How can you say that Europeans love Americans? The only reason EU and USA got along because of a common enemy. But historically EU and USA have been rivals.
1790's: France and USA fought undeclared naval war.
1810's: England and USA fight war.
1860's: England and France threaten to intervene on South's behalf in civil war to keep cotton trade.
1890's: Spain and USA fights war.
1917-1918: Germany gets busted trying to get Mexico to invade USA and so USA joins WWI.
1930s: England begins to consider the possibility of a naval war with USA.
1940s: Germany declares war on USA.
1950-1980s: USA fights cold war by itself as Europeans demand detente (except England).
1990s: Europe Union argues that it should be world counterpoint to USA.
2000s: Chirac and Shroeder elected on anti-American platform. Chirac and Shroeder ask to sell weapons to China. EU manipulates position in WTO to undermine US economy.
History will record that that Marshall Plan and NATO were the largest strategic blunders ever made in world history. America would be better off if the entire EU had been occupied by Russia.
Outsourcing is not the government's fault, it's ours. I mean, how many of you drive a Japanese or German car and thought, jeez, all those -millions- of American workers will adjust to the new economy. Now the new economy has hit us, and you fools are still blaming the government while still looking for more foreign made junk to buy. When will you get it that buying a foreign product is probably worse for the country than any so-called act of terrorism? Do you want to end outsourcing, then stop buying foreign products. We need to get it into our collective heads that foreign countries do not want equitable trade with the USA, they are all our economic enemies and want us to be destroyed so they can take our place. Buying a Chinese product, giving money to Bin Laden, there's no difference.
The climate is changing and the planet is getting warmer. So what if Antartica melts! Say that global warming will cost the USA 100 billion dollars in property damage. That's chump change compared to some of the money we're blowing now. Now, look at the benefits, longer growing season, more frequent rain in some parts of the country. It could turn out that the benefits of global warming outweigh the cost. Rather than trying to somehow "undo" all of our modifications to the planetary eco-system, the USA should learn how to control them, so we can arbitrarily alter global climate as suits its strategic needs.
And who watches the watchers watchers, and who watches the watchers of the watchers watching. The idea of people to watch people is a recursive failure and those societies always blow up in stack overflow.
Legal reasoning should be ignored. The law of the land should be made by the will of the people through the congress, limited by the state governments, not a court. It's bad enough that the House of Representatives does not have a constitutional say in accepting treaties.
Then why isn't it being privately funded? The only thing Bush did was to allow an extremely small number of stem cells to actually be studied WITH FEDERAL MONEY, more than any previous president ever did. That doesn't mean a private firm could not do stem cell research themselves. Why can't a Pharma company do it, for example? In fact, if stem cells are so great, then, how come half the people bitching about studying them aren't doing it themselves, or donating to groups that do support them?
The entire stem cell research issue is a left wing fraud.
Lefties should take the SCOTUS Bush vs Gore with a bit of grain of salt. It's your side that created the monster known as the judicial activist, now deal with it.
Were it not for the courts, most of the left wing agenda's anti-american growth agenda would not exist. There would be no bussing. There would be no endless environmental lawsuits. There would be no ACLU. There would be no gun control. And certainly, when you want to argue that gun control is not an individual right, then while doing so please point out the clause in the constitution that guarantees a right to choose.
I think most conservatives would gladly trade a strict constitutional role of the courts, a vast rollback of the insane extensions of the constitution's commerce clause, in exchange for Gore 2000.
We owe trillions of dollars to foreign banks, but that's right, they are in -dollars-. Because the USA is the dumping ground for the world's manufactured goods, world nations HAVE to lend us the money or otherwise we would simply not be able to buy their stuff. If, for example, China refused to lend us dollars, we in turn could refuse to buy their manufactured goods. While we could certainly do without Chinese products, and WalMart for that matter, the Chinese certainly could not do without us.
Sorry, the fact of the matter is that the earth cannot be damaged, only changed. Human activities change the climate, but so does climate itself. Besides, the earth is just a stupid rock and nature is just a chemical reaction. If we are "nice" to the earth, the earth is not going to care. It's not some sentient being that has its feelings hurt if we whack a species or if we genetically engineer knew ones that are more entertaining.
