The thing is, the hourly minimum wage is a very simple payroll case. All you have to do is copy the original worker master file, then, you go and generate a new one from the original, but, just give everyone the same exact record. I'm sure that there's someone in the original file that has a low hourly rate that you could use as a template.
It's utterly ridiculous, and, if anything, that the controller of California cannot actually resolve this issue in a timely fashion suggests to me that he and everyone who works beneath him SHOULD be paid minimum wage.
Here's the deal. If you can go get 40% more money working for someone else, if you are that underpaid, why not go work for them? I think that we know that the answer is that 40% less than what "industry would pay" is really a mythical figure, and your day is not so bad after all. After all, if you have to have a union to get higher wages, it means that by definition you -can't- get them from somewhere else.
Everyone knows that in secret you stand naked and desperately chip a statue to my brilliance out of corian chips, only wishing that you could trade your food stamps in for real marble.
Microsoft's biggest problem isn't Google, it is that everyone is writing for a platform that is vendor neutral. It's extraordinarily difficult to find a business client that wants a client program - they want everything on the web whether it is stupid or not, and that's what has MS really worried. Google has failed in web apps fairly well, besides search, so they aren't the threat. What is the threat is that no one is really writing any sort of new applications for Windows SDK,.NET, etc. Open source people are at least interested in desktop applications development or PC applications development for Linux, and so, this could be part of a larger effort to at least get their stuff on Windows. Ultimately, Microsoft would rather have Windows running Linux applications on it desktop, then to have no desktop at all!
I think your word are self-explanatory. Don't go off your meds. It's better to stay level than to constantly go manic and then crash from that. Talk to the clouds!
Go ahead and ramble on little man. You won't ever get there because you don't have the nerve to try. But of course, if I do succeed, you'll be the first in line, no doubt, arguing that somehow you are entitled to a piece of my success, just as you do everyone else that is successful.
Windows at least has a standardized approach to message passing.
Windows doesn't have anything remotely standardized when it comes to message passing. Let's see, I can rattle off at least a dozen ways back to Windows 3.1 that a message can be passed and all of which are implemented.
a) The trusty Windows message. You know, register a private message id and Send/PostMessage between applications. b) The clipboard. Yep, people stuff all sorts of stuff into the clipboard. Even worse, there's different kinds of things you can put on the clipboard. c) Funky injection outlined by Richter. d) COM, which is, internally, actually a bunch of junky Message passing as per a, coupled with a standardized binary format... well, actually -two- standardized binary formats of which the 2nd is a subset of the first. e) Then there's always the database IPC trick. For databases, Windows has, um, at least a couple of different ways to standardly talk to databases. There's ODBC, OLEDB, ADODB (an VB friendly OLEDB), then there's the new ADO.NET f) And then there's your preferred mix of sockets, files, shared memory and the like g) COM+ is a special case of sockets.
In the case of.NET, there's.NET, which actually does not pass messages between applications at all except via remoting and SOAP, but.NET does not actually add a new mechanism for passing messages as much as it buries it into either sockets (SOAP), or, sockets...
So no, there's no standardized messaging in Windows.
Well, if you throw in, Microsoft is evil, that works pretty good too. I wonder if you could ever get a +10 for working Bush/Cheney/Microsoft/USA/Catholics/US Government" all into a single coherent sentence.
Of course, to be fair, on the flipside, if slashdot were conservative, we could just as easily get the same mod points for Obama/MoveOn/Barbara Streisand/etc....
In the defense of liberals, I was actually permanently banned from freerepublic because I dared to suggest that we should lower the guards on the borders because its bad for business to have so many cops around.
