Good academic performance is looked down upon in high school due to the indoctronation of children into the cult of anti-hero worship. Which means, worshipping drug dealers, gangsters and other degenerates as role models and heros of youth. This is not an organic phenomenon but instead is an implementation of Gramsci's theories of social revolution by means of cultural marxism that were produced in the 30s and implemented in the United States in the 60s.
For those who disagree I dare you to read Fonte's article. It will help make a lot of bizarre phenomenon and double standards in our culture make perfect sense.
I had a color sidekick. The web browser and email were great on it and rock solid stable. My only complaint was that the phone wasn't as good as some other phones.
I got a Treo 600, paying a lot more for it than the sidekick and I was unimpressed. The internet apps were not as feature filled and a lot more buggy and the O.S was not a real multitasking os. The terminal app sucked compared to the sidekick and there was no instant messaging included. That and the keyboard wasn't that great. It felt like I was using the old mac os on the thing with applications ocassionaly freezing or not being able to do things in the background. Then the thing broke. When you pay as much as I did for a treo 600 the phone better work. It was even more poorly made than the old sidekicks!.
I was so dissapointed that I canceled the contract and got myself a sidekick 2(now available for free with rebates on amazon). The thing has a decent camera, certainly better than the treo's and has yahoo messenger,etc built in. The phone is made by Sanyo so it's a lot sturdier than the old model and the radio is supposed to be much improved. ANyway, I'm looking forward to it. Any other sidekick II users care to comment?
Over 85 thousand died as a result of the dam failures. There was little or no time for warnings. The wall of water was traveling at about 50 kilometers per hour or about 14 meters per second. The authorities were hampered by the fact that telephone communication was knocked out almost immediately and that they did not expect any of the "iron dams" to fail.
As far as wastelands go, how about the area surrounding the 70 tons of superheated nuclear waste that blew up in 1957 in rural russia.
KARABOLKA, Russia - One of the world's ghastliest nuclear accidents happened just upwind of here, in a nameless atomic city that never appeared on a map, when an explosion of radioactive sludge produced a toxic plume that contaminated a quarter of a million people.
Let's get those combat robots getting sent to Iraq to drive around our cities and automatically counter attack any shooters..... After that all we need is a seriously deranged computer running the whole show and we've got a science fiction movie!
The package maintainers know a lot more about their program's dependencies than I do and that's the way it should be. Managing them on one's own is just a big waste of time. Not using third party libraries is wasting a lot of effort on not much gain. There's already enough api fragmentation as it is on unix. Think of how many different config file formats we have. All because everybody had to write their own config file parser just to be a bad ass (I.E XFree/Apache/Passwd/Fstab/Sendmail/Postfix//Bind/Postgres/Every Single 31337 window manager out there) and then there's all the myriad font handling for X Windows, etc, etc. Anyway I think some people are starting to get a bit of stockholm syndrome with regards to these limitations. Meanwhile over in Java land there isn't a single library or program I've used recently that uses a config file format other than XML. BEAUTIFUL! One guy tried to invent his own XML like format just to be cool but I think he got talked out of it.
A very important rule in software engineering (especially in OSS) is: A program should have as few dependancies as possible.
The other far more important rule is don't reinvent the wheel. I think your attitude has come from years of Redhat/Mandrake/RPM dependency hell. I've been there, I know what it's like, I feel sympathy. You probably wouldn't have this gripe if you used Debian. I'll be able to install the whole thing with one command, dependencies and all when the deb package gets added to the repositories.
Yes, according to the article, it runs Linux. Wonder what they called the command to fire the shotgun since kill was already taken. With such a tough, mobile, easily operated platform, people took notice. New projects were funded to create arms, fiber-optic spoolers, heads, sniper detection, and a host of other payloads for the PackBot. iRobot's Aware(TM) operating system, running on Linux, allows our developers to add new functionality, add behaviors that reduce the load on the operators, and add new payloads. PackBot will continue to gain new capabilities and its original modular, expandable design is proving a great value for the armed services.
