Actually I was thinking that you send out a memo to every employee and discuss the audit, and stress the fact that they should never give their password out. Then in 3 months you do it again, and fire everyone that falls for it at that time. I am positive that there would still be firings....
Actually I have. Both 2000 and XP, both of which were the Pro version. I have to say that I believe the problem was that I had hardware problems on my motherboard, but I have seen both OSes BSOD on a regular basis...
But, lemme guess, you're a black woman? That would explain 2 tyhings: Why you'd give such an atypical appearance to a british chick, and why you care so damn much about the possibility that Ford wasn't written with "caucasian" in mind.
Well I have personally only met two females from England. One was my English teacher in college, who was a black woman. And the second was my friends girlfriend who was white. So aside from the British shown on TV, I could be left to assume a fifty-fifty shot that any average British female was black or white.
Something else I remember reading somewhere about this, if I remeber correctly the guy lied the first time he was questioned and said his daughter lased the jet, then later admitted he did....
Before you go bashing the UN, you might recall that the objectors were actually correct when they said you hadn't made the case against Iraq's WMDs, and that it was the US and its allies that lied and broke international law by invading a country with the goal of regime change. Like many in my country, I am digusted that our leaders played along, but we haven't yet had an election to make our opinions clear. You guys have, and look where it got you.
Funny, how about the eleven years of UN sanctions that Sadam totally ignored, of course all of those sanctions and UN orders had on them that shoudl he ignore it that any member of the UN may use military action against him, yet for eleven years he ignored them. Then we actually do something about him, and all of a sudden we didn't have a right to do it.
Actually I think you are forgetting one ally the US has in the Iraq war that I would suspect is footing a higher bill in lives in this war... That ally would be the Iraqi people....
But lets just look at what we do have...
Less then 2000 american soldiers dead in over a year of fighting. I will admit that any loss of life is awful but in a war that has waged for over a year we have only lost 2000 soldiers. All the critics said that this was going to be another Vietnam quagmire, but next month Iraq will probably have free elections, one of the most brutal, blood thirsty dictators has been removed from power, Iraqis are being trained for their military and police force. Hardly a quagmire I think.
I personally like to look at the accomplishments of the system rather then just complaining about oh they failed a test see we wasted millions of dollars in this system....
COnsidering before we started development of this system there were physisists that were saying that it was a waste of time that we could never develope a system of missle intercept based on the hit to kill principle, and that sending a missle up to hit another incomming ICBM was impossible. And you know what, they might have just failed a test, but there were missles that they intercepted, and I think that is a pretty good first step.
You act like we have to be able to develope a system flawlessly the first time or it is just a waste of money....
Well the point in the whole thing is that those players no matter what the fans do should never go into the stands and attack someone. With all the video footage of the event, the guy that got hit should file assult charges on him and sue him for all he is worth. That player deserves to go to jail.
Well I understand what you are saying. However most people don't want to think about it but the main idea in war is not really to kill your enemy. In most cases you merely want to injur him. A dead enemy combantant takes one combantant off the field, however an injured enemy combantant takes two or three combantants off the filed.
This could even be done for software components that implement a certain technology. Just for instance, if you set up a contest to pay for the first implementation of a new audio or video codec that also has features X,Y,Z (like a plug-in to winamp, and LGPL libraries, etc).
That is essentially what topcoder.com does. They take orders from their customers for software components and software applications, then hold two seperate contests, one for the design work, and one for the coding.
How exactly is this a despicable act? All he is doing is informing the voters of his opponents voting record. Or are you impling that politicians should be able to hide from thier records?
I think you are wrong on this one. Here is why. I looked at the site, and it isn't political mudslinging. It starts out that his opponent refuses to debate him, so here are my opponents voteing records. Also I don't see this as suppressing his political speach, because I would guess that since the urls contain the guys name, he would probably be able to get a judge or moderator to order the names given to him. Maybe he has no interest in having those urls? The domain name, at least the.com, was registered on 25 Jan 2004. If this Van Hollen was the incumbent I would expect that he knew prior to 25 Jan 2004 that he was going to run for reelection in November....
