Agreed. I was thinking of him, but forgot to say it in my post. It really bothers me more, too. I mean, I don't agree with foreign terrorists, but I do understand that they see it as their only option to enact change, and it's likely to at least have an effect of some sort. And many of them have gotten the short end of the stick in life...
People like McVeigh, though... These are people who have enjoyed all the fruits America has to offer. There are a lot of avenues for them to enact change. They could even assassinate senior leaders. But they seem to think murdering women and children is the only thing they can do?
I'm not sure which group is more dangerous, though. The former will incite Americans to respond in kind, which can escalate very rapidly, but they're much easier to defend ourselves from. On the other hand, domestic terrorists have more resources and freedom and they're much harder to identify before an attack. They also know the country better and can do much more damage if they want to.
Of course with all this terrorism scare going on, I'm still more afraid of taxis than terrorists.
hat's because "profiling" - you know, exercising actual forensic science, is DoublePlusUnGood in today's society because a minority might get "offended."
Profiling is doubleplusungood. Everyone likes forensic science, though.
but the fact is that most of the terrorists are Arabs, so it only makes sense to focus scruitiny there.
All terrorists are people. The terrorists who attacked on 9/11 were indeed arabs. This does not all the terrorists make. Where's your data that leads you to believe most are arabs? Do you have a pie chart for me? How did you define terrorist? There are a ton of white, disillusioned brats like John Walker Lindh in the world. Of course there are some pretty bad ones in southeast asia. Just look up jemaah islamiyah or the abu sayaf group. Did I mention there are more muslims in that part of the world than the middle east?
Of course I would agree that we might want to lax security for the 85 year old grandmother type, and pilots who simply have to walk to a different terminal to their next flight should be given the chance to go around security, but it would be stupid and reactionary to say arabs are the only threat.
And they do not serve an institution, they serve the people, first and foremost, and the government after that. (Although, I'm sure it's the other way around in practice).
Well, in theory they support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over them, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
In truth this is a false oath because actually doing so would result in some serious brig time. Don't believe me? Try shooting a politician for pushing an unconstitutional law. If a president ever tried to usurp authority and impose martial law, the military would be the most likely organization to violently defend them, although it's likely some generals would try to lead a coup. In addition, a soldier can easily get in a ton of trouble for failing to obey an order he considers unconstitutional if the local JAG tells him he is wrong.
In practice, the military is the brute force of a nation. In America, the military doesn't support or defend the constitution. The supreme court, ACLU, watchdog organizations, and public outrage do that. The military is never used against domestic enemies these days, and is unlikely to be used in such a way, but it does do a good job against foreign enemies. The military is great at bearing true faith and allegiance, and obeying orders. They don't always follow regulations to a T, but they try very hard.
Like I said, though, the military is one hell of a brute force tool. When diplomats lose their chess game, trade sanctions fail, or proper planning is absent, the military can usually fix the problem. Anything from natural disasters to conflicts, the military is capable of it. The American military, in particular, is capable of destroying any single nation on the planet, or any combination thereof. It is not, and never should be, anything else. The Red Cross, ACLU, EFF, Police, Fire Departments, thousands of charities, and many other government agencies directly serve the people or uphold the constitution. The military is simply the willing tool which can be used, at a great personal sacrifice to service members, to apply physical force wherever the elected leaders of America determine it is needed. Nothing more, nothing less.
Employers in the private sector are responsible for the behavior of their employees with respect to their business, why is this not true for government?
It is true, you asshat. What do you think elections are intended to allow people to do? Americans don't hold their politicians accountable because they don't give a shit! They're happy, fat, lazy, and wealthy. What more do they need? They'll bitch and moan a little, but most people won't even show up for elections. Maybe if they could do it at home during commercial breaks...?
That being said, what good would it do if we simply sued the government for every mistake it ever made? Massive redistribution of wealth! Yay! Slavery restitutions! Yay! "I stubbed my toe in a war you sent me to!" Money! Yay!
Grow up. The answer to life's problems does not lie in lawsuits which will not change anything. This is not to say that legal actions never change anything, this is quite intentionally worded to talk only about those which change nothing. Which this one would.
Suing the VA (which is supposed to serve veterans and is funded by taxes), and, by extension, either raising taxes or further fucking service members and veterans isn't a great idea. Putting pressure on your politicians so that they'll appoint more competent people to head government agencies? Priceless. Spare me all this "but our politicians are too corrupt it won't change anything". Politicians will do whatever it takes to win votes. They'll even be somewhat honest if they have no choice. You just have to make it advantageous to them, or keep throwing the bad ones out until you find good ones.