By the way, progress that I make towards my goal, is, in a lagging fashion, on my blog. http://www.storkyak.com./
In my own papers, I'm much farther ahead. At this point, I know that I can either prove or disprove whether or not P=NP but its a matter of connecting some dots. Even if P!=NP, I can still build a computer that automatically translates the inverse of nearly any polynomial time computer algorithm to SAT. This would allow the my triumphant American patriots in the NSA to at least have a single and consistent algorithm to recover the key of any kind of algorithm cryptosystem for which they have the algorithm, which, in and of itself, is a useful tool. Couple with the statistical analysis at which they excel, and a studly bank of computers, it could certainly help in the monitoring of the communications of enemies and traitors such as yourself.
Dude, you are a traitor who already wished my family dead. By that very act, as if abortion weren't enough, you've already basically made it clear that your liberalism is nothing more than a cheap attempt to steal from other people that which you are incapable of getting for yourself. Hey, if I have to go to the war to support it, how about you go and pay for everyone's health insurance. You want to feed the poor, why don't you go make 40 billion a year and go do it! Have you fed even -one- person? Have you paid even -one- person's medical bills? We both know the answer is no. At the end of the day, all you traitors are is a bunch of baby birds waiting at the nest for big daddy government to bring you a worm and that you are too useless and too worthless to do anything for yourselves. Because, you would have done it, I assume, if you could.
So please, continue on, and say, everyone who supports the war should be over there, because, I'm justing waiting for you to give your right to breath to save the earth from CO2 pollution.
I'm much more interested in how you make up for the lives & civilizations your organization destroyed
Hey, I'm all down with the Catholic church coughing up the New World assets as soon as the Islamic world reverts the middle east to the Roman Christian states they were before hand Islamic expansion.
This is a discussion about Microsoft's annual report and their view of OSS, this has nothing much to do with their latest product.
It's entirely relevant. Vista OS, Linux OS. Who would have thought that the basis of microsoft's monopoly would marked OffTopic as another way to bash vista. You anti-corporate types are getting way out of hand.
Republicans are the public face of corporate power
No, Republicans are the public face of individual rights. It just so happens that we tend to like corporations because they are good transnational institutions for producing products and profits. Of course, Democrats will rail on about terrible profits are. But jeez, if Democrats had their own profits, maybe they wouldn't need to take everyone else's.
I'm actually running Windows Vista Business SP1 in a VirtualBox OSE on Ubuntu Linux and I have to say, I actually rather prefer it to Windows XP. I don't think the UAC is worse than Ubuntu's "type in password all the time.". And, the polish of Vista is pretty darned good. I think Vista looks -better- than Ubuntu does and I for one do not miss the cute animals that littered XP.
I'm a terrible soldier, but my contribution to the war effort is a technology, that if it works, will allow the US military to instantly decrypt nearly every kind of communications that there is, and also quickly reverse solve complex patterns to understand the intentions of America's enemies BEFORE they hit. If I can put a squad of guys into a bomb maker's room before he finishes, then, I'll have made some small contribution. And, if I help the Feds read everything -you- write, regardless of your stupid PGP keys, well then, that's just added gravy.
"When there are no external enemies, create one, to unite the people and quell unrest."
The irony of it is, is that the American left does the exact same thing by creating enemies out of American institutions. "Give us money, or [exxon/halliburton/george bush/dick cheney/gm/ford/chrysler/ibm/microsoft/apple/walmart/the big business/the small business/the white guy/the male/the car owner/the gun owner/the machinist/the guy that wants to send his kids to private school/the religious/the successful will get you in your sleep!"
Anything that's worked in America, to make it richer, the left wing not only opposes, but demonizes in order to secure funding for its own existence.
The FBI prosecuted the case stupidly. They charged in like a bull into a china shop when they could have just grabbed the religious leader a few days earlier when he had gone to the grocery store. The whole thing was a stupid display of power, and nothing more, and 95 people died from it. They did not get a trial... nothing.
Conversely, George Bush's FBI hasn't murdered anyone.
Let's kill off some more of the Republican lies you heard on Rush Limbo's show, because they're so easy
Oh, by telling all the lies that you read on moveon.org or dailykos? Oh dear, we could be a long time going back and forth!