First there were Cyberpunks.... Then there were Cypherpunks... Then there were Steampunks.... How about Genepunks or Biopunks (I can't decide right now which one sounds cooler)?
Unless it's a cell phone and fits in one's pocket this is going to fail. People would much rather go to an Internet cafe to use a computer for $2/hour in the developing world than have some half assed buggy system with all kinds of subtle incompatibilities running on a noisy phone line.
In the mean time, he's pursuing his anti-aging quest and takes about 250 supplements to his diet every day!
Note to self: In 30 years see how Kurzwel is doing. if he's doing fine start taking lots of supplements. If he's kicked the bucket keep eating at McDonalds.
Here, I'll spell it out for ya in simple terms. Stewart isn't looking for a "truth"; he was telling Begala and Carlson that they, the so-called "debate" show on the Cable NEWS Network, should be doing a better job of asking questions and should be listening to what the other side has to say. They should be listening, so that they can then ask further, probing questions. And also concede the other side's points when they should be.
He is asking for a civilized debate-based show, instead of the pro-wrestling format "theater" they have going on there. And he's asking that, because Crossfire claims to be a debate-type show. It is not at all, and just consists of lefties and righties spouting off their party lines, not listening to the other side.
You ignore the details about the very debates they get in. You think that them having a debate would allow them to come to a conclusion. They can't, they probably disagree about fundamental things like "where life beings" and the value of multiculturalism on a fundamental level and they'll never get passed that. You say that the level of debate can be improved, I say that your notion of improving it is a big pie in the sky stupid dream. It's never going to get there. I think the "political hacks" on crossfire are smart people who have spent a lot of time thinking about the issues and you think they are shills that's the difference.
I'll make it simple for you :
What Bill Maher thinks is "pro-wrestling" is just the expression of two different points of view of very intelligent people that will never be resolved. Trying to pretend that there is some sort of way that the debate is going to come to some sort of resolution is idealistic blather. The only way it could come to some resolution is if you had somebody come in and say I'm the judge, you're right you're wrong. That's dialectical. Dualism is letting both live and letting them argue before the American people and try some ideas here and there and let the truth slowly emerge.
Let's me first catalog your personal attacks: Jeesus are you a moron. Ding! Do you really think throwing words like "Dialectism" and "Dualism" is going to impress anybody? Just because you can quote something from a PolSci book (or wherever), it doesn't mean you are talking sense.Ding! First step, for you: think for yourself instead of whipping out terms out of your (or, as in this case, somebody else's) ass.Ding! If you didn't hear what Jon Stuart was saying, then you need to pick up the book on Listening 101.Ding! . Clearly you didn't read the transcript or watch the clip; please do so before you spout off again.Ding! Read the transcript. And when done reading it, READ IT AGAIN. And put down that other crap you've been reading. Ding! And finally: get out of your mom's basement. There is a whole world out there, you know.Ding!
Wheew... 9/10 on the flame scale. Ok here's the two sentences of your whole post that weren't personal attacks.
He was on the show to tell both sides to calm down the rhetoric and talk issues.He clearly says, "You guys (left and right) should be debating", and not indulging in staged theater (a-la pro wrestling).
