I wonder what you will thinking of one of those suspected terrorist blows you ass to hell.
In case all you myopic morons didn't know, the provisions in the patriot act are weak imitations of the restrictions of WWII. All put in place by the libs idol Roosevelt.
We are in an international knife fight. The other side doesn't give a shit about your rights or any other civilized notions. You may feel all high and mighty saying we don't compromise ourselves or stoop to their level (torture), but shit load of good that will do you when you are at the bottom of a multistory pile of concrete.
All of you make me so fucking sick. You are the first ones to bitch and moan when something goes wrong and you are the first ones to bitch and moan when someone tries to keep it from happening again.
Corporate America has insisted on locating in the most expensive locations for the "presitge" and then bitch and moan about the cost of workers. The technology and bandwidth have been around for years to establish satellite offices in low costs areas anywhere in America, but the Suits were just to stupid to see it.
This is probably because some high priced consultant didn't tell them to do it. So now, someone had the simple idea of calling it "Outsourcing" and the empty headed Suits all now think it's the thing to do.
I swear...all you have to do is look at GM and the dumbass decisions the made about Building and selling giant trucks. Then they act surprised and panic when what everyone knew would happen, happens...people stopped buying them. What's even worse...they've been there and done that before...can we say "That 70's Market?"
I't really very simple...most corporate leaders can't think any further ahead than their own...
This thread is just about dead, but I thought I'd put in one last word.
First, you don't advance your cause by calling the majority of American's stupid. It so happens that the majority of Americans are in control of the Federal dollars you so-called intellectual types clamor for every year...and they are also the ones who pay the taxes.
Second, attacking religion as some kind of voodoo, myth, or whatever is as stupid as you seem to think everyone else is. If you are ignorant of the role that religion plays in the world today, for better or worse, the degree to which some people rely on religion for moral guidance and direction, and the importance of religion in the past, then you truly are as stupid (and a great deal more) than those you accuse.
If you want your side to prevail, you cannot do it acting like pompous Asses and calling those you seek to convert morons.
How else could I be reading a story posted days ago as if it were a new story?
**Spoilers** Pointed Headed Academics Say it's Bush's Fault. Bush supporters call them Pointy Headed academics. Pointed Headed Academics sniff and tell each other how smart they are.
1) Cost. College costs have long outpaced inflation.
2) Climate. Political correctness got its start in the universities and has reached the heights of absurdity. Universities have become oppressive places where only the far left feels comfortable.
3) Snobbery. When Universities brag that they only accept the top 1% of students into their post grad programs what they are saying to the other 99% is that they are not good enough to be a scientist. I'm enjoying a very successful career in computers, but because I was a bit of a party person in my youth and did poorly on their precious tests, I wouldn't stand a change at getting into a post grad program now.
Bottom line...they've shot themselves in the foot.
I would suggest that offense Cindy Sheehan and the lot may feel by being told to go protest somewhere else pales in comparison with someone's adacemic career/rcord being demolished or even fired or expelled by intentionally or unintentionally getting caught up in a violation of some speech code.
that it is reasonable to protect politicians from hearing the views of those who disagree with them
I would say that I am not inclined to give anyone more protection, so to speak, from free speech than anyone else. To say it another way, no one has a greater right to free speech than anyone else and no speech has a greater protection (at least as it is stated in the Constitution)
I would rather say that it comes down to making sure that the exercise of one's rights do not infringe on another...the old, swinging of the arm right stops at the end of my nose.
I think that the equivalent argument with regards to speech means that you can have a protest and say what you like, but you can't create a safety hazard to yourself or others, you cannot block public or private accommodations, and you cannot disrupt the speech of others. But that's just my opinion.
There is an interesting question here...is "Free Speech" the right to say whatever you want, whenever you want, wherever you want?
Certainly the "whatever" has been decided...no shouting fire in the theater or saying Bomb or Hijack on a plane.
I have not heard of anything about time...
But the interesting one is where. Is that fact that you are not visible to the TV camera mean your rights have been violated? Is the fact that you cannot blockade a public place with a protest a violation of your rights?
Abortion Protesters are not allowed within x feet of a clinic. Using the same logic could political protestors be kept a specific distance from a convention of political office holder?
Is the disruption of one person's free speech an exercise of another's free speech?
Does the exercise of free speech include preventing others from accessing a public accommodation?
But since these evidently predate 9/11 and therefore the Patriot Act, they are not part of the National Security vs. Free Speech argument.
And I actually have a little bit of sympathy for the position of the government in this case because these "protesters" have shown themselves as nothing more than mobs, bent on violence....Can we say Seattle anyone?
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I wonder what you will thinking of one of those suspected terrorist blows you ass to hell.
In case all you myopic morons didn't know, the provisions in the patriot act are weak imitations of the restrictions of WWII. All put in place by the libs idol Roosevelt.
We are in an international knife fight. The other side doesn't give a shit about your rights or any other civilized notions. You may feel all high and mighty saying we don't compromise ourselves or stoop to their level (torture), but shit load of good that will do you when you are at the bottom of a multistory pile of concrete.
All of you make me so fucking sick. You are the first ones to bitch and moan when something goes wrong and you are the first ones to bitch and moan when someone tries to keep it from happening again.
In the price of water...
For the next BS language that does exactly the same thing as the last, just in a completely different way.