The alternatives you guys have is to take us back to the good old days when we were all living in animal skin covered tents freezing to death and getting eaten by sabre tooth tigers and giant wolves. F-- that. I want my car with a giant engine!
Still, I do want to help you. I'll drop you off some mold or natural animal piss you can process for your little left wing envirohovels before I head off the mall in search of more loot. Maybe I need to buy a bigger truck to haul bigger stuff, and get a bigger job so I can get a bigger truck.
Just imagine if the entire British Empire had been handed over to the Germans. You would have had the Nazis in control of Canada, the Middle East, India, Australia, large portions of Africa....
By your standard, then, I should be able to haul Adam into the lab and measure the age of his bones. Touche. There's been no proof of Noah's ark. There's been no proof of even the existence of jews as slaves in egypt. There's been no proof of the plagues and there is no mausoleum for moses. There's no proof of the existence of Jesus, no proof, in fact, for the existence of any of the Judaeo Christian heros.
Finally, Egyptians have been proved to have been writing about the world before your calculations show that it was made.
Here's the thing about fundy Christians. You say that Christ fufilled the old jewish law, so that you can eat pork, for example, but, then, still cleave to the old law so you can justify your unchristianlike hatred of gays.
From what I read, Christ did not make any exceptions to his commandments for not judging other people, for turning the other cheek, for not pursuing wealth, etc. He didn't condemn Mary Magdalene and he made a tax collector one of his apostles. You want to really accept Jesus into your life? Stop chasing more money, stop waging pre-emptive wars and accept taxes and gays. There's nothing christian about conservatism.
Would you rather have NASA get another 5 billion a year or the FAA spend the same on a computer upgrade that doesn't work. Come to think of it, which would rather have: NASA, or another aircraft carrier battle group.
The problem is not the west. It's that these governments cannot build their own domestic markets. The West built itself up out of nothing, but the third world is for whatever reason beholden to economic policies that do not produce an increase of domestic consumption, don't add productivity to their own societies. So they instead prefer to work slave wages and dump exports on the West. If you fixed the inequities in Indian society and actually got a good domestic economy going, then fair trade would automatically follow.
Let's not forget that the reason Union Carbide was in there to begin with was because the Indian government created an environment where western companies could pay workers less than market wages, have lax environmental laws, and pretty much run a shoddy operation in order to get money. That business in India could have easily been located in the United States, but, instead, the Indian government allows its workers to be payed less and treated worse to get its competitive advantage. Declaring the head of Union Carbide a fugitive and playing victim is a red herring designed to cover the tracks of a completely corrupt system that is designed to elevate one caste while others are expendable. If you want to prevent Bhopals, insist that foreign governments have rules to make companies paying the same wages and same safety standards as their western counterparts.
MySQL is popular because it is good. It's simple to install, the C client is probably the most straightforward in an RDBMS, it's reliable, and it performs well enough for many small to midsize web sites. Is it an Oracle? Well, no, but, then again, not everyone needs a 400hp car and not everyone needs a 20k database server!
At some point, people will say, screw all this "adapt and change and run around around on your hands with one of your legs up your rear to beg for work", and instead, they will become terrorists. If you are an unemployed engineer, why not try and design some uber weapon of mass destruction. They fired YOU from your cushy job in the Sears Tower and sent you packing off to India? Knock the thing down!
With a computer like that, you want clients to think that their machine, if unleashed, would start trying to take over the world, it is so powerful. If the mainframe you bought has loads of blinking lights and make ominous noises, its a win. Also, DOD terminology also helps, along with a speech synthesizer that randomly says, of "pentagon uplink complete", "retarget it in progress", etc.
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How can you say that Europeans love Americans? The only reason EU and USA got along because of a common enemy. But historically EU and USA have been rivals.
1790's: France and USA fought undeclared naval war.
1810's: England and USA fight war.
1860's: England and France threaten to intervene on South's behalf in civil war to keep cotton trade.