Here's the transcript by the way: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/15/cf. 01.html
Ok let's use the power of grep on it to read the whole interview from the stewart perspective:
STEWART: Meanwhile, the president's challenger was also in New York, also facing some difficult questions. STEWART: It's like Nerf CROSSFIRE. STEWART: Thank you. STEWART: Thank you very much. That was very kind of you to say. STEWART: The two of you? Can't we just -- say something nice about John Kerry right now. STEWART: And something about President Bush. STEWART: Why do you argue, the two of you? STEWART: I hate to see it. STEWART: Let me ask you a question. STEWART: All right. STEWART: Is he the best? I thought Lincoln was good. STEWART: Is he the best the Democrats can do? STEWART: I had always thought, in a democracy -- and, again, I don't know -- I've only lived in this country -- that there's a process. They call them primaries. STEWART: And they don't always go with the best, but they go with whoever won. So is he the best? According to the process. STEWART: The most impressive? STEWART: I thought Al Sharpton was very impressive. STEWART: I enjoyed his way of speaking. STEWART: Or "HARDBALL" or "I'm Going to Kick Your Ass" or... STEWART: Will jump on it. STEWART: And I wanted to -- I felt that that wasn't fair and I should come here and tell you that I don't -- it's not so much that it's bad, as it's hurting America. STEWART: So I wanted to come here today and say... STEWART: Here's just what I wanted to tell you guys. STEWART: Stop. STEWART: Stop, stop, stop, stop hurting America. STEWART: And come work for us, because we, as the people... STEWART: The people -- not well. STEWART: But you can sleep at night. STEWART: See, the thing is, we need your help. Right now, you're helping the politicians and the corporations. And we're left out there to mow our lawns. STEWART: No, no, no, you're not too rough on them. You're part of their strategies. You are partisan, what do you call it, hacks. STEWART: Something valuable? STEWART: I would like to hear it. STEWART: Yes. STEWART: If you want to compare your show to a comedy show, you're more than welcome to. STEWART: If that's your goal. STEWART: I wouldn't aim for us. I'd aim for "Seinfeld." That's a very good show. STEWART: Right. STEWART: Well, we have civilized discourse. STEWART: Yes. STEWART: Yes. STEWART: Yes. STEWART: Yes. "How are you holding up?" is a real suck-up. And I actually giving him a hot stone massage as we were doing it. STEWART: You know, it's interesting to hear you talk about my responsibility. ST
Now I am going to get pummled by Mods I know:) I see my comments go up and down from +4 to +0 in the course of a single hour as Slashdot is overwhelminingly a left-wing Noam Chomsky echo chamber but here goes:
I read the transcript and I didn't see John Stewart actually say anything. He asked "Why do you argue?" and that seemed to be the gist of it. He then said "It's hurting the country". SO what he wants everyone to agree? Then he claims that he's "The People" work for "The People". The reason everyone (on Slashdot) likes this position is because it's a
Dialectical viewpoint. Which is a viewpoint that assumes that their is always an easily attainable final answer to difficult questions like "When does human life begin?" and "What is obscene?" and "Does the U.S have the right to pre-emption?". Dialecticism wants to resolve the
Dualism of many modern political realities. For instance their is the dualism that the state and the people are not always in agreement. The dialecticist resolves this by creating a "people's state". Their is a dualism between political theory and practice and the dialectcist wants to resolve this by creating an ideologically pure government. There is a dialectic between why some people do better than others if we are all created equal. A dialectisist wants to resolve this by making everyone economically equal. A dualist on the other hand knows that these are hard problems that we can't solve perfectly. Our reality never reaches perfection. This evolved from the Judeo-Christian idea of origional sin. That we are not perfect. That we will never be absolutely perfect though we can strive to perfection. The political process for a dualist is a constant war of ideas, compromise and experimentation, moving more slowly toward a better political organization.
How to attain the goal is not know to a dualist, he realizes that much debate, experimentation and examination of details must occur before things improve. The dialecticist on the other hand is far more arrogant believing he can put together the whole solution and all that remains is to push aside the debaters and doubters and implement his vision. Dualists are people like Karl Popper and Hayek. Dialectisits are people like Ayn Rand, Marx, Hegel.
I went to a speech last night about Peak Oil saying that oil production was going to start falling at 10% a year every year starting in two to three years because of a well known oil geology phenomenon known as
Hubbert's Peak. So which is going to be the end of humanity? Global Warming or Peak Oil?
