there were no weapons, there was no connection to Al-Qaeda, and there was no imminent threat to the US
None of these would've been my reasons. None should've been yours. For 11 years Saddam Hussein was demonstrating, he could keep getting away with breaking a cease fire agreement with US. Such demonstrations are extremely dangerous for they encourage other thugs to bluff with us. Clinton should've attacked him years ago.
... Ann Coulter tells you.
Ha-ha! So, you prefer Ted
Rall? Actually, I suspect, him and Ann to be same person (or a group of persons):-)
How fortunate you are to not be affected by the worst economic conditions that the US has seen in 70 years.
WW2 happened less than 70 years ago. Claiming, that it was more economically fortunate to live during that period (even ignoring the danger of being killed on a battlefield) requires some reeeeallly creative accounting.
that it is the Government that has allowed the US healthcare system to get into the sad condition that it is
I see. And your solution is to have it mess things up even further? Thank you very much.
People are dying, the country's debt is rising at a rate that cannot be repaid, states are going bankrupt (yes, read the news), taxes and laws are being introduced that are robbing future revenues as far as 40 years ahead...it's great that you think you are doing well and that the economy "Works fine, thank you very much", but your kids are going to be in for a world of hurt when they get punished for the current legislature's greed, deceit and misguided actions and your naivity and unearned trust in that legislature. And you don't see that the government's priorities are screwed up?
People have always been dying -- there is no cure for aging yet. Economy is picking up -- and not at the expense of the future generations -- the recession "officially ended" according to economists, in November 2001. It is the government's irresponsible spending, that increases the debt, but I blame that on the pressures to appease those, who want the government to concern itself with "improving the general welbeing"...
So, all in all, we are down to the growing debt problem. I totally agree, that this is a big issue, but reject the argument, that the government should concentrate on nothing else until this (and a few of the other non-problems) are sorted out -- how dare you brush your teeth, when the poor of the world can not afford food?!
I'll overstuff this troll:
Not on fixing the economy
Works fine, thank you very much
not on getting us out of a ficticious war
Seems like we are successfully getting out of the justly waged and handsomely won war in Iraq, or did you mean something else?
not on improving healthcare or our general way of life
I dread the thought of the Government taking interest in affecting my way of life:
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
If anything makes a person more of a sheeple, it is by delegating her/his personal concerns for anything personally achievable to the Government, because, to quote the same source:
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
But making the world safe for movie-goers and **AA members alike.
Although practice targeted endangers honest Commerce of film-making, I'm not too happy with this legislation either. But your objections to it hold no water.
What's so good about this news? The old laws, which FCC tried to change, essentially, made certain properties unsellable.
At least there is the internet...
Exactly! So the old illiberal arguments about the public's need (and thus -- right) to force media companies to be independent hold even less water -- the Internet sources of news and views are abundant and available.
In some if not most public forums (not just internet) religious speak and attitude is mostly ousted as undesireable by someone.
Because these forums are discussing various aspects of government and/or public policy. Banning "religious speak and attitude" from such forums is only consistent with the principle of separation of Church and State -- religion-based arguments should not be affecting decisions under this principle anyway.
I could see this used to get to and fro the suburban commuter rail station every day.
Like, when bicycle is not an options due to health, sweat, or bad weather.
I actually know a very intelligent girl, whose father is a public school teacher and administrator. When we argued about private schoold being generally better, I mentioned, that, may be, being a good teacher is not the same as being a good administrator. Boy, did she get mad. I mean, really, sincerely, mad at me. She said, her dad had worked for free for several months, because the school had no funds. This time, I kept to myself my opinion, that this was, indeed, a sign of a devoted teacher, but bad administrator.
Anyway, guess, who did she study to become, and is currently becoming? A Washington lobbyist! No kidding...
Should've used your own domain-name -- for, like, $12 per year you can have all mail to @example.com forwarded to your current ISP's account. Switch an ISP -- switch the forwarding. ISP's servers are closer to you, they usually offer IMAP, not just POP (nor web-mail).
I am puzzled with everyone's obsession with "webmail" -- especially on SlashDot, where people are supposed to be computer-literate...
until you remember your taxes are paying for it to be outsourced to private sector hosting.
They, probably, need a paper complaint because they can't prosecute without it -- law enforcement is backwards that way -- justices still wear gowns, for crying out loud! Given that, hosting the PDF through the private company is almost certainly cheaper for the taxpayers.
Nightly -- no more than a day's work lost. Done at night (when the business is closed, rather), they are most likely to be self-consistent.
Remote (!) -- no tapes to shuffle, nor lose to the same fire/flood, that gets your server. Find a similar office and exchange each other's backups, or pay one of the many commercial providers in the area.
Encrypted, so you don't worry about the other guys poking through your data.
Unless you can not afford a downtime, you don't need RAID.
Don't like the license? Pay for a different one. But stop this "closed source" nonsense. It is open and freely available to anyone to download, browse, compile, port to run on your toaster, modify, post the modifications anywhere.
Just don't distribute it and the results of your compilations without permission...
But San Francisco is all about utopias... Decades of the Federal Government being the city's main employer left those people with much stranger ideas of what is possible, and what's desirable.
you say that Java's current license is effectively about as Open Source as MSVC is...
Not at all. I'm pointing out, that despite being much more restricted than Java, MSVC still has millions of users, producing thousands of lines of code everyday.