As for Waco, the ATF (not the FBI) managed to kill a bunch of religious fanatics who were armed to the teeth and committed to killing and dying for their "messiah".
Ok, so, its ok for Democratic Presidents to kill a bunch of religious fanatics committed to killing and dying for their messiah, even though they are US Citizens, without a trial. But, if Bush holds military tribunals for people at Gitmo and feeds them 3 squares a day, that's unconstitutional. Like I said, its ok for you to bend the constitution to suit your own prejudices, just not anyone else. Thus, the essence of all your claims about the "evil" of Bush are really more about "we're not the ones in power", because, when you are in power, you do the same damned thing.
But Bush's US Attorney purge is unprecedented: he fired a whole load of them because they weren't pursuing political witchhunts hard enough during an election year.
Ah, but you see, the people that Clinton fired WERE persuing investigations into a number of inconvenient things for Clinton. HE fired them to all to provide cover for themselves. And indeed, you have never explained the mass firings of the White House Travel Office.
You Republicans have destroyed everything you've touched
Hardly. Actually, if you are a farmer, an oil worker, a coal miner, a gold miner, you are doing quite well in the Bush economy. In fact, I'm glad to see that the emphasis of the Democratic economy is in fact to bemoan that all of your rich buddies on Wall Street didn't get their bonuses in New York.
And, if you look at the world, when the world was trying out your stupid socialist progressivism, China and India and Asia starved. Now that Republican free trade and capitalism has spread, the standard of living has gone so much that you Democrats now argue that, we have to adopt socialism because people have -too much- (as in, not poor anymore), and its bad for the planet.
You can say we hate America, but its really you guys that do. You talk about the working man, but, you ram through legislation to slow down the development of every commercial good there is in the interests of saving the planet or supposed safety. The fact of the matter is simple, and I'm not a big union guy, but, I will give you three basic lessons:
1. YOU CAN'T UNIONIZE A FOREST DUDE. 2. YOU CAN'T BE FREE IF YOU DO NOT HAVE MONEY. 3. THE CLINTON SERVICE ECONOMY WAS BULLSHIT.
The fact of the matter is, under Bush, manufacturing has gone UP, whereas under Clinton, it went down. Under Bush, exports are now driving economic growth in the country, whereas, under Clinton, it was a bunch of computer programmers getting IPOs for a bunch of stupid software that didn't work.
The real wealth of a nation is in taking natural resources, and converting them into consumer goods. The less you do of that, the less wealthy you are, and, so, every time you adopt a government policy to slow that conversion down, you impoverish people.
Telling people that we can somehow be richer by having less, is a lie, and, blaming your failures on people that have been able to navigate their way through your sick web of losers and thieves to actually achieve something is just wrong.
Americans are tired of your lies, your incompetence, your hating America.
Yeah right. Barrack Obama has yet to cross 50% likely voter, and he's only up in states that have a lot of black people. His strategy is simple and it worked for him now, but it won't work in the general election. He basically tries to get all the blacks to vote for him, then the liberals, and that's his coalition. He was able to win in Illinois and the Democratic Primary doing that, but all he's really done is rebuilt what Mike Dukakis did at the national l
And you know why Al Qaeda's strategy has been not to attack the USA? It's because the USA took the fight to the mideast and has soldiers fighting them, rather than the FBI. We don't need an FBI fighting terrorism at home when we have the Pentagon forcing the enemy to fight to defend his own back yard.
AG's have always been political monkeys. Clinton fired ALL of them, and Bush fired what, a handful? And get this, if Obama gets in and fires all of the AGs or fires some other staff, we're going to hear about how that was entirely justified and in fact, long overdue, when it will be just as politically and ideologically motivated.
And, again, you completely ignored that, the last time I checked, Bill Clinton's FBI KILLED at least 95 people without a trial, on TV, at Waco TX, Ruby Ridge, and who knows where else that we do not know about. Go ahead and bitch about Bush's FBI being incompetent, and it is, but don't say its better, because Bush's FBI isn't lighting buildings on fire to try and flush people out because some bulldike AG wanted to look tough. I'll take Ashcroft over Reno, any day of the week.
