it's small wonder nobody investigates price fixing of that commodity
There's no need to investigate the price fixing since that is the stated purpose of OPEC, to fix oil prices. Some have tried unsuccesfully to sue them in the past but they don't fall under US jurisdiction under current antitrust laws.
If you don't agree with the war, vote against it and convince others to do the same. However, you have no right to resist conscription unless you have extreme moral objections to killing in general--which, according to your earlier statements, you do not. By willingly residing within the United States, you agree to the possibility of conscription (read more of Glaucon's Social contract theory if you don't believe me). Your cowardice and/or opinions do not change your societal obligations, and failing to uphold those obligations is perhaps one of the most dis-honorable things a person can do.
I disagree with your comment that the only reason you can object to a war is if you have a specific objection to killing. As any sane person I obviously have some objection to killing but I certainly will do so if I believe the cause is just but I will NOT kill someone just because my government conscripts me and says "Kill or go to jail, your choice!".
World War II and the Korean are the only wars in the last 60 years that the US fought an opponent that invaded another country against its will. Nearly all the other wars the US has fought it has been American troops "intervening" in other countries. Look at all the interventions in Central America that costs thousands of lives so that the banana companies could maintain their monopolies, and lets not even start on Vietnam.
Iraq is a war that the US chose to fight, right or wrong, and it is also a situation that we can chose to leave if we want. Conscription should be reserved for wars in which the survival of the country is at stake, World War II is the only recent war which meets that criteria. Of course they didn't need to conscript the majority of the troops, most voluntarily joined because everyone realized that this was a "World War" not just a regionalized conflict. Not only that but the Nazis were perfect villians, pure embodient of evil, not too hard to pull the trigger with a Nazi in your scope.
As someone who could easily be drafted I would probably go if I was conscripted because I'd rather have military service than rot in jail. The ironic thing is that I think I would actually be acting more cowardly by going and killing people when I didn't believe it was right. The easy way out is to go instead of sit in jail for the duration of your enlistment which is why most people do I'm sure.
POP3 support would destroy the entire reason google provides the service, the ads that are displayed. Unless you want the ads embedded in your e-mail which is far worse than seeing them next to your messages on the web site in my opinion...
As a concerned parent, I am very pleased that Indiana Jones himself came up with the PG-13 rating. Now that my oldest boy, Johnny, is 16 I'm thinking about letting him watch a PG-13 movie.
So my post regarding Bush/Kerry is Offtopic but the parent post on Bush/Kerry which I was replying to is Insightful? The thought police are out today I guess...
I voted Libertarian in the 2000 election but I will be voting for Kerry this election which I'm not too pleased about but I must.
The two fundamentals or Libertarianism are social and economic freedom from the government.
Clearly, Bush as a fundamentalist fails on the social freedom part as Republicans typically do. War on Drugs, Anti-Gay rhetoric, John Ashcroft (need I say more?) and of course Freedom of Religion but only if it's Christianity.
What has disturbed me most though is the complete disregard for conservative fiscal values in this Administration. Our budget is the largest it has EVER been and as a percentage Bush has increased the government more than anyone since WWII. Not only that we are running record deficits which will eventually result in our taxes getting raised so we end up paying principle + interest.
As far as Iraq one could support the invasion for Iraq to remove a threat to our country but no true Libertarian can really ever support a prolonged occupation of another country. Especially when it costs us a ton of money to support with few benefits unless you consider filling the ranks of Al-Qaida and other terrorist groups a benefit.
Seriously though, I'd like to hear a Libertarian argument for voting Bush.
Go to My Computer, doubleclick C drive, doubleclick on the Windows directory, delete iexplore.exe. Your problems with Internet Explorer are now solved!
But if you notice only the carbon nanotube idea at the end seems to offer a speed increase which is what we really need. Tons of storage is great but until HDs start increasing in speed significantly they will remain the primary bottleneck in most systems.
