I'm Canadian, and while we are proud of our "Eh?" we don't claim exclusive rights to it.
No doot aboot it! I've never met an unfriendly Canandian, with the exception of when we were passing through customs along the North Dakota border. I think you guys must send all the crabby people there. When the girl at the customs both said to me, "so you're going fishing, eh?" I said "eh" back to her. Big mistake. They pulled our SUV over and searched it for about an hour. Good thing I didn't say "no doot aboot it" or I probably would have been cavity searched.
If cancer was cured, the pharmaceutical companies would be out of business.
Uh, no. Thanks to patents, the first company to come up with a cure would have more money than god. Do you think that no company would find the risk worthwhile; that they'd make gazillions of dollars and put their compeditors out of business?
...or maybe he just has some priorities. Like being worried about all the killings you mentioned, or a fucking chess game. Hmm, whats more important here....
Must have been an old issue.:) The strength scale is measured in tons...the Hulk can lift 100 tons, Spidey ranks in at 8-10 (about as strong as the X-Men's Beast). Rouge can lift 50 tons (wonder if the movie Rouge will ever get Ms. Marvels powers). Thor and Thing are just below the Hulk, and Iron Man is just below them. Lets see who else I can think of off the top of my head...Herecules(sp), Power Man (maybe?), She-Hulk, Venom, Warbird (Ms. Marvel), and maybe Ghost Rider (hope his movie doesn't suck).
John Kerry didn't mumble it. He in fact authorized that the expletives be published. In fact, I believe that if you search for expletives on John Kerry's own website, you will find numerous articles quoting John Kerry. At least it was that way a while ago.
So what? It doesn't do a damn thing to change the fact that they are hypocrites, or that you are a pathetic appologist for them.
The reason conservatives are mad at PBS is because they've always treated the conservative part of the country and the values they hold with contempt.
Translation: PBS doesn't present conservative dogma as fact, or use their buzzwords like "big government". When PBS discusses a topic, they try to get guests on all sides of an issue, as opposed to Fox News, who's idea of "balanced" is a right wing guest paired with a extreme right wing guest. Other networks like CNN can't have a liberal guest without giving a conservative one equal or greater air time, while right wing pundits get their own shows all to themselves.
I would argue that there are more people right of center in America than left.
Translation: the definition of a necon is a person without:
reason/logic/common sense
consistency
worry when facts contradict them
a care that they are complete hypocrites
Therefore, like the good little neocon that I am, I ignore the fact that Gore got hundreds of thousands more votes than Bush did in 2000.
That's what PBS has been doing with a liberal tinged, elitist view.
Translation: anyone that doesn't pander to our moronic, paranoid theories must be liberal and elitist.
and have always been openly supportive of the Labor Party, but never waste an opportunity to stick it to the Tories.
Translation: I hate facts, remember? Therefore I'm going to ignore the fact that the BBC ruthlessly went afer Blair over the war in Iraq, especially the accusations that the government "sexed up" intelligence information. This is entirely consistent with our selective method of counting "bias" in the media: only coverage of liberal viewpoints or unfavorable coverage of conservatives is counted, and never the other way around. So the NYTimes is flaming liberal for carrying Maureen Dowd and Bob Herbert, but we'll ignore the fact that they also publish editorials from conservative hawks like David Brooks and William Safire.
left-slanted news
Translation: I'm going to blindly parrot the myth that there's a "biased liberal media", which doesn't exist, and never has.
Had they tried to be, ahem, fair and balanced, they might have a bigger audience and more public support. Instead, they've made dedicated enemies that want to wipe them out.
Translation: we neocons are fucking hypocritical bastards. Its fine for right wing media to be as partisan and full of vitrol as they want, but anyone who presents a centrist viewpoint, much less a liberal one is our mortal enemy. That, and I'm so full of shit, that I can't even name a source of media that has less bias than PBS or the related NPR.
I see you fell for the boilerplate-1950's era-management propoganda shpeal. Have unions screwed up? Sure, but thats a reason to make your's better, its not a reason to get rid of them entirely. Why don't we apply the same faulty logic to businesses: some businesses have bad policies, have screwed their employees and their customers. Therefor, lets get rid of all businesses!
But if the players have to have their own copy of the game why would they play at the cafe?
1) Lan party without the hassels of moving your shit 2) You have a modem for Internet access and the cafe has a couple T1's 3) You're traveling in a different city and need to get your Counter-Strike fix
The Cybercafe's would most likely force gamers to use their own Steam logins, so if an account gets locked it's the gamers and not the cafe's that's locked. To get their own login, they must have their own cd key, so under Valve's terms you would have to buy two copies PLUS pay their $10 a month. Screw you, Valve.