It's fashionable for the left to go and say that Bush has rendered the FBI somehow clueless or incompetent. But I'd like to let it know when it was.
Let's see.
The FBI was originally founded to deal with the likes of Al Capone but despite all the self promotion of Elliot Ness and the Untouchables, it was the Treasury that nailed him. Speaking of Elliot Ness, the famed super-detective never did catch the Cleveland serial killer and while we are at it, the FBI completely missed the rise of organized crime in the 1940s and 1950s and the total corruption of labor unions that continues to this day.
As a measure of domestic counterintelligence, the failures of the FBI are numerous. The Soviets had no problem infiltrating any number of American institutions during the Cold War, garnering everything from the US Navy codes, plans for the atomic bomb, and more.
The FBI has not produced a victory in the war on drugs. If anyone does any drug interdiction its the Coast Guard. The FBI usually only finds serial killers across state lines after they've killed a dozen people. The FBI couldn't put two and two together and prevent either the first WTC bombing and then 9/11, and in the meantime proved its inestimable worth by shooting up a child at Ruby Ridge and burning up 93 people at Waco Texas.
If anything, that the FBI hasn't done a Ruby Ridge or a Waco should be viewed by an improvement of Bush, over Clinton, but even still, with that said, if you hate Bush so much, when was the year and term of President where you thought the FBI was actually good?
In fact, the politicians do exactly what we want. We as normal citizens tend to only talk to people that are "like" us and the Internet has only made this worse. If you spent most of your time on DailyKos, you might think everyone was a liberal. Similarly, if you hung out on the FreeRepublic, you might think everyone was conservative.
You and others of your bent complain about corporations, and how evil they are, but at the same token, there's a lot of people that actually LIKE corporations and see them as a good thing, and if they have a complaint, it is that they either do not own one themselves, bought stock in the wrong one, or are not far up enough the management chain.
If the average person thought Walmart was evil, they would not have a business worth in excess of 200 billion dollars. People wouldn't shop there, and, if you tried to ban Walmart or screw it up in some way, people would shop at the next cheapest thing that came along. If the average person really thought we should protect American manufacturing, Ford stock might be worth more than $5 a share. If the average person really wanted to take the extra expense to protect the environment, they'd do it. If the average person was against guns, they wouldn't be made. There's no law that requires people to go to church and yet churches in some parts of the country are packed. If the average person thought Linux was better, they'd be using it.
Money does talk, and many Americans have voted loud and clear. They like to shop at Walmart, buy guns, drive foreign cars and buy foreign goods and they don't really care about the homeless except for when they trip over them, the environment, except maybe to decorate the yard with some new bushes and some wind chimes, and they generally like power tools, big televisions, more channels, violent video games, loads of porn over the internet, loads of beef and chicken for dinner and sometimes some pork. Other than that, they want to be left alone.
Lobbyists get paid for a reason. They get paid because the people that hire them have a legislative message and there are -many- messages out there. You'll have environmental lobbying, racial lobbying, religious lobbying, each of which representing the membership of some organization that you or I or the man down the street belongs to.
What else could there possibly be? We want a ton of stuff from government but don't want to pay for it, so we borrow it on all levels and try and get someone else to pay. A lot of Americans flat out don't want to work so they fight for disability, social security, welfare, unions and what not, or, they fight for the right to invest without taxation or charges, so we have low capital gains taxes and loads of welfare. Americans don't like the war in Iraq but they also do not like to lose, and so we stay in Iraq.
I could go on and on and on like this, but it should be pretty clear that we are getting the government that is exactly what we want. Our politicians only suck because we do.
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I've written payroll systems before.
The thing is, the hourly minimum wage is a very simple payroll case. All you have to do is copy the original worker master file, then, you go and generate a new one from the original, but, just give everyone the same exact record. I'm sure that there's someone in the original file that has a low hourly rate that you could use as a template.
