The problem is really that people sitting outside expect or demand perfection where it can't really exist, given our current "air lift" flying technology
In much the same way laypeople expect complex software to work perfectly from release...
All you will do is undermine democracy by censoring some people. Communism causes more problems than it solves, news at 11.
So sick of hearing this.
1) He never mentioned socialism or communism. 2) "Liberal" does not mean "someone who wants to turn our government into communism." It can, but don't assume that's the end goal for most liberals. 3) Why is socialism constantly berated as some evil equal to Nazi Germany in the general public? Yes, technically it was the National Socialist Party, but they weren't really socialist at all. Aspects of socialism have been proven useful in Europe in recent history.
I also find it oddly dissonant that you seem to be arguing in favor of democracy, yet still want money to have a large voice.
For me, liberalism is caring more about people than institutions ( corporations, powerful people's , states, etc ).
Your error is that you forgot that corporations are people,
I think a lot of us on/. would say that that is a large problem to begin with.
Yeah, how about "can I reasonably expect to have a chance of driving away after an accident at this speed"? 30 mph, depending on angle, sure. 70 mph? Ehhhhh...I doubt it.
I've lost track of what the original point of this conversation was...but did Congress make any sort of statement of intention of war (or whatever you want to call it...) for Afghanistan or Iraq? I thought Bush just said "we're gonna go get these guys" and then we did. I believe the common "we never actually went to war with them" viewpoint stems from this perspective, that it's not a war because the president says so because he doesn't have that power.
However, after a quick Wikipedia bomb, it appears you are correct in that Congress did pass "legislation titled Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists" for Afghanistan and "Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq." In the first case, apparently Bush never sought for it to be called a "war" because "these are terrorists, not a nation, etc., etc."
Personally, I would have just called a war a war, but hey.
This doesn't sound like a pissing match so much as an Ubuntu guy being an ass and a corresponding Mint guy rolling his eyes. The urine is flowing one way.
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The problem is really that people sitting outside expect or demand perfection where it can't really exist, given our current "air lift" flying technology
In much the same way laypeople expect complex software to work perfectly from release...
Joining facebook to play Farmville? That's...that's especially crazy and sad... *twitch*
Communism was quite literally the system that replaced serfdom in Russia.
Hey now--sometimes we want hot dogs instead.
How much of a difference really is there between giving them 100k directly and contributing 100k to their reelection campaign?
All you will do is undermine democracy by censoring some people. Communism causes more problems than it solves, news at 11.
So sick of hearing this.
1) He never mentioned socialism or communism.
2) "Liberal" does not mean "someone who wants to turn our government into communism." It can, but don't assume that's the end goal for most liberals.
3) Why is socialism constantly berated as some evil equal to Nazi Germany in the general public? Yes, technically it was the National Socialist Party, but they weren't really socialist at all. Aspects of socialism have been proven useful in Europe in recent history.
I also find it oddly dissonant that you seem to be arguing in favor of democracy, yet still want money to have a large voice.
For me, liberalism is caring more about people than institutions ( corporations, powerful people's , states, etc ).
Your error is that you forgot that corporations are people,
I think a lot of us on /. would say that that is a large problem to begin with.
Doesn't that kind of defeat most of the point of being on facebook in the first place, if you're using a fake name and people can't find you?
Misread headline as "Car Railgun Launching First Car"
Please tell me you're not trying to use "hip, edgy, and irreverent" with a straight face.
Where the fuck did that phrase even come from? Is this some bizarre audiophile vernacular thing I've never heard of?
one road always has priority and the other gives way.
How do you tell which road has the right of way?
Always north-south/east-west? What about diagonal streets then (I live on one)?
Are there signs at every intersection saying which road has right-of-way?
Good thing the whole country lives in Manhattan, then. I guess the rest of us are just SOL.
Everyone*
*I don't actually mean everyone
Nice.
Yeah, how about "can I reasonably expect to have a chance of driving away after an accident at this speed"? 30 mph, depending on angle, sure. 70 mph? Ehhhhh...I doubt it.
I've lost track of what the original point of this conversation was...but did Congress make any sort of statement of intention of war (or whatever you want to call it...) for Afghanistan or Iraq? I thought Bush just said "we're gonna go get these guys" and then we did. I believe the common "we never actually went to war with them" viewpoint stems from this perspective, that it's not a war because the president says so because he doesn't have that power.
However, after a quick Wikipedia bomb, it appears you are correct in that Congress did pass "legislation titled Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists" for Afghanistan and "Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq." In the first case, apparently Bush never sought for it to be called a "war" because "these are terrorists, not a nation, etc., etc."
Personally, I would have just called a war a war, but hey.
It still explicitly says that Congress must pass it. And "declare war" and "Declaration of War" are linguistically identical.
You try implementing a universal software system and let us know how many problems it has out the door.
Or add a button to temporarily raise it if you're about to run over something? :)
So obviously he must be a pedophile.
For the United States, Article One, Section Eight of the Constitution says "Congress shall have power to ... declare War".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_United_States
It's in the first freakin' sentence of the main section, dude. And in the first Article, even.
I am personally generally pro-royal
Since they have very little power as far as I'm aware, what does that even mean?
This doesn't sound like a pissing match so much as an Ubuntu guy being an ass and a corresponding Mint guy rolling his eyes. The urine is flowing one way.
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I still play Mario Kart 64 with friends when we get together. Granted, depending whose place we're at, it may be in a PC emulator, but...
To continue the analogy, the canary in real coal mines obviously had to be fed regularly, otherwise it would die as well.