I can think of any number of things. It basically amounts to a stoppage a long time ago to "meddling in the affairs of foreign countries to serve our own interests." Screwing around in Iran, overthrowing this set of dictators to install our own. Siding with Israel and giving huge sums of money right or wrong. Pick up a history book. Any number of intersting fuck ups. Hindsight is 20/20, of course, but foresight needn't be 20/40.
And ignoring the sins of the past and not looking at the root causes of why these things happen is precisely why they will continue to happen. OVER and OVER. Tell me where the parent said "ignore the present, focus on the past." I believe what he said was "stop overlooking the past." Ever heard the phrase "those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it?"
And I'm sick of people like you dehumanizing people that you've never met, probably never read anything substantive about, getting all of your information from Fox News, and then -- when you have no REAL argument to make other than "they are ANIMALS," you try to call your opponent a hypocrite, and bring their family into it. It's like a goddamn formula with you folks. Happen to see Jeremy Glick on O'Reilly (what am I saying -- you probably saw it live!) -- perfect example of a guy who DID lose a family member and still is not into the bullshit, especially being done in the name of his dead family members.
What's even stupider is that you seem to think you that it is legal for a police officer to kill someone who's disregarded an order. I don't know what country you're from, but in America it certainly is not.
Yeah, they had a really difficult decision. The man was laying FACE FUCKING DOWN on the pavement when he was shot. I don't care who you are, or how stupid the man was for running, that is murder and attempting to blame it on the terrorists is shirking responsibility. You shoot, you take responsibility. All the rest is BS.
Far as I know, no one who has been taken into custody has been properly charged to date. Seems to me if it can't convict anyone that it detains, it might be a little more difficult to escape them than you think.
Unless you happen to have the same name as someone on the no-fly list, or any of the other asinine ways in which our governemnt is fuc^H^H^Hprotecting us.
"It's the same damn reason why in 1991 three days of ground war destroyed Iraq's army, and why in 2003 just two divisions of US troops could attack Iraq and conquer it in three weeks despite being outnumbered something like 4 or 5 to one."
No, yeah, I agree with you. That's going real well. I guess all of our men who are over there are coming home tomorrow, right? Open your eyes, jackass. It doesn't take extremist muslims to fight against women's rights, abortion, and gay marriage. The "tough-as-nails" homefront types are more than enough. And they'll do it in the name of protecting us from those same infringements. Pretty clever, if you happen to be in a coma and don't see the absurdity of it all.
Who's "the enemy" this week? Frankly, I'm not comfortable with that kind of talk. How long will it be before I'm the enemy for disagreeing with types like "y'all."
I personally love it when people tell me all about what "they" want. When's the last time you've discussed anything with one of them. What is your information source? Hell, who ARE "they?"
The us versus them shit is going to end up killing us all. I've had enough of it.
The problem is, you don't know what you're talking about, and you don't know what they're talking about. When's the last time you've read anything of theirs?
Simple, possibly, but certainly not inconspicuous. I mean, hey, you could go through red lights if you had emergency lights on your vehicle, but I suspect ultimately that wouldn't go too well either.
I don't know of any coffee houses or restaurants in New Brunswick surrounding Rutgers that charged for access (maybe Starbucks). Many students I know went to coffee houses to study, and if any of them HAD charged for access, it would have been emptied out of the study crowd. In certain locales, there's just no way to provide something other than free -- people will use if it's free, and perhaps pay for something else like coffee or food, or they'll do without or go elsewhere. In other places (airports, etc.) or places with fairly cheap business models (Verizon Airfone ain't bad... about $6 for the flight -- the little you can do is enougn for me), paid wireless can survive, but not in others.
The other thing that, IMO, hurts paid wireless is that everyplace has a different provider. Starbucks uses one, this place uses another, SFO and EWR use different ones... I'm not paying 5 companies for wireless access, so what are my options?
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I can think of any number of things. It basically amounts to a stoppage a long time ago to "meddling in the affairs of foreign countries to serve our own interests." Screwing around in Iran, overthrowing this set of dictators to install our own. Siding with Israel and giving huge sums of money right or wrong. Pick up a history book. Any number of intersting fuck ups. Hindsight is 20/20, of course, but foresight needn't be 20/40.
If I were in charge, we wouldn't be in this mess and no one's head would be at stake.
Enjoying the cycle of violence are we?
