Is there such a thing as right leaning libertarian?
I don't hear very many libertarians saying "Man, you know what we need? We need the Government to tell us how to live our lives, because my neighbors don't seem to be doing it right by themselves."
TFA is noting a behavior of looking around for the cheapest gas station. That is, driving 10 miles to save a nickel a gallon on gas.
It's not talking about how gas went from $1.50 a gallon to $3.20 a gallon in the span of two years or so, and how that has impacted people's decisions.
To me, the growing ranks of people who believe that with all their heart - growing mostly because of the internet, and sources of information that reinforce what they want to believe - are actually more of a threat to our system of government than anything else.
It's been a fucking problem since 1993 and the whiney ass titty baby Republicans started spreading false stories about Clinton.
Who killed Vince Foster?
It's interesting in all of that time, not a single one of them ever turned out to be true. Most of them boiled down to Mellon-Scaife paying people to bear false witness.
So it's ok if people vote, and their votes be counted... as long as they vote for the Republican.
Interesting attitude. It's a ashame we can't have more people in this country who care more about their country and less about blatant partisan stupidity.
/. is mostly Libertarian if you haven't realized that by now.
Lot's of articles here on cryptography, RFID, bills relating to regulating the internet, etc.
I do love how Republicans always play the martyr. Oh poor is me, nobody likes us. For some reason standing against liberty just doesn't win us any respect.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
With computers getting ever-faster and more advanced, coding efficiently is less and less important than it used to be.
In my ComSci data structures course in 1988, my instructor told us that with computers getting ever-faster and more advanced, there's no reason to be efficient. Now, a fast personal computer in those days ran at like 20 Mhz and had 1 Meg of RAM and a 60 Meg harddrive.
As the computers get faster, we just do more with them. I agree with you that understanding the basics underlying the technology is only necessary as you get better.
But understanding how say C# compiles down into assembler, and what the heap and the stack means, can aid you in understanding the performance implications resulting from unnecessary boxing/unboxing of objects. Just as an example.
Doesn't he know, that we are fighting for our very freedoms here? Doesn't he know that if we refuse to fight the islamofascist killer robots, our great way of life will be destroyed? We cannot ignore this threat, for they will just follow us home and kill us in our sleep. We must fight them over there, so they can't fight them over here.
Praise the Lord! If not for our great wise President, we'd all be speaking Islamofascist German!
Just out of curiousity, I did a view source on the output within Firefox cut and pasted it into the W3C validator, and it horked out 310 errors claiming that this is not HTML 4.01 Strict.
Most of those were using <nobr> or <wbr>, not closing off tags, extra closing tags, etc.
Because strangely enough, that's the time period in which the lobbying has really gotten out of hand.
Face it, Washington DC has vastly increased in size continually since it first became the nation's capital. Sorry, this is not something we can blame exclusively on George Bush and the Republicans.
Oh you are arguing that it's really logarithmic, and that while it was slowly building, it just happened to be a coincidence in that last six years that it got out of hand.
Wow, what a way to whitewash what has been happening.
Ok. How about October 22, 2006. I'll pencil it in on my Calendar. Hope that's good for you?
You're seriously going to quote Slate to me? Why don't you just say, "WAAAAaaaa", and get it over with? The Internet is terribly bad at covering real history, so why don't you just go to the Library and look up some articles published on the situation in Germany in 1947. I love how you liberal jag-offs accuse decent people of the crap you're up to...I can see Howard Dean's arm coming out your ass. "WAAAaaaaaa"
The mean Iraqis aren't playing fair. They didn't stand up and die when we came a marching. The mean Liberals aren't playing fair, they're actually opposing stupid policies.
It's always someone elses fault, isn't it?
Your post had some meaning up until that, then you just couldn't help whining for a while, could you?
It is interesting that you bring up both Sun Tzu and the Romans in a thread where the GP supported an idea of total annihilation. What both parties you mention have in common on this topic, is that they didn't use that tactic.
It's interesting that you didn't read my post, where I pointed out the GP didn't mean what you interpreted it to mean.
The Romans were well known for offering Roman citizenship to the people they conquered, thus expanding both their empire and their armies.
Aye, and religious tolerance.
Except for the Second Carthage War.