It's utterly ridiculous, and, if anything, that the controller of California cannot actually resolve this issue in a timely fashion suggests to me that he and everyone who works beneath him SHOULD be paid minimum wage.
Here's the deal. If you can go get 40% more money working for someone else, if you are that underpaid, why not go work for them? I think that we know that the answer is that 40% less than what "industry would pay" is really a mythical figure, and your day is not so bad after all. After all, if you have to have a union to get higher wages, it means that by definition you -can't- get them from somewhere else.
Everyone knows that in secret you stand naked and desperately chip a statue to my brilliance out of corian chips, only wishing that you could trade your food stamps in for real marble.
I have frequently used this fact to argue that Netscape won the browser war after all.
Or, Microsoft won the battle, but lost the war?
Microsoft's biggest problem isn't Google, it is that everyone is writing for a platform that is vendor neutral. It's extraordinarily difficult to find a business client that wants a client program - they want everything on the web whether it is stupid or not, and that's what has MS really worried. Google has failed in web apps fairly well, besides search, so they aren't the threat. What is the threat is that no one is really writing any sort of new applications for Windows SDK, .NET, etc. Open source people are at least interested in desktop applications development or PC applications development for Linux, and so, this could be part of a larger effort to at least get their stuff on Windows. Ultimately, Microsoft would rather have Windows running Linux applications on it desktop, then to have no desktop at all!
I think your word are self-explanatory. Don't go off your meds. It's better to stay level than to constantly go manic and then crash from that. Talk to the clouds!
Go ahead and ramble on little man. You won't ever get there because you don't have the nerve to try. But of course, if I do succeed, you'll be the first in line, no doubt, arguing that somehow you are entitled to a piece of my success, just as you do everyone else that is successful.
Even if I do not succeed, I will have at least tried, which is more than you will ever have done.
The great proof that liberals are patriotic is that they don't really like Babs either.
Windows at least has a standardized approach to message passing.
Windows doesn't have anything remotely standardized when it comes to message passing. Let's see, I can rattle off at least a dozen ways back to Windows 3.1 that a message can be passed and all of which are implemented.
a) The trusty Windows message. You know, register a private message id and Send/PostMessage between applications.
b) The clipboard. Yep, people stuff all sorts of stuff into the clipboard. Even worse, there's different kinds of things you can put on the clipboard.
c) Funky injection outlined by Richter.
d) COM, which is, internally, actually a bunch of junky Message passing as per a, coupled with a standardized binary format... well, actually -two- standardized binary formats of which the 2nd is a subset of the first.
e) Then there's always the database IPC trick. For databases, Windows has, um, at least a couple of different ways to standardly talk to databases. There's ODBC, OLEDB, ADODB (an VB friendly OLEDB), then there's the new ADO.NET
f) And then there's your preferred mix of sockets, files, shared memory and the like
g) COM+ is a special case of sockets.
In the case of .NET, there's .NET, which actually does not pass messages between applications at all except via remoting and SOAP, but .NET does not actually add a new mechanism for passing messages as much as it buries it into either sockets (SOAP), or, sockets...
So no, there's no standardized messaging in Windows.
A micron is a unit of length, not velocity. Do they mean microns per second?
Well, if you throw in, Microsoft is evil, that works pretty good too. I wonder if you could ever get a +10 for working Bush/Cheney/Microsoft/USA/Catholics/US Government" all into a single coherent sentence.
Of course, to be fair, on the flipside, if slashdot were conservative, we could just as easily get the same mod points for Obama/MoveOn/Barbara Streisand/etc....
In the defense of liberals, I was actually permanently banned from freerepublic because I dared to suggest that we should lower the guards on the borders because its bad for business to have so many cops around.