Best of luck to you, sir. I hope you win the case, win back your attorney fee's, and get Worst Buy a whole bunch of bad publicity.
You remind me of my boss at work, who got screwed over by Sears when some guy in their auto shop messed up his car. They were all about not fixing it, when he told them in no uncertain terms that he would make it cost far, far more for them to not fix it. Something about getting a second full time job just to pay a lawyer for a couple of years. Unlike your Worst Buy employees, they caved.
My university's bookstore is called the Varsity Mart, affectionatly refered to as the Larceny Mart by students for overcharging on everything. Their computer/electronics section is roughly the size of the men's and women's bathrooms at Best Buy. HOWEVER, they somehow manage to massively undersell BB on cables. A 25 foot S-Video cable is one dollar more at the VMart than the 10 foot cable at BB, and the VM was "gold plated". However, the worst of the worst are Firewire cables: the lowly VMart undersells Best Buy by twenty dollars a cable.
Best Buy's prices suck unless they have a good rebate, and I only take those if they are the instant variety.
Gore would make a good postman. Bush isn't my man,but still,I would rather he than the incredible cardboard man.
Oh, so you place no value at all on competency? Why would you rather take a guy who spent 3 decades partying it up over one who's spent the same amount of time serving the public?
Like trying to use the courts to ignore florida law
If by "ignore" you mean "enforce", then yes.
while hand picking certain counties for a hand recount
If you only have a limited amount of time to do recounts, doesn't it make sense to do them in counties with the highest degree of error?
lso include marks that were somewere close to the spot were gore's punch would have been
Its a well known, well documented flaw that as the paper punch machines fill up with chads, you can't punch all the way through, or even partially through.
Gores camp also tried to get service mens and other absentie ballots that were from overseas thrown out becuase they were typically republican friendly. Again florida law allowed for them to come in up to 10 d ays late if the post mark was before the deadline
No, they were trying to get ballots thrown out that were illegally cast AFTER the deadline. Which you seem to have mistakenly blamed on Gore for some reason. And they didn't argue this point remotely close to what right-wingers believe, as they were arguing "every vote should count" at the time.
changing the rules to selectivly influence the outcome
The courts found with the right to vote must come for the right for that to be counted, which means that of course different voting systems are going to have different methods.
Now there is the race card. The gore camp tried to pull out the division and sympathy of the masses by making statments that the minorities like black were disenfranchised from the proccess.
Uh, maybe because they were and this is undisputed fact? Aside from the voter intimidation that you (barely) acknowledged, of the bad voter scrub lists, half of them were minorities. As far as being not "wide spread" enough, less than 600 votes the other way would have swung the election.
ne of thier primary claims was that because police officers would sit in the middle of the road and watch trafic, black's and other democrate friendly minorities were afraid to goto the polls.
Oh, and asking for id. Oh, and not having enough polling stations. Oh, and closing them early. Nope, no problems there.
Records showed that these police cars sat in those locations on regular basis years before the elections debacle happend.
Of course, they were trying to meet their quota's for DWB tickets.
If gore fealt he was rite and should have won the election, after the supream court ruled that "you can't change the rules of the election midstream to benefit one person over the other" he should have petitioned the congress of the untited states.
Oh? Considering how much the media was buying the Republican spin that we had to resolve this now, not question the result, and hurry up and swear Bush into office? And may I remind you that Congress was under Republican control at the time. Yeah, great idea you have there, Sparky.
Most of the neocon's bitching about Gore can be summed up as: you bitch as if the Gore team was doing the recounts, not the state of Florida. Well obviously he wasn't, you your points are pretty much moot.
This didn't happen because Gore knew he was beat fair and square and with a more public investiugation that would have included public hearings as well as other investigation stuff, he would have looked foolish as well as fraudulent.
Thats so funny I almost shit my pants. Hello, thousands of mostly Democratic voters denied their right to vote by the Florida Secretary of State, who just happened to be Bush's campaign manager? If thats "fair and square" you need to have your head examined. And, if recounts were only done in the punch card ballot counties, yes Bush still would have won. But if a full statewide recount had been completed, as according to Florida law, Gore would have won the popular vote AND the electoral vote, and we'd have a different president.
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I'm Canadian, and while we are proud of our "Eh?" we don't claim exclusive rights to it.
No doot aboot it! I've never met an unfriendly Canandian, with the exception of when we were passing through customs along the North Dakota border. I think you guys must send all the crabby people there. When the girl at the customs both said to me, "so you're going fishing, eh?" I said "eh" back to her. Big mistake. They pulled our SUV over and searched it for about an hour. Good thing I didn't say "no doot aboot it" or I probably would have been cavity searched.
