Actually - I was thinking that Sarge would make a good main character. (Samuel L Jackson?) A look at the Halo world through a different viewpoint might yield a refreshing perspective. Plus - Sarge is clearly privy to more "classified" info than the MC is.
I do love the form-factor of the RAZR (fits in my pocket - no belt-warts!).
There is a long list of "features" this phone has, that I wish I could just remove - including the camera, color screen, and byzantine UI.
Especially if it meant that it could be smaller, better battery life, and be actually easy to use/configure.
The reception still sucks though.
Seems like the only place I get a good signal is on the highway to and from work. Which is ironic, see? because you're not supposed to use the fucking things when you're driving.
I believe that human beings have the power and knowhow to control Global Warming. Or if we don't, we can get it. What we have not worked out, is how to control human behavior on the scale that would be necessary to control global warming.
In other words - we're already totally fucked, as a species. Unfortunately, so are most of the other species on this planet, most likely.
Bush hasn't nationalized his country's only real industry (in Chavez's case, oil) and started using it as a subsidized way to prop up leftist politicians in other countries.
No, but Bush HAS nationalized his country's only real industry (war), and started using it as a subsidized way to prop up rightist politicians in other countries. (Duvalier in Haiti, Maliki in Iraq, Karzai in Afghanistan. . . and probably others we don't even know about).
He doesn't issue statements saying that his "brothers" in Iran will get his undying support as they build, traffic in, and sell weapons throughout the middle east.
. . . except when those "brothers" are in Israel.
He doesn't buy temporary favor from poor people by doling out food when the cameras are watching,
no, he certainly does not.
but completely neglect the most crime-ridden, murderous, corrupt thug culture in the region.
Personally, I'm not one to stick up for Chavez. But Bush is by far the worst offender these days. If Chavez is ten times as dirty as the neocon propaganda machine is saying, he's still a punter compared to Bush.
If I was the U.S. administration, I would recommend to hush up any possible ties between Sequoia voting machines and Venezuela.
. . . unless I was about to get my ass handed to me in a mid-term, and needed some "vast left-wing conspiracy" to blame it on, to draw attention away from the fact that the reason I'm about to get beat is because my (the US Administration) policies suck, and I've failed spectacularly at every single endeavor for the past 6 years. Then I'd MAKE UP a Sequoia/Venezuala connection if I had to. Hell, I'd try to make up an Al Qaeda and North Korea connection too, while I was at it.
There are some of us in the world who don't get *any* buzz from any amount of exercise.
Thank you for your response to yet another appeal from the self-righteous neo-Calvinist fitness police, who believe that all personal problems can be solved for all people if they just sweat and suffer enough.
I can tell you that my knees, hips, and shoulders sure as hell were not designed to be physically stressed on a regular basis - given the amount of inflammation they undergo in response to even mundane amounts of exertion. Don't get me wrong - I do low-impact stuff (believe it or not, mountain biking qualifies). But running is right out. For me, anyway.
Yeah - I've often wondered at the trend lately; both SpaceDaily and SpaceFlightNow do this. They post an article about some nifty wizz-bang new space or astronomy photo, with often, no link to the photo, or at best, a postage-stamp preview. The old Fark saw comes to mind: "This post is useless without pics."
Then when one thinks about it, MY tax dollars paid for this picture. Paid a lot. Why should some private journalistic enterprise be charging me for premium content for a link to this photo or video? Kinda makes me angry.
Employers sure as hell NEED more immigrants. Especially illegals. They can pay them less.
America does not have an illegal immigration problem.
America has an illegal employment problem. Bust some illegal employers, and this problem will go away. By the way - enforcement of illegal employment has dropped 95% since 2000. (Enforcement of law is an Executive Branch function. Draw your own conclusion).
Even if that 650,000 figure is correct, we, the United States of America, did not kill all those people. Most were killed by other Iraqis, by Syrians, by Lebanese, by Jordanians.
The Iraqis, Syrians, and Lebanese (and others) did not dismantle their entire infrastructure for maintaining civil order, and leave it broken. The US did. Bremer did. Against the strong protest of the UN, the US State Department, and pretty much everyone in the world with half a brain.