Wow, It was only last month that I ran into some guy from Norway who was here for the world championships of Magic the Gathering. San Francisco is in danger of losing it's hip image and turning into some sort of nerdly paradise!
The one little problem is that bittorrent is not a streaming protocol. It cuts up the whole file and sends a different piece in random order to each client. Each client then trades there piece with the other clients. So you can't go linearly through a video segment without having the whole thing. You could make smaller downloadable segments that would download and then auto load sequentially. It wouldn't be live though.
1. Point out things you are unhappy with, no complaint is to small to be totally blown out of proportion. Make sure you compare whatever exists to a perfection that need not be possible to attain.
2. Propose solution! The solution is to always get rid of the evil conspiracy holding back progress, because the answers to how to do really complicated things on a large scale are clear to everyone and all that stands in the way is the conspiracy.
3. Leave all the details for later (and there are a lot of details). Explain that you or your favorite know-it-all organization have to be in charge of things before you'll even bother with figuring out the details.
4. Get in power, screw up far more than what was there already and blame it on the continuing legacy of the conspiracy.
5. Propose even stronger more drastic reforms. Continue from here to step 4 until people are totally sick of you and tell you to get lost or you've totally destroyed what you were trying to fix to the point that nobody cares about it anymore.
Politics matters, sure, I just don't think everything in the whole world needs to be political. Some people are so wound up in politics that they turn everything including whether or not they walk on the cracks in the sidewalk, or what kind of music they listen to into some sort of, usually leftish political crusade.
That's one thing I like about Republicans is not EVERYTHING is political to them. True believes on the left make every decision in their whole lives based on its political ramifications.
The workaround is to not use any programs which require graphics. Please switch to using the command prompt for all applications until a patch has been made. Edlin is the recommended editor for security minded users. Now Microsoft just needs to post documentation on how to edit microsoft word format docs via binary editing in edlin and we'll be back to normal!
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Here's the real answer:
Why there is a culture war
The Summary is
Good academic performance is looked down upon in high school due to the indoctronation of children into the cult of anti-hero worship. Which means, worshipping drug dealers, gangsters and other degenerates as role models and heros of youth. This is not an organic phenomenon but instead is an implementation of Gramsci's theories of social revolution by means of cultural marxism that were produced in the 30s and implemented in the United States in the 60s.
For those who disagree I dare you to read Fonte's article. It will help make a lot of bizarre phenomenon and double standards in our culture make perfect sense.
I had a color sidekick. The web browser and email were great on it and rock solid stable. My only complaint was that the phone wasn't as good as some other phones.
I got a Treo 600, paying a lot more for it than the sidekick and I was unimpressed. The internet apps were not as feature filled and a lot more buggy and the O.S was not a real multitasking os. The terminal app sucked compared to the sidekick and there was no instant messaging included. That and the keyboard wasn't that great. It felt like I was using the old mac os on the thing with applications ocassionaly freezing or not being able to do things in the background. Then the thing broke. When you pay as much as I did for a treo 600 the phone better work. It was even more poorly made than the old sidekicks!.
I was so dissapointed that I canceled the contract and got myself a sidekick 2(now available for free with rebates on amazon). The thing has a decent camera, certainly better than the treo's and has yahoo messenger,etc built in. The phone is made by Sanyo so it's a lot sturdier than the old model and the radio is supposed to be much improved. ANyway, I'm looking forward to it. Any other sidekick II users care to comment?
That wasn't due to an evil corporation though so it doesn't count.
Article
As far as wastelands go, how about the area surrounding the 70 tons of superheated nuclear waste that blew up in 1957 in rural russia.Article
Let's get those combat robots getting sent to Iraq to drive around our cities and automatically counter attack any shooters..... After that all we need is a seriously deranged computer running the whole show and we've got a science fiction movie!
Because Skynet was already taken.