Um, legally corporations have the same rights as individual citizens. It's just that they tend to have better legal counsel.
Both wrong and misleading! Can corporations vote in general elections? In addition, rights is only half of the issue. Corporations have far fewer OBLIGATIONS than people.
I forgot to mention that, after dumping nuclear waste in their and sealing them in, we can ensure nobody wants to enter the site by putting a sign that says
CAUTION Bureaucrats and Politicians Are Buried Here
Re:...never to be seen again
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Padlock? You want them to get out that easily?
I say weld these steel doors shut and dump few (or not so few) tons of fresh concrete on the top.
And put some fence around the place, marked "Nuclear Waste Dump".
You forgot to mention the part about actually storing nuclear waste there. It really would kill three birds with one stone.
And you're exactly the kind of immigrant Americans want. The whole "amnesty" thing is a sad bunch of bullshit, and my apologies to you for it. It turns out you would've been better off breaking the law. Sorry.
On the other hand, I have trouble believing you're from the UK from the way you spell and write. In addition, your website lists Internet Explorer as a requirement. In other words, I both like and disdain you.
If not enough people will pay for it, then you pay people to do it -- which'll help replace the jobs those durn Mexicans are taking from us 'Murricans.
Obviously you're not in business.
Why the hell would we overpay Americans to do that kind of job?! Mexicans will do it for minimum wage (or less.. tee-hee!) and they won't ask for any benefits or health insurance. Hell, make tagging a mandatory requirement for the interview for the job and most will turn themselves in at the border to get tagged and apply for the job, dramatically reducing the number that actually have to be hunted down.
But with dual-core CPUs becoming more popular, it'll only take up 100% of one CPU, leaving you a whole other CPU for running XP and your apps! Win-win!
I think you meant to say "a whole other core for running Vista." You will, of course, need a third or fourth core for running your actual applications.
In all fairness, I wish I had office 07 when I was going through school. It's pretty damned good (even though it takes about 80MB of RAM and runs slow on my P4M laptop)...
The product is represented in chemistry as O. (O with a dot). This is a relatively stable molecule, but very reactive. And I mean very. It will do anything to bind to something and get back to favourite 8 electrons in valence shell configuration.
And as we are not really able to produce material that would be strong enough and light enough to support the space lift even in perfect conditions (there are really nice Internet-available articles and research papeers on this issue), producing a practical model is still much more thing of fiction, than of science. Therefore any coating or protection from whatever may be hazardous for our lift needs also to be developed and is a topic for the future. But may be in far future...
So that's all that's stopping us? Crap, I've had that problem solved for years.
But, since I'm not sharing my solution here, there's a pretty easy alternative. We could just remove all the oxygen (and its variants) from our atmosphere. I really don't see why not. It'd solve many of today's problems, to include this one. Unfortunately, my efforts at outbreathing the plants have met with failure, but I think if we all inhale at the exact same time...
still, you need an RPG. Not many soldiers tend to carry them around, just in case they run into a tank. You'd basically need a squad of people, one person with the bazooka/whatever, and a few guys to cover him. Basically it's best if you can wipe the tank off of all possible scanners.
I don't think this really usually matters for tanks the way it does for helicopters, planes, missiles, missile silos, etc, at least not for America. What's it matter if the enemy can see you when you have double their range, close air support, infrared/NVG capability, datalinks showing you a picture of the battlefield, and insane DU armour? Sure, they could be taken out by some good IEDs or in urban warfare, but you usually want your presence to be known. If we just want to blow something up without warning, we can just put a missile on the job. Tanks are about show of force.
Compare that to, say, invisible "black" (ref. to silent) helicopters, where you can fastrope troops into a building to capture its occupants with absolute surprise. Plus being completely undetected infiltrating or exfiltrating troops! Hell, with something like that we could probably end this whole North Korea and Iran building nukes thing.
Hell, how about an invisible/no-radar-reflection destroyer? You could sail one straight up the Delaware, so to speak. No warning, but, all of a sudden, there are ten american destroyers within a few miles of your nation's capital. Hell of a way to end a war quickly if you can start by capturing the capital and senior leadership...
good thing the internet isn't the real world.:)
As someone who workds with top level managment, spelling doesn't really seem to count.
Right, but if you worked FOR top level management, as their bitch/secretary, your spelling would most certainly count, at least if you were writing memos for them.