The feeble attempts at rebuilding such an infrastructure have failed miserably, because at every turn, they've been infiltrated by militias, death squads, jihadists, and insurgents. The country is in chaos, and the ONLY potential solution is from 500k to a million peace keepers. The longer this solution is delayed, the worse the problem gets. There was a chance, early on in the conflict, for the US to remedy this situation, but Rumsfeld and Bush denied that there was a troop shortage, and refused to admit they had made a mistake, because they wanted to hold onto their power. As a result, 650,000 innocent civilians are dead. But I'm sure glad that our President didn't have to admit he was wrong prior to the 2004 election. Because surely, he will eventually have to admit it, and he has shown some recent signs of doing so, with regard to the change in the "stay the course" rhetoric to the "adapt to win" rhetoric - the only problem is, they don't have the political capital to get this job done right anymore. So more people are going to be killed by this unnecessary fiasco of a war.
Yeah, but in 1800, there wasn't an HMO accountant telling my doctor not to perform certain tests or use certain equipment (like MRI's). I suffered with severe back pain (including missed work) for 12 months before my HMO coughed up an approval for an MRI. The doctors and scientists may be making progress in their knowledge - but they should clue the fucking HMO spreadsheet jockeys in.
On OS X, Firefox surely can not admin my Linksys router.
I still use the IE:Mac (what is it, version 5?) for this purpose, and this purpose only.
I haven't tried Firefox 2 on this task yet, but 1.5 just plain didn't work. It would not navigate the tabs, and especially, update the Status tab with the "connected" "connecting" "disconnected" info.
The other bit of Tax that's left out of the equation is the Tax most Americans don't measure.
Most Americans don't measure the Tax they have to pay, in the form of increased interest rates, due to the massive amounts of money their government borrows, as a "smoke-and-mirrors" trick to spend money without having to raise taxes. Only - instead of this revenue (due to increased interest rates) going to public investment like infrastructure or schools, it goes to the bottom line of the financial industry.
The other Tax is paid by consumers of Energy - who suffer under an energy policy that dates from the Victorian age: pay your extortion money to the oil barons, and nobody gets hurt.
Another Tax is paid by consumers of Intellectual Property - who pay vastly more for cost-less digital copies of information than would otherwise be dictated by "a free market" - these surcharges being levied out of legalized bribery by lobbyists, rather than out of sound policy.
But Americans are content to believe that these charges are not "Taxes" because they are not paid to the government. And they're content to believe that money paid to other private interests somehow benefits them more than money paid to the government (which, in America, consists of Americans).
So you can be pissed that you're paying double the rate that Paris Hilton is paying on her income from her various trust funds.
Yeah - but the justice there is - I've seen her naked, and she hasn't seen me naked. (/sarcasm - but frankly, this is what's going through the minds of most Americans that makes it all seem okay).
Yeah that's right the Christians should take to the streets burning the Saudi flag, burning cars, damaging property, etc.
They don't dare. Because these "Christians" are in love with oil, and money. Their "savior" who proclaimed himself "sent by God" is in bed with the Saudi royals. Americans have a choice between two masters to serve. They chose oil and money, while calling themselves Christians.
When America is prepared to be honest with themselves, maybe there will be change. But the truth is - this whore of a people, has sold itself out.
The trouble with all of the semi-socialist countries in Europe is that all of the social services that have made them so attractive for so long are now buckling under the strain of un-restrained immigration, f
It's not really clear that that's the problem - but there's a simple solution to this: Restrain the fucking immigration.
The solution to the immigration problem, of course, is to fix the fucked up countries the immigrants are coming from. (the problem with Mexico and the US could be solved easily. Most Mexicans would happily stay at home in their native country if they could find jobs).
But when did they legalize drawing-and-quartering?
Not that I'm opposed to that, mind you. It's just that I thought it was forbidden by the Constitution or something like that (not that that matters anymore).
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Actually - I was thinking that Sarge would make a good main character. (Samuel L Jackson?)
A look at the Halo world through a different viewpoint might yield a refreshing perspective.
Plus - Sarge is clearly privy to more "classified" info than the MC is.
I do love the form-factor of the RAZR (fits in my pocket - no belt-warts!).
There is a long list of "features" this phone has, that I wish I could just remove - including the camera, color screen, and byzantine UI.
Especially if it meant that it could be smaller, better battery life, and be actually easy to use/configure.
The reception still sucks though.
Seems like the only place I get a good signal is on the highway to and from work. Which is ironic, see? because you're not supposed to use the fucking things when you're driving.