But we are fighting against an ideology more than battlefield opponents, and aren't (openly) building an empire, so we can't (openly) send pacifiers en-mass to squelch the opposition and take the remainder intact. Neither can we justify killing en-mass without distinction or mercy to secure the area, since the war was presented as a campaign of freedom. This seems to be the next best thing, using our small force to suppress deadly force, until the area is stable enough to get the freaking hell out with a clear conscience.
Clearly you are doomed to repeate the mistakes of the past.
You're convinced that's what we have to do, because it's the obvious response. Has it ever worked? So why keep repeating the same mistakes?
I don't like this occupation, I don't support our intents, but our poor decisions created a violent power vacuum, and mistakes on this scale require cleaning.
How very paternal of you. We're from the Government, and we're here to help. Trust us, we know what's good for you.
Thank God the French didn't have your attitude when we kicked the Brits out.
I wasn't referring to the entirety of World War II, I was talking about the behavior of a US President with regards to the politics of the United States.
My girlfriend is from Omsk and both of her grandfathers died fighting the Nazis, and you think I'm not aware of the Russian side of the war.
The ignorance of Europeans about Americans sometimes is simply astounding. News flash for ya, we're not all unschooled country bumpkins like our President.
Whoa. I'm well aware of the Russian side of the equation.
But you're wrong about the lack of US involvement. True the war had been going for a while by the time the US got involved. The Germans had spent 3 years beating up on the Russians by the time we invaded at Normandy.
But it was the combined efforts that won the war. The resupply of Russian through their northern ports helped them to survive longer against the Nazi onslaught.
The attack at Normandy was successful because the Nazi's were engaged in Russia, but the Russian army was able to breakout on the eastern front because of the new threat from the west.
I don't know what they taught you in school, but clearly it was distorted.
The point was, the President committed the resources to the War effort.
10 years or so ago I worked for a small VAR. We sold a fairly expensive software package to do mapping. We also sold the hardware. Or rather, resold Dell machines. The reason was back then you needed pretty specialized equipment to make the app run well. A decent video card, speed, memory, etc. It'd be less of a problem today.
But since we sold the hardware suddenly we became their lifeline. Anything that went wrong with their computers, they called us. How to use a mouse, how to format a floppy disk. It got really annoying.
I'm glad I no longer do that, work for a big company now and can tell people to call the help desk.
I made the mistake once of helping a guy I knew who owned a little company that sold software and training to realtors. They wanted something more, and so he volunteered to sell them a server and desktops. Oh my fricking lord, what a fucking mess. He charged $2,000 per desktop, and then bought them $500 emachines. I felt so bad for them. Plus he bounced a $500 check on me.
Similar to your own experience, I've had many a time where a coworker will ask me about a computer they have at home. They want to do something with it, blah blah blah. Oh yeah, it's a 200 Mhz Pentium-II, but they want to be able to run XP on it and have their kids play modern games.
I'm always having to tell them to scrap it and buy a new one.
I no longer will help people with their computer problems. I'll help my parents, and that's it. I'll give friends advice on what to buy, but won't help them install.
It's way too painful.
If I tried to start a company, I agree. It'd be $100/hour minimum. And that would be to keep the non-serious customers away.
Machine Politics is about graft. You vote for me, I'll give you a job. You don't vote for me, I'll make sure we pass a law to put you out of business.
Google probably started talking to some politicians about Net Neutrality(or something else that effects their business) and the politician said "Huh? I can't hear you. Maybe you ought to drop my buddies at DCI some ka-ching to help fix my hearing problem."
Washington DC has vastly increased in size in the past six years, and it's all been lobbyists, shills and political hacks. Lot's of people profiting at the tax payers expense.
Could you please provide for me a link showing when the Iraqi army surrendered to US forces?
Yeah, that's what I thought. They didn't. So claiming the war was over when Bush unfurled his Mission Accomplished banner upon the aircraft carrier is kind of dishonest? I mean it doesn't look like whoever is fighting us in Iraq has surrendered.
Hey, why don't you go look up "Werewolf" and tell us just how successful those Nazis were. Heck, go look up on how the Hitler Youth took to arms and fought back American soldiers. Oh yeah, that's right. There was hardly any opposition in Germany.
Just curious, but do you have any other Republican talking points you want to spout?
Maybe you'd like to declare that Detroit murder rate is worse than Baghdad?
