The problem with Texas style diplomacy (LBJ or GWB) is that while it is easy to go in with guns blazing, you need to have a plan about how you are going to get out first.
just like to certain republicans, its the blacks and hispanics who are taking all the jobs.
WTF??? What Republican since 1970 has claimed that blacks are taking white people's jobs? Likewise, how many have complained about hispanics who were LEGAL immigrants or citizens?
(Note: Pat Buchanan is NOT a Republican. He is in the Reform Party, and he's an ass.)
Americans to support him and blame all terrorism on the arabs.
Not all terrorists are Arabs, likewise not all Arabs are terrorists. But there are organized Arab and Muslim terrorist groups who hate America. 19 out of 19 of the 9/11 hijackers were Arabs who were taught a system of beliefs that says that flying a passenger jet into an occupied skyscraper will get you into heaven with 72 virgins.
For that matter, Mohammed Atta wasn't dirt poor either. He was an architect who was wealthy enough to study abroad to get his masters in Germany. He certainly had more than a mud hut. Yet he flew a jetliner into One World Trade Center.
Why is this? Because the society he lived in is f---ed up!
Why are our inner cities decaying? Because life in the ghetto is f---ed up! When your mama is 15 years older than you and you don't know who your daddy is and half the neighborhood is on welfare and the drug dealers are role models, then you life is probably going to be f---ed up.
There are plenty of poor neighborhoods in America, but not everyone of them turns into South Central.
You see? Just follow the logic, its brainwashing
Your logic amazes me. If a "conservative" becomes a demogogue, then that's because all conservatives are nazis deep down inside. If a "liberal" becomes a demagogue, then it's because the conservatives left the people vulnerable to demagogues. Give me a break.
Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world. Yet Saddam plundered them for his own gain. Iraq had a socialist economy (The Baath Party was a pan-Arab Socialist Party) that made the people's woes even worse.
However, while his people were starving, Saddam managed to find the money to pay the family of each Palestinian suicide bomber $25,000 after they blew themselves up?
His plan was simple: Blame Iran, America, Israel, etc for his people's problems while he was robbing the country blind.
The Saudis, Syrians, Egyptians, Iranians and every two-bit tyrant in the Middle East is the same way.
Remember, Americans actually pay less taxes than most other people in the developed world.
In Federal Taxes, yes this is true.
But once you add State + Local taxes, things get expensive.
And second of all, your reasoning is flawed. Just because the rest of the developed world pays more in taxes than we do, does not mean that we are undertaxed. On the contrary, it could also mean that they are even more overtaxed than we are.
Virginia isn't the only state that is having problems with funding.
Clemson only gets 25% of its funding from the state.
The Medical Univ of SC only gets 4%! They might as well go private, especially after the governor said that South Carolina doesn't need two state medical school.
(For those not from the Palmetto State: Medical Univ. of SC = Charleston Univ of SC School of Medicine = Columbia It really is that confusing.)
Simple SCO MUST sue end users to keep up this charade.
Here's the scenario:
1. SCO sues IBM. 2. IBM, sure of winning the case, could tell their users they will cover any of SCO's license fees if they lose. 3. Should IBM lose, either they pay SCO or buy them, whichever is cheaper.
Suing end users themselves makes them very hesitant to invest in Linux.
Someone is putting SCO up to this. They are fighting IBM and Linux by proxy. Sun and Microsoft are the most likely.
Give illegal immigrants 90 days to do the right thing and register with the INS. Run a background check and if they have only broken immigration laws, then grant them amnesty.
After 90 days, get tough.
Send ILLEGAL immigrants home.
Better yet, have draconian fines for the companies that hire them so that it is no longer profitable to hire them.
That being said, LEGAL immigration is what America is built on. We are a nation of immigrants.
Our immigration laws are still based by and large on 1920's era quotas that wanted to allow immigration from the "best" races and restrict immigration from "inferior" races. This is why it's easy to legally immigrate from Canada or the UK, but not from Mexico or Central America. That's bull----. Make it easier to immigrate LEGALLY, so that any peaceful immigrant who wants a better life in America would choose legal immigration over illegal.
This works because lawyers are expensive. To the average person, the legal fees required to fight it are greater than the settlement.
So, in effect, what DirecTV is saying is "Give us $3500 or we will sue you." It doesn't matter if they have a case or not. They get $3500 or you pay more in legal fees.
Actually, this is more like Tony Soprano's business model than anything.
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The problem with Texas style diplomacy (LBJ or GWB) is that while it is easy to go in with guns blazing, you need to have a plan about how you are going to get out first.
just like to certain republicans, its the blacks and hispanics who are taking all the jobs.
WTF??? What Republican since 1970 has claimed that blacks are taking white people's jobs? Likewise, how many have complained about hispanics who were LEGAL immigrants or citizens?
(Note: Pat Buchanan is NOT a Republican. He is in the Reform Party, and he's an ass.)
Americans to support him and blame all terrorism on the arabs.
Not all terrorists are Arabs, likewise not all Arabs are terrorists. But there are organized Arab and Muslim terrorist groups who hate America. 19 out of 19 of the 9/11 hijackers were Arabs who were taught a system of beliefs that says that flying a passenger jet into an occupied skyscraper will get you into heaven with 72 virgins.
For that matter, Mohammed Atta wasn't dirt poor either. He was an architect who was wealthy enough to study abroad to get his masters in Germany. He certainly had more than a mud hut. Yet he flew a jetliner into One World Trade Center.
Why is this? Because the society he lived in is f---ed up!