To All my Minions:
Productividy has dramatikally raised this quartor, and I would like two thank you for all you're hard work. In appritiasyon for you're efforts, all employes will receive to extra days of vacasyon this year.// SIGNED// Samir Nagheenanajar, CEO, Initech
Certainly exaggerated, but they do understand that they have to present a certain image, and this means any serious or public documents need to be properly written. They just may not care how good the spelling on their post-it notes is:).
Your evidence is anecdotal at best. Some hospitals have improved the ratio of nurse's aides, but many still have RNs doing butt-wiping, sponge baths, etc. On top of that, it appears your wife knows little about the current american nursing system. Most foreign nurses hail from the philippines. If you go to Georgetown, or any other major hospital, you'll notice a disproportionate number of filipinas. There's a reason for this.
Medical school in the Philippines only costs a few thousand (USD), and America established their medical schools. The education and training is nearly identical to that in the states. I know a few Americans who have gone there to study for their MD simply because of the price difference. That being said, there is a huge business in recruiting nurses in the Philippines. I've met a few people who make six digit salaries by offering $25/hour jobs and a green card to graduating nurses. Hospitals eat them up, because the language barrier is minimal. On top of that, there are already plenty of filipinas working in the hospitals that can explain things to them in tagalog if need be. All educated filipinos speak english well anyways.
Being a nurse in the US, you can essentially either work directly for a hospital as an employee, you can have a contract with an individual hospital/university (usually the case for guest workers), or you can work for what is (or at least used to be) refered to as "the registry", which is essentially a traveler job. The registry basically rents nurses to hospitals that are undermanned on an hourly or daily basis. This type of job has little, if any, benefits, but it usually pays much better per hour of work.
Coming from the Philippines, the board is easy. Being recognized by the state as an RN isn't that hard, and the companies have a great legal team that helps with immigration and naturalization.
Now, whether this is a good system for all involved, or whether it's a imperial "brain-drain" from the Philippines isn't as clear-cut:).
I am aware of the 14th, but the court's interpration is subject to change. I'm too tired to continue this argument right now, but there are some great discussions further down. I hope, wish, and want to think you're 100% right, but I believe the courts are simply reading things as they should be, instead of as they are. The law needs revision.
As I was saying earlier, though, the 1st amendment has nothing to do with this at this moment, since the New Jersey state constitution lays things out quite clearly:
Every person may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right. No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact.
In simple terms, the school belongs to the state, and, as such, is subject to the state constitution. This does not need to be elevated to the federal level because the local and state laws clearly protect this child's comments.
Perhaps their customers would find it more valuable if they offered a refreshed build available for purchase with new drivers on some form of regular timetable. In fact, I believe they do this - via SP2 and whatnot discs that are available, but I don't think that is sufficient. Maybe I'm wrong and they do this more than I thought (it's been a long time since I've had a shrink-wrap Windows disc, and it will be a cold day in hell before I spend money on another) - but it occurs to me that their practices may not be sufficient if this problem is ongoing.
Even better, how about giving OEMs and larger companies the ability to put all of the software they want installed, all of the drivers they need, all the patches, etc. onto the install CD itself? This is a pretty simple guide, but there are a lot of more advanced things you can do with slipstreaming.
Unfortunately, this only applies to Congress. It does not apply to states, counties, or cities, although most states have similar language in their constitutions. I do, of course, hope for an amendment to fix this issue in the future.
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Agreed. I was thinking of him, but forgot to say it in my post. It really bothers me more, too. I mean, I don't agree with foreign terrorists, but I do understand that they see it as their only option to enact change, and it's likely to at least have an effect of some sort. And many of them have gotten the short end of the stick in life...
People like McVeigh, though... These are people who have enjoyed all the fruits America has to offer. There are a lot of avenues for them to enact change. They could even assassinate senior leaders. But they seem to think murdering women and children is the only thing they can do?
I'm not sure which group is more dangerous, though. The former will incite Americans to respond in kind, which can escalate very rapidly, but they're much easier to defend ourselves from. On the other hand, domestic terrorists have more resources and freedom and they're much harder to identify before an attack. They also know the country better and can do much more damage if they want to.
Of course with all this terrorism scare going on, I'm still more afraid of taxis than terrorists.
Profiling is doubleplusungood. Everyone likes forensic science, though.
