Shrillary should be the first thing to go through the shredder.
Hey, I'll compromise with you liberals. We push Shrillary through, then you can pick any of the douchebags off of Faux News. Any two of them. I'm feeling generous, and I despise Faux News anyway!
Doesn't matter which party, doesn't matter that it's commonly done, doesn't matter how many examples there are. It's fair game to bring up past performance, any time, for any reason. If politicians are embarrassed, tough.
Copyright law never trumps freedom of speech, especially political speech.
Don't want to be remembered for extremist opinions and positions? Don't run at the mouth with them.
Political speech is a whole 'nother world from common free speech. Copyright law does not trump the right to free political speech. Never did, and it better not ever.
Any skank who uses copyright law in an attempt to silence a political opponent has no grasp on how the system is SUPPOSED to work. She deserves to be kicked out of office for that reason alone.
Party jumpers don't deserve any protection, either. Politicians who run off at the mouth this decade don't get a free pass and a blank page to start anew with different politics next decade.
Send the bitch home. She's just another fucking nazi who wants to rewrite the rules to her own liking.
Don't much care about Iranian blood. All I want are a few dozen heads. Ahmedinajab, and Khameini at the head of the list. Most of the rest will be the "spiritual leaders", or, more accurately, Khameini's partisans. If I want any Iranian blood after that, then I'll look to those morality police who are little better than the Taliban in Afghanistan. Those who are happy to beat a woman who shows a little to much skin for their taste, things like that.
Don't confuse politics with hatred of the people. The people of Iran are victims, no less than the people of any other country. A few hundred people take power, kill off the opposition, make up their own rules, give favors to anyone willing to enforce their rules - it's an ages old story.
Bottom line, it's the nutcases who run the government, and control the weapons, everywhere. Iran's brand of nutcases are almost as bad as they get.
I thought that's how they talked in China, and some of the rest of Asia. Seriously - have you read some of their maintenance manuals, owner's manuals, or assembly instructions? If you get one, just study the pictures. The printed instructions will just make your head hurt!
Where I come from, no one can spell it, let alone talk about it. They would get tongue tied trying to pronounce it, which would call for a trip to the emergency room. (Don't look at ME - I'm not untying some homely redneck's tongue for him - the bastard might want to kiss me for helping him!)
Nahhh. The idiot burns his damned coffee. If you can find the Folger's demon, he has pretty decent coffee. To get better coffee, you have to get fresh ground and freshly roasted beans. But, you probably knew that already . . .
Don't bother with that tripod at sea, unless it's gimbaled and stabilized. Youtube has some videos where the camera was tripod mounted. You get better results with handheld equipment. Gyros and such cost more money than even professionals are likely to spend, unless the photographer is specialized in open water shooting.
Uhhhh - I really don't see a problem. No photographers within 65 feet. Let's think a moment. You want a shot of a boat or a boom, that is, what, 50 feet long? Since any professional photographer has zoom lenses (whether optical or digital zoom, it hardly matters) he can be anywhere within 1/2 mile to get spectacular shots. I can show you a great shot of the ship I served on, shot from ~ 5 miles out - you can see that both the mount 52 deck gun and the missile launcher is tracking the helicopter that took the shot. (It was in a war zone, we tracked EVERYTHING, didn't matter if it claimed to be friendly)
The coast guard doesn't want any one climbing on the booms, or sabotaging them, they don't want to be rescuing some fool who hurts himself. Stay 65 feet away, take all the pics you want. Seems reasonable to me. The original 300 feet wasn't unreasonable, either. 300 feet is terribly close to any working vessel at sea. The rules of the road, observed around the world, dictate that you stay clear of working vessels and/or ships underway.
Informative. I didn't realize that Symbian was either so widespread, or that so many manufacturers were in on it. Maybe it's time I actually looked at them. I kinda sorta need a phone . . . . maybe.
The federal government is considering outlawing douches, due to the fact that so many Californians are douches. There is fear that repeated douchings may be the cause of the douches in that once great state.
I'm not going to pretend to understand all the "rules" that Windows or any other operating system plays by, regarding RAM.
But, it seems pretty obvious to me that most operating systems are going to use, or try to use, all the memory available.
Ubuntu desktop has 8 gig of memory, currently using 2.2 gig, 1 gig of which is given over to my Win7 virtual machine.
Inside the Virtual machine, 700 meg in use, running only Firefox and task manager. My Firefox is rather bloated, with several scripts and addons installed.
In my experience, both Ubuntu and Win7 run nicely with 1 gig of memory. Both tend to gobble up RAM if it's available. Your mileage may vary, depending on how you configure your system, applications installed, and resources available.