1890's: Spain and USA fights war.
1917-1918: Germany gets busted trying to get Mexico to invade USA and so USA joins WWI.
1930s: England begins to consider the possibility of a naval war with USA.
1940s: Germany declares war on USA.
1950-1980s: USA fights cold war by itself as Europeans demand detente (except England).
1990s: Europe Union argues that it should be world counterpoint to USA.
2000s: Chirac and Shroeder elected on anti-American platform. Chirac and Shroeder ask to sell weapons to China. EU manipulates position in WTO to undermine US economy.
History will record that that Marshall Plan and NATO were the largest strategic blunders ever made in world history. America would be better off if the entire EU had been occupied by Russia.
Thanks man!
Outsourcing is not the government's fault, it's ours. I mean, how many of you drive a Japanese or German car and thought, jeez, all those -millions- of American workers will adjust to the new economy. Now the new economy has hit us, and you fools are still blaming the government while still looking for more foreign made junk to buy. When will you get it that buying a foreign product is probably worse for the country than any so-called act of terrorism? Do you want to end outsourcing, then stop buying foreign products. We need to get it into our collective heads that foreign countries do not want equitable trade with the USA, they are all our economic enemies and want us to be destroyed so they can take our place. Buying a Chinese product, giving money to Bin Laden, there's no difference.
The climate is changing and the planet is getting warmer. So what if Antartica melts! Say that global warming will cost the USA 100 billion dollars in property damage. That's chump change compared to some of the money we're blowing now. Now, look at the benefits, longer growing season, more frequent rain in some parts of the country. It could turn out that the benefits of global warming outweigh the cost. Rather than trying to somehow "undo" all of our modifications to the planetary eco-system, the USA should learn how to control them, so we can arbitrarily alter global climate as suits its strategic needs.
The world is black and white. Grey areas are areas that lack sufficient analysis.
There's plenty of other things that can go on the chopping block before NASA.
And who watches the watchers watchers, and who watches the watchers of the watchers watching. The idea of people to watch people is a recursive failure and those societies always blow up in stack overflow.
Don't vote for people that pass the Patriot act.
Isn't that the deal?
Legal reasoning should be ignored. The law of the land should be made by the will of the people through the congress, limited by the state governments, not a court. It's bad enough that the House of Representatives does not have a constitutional say in accepting treaties.
Then why isn't it being privately funded? The only thing Bush did was to allow an extremely small number of stem cells to actually be studied WITH FEDERAL MONEY, more than any previous president ever did. That doesn't mean a private firm could not do stem cell research themselves. Why can't a Pharma company do it, for example? In fact, if stem cells are so great, then, how come half the people bitching about studying them aren't doing it themselves, or donating to groups that do support them?
The entire stem cell research issue is a left wing fraud.
Lefties should take the SCOTUS Bush vs Gore with a bit of grain of salt. It's your side that created the monster known as the judicial activist, now deal with it.
Were it not for the courts, most of the left wing agenda's anti-american growth agenda would not exist. There would be no bussing. There would be no endless environmental lawsuits. There would be no ACLU. There would be no gun control. And certainly, when you want to argue that gun control is not an individual right, then while doing so please point out the clause in the constitution that guarantees a right to choose.
I think most conservatives would gladly trade a strict constitutional role of the courts, a vast rollback of the insane extensions of the constitution's commerce clause, in exchange for Gore 2000.
We owe trillions of dollars to foreign banks, but that's right, they are in -dollars-. Because the USA is the dumping ground for the world's manufactured goods, world nations HAVE to lend us the money or otherwise we would simply not be able to buy their stuff. If, for example, China refused to lend us dollars, we in turn could refuse to buy their manufactured goods. While we could certainly do without Chinese products, and WalMart for that matter, the Chinese certainly could not do without us.
Sorry, the fact of the matter is that the earth cannot be damaged, only changed. Human activities change the climate, but so does climate itself. Besides, the earth is just a stupid rock and nature is just a chemical reaction. If we are "nice" to the earth, the earth is not going to care. It's not some sentient being that has its feelings hurt if we whack a species or if we genetically engineer knew ones that are more entertaining.
