According to this, , 75% of Bush supporters believe Iraq was providing substantial support to al Qaeda (and 20% believe Saddam was directly involved in 9/11, though another study puts that at 56%). 72% of Bush supporters believe Iraq had WMD or a program to develop them, 72% believe Bush supports the treaty banning landmines. The list goes on. None of these beliefs are correct, but when you can successfully trick people into believing these things, you can probably trick them into voting for Bush too.
You call yourself open-minded and tolerant, yet at the same time you equate criticism of the US relationship with Israel as "paranoid jew hating"? That's rich...
The US isn't that popular with most of the world, especially if you consider the views of regular people rather than governments
This is a recent development, and brought on by the actions of the Bush administration though. Before the Iraq war, even people in the middle east had a 75% or so favorable view of the US. After 9/11, there were candlelight vigils in Iran, of all places. 9/11 united the world with the US. Bush destroyed all that.
From the article: "Before, such mutant genes were only found in Caucasians. The finding has encouraged us to do further research in China, with the aim of developing medicines to prevent and cure HIV/AIDS for different races"
That sort of makes it sound like there is already an HIV/AIDS cure for caucasians...
Your argument would make sense if there was a finite supply of terrorists that could be lured into Iraq and finished off, end of story. In the real world, however, there is a constantly growing supply of angry young men willing to take up the terrorist cause, exactly BECAUSE of the invasion of Iraq.
Even if, based on all the information he had access to, Bush sincerely believed the US was in danger, that only serves to illustrate a serious lack of judgement. The president of the most powerful nation in the world should have better judgement than that, and that is why Bush has to go.
Not being able to see the video right now due to slashdotting, I can only say this: I have one of these too, and have never noticed any lag (I have machines hooked up to both DVI and Analog inputs, but am using a PS/2 mouse). If you are using a USB mouse through the monitor's USB-hub, try plugging it directly into your computer. Also try if running the monitor at its native 1600x1200 makes a difference.
Mr. President, in Michigan, 30,000 signatures were needed to get Ralph Nader on the ballot. The Nader campaign submitted fewer than 5,400 signatures, while the Michigan Republican Party delivered nearly 45,000 signatures. Does it bother you that the Michigan Republican Party thinks it is easier to convince people to vote for Mr. Nader than it is to convince them to vote for you?
From the article it looks like it's pretty much another spam-filter, albeit a 99.996% accurate one.
Still, even one in 25000 is too much. It means that this software cannot be trusted to fully automatically classify my email, and so I will still have to babysit it, wasting time.
Also, regarding: "the software was even better than us, picking up spam we'd incorrectly classified as legitimate emails", how the hell does a HUMAN misclassify spam as legitimate? Well, I suppose that after manually processing 25000 emails in a row, you're bound to slip...
"The team was competing for Ansari X
Prize, offering $10 million to the team that successfully completes a low-budget private
space rocket capable of carrying men into space."
There is no stipulation that it has to be low-budget, it just has to be privately funded.
If an accident happens they'll just blame it on terrorism. That way they don't have to admit they screwed up, AND the department of homeland security is sure to see their funding increased by a lot.
"Moore gets caught in a lie literally almost everyday"
Or so say the republicans, at least. Turns out that he can actually back up his claims though. Unlike the republicans. And even if Moore gets it wrong, he'd be willing to admit it. Unlike, say, Bush.
At this point, after all that's happened, I basically consider anyone who still supports Bush a moron. There simply is no other word to describe someone who supports a presidents whose wrongs are so plentiful, obvious, and deadly.
worker friendly - long hours. Surely you must see the inherent contradiction?
The author contradicts himself.
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The author seems confused:
Last week, I turned off all the security features of my wireless router. I removed WEP encryption, disabled MAC address filtering and made sure the SSID was being broadcast loud and clear
and then a few paragraphs later:
Don't get me wrong. I'm not deliberately opening my network to hackers and miscreants bent on downloading copyrighted material. I'm simply choosing not to secure it.
Clearly, the author contradicts himself when he first describes exactly how he went about disabling all those security features, and then later stating that he is not deliberately opening his network.
The Discovery Channel show "Mythbusters" did an item on this a while ago. They were unable to ignite a plexiglass enclosure filled with gasoline fumes by using a cellphone, and concluded that if anything, these accidents happen because of static electricy. They also mentioned that women are more likely to get this kind of accident, because more often than men, women get back in their car while refueling. The
report mentioned above is particularly interesting in that regard, as the first few screenfulls exclusively mention people getting back in their car while refueling, and most of them are women.
As it is, your question comes across as "I have decided to move to Canada, what's it like there?". Shouldn't you have informed yourself about Canadian corporate life *before* making the decision to move to Canada?
Looks to me like the writer of the article has his notion of 'alpha' backwards. An alpha value of 0 means fully transparent, 255 is opaque. The article has it the other way around.
No, what we have is a bunch of freeloaders that, for all their talk about how they'd buy music if only they could buy it in some *other* way, are really nothing more than thieves. Read any of the discussions about the music industry from *before* iTunes came along. Pretty much everyone said that if the record companies allowed them to buy individual songs instead of whole albums with only 2 good songs on them, they'd buy more music. Now that option exists, and what happens? Some kid breaks the DRM mechanism, and everyone jumps to his defence, because all they really want is FREE (gratis) music. All that talk about buying songs was just that: talk.
