You're basing your arguments on conjecture and your what-if scenario. Exit polls are highly accurate. Show me your evidence. The only times people have knocked exit polls were coincidentally when the results from Presidential elections were suspiciously skewed.
Well, apparently you just got cable this year. Our media fellated Bush for the first 5 1/2 years of his presidency. It hasn't been until very recently when the war has gone so bad that they couldn't propagandize the truth away that the media became "courageous" and critical. I believe the figure was 72% of Americans thought Iraq was involved with the 9/11 attacks. THAT only happens when the media is complicit.
I believe your polling comment surreptitiously refers to the the suspicious results of the 2000 and 2004 elections (especially since you follow up with some Gore bashing). Exit polls are a whole different story. The margin of error is a fraction of a percent since you're asking people what they did and now what they might do. The argument that people lie during exit polls is unfounded FUD.
And who cares if Gore carried his home state? Bush didn't carry HIS. Hint for the uninformed: it AIN'T TEXAS!
Gore is no longer in a position to live like a normal citizen given is past positions in government. Would the president be hypocritical if he were a champion of environmental causes but still maintained his normal level of security? It's simply not possible for someone of a given stature to live a house down from me in a subdivision. Unfortunately, the days of Truman kicking back on his porch in retirement are gone.
You say you're Canadian, but you sound just like our good old-fashioned home grown Limbaugh ditto heads. I recognize all of your arguments from his talking points.
If he played CounterStrike, he'd no doubt be using hacks like all the other kiddies. After realizing how !133+ he was in real life, he would have turned the gun on himself without killing a single other person.
I live in Kansas City and I've moved around the metropolitan area about 5 times in the last 8 years. Some areas of the city must have some sort of exclusivity contracts since there's only one cable provider. Not coincidentally, these are the areas with the higher prices and unforgivably hideous customer service. I'd like to see some investigation into why cable providers are allowed to stake out exclusive territories in an otherwise homogenous metropolitan region.
Guantanamo Bay does not have a prison, it is a detention facility for enemy combatants.
If you're locked up in a cage and can't leave, the semantics are irrelevant from your point of view.
Guantanamo Bay had released more than half of those who have come through its doors and is one of the most transparently operated detention facilities in the world.
What you just wrote should have scared you after you proof read your post. Some of these innocent "detainees" or "guests of the US government" have been imprisoned for years before release. Some were as young as 12. Is that the behavior of a just and open society?
The people in Guantanamo weren't just picked up off of the streets as suspects in criminal investigations...
Wrong, some were "Jerry Springers" as the troops call them. The US was paying bounties for terrorism suspects and some people just turning in guys they had grudges against.
Maybe you need to stop consulting the military on the rationale for their own wrong-doing. Guantanamo will go down in history as a blight on our record for protecting freedoms just like Japanese detentions. I just hope the Japanese weren't being tortured.
How is this different from the way we treat any of our terrorism suspects? It was a bomb threat. He should be happy he was only in jail 12 days and not 5 years.
A driving-while-black is not the same as a driving while speeding (which is an infraction). Leaving behind the obvious, when a cop follows you for several blocks, or pulls up behind or beside you and then decides to pull you over for "not coming to a complete stop" or "not using turn signals" (mind you which I've disciplined myself to always do to not give them an excuse), or pulls you over and then decides he wants to search your car because you fit the profile, or asks you to get out of your vehicle because he thinks you might be an athelete from the university, THAT'S a DWB, Rushbo. I literally got pulled over doing 15 mph in a 20 mph zone (my girlfriend had warned me about the cops in that area and I slowed down to Granny speed).
The quotes I've heard are about a 4 or 5-1 ratio of Democrats to Republicans investigated. Worse, many of these investigations started right before elections. The ratio also isn't validated by the investigation outcome, with most being dropped or failing to bring convictions.
Also note that these AGs were replaced in battleground states that Karl Rove named in a speech before the firings.