OK, I do have a problem with what I consider mud slinging. However, I looked at the site, and I wouldn't call that mud slinging. Informing voters of the past actions in public service of your opponent isn't mud slinging. I think the way campainging should be " My opponent has done this and this while serving in this elected position, however I will do this and this..." That isn't mud slinging.
How many people actually know someone that is a competent driver that has had this happen?
Not saying that it isn't BS, but I have had on one of my other cars the Fuel Injector Stick On, or something like that. All I know is that it was as if the gas pedal was floored constantly. I drove it all the way across town using the brakes to stay under the speed limit, shifting fast, and turning it off at lights and stop signs. Drove it to the mechanic and they replaced the Fuel injector and I was on my way again.
Although I think that Internet access in schools, and libraries are a good thing, why is it that it has to be the Federal Government's job to give them internet access.
If you as a constituant think that your local schools and libraries need internet access then you lobby your State or Local governments and let them fund it. I don't see anywhere in the Constitution where the Federal Governement is required to fund Internet connections, and I do see where anything not specifically listed in the Constitution is reserved for the States. So I see this as really a non-issue. I don't feel that the FCC should be funding this anyway. Let the States or even Local governments handle this.
I will also give you my reasoning for why the Federal Government should stick to only doing what the Constitution says it should do and let the States do all the other things. The government, like anyone else, cannot do things for free. Everything that a government does requires money. The problem is that the Federal Government has accountability to EVERY American. So your voice of how you think your tax money should be spent is of less significance because you are in a sea of many millions of Americans. Now in the States level, the field of constituants is dramatically cut down, as only residents of that Stateare included. Going one step further to the Local level and the number is a lot less. So you can have more control over how your elected representatives handle your tax money, the further down the chain you go. That is why I feel that the Federal Government should stick to only A) Settling Inter-State disputes, B) Providing for the National Defense of the United States, and C) Handling diplomatic responsibilities for the States. I think the Federal Government should stop doing all the other things they have their sticky little fingers in like Health Care, Education, Social Security, Welfare, etc... The list is rather long...
The US has pretty much had a divorce with the UN after invading Iraq
In my opinion the US should completely pull out of the UN all together anyway.
The intelligence leading to the Iraq invasion was unfounded and proven false
First of all, you are completely wrong here, but lets look at what if the intellegence was wrong. Even if the intelligence was wrong, if Bush did nothing, then his accusers would be screaming for his head because he didn't do anything.
There were no WMDs; they lied to commit their military and hundreds of billions of dollars to fight a war over oil interests and to settle an old score
Here again, you are completely wrong. THEY FOUND WMDs IN IRAQ. I don't know any other way to tell this so that it makes sense. They found over a gallon of Sarrin Gas in Iraq. You do know that Sarrin is a Chemical Weapon right? And you do know that there are three catagories of weapons that constitute WMDs right? And you do know that one of those catagories is Chemical weapons right? In case you didn't know that, the other two are Biological, and Nuclear. So now that we have established that there were some WMDs in Iraq lets look at the other possibilities. In the last 12 years of Sadam defing UN sanctions, every person in the public eye that is now screaming that Bush lied was adament that Saddam had WMDs. For 12 years Saddam has been defing UN sanctions and orders, all of which authorized any member country to take military action against Iraq if Iraq didn't comply, which Iraq didn't comply. And for 12 years Saddam has had plenty of chances to hide any WMDs he had, buring them in the vast desert that is Iraq, sending them to Syria for safe keeping, etc. We have already found a number of intact fighter jets burried in the desert for safe keeping, why not WMDs?
You are right on one thing. This war is about Oil, although you are wrong in who it is about Oil to. France was apposed to the US invading Iraq because while the rest of the world had sanctions against Iraqs oil, France had secret contracts with Iraq for cheap oil. And while the UN was running the abortion that was the Oil for Food program top officials in the UN are pocketing cash and getting rich stealing money from that program, including Kofi Annan. Hmmm, and I wonder why the UN was apposed to the US enforcing the United Nations own orders against Iraq, oh yeah, because they didn't want to give up the additional income they stole from the Oil for Food program.
I think it's pretty heartless to attack a country for oil, don't you? It's pretty tactical and devoid of humanity to kill for resources, to kill for revenge.