Now THREE is a good reason not to adopt new technology. We really need to keep things at a level that amateurs can understand. But, wait, what about the struggling NOVICE? Let's drop back 20 and punt. No new technologies that blooming idiot novices can't master in 24 hours! That's the way forward, for certain!
Uhhh - age does play a factor. I'm over 50, and there are some things that I don't like messing with, because the buttons are to small, or the interface isn't what I'm used to, or I just don't like the design. I'm aging, and I have my ways. I'm not changing because a bunch of 30 or 40 year old punk kids decide that an iPod should look like this, or an Android should behave like that. Given a choice between a printed realtree book, and electronic versions, I'll take the treebark, thank you. When I can't get the realtree, then I want the electronic version on my PC, with a nice wide screen, and what some people would call "large print". No little bitty 3 inch screens, thank you very much, and certainly no keypad where my index finger covers half a dozen keys.
I've never timed myself. I'm a pretty fast reader - I've gone through 800 page novels in less than a week, when I work full time and have to meet other real life commitments. Buy a book on Monday, and surprise myself that it's finished on Thursday or Friday. Other times, I've read similar books in a weekend.
Like yourself, I haven't noticed that reading speed is affected by the media. Two weeks ago, I started a 1500 page novel on the PC, and it was finished in 6 days. I had to work 40 hours, but didn't have any other pressing commitments, so I got through it fairly quickly.
A scientific study might be interesting - but age has to play a factor, as well as literacy level. Did they choose their participants based on enrollment in a speed reading course, or what? Just 24 random people off the street? 24 college students, maybe, and it was "presumed" that they were all equally literate?
"Such people are using words like "it's not possible". They say how could we have a world without America and Zionism? But you know well that this slogan and goal can be achieved and can definitely be realised"
This famous poem, written by Britain's imperial poet, was a response to the American take over of the Phillipines after the Spanish-American War.
Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.
Take up the White Man's burden--
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.
Take up the White Man's burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.
Take up the White Man's burden--
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper--
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.
Take up the White Man's burden--
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
"Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"
Take up the White Man's burden--
Ye dare not stoop to less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.
Take up the White Man's burden--
Have done with childish days--
The lightly proferred laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!
It is NOT clear that the US gave nukes to Israel. Note, I'm not denying that the US gave nukes to Israel, I am merely stating that it isn't clear that they did so.
What IS most definitely clear is, A: Israelis spies stole a lot of data B: Israel bribed some scientists and technicians C: The US pretended not to notice that Israel wanted nukes really badly D: A lot of politicians would have committed treason to ensure that Israel did get nukes. E: Israel put a lot of money into R&D in the years before and after they "acquired" nuclear weapons.
You are free to draw your own conslusions, of course, but I don't believe that we "gave" them nukes. I think that a lot of loose cannons in government and in the military enabled Israel to develop their own nukes.
That is one of the theories included in the Encyclopedia Galactica. Unfortunately, most of the proponents have managed to extinct themselves. One opposing theory says that if stupidity exceeds x% in any given population, then the population can't truly be called intelligent. Races that believe that theory seem to have spread throughout all of known space, and the known dimensions. The scholar should draw his own conclusions.
You probably have citations for your claims. May I look at some?
I always thought that the western world didn't want Iran to have nukes because their president and their ayatollahs frequently pass judgement on Israel, saying that they should be bombed out of existence. I could be wrong. Maybe all those speeches are just so much propaganda, and I've been drinking to much Kool-Aid. Ayatollah Kookoomaniac and President Abinutter have really been searching for a way to play kissy-huggy with the Jews, right?
Mankind still has little understanding of the magnetosphere, the Van Allens, and the ionosphere. Those nuclear blasts MAY HAVE started something. Just because we didn't change anything in any measurable way, doesn't mean that other changes, like global warming, aren't due to that tampering.
Of course, I'm something of a global warming skepticist - so I'm not exactly arguing that is the case. I'm just pointing out that man should tread more carefully than he has in the past. It's kinda stupid to blow things up just because you can.
Nahhh - I can't do that. See, there really is a God. And, God put me on earth just to punish people like you, and the Anonymous Coward who called me "Annoyingly assertive". You hate me, but that is my purpose in life - to be hated by the wishy-washy liberal crowd, and the self-sure ultra-conservatives alike. It's a tough job, but SOMEONE has to do it!
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Shrillary should be the first thing to go through the shredder.
Hey, I'll compromise with you liberals. We push Shrillary through, then you can pick any of the douchebags off of Faux News. Any two of them. I'm feeling generous, and I despise Faux News anyway!