The thing is can you really expect any university with a decent CS program (and therefore a large concentration of possible hackers) to be able to really secure their networks against their own students without spending a ton of money? Just by being a student you already have a valid username/password to start with which makes it pretty damn easy. Most universities rely on the hope that students will have enough decency to not hack the network.
I'm not saying I think they should be charged with anything but they should have remembered these old words of wisdom: Don't shit where you eat.
The cell phone networks will be the first target in any terrorist attack, why bother taking out a power plant or a skyscraper when you can mildly inconvenience a small region of people?
I disagree. We have been fighting against the RIAA and MPAA for years and what have we accomplished? Nothing. My friends, it is time to simply give up and admit that corporations know what's best for us all.
After all that I was almost expecting for him to say he then loaded up Far Cry for a couple hours until the smoke started REALLY billowing from the computer. Of course that would become a nuisance so then he'd go in the other room to get some shut eye while Maya rendered a few scenes overnight...
We cover the planet with the dirtiest factories we can imagine churning out CO2 and other delightful pollutants to create the greenhouse effect and intersperced with them a dense forest that converts the CO2 into oxygen. Wait 40,000 years. Convert factories into family fun centers and pave over troublesome forests and now we're ready for humans.
A friend of mine who has an extremely old computer with Windows 95 running on it but has broadband access asked me to take a look at his computer because it was freezing up when it booted to the desktop. I ran Spybot S&D and he had at least 40 different spyware (Spybot removed 10,000 registry entries or files) that would run on startup, of course this computer had gone 5 years without any removal so it's really not that suprising.
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it's small wonder nobody investigates price fixing of that commodity
There's no need to investigate the price fixing since that is the stated purpose of OPEC, to fix oil prices. Some have tried unsuccesfully to sue them in the past but they don't fall under US jurisdiction under current antitrust laws.
That wasn't so tough, just a simple cut and paste...
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Hey you know you could save some more money by just stealing the DVD-Rs as well!
If you don't agree with the war, vote against it and convince others to do the same. However, you have no right to resist conscription unless you have extreme moral objections to killing in general--which, according to your earlier statements, you do not. By willingly residing within the United States, you agree to the possibility of conscription (read more of Glaucon's Social contract theory if you don't believe me). Your cowardice and/or opinions do not change your societal obligations, and failing to uphold those obligations is perhaps one of the most dis-honorable things a person can do.
I disagree with your comment that the only reason you can object to a war is if you have a specific objection to killing. As any sane person I obviously have some objection to killing but I certainly will do so if I believe the cause is just but I will NOT kill someone just because my government conscripts me and says "Kill or go to jail, your choice!".
World War II and the Korean are the only wars in the last 60 years that the US fought an opponent that invaded another country against its will. Nearly all the other wars the US has fought it has been American troops "intervening" in other countries. Look at all the interventions in Central America that costs thousands of lives so that the banana companies could maintain their monopolies, and lets not even start on Vietnam.
Iraq is a war that the US chose to fight, right or wrong, and it is also a situation that we can chose to leave if we want. Conscription should be reserved for wars in which the survival of the country is at stake, World War II is the only recent war which meets that criteria. Of course they didn't need to conscript the majority of the troops, most voluntarily joined because everyone realized that this was a "World War" not just a regionalized conflict. Not only that but the Nazis were perfect villians, pure embodient of evil, not too hard to pull the trigger with a Nazi in your scope.
As someone who could easily be drafted I would probably go if I was conscripted because I'd rather have military service than rot in jail. The ironic thing is that I think I would actually be acting more cowardly by going and killing people when I didn't believe it was right. The easy way out is to go instead of sit in jail for the duration of your enlistment which is why most people do I'm sure.
POP3 support would destroy the entire reason google provides the service, the ads that are displayed. Unless you want the ads embedded in your e-mail which is far worse than seeing them next to your messages on the web site in my opinion...
As a concerned parent, I am very pleased that Indiana Jones himself came up with the PG-13 rating. Now that my oldest boy, Johnny, is 16 I'm thinking about letting him watch a PG-13 movie.
