OMG time to increase your military budget! It could happen any minute... Now... Or now!
You know if our worthless European allies weren't selling weapons to all of NATO's rivals, we wouldn't have to. I hope they remember that as President Obama evaluates American alliances, he will do so with the cool detachment of being the first American to evaluate Europe without the cultural sentiment that comes from being commonly white. Ah look, he's already talking about pulling missiles out of Poland, and was non-commital about the Russian invasion of Georgia.
You dwindling in power and relevance, but Americans are not quite yet an endangered species.
So admit that you make that choice, whales are more important than Americans. Why can't you come right out and say it?
You know, this whole alliance with Europe thing is a failure. We should have stayed with Russia after World War II. The whole world's going leftist anyway, so the difference in economic systems doesn't matter as much, and as allies go, the Russians say what they mean and mean what they say and when it comes time to fight, they fight. Hopefully President Obama will improve relations with Russia by backing down on NATO expansion, setting the stage for a future American president to abandon NATO in favor of an alliance with Russia.
Actually, the very opposition to letting the Navy drill and learn how to fight is, actually, proof that environmentalists want dead sailors and a weakened America. If you drill and practice you sailors live, and if they do not, they die. It's pretty straightforward. You can't pretend that there is no choice between animals and humans because there is. Saving the whales might be honorable, but, ultimately, if the whales live, sailors die. That's just the way it is.
The whole point of having sonar practice near the coast is that the world is loading up with a new class of ultra quiet diesel submarines and the Navy has to operate in these waters so they can project carrier born aircraft farther inland.
So, if you say the Navy can't practice using this sonar to find these new types of subs, then, you are basically leaving troops unprepared for war. I mean, what if the USN is operating off of Iran or Venezuala for some reason and they fire off a torpedo and sink a carrier because the Navy could never find the sub as they had no practice? I highly doubt you would see any environmental group own up to this consequence, any more than they would admit that CO2 taxes are going to mean significantly higher energy bills for less energy for all Americans. Environmentalists can't save the earth they want if they told the truth.
So basically, what you are saying is that you'd rather risk losing a US Aircraft carrier with several thousand men and women aboard to a new class of ultra quiet diesel submarines, so that you can save a few whales.
Bravo.
Is there ever a case where the environmental movement actually supports humans, let alone Americans?
Republicans are out of power. By all means, Dems, go ahead and enact environmental policies that demand draconian conservation measures and higher prices, that double, triple or quintuple electricity bills, and then tell the American people to put on sweaters, turn off the TVs and computers and be glad they helped save the planet.
Energy is wealth. It means more food, more travel, more heat, more cooling, more options. If you have less energy, you are less wealthy. If you have 1/10th of the energy, as some environmental advocates are asking for, you will have 1/10th of the wealth.
The truth of the matter is, we are all doomed. The lack of sunspots for 200 days in a row was sufficient to send the earth's climate spiraling towards an ice age. We are going to have 2000 feet high glaciers crashing through New York City any day now, and then they will melt because of global warming and wash the rest of the world away, causing the pent up pressure in the yellow stone supervolcano to be released, flooding the earth with meters thick of ash and molten magma. All of this activity will perturb the orbit of the earth about the sun just enough to put us in front of an NEO, which will impact the earth in 2012... and, just as the tidal wave of fire sweeps across the planet, the last Bush supporter will stand up and say, "Hey Obama people... even Bush wasn't -this- bad!"
Hopefully this will get the contracts and the laws regarding them updated and inspected. Much like the copyright issues with music, instead of breaking the laws and skirting them lets CHANGE them.
Dude, my grandkids are going to be paying for the mess made by these large businesses. We have, over the last 30 years given corporations -everything- they could ever want to compete. And the end result is failure. If GM, Lehman, etc, could all be profitable, than that's fine, let's do the contract thing. But our generation of business leaders have failed and failed in ways where countries do not have these gifts are actually succeeding.
