<quote><p>No, they are targeted because the intelligence and, in many cases, the targets themselves say they are engaged in combat operations against the United States.</p></quote>
Because intelligence on much bigger things such as invading another country for the bountiful supply of Weapons of Mass Destruction they had was excellent top notch intelligence. 1 million dead Iraqis later.. still looking for those weapons of mass destruction.
The President is not a King, nor a tyrant. Only Kings and Tyrants decree someone needs to be executed while they are driving around in a car or sleeping in their bed at night.
If they're on the battle field with a weapon, they're fighting a war and are military targets. Otherwise, they're Americans who have been denied due process. Innocent until proven guilty and all that... I like our rights as Americans. Maybe you don't.
Oh hey!! I think the warrant-less wiretapping network just picked up on you telling your grandma you are "Shelving the bible on the second shelf".. apparently that's code for bombing the pentag0n. You are now an enemy combatant.
PatHMV remembers spending those hours too, except he spent them working so he could build missiles and warships used to subjugate brown people... and then wonders why they fly planes into his buildings...
He has the liberty to die. That's what Rackoon, the man with the 37th best health care system in the world wants.
Needless to say, places like France which enjoy the worlds #1 health care system in the world, are also the most productive people / hours worked. DAMN THOSE LAZY SOCIALISTS WHO JUST WANT TO STAY HOME, AND GET FREE STUFF, and a nice 3-4 week vacation a year, and reasonable working house... and be more productive than their US counterparts at the same time.
Only Americans, can, after cutting their taxes on the upper class thereby shifting the burden of society onto the lower and middle classes, and then giving the upper class big bonuses for almost destroying the country, only Americans can complain about socialism for the middle and lower classes.
Socialism for the upper class is entirely acceptable in their brainwashed "Liberty to die" culture.
But all consumers prefer that there, than instead of a system where for profit determines if they get healthcare when they get ill. What? You are sick now after having paid premiums for the last 15 years? Sorry, our corporate death panel has determined the date on your application was invalid so we have voided your insurance. Thank you, come again.
It's state-by-state, check out "group of 1" coverage. This at least helps you get past the pre-existing condition clauses, and might get you a group discount.
1 1 0 1 1 1 0 - 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 ---------------- = 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 or t t f t t t f - t f t t t ---------------- = t f t f t t t ... by your argument trinary uses logical catagories true, false, and maybe... ... and sometimes notates them using the symbols '0', '1', and '2', which coincidentally are also the symbols conventionally used to represent numbers zero, one, and two. .. by the time we reach the decimal system we have true false, possibly, maybe, and all variants there between.
Please. let's use correct terminology. Boolean logic deals with true/false which happens to adapt well to a binary numerical based system. But Boolean logic and binary number systems are different things.
I can assure you binary uses 0's, and 1's. <pre> 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 - 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 ---------------- = 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 or t t f t t t f - t f t t t ---------------- = t f t f t t t </pre> I prefer the first. How about you?
Life experiences mean everything when interpreting law. Alito: Have to Consider Life Experiences when Ruling Cases [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNfyZWnQVnQ].
Please stop being unrealistic every human judge uses their human experiences to interpret the law. Those experiences are usually what other people are referring to when using the word 'maturity'. Maturity comes through experience, and I would rather have a mature judge presiding over my case than an immature judge who just can't wait for the day to be over so s/he can go shoot some balls at the local golf course.
If you believe that judges do not use their personal beliefs whether they be 'conservative' of 'liberal' (or really just, human experience) I'm going to call bullshit and say you're delusional.
Next thing I know you'll be spouting crazy Jesus talk.
The world you live in conflicts with reality.
I'm glad to have someone up on the court who can understand and connect with society and where it is heading.
The law 150 years ago was that a percentage of the US population was not human - they were animals meant to work in the fields. A conservative judge would have upheld that law; after all that is what they preach - keeping everything the same and backwards. Conservatism and backwards go hand in hand as do liberalism and progressive - one advances society, the other prefers it stays in the past. Are you saying you approve of enslaving blacks? I would rather have a judge who would use their maturity and interpret the meant laws meant for humans as a human.