The biggest concern isn't the 13-year-old who hacks into the Fedwire and sends himself some money -- it's terrorism.
Gee, a terrorist is a bigger threat than a script kiddie, who'd have thought?
So my post regarding Bush/Kerry is Offtopic but the parent post on Bush/Kerry which I was replying to is Insightful? The thought police are out today I guess...
I voted Libertarian in the 2000 election but I will be voting for Kerry this election which I'm not too pleased about but I must.
The two fundamentals or Libertarianism are social and economic freedom from the government.
Clearly, Bush as a fundamentalist fails on the social freedom part as Republicans typically do. War on Drugs, Anti-Gay rhetoric, John Ashcroft (need I say more?) and of course Freedom of Religion but only if it's Christianity.
What has disturbed me most though is the complete disregard for conservative fiscal values in this Administration. Our budget is the largest it has EVER been and as a percentage Bush has increased the government more than anyone since WWII. Not only that we are running record deficits which will eventually result in our taxes getting raised so we end up paying principle + interest.
As far as Iraq one could support the invasion for Iraq to remove a threat to our country but no true Libertarian can really ever support a prolonged occupation of another country. Especially when it costs us a ton of money to support with few benefits unless you consider filling the ranks of Al-Qaida and other terrorist groups a benefit.
Seriously though, I'd like to hear a Libertarian argument for voting Bush.
Or you could try this:
Go to My Computer, doubleclick C drive, doubleclick on the Windows directory, delete iexplore.exe. Your problems with Internet Explorer are now solved!
I thought about reading the article but will it change if I look at it?
But if you notice only the carbon nanotube idea at the end seems to offer a speed increase which is what we really need. Tons of storage is great but until HDs start increasing in speed significantly they will remain the primary bottleneck in most systems.
I should smash your face in with my liquid core bowling ball for such an insolent comment!
The thing is can you really expect any university with a decent CS program (and therefore a large concentration of possible hackers) to be able to really secure their networks against their own students without spending a ton of money? Just by being a student you already have a valid username/password to start with which makes it pretty damn easy. Most universities rely on the hope that students will have enough decency to not hack the network.
I'm not saying I think they should be charged with anything but they should have remembered these old words of wisdom: Don't shit where you eat.
The cell phone networks will be the first target in any terrorist attack, why bother taking out a power plant or a skyscraper when you can mildly inconvenience a small region of people?
I bet those guys had pretty weird parents to name them after units of measurement...
I disagree. We have been fighting against the RIAA and MPAA for years and what have we accomplished? Nothing. My friends, it is time to simply give up and admit that corporations know what's best for us all.
Saying it's useless trivia is somewhat redundant since the word itself means insignificant or inessential...
After all that I was almost expecting for him to say he then loaded up Far Cry for a couple hours until the smoke started REALLY billowing from the computer. Of course that would become a nuisance so then he'd go in the other room to get some shut eye while Maya rendered a few scenes overnight...
I prefer the term intellectual whore.
If I were an expert I would revel going on this show, but then again I like to argue with people...
Come on now don't you know that convenience for the end user is always more important than security? Why else would Windows run on 90% of computers...
We cover the planet with the dirtiest factories we can imagine churning out CO2 and other delightful pollutants to create the greenhouse effect and intersperced with them a dense forest that converts the CO2 into oxygen. Wait 40,000 years. Convert factories into family fun centers and pave over troublesome forests and now we're ready for humans.
A friend of mine who has an extremely old computer with Windows 95 running on it but has broadband access asked me to take a look at his computer because it was freezing up when it booted to the desktop. I ran Spybot S&D and he had at least 40 different spyware (Spybot removed 10,000 registry entries or files) that would run on startup, of course this computer had gone 5 years without any removal so it's really not that suprising.
Come on now, you really think Carmack would use something as old as Doom for this? I would bet he'd use a high tech simulator from NASA.