By the way, progress that I make towards my goal, is, in a lagging fashion, on my blog. http://www.storkyak.com./
In my own papers, I'm much farther ahead. At this point, I know that I can either prove or disprove whether or not P=NP but its a matter of connecting some dots. Even if P!=NP, I can still build a computer that automatically translates the inverse of nearly any polynomial time computer algorithm to SAT. This would allow the my triumphant American patriots in the NSA to at least have a single and consistent algorithm to recover the key of any kind of algorithm cryptosystem for which they have the algorithm, which, in and of itself, is a useful tool. Couple with the statistical analysis at which they excel, and a studly bank of computers, it could certainly help in the monitoring of the communications of enemies and traitors such as yourself.
Dude, you are a traitor who already wished my family dead. By that very act, as if abortion weren't enough, you've already basically made it clear that your liberalism is nothing more than a cheap attempt to steal from other people that which you are incapable of getting for yourself. Hey, if I have to go to the war to support it, how about you go and pay for everyone's health insurance. You want to feed the poor, why don't you go make 40 billion a year and go do it! Have you fed even -one- person? Have you paid even -one- person's medical bills? We both know the answer is no. At the end of the day, all you traitors are is a bunch of baby birds waiting at the nest for big daddy government to bring you a worm and that you are too useless and too worthless to do anything for yourselves. Because, you would have done it, I assume, if you could.
So please, continue on, and say, everyone who supports the war should be over there, because, I'm justing waiting for you to give your right to breath to save the earth from CO2 pollution.
No sweat. Give Rome back.
Rome is ours. Thank you Constantine!
I'm much more interested in how you make up for the lives & civilizations your organization destroyed
Hey, I'm all down with the Catholic church coughing up the New World assets as soon as the Islamic world reverts the middle east to the Roman Christian states they were before hand Islamic expansion.
This is a discussion about Microsoft's annual report and their view of OSS, this has nothing much to do with their latest product.
It's entirely relevant. Vista OS, Linux OS. Who would have thought that the basis of microsoft's monopoly would marked OffTopic as another way to bash vista. You anti-corporate types are getting way out of hand.
Republicans are the public face of corporate power
No, Republicans are the public face of individual rights. It just so happens that we tend to like corporations because they are good transnational institutions for producing products and profits. Of course, Democrats will rail on about terrible profits are. But jeez, if Democrats had their own profits, maybe they wouldn't need to take everyone else's.
I'm actually running Windows Vista Business SP1 in a VirtualBox OSE on Ubuntu Linux and I have to say, I actually rather prefer it to Windows XP. I don't think the UAC is worse than Ubuntu's "type in password all the time.". And, the polish of Vista is pretty darned good. I think Vista looks -better- than Ubuntu does and I for one do not miss the cute animals that littered XP.
I'm a terrible soldier, but my contribution to the war effort is a technology, that if it works, will allow the US military to instantly decrypt nearly every kind of communications that there is, and also quickly reverse solve complex patterns to understand the intentions of America's enemies BEFORE they hit. If I can put a squad of guys into a bomb maker's room before he finishes, then, I'll have made some small contribution. And, if I help the Feds read everything -you- write, regardless of your stupid PGP keys, well then, that's just added gravy.
"When there are no external enemies, create one, to unite the people and quell unrest."
The irony of it is, is that the American left does the exact same thing by creating enemies out of American institutions. "Give us money, or [exxon/halliburton/george bush/dick cheney/gm/ford/chrysler/ibm/microsoft/apple/walmart/the big business/the small business/the white guy/the male/the car owner/the gun owner/the machinist/the guy that wants to send his kids to private school/the religious/the successful will get you in your sleep!"
Anything that's worked in America, to make it richer, the left wing not only opposes, but demonizes in order to secure funding for its own existence.
The FBI prosecuted the case stupidly. They charged in like a bull into a china shop when they could have just grabbed the religious leader a few days earlier when he had gone to the grocery store. The whole thing was a stupid display of power, and nothing more, and 95 people died from it. They did not get a trial... nothing.
Conversely, George Bush's FBI hasn't murdered anyone.