How tall were they in the book? It's been a LONG time since I've read it, but I remember being about that size in the novel. Of course, my memory could be polluted from seeing the film.
Cops see suspicious cars all the time. Maybe they're driving strangely, whatever, the point is that they need to have the freedom to investigate.
As someone who gets a DWB around once a year, I'd like to see MORE not less restrictions on their "freedom to investigate."
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I disagree. Microsoft stumbled into success since their monopoly and deep pockets provided time for hardware to catch up with the poor performance of their mobile OS. Desktop GUI paradigms simply do not work on a mobile device. Anyone who had the luxury of having a Palm and a PPC 2-3 years ago would probably find themselves naturally migrating to the Palm because of its superior design. Palm OS is designed from the ground up for mobile devices, so no silly start menus, radio buttons, or microscopic tasks bar options. Palm also has handwriting recognition, I never used Graffiti with my Tungsten C. I've developed synchronization service providers for both, and I can tell you that HotSync (while restricted to Palm's database format) is far superior and better documented than ActiveSync. Ask how many developers out there have built sync service providers for ActiveSync versus HotSync.
Palm's failures were all corporate. They bungled the migration to Cobalt, inexplicably split the OS and hardware sides, and got sloppy. When they stopped providing decent support for developers, we all figured out the writing was on the wall.
I guess your evaluations are more from the user side, but from the inside there was no comparison.
Yep, and we put him on the pedestal. The US has thrown everything in our political bag of tricks at him including a coup, and he's endured it all. All of his rhetoric now rings louder and more true. People rallied behind him just like we did behind the initial Iraq invasion, ignoring all facts and the loss of our rights along the way. It was only a matter of time before the democratically-elected and legitimate leader of Venezuela decided to cash in his "political capital" and buy a ticket to authoritarianism.
I say this as someone who *was* a fan of his politics before he started chipping away at legislative and judicial branches.
Java Ranch was one of my first resources for learning Java and one of the catalysts for getting me into IT. The site is a great example of how to write technical docs with humor and entertainment value. The article "How my dog taught me polymorphism" (or something like that) still makes me smile. I think the threats are more indicative of the general hostility/sexism directed at a lot of women in IT.
The problem with the typical user-computer interface paradigm is that we have to use a mouse at all (save game playing and graphics design). Moving my hand from the home position every time I need the precision of a mouse pointer is a huge annoyance and waste of time and effort. More so than pushing my index finger down.
That's the problem in this country (the US). We have a huge segment of our population that consumes news without question from biased sources that spew this kind of propaganda. Note that it's not usually ignorance since the producers know exactly what they're doing.
Bush's only interest in a hydrogen economy is that it appears a long way off and gives his oil industry buddies plenty of time to make money. If he really wanted to cut oil consumption, he'd be promoting things we could do RIGHT NOW.
And, please don't give Bush credit for first proposing hydrogen research (which he also underfunded).
Libby DID in fact lie. Armitage MAY have been the original leaker, but Libby was still involved in calling people in the media and dropping Valorie's identity (who cares if he didn't use her name but just Joe Wilson's wife?). The whole point of this investigation is that he lied to protect Cheney. They had hoped the charges would make him squeal, but he's being a Good German probably in exchange for a pardon.
Very frightening how easily and quickly Conservatives have been convinced that this case was bogus (while somehow completely forgetting that they impeached a PRESIDENT for lying about a blow job).
I remember the subtle and shallow reporting when the DST change was announced. There were no public debates on this that I was aware of (and I'm a CSPAN geek) or at least not enough to garner my attention. That's proof enough that this is another handout to Corporate America to get us mindless consumers consuming more after work in the summer. Especially when you consider the specious or negligible arguments FOR daylight savings.
I bet if you polled citizens we'd all say axe it altogether or make it a year-round adjustment.
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You're basing your arguments on conjecture and your what-if scenario. Exit polls are highly accurate. Show me your evidence. The only times people have knocked exit polls were coincidentally when the results from Presidential elections were suspiciously skewed.