Bah - I'm just waiting for Apple to screw me, because I have a G5, and haven't upgraded to the intel mac yet.
Ah - thank you sir.
(Although I would have put that choice in a set of radio buttons instead of a pulldown. . . )
We do not have a "Global Warming" Problem.
We have a "Controlling Human Behavior" Problem.
I believe that human beings have the power and knowhow to control Global Warming. Or if we don't, we can get it.
What we have not worked out, is how to control human behavior on the scale that would be necessary to control global warming.
In other words - we're already totally fucked, as a species. Unfortunately, so are most of the other species on this planet, most likely.
Bush hasn't nationalized his country's only real industry (in Chavez's case, oil) and started using it as a subsidized way to prop up leftist politicians in other countries.
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No, but Bush HAS nationalized his country's only real industry (war), and started using it as a subsidized way to prop up rightist politicians in other countries. (Duvalier in Haiti, Maliki in Iraq, Karzai in Afghanistan. . . and probably others we don't even know about).
He doesn't shut down journalists for speaking out against him,
Um. Sorry, try again:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
He doesn't issue statements saying that his "brothers" in Iran will get his undying support as they build, traffic in, and sell weapons throughout the middle east.
. . . except when those "brothers" are in Israel.
He doesn't buy temporary favor from poor people by doling out food when the cameras are watching,
no, he certainly does not.
but completely neglect the most crime-ridden, murderous, corrupt thug culture in the region.
you mean Bush's neighbor to the South? (Mexico):
http://www.albionmonitor.com/0610a/copyright/usdr
Or were you referring to Afghanistan?:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1247
Personally, I'm not one to stick up for Chavez. But Bush is by far the worst offender these days. If Chavez is ten times as dirty as the neocon propaganda machine is saying, he's still a punter compared to Bush.
If I was the U.S. administration, I would recommend to hush up any possible ties between Sequoia voting machines and Venezuela.
. . . unless I was about to get my ass handed to me in a mid-term, and needed some "vast left-wing conspiracy" to blame it on, to draw attention away from the fact that the reason I'm about to get beat is because my (the US Administration) policies suck, and I've failed spectacularly at every single endeavor for the past 6 years. Then I'd MAKE UP a Sequoia/Venezuala connection if I had to. Hell, I'd try to make up an Al Qaeda and North Korea connection too, while I was at it.
If I could get it to Restore Session from a normal close of Firefox, I wouldn't even give a crap about the memory issues.
I'd just occasionally shut er down and start it back up, Restore session, presto!
Comments are just another form of porn.
At least the end product doesn't require a tissue though.
There are some of us in the world who don't get *any* buzz from any amount of exercise.
Thank you for your response to yet another appeal from the self-righteous neo-Calvinist fitness police, who believe that all personal problems can be solved for all people if they just sweat and suffer enough.
I can tell you that my knees, hips, and shoulders sure as hell were not designed to be physically stressed on a regular basis - given the amount of inflammation they undergo in response to even mundane amounts of exertion. Don't get me wrong - I do low-impact stuff (believe it or not, mountain biking qualifies). But running is right out. For me, anyway.
This is old news. NASA Adminstrator Mike Griffin is using half a billion dollars to invest in private industry to spark this.
Um - hello? How exactly is spending tax money "private investment"?
What could be more destructive to the institution of marriage than divorce?
WoW?
What a rip off.
No haiku.
Yeah - I've often wondered at the trend lately; both SpaceDaily and SpaceFlightNow do this. They post an article about some nifty wizz-bang new space or astronomy photo, with often, no link to the photo, or at best, a postage-stamp preview. The old Fark saw comes to mind: "This post is useless without pics."
Then when one thinks about it, MY tax dollars paid for this picture. Paid a lot. Why should some private journalistic enterprise be charging me for premium content for a link to this photo or video? Kinda makes me angry.
Employers sure as hell NEED more immigrants. Especially illegals. They can pay them less.
America does not have an illegal immigration problem.
America has an illegal employment problem. Bust some illegal employers, and this problem will go away. By the way - enforcement of illegal employment has dropped 95% since 2000. (Enforcement of law is an Executive Branch function. Draw your own conclusion).
Even if that 650,000 figure is correct, we, the United States of America, did not kill all those people. Most were killed by other Iraqis, by Syrians, by Lebanese, by Jordanians.