Let's kill off some more of the Republican lies you heard on Rush Limbo's show, because they're so easy
Oh, by telling all the lies that you read on moveon.org or dailykos? Oh dear, we could be a long time going back and forth!
As for Waco, the ATF (not the FBI) managed to kill a bunch of religious fanatics who were armed to the teeth and committed to killing and dying for their "messiah".
Ok, so, its ok for Democratic Presidents to kill a bunch of religious fanatics committed to killing and dying for their messiah, even though they are US Citizens, without a trial. But, if Bush holds military tribunals for people at Gitmo and feeds them 3 squares a day, that's unconstitutional. Like I said, its ok for you to bend the constitution to suit your own prejudices, just not anyone else. Thus, the essence of all your claims about the "evil" of Bush are really more about "we're not the ones in power", because, when you are in power, you do the same damned thing.
But Bush's US Attorney purge is unprecedented: he fired a whole load of them because they weren't pursuing political witchhunts hard enough during an election year.
Ah, but you see, the people that Clinton fired WERE persuing investigations into a number of inconvenient things for Clinton. HE fired them to all to provide cover for themselves. And indeed, you have never explained the mass firings of the White House Travel Office.
You Republicans have destroyed everything you've touched
Hardly. Actually, if you are a farmer, an oil worker, a coal miner, a gold miner, you are doing quite well in the Bush economy. In fact, I'm glad to see that the emphasis of the Democratic economy is in fact to bemoan that all of your rich buddies on Wall Street didn't get their bonuses in New York.
And, if you look at the world, when the world was trying out your stupid socialist progressivism, China and India and Asia starved. Now that Republican free trade and capitalism has spread, the standard of living has gone so much that you Democrats now argue that, we have to adopt socialism because people have -too much- (as in, not poor anymore), and its bad for the planet.
You can say we hate America, but its really you guys that do. You talk about the working man, but, you ram through legislation to slow down the development of every commercial good there is in the interests of saving the planet or supposed safety. The fact of the matter is simple, and I'm not a big union guy, but, I will give you three basic lessons:
1. YOU CAN'T UNIONIZE A FOREST DUDE.
2. YOU CAN'T BE FREE IF YOU DO NOT HAVE MONEY.
3. THE CLINTON SERVICE ECONOMY WAS BULLSHIT.
The fact of the matter is, under Bush, manufacturing has gone UP, whereas under Clinton, it went down. Under Bush, exports are now driving economic growth in the country, whereas, under Clinton, it was a bunch of computer programmers getting IPOs for a bunch of stupid software that didn't work.
The real wealth of a nation is in taking natural resources, and converting them into consumer goods. The less you do of that, the less wealthy you are, and, so, every time you adopt a government policy to slow that conversion down, you impoverish people.
Telling people that we can somehow be richer by having less, is a lie, and, blaming your failures on people that have been able to navigate their way through your sick web of losers and thieves to actually achieve something is just wrong.
Americans are tired of your lies, your incompetence, your hating America.
Yeah right. Barrack Obama has yet to cross 50% likely voter, and he's only up in states that have a lot of black people. His strategy is simple and it worked for him now, but it won't work in the general election. He basically tries to get all the blacks to vote for him, then the liberals, and that's his coalition. He was able to win in Illinois and the Democratic Primary doing that, but all he's really done is rebuilt what Mike Dukakis did at the national l
And you know why Al Qaeda's strategy has been not to attack the USA? It's because the USA took the fight to the mideast and has soldiers fighting them, rather than the FBI. We don't need an FBI fighting terrorism at home when we have the Pentagon forcing the enemy to fight to defend his own back yard.
AG's have always been political monkeys. Clinton fired ALL of them, and Bush fired what, a handful? And get this, if Obama gets in and fires all of the AGs or fires some other staff, we're going to hear about how that was entirely justified and in fact, long overdue, when it will be just as politically and ideologically motivated.