At will employment is the biggest joke ever. As soon as you lose your job the clock starts ticking. The company holds all the cards, not you. You talk about bargaining with them in good faith, but I find it utterly ridiculous to believe that a corporation has good faith of any kind or in any way. These institutions have failed to deliver on the promises they made... they were supposed to compete, and they LOST. Whose holding the tab now for this? You, and me.
Let me know when American companies start actually winning again. We've had 40 years of excuses, and now is time to produce.
I wish I could be as unpopular as Vista. I think they have sold at least 10 billion dollars worth of them over the last two years.
I bet KDE wishes they could be as successful as Vista. What's the conversion rate between KDE 3 users and KDE 4 users? I'd bet that less of a percentage of KDE users have converted to KDE 4 than XP users have converted to Vista.
But... that's really the whole point of Linux, isn't it.
I bet Perl wishes they could be as successful as Vista. How's Perl 6 doing these days?
You could look at those and other examples of floundering FOSS projects and say that Linux has failed but you would be as wrong as can be. The great irony, of course is that the for all of its "socialist" trappings, Linux has more of the traits of a healthy free market eco-system than Vista does. Vista succeeds because its conversions are forced on one hand, but its a mono-culture and the entire thing either sinks or swim depending upon how much the mono-culture is accepted. Linux is made up of thousands of tiny pieces, and so, even if Perl 6 or KDE flounder, then, there's plenty of other people willing to take up the slack in other projects. Linux is like a free market economy because the whole system doesn't fail - just pieces of it, and that creative floundering and risk taking that it encourages drives its innovation. On the other hand, Vista has all the trappings of a socialist project - Microsoft leaders are writing blog articles suggesting that Microsoft has too much of an individual culture, everyone has to play as a team, and they really can't turn loose any of the individual Vista teams to pursue their own audiences because there is an artificial brake of Microsoft corporate hierarchy, politicized and fief building, all pushing developers down.
A big mistake Circuit City made was changing the pay a few years back so that people who worked there did not get commissions. While I understand this as being well intentioned and pro-consumer, it also turned Circuit City from a place where a salesperson was encouraged to build a customer relationship into a place where the salesperson didn't have to give a shit.
Have a look at Best Buy and how Best Buy continues to have a better, more attractive retail space. On the other hand, Circuit City got more and more confused and worse and worse. I used to like to go to Circuit City and Comp USA but both those stores screwed up their floor plans so much that I lost interest in them. On the other hand, I was in Best Buy and it just amazed me, how nice it was.
Does OpenSolaris have any device drivers for it? I don't mean to be a troll, but, how is OpenSolaris for running things like 3d graphics cards, SATA hard drives, etc. Will it reasonably install on a desktop with something more than a kick ass command line and basic VESA video drivers?
We're sending her up there, and she'll just claim the whole lot using her sense of geography and nationalism to claim the whole lot. She becomes a national hero to a nation more interested in oil than logic, and she'll be swept into the oval office in 2012, reminding voters that she takes those nucular codes very serious.
There's nothing in Microsoft land that equates to what Apple has with its application store. Windows shareware developers have to do shareware, first of all, which is pretty bad. In the Apple store, Apple has it set up that consumers have to pay first and then get the application, and that Apple approves the products and lathers its brand on things makes it great. In Windows, you have 2000 web sites all cheesily affiliated with a handful of players, no consistent payment collection mechanism, loads of cracks everywhere, viruses and malware diluting the idea of downloading programs from the internet, all just conspiring to make developing for Windows a very difficult proposition. A Microsoft Store, not just some subcontracted junk from Digital River, but a Microsoft Store fully and genuinely bundled right into damn OS (and incidentally Vista is a step in the right direction), would be a godsend.
My point is that, when the USA is in the middle of a national crisis, then, you need to have everyone on the same page to get out of the crisis as quickly as possible. When the house is burning down, we have to get the fire out and the people into some sort of a home afterwards. Then we can figure out what to do when the immediate threat is passed.