When he said "destruction of your enemy", he was referring to the destruction of your enemies army. That does not mean killing every last man, woman and child. But beating the bloody hell out of them such that they say "We give up!"
He was right. War is about the destruction of your enemy.
The control of public opinion is called politics. War is an extension of politics by other means, but it exists when diplomacy has failed.
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Is there such a thing as right leaning libertarian?
I don't hear very many libertarians saying "Man, you know what we need? We need the Government to tell us how to live our lives, because my neighbors don't seem to be doing it right by themselves."
TFA is noting a behavior of looking around for the cheapest gas station. That is, driving 10 miles to save a nickel a gallon on gas.
It's not talking about how gas went from $1.50 a gallon to $3.20 a gallon in the span of two years or so, and how that has impacted people's decisions.
It's been a fucking problem since 1993 and the whiney ass titty baby Republicans started spreading false stories about Clinton.
Who killed Vince Foster?
It's interesting in all of that time, not a single one of them ever turned out to be true. Most of them boiled down to Mellon-Scaife paying people to bear false witness.
So it's ok if people vote, and their votes be counted... as long as they vote for the Republican.
Interesting attitude. It's a ashame we can't have more people in this country who care more about their country and less about blatant partisan stupidity.
/. is mostly Libertarian if you haven't realized that by now.
Lot's of articles here on cryptography, RFID, bills relating to regulating the internet, etc.
I do love how Republicans always play the martyr. Oh poor is me, nobody likes us. For some reason standing against liberty just doesn't win us any respect.
Until you have that guy who is running a process over night, and you reboot his computer 12 hours into job that takes 16 hours to complete.
You're absolutely certain of this?
No attacks on US troops have been carried out by Iraqis?
Nobody appreciates snark any more.
In my ComSci data structures course in 1988, my instructor told us that with computers getting ever-faster and more advanced, there's no reason to be efficient. Now, a fast personal computer in those days ran at like 20 Mhz and had 1 Meg of RAM and a 60 Meg harddrive.
As the computers get faster, we just do more with them. I agree with you that understanding the basics underlying the technology is only necessary as you get better.
But understanding how say C# compiles down into assembler, and what the heap and the stack means, can aid you in understanding the performance implications resulting from unnecessary boxing/unboxing of objects. Just as an example.
Doesn't he know, that we are fighting for our very freedoms here? Doesn't he know that if we refuse to fight the islamofascist killer robots, our great way of life will be destroyed? We cannot ignore this threat, for they will just follow us home and kill us in our sleep. We must fight them over there, so they can't fight them over here.
Praise the Lord! If not for our great wise President, we'd all be speaking Islamofascist German!
Just out of curiousity, I did a view source on the output within Firefox cut and pasted it into the W3C validator, and it horked out 310 errors claiming that this is not HTML 4.01 Strict.
Most of those were using <nobr> or <wbr>, not closing off tags, extra closing tags, etc.
Because strangely enough, that's the time period in which the lobbying has really gotten out of hand.
Oh you are arguing that it's really logarithmic, and that while it was slowly building, it just happened to be a coincidence in that last six years that it got out of hand.
Wow, what a way to whitewash what has been happening.
If one guy steals $50 million fifty times.
And another guy steals $50,000.
Are both equally corrupt?
Ok. How about October 22, 2006. I'll pencil it in on my Calendar. Hope that's good for you?
The mean Iraqis aren't playing fair. They didn't stand up and die when we came a marching. The mean Liberals aren't playing fair, they're actually opposing stupid policies.
It's always someone elses fault, isn't it?
Your post had some meaning up until that, then you just couldn't help whining for a while, could you?
Boo hooo hooo! The Iraqis aren't fighting fair!
The Brits said the same thing about George Washington and his scoundrels.
modern warfare my ass.
It's interesting that you didn't read my post, where I pointed out the GP didn't mean what you interpreted it to mean.
Aye, and religious tolerance.
Except for the Second Carthage War.
Clearly you are doomed to repeate the mistakes of the past.
You're convinced that's what we have to do, because it's the obvious response. Has it ever worked? So why keep repeating the same mistakes?
How very paternal of you. We're from the Government, and we're here to help. Trust us, we know what's good for you.
Thank God the French didn't have your attitude when we kicked the Brits out.
LOL! Pathetic.