Not really -- Sun accepts bug reports, and is unlikely to be worse about handling them than other major open-source projects.
That assertion has already been contradicted by the historical record.
Well, if true, this may be the real problem -- rather than the alleged "closed sourceness" of Java.
come on now... its totally different. if i find a bug in a debian package, i can look at the source, edit it, rebuild the package and submit a patch when i am happy that it is fixed (or if i am lazy... just report the bug and let themaintainer do it).
Exactly the same with Sun -- you submit the bug fix to them and wait for them to incorporate...
You couldn't go ahead and fix it, because the license doesn't permit you to redistribute the modified version.
And yet, thousands of lines of code are written every minute using MSVC and other tools, for which no source is available at all.
That really removes the incentive for anyone outside to invest any time on their code.
Not really -- Sun accepts bug reports, and is unlikely to be worse about handling them than other major open-source projects.
On the other hand, their tight control prevents Java-forks from appearing -- apparently, Sun really loathes the monstrosities like #ifdef _BORLAND_C...#elif __GNUC__....
And I sympathize with this sentiment greatly -- imagine having to use two Java programs from two different ISVs -- both of whom each found a bug, that was "screwing them" and fixed it instead of implementing a work-around and waiting for a fix:
Are you using the ACME JRE?
No, I use the standard one from Sun...
Sorry, we don't support that -- you'll have to use ours.
But see, my ECMA FooBar Golden Pro requires either ECMA JRE or Sun's, and I thought...
Sorry, we don't support other JREs -- they have bugs.
But I tried to run the FooBar Golden Pro with ACME JRE and it would not print...
That's right, we don't support printing, because ACME BarFoo Millenium does not include printing functionality. Would you like to upgrade to the Millenium Supreme?
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None of these would've been my reasons. None should've been yours. For 11 years Saddam Hussein was demonstrating, he could keep getting away with breaking a cease fire agreement with US. Such demonstrations are extremely dangerous for they encourage other thugs to bluff with us. Clinton should've attacked him years ago.
Ha-ha! So, you prefer Ted Rall? Actually, I suspect, him and Ann to be same person (or a group of persons) :-)
WW2 happened less than 70 years ago. Claiming, that it was more economically fortunate to live during that period (even ignoring the danger of being killed on a battlefield) requires some reeeeallly creative accounting.
I see. And your solution is to have it mess things up even further? Thank you very much.
People have always been dying -- there is no cure for aging yet. Economy is picking up -- and not at the expense of the future generations -- the recession "officially ended" according to economists, in November 2001. It is the government's irresponsible spending, that increases the debt, but I blame that on the pressures to appease those, who want the government to concern itself with "improving the general welbeing"...
So, all in all, we are down to the growing debt problem. I totally agree, that this is a big issue, but reject the argument, that the government should concentrate on nothing else until this (and a few of the other non-problems) are sorted out -- how dare you brush your teeth, when the poor of the world can not afford food?!
A few minutes of SlashDot fame...
What's so good about this news? The old laws, which FCC tried to change, essentially, made certain properties unsellable.
Exactly! So the old illiberal arguments about the public's need (and thus -- right) to force media companies to be independent hold even less water -- the Internet sources of news and views are abundant and available.
I could see this used to get to and fro the suburban commuter rail station every day. Like, when bicycle is not an options due to health, sweat, or bad weather.
Of course! If you want education -- go to a real school...
...if it is you, who invented it...
Flawed logic -- then all Slashdot categories must be suffixed with "online", hence none needs it, for it would be redundant.
Would not apply to this posting either...
How is this about "My Rights Online"?
Anyway, guess, who did she study to become, and is currently becoming? A Washington lobbyist! No kidding...
MP3 is patented. Chilling or not, just about everyone is using it.
I am puzzled with everyone's obsession with "webmail" -- especially on SlashDot, where people are supposed to be computer-literate...
They, probably, need a paper complaint because they can't prosecute without it -- law enforcement is backwards that way -- justices still wear gowns, for crying out loud! Given that, hosting the PDF through the private company is almost certainly cheaper for the taxpayers.
Just look at the /var/log/maillog...
For everything else, there is KWallet.
Unless you can not afford a downtime, you don't need RAID.
Don't like the license? Pay for a different one. But stop this "closed source" nonsense. It is open and freely available to anyone to download, browse, compile, port to run on your toaster, modify, post the modifications anywhere.
Just don't distribute it and the results of your compilations without permission...
But San Francisco is all about utopias... Decades of the Federal Government being the city's main employer left those people with much stranger ideas of what is possible, and what's desirable.
Not at all. I'm pointing out, that despite being much more restricted than Java, MSVC still has millions of users, producing thousands of lines of code everyday.
Well, if true, this may be the real problem -- rather than the alleged "closed sourceness" of Java.
Exactly the same with Sun -- you submit the bug fix to them and wait for them to incorporate...
And yet, thousands of lines of code are written every minute using MSVC and other tools, for which no source is available at all.
Not really -- Sun accepts bug reports, and is unlikely to be worse about handling them than other major open-source projects.
On the other hand, their tight control prevents Java-forks from appearing -- apparently, Sun really loathes the monstrosities like #ifdef _BORLAND_C...#elif __GNUC__....
And I sympathize with this sentiment greatly -- imagine having to use two Java programs from two different ISVs -- both of whom each found a bug, that was "screwing them" and fixed it instead of implementing a work-around and waiting for a fix: