5) "Iraq is sitting on some of the richest natural resources in the world to finance almost anything that they would like" Not if the rest of the world refuses to sell anything to them.
You mean like the embargo that was going on for most of the 1990s? And the oil-for-food program that got Saddam kickbacks from France, Russia, and half the world? The same half of the world that whined the loudest when we announced we were going to take care of Saddam once and for all?
Actually, there were many thousands of absentee ballots in California that were not counted because all the elections there were already determined with the votes they had counted. Since absentee ballots generally trend Republican, it has been theorized that there might well have been enough of them there to tip the popular vote in Bush's favor.
And if Bush had won the popular vote but Gore had won the electoral college? Damn straight I would have said that Gore was the president. Just as if my favorite football team rolls up 3x the yardage as their opponent, but loses on the scoreboard, then they've lost the game, and I can bemoan the missed opportunities, but the scoreboard determines the winner.
The Republicans did lose a very close election before, in 1960, and you didn't see Republicans whining about the result like the Democrats still are about 2000. And recent analysis even shows that Nixon probably won the popular vote-- due to the Democratic electors in Alabama being half 'generic Democrat' and half for Kennedy; check out this url for details: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/4275
Maine and Nebraska in fact do something other than the 'winner take all' that the other 48 states do. They tally up the votes in each congressional district, and the winner in each district gets one delegate. Then the overall totals for the whole state are added up, and the winner there gets two more delegates.
However, Maine only has 2 districts (4 electoral votes) and Nebraska 3 districts (5 evs), so in practice it doesn't really matter much, but I wish more states followed this system. Unfortunately, states that tend one way or another wouldn't want to switch to this system, since it'd hurt the candidate that's more popular in that state (California wouldn't want to take 20 or so of its 55 and hand them to Bush, e.g.), and states that are battlegrounds would be less of a battleground under this system, and thus would get less political attention. Nice idea, nevertheless.
Extreme's third album, III Sides To Every Story, from the mid-1990s, definitely had a meaningful sequence; the album was divided into three parts, the first 6 called 'Yours', the middle 5 called 'Mine' and the last 3 (which were longer tracks) called 'The Truth'.
I'm sick of pointing this out--kids today LOVE the music coming out. The fogies at Slashdot think that their niche opinion represent the majority. Today's computer users aren't downloading music because they don't like the whole albums--they're downloading because it's free and available.
Kids like crap like Barney, too. Then they grow up.
I'd like to see the evidence of this, since I've seen no such documents anywhere, nor have I seen any such admission on the part of the Bush administration-- the closest they've come to 'admitting' anything is that they said that they probably shouldn't have put the 16 words into the SOTU last year w/o more evidence than they had, which is nowhere near what you're claiming.
Wilson didn't prove a damn thing. He went over to Niger, had some tea with government officials, they told him that the story was false, he wanted to believe it, he wrote a report saying it was false. End of matter. Given that kind of evidence standard, I could prove anything.
Congratulations, you fail basic logic. A sentence that starts out 'The British Government has learned that...' can only be a lie if in fact the British government has not learned the item in question, and the speaker knows this. Well, as it turns out, the UK continues to stand behind their statement, saying that they have intelligence from sources that they can't reveal to us (their right, after all).
Bzzt, too bad. Don Pardo has some nice parting gifts for you, though, including the Slashdot home game.
Man, all these conspiracy theories going around about the right wing taking over the world just suck. They don't even have any of the standard conspiracy theory elements:
The complicity, at the very least, of the Pope
Evidence that the moon landings were faked
Involves the real people behind JFK's assassination
the Illuminati
black helicopters
space aliens
the Men in Black
Area 51
and plenty more-- I'm sure you can come up with more than me.
You are ignoring the recent poll of Baghdad that Gallup did. 71 percent of those surveyed like our presence there and don't want us to leave any time soon.
It's ironic that more Iraqis support the war (percentage-wise) than Americans.
You may smirk, but I've been running my custom-hacked elisp client for muds since 1989. It's actually older than TinyMUD itself, since it originally was written as a telnet replacement for furMUD (a Lisp-based MUD) back in early 1989. My client had things like logging and such before any other client out there, thanks to taking advantage of built-in Emacs features.
Unfortunately, I don't have the motivation any more to hack all the cool stuff that should be hacked into it, so if there's anyone out there who wants a good solid elisp MUD client, and especially if you know and enjoy hacking elisp, drop me a line, and I'll share the code with you. At 33K, it's definitely the smallest client out there, and since it runs anywhere emacs runs, it's arguably the most portable as well.
Within Iran itself, the people are coming to detest more and more the meaningless rigidities of religious rule. Being ruled by clerics is like being ruled by Microsoft -- somebody decides what's right for everybody and from then on no variation is permitted.
But -- again as with Microsoft -- while the people already trapped within the system are furious with the incompetence, blindness, and sheer meanness of their rulers, Iran's rulers are looking to expand their defective system into new territory.
I wrote about how to fix the legal system so tactics like DirecTV's little scam wouldn't work, back in January 2002. Here's the link to it. The basic idea is that if you threaten someone with legal action, you have to put money in an escrow account that they can use for their defense. When they spend money on legal fees, they also have to do the same thing, and you can use the money out of their escrow. Now if the sides are balanced financially, it'll all come out a wash, but if you're the little guy, you'll be able to use his escrow money to pay your legal bills and your escrow. Presto, no more bankruptcy tactics, and all of us little guys can just laugh at scumbags like DirecTV and SCO, like we should be able to without fear in the first place.
From what I understand, SMP opens all kinds of possible race conditions and other such nasty potential security holes, so OpenBSD doesn't want to implement something like this until they can be sure they can do it securely. Which may not be for a while, hard to tell.
I'm also in support of gun control laws that have the same approach: no restrictions on having/carrying a gun, but if you use one to commit a crime, then you get heavier criminal charges. Criminals should be the ones getting criminal charges, not innocents that carry a gun for personal protection, or break copy protection for fair use.
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5) "Iraq is sitting on some of the richest natural resources in the world to finance almost anything that they would like" Not if the rest of the world refuses to sell anything to them.
You mean like the embargo that was going on for most of the 1990s? And the oil-for-food program that got Saddam kickbacks from France, Russia, and half the world? The same half of the world that whined the loudest when we announced we were going to take care of Saddam once and for all?
Yeah. That was really effective.
And what does that have to do with global warming and US laws? Beat up that straw man! Kick him to bits! Don't you feel so much better now?
Penn and Teller debunk global warming and other environmental myths in the last episode of season 1 of their Showtime show, _Bullshit!_.
Here's a link to their page on that episode: http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/topics.do?topic=eh
Actually, there were many thousands of absentee ballots in California that were not counted because all the elections there were already determined with the votes they had counted. Since absentee ballots generally trend Republican, it has been theorized that there might well have been enough of them there to tip the popular vote in Bush's favor.
And if Bush had won the popular vote but Gore had won the electoral college? Damn straight I would have said that Gore was the president. Just as if my favorite football team rolls up 3x the yardage as their opponent, but loses on the scoreboard, then they've lost the game, and I can bemoan the missed opportunities, but the scoreboard determines the winner.
The Republicans did lose a very close election before, in 1960, and you didn't see Republicans whining about the result like the Democrats still are about 2000. And recent analysis even shows that Nixon probably won the popular vote-- due to the Democratic electors in Alabama being half 'generic Democrat' and half for Kennedy; check out this url for details: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/4275
Maine and Nebraska in fact do something other than the 'winner take all' that the other 48 states do. They tally up the votes in each congressional district, and the winner in each district gets one delegate. Then the overall totals for the whole state are added up, and the winner there gets two more delegates.
However, Maine only has 2 districts (4 electoral votes) and Nebraska 3 districts (5 evs), so in practice it doesn't really matter much, but I wish more states followed this system. Unfortunately, states that tend one way or another wouldn't want to switch to this system, since it'd hurt the candidate that's more popular in that state (California wouldn't want to take 20 or so of its 55 and hand them to Bush, e.g.), and states that are battlegrounds would be less of a battleground under this system, and thus would get less political attention. Nice idea, nevertheless.
Extreme's third album, III Sides To Every Story, from the mid-1990s, definitely had a meaningful sequence; the album was divided into three parts, the first 6 called 'Yours', the middle 5 called 'Mine' and the last 3 (which were longer tracks) called 'The Truth'.