The package maintainers know a lot more about their program's dependencies than I do and that's the way it should be. Managing them on one's own is just a big waste of time. Not using third party libraries is wasting a lot of effort on not much gain. There's already enough api fragmentation as it is on unix. Think of how many different config file formats we have. All because everybody had to write their own config file parser just to be a bad ass (I.E XFree/Apache/Passwd/Fstab/Sendmail/Postfix/ /Bind/Postgres/Every Single 31337 window manager out there) and then there's all the myriad font handling for X Windows, etc, etc. Anyway I think some people are starting to get a bit of stockholm syndrome with regards to these limitations. Meanwhile over in Java land there isn't a single library or program I've used recently that uses a config file format other than XML. BEAUTIFUL! One guy tried to invent his own XML like format just to be cool but I think he got talked out of it.
A very important rule in software engineering (especially in OSS) is: A program should have as few dependancies as possible.
The other far more important rule is don't reinvent the wheel. I think your attitude has come from years of Redhat/Mandrake/RPM dependency hell. I've been there, I know what it's like, I feel sympathy. You probably wouldn't have this gripe if you used Debian. I'll be able to install the whole thing with one command, dependencies and all when the deb package gets added to the repositories.
Yes, according to the article, it runs Linux. Wonder what they called the command to fire the shotgun since kill was already taken.
With such a tough, mobile, easily operated platform, people took notice. New projects were funded to create arms, fiber-optic spoolers, heads, sniper detection, and a host of other payloads for the PackBot. iRobot's Aware(TM) operating system, running on Linux, allows our developers to add new functionality, add behaviors that reduce the load on the operators, and add new payloads. PackBot will continue to gain new capabilities and its original modular, expandable design is proving a great value for the armed services.
First there were Cyberpunks....
Then there were Cypherpunks...
Then there were Steampunks....
How about Genepunks or Biopunks (I can't decide right now which one sounds cooler)?
Unless it's a cell phone and fits in one's pocket this is going to fail. People would much rather go to an Internet cafe to use a computer for $2/hour in the developing world than have some half assed buggy system with all kinds of subtle incompatibilities running on a noisy phone line.
Note to self: In 30 years see how Kurzwel is doing. if he's doing fine start taking lots of supplements. If he's kicked the bucket keep eating at McDonalds.
Oh yeah, by the way. I find it beautifully ironic that you call for civilized debate yet you flame away with the worst of em'.
Here, I'll spell it out for ya in simple terms. Stewart isn't looking for a "truth"; he was telling Begala and Carlson that they, the so-called "debate" show on the Cable NEWS Network, should be doing a better job of asking questions and should be listening to what the other side has to say. They should be listening, so that they can then ask further, probing questions. And also concede the other side's points when they should be.
He is asking for a civilized debate-based show, instead of the pro-wrestling format "theater" they have going on there. And he's asking that, because Crossfire claims to be a debate-type show. It is not at all, and just consists of lefties and righties spouting off their party lines, not listening to the other side.
You ignore the details about the very debates they get in. You think that them having a debate would allow them to come to a conclusion. They can't, they probably disagree about fundamental things like "where life beings" and the value of multiculturalism on a fundamental level and they'll never get passed that. You say that the level of debate can be improved, I say that your notion of improving it is a big pie in the sky stupid dream. It's never going to get there. I think the "political hacks" on crossfire are smart people who have spent a lot of time thinking about the issues and you think they are shills that's the difference.
I'll make it simple for you :
What Bill Maher thinks is "pro-wrestling" is just the expression of two different points of view of very intelligent people that will never be resolved. Trying to pretend that there is some sort of way that the debate is going to come to some sort of resolution is idealistic blather. The only way it could come to some resolution is if you had somebody come in and say I'm the judge, you're right you're wrong. That's dialectical. Dualism is letting both live and letting them argue before the American people and try some ideas here and there and let the truth slowly emerge.
Jeesus are you a moron. Ding!
Do you really think throwing words like "Dialectism" and "Dualism" is going to impress anybody? Just because you can quote something from a PolSci book (or wherever), it doesn't mean you are talking sense. Ding!