So you think the US is only in Iraq for the Oil. Ok, where is the Oil. We have been fighting in Iraq for well over a year now, where is the Oil. Why is my Gas price still close to 2.00 a gallon. If we invaded Iraq for the Oil why don't we have any? I will tell you, simply we didn't go into Iraq for the Oil. France and the UN didn't want us to go into Iraq because of there own Oil interests, but we didn't go in for the Oil. What I think is heartless is a leader of a country using Chemical Weapons against his own people. Saddam has killed more Iraqis then the US has...
When a president can usurp sovereignty by stealing an election,
I am assuming here that you are refering to Bush. Funny how he didn't steal the election, he was elected fair and square. The only person that was tring to steal that election was Gore, and luckily the law was enforced and Gore was stopped. There wasn't any confusion with so-called "Butterfly Ballots" The problem was that a lot of people assumed that Gore would win, so they voted for Buchanan for what ever reason, and when it became a close call, they started panicing and sold themselves out to be idiots tring to change the outcome of a legal election. There weren't any minorities that were denied a vote, there were even a few groups that set up hotlines after the election
Those would all appear to be really good reasons. So why did Bush focus on fictional Weapons of Mass Destruction and totally improbable links between Saddam and Bin Laddan?
Why are the majority of Americans seemingly so happy that the President outright lied to them? Clinton lied about getting a blowjob and the entire world grinds to a halt, but Bush lies about a war were hundreds of service men and women have died and there is barely a peep.
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I thought that all the lawsuits about Tetris that went down just had to do with the actual name Tetris...
There are like asszillions of Tetris clones out there, and I thought all of them were legal so long as "tris" wasn't in their name...
Actually I was thinking that you send out a memo to every employee and discuss the audit, and stress the fact that they should never give their password out. Then in 3 months you do it again, and fire everyone that falls for it at that time. I am positive that there would still be firings....
Why use a trolley? You would probably be able to get them to help carry it out to your car...
I do believe that the eBay rules state that the seller has to actually send a physical item to the buyer....
Actually I have. Both 2000 and XP, both of which were the Pro version. I have to say that I believe the problem was that I had hardware problems on my motherboard, but I have seen both OSes BSOD on a regular basis...
Patrick
But, lemme guess, you're a black woman? That would explain 2 tyhings: Why you'd give such an atypical appearance to a british chick, and why you care so damn much about the possibility that Ford wasn't written with "caucasian" in mind.
Well I have personally only met two females from England. One was my English teacher in college, who was a black woman. And the second was my friends girlfriend who was white. So aside from the British shown on TV, I could be left to assume a fifty-fifty shot that any average British female was black or white.
Something else I remember reading somewhere about this, if I remeber correctly the guy lied the first time he was questioned and said his daughter lased the jet, then later admitted he did....
Before you go bashing the UN, you might recall that the objectors were actually correct when they said you hadn't made the case against Iraq's WMDs, and that it was the US and its allies that lied and broke international law by invading a country with the goal of regime change. Like many in my country, I am digusted that our leaders played along, but we haven't yet had an election to make our opinions clear. You guys have, and look where it got you.
Funny, how about the eleven years of UN sanctions that Sadam totally ignored, of course all of those sanctions and UN orders had on them that shoudl he ignore it that any member of the UN may use military action against him, yet for eleven years he ignored them. Then we actually do something about him, and all of a sudden we didn't have a right to do it.
Actually I think you are forgetting one ally the US has in the Iraq war that I would suspect is footing a higher bill in lives in this war... That ally would be the Iraqi people....
But lets just look at what we do have...
Less then 2000 american soldiers dead in over a year of fighting. I will admit that any loss of life is awful but in a war that has waged for over a year we have only lost 2000 soldiers. All the critics said that this was going to be another Vietnam quagmire, but next month Iraq will probably have free elections, one of the most brutal, blood thirsty dictators has been removed from power, Iraqis are being trained for their military and police force. Hardly a quagmire I think.
I personally like to look at the accomplishments of the system rather then just complaining about oh they failed a test see we wasted millions of dollars in this system....