Like, it was right for Bush to demand that everyone be on the same to get out of the 9/11 crisis and stock bubble pop in one shot and it was wrong for Dems to demagogue the crisis management response. In particular, cutting capital gains taxes and taxes in general, were a classic stimulative move when faced with a national crisis. But, at the same time, it was wrong for Bush to prolong the perception of a national crisis and a wartime leadership mandate to do things completely unrelated to it. Ergot, he should not have pushed for social security privatization until after the last soldier came back from Iraq.
Now, Republicans could look at President Obama and Speaker Pelosi and gag, and I've been tempted, but this Obama's ship now, and whether or not we feel we were dissed when we hand the ship, the right thing for the country is to support President Obama's efforts to get out of this mess. IF he is going to do his bottom approach, via some sort of distribution of wealth,then, that's his economic call to make, and we need to support that. We need to promote as much as possible that Obama's plan can work to save the country's fiscal situation, even if we disagree with it, and then argue later on as to what is best for the national long term.
We can always lower taxes later, fix the tax code later. If Obama nationalizes something, we can privatize it. If Obama wants some sort of massive public works projects to pump the economy and get people to work, then we might make some input as to what projects might be best for the country long term but ultimately, there will be public works projects undertaken.
Those are crisis management things and we need to remember that in a crisis, ideology is the first thing that goes out the window in opposition and the right to lead as one's ideology sees is what a leading party is entitled to. If it doesn't work, well, he'll take a drubbing at the polls, but I for one hope to god it does, because I need a job just as much as Democrats do.
So yeah, just as much as Republicans called Democrats traitors for not supporting aggressive action following 9/11, Democrats can make the same claim back on Republicans who don't work to constructively make the crisis management features of Obama's plans work. If the house is burning down, then, if you aren't putting out the fire, like the fire marshall says, then you are only helping the fire.
The situation with Open Office is that, in the corporate world, writing equals Microsoft Excel, not Word, and Calc wasn't anywhere close to where Excel is (as of older versions).Here, let me fix this for you:
Calc still sucks compared to Excel dude. I have the latest version of Calc, and an older version of Excel, and Excel is still better. Why don't you -fix that-?
I'm wondering why they would take the video down? Is not having the video going to improve the life of this child? Does it make us pretend that someone is not getting abused?
Sometimes we need to see the truth of things. Why isn't all of the NAZI propaganda, translated Hitler, Goebels and other speeches on YouTube, along with captured footage of all the outrages committed by them. Let's get all of our ugliness up there, and if there is any editing, let the editing be to yank out the gore so that the lesson of our brutality is not a mere snuff fest to watch with some buddies over a case of beer.
You could make a pretty compelling case that the Bush administration's efforts to censor terrorist web sites and traffic from the American people probably undermined his war effort far more than any left wing protest -ever- did.
If you dig around a bit, you find not only their web sites but their people too, and they aren't hiding their intentions or hatreds at all. A few minutes talking to them would quickly break oneself of the illusion that these are guys in the mold of the disenfranched western person that the nonviolent in America would want to believe these people are.
You never see a terrorist video describing their grievances, in the fashion, for example, the way American blacks and civil rights leaders might just take a camera to black guys getting firehosed by the police. Nope, these gladly post videos triumphing the killing of American soldiers, cheering the destruction of civilians. I guarantee you I've never seen Martin Luther King laughing that one of his people dressed up their retarded kid with explosives and sent him to bumbling towards a flea market.
Quite honestly, at a time when I had serious doubts about the war, some AQ fanboy posting videos cheering IEDs of American troops certainly hardened my opinion in -favor- of it. But oh no, Bush tries to censor -all- of it, giving us a substitute of "these people are really evil", and that's just lame. He could have stood up and said, "hey, if you don't believe me, when I say that we have to fight these people, just go ask them...seriously... just go talk to al qaeda yourself, and see, at http://www.someterroristwebsite.com/"
As much as the right wing makes fun of the left for pretending that there is no evil, the right did itself no favors by trying to hide it.