The Iraqis, Syrians, and Lebanese (and others) did not dismantle their entire infrastructure for maintaining civil order, and leave it broken. The US did. Bremer did. Against the strong protest of the UN, the US State Department, and pretty much everyone in the world with half a brain.
The feeble attempts at rebuilding such an infrastructure have failed miserably, because at every turn, they've been infiltrated by militias, death squads, jihadists, and insurgents. The country is in chaos, and the ONLY potential solution is from 500k to a million peace keepers. The longer this solution is delayed, the worse the problem gets. There was a chance, early on in the conflict, for the US to remedy this situation, but Rumsfeld and Bush denied that there was a troop shortage, and refused to admit they had made a mistake, because they wanted to hold onto their power. As a result, 650,000 innocent civilians are dead. But I'm sure glad that our President didn't have to admit he was wrong prior to the 2004 election. Because surely, he will eventually have to admit it, and he has shown some recent signs of doing so, with regard to the change in the "stay the course" rhetoric to the "adapt to win" rhetoric - the only problem is, they don't have the political capital to get this job done right anymore. So more people are going to be killed by this unnecessary fiasco of a war.
Quite a bit of progress since 1800
Yeah, but in 1800, there wasn't an HMO accountant telling my doctor not to perform certain tests or use certain equipment (like MRI's). I suffered with severe back pain (including missed work) for 12 months before my HMO coughed up an approval for an MRI. The doctors and scientists may be making progress in their knowledge - but they should clue the fucking HMO spreadsheet jockeys in.
On OS X, Firefox surely can not admin my Linksys router.
I still use the IE:Mac (what is it, version 5?) for this purpose, and this purpose only.
I haven't tried Firefox 2 on this task yet, but 1.5 just plain didn't work. It would not navigate the tabs, and especially, update the Status tab with the "connected" "connecting" "disconnected" info.
The other bit of Tax that's left out of the equation is the Tax most Americans don't measure.
Most Americans don't measure the Tax they have to pay, in the form of increased interest rates, due to the massive amounts of money their government borrows, as a "smoke-and-mirrors" trick to spend money without having to raise taxes. Only - instead of this revenue (due to increased interest rates) going to public investment like infrastructure or schools, it goes to the bottom line of the financial industry.
The other Tax is paid by consumers of Energy - who suffer under an energy policy that dates from the Victorian age: pay your extortion money to the oil barons, and nobody gets hurt.
Another Tax is paid by consumers of Intellectual Property - who pay vastly more for cost-less digital copies of information than would otherwise be dictated by "a free market" - these surcharges being levied out of legalized bribery by lobbyists, rather than out of sound policy.
But Americans are content to believe that these charges are not "Taxes" because they are not paid to the government. And they're content to believe that money paid to other private interests somehow benefits them more than money paid to the government (which, in America, consists of Americans).
So you can be pissed that you're paying double the rate that Paris Hilton is paying on her income from her various trust funds.
Yeah - but the justice there is - I've seen her naked, and she hasn't seen me naked.
(/sarcasm - but frankly, this is what's going through the minds of most Americans that makes it all seem okay).
Yeah that's right the Christians should take to the streets burning the Saudi flag, burning cars, damaging property, etc.
They don't dare. Because these "Christians" are in love with oil, and money. Their "savior" who proclaimed himself "sent by God" is in bed with the Saudi royals. Americans have a choice between two masters to serve. They chose oil and money, while calling themselves Christians.
When America is prepared to be honest with themselves, maybe there will be change. But the truth is - this whore of a people, has sold itself out.
The trouble with all of the semi-socialist countries in Europe is that all of the social services that have made them so attractive for so long are now buckling under the strain of un-restrained immigration, f
It's not really clear that that's the problem - but there's a simple solution to this:
Restrain the fucking immigration.
The solution to the immigration problem, of course, is to fix the fucked up countries the immigrants are coming from. (the problem with Mexico and the US could be solved easily. Most Mexicans would happily stay at home in their native country if they could find jobs).
A split congress is good, yes.
But when did they legalize drawing-and-quartering?
Not that I'm opposed to that, mind you. It's just that I thought it was forbidden by the Constitution or something like that (not that that matters anymore).
b-but, if we stop the War on Drugs, what are we going to do with all those unemployed Prison Guards?