And that in turn is a mischaracterisation of Australia's opposition.
The Australian government thinks that the Kyoto Treaty is a lousy idea, and will cause economic problems without actually doing anything for the environment.
A *lot* of people - including a growing number of environmental scientists - think that Kyoto is a bad idea. They agree that something should be done, but Kyoto isn't it.
(Bob Brown, on the other hand, thinks all Australians should be left to starve in the dark, after the power stations are shut down, the roads dug up, and the farms abandoned. So the Green Party isn't exactly adding much to the debate.)
We all know who Sterling is, but his comments on this matter contain nothing of value - or even of interest. He probably *does* have something worthwhile to say, but he didn't bother.
That would be Sir Foster Norman, right? Whoever he is...
The honorific "Sir" is always followed by the first name (and then optionally the last name, if you are referring to him rather than addressing him directly). So upon receiving his knighthood, Robert Hewington-Smythe becomes Sir Robert, or Sir Robert Hewington-Smythe.
Secondly, go read mediamatters.org and see how biased towards the neocon view all of the mainstream tv is.
"All of mainstream TV"? What's the problem, your cable provider only gives you FOX?
The reality is that neocons are not just plain wrong on many issues (their economic theories, like trickle-down economics, have long since been disproven
Err, what? Evidence?
and their military policies are outright failures, e.g. the war in iraq).
Since you obviously haven't been watching any news channel that presents, you know, news, here's something for you: We won the war in Iraq.
Yet somehow they manage to get their voice not just mentioned on mainstream news, but presented as having equal value to the truth.
Since the mainstream media have an obvious bias to the left, I can only assume you group Stalin, Mao and Uncle Fidel with these "neocons" of yours.
It's not biased when you don't report lies.
Hmm?
Take a skeptical look at the actual facts that people like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Anne Coulter say (go look up the actual quotes and the actual statistics they cite), and you'll see they lie and distort to serve their own wrongheaded worldview.
I don't have much time for Coulter or O'Reilly, but Limbaugh - while clearly biased - is usually solid.
Now, explain to me just how the New York Times, The LA Times, The Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, NPR are biased in favour of the "neocons". Any sort of supporting evidence would be welcome.
Do you seriously wish to compare the U.S. to Germany as it was in the 30s and 40s?
Yes. Yes I do.
And here's the problem: You don't have the faintest clue what you're talking about. You have absolutely no idea of what actually went on in Germany during the 30s and 40s - you can't do, or you would see how utterly absurd this comparison is.
Or if you do know something about Germany in the 30s and 40s, you obviously don't care about facts if they don't support your argument, and instead of being merely ignorant, you are a propagandist for the enemies of civilisation. Not only do you use lies to attack the American government, but worse, you belittle the reality of the worst atrocity in human history.
"Is it wrong to root for your government's defeat, if you sincerely feel its policies are so misguided that their success would lead to much greater harm in the long run than would their failure in the short run?"
Well, since you have shown yourself to be devastatingly ignorant at best, I'd suggest you reassess your position.
Well, no, it's not just you. According to the polls, at least 40% of your fellow Americans share your derangement.
Bush isn't doing a great job, true, but the rhetoric from the left these days would make Karl Marx blush. Come back to reality one day, it doesn't hurt that much!
I can't talk for the NYTimes, but I'm confident that the BBC has never attempted to assert its right to distort stories or to transmit outright lies.
Tee hee!
What do you mean, you were serious?! How could you? What?
Ever heard of a man named Andrew Gilligan? The Hutton Report? The whole thing was a cut-and-dried case of the BBC asserting its right to distort stories and transmit outright lies. And it's far from the only example.
Having said that, the Beeb is pretty good when compared to ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN, much less the print media - NYT and Jayson Blair, for example, or the hopelessly biased French and German press, or Reuters, or...
FOX is the least of the problem. Yeah, they're biased, but they don't pretend otherwise.
What he did say is this: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Puts it in a different light, doesn't it?
And the bodycount site you link to is, not to put to fine a point on it, a complete lie. Deaths of Iraqi civilians caused by our (and their) enemies is presented as though it was caused by the US and its allies. And even that needs to be contrasted against the thousands of deaths directly caused by the Iraqi government before it was removed from power.
You ask: "When will people learn that labelling people "terrorists" and killing them just creates new "terrorists" at an exponential rate?"
The answer is clearly never, because the latter does not in fact happen.