That answer is useless. The question, essentially, is, "Will this help people realize that Writing does not necessarily equal Microsoft Word?"
The problem with Open Office is that, in the corporate world, writing equals Microsoft Excel, not Word, and Calc isn't anywhere close to what Excel is.
Bush essentially ran liberal economic policies though. He expanded government significantly and has been borrowing to avoid a recession ever since the stock market first cratered in 2001 and desperately trying to devalue the dollar to jumpstart manufacturing. He ran out of time, tis the problem. Bottom line is, the USA is a service economy and services don't create wealth, so we are broke.
Hey, I know where Africa is, and I can name the countries in NAFTA... and I'm running for US Senate as a Republican in 2010!:-)
We deserved to lose this last election, and its time to set aside our own bitterness over how the left wing trashed Bush, not act like kids in retaliation, and do everything we can to help Obama succeed. We can dicker over free enterprise vs the government when we all have jobs and this country is at peace.
I mean, the people there railed about Bush doing his USA PATRIOT and wiretaps, and immediately turn around and enact successive governments that would make the Stazi -blush-. Cameras everywhere, universal internet monitoring. Where is the England that gave us John Lennon?
Why should we have a single czar empowered to guide the development of all software in the United States. This is liberalism gone mad. The only thing the government hasn't f--- up is the software industry and now you guys are asking the feds to wreck that too. It's insane.
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What if space aliens use their mental powers to sink a carrier?
The type 212 and 214 submarines are not space aliens. They are carrier killers in littoral waters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_212_submarine
OMG time to increase your military budget! It could happen any minute... Now... Or now!
You know if our worthless European allies weren't selling weapons to all of NATO's rivals, we wouldn't have to. I hope they remember that as President Obama evaluates American alliances, he will do so with the cool detachment of being the first American to evaluate Europe without the cultural sentiment that comes from being commonly white. Ah look, he's already talking about pulling missiles out of Poland, and was non-commital about the Russian invasion of Georgia.
You dwindling in power and relevance, but Americans are not quite yet an endangered species.
So admit that you make that choice, whales are more important than Americans. Why can't you come right out and say it?
You know, this whole alliance with Europe thing is a failure. We should have stayed with Russia after World War II. The whole world's going leftist anyway, so the difference in economic systems doesn't matter as much, and as allies go, the Russians say what they mean and mean what they say and when it comes time to fight, they fight. Hopefully President Obama will improve relations with Russia by backing down on NATO expansion, setting the stage for a future American president to abandon NATO in favor of an alliance with Russia.
Actually, the very opposition to letting the Navy drill and learn how to fight is, actually, proof that environmentalists want dead sailors and a weakened America. If you drill and practice you sailors live, and if they do not, they die. It's pretty straightforward. You can't pretend that there is no choice between animals and humans because there is. Saving the whales might be honorable, but, ultimately, if the whales live, sailors die. That's just the way it is.
The whole point of having sonar practice near the coast is that the world is loading up with a new class of ultra quiet diesel submarines and the Navy has to operate in these waters so they can project carrier born aircraft farther inland.
So, if you say the Navy can't practice using this sonar to find these new types of subs, then, you are basically leaving troops unprepared for war. I mean, what if the USN is operating off of Iran or Venezuala for some reason and they fire off a torpedo and sink a carrier because the Navy could never find the sub as they had no practice? I highly doubt you would see any environmental group own up to this consequence, any more than they would admit that CO2 taxes are going to mean significantly higher energy bills for less energy for all Americans. Environmentalists can't save the earth they want if they told the truth.
So basically, what you are saying is that you'd rather risk losing a US Aircraft carrier with several thousand men and women aboard to a new class of ultra quiet diesel submarines, so that you can save a few whales.