Perhaps our most striking finding is that a leading indicator of a metropolitan area's high-technology success is a large gay population. Frequently cited as a harbinger of redevelopment and gentrification in distressed urban neighborhoods, the presence of gays in a metro area signals a diverse and progressive environment and provides a barometer for a broad spectrum of amenities attractive to adults, especially those without children. To some extent, the gay and lesbian population represents what might be called the "last frontier" of diversity in our society.
As table 1 shows, 11 of the top 15 high-tech metropolitan areas (column 1) also appear in the top 15 of the gay index (column 2). The five metro areas with the highest concentration of gay residentsâ"San Francisco, Washington, Austin, Atlanta, and San Diegoâ"are all among the nation's top 15 high-tech areas. In our statistical analyses, the gay index does better than other individual measures of social and cultural diversity as a predictor of high-tech location. The correlations are exceedingly high and consistently positive and significant. The results of a variety of multivariate regression analyses support this finding. The gay index is positively and significantly associated with the ability of a region both to attract talent and to generate high-tech industry.
Gays predict not only the concentration of high-tech industry, but also its growth, as we found when we compared our gay index with the Milken Institute Tech-Growth Index, which measures growth in output of high-tech industries within metropolitan areas from 1990 to 1998 relative to the national growth rate in output of high-tech industries during the same period. Five of the cities in the top 10 in the Tech-Growth Index also rank in the top 10 for the gay index. What's more, the correlation between the gay index (measured in 1990) and the Milken Tech-Growth Index increases over time, suggesting that the benefits of diversity may actually compound as time goes on by increasing a region's high-tech prosperity.
To counter the possibility that the influence of San Francisco (which ranks first on both the high-tech and gay indices) creates a false association between the two measures, we repeated the analyses without San Francisco. That second analysis strengthened slightly the influence of the gay index on high-tech growth, increasing our confidence that the concentration of gays predicts high-tech concentration and growth.
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In terms of tech, they are a bigger group than "5%".
The people in set B are working calls centers, and the checkout stand at Wal-Mart. Google needs educated workers. Gay might be a minority of the general population. They are, however, not a minority of the educated tech population.
I'm not really sure you live in a very diverse area. I've worked in semiconductors, and know plenty of people in the software business. Gay's are not a minority. Most gays are usually quite well educated, which is more than I can say regarding the majority of Americans.
Gays are a minority in America. They're not a minority in higher-level jobs requiring an education.
You're thinking only of yourself which is what most people who spew the crap you just did generally do. Selfish ass.
There are 12 million households in California (http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/california.htm), at ~2.2 TVs per household. Factor in the bars, malls, and every other public place that have at least 2-3 TV screens running 24/7.
Stop being such a selfish jerk. Your filthy kind was spewing the "WAAAH I WANT TO DRIVE MY SUV AT 5MPG DAILY WAAAAHH DONT TAKE AWAY MY BIG CAR." just a few years ago.
Stop wasting the limited resources.
Shut the fuck up and start paying the real price instead of the bullshit fake costs of energy subsidized by murder of brown people in other countries so you can be a wasteful American and indulge in unencumbered credit based consumerism.
Your gravy train is coming to the end of the line and your new Chinese overlords will be coming to collect. For those who have visited China, you know what I'm talking about.
750ml Water bottle=$1.25 3785ml Gasoline=$1.79
Something is wrong there. As the dollar empire continues to crumbles, those values will start to reflect reality.
SSRIs here is that people will come out of a deep depression, and begin rationalizing suicide
Citation please?
Oh, and these drugs arent any better for dealing with depression than alcohol, but I guess in today's world, the classification the government puts the substances in is way more important than their actual effects.
Uh. Alcohol will prevent you from functioning in society. Getting a job, getting along with peers, etc.
SSRI's will enable to you continue functioning in reality and society.
Man my brother works at MS and had me over last week specifically to demo Win7. I was impressed. Quick and responsive and clean!
I was particularly impressed at the switching speed between apps (in this case Left 4 Dead) which he was able to switch to from another non-DX Windows app much quicker than I can do in XP.