If cancer was cured, the pharmaceutical companies would be out of business.
Uh, no. Thanks to patents, the first company to come up with a cure would have more money than god. Do you think that no company would find the risk worthwhile; that they'd make gazillions of dollars and put their compeditors out of business?
...or maybe he just has some priorities. Like being worried about all the killings you mentioned, or a fucking chess game. Hmm, whats more important here....
Neocons CAN'T handle the facts but they CAN moderate!
Why write long paragraphs when a short statement can accomplish the same thing? This isn't grade school English class. :)
No. And you're wrong.
Must have been an old issue. :) The strength scale is measured in tons...the Hulk can lift 100 tons, Spidey ranks in at 8-10 (about as strong as the X-Men's Beast). Rouge can lift 50 tons (wonder if the movie Rouge will ever get Ms. Marvels powers). Thor and Thing are just below the Hulk, and Iron Man is just below them. Lets see who else I can think of off the top of my head...Herecules(sp), Power Man (maybe?), She-Hulk, Venom, Warbird (Ms. Marvel), and maybe Ghost Rider (hope his movie doesn't suck).
isn't that helping journalism/freedom etc etc?
No.
Oh really? And just how many instances of left-wing bias have been on PBS? I wont hold my breath while you look.
And that changes...what exactly? Imprisoning journalists doesn't count as a restriction on journalism?
John Kerry didn't mumble it. He in fact authorized that the expletives be published. In fact, I believe that if you search for expletives on John Kerry's own website, you will find numerous articles quoting John Kerry. At least it was that way a while ago.
So what? It doesn't do a damn thing to change the fact that they are hypocrites, or that you are a pathetic appologist for them.
Universities get government money, too. Does that mean that the gvt has the right to censor them as well?
Translation: PBS doesn't present conservative dogma as fact, or use their buzzwords like "big government". When PBS discusses a topic, they try to get guests on all sides of an issue, as opposed to Fox News, who's idea of "balanced" is a right wing guest paired with a extreme right wing guest. Other networks like CNN can't have a liberal guest without giving a conservative one equal or greater air time, while right wing pundits get their own shows all to themselves.
I would argue that there are more people right of center in America than left.
- Translation: the definition of a necon is a person without:
That's what PBS has been doing with a liberal tinged, elitist view.- reason/logic/common sense
- consistency
- worry when facts contradict them
- a care that they are complete hypocrites
Therefore, like the good little neocon that I am, I ignore the fact that Gore got hundreds of thousands more votes than Bush did in 2000.Translation: anyone that doesn't pander to our moronic, paranoid theories must be liberal and elitist.
and have always been openly supportive of the Labor Party, but never waste an opportunity to stick it to the Tories.
Translation: I hate facts, remember? Therefore I'm going to ignore the fact that the BBC ruthlessly went afer Blair over the war in Iraq, especially the accusations that the government "sexed up" intelligence information. This is entirely consistent with our selective method of counting "bias" in the media: only coverage of liberal viewpoints or unfavorable coverage of conservatives is counted, and never the other way around. So the NYTimes is flaming liberal for carrying Maureen Dowd and Bob Herbert, but we'll ignore the fact that they also publish editorials from conservative hawks like David Brooks and William Safire.
left-slanted news
Translation: I'm going to blindly parrot the myth that there's a "biased liberal media", which doesn't exist, and never has.
Had they tried to be, ahem, fair and balanced, they might have a bigger audience and more public support. Instead, they've made dedicated enemies that want to wipe them out.
Translation: we neocons are fucking hypocritical bastards. Its fine for right wing media to be as partisan and full of vitrol as they want, but anyone who presents a centrist viewpoint, much less a liberal one is our mortal enemy. That, and I'm so full of shit, that I can't even name a source of media that has less bias than PBS or the related NPR.
Conservatives are in the majority.
Right, thats why more people voted for Bush in 2000.
Oh, wait....
I see you fell for the boilerplate-1950's era-management propoganda shpeal. Have unions screwed up? Sure, but thats a reason to make your's better, its not a reason to get rid of them entirely. Why don't we apply the same faulty logic to businesses: some businesses have bad policies, have screwed their employees and their customers. Therefor, lets get rid of all businesses!
But if the players have to have their own copy of the game why would they play at the cafe?
1) Lan party without the hassels of moving your shit
2) You have a modem for Internet access and the cafe has a couple T1's
3) You're traveling in a different city and need to get your Counter-Strike fix
The Cybercafe's would most likely force gamers to use their own Steam logins, so if an account gets locked it's the gamers and not the cafe's that's locked. To get their own login, they must have their own cd key, so under Valve's terms you would have to buy two copies PLUS pay their $10 a month. Screw you, Valve.