And, again, you completely ignored that, the last time I checked, Bill Clinton's FBI KILLED at least 95 people without a trial, on TV, at Waco TX, Ruby Ridge, and who knows where else that we do not know about. Go ahead and bitch about Bush's FBI being incompetent, and it is, but don't say its better, because Bush's FBI isn't lighting buildings on fire to try and flush people out because some bulldike AG wanted to look tough. I'll take Ashcroft over Reno, any day of the week.
It's fashionable for the left to go and say that Bush has rendered the FBI somehow clueless or incompetent. But I'd like to let it know when it was.
Let's see.
The FBI was originally founded to deal with the likes of Al Capone but despite all the self promotion of Elliot Ness and the Untouchables, it was the Treasury that nailed him. Speaking of Elliot Ness, the famed super-detective never did catch the Cleveland serial killer and while we are at it, the FBI completely missed the rise of organized crime in the 1940s and 1950s and the total corruption of labor unions that continues to this day.
As a measure of domestic counterintelligence, the failures of the FBI are numerous. The Soviets had no problem infiltrating any number of American institutions during the Cold War, garnering everything from the US Navy codes, plans for the atomic bomb, and more.
The FBI has not produced a victory in the war on drugs. If anyone does any drug interdiction its the Coast Guard. The FBI usually only finds serial killers across state lines after they've killed a dozen people. The FBI couldn't put two and two together and prevent either the first WTC bombing and then 9/11, and in the meantime proved its inestimable worth by shooting up a child at Ruby Ridge and burning up 93 people at Waco Texas.
If anything, that the FBI hasn't done a Ruby Ridge or a Waco should be viewed by an improvement of Bush, over Clinton, but even still, with that said, if you hate Bush so much, when was the year and term of President where you thought the FBI was actually good?
In fact, the politicians do exactly what we want. We as normal citizens tend to only talk to people that are "like" us and the Internet has only made this worse. If you spent most of your time on DailyKos, you might think everyone was a liberal. Similarly, if you hung out on the FreeRepublic, you might think everyone was conservative.
You and others of your bent complain about corporations, and how evil they are, but at the same token, there's a lot of people that actually LIKE corporations and see them as a good thing, and if they have a complaint, it is that they either do not own one themselves, bought stock in the wrong one, or are not far up enough the management chain.
If the average person thought Walmart was evil, they would not have a business worth in excess of 200 billion dollars. People wouldn't shop there, and, if you tried to ban Walmart or screw it up in some way, people would shop at the next cheapest thing that came along. If the average person really thought we should protect American manufacturing, Ford stock might be worth more than $5 a share. If the average person really wanted to take the extra expense to protect the environment, they'd do it. If the average person was against guns, they wouldn't be made. There's no law that requires people to go to church and yet churches in some parts of the country are packed. If the average person thought Linux was better, they'd be using it.
Money does talk, and many Americans have voted loud and clear. They like to shop at Walmart, buy guns, drive foreign cars and buy foreign goods and they don't really care about the homeless except for when they trip over them, the environment, except maybe to decorate the yard with some new bushes and some wind chimes, and they generally like power tools, big televisions, more channels, violent video games, loads of porn over the internet, loads of beef and chicken for dinner and sometimes some pork. Other than that, they want to be left alone.
Lobbyists get paid for a reason. They get paid because the people that hire them have a legislative message and there are -many- messages out there. You'll have environmental lobbying, racial lobbying, religious lobbying, each of which representing the membership of some organization that you or I or the man down the street belongs to.
What else could there possibly be? We want a ton of stuff from government but don't want to pay for it, so we borrow it on all levels and try and get someone else to pay. A lot of Americans flat out don't want to work so they fight for disability, social security, welfare, unions and what not, or, they fight for the right to invest without taxation or charges, so we have low capital gains taxes and loads of welfare. Americans don't like the war in Iraq but they also do not like to lose, and so we stay in Iraq.
I could go on and on and on like this, but it should be pretty clear that we are getting the government that is exactly what we want. Our politicians only suck because we do.