Doesn't matter which party, doesn't matter that it's commonly done, doesn't matter how many examples there are. It's fair game to bring up past performance, any time, for any reason. If politicians are embarrassed, tough.
Copyright law never trumps freedom of speech, especially political speech.
Don't want to be remembered for extremist opinions and positions? Don't run at the mouth with them.
Political speech is a whole 'nother world from common free speech. Copyright law does not trump the right to free political speech. Never did, and it better not ever.
Any skank who uses copyright law in an attempt to silence a political opponent has no grasp on how the system is SUPPOSED to work. She deserves to be kicked out of office for that reason alone.
Party jumpers don't deserve any protection, either. Politicians who run off at the mouth this decade don't get a free pass and a blank page to start anew with different politics next decade.
Send the bitch home. She's just another fucking nazi who wants to rewrite the rules to her own liking.
Don't much care about Iranian blood. All I want are a few dozen heads. Ahmedinajab, and Khameini at the head of the list. Most of the rest will be the "spiritual leaders", or, more accurately, Khameini's partisans. If I want any Iranian blood after that, then I'll look to those morality police who are little better than the Taliban in Afghanistan. Those who are happy to beat a woman who shows a little to much skin for their taste, things like that.
Don't confuse politics with hatred of the people. The people of Iran are victims, no less than the people of any other country. A few hundred people take power, kill off the opposition, make up their own rules, give favors to anyone willing to enforce their rules - it's an ages old story.
Bottom line, it's the nutcases who run the government, and control the weapons, everywhere. Iran's brand of nutcases are almost as bad as they get.
You're doing good. I just come here for the laughs. ;^)
I thought that's how they talked in China, and some of the rest of Asia. Seriously - have you read some of their maintenance manuals, owner's manuals, or assembly instructions? If you get one, just study the pictures. The printed instructions will just make your head hurt!
Where I come from, no one can spell it, let alone talk about it. They would get tongue tied trying to pronounce it, which would call for a trip to the emergency room. (Don't look at ME - I'm not untying some homely redneck's tongue for him - the bastard might want to kiss me for helping him!)
Nahhh. The idiot burns his damned coffee. If you can find the Folger's demon, he has pretty decent coffee. To get better coffee, you have to get fresh ground and freshly roasted beans. But, you probably knew that already . . .
Don't bother with that tripod at sea, unless it's gimbaled and stabilized. Youtube has some videos where the camera was tripod mounted. You get better results with handheld equipment. Gyros and such cost more money than even professionals are likely to spend, unless the photographer is specialized in open water shooting.
As usual, I boogered up the link - try this: http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc226/Runaway1956/REB05012315.jpg
Uhhhh - I really don't see a problem. No photographers within 65 feet. Let's think a moment. You want a shot of a boat or a boom, that is, what, 50 feet long? Since any professional photographer has zoom lenses (whether optical or digital zoom, it hardly matters) he can be anywhere within 1/2 mile to get spectacular shots. I can show you a great shot of the ship I served on, shot from ~ 5 miles out - you can see that both the mount 52 deck gun and the missile launcher is tracking the helicopter that took the shot. (It was in a war zone, we tracked EVERYTHING, didn't matter if it claimed to be friendly)
The coast guard doesn't want any one climbing on the booms, or sabotaging them, they don't want to be rescuing some fool who hurts himself. Stay 65 feet away, take all the pics you want. Seems reasonable to me. The original 300 feet wasn't unreasonable, either. 300 feet is terribly close to any working vessel at sea. The rules of the road, observed around the world, dictate that you stay clear of working vessels and/or ships underway.
Informative. I didn't realize that Symbian was either so widespread, or that so many manufacturers were in on it. Maybe it's time I actually looked at them. I kinda sorta need a phone . . . . maybe.
The federal government is considering outlawing douches, due to the fact that so many Californians are douches. There is fear that repeated douchings may be the cause of the douches in that once great state.
I'm not going to pretend to understand all the "rules" that Windows or any other operating system plays by, regarding RAM.
But, it seems pretty obvious to me that most operating systems are going to use, or try to use, all the memory available.
Ubuntu desktop has 8 gig of memory, currently using 2.2 gig, 1 gig of which is given over to my Win7 virtual machine.
Inside the Virtual machine, 700 meg in use, running only Firefox and task manager. My Firefox is rather bloated, with several scripts and addons installed.
In my experience, both Ubuntu and Win7 run nicely with 1 gig of memory. Both tend to gobble up RAM if it's available. Your mileage may vary, depending on how you configure your system, applications installed, and resources available.
Oh yeah. I'm a novice speller. There IS a reason to preview posts, huh? Who'da thunk it?