Bravo.
Is there ever a case where the environmental movement actually supports humans, let alone Americans?
I think not.
Republicans are out of power. By all means, Dems, go ahead and enact environmental policies that demand draconian conservation measures and higher prices, that double, triple or quintuple electricity bills, and then tell the American people to put on sweaters, turn off the TVs and computers and be glad they helped save the planet.
Energy is wealth. It means more food, more travel, more heat, more cooling, more options. If you have less energy, you are less wealthy. If you have 1/10th of the energy, as some environmental advocates are asking for, you will have 1/10th of the wealth.
Conservation is an admission of poverty.
The truth of the matter is, we are all doomed. The lack of sunspots for 200 days in a row was sufficient to send the earth's climate spiraling towards an ice age. We are going to have 2000 feet high glaciers crashing through New York City any day now, and then they will melt because of global warming and wash the rest of the world away, causing the pent up pressure in the yellow stone supervolcano to be released, flooding the earth with meters thick of ash and molten magma. All of this activity will perturb the orbit of the earth about the sun just enough to put us in front of an NEO, which will impact the earth in 2012... and, just as the tidal wave of fire sweeps across the planet, the last Bush supporter will stand up and say, "Hey Obama people... even Bush wasn't -this- bad!"
Hopefully this will get the contracts and the laws regarding them updated and inspected. Much like the copyright issues with music, instead of breaking the laws and skirting them lets CHANGE them.
Dude, my grandkids are going to be paying for the mess made by these large businesses. We have, over the last 30 years given corporations -everything- they could ever want to compete. And the end result is failure. If GM, Lehman, etc, could all be profitable, than that's fine, let's do the contract thing. But our generation of business leaders have failed and failed in ways where countries do not have these gifts are actually succeeding.
At will employment is the biggest joke ever. As soon as you lose your job the clock starts ticking. The company holds all the cards, not you. You talk about bargaining with them in good faith, but I find it utterly ridiculous to believe that a corporation has good faith of any kind or in any way. These institutions have failed to deliver on the promises they made... they were supposed to compete, and they LOST. Whose holding the tab now for this? You, and me.
Let me know when American companies start actually winning again. We've had 40 years of excuses, and now is time to produce.
He signed the non-compete. *HE* gave away his freedom. Not the State.
The state gives companies the right to demand a signature of non-competes as a part of getting a job. The state gave away your rights, not you.
I wish I could be as unpopular as Vista. I think they have sold at least 10 billion dollars worth of them over the last two years.
I bet KDE wishes they could be as successful as Vista. What's the conversion rate between KDE 3 users and KDE 4 users? I'd bet that less of a percentage of KDE users have converted to KDE 4 than XP users have converted to Vista.
But... that's really the whole point of Linux, isn't it.
I bet Perl wishes they could be as successful as Vista. How's Perl 6 doing these days?
You could look at those and other examples of floundering FOSS projects and say that Linux has failed but you would be as wrong as can be. The great irony, of course is that the for all of its "socialist" trappings, Linux has more of the traits of a healthy free market eco-system than Vista does. Vista succeeds because its conversions are forced on one hand, but its a mono-culture and the entire thing either sinks or swim depending upon how much the mono-culture is accepted. Linux is made up of thousands of tiny pieces, and so, even if Perl 6 or KDE flounder, then, there's plenty of other people willing to take up the slack in other projects. Linux is like a free market economy because the whole system doesn't fail - just pieces of it, and that creative floundering and risk taking that it encourages drives its innovation. On the other hand, Vista has all the trappings of a socialist project - Microsoft leaders are writing blog articles suggesting that Microsoft has too much of an individual culture, everyone has to play as a team, and they really can't turn loose any of the individual Vista teams to pursue their own audiences because there is an artificial brake of Microsoft corporate hierarchy, politicized and fief building, all pushing developers down.
