Why are you a lifelong republican? Does that mean you vote blindly for any candidate fielded under a particular banner, no matter what their policies are?
Or are you (hopefully) more intelligent than that and once every 4 years stick your head into the news/net/press releases and actually examine what each candidate and party stands for before carefully selecting to whom you shall give your vote?
E.g. 1996 Hmm...I'll vote party X this year, they sound like they have the best ideas 2000 Hmm...Party X didn't do quite what I wanted, I'm going to vote party Y because they sound closest to my values 2004 Well, Party Y have stuck to their guns and so I'll stick with them this year
That's almost as uneducated as saying 'now we've got a story about the increased incidence of AIDS in this neighborhood' and having a wiki link to homosexuals.
Stupid, tired old stereotypes we've got to get over if we're ever going to make any progress (in either area).
Mod parent up. Just because you don't like hearing about the harsh realities of Darwinism when applied to your new-found liddle bitty cuddly-wuddly bundle of joy doesn't make it a troll.
I think Bill Hicks said it best - having sex and producing babies is about as miraculous as eating food and producing a turd. And we've got 6 billion of those miracles right here with us now.
You mean the USA acts xenophobically, unilaterally and with total disregard for the rest of the world when implementing their foreign policy?
And what's that you say...that they've been doing this since just after world war one? No, getouttahere...
Only when the average American opens their eyes will they see the reasons 9/11 happened. And they won't like what they see, but they should be reassured that it's easy to reverse and won't involve more bloodshed.
It's a bit like 'look before you leap' - you know, planning ahead, considering the outcomes, looking at past experience and justifications...not just pissing on everyone else's parade to implement your overreaching imperialist foreign policy to protect yourselves from enemies you yourselves have created...
I think you'll find that 1 in 60 people in the entire UK descended upon London on the 16th of February 2003 to march in protest before the outset of the war.
1 in 60 of our entire population. 1 million people.
The British population did not want this war. We knew there was no evidence.
Hey, I got a funny idea....maybe, just maybe (and hear me out here)...people in other countried have different names for parties that represent different views.
Jeez, how odd is that? The idea that what you might call 'gas' in the US may be called 'benzene' or 'petrol' in another nation?
What? You mean that there are other countries out there, with different people with different views of the world and different names for political parties that represent the same things?
The utter arrogance and disregard you show for members of the outside world is shocking.
Yet another arrogant american prick demonstrating exactly why the outside world wants Bush out of power.
The only reason the US needs to retain a strong military is for reasons entirely of their own creation. Try not invading other countries for a short while (militarily, idealogically, politically and economically) and you'll soon stop being hated across the world.
Ignoring external factors as precipitants for suicide and solely laying the blame on the suicidee is analogous to blaming only the bullet for a murder.
This is why we have a national grid - the wind is *always* blowing *somewhere*, so you just have a large decentralised collection of wind farms which can technically provide 150% of the capacity actually required.
At 150% production you get really cheap electricity without guilt because it's completely clean. We can then sell the electricity to our neighbors or invest it in interesting projects like hydrogen etc...
Then, when 50% of the turbines aren't turning because the wind aint blowing where they are, you still have 100% requirements coming from the rest of the wind turbine 'pool'.
Large. Decentralised. Network. That is how wind power will work.
"640k should be enough for anybody" -Bill Gates III
Ah...how we all laughed.
-Nano.
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Who the fuck thinks this is +5 Insightful?
It's just the insight you'd expect from combining an arrogant linux zealot who doesn't care about product coalescence to reduce redundancy with a bloated american 'honey, let's take the SUV to the ATM tonight' approach to the world.
Beautiful to see in all its unadulterated corpulence.
Umm...I can see some of the reasoning behind this...
1) There's nothing to bomb or crash a plane into in Scotland.
2) We're used to a bit of terrorism in the UK (they were called the IRA, a nice little US funded outfit that managed to kill and maim a few hundred people over the last few decades)
3) We haven't been whipped up into a state of complete paranoid jello by our gubmint.
4) There's nothing to bomb or crash a plane into in Scotland.
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Why are you a lifelong republican? Does that mean you vote blindly for any candidate fielded under a particular banner, no matter what their policies are?
Or are you (hopefully) more intelligent than that and once every 4 years stick your head into the news/net/press releases and actually examine what each candidate and party stands for before carefully selecting to whom you shall give your vote?
E.g.
1996 Hmm...I'll vote party X this year, they sound like they have the best ideas
2000 Hmm...Party X didn't do quite what I wanted, I'm going to vote party Y because they sound closest to my values
2004 Well, Party Y have stuck to their guns and so I'll stick with them this year
Well, which one are you?
That's almost as uneducated as saying 'now we've got a story about the increased incidence of AIDS in this neighborhood' and having a wiki link to homosexuals.
Stupid, tired old stereotypes we've got to get over if we're ever going to make any progress (in either area).