Republic. Our system is a Republic with a loose democratic style at the local and legislative level. Highest level of Federal Executive and Judicial offices are not chosen by democratic means.
I don't do minor upgrades, there are other people for that. When a major upgrade is needed, let's say from version "2.7" to "3.0" they call me.
Wow. So you're the guy that does those small changes huh? They usually call me for "3" to "4". I write it all in machine language for optimized speeds and job protection.
I work for a huge semiconductor company (4B revenue last year).
The Engineering department is all Asians and more specifically, a lot of H-1B workers.
When I got there I was surprised to find that the company culture and expectation was 10-12 hours a day at least, 6-7 days a week.
I could come in at any time of the night, 3AM whatever, and there would be people there.
The thing is, you have to join the group - these people are 'happy' to work these long hours, they're H-1B, and just happy to be in the US. And all of this on a salary.
In the beginning I tried doing the 8 hr workday and people would give me nasty looks because I was 'leaving early'.
I shot an email over to HR and cited CA labour law relating/specifically listing our job as a hourly non-exempt job.
Calculating the amount of hours I was putting in and the amount of overtime I would get paid, I calculated around 55k missed wages in a year.
Needless to say, within 3 months our group was called in and given a presentation by HR - something about 'the law changing recently' (bs). We were to be made hourly, we were to have at least a day a week where we have to not work, and a curfew of 10PM.
Surprisingly, I was expecting them to cut wages like IBM did, but they didn't.
I know one of my coworkers had previously put in 152 hours in two weeks. It seems that work is life for the Chinese coworkers I have. And if you don't keep up, you stand out.
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<quote><p>No, they are targeted because the intelligence and, in many cases, the targets themselves say they are engaged in combat operations against the United States.</p></quote>
Because intelligence on much bigger things such as invading another country for the bountiful supply of Weapons of Mass Destruction they had was excellent top notch intelligence. 1 million dead Iraqis later.. still looking for those weapons of mass destruction.
The President is not a King, nor a tyrant. Only Kings and Tyrants decree someone needs to be executed while they are driving around in a car or sleeping in their bed at night.
If they're on the battle field with a weapon, they're fighting a war and are military targets. Otherwise, they're Americans who have been denied due process. Innocent until proven guilty and all that... I like our rights as Americans. Maybe you don't.
Oh hey!! I think the warrant-less wiretapping network just picked up on you telling your grandma you are "Shelving the bible on the second shelf".. apparently that's code for bombing the pentag0n. You are now an enemy combatant.
PatHMV remembers spending those hours too, except he spent them working so he could build missiles and warships used to subjugate brown people... and then wonders why they fly planes into his buildings...
Health insurance / month in the US for 1: $450. For a family, $1300/mo.
America, the great. :-D
He has the liberty to die. That's what Rackoon, the man with the 37th best health care system in the world wants.
Needless to say, places like France which enjoy the worlds #1 health care system in the world, are also the most productive people / hours worked. DAMN THOSE LAZY SOCIALISTS WHO JUST WANT TO STAY HOME, AND GET FREE STUFF, and a nice 3-4 week vacation a year, and reasonable working house... and be more productive than their US counterparts at the same time.
Liberty means death?
:-D
Brainwashed socialists
Only Americans, can, after cutting their taxes on the upper class thereby shifting the burden of society onto the lower and middle classes, and then giving the upper class big bonuses for almost destroying the country, only Americans can complain about socialism for the middle and lower classes.
Socialism for the upper class is entirely acceptable in their brainwashed "Liberty to die" culture.
But all consumers prefer that there, than instead of a system where for profit determines if they get healthcare when they get ill. What? You are sick now after having paid premiums for the last 15 years? Sorry, our corporate death panel has determined the date on your application was invalid so we have voided your insurance. Thank you, come again.
It's state-by-state, check out "group of 1" coverage. This at least helps you get past the pre-existing condition clauses, and might get you a group discount.
1 1 0 1 1 1 0 ...
- 0 0 1 0 1 1 1
----------------
= 1 0 1 0 1 1 1
or
t t f t t t f
- t f t t t
----------------
= t f t f t t t
... by your argument trinary uses logical catagories true, false, and maybe
... and sometimes notates them using the symbols '0', '1', and '2', which coincidentally are also the symbols conventionally used to represent numbers zero, one, and two.