COnsidering before we started development of this system there were physisists that were saying that it was a waste of time that we could never develope a system of missle intercept based on the hit to kill principle, and that sending a missle up to hit another incomming ICBM was impossible. And you know what, they might have just failed a test, but there were missles that they intercepted, and I think that is a pretty good first step.
You act like we have to be able to develope a system flawlessly the first time or it is just a waste of money....
That is another reason I like gmail... when you open an email in gmail they won't open external images unless you specifically ask to....
Wouldn't the metal skin of the aircraft act as a Faraday Cage?
I would think you wouldn't get any signal in a plane...
Well the point in the whole thing is that those players no matter what the fans do should never go into the stands and attack someone. With all the video footage of the event, the guy that got hit should file assult charges on him and sue him for all he is worth. That player deserves to go to jail.
Well I understand what you are saying. However most people don't want to think about it but the main idea in war is not really to kill your enemy. In most cases you merely want to injur him. A dead enemy combantant takes one combantant off the field, however an injured enemy combantant takes two or three combantants off the filed.
This could even be done for software components that implement a certain technology. Just for instance, if you set up a contest to pay for the first implementation of a new audio or video codec that also has features X,Y,Z (like a plug-in to winamp, and LGPL libraries, etc).
That is essentially what topcoder.com does. They take orders from their customers for software components and software applications, then hold two seperate contests, one for the design work, and one for the coding.
I do see laws being passed based on a belief system that I do not subscribe to, and that offends me.
Using that logic, I could say that I believe that murder and stealing are right things to do, and therefore be offended that they are illegal....
'm not sure where you see that.. according to 2003 tax return: (looks good to me..) and nowhere near 13%
Did you even try to calculate the percentage he pays???? I wouldn't exactly call 13.7% nowhere near 13%
Patrick
Actually if you do the math 90575 / 395000 == 13.7%....
How exactly is this a despicable act? All he is doing is informing the voters of his opponents voting record. Or are you impling that politicians should be able to hide from thier records?
I think you are wrong on this one. Here is why. I looked at the site, and it isn't political mudslinging. It starts out that his opponent refuses to debate him, so here are my opponents voteing records. Also I don't see this as suppressing his political speach, because I would guess that since the urls contain the guys name, he would probably be able to get a judge or moderator to order the names given to him. Maybe he has no interest in having those urls? The domain name, at least the .com, was registered on 25 Jan 2004. If this Van Hollen was the incumbent I would expect that he knew prior to 25 Jan 2004 that he was going to run for reelection in November....
OK, I do have a problem with what I consider mud slinging. However, I looked at the site, and I wouldn't call that mud slinging. Informing voters of the past actions in public service of your opponent isn't mud slinging. I think the way campainging should be " My opponent has done this and this while serving in this elected position, however I will do this and this..." That isn't mud slinging.
How many people actually know someone that is a competent driver that has had this happen?
Not saying that it isn't BS, but I have had on one of my other cars the Fuel Injector Stick On, or something like that. All I know is that it was as if the gas pedal was floored constantly. I drove it all the way across town using the brakes to stay under the speed limit, shifting fast, and turning it off at lights and stop signs. Drove it to the mechanic and they replaced the Fuel injector and I was on my way again.
Patrick
Although I think that Internet access in schools, and libraries are a good thing, why is it that it has to be the Federal Government's job to give them internet access.
If you as a constituant think that your local schools and libraries need internet access then you lobby your State or Local governments and let them fund it. I don't see anywhere in the Constitution where the Federal Governement is required to fund Internet connections, and I do see where anything not specifically listed in the Constitution is reserved for the States. So I see this as really a non-issue. I don't feel that the FCC should be funding this anyway. Let the States or even Local governments handle this.
I will also give you my reasoning for why the Federal Government should stick to only doing what the Constitution says it should do and let the States do all the other things. The government, like anyone else, cannot do things for free. Everything that a government does requires money. The problem is that the Federal Government has accountability to EVERY American. So your voice of how you think your tax money should be spent is of less significance because you are in a sea of many millions of Americans. Now in the States level, the field of constituants is dramatically cut down, as only residents of that Stateare included. Going one step further to the Local level and the number is a lot less. So you can have more control over how your elected representatives handle your tax money, the further down the chain you go. That is why I feel that the Federal Government should stick to only A) Settling Inter-State disputes, B) Providing for the National Defense of the United States, and C) Handling diplomatic responsibilities for the States. I think the Federal Government should stop doing all the other things they have their sticky little fingers in like Health Care, Education, Social Security, Welfare, etc... The list is rather long...
