Oh yeah, with telecom stocks down an average of 90% over the last year (and yes that is right if you watch CNBC or other stock channels) they must be rolling in the dough now. Or working as a garbageman if they are unluckly like most telecoms.
But when I used Netscape 3.0 it crashed every 2 web pages I opened or froze and I am not even making this up. IE was a godsend for me and many of my friends. I know it has its bugs since its the best thing to try to hack (thus inviting more hackers) but IE is one of the reasons why I use the web more and am more productive with it.
I'm glad there is an alternative but praise competition and good web browsers. I wouldn't turn this into an anti-IE party because w/o IE most people would have been crashing on netscape for the past 2 years.
Thanks for the heads up. Information is always good. I barely heard about the turkey thing but I am not quite an old timer so forgive me lack of worldly history.
The Iraq thing is bad. But I don't remember Iraw giving Kuwait a 30 day warning(which I'm glad the US gave Afghanistan so it saved innocent from being in the crossfire) to give up its oil or they attack. If so I imagine the US would have came in sooner. At least we got a coalition to stop it. But that almost sounds like a arguement to take out Saddam. The tribal leader just shouldn't be running a country. With great power comes great responsibility and I don't believe he should have it(power). And the fact that he gassed his own people, had a terrible war with his neighbor Iran, and took over his neighbor Kuwait, he just shouldn't be trusted to mass a large amount of troops.
I seriously hope they work out a diplomatic solution but thinking long term its best he isn't left to himself for the next ten years. Or otherwise we might see a nuclear test from them and then be too afraid to do something about it when he flexes his muscles. We are already too scared to stop N. Korea's oppresive government and must wait for them to do something stupid like attack S. Korea before we intervene.
Sorry you puked here. I guess that all you can eat buffet was too good to be true:) Never eat the shrimp there.
Just to sum this all up, every country has their faults. Britain has their IRA problem. France kept getting taken over last century. Germany kept starting wars. Russia's, well all I need to say is Stalin. Japan's empire created their own mini-holocaust in the early 1900s but we just didn't hear about it b/c of germany. China is still being China, Africa always has been Africa:(.
I believe the US gets way too much crap for its record. China has horrible human rights, bad trade laws. But all you hear about is the base on Cuba and the steel tarriffs. India and China are just as likely to kill the earth as the US yet its the US that gets bitched at for every enviromental problem. We are entering a lot more wars now but thats because we have the military to solve problems. Its better that 10 American pilots get killed winning a war than 1,000 european troops. Serbia, Iraq, and Afghanistan proved that.
Just try to give the US a little slack. I know the US has given Europe slack in the past so make it a reciprocal relationship. However, this reminds me of my german flatmate who said that the reason why europe complains to America is because they expect better of us, they don't expect better of China. So that makes me feel better.
I was in Europe for a semester and its funny what they think we believe. Considering that we have 3million+ muslims, millions of japanese, chinese, candians, europeans, africans, catholics, protestants, hindus, etc, etc can you really label us like that? Sure some don't believe in evolution but there are more than a 100 million people here that do. So thanks for the stereotype.
Are government keeps our food safe so I actually trust our senators there. Since we haven't had any bad outbreaks, unlike england and mad cow disease, we can actually brag about that. Our fast food can almost be considered deadly in itself but I wouldn't consider it poison. And if eating McDonald french fries is wrong then I don't want to be right.
And America has the least amount of smokers compared to europe and japan! Down to about 21% here. So stuff your "think tobacco doesn't cause lung cancer" up your ass. We die from heart attacks b/c we are so fat. Europeans and Japanese die from lung disease. Europe usually has 40% smokers, some countries more than triple american's percentage of smokers. Japan is 59%. Go rip on their ignorance of lung cancer. Get your continents straight fool.
As for the nuclear weapons and treaties. Sorry but we don't keep secret treaties that caused WWI, we don't allow countries to take over other countries like in WWII. We see a bad government doing something we disagree with and we stop it.
Unlike Europe, we haven't had two holocausts in North America (thanks Germany and Kosovo) or turned a blind eye to a neighbor like europe did to Rwanda. Too bad europe didn't save those 800,000 people but at least you didn't get your hands dirty. Good for you. Maybe you didn't see the hundreds of thousands being slaughtered right next door because you were too busy reading/talking about how much americans suck?
Yes, I believe the earth's climate changes all the time. We had an ice age that proved it. We also have had warmer times. We are somewhere in the middle. Now the ozone layer fluctuating so much depending on our environmental laws shows that sometimes we can slow or speed these climate changes up.