First step, for you: think for yourself instead of whipping out terms out of your (or, as in this case, somebody else's) ass. Ding!
If you didn't hear what Jon Stuart was saying, then you need to pick up the book on Listening 101. Ding!
. Clearly you didn't read the transcript or watch the clip; please do so before you spout off again. Ding!
Read the transcript. And when done reading it, READ IT AGAIN. And put down that other crap you've been reading. Ding!
And finally: get out of your mom's basement. There is a whole world out there, you know. Ding!
Wheew... 9/10 on the flame scale. Ok here's the two sentences of your whole post that weren't personal attacks.
He was on the show to tell both sides to calm down the rhetoric and talk issues.He clearly says, "You guys (left and right) should be debating", and not indulging in staged theater (a-la pro wrestling).
Here's the transcript by the way: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/15/cf. 01.html
Ok let's use the power of grep on it to read the whole interview from the stewart perspective:
STEWART: Meanwhile, the president's challenger was also in New York, also facing some difficult questions.
STEWART: It's like Nerf CROSSFIRE.
STEWART: Thank you.
STEWART: Thank you very much. That was very kind of you to say.
STEWART: The two of you? Can't we just -- say something nice about John Kerry right now.
STEWART: And something about President Bush.
STEWART: Why do you argue, the two of you?
STEWART: I hate to see it.
STEWART: Let me ask you a question.
STEWART: All right.
STEWART: Is he the best? I thought Lincoln was good.
STEWART: Is he the best the Democrats can do?
STEWART: I had always thought, in a democracy -- and, again, I don't know -- I've only lived in this country -- that there's a process. They call them primaries.
STEWART: And they don't always go with the best, but they go with whoever won. So is he the best? According to the process.
STEWART: The most impressive?
STEWART: I thought Al Sharpton was very impressive.
STEWART: I enjoyed his way of speaking.
STEWART: Or "HARDBALL" or "I'm Going to Kick Your Ass" or...
STEWART: Will jump on it.
STEWART: And I wanted to -- I felt that that wasn't fair and I should come here and tell you that I don't -- it's not so much that it's bad, as it's hurting America.
STEWART: So I wanted to come here today and say...
STEWART: Here's just what I wanted to tell you guys.
STEWART: Stop.
STEWART: Stop, stop, stop, stop hurting America.
STEWART: And come work for us, because we, as the people...
STEWART: The people -- not well.
STEWART: But you can sleep at night.
STEWART: See, the thing is, we need your help. Right now, you're helping the politicians and the corporations. And we're left out there to mow our lawns.
STEWART: No, no, no, you're not too rough on them. You're part of their strategies. You are partisan, what do you call it, hacks.
STEWART: Something valuable?
STEWART: I would like to hear it.
STEWART: Yes.
STEWART: If you want to compare your show to a comedy show, you're more than welcome to.
STEWART: If that's your goal.
STEWART: I wouldn't aim for us. I'd aim for "Seinfeld." That's a very good show.
STEWART: Right.
STEWART: Well, we have civilized discourse.
STEWART: Yes.
STEWART: Yes.
STEWART: Yes.
STEWART: Yes. "How are you holding up?" is a real suck-up. And I actually giving him a hot stone massage as we were doing it.
STEWART: You know, it's interesting to hear you talk about my responsibility.