Once they've taken your money, I'm highly skeptical that what you say is the case, unless maybe the give you a complete refund.
Best of luck to you, sir. I hope you win the case, win back your attorney fee's, and get Worst Buy a whole bunch of bad publicity.
You remind me of my boss at work, who got screwed over by Sears when some guy in their auto shop messed up his car. They were all about not fixing it, when he told them in no uncertain terms that he would make it cost far, far more for them to not fix it. Something about getting a second full time job just to pay a lawyer for a couple of years. Unlike your Worst Buy employees, they caved.
One reason why there are so many jerks in this world is because people put up with their crap. Same goes for businesses.
Thats a stupid name, Product Service Plan is better. And you're a dick.
I would guess it stands for Product Service Plan.
My university's bookstore is called the Varsity Mart, affectionatly refered to as the Larceny Mart by students for overcharging on everything. Their computer/electronics section is roughly the size of the men's and women's bathrooms at Best Buy. HOWEVER, they somehow manage to massively undersell BB on cables. A 25 foot S-Video cable is one dollar more at the VMart than the 10 foot cable at BB, and the VM was "gold plated". However, the worst of the worst are Firewire cables: the lowly VMart undersells Best Buy by twenty dollars a cable.
Best Buy's prices suck unless they have a good rebate, and I only take those if they are the instant variety.
Gore would make a good postman.
Bush isn't my man,but still,I would rather he than the incredible cardboard man.
Oh, so you place no value at all on competency? Why would you rather take a guy who spent 3 decades partying it up over one who's spent the same amount of time serving the public?
Like trying to use the courts to ignore florida law
If by "ignore" you mean "enforce", then yes.
while hand picking certain counties for a hand recount
If you only have a limited amount of time to do recounts, doesn't it make sense to do them in counties with the highest degree of error?
lso include marks that were somewere close to the spot were gore's punch would have been
Its a well known, well documented flaw that as the paper punch machines fill up with chads, you can't punch all the way through, or even partially through.
Gores camp also tried to get service mens and other absentie ballots that were from overseas thrown out becuase they were typically republican friendly. Again florida law allowed for them to come in up to 10 d ays late if the post mark was before the deadline
No, they were trying to get ballots thrown out that were illegally cast AFTER the deadline. Which you seem to have mistakenly blamed on Gore for some reason. And they didn't argue this point remotely close to what right-wingers believe, as they were arguing "every vote should count" at the time.
changing the rules to selectivly influence the outcome
The courts found with the right to vote must come for the right for that to be counted, which means that of course different voting systems are going to have different methods.
Now there is the race card. The gore camp tried to pull out the division and sympathy of the masses by making statments that the minorities like black were disenfranchised from the proccess.
Uh, maybe because they were and this is undisputed fact? Aside from the voter intimidation that you (barely) acknowledged, of the bad voter scrub lists, half of them were minorities. As far as being not "wide spread" enough, less than 600 votes the other way would have swung the election.
ne of thier primary claims was that because police officers would sit in the middle of the road and watch trafic, black's and other democrate friendly minorities were afraid to goto the polls.
Oh, and asking for id. Oh, and not having enough polling stations. Oh, and closing them early. Nope, no problems there.
Records showed that these police cars sat in those locations on regular basis years before the elections debacle happend.
Of course, they were trying to meet their quota's for DWB tickets.
If gore fealt he was rite and should have won the election, after the supream court ruled that "you can't change the rules of the election midstream to benefit one person over the other" he should have petitioned the congress of the untited states.
Oh? Considering how much the media was buying the Republican spin that we had to resolve this now, not question the result, and hurry up and swear Bush into office? And may I remind you that Congress was under Republican control at the time. Yeah, great idea you have there, Sparky.
Most of the neocon's bitching about Gore can be summed up as: you bitch as if the Gore team was doing the recounts, not the state of Florida. Well obviously he wasn't, you your points are pretty much moot.
This didn't happen because Gore knew he was beat fair and square and with a more public investiugation that would have included public hearings as well as other investigation stuff, he would have looked foolish as well as fraudulent.
Thats so funny I almost shit my pants. Hello, thousands of mostly Democratic voters denied their right to vote by the Florida Secretary of State, who just happened to be Bush's campaign manager? If thats "fair and square" you need to have your head examined. And, if recounts were only done in the punch card ballot counties, yes Bush still would have won. But if a full statewide recount had been completed, as according to Florida law, Gore would have won the popular vote AND the electoral vote, and we'd have a different president.