A big mistake Circuit City made was changing the pay a few years back so that people who worked there did not get commissions. While I understand this as being well intentioned and pro-consumer, it also turned Circuit City from a place where a salesperson was encouraged to build a customer relationship into a place where the salesperson didn't have to give a shit.
Have a look at Best Buy and how Best Buy continues to have a better, more attractive retail space. On the other hand, Circuit City got more and more confused and worse and worse. I used to like to go to Circuit City and Comp USA but both those stores screwed up their floor plans so much that I lost interest in them. On the other hand, I was in Best Buy and it just amazed me, how nice it was.
There's a ton of Linux distributions for sure, but isn't fair to say that many are branches off of some of the biggies?
There's the debian and cousin ubuntu, red hat, and suse...am I missing something?
Does OpenSolaris have any device drivers for it? I don't mean to be a troll, but, how is OpenSolaris for running things like 3d graphics cards, SATA hard drives, etc. Will it reasonably install on a desktop with something more than a kick ass command line and basic VESA video drivers?
We're sending her up there, and she'll just claim the whole lot using her sense of geography and nationalism to claim the whole lot. She becomes a national hero to a nation more interested in oil than logic, and she'll be swept into the oval office in 2012, reminding voters that she takes those nucular codes very serious.
There's nothing in Microsoft land that equates to what Apple has with its application store. Windows shareware developers have to do shareware, first of all, which is pretty bad. In the Apple store, Apple has it set up that consumers have to pay first and then get the application, and that Apple approves the products and lathers its brand on things makes it great. In Windows, you have 2000 web sites all cheesily affiliated with a handful of players, no consistent payment collection mechanism, loads of cracks everywhere, viruses and malware diluting the idea of downloading programs from the internet, all just conspiring to make developing for Windows a very difficult proposition. A Microsoft Store, not just some subcontracted junk from Digital River, but a Microsoft Store fully and genuinely bundled right into damn OS (and incidentally Vista is a step in the right direction), would be a godsend.
My point is that, when the USA is in the middle of a national crisis, then, you need to have everyone on the same page to get out of the crisis as quickly as possible. When the house is burning down, we have to get the fire out and the people into some sort of a home afterwards. Then we can figure out what to do when the immediate threat is passed.
Like, it was right for Bush to demand that everyone be on the same to get out of the 9/11 crisis and stock bubble pop in one shot and it was wrong for Dems to demagogue the crisis management response. In particular, cutting capital gains taxes and taxes in general, were a classic stimulative move when faced with a national crisis. But, at the same time, it was wrong for Bush to prolong the perception of a national crisis and a wartime leadership mandate to do things completely unrelated to it. Ergot, he should not have pushed for social security privatization until after the last soldier came back from Iraq.
Now, Republicans could look at President Obama and Speaker Pelosi and gag, and I've been tempted, but this Obama's ship now, and whether or not we feel we were dissed when we hand the ship, the right thing for the country is to support President Obama's efforts to get out of this mess. IF he is going to do his bottom approach, via some sort of distribution of wealth,then, that's his economic call to make, and we need to support that. We need to promote as much as possible that Obama's plan can work to save the country's fiscal situation, even if we disagree with it, and then argue later on as to what is best for the national long term.
We can always lower taxes later, fix the tax code later. If Obama nationalizes something, we can privatize it. If Obama wants some sort of massive public works projects to pump the economy and get people to work, then we might make some input as to what projects might be best for the country long term but ultimately, there will be public works projects undertaken.
Those are crisis management things and we need to remember that in a crisis, ideology is the first thing that goes out the window in opposition and the right to lead as one's ideology sees is what a leading party is entitled to. If it doesn't work, well, he'll take a drubbing at the polls, but I for one hope to god it does, because I need a job just as much as Democrats do.