Well, apparently you just got cable this year. Our media fellated Bush for the first 5 1/2 years of his presidency. It hasn't been until very recently when the war has gone so bad that they couldn't propagandize the truth away that the media became "courageous" and critical. I believe the figure was 72% of Americans thought Iraq was involved with the 9/11 attacks. THAT only happens when the media is complicit. I believe your polling comment surreptitiously refers to the the suspicious results of the 2000 and 2004 elections (especially since you follow up with some Gore bashing). Exit polls are a whole different story. The margin of error is a fraction of a percent since you're asking people what they did and now what they might do. The argument that people lie during exit polls is unfounded FUD. And who cares if Gore carried his home state? Bush didn't carry HIS. Hint for the uninformed: it AIN'T TEXAS! Gore is no longer in a position to live like a normal citizen given is past positions in government. Would the president be hypocritical if he were a champion of environmental causes but still maintained his normal level of security? It's simply not possible for someone of a given stature to live a house down from me in a subdivision. Unfortunately, the days of Truman kicking back on his porch in retirement are gone. You say you're Canadian, but you sound just like our good old-fashioned home grown Limbaugh ditto heads. I recognize all of your arguments from his talking points.
If he played CounterStrike, he'd no doubt be using hacks like all the other kiddies. After realizing how !133+ he was in real life, he would have turned the gun on himself without killing a single other person.
"This act of fascism is brought to you by McDonalds!"
I live in Kansas City and I've moved around the metropolitan area about 5 times in the last 8 years. Some areas of the city must have some sort of exclusivity contracts since there's only one cable provider. Not coincidentally, these are the areas with the higher prices and unforgivably hideous customer service. I'd like to see some investigation into why cable providers are allowed to stake out exclusive territories in an otherwise homogenous metropolitan region.
Ummm, you mean something like this?
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Guantanamo Bay does not have a prison, it is a detention facility for enemy combatants.
If you're locked up in a cage and can't leave, the semantics are irrelevant from your point of view.
Guantanamo Bay had released more than half of those who have come through its doors and is one of the most transparently operated detention facilities in the world.
What you just wrote should have scared you after you proof read your post. Some of these innocent "detainees" or "guests of the US government" have been imprisoned for years before release. Some were as young as 12. Is that the behavior of a just and open society?
The people in Guantanamo weren't just picked up off of the streets as suspects in criminal investigations...
Wrong, some were "Jerry Springers" as the troops call them. The US was paying bounties for terrorism suspects and some people just turning in guys they had grudges against.
Maybe you need to stop consulting the military on the rationale for their own wrong-doing. Guantanamo will go down in history as a blight on our record for protecting freedoms just like Japanese detentions. I just hope the Japanese weren't being tortured.
How is this different from the way we treat any of our terrorism suspects? It was a bomb threat. He should be happy he was only in jail 12 days and not 5 years.
A driving-while-black is not the same as a driving while speeding (which is an infraction). Leaving behind the obvious, when a cop follows you for several blocks, or pulls up behind or beside you and then decides to pull you over for "not coming to a complete stop" or "not using turn signals" (mind you which I've disciplined myself to always do to not give them an excuse), or pulls you over and then decides he wants to search your car because you fit the profile, or asks you to get out of your vehicle because he thinks you might be an athelete from the university, THAT'S a DWB, Rushbo. I literally got pulled over doing 15 mph in a 20 mph zone (my girlfriend had warned me about the cops in that area and I slowed down to Granny speed).
Old news, George Lucas figured this out 8 years ago.
The quotes I've heard are about a 4 or 5-1 ratio of Democrats to Republicans investigated. Worse, many of these investigations started right before elections. The ratio also isn't validated by the investigation outcome, with most being dropped or failing to bring convictions. Also note that these AGs were replaced in battleground states that Karl Rove named in a speech before the firings.
How tall were they in the book? It's been a LONG time since I've read it, but I remember being about that size in the novel. Of course, my memory could be polluted from seeing the film.