The US has pretty much had a divorce with the UN after invading Iraq
In my opinion the US should completely pull out of the UN all together anyway.
The intelligence leading to the Iraq invasion was unfounded and proven false
First of all, you are completely wrong here, but lets look at what if the intellegence was wrong. Even if the intelligence was wrong, if Bush did nothing, then his accusers would be screaming for his head because he didn't do anything.
There were no WMDs; they lied to commit their military and hundreds of billions of dollars to fight a war over oil interests and to settle an old score
Here again, you are completely wrong. THEY FOUND WMDs IN IRAQ. I don't know any other way to tell this so that it makes sense. They found over a gallon of Sarrin Gas in Iraq. You do know that Sarrin is a Chemical Weapon right? And you do know that there are three catagories of weapons that constitute WMDs right? And you do know that one of those catagories is Chemical weapons right? In case you didn't know that, the other two are Biological, and Nuclear. So now that we have established that there were some WMDs in Iraq lets look at the other possibilities. In the last 12 years of Sadam defing UN sanctions, every person in the public eye that is now screaming that Bush lied was adament that Saddam had WMDs. For 12 years Saddam has been defing UN sanctions and orders, all of which authorized any member country to take military action against Iraq if Iraq didn't comply, which Iraq didn't comply. And for 12 years Saddam has had plenty of chances to hide any WMDs he had, buring them in the vast desert that is Iraq, sending them to Syria for safe keeping, etc. We have already found a number of intact fighter jets burried in the desert for safe keeping, why not WMDs?
You are right on one thing. This war is about Oil, although you are wrong in who it is about Oil to. France was apposed to the US invading Iraq because while the rest of the world had sanctions against Iraqs oil, France had secret contracts with Iraq for cheap oil. And while the UN was running the abortion that was the Oil for Food program top officials in the UN are pocketing cash and getting rich stealing money from that program, including Kofi Annan. Hmmm, and I wonder why the UN was apposed to the US enforcing the United Nations own orders against Iraq, oh yeah, because they didn't want to give up the additional income they stole from the Oil for Food program.
I think it's pretty heartless to attack a country for oil, don't you? It's pretty tactical and devoid of humanity to kill for resources, to kill for revenge.
So you think the US is only in Iraq for the Oil. Ok, where is the Oil. We have been fighting in Iraq for well over a year now, where is the Oil. Why is my Gas price still close to 2.00 a gallon. If we invaded Iraq for the Oil why don't we have any? I will tell you, simply we didn't go into Iraq for the Oil. France and the UN didn't want us to go into Iraq because of there own Oil interests, but we didn't go in for the Oil. What I think is heartless is a leader of a country using Chemical Weapons against his own people. Saddam has killed more Iraqis then the US has...
When a president can usurp sovereignty by stealing an election,
I am assuming here that you are refering to Bush. Funny how he didn't steal the election, he was elected fair and square. The only person that was tring to steal that election was Gore, and luckily the law was enforced and Gore was stopped. There wasn't any confusion with so-called "Butterfly Ballots" The problem was that a lot of people assumed that Gore would win, so they voted for Buchanan for what ever reason, and when it became a close call, they started panicing and sold themselves out to be idiots tring to change the outcome of a legal election. There weren't any minorities that were denied a vote, there were even a few groups that set up hotlines after the election
Those would all appear to be really good reasons. So why did Bush focus on fictional Weapons of Mass Destruction and totally improbable links between Saddam and Bin Laddan?
Why are the majority of Americans seemingly so happy that the President outright lied to them? Clinton lied about getting a blowjob and the entire world grinds to a halt, but Bush lies about a war were hundreds of service men and women have died and there is barely a peep.
You seem to not know what the word fictional means. There have been WMD found in Iraq.
Also, name one lie that Bush said. I don't think you can do it.
Patrick