I'm sick of pointing this out--kids today LOVE the music coming out. The fogies at Slashdot think that their niche opinion represent the majority. Today's computer users aren't downloading music because they don't like the whole albums--they're downloading because it's free and available.
Kids like crap like Barney, too. Then they grow up.
C'mon, how many people are running IPv6? I'm sure both of them have upgraded to -current already.
Sorry, don't think so. You made the claim, you provide the evidence. Otherwise I'm just going to presume you're spewing bullshit and ignore you.
Go take your trolling to democraticunderground.
I'd like to see the evidence of this, since I've seen no such documents anywhere, nor have I seen any such admission on the part of the Bush administration-- the closest they've come to 'admitting' anything is that they said that they probably shouldn't have put the 16 words into the SOTU last year w/o more evidence than they had, which is nowhere near what you're claiming.
I'm not, the British government is, and still is.
Wilson didn't prove a damn thing. He went over to Niger, had some tea with government officials, they told him that the story was false, he wanted to believe it, he wrote a report saying it was false. End of matter. Given that kind of evidence standard, I could prove anything.
Congratulations, you fail basic logic. A sentence that starts out 'The British Government has learned that ...' can only be a lie if in fact the British government has not learned the item in question, and the speaker knows this. Well, as it turns out, the UK continues to stand behind their statement, saying that they have intelligence from sources that they can't reveal to us (their right, after all).
Bzzt, too bad. Don Pardo has some nice parting gifts for you, though, including the Slashdot home game.
and plenty more-- I'm sure you can come up with more than me.
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You are ignoring the recent poll of Baghdad that Gallup did. 71 percent of those surveyed like our presence there and don't want us to leave any time soon.
It's ironic that more Iraqis support the war (percentage-wise) than Americans.
You may smirk, but I've been running my custom-hacked elisp client for muds since 1989. It's actually older than TinyMUD itself, since it originally was written as a telnet replacement for furMUD (a Lisp-based MUD) back in early 1989. My client had things like logging and such before any other client out there, thanks to taking advantage of built-in Emacs features.
Unfortunately, I don't have the motivation any more to hack all the cool stuff that should be hacked into it, so if there's anyone out there who wants a good solid elisp MUD client, and especially if you know and enjoy hacking elisp, drop me a line, and I'll share the code with you.
At 33K, it's definitely the smallest client out there, and since it runs anywhere emacs runs, it's arguably the most portable as well.
From his column on April 28 this year:
Within Iran itself, the people are coming to detest more and more the meaningless rigidities of religious rule. Being ruled by clerics is like being ruled by Microsoft -- somebody decides what's right for everybody and from then on no variation is permitted.
But -- again as with Microsoft -- while the people already trapped within the system are furious with the incompetence, blindness, and sheer meanness of their rulers, Iran's rulers are looking to expand their defective system into new territory.
I wrote about how to fix the legal system so tactics like DirecTV's little scam wouldn't work, back in January 2002. Here's the link to it. The basic idea is that if you threaten someone with legal action, you have to put money in an escrow account that they can use for their defense. When they spend money on legal fees, they also have to do the same thing, and you can use the money out of their escrow. Now if the sides are balanced financially, it'll all come out a wash, but if you're the little guy, you'll be able to use his escrow money to pay your legal bills and your escrow. Presto, no more bankruptcy tactics, and all of us little guys can just laugh at scumbags like DirecTV and SCO, like we should be able to without fear in the first place.
From what I understand, SMP opens all kinds of possible race conditions and other such nasty potential security holes, so OpenBSD doesn't want to implement something like this until they can be sure they can do it securely. Which may not be for a while, hard to tell.
I'm also in support of gun control laws that have the same approach: no restrictions on having/carrying a gun, but if you use one to commit a crime, then you get heavier criminal charges. Criminals should be the ones getting criminal charges, not innocents that carry a gun for personal protection, or break copy protection for fair use.
This statement is true by default, simply because there is no such thing as intellectual property.
Perhaps we need the equivalent of Godwin's Law: if you use the term 'intellectual property' except in jest, you lose the argument.
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Well said.