So yeah, just as much as Republicans called Democrats traitors for not supporting aggressive action following 9/11, Democrats can make the same claim back on Republicans who don't work to constructively make the crisis management features of Obama's plans work. If the house is burning down, then, if you aren't putting out the fire, like the fire marshall says, then you are only helping the fire.
The situation with Open Office is that, in the corporate world, writing equals Microsoft Excel, not Word, and Calc wasn't anywhere close to where Excel is (as of older versions).Here, let me fix this for you:
Calc still sucks compared to Excel dude. I have the latest version of Calc, and an older version of Excel, and Excel is still better. Why don't you -fix that-?
I'm wondering why they would take the video down? Is not having the video going to improve the life of this child? Does it make us pretend that someone is not getting abused?
Sometimes we need to see the truth of things. Why isn't all of the NAZI propaganda, translated Hitler, Goebels and other speeches on YouTube, along with captured footage of all the outrages committed by them. Let's get all of our ugliness up there, and if there is any editing, let the editing be to yank out the gore so that the lesson of our brutality is not a mere snuff fest to watch with some buddies over a case of beer.
You could make a pretty compelling case that the Bush administration's efforts to censor terrorist web sites and traffic from the American people probably undermined his war effort far more than any left wing protest -ever- did.
If you dig around a bit, you find not only their web sites but their people too, and they aren't hiding their intentions or hatreds at all. A few minutes talking to them would quickly break oneself of the illusion that these are guys in the mold of the disenfranched western person that the nonviolent in America would want to believe these people are.
You never see a terrorist video describing their grievances, in the fashion, for example, the way American blacks and civil rights leaders might just take a camera to black guys getting firehosed by the police. Nope, these gladly post videos triumphing the killing of American soldiers, cheering the destruction of civilians. I guarantee you I've never seen Martin Luther King laughing that one of his people dressed up their retarded kid with explosives and sent him to bumbling towards a flea market.
Quite honestly, at a time when I had serious doubts about the war, some AQ fanboy posting videos cheering IEDs of American troops certainly hardened my opinion in -favor- of it. But oh no, Bush tries to censor -all- of it, giving us a substitute of "these people are really evil", and that's just lame. He could have stood up and said, "hey, if you don't believe me, when I say that we have to fight these people, just go ask them...seriously... just go talk to al qaeda yourself, and see, at http://www.someterroristwebsite.com/"
As much as the right wing makes fun of the left for pretending that there is no evil, the right did itself no favors by trying to hide it.
That answer is useless. The question, essentially, is, "Will this help people realize that Writing does not necessarily equal Microsoft Word?"
The problem with Open Office is that, in the corporate world, writing equals Microsoft Excel, not Word, and Calc isn't anywhere close to what Excel is.
Facts and History have a well-known liberal bias
Bush essentially ran liberal economic policies though. He expanded government significantly and has been borrowing to avoid a recession ever since the stock market first cratered in 2001 and desperately trying to devalue the dollar to jumpstart manufacturing. He ran out of time, tis the problem. Bottom line is, the USA is a service economy and services don't create wealth, so we are broke.
Hey, I know where Africa is, and I can name the countries in NAFTA... and I'm running for US Senate as a Republican in 2010! :-)
We deserved to lose this last election, and its time to set aside our own bitterness over how the left wing trashed Bush, not act like kids in retaliation, and do everything we can to help Obama succeed. We can dicker over free enterprise vs the government when we all have jobs and this country is at peace.
I mean, the people there railed about Bush doing his USA PATRIOT and wiretaps, and immediately turn around and enact successive governments that would make the Stazi -blush-. Cameras everywhere, universal internet monitoring. Where is the England that gave us John Lennon?
I mean, seriously... Microsoft is just not the same without Wild Bill at the helm.
Why should we have a single czar empowered to guide the development of all software in the United States. This is liberalism gone mad. The only thing the government hasn't f--- up is the software industry and now you guys are asking the feds to wreck that too. It's insane.
No need to sink lower, I already find you revolting
Yes we can!