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According to this, , 75% of Bush supporters believe Iraq was providing substantial support to al Qaeda (and 20% believe Saddam was directly involved in 9/11, though another study puts that at 56%). 72% of Bush supporters believe Iraq had WMD or a program to develop them, 72% believe Bush supports the treaty banning landmines. The list goes on. None of these beliefs are correct, but when you can successfully trick people into believing these things, you can probably trick them into voting for Bush too.
Any article that quotes Norman Matloff as an expert on these issues is worthless...
Today CNN reports: "more than 70 people who committed crimes as 16- and 17-year-olds are on death row".
So what's up with that? Does Bush not know the law, are these convictions illegal, or is there a loophole?
You call yourself open-minded and tolerant, yet at the same time you equate criticism of the US relationship with Israel as "paranoid jew hating"? That's rich...
This is a recent development, and brought on by the actions of the Bush administration though. Before the Iraq war, even people in the middle east had a 75% or so favorable view of the US. After 9/11, there were candlelight vigils in Iran, of all places. 9/11 united the world with the US. Bush destroyed all that.
That sort of makes it sound like there is already an HIV/AIDS cure for caucasians...
Your argument would make sense if there was a finite supply of terrorists that could be lured into Iraq and finished off, end of story. In the real world, however, there is a constantly growing supply of angry young men willing to take up the terrorist cause, exactly BECAUSE of the invasion of Iraq.
Even if, based on all the information he had access to, Bush sincerely believed the US was in danger, that only serves to illustrate a serious lack of judgement. The president of the most powerful nation in the world should have better judgement than that, and that is why Bush has to go.
Not being able to see the video right now due to slashdotting, I can only say this: I have one of these too, and have never noticed any lag (I have machines hooked up to both DVI and Analog inputs, but am using a PS/2 mouse).
If you are using a USB mouse through the monitor's USB-hub, try plugging it directly into your computer. Also try if running the monitor at its native 1600x1200 makes a difference.
Mr. President, in Michigan, 30,000 signatures were needed to get Ralph Nader on the ballot. The Nader campaign submitted fewer than 5,400 signatures, while the Michigan Republican Party delivered nearly 45,000 signatures.
Does it bother you that the Michigan Republican Party thinks it is easier to convince people to vote for Mr. Nader than it is to convince them to vote for you?
So Bush's saving grace is that he is not as bad as Saddam?
Still, even one in 25000 is too much. It means that this software cannot be trusted to fully automatically classify my email, and so I will still have to babysit it, wasting time.
Also, regarding: "the software was even better than us, picking up spam we'd incorrectly classified as legitimate emails", how the hell does a HUMAN misclassify spam as legitimate? Well, I suppose that after manually processing 25000 emails in a row, you're bound to slip...
There is no stipulation that it has to be low-budget, it just has to be privately funded.
It was his job to confirm and document computer misuse, however wasting time != computer misuse
He will lose the lawsuit, and will never work as a sysadmin again.
I would love to do this, the only problem is that there doesn't appear to be any way to do this while preserving DVD-menus and subtitles.
If an accident happens they'll just blame it on terrorism. That way they don't have to admit they screwed up, AND the department of homeland security is sure to see their funding increased by a lot.
Or so say the republicans, at least. Turns out that he can actually back up his claims though. Unlike the republicans. And even if Moore gets it wrong, he'd be willing to admit it. Unlike, say, Bush.
At this point, after all that's happened, I basically consider anyone who still supports Bush a moron. There simply is no other word to describe someone who supports a presidents whose wrongs are so plentiful, obvious, and deadly.
It's interesting that while slashdot is quick to report on flaws in Windows and IE, they refuse to report on linux vulnerabilities.
worker friendly - long hours. Surely you must see the inherent contradiction?
Last week, I turned off all the security features of my wireless router. I removed WEP encryption, disabled MAC address filtering and made sure the SSID was being broadcast loud and clear
and then a few paragraphs later:
Don't get me wrong. I'm not deliberately opening my network to hackers and miscreants bent on downloading copyrighted material. I'm simply choosing not to secure it.
Clearly, the author contradicts himself when he first describes exactly how he went about disabling all those security features, and then later stating that he is not deliberately opening his network.
The Discovery Channel show "Mythbusters" did an item on this a while ago. They were unable to ignite a plexiglass enclosure filled with gasoline fumes by using a cellphone, and concluded that if anything, these accidents happen because of static electricy. They also mentioned that women are more likely to get this kind of accident, because more often than men, women get back in their car while refueling. The report mentioned above is particularly interesting in that regard, as the first few screenfulls exclusively mention people getting back in their car while refueling, and most of them are women.
As it is, your question comes across as "I have decided to move to Canada, what's it like there?". Shouldn't you have informed yourself about Canadian corporate life *before* making the decision to move to Canada?
Looks to me like the writer of the article has his notion of 'alpha' backwards. An alpha value of 0 means fully transparent, 255 is opaque. The article has it the other way around.
Here you go, Mr. Lawyer:
No, what we have is a bunch of freeloaders that, for all their talk about how they'd buy music if only they could buy it in some *other* way, are really nothing more than thieves. Read any of the discussions about the music industry from *before* iTunes came along. Pretty much everyone said that if the record companies allowed them to buy individual songs instead of whole albums with only 2 good songs on them, they'd buy more music. Now that option exists, and what happens? Some kid breaks the DRM mechanism, and everyone jumps to his defence, because all they really want is FREE (gratis) music. All that talk about buying songs was just that: talk.