Now gas and oil energy is of course bad in the long run. But who here thinks we are strong enough to actually kill our world in the next 50 years? Seems pretty arrogent to me. And if you think so I'm sure you were the same people who thought those horrible factories in the 1930s which produced pure black smoke would have killed us by 1980. Somehow we survived.
Now who thinks in 50 years we won't be using water, wind, solar, hydrogen, and fusion power? Its hard to imagine we won't. In 10 years we should be seeing electric cars in large cities all the time. So to think in 50 years that we won't automatically save ourselves is a little foolish.
Our main problem will be getting asia and south america (and who knows if Africa will be industrializing by then) to switch over after Europe and the US does. That may take forever.
Now do I support corporations saving every last dollar to destroy the earth? No, but I understand that these same evil corporations that are destroying our earth will eventually save our earth for the same reason. Money.
If they are on track to make money they why don't they take out a loan from the bank? Banks give out loans to companies who will make money in the long term but need short term cash.
Obviously they have a big problem if they are going the charity route. As a cold hard capitalist I hope that this only survives if enough people love it and wish to donate (like churches). But I don't like dying deadbeat companies surviving for long. And yes I was happy when the.dom stocks went down in flames, they were worthless companies and taught the techies that they should stick out of management and stick to their field. This isn't troll, this is my belief.
(And I am a proud Windows XP user. It hasn't crashed and I can play all the games, watch trailers, and play tons of software without worry about compiling, libraries, or driver support. And it came with my business computer anyways so I'm not crying over the price.)
As evil as Microsoft is at least they make tons of money for their shareholders instead of other companies I know of that are in the OS business.
We have all the land we want (otherwise we would have taken ALL of Mexico instead of just half). We use nukes as deterrants, as you have noticed we didn't use them to save tens of thousands of Americans in Korea or Vietnam, just in Japan when we still didn't know their capacity. This report is nothing new and I'm sure it has calmed down a lot since the cold war. You know that time when we had nukes in Afghanistan pointing at Moscow? That was a much worse time I assure you.
Personally, I'm glad our military is thinking of every scenario possible. We sure as hell didn't have one for our War on Terrorism and we had to make one up as we go. It's better to have the ground work made up in case China sneak attacks Taiwan or North Korea runs over South Korea with biological weapons. You know what they say, "Pray for the best, prepare for the worst."
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Oh yeah, with telecom stocks down an average of 90% over the last year (and yes that is right if you watch CNBC or other stock channels) they must be rolling in the dough now. Or working as a garbageman if they are unluckly like most telecoms.
"'The Federal Communications Commission is quietly handing over control of the broadband Internet to a handful of massive corporations "
SHHHH!!! They are doing it quietly dammit! Pass it only in notes with codes or you'll blow the whole thing!
But when I used Netscape 3.0 it crashed every 2 web pages I opened or froze and I am not even making this up. IE was a godsend for me and many of my friends. I know it has its bugs since its the best thing to try to hack (thus inviting more hackers) but IE is one of the reasons why I use the web more and am more productive with it.
I'm glad there is an alternative but praise competition and good web browsers. I wouldn't turn this into an anti-IE party because w/o IE most people would have been crashing on netscape for the past 2 years.
Thanks for the heads up. Information is always good. I barely heard about the turkey thing but I am not quite an old timer so forgive me lack of worldly history.
:) Never eat the shrimp there.
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The Iraq thing is bad. But I don't remember Iraw giving Kuwait a 30 day warning(which I'm glad the US gave Afghanistan so it saved innocent from being in the crossfire) to give up its oil or they attack. If so I imagine the US would have came in sooner. At least we got a coalition to stop it. But that almost sounds like a arguement to take out Saddam. The tribal leader just shouldn't be running a country. With great power comes great responsibility and I don't believe he should have it(power). And the fact that he gassed his own people, had a terrible war with his neighbor Iran, and took over his neighbor Kuwait, he just shouldn't be trusted to mass a large amount of troops.
I seriously hope they work out a diplomatic solution but thinking long term its best he isn't left to himself for the next ten years. Or otherwise we might see a nuclear test from them and then be too afraid to do something about it when he flexes his muscles. We are already too scared to stop N. Korea's oppresive government and must wait for them to do something stupid like attack S. Korea before we intervene.
Sorry you puked here. I guess that all you can eat buffet was too good to be true
Just to sum this all up, every country has their faults. Britain has their IRA problem. France kept getting taken over last century. Germany kept starting wars. Russia's, well all I need to say is Stalin. Japan's empire created their own mini-holocaust in the early 1900s but we just didn't hear about it b/c of germany. China is still being China, Africa always has been Africa
I believe the US gets way too much crap for its record. China has horrible human rights, bad trade laws. But all you hear about is the base on Cuba and the steel tarriffs. India and China are just as likely to kill the earth as the US yet its the US that gets bitched at for every enviromental problem. We are entering a lot more wars now but thats because we have the military to solve problems. Its better that 10 American pilots get killed winning a war than 1,000 european troops. Serbia, Iraq, and Afghanistan proved that.