ST
Ok grammar nazis tear it up :).
their->there in several different places..arggh
I read the transcript and I didn't see John Stewart actually say anything. He asked "Why do you argue?" and that seemed to be the gist of it. He then said "It's hurting the country". SO what he wants everyone to agree? Then he claims that he's "The People" work for "The People". The reason everyone (on Slashdot) likes this position is because it's a Dialectical viewpoint. Which is a viewpoint that assumes that their is always an easily attainable final answer to difficult questions like "When does human life begin?" and "What is obscene?" and "Does the U.S have the right to pre-emption?". Dialecticism wants to resolve the Dualism of many modern political realities. For instance their is the dualism that the state and the people are not always in agreement. The dialecticist resolves this by creating a "people's state". Their is a dualism between political theory and practice and the dialectcist wants to resolve this by creating an ideologically pure government. There is a dialectic between why some people do better than others if we are all created equal. A dialectisist wants to resolve this by making everyone economically equal. A dualist on the other hand knows that these are hard problems that we can't solve perfectly. Our reality never reaches perfection. This evolved from the Judeo-Christian idea of origional sin. That we are not perfect. That we will never be absolutely perfect though we can strive to perfection. The political process for a dualist is a constant war of ideas, compromise and experimentation, moving more slowly toward a better political organization.
How to attain the goal is not know to a dualist, he realizes that much debate, experimentation and examination of details must occur before things improve. The dialecticist on the other hand is far more arrogant believing he can put together the whole solution and all that remains is to push aside the debaters and doubters and implement his vision. Dualists are people like Karl Popper and Hayek. Dialectisits are people like Ayn Rand, Marx, Hegel.
I went to a speech last night about Peak Oil saying that oil production was going to start falling at 10% a year every year starting in two to three years because of a well known oil geology phenomenon known as Hubbert's Peak. So which is going to be the end of humanity? Global Warming or Peak Oil?
I'm going to start the obligatory anti-bush thread since it seems to be appearing in almost every story no matter how non-sequiter the connection.
Wow, It was only last month that I ran into some guy from Norway who was here for the world championships of Magic the Gathering.
San Francisco is in danger of losing it's hip image and turning into some sort of nerdly paradise!
The one little problem is that bittorrent is not a streaming protocol. It cuts up the whole file and sends a different piece in random order to each client. Each client then trades there piece with the other clients. So you can't go linearly through a video segment without having the whole thing. You could make smaller downloadable segments that would download and then auto load sequentially. It wouldn't be live though.
How Idealism works:
1. Point out things you are unhappy with, no complaint is to small to be totally blown out of proportion. Make sure you compare whatever exists to a perfection that need not be possible to attain.
2. Propose solution! The solution is to always get rid of the evil conspiracy holding back progress, because the answers to how to do really complicated things on a large scale are clear to everyone and all that stands in the way is the conspiracy.
3. Leave all the details for later (and there are a lot of details). Explain that you or your favorite know-it-all organization have to be in charge of things before you'll even bother with figuring out the details.
4. Get in power, screw up far more than what was there already and blame it on the continuing legacy of the conspiracy.
5. Propose even stronger more drastic reforms. Continue from here to step 4 until people are totally sick of you and tell you to get lost or you've totally destroyed what you were trying to fix to the point that nobody cares about it anymore.
Politics matters, sure, I just don't think everything in the whole world needs to be political. Some people are so wound up in politics that they turn everything including whether or not they walk on the cracks in the sidewalk, or what kind of music they listen to into some sort of, usually leftish political crusade.
That's one thing I like about Republicans is not EVERYTHING is political to them. True believes on the left make every decision in their whole lives based on its political ramifications.
to freaking -> to be freaking (duh)
You could talk about cybercafes in Iraq.
You could talk about the technology of the war in Iraq.
You could talk about the mesh of websites that the terrorists are using to spread their beheading videos.
You could talk about how Bush is losing the high tech war.
You could talk about the low tech improvised explosives technologies being used by the insurgents.
You could talk about many different nerdy things that are related to the war on Iraq.
BUT An allegation that a speech by an Iraqi president was written for him?
You've got to freakin' kidding me.
The workaround is to not use any programs which require graphics. Please switch to using the command prompt for all applications until a patch has been made. Edlin is the recommended editor for security minded users. Now Microsoft just needs to post documentation on how to edit microsoft word format docs via binary editing in edlin and we'll be back to normal!