Why are our inner cities decaying? Because life in the ghetto is f---ed up! When your mama is 15 years older than you and you don't know who your daddy is and half the neighborhood is on welfare and the drug dealers are role models, then you life is probably going to be f---ed up.
There are plenty of poor neighborhoods in America, but not everyone of them turns into South Central.
You see? Just follow the logic, its brainwashing
Your logic amazes me. If a "conservative" becomes a demogogue, then that's because all conservatives are nazis deep down inside. If a "liberal" becomes a demagogue, then it's because the conservatives left the people vulnerable to demagogues. Give me a break.
Well, why are they poor, then?
Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world. Yet Saddam plundered them for his own gain. Iraq had a socialist economy (The Baath Party was a pan-Arab Socialist Party) that made the people's woes even worse.
However, while his people were starving, Saddam managed to find the money to pay the family of each Palestinian suicide bomber $25,000 after they blew themselves up?
His plan was simple: Blame Iran, America, Israel, etc for his people's problems while he was robbing the country blind.
The Saudis, Syrians, Egyptians, Iranians and every two-bit tyrant in the Middle East is the same way.
That is what causes terrorists.
Remember, Americans actually pay less taxes than most other people in the developed world.
In Federal Taxes, yes this is true.
But once you add State + Local taxes, things get expensive.
And second of all, your reasoning is flawed. Just because the rest of the developed world pays more in taxes than we do, does not mean that we are undertaxed. On the contrary, it could also mean that they are even more overtaxed than we are.
Now I think maybe we are headed for October 1917.
Because that worked REALLY well.
Osama bin Laden comes from one of the wealthiest families in Saudi Arabia.
Poor distribution of wealth -> terrorism, my ass!
Fanatical religious leaders and despots who use third parties as scapegoats from problems caused by their own misrule cause terrorists.
Fosters... Australian for Kangaroo Piss.
IIRC, RedHat 7.0 actually WAS called Guinness.
Better beer than release version. It came with the beta GCC 3.0 (remember kgcc?), beta glibc 2.2 and a very unstable XFree86 4.0.
Virginia isn't the only state that is having problems with funding.
Clemson only gets 25% of its funding from the state.
The Medical Univ of SC only gets 4%! They might as well go private, especially after the governor said that South Carolina doesn't need two state medical school.
(For those not from the Palmetto State:
Medical Univ. of SC = Charleston
Univ of SC School of Medicine = Columbia
It really is that confusing.)
Only during basketball season. During football season, things may be a bit different.
IBM is an evil corporation, don't get me wrong, but it's nice to see them excercising a little enlightened self interest and playing chicken with SCO.
Playing chicken are they?
IBM = Big Rig
SCO = Geo Metro
This should be fun.
Come on, how many people REALLY read the EULA?
Hey, maybe we could give them West Virginia.
Not too bad of a place to live and the locals are leaving the place in droves.
P2P file sharing is linked to terrorism. If you share music files, you are a terrorist
Brought to you by the Department of Homeland Security.
Simple SCO MUST sue end users to keep up this charade.
Here's the scenario:
1. SCO sues IBM.
2. IBM, sure of winning the case, could tell their users they will cover any of SCO's license fees if they lose.
3. Should IBM lose, either they pay SCO or buy them, whichever is cheaper.
Suing end users themselves makes them very hesitant to invest in Linux.
Someone is putting SCO up to this. They are fighting IBM and Linux by proxy. Sun and Microsoft are the most likely.
ILLEGAL immigration is bad for America.
My plan: Get legal or go home.
Give illegal immigrants 90 days to do the right thing and register with the INS. Run a background check and if they have only broken immigration laws, then grant them amnesty.
After 90 days, get tough.
Send ILLEGAL immigrants home.
Better yet, have draconian fines for the companies that hire them so that it is no longer profitable to hire them.
That being said, LEGAL immigration is what America is built on. We are a nation of immigrants.
Our immigration laws are still based by and large on 1920's era quotas that wanted to allow immigration from the "best" races and restrict immigration from "inferior" races. This is why it's easy to legally immigrate from Canada or the UK, but not from Mexico or Central America. That's bull----. Make it easier to immigrate LEGALLY, so that any peaceful immigrant who wants a better life in America would choose legal immigration over illegal.
Am I the only one who notices that SCO times their press releases at about the same time their stock starts tanking?
IANAL, but I wonder if the SEC should start looking into this?
Should we really trust the musical judgement of a man who claims to be "A big Rush fan"?
Scene: Dad catches his son masturbating.
Dad: Stop, or you'll go blind!
Son: Dad, I'm over here.
Is it really as simple as money?
short answer is yes.
I'll work cheaper if I can choose where I live and work.
Not as cheap as someone oversees. What is considered good money in India wouldn't be a living wage in Silicon Valley, or in most of the United States.
Windows Update on Win2k Pro told me of the problem before Slashdot.
It's already been fixed on my machine.
Sounds like a solution to me.
It's just going to be a pain in the ass to get every one switched over, though.
This is proof that whatever kind of government you have, if you pay the right people the right amount of money you will get what you want.
Graft works.
This works because lawyers are expensive. To the average person, the legal fees required to fight it are greater than the settlement.
So, in effect, what DirecTV is saying is "Give us $3500 or we will sue you." It doesn't matter if they have a case or not. They get $3500 or you pay more in legal fees.
Actually, this is more like Tony Soprano's business model than anything.
1. Sue everyone.
2. ?????
3. Profit.
They just kind of forgot that giant corporations suing ordinary people isn't too popular.