.. by the time we reach the decimal system we have true false, possibly, maybe, and all variants there between.
Please. let's use correct terminology. Boolean logic deals with true/false which happens to adapt well to a binary numerical based system. But Boolean logic and binary number systems are different things.
I can assure you binary uses 0's, and 1's.
<pre>
1 1 0 1 1 1 0
- 0 0 1 0 1 1 1
----------------
= 1 0 1 0 1 1 1
or
t t f t t t f
- t f t t t
----------------
= t f t f t t t
</pre>
I prefer the first. How about you?
Life experiences mean everything when interpreting law. Alito: Have to Consider Life Experiences when Ruling Cases [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNfyZWnQVnQ].
Please stop being unrealistic every human judge uses their human experiences to interpret the law. Those experiences are usually what other people are referring to when using the word 'maturity'. Maturity comes through experience, and I would rather have a mature judge presiding over my case than an immature judge who just can't wait for the day to be over so s/he can go shoot some balls at the local golf course.
If you believe that judges do not use their personal beliefs whether they be 'conservative' of 'liberal' (or really just, human experience) I'm going to call bullshit and say you're delusional.
Next thing I know you'll be spouting crazy Jesus talk.
The world you live in conflicts with reality.
I'm glad to have someone up on the court who can understand and connect with society and where it is heading.
The law 150 years ago was that a percentage of the US population was not human - they were animals meant to work in the fields. A conservative judge would have upheld that law; after all that is what they preach - keeping everything the same and backwards. Conservatism and backwards go hand in hand as do liberalism and progressive - one advances society, the other prefers it stays in the past. Are you saying you approve of enslaving blacks? I would rather have a judge who would use their maturity and interpret the meant laws meant for humans as a human.
Regards.
Obviously enough that they're willing to put their money where their mouth is. Unless Google has a gay agenda?
http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2002/winter_technology_florida.aspx
Gays and Growth
Perhaps our most striking finding is that a leading indicator of a metropolitan area's high-technology success is a large gay population. Frequently cited as a harbinger of redevelopment and gentrification in distressed urban neighborhoods, the presence of gays in a metro area signals a diverse and progressive environment and provides a barometer for a broad spectrum of amenities attractive to adults, especially those without children. To some extent, the gay and lesbian population represents what might be called the "last frontier" of diversity in our society.
As table 1 shows, 11 of the top 15 high-tech metropolitan areas (column 1) also appear in the top 15 of the gay index (column 2). The five metro areas with the highest concentration of gay residentsâ"San Francisco, Washington, Austin, Atlanta, and San Diegoâ"are all among the nation's top 15 high-tech areas. In our statistical analyses, the gay index does better than other individual measures of social and cultural diversity as a predictor of high-tech location. The correlations are exceedingly high and consistently positive and significant. The results of a variety of multivariate regression analyses support this finding. The gay index is positively and significantly associated with the ability of a region both to attract talent and to generate high-tech industry.
Gays predict not only the concentration of high-tech industry, but also its growth, as we found when we compared our gay index with the Milken Institute Tech-Growth Index, which measures growth in output of high-tech industries within metropolitan areas from 1990 to 1998 relative to the national growth rate in output of high-tech industries during the same period. Five of the cities in the top 10 in the Tech-Growth Index also rank in the top 10 for the gay index. What's more, the correlation between the gay index (measured in 1990) and the Milken Tech-Growth Index increases over time, suggesting that the benefits of diversity may actually compound as time goes on by increasing a region's high-tech prosperity.
To counter the possibility that the influence of San Francisco (which ranks first on both the high-tech and gay indices) creates a false association between the two measures, we repeated the analyses without San Francisco. That second analysis strengthened slightly the influence of the gay index on high-tech growth, increasing our confidence that the concentration of gays predicts high-tech concentration and growth.
--
In terms of tech, they are a bigger group than "5%".
The people in set B are working calls centers, and the checkout stand at Wal-Mart. Google needs educated workers. Gay might be a minority of the general population. They are, however, not a minority of the educated tech population.