"As far as these "terrorists" are concerned, America and the UK are "terrorists" too."
The terrorists are the ones deliberately seeking to maximise the civilian death toll. Since US and allied troops are seeking to minimise civilian casualties - at risk of their own lives - they are quite clearly anti-terrorists.
Save your anti-American rhetoric for when America actually does something wrong.
My mother had an RX-2 and the first set of seals lasted about two years. Later on it was prone to overheating.
She replaced it with a 1978 Honda Accord:) Despite what Forbes say, "Cordelia" ran for years without any problems. Maybe we got a slightly different model in Australia.
The recent anime convention in Sydney (Animania) was wall-to-wall hot girls, many of them in costume. Hooray! A geek pastime that attracts more girls than guys!
Not only that, but you can actually talk to these girls. Try chatting to that 6' Brazilian supermodel about *anything* and the best you'll get is a blank stare while she plans her escape.
Better explanation: Someone screwed up a search-and-replace in a major way. Many (most?) of those pages with "iraq" in them don't exist.
It looks like someone blocked off parts of the site to web-crawlers; I don't know for sure why all those blah/bloo/iraq entries are in there but they sure as hell don't lead to anything.
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If it wasn't for those pesky laws of physics.
You'd need a telescope with a mirror several light-years across the see the Kennedy assassination now. (Even if you could travel faster than light, which you can't.) Constructing such a thing is problematic, to say the least.
The Dying Earth (fantasy, pretty much) is a favourite of mine. But I don't think there's any bad Vance. There's a lot of out-of-print Vance, but no bad Vance.
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And that in turn is a mischaracterisation of Australia's opposition.
The Australian government thinks that the Kyoto Treaty is a lousy idea, and will cause economic problems without actually doing anything for the environment.
A *lot* of people - including a growing number of environmental scientists - think that Kyoto is a bad idea. They agree that something should be done, but Kyoto isn't it.
(Bob Brown, on the other hand, thinks all Australians should be left to starve in the dark, after the power stations are shut down, the roads dug up, and the farms abandoned. So the Green Party isn't exactly adding much to the debate.)
We all know who Sterling is, but his comments on this matter contain nothing of value - or even of interest. He probably *does* have something worthwhile to say, but he didn't bother.
That would be Sir Foster Norman, right? Whoever he is...
The honorific "Sir" is always followed by the first name (and then optionally the last name, if you are referring to him rather than addressing him directly). So upon receiving his knighthood, Robert Hewington-Smythe becomes Sir Robert, or Sir Robert Hewington-Smythe.
Secondly, go read mediamatters.org and see how biased towards the neocon view all of the mainstream tv is.
"All of mainstream TV"? What's the problem, your cable provider only gives you FOX?
The reality is that neocons are not just plain wrong on many issues (their economic theories, like trickle-down economics, have long since been disproven
Err, what? Evidence?
and their military policies are outright failures, e.g. the war in iraq).
Since you obviously haven't been watching any news channel that presents, you know, news, here's something for you: We won the war in Iraq.
Yet somehow they manage to get their voice not just mentioned on mainstream news, but presented as having equal value to the truth.
Since the mainstream media have an obvious bias to the left, I can only assume you group Stalin, Mao and Uncle Fidel with these "neocons" of yours.
It's not biased when you don't report lies.
Hmm?
Take a skeptical look at the actual facts that people like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Anne Coulter say (go look up the actual quotes and the actual statistics they cite), and you'll see they lie and distort to serve their own wrongheaded worldview.
I don't have much time for Coulter or O'Reilly, but Limbaugh - while clearly biased - is usually solid.
Now, explain to me just how the New York Times, The LA Times, The Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, NPR are biased in favour of the "neocons". Any sort of supporting evidence would be welcome.
Do you seriously wish to compare the U.S. to Germany as it was in the 30s and 40s?
Yes. Yes I do.
And here's the problem: You don't have the faintest clue what you're talking about. You have absolutely no idea of what actually went on in Germany during the 30s and 40s - you can't do, or you would see how utterly absurd this comparison is.
Or if you do know something about Germany in the 30s and 40s, you obviously don't care about facts if they don't support your argument, and instead of being merely ignorant, you are a propagandist for the enemies of civilisation. Not only do you use lies to attack the American government, but worse, you belittle the reality of the worst atrocity in human history.
"Is it wrong to root for your government's defeat, if you sincerely feel its policies are so misguided that their success would lead to much greater harm in the long run than would their failure in the short run?"
