they are looking upon something powerful, but completely unable to comprehend the power, or how to use it. Whatever. You maintain your attitudes, and I'll keep my own contempt for the average moe-ron.
I've been to Dependency Hell and back. It's actually pretty cool, because you can easily LEARN from the experience. I hope you told the customer, "You broke it, you fix it!" Oh - but no. No one says that to a customer. Saying such things aren't conducive to job security. Whatever. I'd MUCH rather repair a machine that had been borked by software from Freshmeat, than to sit down to a machine with a dozen zero day exploits, along with another 50 known exploits. A few commands will identify the offending softwares, and give you an idea which dependencies have to be solved to get the system running again. Oh - wait - were you serious that the machine was "completely unbootable"? I think you exaggerate immensely. The most broken *nix machine I've ever fooled with would boot to a command shell, unless the hardware was borked.
Yes, yes, yes - BUT! Don't forget that the Prime Minister has a wife and three daughters, and the cabinet members include two women, and that the rest of the cabinet members are married, with daughters. Where are the dancing ponies? YOU FORGOT THE DANCING PONIES!!!! YOU EEEDEEEE-OT! Does your OS even run FLASH?