Just try to give the US a little slack. I know the US has given Europe slack in the past so make it a reciprocal relationship. However, this reminds me of my german flatmate who said that the reason why europe complains to America is because they expect better of us, they don't expect better of China. So that makes me feel better.
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I was in Europe for a semester and its funny what they think we believe. Considering that we have 3million+ muslims, millions of japanese, chinese, candians, europeans, africans, catholics, protestants, hindus, etc, etc can you really label us like that? Sure some don't believe in evolution but there are more than a 100 million people here that do. So thanks for the stereotype.
Are government keeps our food safe so I actually trust our senators there. Since we haven't had any bad outbreaks, unlike england and mad cow disease, we can actually brag about that. Our fast food can almost be considered deadly in itself but I wouldn't consider it poison. And if eating McDonald french fries is wrong then I don't want to be right.
And America has the least amount of smokers compared to europe and japan! Down to about 21% here. So stuff your "think tobacco doesn't cause lung cancer" up your ass. We die from heart attacks b/c we are so fat. Europeans and Japanese die from lung disease. Europe usually has 40% smokers, some countries more than triple american's percentage of smokers. Japan is 59%. Go rip on their ignorance of lung cancer. Get your continents straight fool.
As for the nuclear weapons and treaties. Sorry but we don't keep secret treaties that caused WWI, we don't allow countries to take over other countries like in WWII. We see a bad government doing something we disagree with and we stop it.
Unlike Europe, we haven't had two holocausts in North America (thanks Germany and Kosovo) or turned a blind eye to a neighbor like europe did to Rwanda. Too bad europe didn't save those 800,000 people but at least you didn't get your hands dirty. Good for you. Maybe you didn't see the hundreds of thousands being slaughtered right next door because you were too busy reading/talking about how much americans suck?
Yes, I believe the earth's climate changes all the time. We had an ice age that proved it. We also have had warmer times. We are somewhere in the middle. Now the ozone layer fluctuating so much depending on our environmental laws shows that sometimes we can slow or speed these climate changes up.
Now gas and oil energy is of course bad in the long run. But who here thinks we are strong enough to actually kill our world in the next 50 years? Seems pretty arrogent to me. And if you think so I'm sure you were the same people who thought those horrible factories in the 1930s which produced pure black smoke would have killed us by 1980. Somehow we survived.
Now who thinks in 50 years we won't be using water, wind, solar, hydrogen, and fusion power? Its hard to imagine we won't. In 10 years we should be seeing electric cars in large cities all the time. So to think in 50 years that we won't automatically save ourselves is a little foolish.
Our main problem will be getting asia and south america (and who knows if Africa will be industrializing by then) to switch over after Europe and the US does. That may take forever.
Now do I support corporations saving every last dollar to destroy the earth? No, but I understand that these same evil corporations that are destroying our earth will eventually save our earth for the same reason. Money.
If they are on track to make money they why don't they take out a loan from the bank? Banks give out loans to companies who will make money in the long term but need short term cash.
.dom stocks went down in flames, they were worthless companies and taught the techies that they should stick out of management and stick to their field. This isn't troll, this is my belief.
Obviously they have a big problem if they are going the charity route. As a cold hard capitalist I hope that this only survives if enough people love it and wish to donate (like churches). But I don't like dying deadbeat companies surviving for long. And yes I was happy when the
(And I am a proud Windows XP user. It hasn't crashed and I can play all the games, watch trailers, and play tons of software without worry about compiling, libraries, or driver support. And it came with my business computer anyways so I'm not crying over the price.)
As evil as Microsoft is at least they make tons of money for their shareholders instead of other companies I know of that are in the OS business.
We have all the land we want (otherwise we would have taken ALL of Mexico instead of just half). We use nukes as deterrants, as you have noticed we didn't use them to save tens of thousands of Americans in Korea or Vietnam, just in Japan when we still didn't know their capacity. This report is nothing new and I'm sure it has calmed down a lot since the cold war. You know that time when we had nukes in Afghanistan pointing at Moscow? That was a much worse time I assure you.
Personally, I'm glad our military is thinking of every scenario possible. We sure as hell didn't have one for our War on Terrorism and we had to make one up as we go. It's better to have the ground work made up in case China sneak attacks Taiwan or North Korea runs over South Korea with biological weapons. You know what they say, "Pray for the best, prepare for the worst."