All terrorists are people. The terrorists who attacked on 9/11 were indeed arabs. This does not all the terrorists make. Where's your data that leads you to believe most are arabs? Do you have a pie chart for me? How did you define terrorist? There are a ton of white, disillusioned brats like John Walker Lindh in the world. Of course there are some pretty bad ones in southeast asia. Just look up jemaah islamiyah or the abu sayaf group. Did I mention there are more muslims in that part of the world than the middle east?
Of course I would agree that we might want to lax security for the 85 year old grandmother type, and pilots who simply have to walk to a different terminal to their next flight should be given the chance to go around security, but it would be stupid and reactionary to say arabs are the only threat.
Obviously you've never had a papercut.
Go to the third page of results. You'll see a link to this picture. Although I'm sure the guy who posted it has already been visited by the police...
Well, in theory they support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over them, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
In truth this is a false oath because actually doing so would result in some serious brig time. Don't believe me? Try shooting a politician for pushing an unconstitutional law. If a president ever tried to usurp authority and impose martial law, the military would be the most likely organization to violently defend them, although it's likely some generals would try to lead a coup. In addition, a soldier can easily get in a ton of trouble for failing to obey an order he considers unconstitutional if the local JAG tells him he is wrong.
In practice, the military is the brute force of a nation. In America, the military doesn't support or defend the constitution. The supreme court, ACLU, watchdog organizations, and public outrage do that. The military is never used against domestic enemies these days, and is unlikely to be used in such a way, but it does do a good job against foreign enemies. The military is great at bearing true faith and allegiance, and obeying orders. They don't always follow regulations to a T, but they try very hard.
Like I said, though, the military is one hell of a brute force tool. When diplomats lose their chess game, trade sanctions fail, or proper planning is absent, the military can usually fix the problem. Anything from natural disasters to conflicts, the military is capable of it. The American military, in particular, is capable of destroying any single nation on the planet, or any combination thereof. It is not, and never should be, anything else. The Red Cross, ACLU, EFF, Police, Fire Departments, thousands of charities, and many other government agencies directly serve the people or uphold the constitution. The military is simply the willing tool which can be used, at a great personal sacrifice to service members, to apply physical force wherever the elected leaders of America determine it is needed. Nothing more, nothing less.
It is true, you asshat. What do you think elections are intended to allow people to do? Americans don't hold their politicians accountable because they don't give a shit! They're happy, fat, lazy, and wealthy. What more do they need? They'll bitch and moan a little, but most people won't even show up for elections. Maybe if they could do it at home during commercial breaks...?
That being said, what good would it do if we simply sued the government for every mistake it ever made? Massive redistribution of wealth! Yay! Slavery restitutions! Yay! "I stubbed my toe in a war you sent me to!" Money! Yay!
Grow up. The answer to life's problems does not lie in lawsuits which will not change anything. This is not to say that legal actions never change anything, this is quite intentionally worded to talk only about those which change nothing. Which this one would.
Suing the VA (which is supposed to serve veterans and is funded by taxes), and, by extension, either raising taxes or further fucking service members and veterans isn't a great idea. Putting pressure on your politicians so that they'll appoint more competent people to head government agencies? Priceless. Spare me all this "but our politicians are too corrupt it won't change anything". Politicians will do whatever it takes to win votes. They'll even be somewhat honest if they have no choice. You just have to make it advantageous to them, or keep throwing the bad ones out until you find good ones.
Maybe so, but I certainly hope AMD goes down another $10/share until then. I'd love to buy a few hundred shares at $15/share :).
Both wrong and misleading! Can corporations vote in general elections? In addition, rights is only half of the issue. Corporations have far fewer OBLIGATIONS than people.
I forgot to mention that, after dumping nuclear waste in their and sealing them in, we can ensure nobody wants to enter the site by putting a sign that says
CAUTION
Bureaucrats and Politicians Are Buried Here
You forgot to mention the part about actually storing nuclear waste there. It really would kill three birds with one stone.
Yeah, seriously! I should've just registered when I started, instead of spending all those years trolling as an AC...
And you're exactly the kind of immigrant Americans want. The whole "amnesty" thing is a sad bunch of bullshit, and my apologies to you for it. It turns out you would've been better off breaking the law. Sorry.
On the other hand, I have trouble believing you're from the UK from the way you spell and write. In addition, your website lists Internet Explorer as a requirement. In other words, I both like and disdain you.
Really? I could name one or two.
Obviously you're not in business.
Why the hell would we overpay Americans to do that kind of job?! Mexicans will do it for minimum wage (or less.. tee-hee!) and they won't ask for any benefits or health insurance. Hell, make tagging a mandatory requirement for the interview for the job and most will turn themselves in at the border to get tagged and apply for the job, dramatically reducing the number that actually have to be hunted down.