Well, since you have shown yourself to be devastatingly ignorant at best, I'd suggest you reassess your position.
Well, no, it's not just you. According to the polls, at least 40% of your fellow Americans share your derangement.
Bush isn't doing a great job, true, but the rhetoric from the left these days would make Karl Marx blush. Come back to reality one day, it doesn't hurt that much!
Tee hee!
What do you mean, you were serious?! How could you? What?
Ever heard of a man named Andrew Gilligan? The Hutton Report? The whole thing was a cut-and-dried case of the BBC asserting its right to distort stories and transmit outright lies. And it's far from the only example.
Having said that, the Beeb is pretty good when compared to ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN, much less the print media - NYT and Jayson Blair, for example, or the hopelessly biased French and German press, or Reuters, or...
FOX is the least of the problem. Yeah, they're biased, but they don't pretend otherwise.
now what am I supposed to do with 10 gallons of tar and a sack of feathers? Party at ackthpt's place!
If you think Iran is a friend, you've been living under a rock for the past 25 years.
So, rocks have internet access now? Broadband, or just dialup?
What he did say is this: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Puts it in a different light, doesn't it?
And the bodycount site you link to is, not to put to fine a point on it, a complete lie. Deaths of Iraqi civilians caused by our (and their) enemies is presented as though it was caused by the US and its allies. And even that needs to be contrasted against the thousands of deaths directly caused by the Iraqi government before it was removed from power.
You ask: "When will people learn that labelling people "terrorists" and killing them just creates new "terrorists" at an exponential rate?"
The answer is clearly never, because the latter does not in fact happen.
"As far as these "terrorists" are concerned, America and the UK are "terrorists" too."
The terrorists are the ones deliberately seeking to maximise the civilian death toll. Since US and allied troops are seeking to minimise civilian casualties - at risk of their own lives - they are quite clearly anti-terrorists.
Save your anti-American rhetoric for when America actually does something wrong.
"What exactly is wrong with advertising your side of the story."
When you're a taxpayer-funded media empire and the subject of a serious investigation, there's a HELL OF A LOT wrong with it.
I can attest to the seals sucking.
:) Despite what Forbes say, "Cordelia" ran for years without any problems. Maybe we got a slightly different model in Australia.
My mother had an RX-2 and the first set of seals lasted about two years. Later on it was prone to overheating.
She replaced it with a 1978 Honda Accord
The recent anime convention in Sydney (Animania) was wall-to-wall hot girls, many of them in costume. Hooray! A geek pastime that attracts more girls than guys!
Not only that, but you can actually talk to these girls. Try chatting to that 6' Brazilian supermodel about *anything* and the best you'll get is a blank stare while she plans her escape.
He's thinking of an Apple IIe.
Better explanation: Someone screwed up a search-and-replace in a major way. Many (most?) of those pages with "iraq" in them don't exist.
It looks like someone blocked off parts of the site to web-crawlers; I don't know for sure why all those blah/bloo/iraq entries are in there but they sure as hell don't lead to anything.
Censorship: 0
Screwups: 100
No, not the US. The French, yes, the Russians, certainly. Not the US.
I think you mean 3 minutes.
Either that or you've been away for a while. Welcome back!
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Crikey, it's a croc!
I'll save him if I can!
AMD computer, actually.
I'm not anti-business in general, but this "You will buy what we want you to buy, and you will like it" approach really TICKS ME OFF!
Ahem. Sorry.
Score: 4 Informative? Well, whatever. Hmm, 50% Informative, 30% Insightful, 20% Troll... I'll go along with the Insightful/Troll, but Informative?
Fuck off and die.
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If it wasn't for those pesky laws of physics.
You'd need a telescope with a mirror several light-years across the see the Kennedy assassination now. (Even if you could travel faster than light, which you can't.) Constructing such a thing is problematic, to say the least.
And cheap at only $1500, too!
Ouchie.
Jack Vance, eh?
The Dying Earth (fantasy, pretty much) is a favourite of mine. But I don't think there's any bad Vance. There's a lot of out-of-print Vance, but no bad Vance.
It's networked storage for your PDA/phone/MP3 player/camera.
It would be nice if SPEWS only blacklisted your street. But when that doesn't work, they blacklist your suburb, then your entire city.
They don't care about your email. All they care about is stopping spammers.
The cure is worse than the disease.