I'm gonna go with "45,000 wrongs don't make a right."
I would like to go ahead and... disagree with you there.
http://www.uua.org/ - Unitarian Universalism: The Uncommon Denomination.
I just wanted to give you credit since I don't have mod-points. This is probably the most intelligent thing I've read in the entire comment page.
And ignoring the sins of the past and not looking at the root causes of why these things happen is precisely why they will continue to happen. OVER and OVER. Tell me where the parent said "ignore the present, focus on the past." I believe what he said was "stop overlooking the past." Ever heard the phrase "those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it?"
And I'm sick of people like you dehumanizing people that you've never met, probably never read anything substantive about, getting all of your information from Fox News, and then -- when you have no REAL argument to make other than "they are ANIMALS," you try to call your opponent a hypocrite, and bring their family into it. It's like a goddamn formula with you folks. Happen to see Jeremy Glick on O'Reilly (what am I saying -- you probably saw it live!) -- perfect example of a guy who DID lose a family member and still is not into the bullshit, especially being done in the name of his dead family members.
What's even stupider is that you seem to think you that it is legal for a police officer to kill someone who's disregarded an order. I don't know what country you're from, but in America it certainly is not.
Yeah, they had a really difficult decision. The man was laying FACE FUCKING DOWN on the pavement when he was shot. I don't care who you are, or how stupid the man was for running, that is murder and attempting to blame it on the terrorists is shirking responsibility. You shoot, you take responsibility. All the rest is BS.
Far as I know, no one who has been taken into custody has been properly charged to date. Seems to me if it can't convict anyone that it detains, it might be a little more difficult to escape them than you think.
Unless you happen to have the same name as someone on the no-fly list, or any of the other asinine ways in which our governemnt is fuc^H^H^Hprotecting us.
"It's the same damn reason why in 1991 three days of ground war destroyed Iraq's army, and why in 2003 just two divisions of US troops could attack Iraq and conquer it in three weeks despite being outnumbered something like 4 or 5 to one."
No, yeah, I agree with you. That's going real well. I guess all of our men who are over there are coming home tomorrow, right? Open your eyes, jackass. It doesn't take extremist muslims to fight against women's rights, abortion, and gay marriage. The "tough-as-nails" homefront types are more than enough. And they'll do it in the name of protecting us from those same infringements. Pretty clever, if you happen to be in a coma and don't see the absurdity of it all.
Who's "the enemy" this week? Frankly, I'm not comfortable with that kind of talk. How long will it be before I'm the enemy for disagreeing with types like "y'all."
Wishing harm upon those who do not agree with you? Someone censor his comment!
I personally love it when people tell me all about what "they" want. When's the last time you've discussed anything with one of them. What is your information source? Hell, who ARE "they?"
The us versus them shit is going to end up killing us all. I've had enough of it.
The problem is, you don't know what you're talking about, and you don't know what they're talking about. When's the last time you've read anything of theirs?
What's worse is that a 550 is liable to make him go fucking bananas! We can't risk this kind of thing.
Pardon me, but have you noticed who is passing these laws? Just curious.
I think you'd have a bit of trouble defending the legality of this one.
Simple, possibly, but certainly not inconspicuous. I mean, hey, you could go through red lights if you had emergency lights on your vehicle, but I suspect ultimately that wouldn't go too well either.
I don't know of any coffee houses or restaurants in New Brunswick surrounding Rutgers that charged for access (maybe Starbucks). Many students I know went to coffee houses to study, and if any of them HAD charged for access, it would have been emptied out of the study crowd. In certain locales, there's just no way to provide something other than free -- people will use if it's free, and perhaps pay for something else like coffee or food, or they'll do without or go elsewhere. In other places (airports, etc.) or places with fairly cheap business models (Verizon Airfone ain't bad... about $6 for the flight -- the little you can do is enougn for me), paid wireless can survive, but not in others.
The other thing that, IMO, hurts paid wireless is that everyplace has a different provider. Starbucks uses one, this place uses another, SFO and EWR use different ones... I'm not paying 5 companies for wireless access, so what are my options?
The actual last line is "I'd still prefer not."
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Don't know why it's funnier to me that way, but... whatever.
Not necessarily. Windows is STILL easier to install, most of the time.
My boss wanted to know when her day is.
I don't think that's true. When your line is dead (ie. pick up the phone, phone gets no power), you ain't dialing anything.