Nothing but a Job Program for Geeks.
I for one am tired of having to learn a new freaking language every 5 years just because someone thinks they have a better mouse trap.
So that's what...3 or 4 programs worth?
If Longhorn (or, Vitsa) is a brand new OS, built from the ground up, how is it they didn't build that in right from the start?
It will never happen.
The Environmental Impact Reports alone will take centuries to complete.
And Heaven forbid they should find some kind of microbial life. The Sierra Club would be all over that in a second.
This has been a sore point for me for decades.
Corporate America has insisted on locating in the most expensive locations for the "presitge" and then bitch and moan about the cost of workers. The technology and bandwidth have been around for years to establish satellite offices in low costs areas anywhere in America, but the Suits were just to stupid to see it.
This is probably because some high priced consultant didn't tell them to do it. So now, someone had the simple idea of calling it "Outsourcing" and the empty headed Suits all now think it's the thing to do.
I swear...all you have to do is look at GM and the dumbass decisions the made about Building and selling giant trucks. Then they act surprised and panic when what everyone knew would happen, happens...people stopped buying them. What's even worse...they've been there and done that before...can we say "That 70's Market?"
I't really very simple...most corporate leaders can't think any further ahead than their own...
...a patent for anti gravity software
So you are talking about something like...say...a software company that has a monopoly in the OS market, creating and giving away a web browser?
Shocked!, Shocked, I tell you!
You installed these pipes while you were part of a regulated monopoly, using public right of ways.
This thread is just about dead, but I thought I'd put in one last word.
First, you don't advance your cause by calling the majority of American's stupid. It so happens that the majority of Americans are in control of the Federal dollars you so-called intellectual types clamor for every year...and they are also the ones who pay the taxes.
Second, attacking religion as some kind of voodoo, myth, or whatever is as stupid as you seem to think everyone else is. If you are ignorant of the role that religion plays in the world today, for better or worse, the degree to which some people rely on religion for moral guidance and direction, and the importance of religion in the past, then you truly are as stupid (and a great deal more) than those you accuse.
If you want your side to prevail, you cannot do it acting like pompous Asses and calling those you seek to convert morons.
If the U.S. was ever devolved into a true police state, the world would have much more to worry about than the internet.
Just don't call it PetaFile.
...cover it in Transparent Aluminium.
I have discovered Time Travel!
How else could I be reading a story posted days ago as if it were a new story?
**Spoilers**
Pointed Headed Academics Say it's Bush's Fault.
Bush supporters call them Pointy Headed academics.
Pointed Headed Academics sniff and tell each other how smart they are.
I would suspect it's more a case of...
1) Cost. College costs have long outpaced inflation.
2) Climate. Political correctness got its start in the universities and has reached the heights of absurdity. Universities have become oppressive places where only the far left feels comfortable.
3) Snobbery. When Universities brag that they only accept the top 1% of students into their post grad programs what they are saying to the other 99% is that they are not good enough to be a scientist. I'm enjoying a very successful career in computers, but because I was a bit of a party person in my youth and did poorly on their precious tests, I wouldn't stand a change at getting into a post grad program now.
Bottom line...they've shot themselves in the foot.
How will the real estate market react?
When can we condemn the beach front property for commercial development?
Microsoft: Bringing our flakey, resource intensive applications to the web.
and just to stir the pot further...check this out http://www2.stockton.edu/affirmative_action/Studen t_Policy.htm
I would suggest that offense Cindy Sheehan and the lot may feel by being told to go protest somewhere else pales in comparison with someone's adacemic career/rcord being demolished or even fired or expelled by intentionally or unintentionally getting caught up in a violation of some speech code.
Agreed
that it is reasonable to protect politicians from hearing the views of those who disagree with them
I would say that I am not inclined to give anyone more protection, so to speak, from free speech than anyone else. To say it another way, no one has a greater right to free speech than anyone else and no speech has a greater protection (at least as it is stated in the Constitution)
I would rather say that it comes down to making sure that the exercise of one's rights do not infringe on another...the old, swinging of the arm right stops at the end of my nose.
I think that the equivalent argument with regards to speech means that you can have a protest and say what you like, but you can't create a safety hazard to yourself or others, you cannot block public or private accommodations, and you cannot disrupt the speech of others. But that's just my opinion.
There is an interesting question here...is "Free Speech" the right to say whatever you want, whenever you want, wherever you want?
Certainly the "whatever" has been decided...no shouting fire in the theater or saying Bomb or Hijack on a plane.
I have not heard of anything about time...
But the interesting one is where. Is that fact that you are not visible to the TV camera mean your rights have been violated? Is the fact that you cannot blockade a public place with a protest a violation of your rights?
Abortion Protesters are not allowed within x feet of a clinic. Using the same logic could political protestors be kept a specific distance from a convention of political office holder?
Is the disruption of one person's free speech an exercise of another's free speech?
Does the exercise of free speech include preventing others from accessing a public accommodation?
But since these evidently predate 9/11 and therefore the Patriot Act, they are not part of the National Security vs. Free Speech argument.
And I actually have a little bit of sympathy for the position of the government in this case because these "protesters" have shown themselves as nothing more than mobs, bent on violence....Can we say Seattle anyone?
Ahh...I may have missed something. What is a Free Speech Zone? Who authorizes it? Where are they generally located?