Now THREE is a good reason not to adopt new technology. We really need to keep things at a level that amateurs can understand. But, wait, what about the struggling NOVICE? Let's drop back 20 and punt. No new technologies that blooming idiot novices can't master in 24 hours! That's the way forward, for certain!
Uhhh - age does play a factor. I'm over 50, and there are some things that I don't like messing with, because the buttons are to small, or the interface isn't what I'm used to, or I just don't like the design. I'm aging, and I have my ways. I'm not changing because a bunch of 30 or 40 year old punk kids decide that an iPod should look like this, or an Android should behave like that. Given a choice between a printed realtree book, and electronic versions, I'll take the treebark, thank you. When I can't get the realtree, then I want the electronic version on my PC, with a nice wide screen, and what some people would call "large print". No little bitty 3 inch screens, thank you very much, and certainly no keypad where my index finger covers half a dozen keys.
I've never timed myself. I'm a pretty fast reader - I've gone through 800 page novels in less than a week, when I work full time and have to meet other real life commitments. Buy a book on Monday, and surprise myself that it's finished on Thursday or Friday. Other times, I've read similar books in a weekend.
Like yourself, I haven't noticed that reading speed is affected by the media. Two weeks ago, I started a 1500 page novel on the PC, and it was finished in 6 days. I had to work 40 hours, but didn't have any other pressing commitments, so I got through it fairly quickly.
A scientific study might be interesting - but age has to play a factor, as well as literacy level. Did they choose their participants based on enrollment in a speed reading course, or what? Just 24 random people off the street? 24 college students, maybe, and it was "presumed" that they were all equally literate?
More study needed, for sure.
http://www.iranfocus.com/en/?option=com_content&task=view&id=4164
Transcript of speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at "World Without Zionism" conference in Tehran
"Such people are using words like "it's not possible". They say how could we have a world without America and Zionism? But you know well that this slogan and goal can be achieved and can definitely be realised"
I prefer this version of the very same thing:
This famous poem, written by Britain's imperial poet, was a response to the American take over of the Phillipines after the Spanish-American War.
Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.
Take up the White Man's burden--
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.
Take up the White Man's burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.
Take up the White Man's burden--
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper--
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.
Take up the White Man's burden--
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
"Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"
Take up the White Man's burden--
Ye dare not stoop to less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.
Take up the White Man's burden--
Have done with childish days--
The lightly proferred laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!
It is NOT clear that the US gave nukes to Israel. Note, I'm not denying that the US gave nukes to Israel, I am merely stating that it isn't clear that they did so.
What IS most definitely clear is, A: Israelis spies stole a lot of data B: Israel bribed some scientists and technicians C: The US pretended not to notice that Israel wanted nukes really badly D: A lot of politicians would have committed treason to ensure that Israel did get nukes. E: Israel put a lot of money into R&D in the years before and after they "acquired" nuclear weapons.
You are free to draw your own conslusions, of course, but I don't believe that we "gave" them nukes. I think that a lot of loose cannons in government and in the military enabled Israel to develop their own nukes.
That is one of the theories included in the Encyclopedia Galactica. Unfortunately, most of the proponents have managed to extinct themselves. One opposing theory says that if stupidity exceeds x% in any given population, then the population can't truly be called intelligent. Races that believe that theory seem to have spread throughout all of known space, and the known dimensions. The scholar should draw his own conclusions.
You probably have citations for your claims. May I look at some?
I always thought that the western world didn't want Iran to have nukes because their president and their ayatollahs frequently pass judgement on Israel, saying that they should be bombed out of existence. I could be wrong. Maybe all those speeches are just so much propaganda, and I've been drinking to much Kool-Aid. Ayatollah Kookoomaniac and President Abinutter have really been searching for a way to play kissy-huggy with the Jews, right?
And, Jah-Wren probably deserves "insightful" mods.
Mankind still has little understanding of the magnetosphere, the Van Allens, and the ionosphere. Those nuclear blasts MAY HAVE started something. Just because we didn't change anything in any measurable way, doesn't mean that other changes, like global warming, aren't due to that tampering.
Of course, I'm something of a global warming skepticist - so I'm not exactly arguing that is the case. I'm just pointing out that man should tread more carefully than he has in the past. It's kinda stupid to blow things up just because you can.
Nahhh - I can't do that. See, there really is a God. And, God put me on earth just to punish people like you, and the Anonymous Coward who called me "Annoyingly assertive". You hate me, but that is my purpose in life - to be hated by the wishy-washy liberal crowd, and the self-sure ultra-conservatives alike. It's a tough job, but SOMEONE has to do it!