Let the immigrants police their own, I say!
I think he was refering to intercourse, not masturbation.
Slaves only count as 3/5.
And what the hell is a bar, anyways? I mean, honestly, what does that translate into in radio terminology? 10dB? Or is it completely arbitrary?
I think you meant to say "a whole other core for running Vista." You will, of course, need a third or fourth core for running your actual applications.
In all fairness, I wish I had office 07 when I was going through school. It's pretty damned good (even though it takes about 80MB of RAM and runs slow on my P4M laptop)...
So that's all that's stopping us? Crap, I've had that problem solved for years.
But, since I'm not sharing my solution here, there's a pretty easy alternative. We could just remove all the oxygen (and its variants) from our atmosphere. I really don't see why not. It'd solve many of today's problems, to include this one. Unfortunately, my efforts at outbreathing the plants have met with failure, but I think if we all inhale at the exact same time...
I don't think this really usually matters for tanks the way it does for helicopters, planes, missiles, missile silos, etc, at least not for America. What's it matter if the enemy can see you when you have double their range, close air support, infrared/NVG capability, datalinks showing you a picture of the battlefield, and insane DU armour? Sure, they could be taken out by some good IEDs or in urban warfare, but you usually want your presence to be known. If we just want to blow something up without warning, we can just put a missile on the job. Tanks are about show of force.
Compare that to, say, invisible "black" (ref. to silent) helicopters, where you can fastrope troops into a building to capture its occupants with absolute surprise. Plus being completely undetected infiltrating or exfiltrating troops! Hell, with something like that we could probably end this whole North Korea and Iran building nukes thing.
Hell, how about an invisible/no-radar-reflection destroyer? You could sail one straight up the Delaware, so to speak. No warning, but, all of a sudden, there are ten american destroyers within a few miles of your nation's capital. Hell of a way to end a war quickly if you can start by capturing the capital and senior leadership...
Right, but if you worked FOR top level management, as their bitch/secretary, your spelling would most certainly count, at least if you were writing memos for them.
Certainly exaggerated, but they do understand that they have to present a certain image, and this means any serious or public documents need to be properly written. They just may not care how good the spelling on their post-it notes is
Your evidence is anecdotal at best. Some hospitals have improved the ratio of nurse's aides, but many still have RNs doing butt-wiping, sponge baths, etc. On top of that, it appears your wife knows little about the current american nursing system. Most foreign nurses hail from the philippines. If you go to Georgetown, or any other major hospital, you'll notice a disproportionate number of filipinas. There's a reason for this.
:).
Medical school in the Philippines only costs a few thousand (USD), and America established their medical schools. The education and training is nearly identical to that in the states. I know a few Americans who have gone there to study for their MD simply because of the price difference. That being said, there is a huge business in recruiting nurses in the Philippines. I've met a few people who make six digit salaries by offering $25/hour jobs and a green card to graduating nurses. Hospitals eat them up, because the language barrier is minimal. On top of that, there are already plenty of filipinas working in the hospitals that can explain things to them in tagalog if need be. All educated filipinos speak english well anyways.
Being a nurse in the US, you can essentially either work directly for a hospital as an employee, you can have a contract with an individual hospital/university (usually the case for guest workers), or you can work for what is (or at least used to be) refered to as "the registry", which is essentially a traveler job. The registry basically rents nurses to hospitals that are undermanned on an hourly or daily basis. This type of job has little, if any, benefits, but it usually pays much better per hour of work.
Coming from the Philippines, the board is easy. Being recognized by the state as an RN isn't that hard, and the companies have a great legal team that helps with immigration and naturalization.
Now, whether this is a good system for all involved, or whether it's a imperial "brain-drain" from the Philippines isn't as clear-cut
As I was saying earlier, though, the 1st amendment has nothing to do with this at this moment, since the New Jersey state constitution lays things out quite clearly:
In simple terms, the school belongs to the state, and, as such, is subject to the state constitution. This does not need to be elevated to the federal level because the local and state laws clearly protect this child's comments.
Even better, how about giving OEMs and larger companies the ability to put all of the software they want installed, all of the drivers they need, all the patches, etc. onto the install CD itself? This is a pretty simple guide, but there are a lot of more advanced things you can do with slipstreaming.
Unfortunately, this only applies to Congress. It does not apply to states, counties, or cities, although most states have similar language in their constitutions. I do, of course, hope for an amendment to fix this issue in the future.