The alternatives you guys have is to take us back to the good old days when we were all living in animal skin covered tents freezing to death and getting eaten by sabre tooth tigers and giant wolves. F-- that. I want my car with a giant engine!
Still, I do want to help you. I'll drop you off some mold or natural animal piss you can process for your little left wing envirohovels before I head off the mall in search of more loot. Maybe I need to buy a bigger truck to haul bigger stuff, and get a bigger job so I can get a bigger truck.
Go Bush!
Just imagine if the entire British Empire had been handed over to the Germans. You would have had the Nazis in control of Canada, the Middle East, India, Australia, large portions of Africa....
AT least we know we will still be able to have a house after they outsource all of our jobs! Let me have some of that cardboard!
By your standard, then, I should be able to haul Adam into the lab and measure the age of his bones. Touche. There's been no proof of Noah's ark. There's been no proof of even the existence of jews as slaves in egypt. There's been no proof of the plagues and there is no mausoleum for moses. There's no proof of the existence of Jesus, no proof, in fact, for the existence of any of the Judaeo Christian heros.
Finally, Egyptians have been proved to have been writing about the world before your calculations show that it was made.
Here's the thing about fundy Christians. You say that Christ fufilled the old jewish law, so that you can eat pork, for example, but, then, still cleave to the old law so you can justify your unchristianlike hatred of gays.
From what I read, Christ did not make any exceptions to his commandments for not judging other people, for turning the other cheek, for not pursuing wealth, etc. He didn't condemn Mary Magdalene and he made a tax collector one of his apostles. You want to really accept Jesus into your life? Stop chasing more money, stop waging pre-emptive wars and accept taxes and gays. There's nothing christian about conservatism.
I wonder if the Chinese would buy my shareware company?
Would you rather have NASA get another 5 billion a year or the FAA spend the same on a computer upgrade that doesn't work. Come to think of it, which would rather have: NASA, or another aircraft carrier battle group.
The problem is not the west. It's that these governments cannot build their own domestic markets. The West built itself up out of nothing, but the third world is for whatever reason beholden to economic policies that do not produce an increase of domestic consumption, don't add productivity to their own societies. So they instead prefer to work slave wages and dump exports on the West. If you fixed the inequities in Indian society and actually got a good domestic economy going, then fair trade would automatically follow.
Let's not forget that the reason Union Carbide was in there to begin with was because the Indian government created an environment where western companies could pay workers less than market wages, have lax environmental laws, and pretty much run a shoddy operation in order to get money. That business in India could have easily been located in the United States, but, instead, the Indian government allows its workers to be payed less and treated worse to get its competitive advantage. Declaring the head of Union Carbide a fugitive and playing victim is a red herring designed to cover the tracks of a completely corrupt system that is designed to elevate one caste while others are expendable. If you want to prevent Bhopals, insist that foreign governments have rules to make companies paying the same wages and same safety standards as their western counterparts.
MySQL is popular because it is good. It's simple to install, the C client is probably the most straightforward in an RDBMS, it's reliable, and it performs well enough for many small to midsize web sites. Is it an Oracle? Well, no, but, then again, not everyone needs a 400hp car and not everyone needs a 20k database server!
At some point, people will say, screw all this "adapt and change and run around around on your hands with one of your legs up your rear to beg for work", and instead, they will become terrorists. If you are an unemployed engineer, why not try and design some uber weapon of mass destruction. They fired YOU from your cushy job in the Sears Tower and sent you packing off to India? Knock the thing down!
All this talk about the evils of patents and you guys link to a patent.
my favorite shows will go from 9:04 to 9:32, commercials will run in packets, randomly determined, from 4, 17, 24, 35 and 59.7 seconds.
With a computer like that, you want clients to think that their machine, if unleashed, would start trying to take over the world, it is so powerful. If the mainframe you bought has loads of blinking lights and make ominous noises, its a win. Also, DOD terminology also helps, along with a speech synthesizer that randomly says, of "pentagon uplink complete", "retarget it in progress", etc.