-Nano.
Umm...how CAN you get more divided than a 50-50 split?
-Nano.
Actually, It's a sad, sad day for 100% of Americans.
48% already know this.
The other 52% will learn so over the next 4 years.
-Nano.
>>How does the man not go insane from mind-shattering cognitive dissonance?
Because of the blissful release of bigotry, the opiate of religion and a pinch of idiocy.
-Nano.
Politicians should only legislate reality, not morality.
-Nano.
If you don't like BT, try ZenADSL...very good and cheap with no minimum contract length or d/l caps.
I don't work for them, I've just been their customer for the past 3 years.
-Nano.
How is this blatant xenophobia and cultural dicrimination funny?
-Nano.
That's actually very funny...
-Nano.
Mod parent up. Just because you don't like hearing about the harsh realities of Darwinism when applied to your new-found liddle bitty cuddly-wuddly bundle of joy doesn't make it a troll.
I think Bill Hicks said it best - having sex and producing babies is about as miraculous as eating food and producing a turd. And we've got 6 billion of those miracles right here with us now.
-Nano.
You mean the USA acts xenophobically, unilaterally and with total disregard for the rest of the world when implementing their foreign policy?
And what's that you say...that they've been doing this since just after world war one? No, getouttahere...
Only when the average American opens their eyes will they see the reasons 9/11 happened. And they won't like what they see, but they should be reassured that it's easy to reverse and won't involve more bloodshed.
It's a bit like 'look before you leap' - you know, planning ahead, considering the outcomes, looking at past experience and justifications...not just pissing on everyone else's parade to implement your overreaching imperialist foreign policy to protect yourselves from enemies you yourselves have created...
-Nano.
I think you'll find that 1 in 60 people in the entire UK descended upon London on the 16th of February 2003 to march in protest before the outset of the war.
1 in 60 of our entire population. 1 million people.
The British population did not want this war. We knew there was no evidence.
We still took it in the ass.
-Nano.
How is this a troll? I'd undenyably true...
-Rob.
or Latex Babes of Estros...
-SQ geek.
Hey, I got a funny idea....maybe, just maybe (and hear me out here)...people in other countried have different names for parties that represent different views.
Jeez, how odd is that? The idea that what you might call 'gas' in the US may be called 'benzene' or 'petrol' in another nation?
What? You mean that there are other countries out there, with different people with different views of the world and different names for political parties that represent the same things?
The utter arrogance and disregard you show for members of the outside world is shocking.
-Nano.
Yet another arrogant american prick demonstrating exactly why the outside world wants Bush out of power.
The only reason the US needs to retain a strong military is for reasons entirely of their own creation. Try not invading other countries for a short while (militarily, idealogically, politically and economically) and you'll soon stop being hated across the world.
-Nano.
Come on misguided US nationalists, burn my karma!
Ignoring external factors as precipitants for suicide and solely laying the blame on the suicidee is analogous to blaming only the bullet for a murder.
-Nano.
This is why we have a national grid - the wind is *always* blowing *somewhere*, so you just have a large decentralised collection of wind farms which can technically provide 150% of the capacity actually required.
At 150% production you get really cheap electricity without guilt because it's completely clean. We can then sell the electricity to our neighbors or invest it in interesting projects like hydrogen etc...
Then, when 50% of the turbines aren't turning because the wind aint blowing where they are, you still have 100% requirements coming from the rest of the wind turbine 'pool'.
Large. Decentralised. Network. That is how wind power will work.
-Nano.
How is this +5 insightful? It's just unashamed linux bigotry.
Just because a reply calls forth images of nubile dancing penguins doesn't make it insightful or even valid.
-Nano.
One Small question...
If linux is so cool and user-friendly now, why don't we have path names like '/User/Public' rather than '/usr/pub'? or '/User/Libraries'?
-Nano.
Ever hear about a little show called 'Star Trek'? That was resurrected by petition way back in 1967.
-Nano.
You're forgetting just one *tiny* detail...
Government != Business
(Except of course in the US of A by the looks of things...)
-Nano.
"640k should be enough for anybody"
-Bill Gates III
Ah...how we all laughed.
-Nano.
Who the fuck thinks this is +5 Insightful?
It's just the insight you'd expect from combining an arrogant linux zealot who doesn't care about product coalescence to reduce redundancy with a bloated american 'honey, let's take the SUV to the ATM tonight' approach to the world.
Beautiful to see in all its unadulterated corpulence.
-Nano.
Umm...I can see some of the reasoning behind this...
1) There's nothing to bomb or crash a plane into in Scotland.
2) We're used to a bit of terrorism in the UK (they were called the IRA, a nice little US funded outfit that managed to kill and maim a few hundred people over the last few decades)
3) We haven't been whipped up into a state of complete paranoid jello by our gubmint.
4) There's nothing to bomb or crash a plane into in Scotland.
-Nano.
PS Writing from Scotland