I wasn't referring to the entirety of World War II, I was talking about the behavior of a US President with regards to the politics of the United States.
My girlfriend is from Omsk and both of her grandfathers died fighting the Nazis, and you think I'm not aware of the Russian side of the war.
The ignorance of Europeans about Americans sometimes is simply astounding. News flash for ya, we're not all unschooled country bumpkins like our President.
Apparently my knowledge of Russian language and culture makes me naive, simply because I failed to mention it in a statement.
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Good god, my girlfriend's name is Tatiana and she's from Omsk. (Apparently
Whoa. I'm well aware of the Russian side of the equation.
But you're wrong about the lack of US involvement. True the war had been going for a while by the time the US got involved. The Germans had spent 3 years beating up on the Russians by the time we invaded at Normandy.
But it was the combined efforts that won the war. The resupply of Russian through their northern ports helped them to survive longer against the Nazi onslaught.
The attack at Normandy was successful because the Nazi's were engaged in Russia, but the Russian army was able to breakout on the eastern front because of the new threat from the west.
I don't know what they taught you in school, but clearly it was distorted.
The point was, the President committed the resources to the War effort.
The party that's the problem, is always the one which is in control.
10 years or so ago I worked for a small VAR. We sold a fairly expensive software package to do mapping. We also sold the hardware. Or rather, resold Dell machines. The reason was back then you needed pretty specialized equipment to make the app run well. A decent video card, speed, memory, etc. It'd be less of a problem today.
But since we sold the hardware suddenly we became their lifeline. Anything that went wrong with their computers, they called us. How to use a mouse, how to format a floppy disk. It got really annoying.
I'm glad I no longer do that, work for a big company now and can tell people to call the help desk.
I made the mistake once of helping a guy I knew who owned a little company that sold software and training to realtors. They wanted something more, and so he volunteered to sell them a server and desktops. Oh my fricking lord, what a fucking mess. He charged $2,000 per desktop, and then bought them $500 emachines. I felt so bad for them. Plus he bounced a $500 check on me.
Similar to your own experience, I've had many a time where a coworker will ask me about a computer they have at home. They want to do something with it, blah blah blah. Oh yeah, it's a 200 Mhz Pentium-II, but they want to be able to run XP on it and have their kids play modern games.
I'm always having to tell them to scrap it and buy a new one.
I no longer will help people with their computer problems. I'll help my parents, and that's it. I'll give friends advice on what to buy, but won't help them install.
It's way too painful.
If I tried to start a company, I agree. It'd be $100/hour minimum. And that would be to keep the non-serious customers away.
Machine Politics is about graft. You vote for me, I'll give you a job. You don't vote for me, I'll make sure we pass a law to put you out of business.
Google probably started talking to some politicians about Net Neutrality(or something else that effects their business) and the politician said "Huh? I can't hear you. Maybe you ought to drop my buddies at DCI some ka-ching to help fix my hearing problem."
See: K-Street Project
Washington DC has vastly increased in size in the past six years, and it's all been lobbyists, shills and political hacks. Lot's of people profiting at the tax payers expense.
Could you please provide for me a link showing when the Iraqi army surrendered to US forces?
Yeah, that's what I thought. They didn't. So claiming the war was over when Bush unfurled his Mission Accomplished banner upon the aircraft carrier is kind of dishonest? I mean it doesn't look like whoever is fighting us in Iraq has surrendered.
Hey, why don't you go look up "Werewolf" and tell us just how successful those Nazis were. Heck, go look up on how the Hitler Youth took to arms and fought back American soldiers. Oh yeah, that's right. There was hardly any opposition in Germany.
Just curious, but do you have any other Republican talking points you want to spout?
Maybe you'd like to declare that Detroit murder rate is worse than Baghdad?
Maybe you'd like to take some pictures of Instanbul and claim it's Baghdad?
You guys are pathetic. You're not just incompetent, your dishonest too. It's no wonder nobody can trust today's Republicans with national security.
You laid out a false argument.
When he said "destruction of your enemy", he was referring to the destruction of your enemies army. That does not mean killing every last man, woman and child. But beating the bloody hell out of them such that they say "We give up!"
He was right. War is about the destruction of your enemy.
The control of public opinion is called politics. War is an extension of politics by other means, but it exists when diplomacy has failed.