Actually, judging by semiconductor, which is a mix 90% mix of Asian/Indian, 10% White (of which a lot are european immigrants).
And by software, when I dropped by the MS campus in Mountain View I was amazed to see the huge number of Russians and Indians.
High tech jobs have a lot of country to country moving.
I'm not really sure you live in a very diverse area. I've worked in semiconductors, and know plenty of people in the software business. Gay's are not a minority. Most gays are usually quite well educated, which is more than I can say regarding the majority of Americans.
Gays are a minority in America. They're not a minority in higher-level jobs requiring an education.
You're thinking only of yourself which is what most people who spew the crap you just did generally do. Selfish ass.
There are 12 million households in California (http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/california.htm), at ~2.2 TVs per household. Factor in the bars, malls, and every other public place that have at least 2-3 TV screens running 24/7.
Stop being such a selfish jerk. Your filthy kind was spewing the "WAAAH I WANT TO DRIVE MY SUV AT 5MPG DAILY WAAAAHH DONT TAKE AWAY MY BIG CAR." just a few years ago.
Stop wasting the limited resources.
Shut the fuck up and start paying the real price instead of the bullshit fake costs of energy subsidized by murder of brown people in other countries so you can be a wasteful American and indulge in unencumbered credit based consumerism.
Your gravy train is coming to the end of the line and your new Chinese overlords will be coming to collect. For those who have visited China, you know what I'm talking about.
750ml Water bottle=$1.25
3785ml Gasoline=$1.79
Something is wrong there. As the dollar empire continues to crumbles, those values will start to reflect reality.
Citation please?
Oh, and these drugs arent any better for dealing with depression than alcohol, but I guess in today's world, the classification the government puts the substances in is way more important than their actual effects.
Uh. Alcohol will prevent you from functioning in society. Getting a job, getting along with peers, etc.
SSRI's will enable to you continue functioning in reality and society.
Man my brother works at MS and had me over last week specifically to demo Win7. I was impressed. Quick and responsive and clean!
I was particularly impressed at the switching speed between apps (in this case Left 4 Dead) which he was able to switch to from another non-DX Windows app much quicker than I can do in XP.
Win7 looked really really promising.
Republic. Our system is a Republic with a loose democratic style at the local and legislative level. Highest level of Federal Executive and Judicial offices are not chosen by democratic means.
Didn't you see it when you were reading it? It's right next to the right to kill your child any time in the first nine months of their life.
Troll.
I think the key word is "social democracies" not "socialist democracies". There's a difference.
I don't do minor upgrades, there are other people for that. When a major upgrade is needed, let's say from version "2.7" to "3.0" they call me.
Wow. So you're the guy that does those small changes huh? They usually call me for "3" to "4". I write it all in machine language for optimized speeds and job protection.
Actually, I think you misunderstood parent. Technically, it's NOT allowed under the 4th. This just legitimizes it even further.
I work for a huge semiconductor company (4B revenue last year).
The Engineering department is all Asians and more specifically, a lot of H-1B workers.
When I got there I was surprised to find that the company culture and expectation was 10-12 hours a day at least, 6-7 days a week.
I could come in at any time of the night, 3AM whatever, and there would be people there.
The thing is, you have to join the group - these people are 'happy' to work these long hours, they're H-1B, and just happy to be in the US. And all of this on a salary.
In the beginning I tried doing the 8 hr workday and people would give me nasty looks because I was 'leaving early'.
I shot an email over to HR and cited CA labour law relating/specifically listing our job as a hourly non-exempt job.
Calculating the amount of hours I was putting in and the amount of overtime I would get paid, I calculated around 55k missed wages in a year.
Needless to say, within 3 months our group was called in and given a presentation by HR - something about 'the law changing recently' (bs). We were to be made hourly, we were to have at least a day a week where we have to not work, and a curfew of 10PM.
Surprisingly, I was expecting them to cut wages like IBM did, but they didn't.
I know one of my coworkers had previously put in 152 hours in two weeks. It seems that work is life for the Chinese coworkers I have. And if you don't keep up, you stand out.