Cops see suspicious cars all the time. Maybe they're driving strangely, whatever, the point is that they need to have the freedom to investigate. As someone who gets a DWB around once a year, I'd like to see MORE not less restrictions on their "freedom to investigate."
I disagree. Microsoft stumbled into success since their monopoly and deep pockets provided time for hardware to catch up with the poor performance of their mobile OS. Desktop GUI paradigms simply do not work on a mobile device. Anyone who had the luxury of having a Palm and a PPC 2-3 years ago would probably find themselves naturally migrating to the Palm because of its superior design. Palm OS is designed from the ground up for mobile devices, so no silly start menus, radio buttons, or microscopic tasks bar options. Palm also has handwriting recognition, I never used Graffiti with my Tungsten C. I've developed synchronization service providers for both, and I can tell you that HotSync (while restricted to Palm's database format) is far superior and better documented than ActiveSync. Ask how many developers out there have built sync service providers for ActiveSync versus HotSync.
Palm's failures were all corporate. They bungled the migration to Cobalt, inexplicably split the OS and hardware sides, and got sloppy. When they stopped providing decent support for developers, we all figured out the writing was on the wall.
I guess your evaluations are more from the user side, but from the inside there was no comparison.
Mom, what are you doing posting on Slashdot? This site is for geeks!
Yep, and we put him on the pedestal. The US has thrown everything in our political bag of tricks at him including a coup, and he's endured it all. All of his rhetoric now rings louder and more true. People rallied behind him just like we did behind the initial Iraq invasion, ignoring all facts and the loss of our rights along the way. It was only a matter of time before the democratically-elected and legitimate leader of Venezuela decided to cash in his "political capital" and buy a ticket to authoritarianism. I say this as someone who *was* a fan of his politics before he started chipping away at legislative and judicial branches.
I know where you can find a pair.
My friends do every time I tell them how long it's been since I've been on a date.
Java Ranch was one of my first resources for learning Java and one of the catalysts for getting me into IT. The site is a great example of how to write technical docs with humor and entertainment value. The article "How my dog taught me polymorphism" (or something like that) still makes me smile. I think the threats are more indicative of the general hostility/sexism directed at a lot of women in IT.
The problem with the typical user-computer interface paradigm is that we have to use a mouse at all (save game playing and graphics design). Moving my hand from the home position every time I need the precision of a mouse pointer is a huge annoyance and waste of time and effort. More so than pushing my index finger down.
That's the problem in this country (the US). We have a huge segment of our population that consumes news without question from biased sources that spew this kind of propaganda. Note that it's not usually ignorance since the producers know exactly what they're doing.
Bush's only interest in a hydrogen economy is that it appears a long way off and gives his oil industry buddies plenty of time to make money. If he really wanted to cut oil consumption, he'd be promoting things we could do RIGHT NOW. And, please don't give Bush credit for first proposing hydrogen research (which he also underfunded).
Libby DID in fact lie. Armitage MAY have been the original leaker, but Libby was still involved in calling people in the media and dropping Valorie's identity (who cares if he didn't use her name but just Joe Wilson's wife?). The whole point of this investigation is that he lied to protect Cheney. They had hoped the charges would make him squeal, but he's being a Good German probably in exchange for a pardon. Very frightening how easily and quickly Conservatives have been convinced that this case was bogus (while somehow completely forgetting that they impeached a PRESIDENT for lying about a blow job).
I remember the subtle and shallow reporting when the DST change was announced. There were no public debates on this that I was aware of (and I'm a CSPAN geek) or at least not enough to garner my attention. That's proof enough that this is another handout to Corporate America to get us mindless consumers consuming more after work in the summer. Especially when you consider the specious or negligible arguments FOR daylight savings. I bet if you polled citizens we'd all say axe it altogether or make it a year-round adjustment.
If he's in Canada, I think that would be great irony if one migrated south and ate him for lack of sea ice to stalk seals.