what an ignorant selfish post. The fact that those poor kids are born in a country whose economy is subjugated to the rest of the world's should not justify the fact that they have to play in the midst of piles of toxic waste. Globalization doesn't justify this.
Saying "if you don't like it move" is showing how little you know about mobility in other parts of the world. You missed the whole point of the article. The comfortable life we lead here in the US is based and dependent on the fact that people earn $1.50 a day in toxic conditions to dismantle the computer we can buy at Costco for $500 and try to recycle some parts out of it once we've dumped it. Would you like to have been born there and not here? Why would those people have fewer rights in their life? Because of their "government"?? Gimme a break, read a book, open your eyes.
That's just plain wrong. Privacy, like freedom, and other rights I would like to take for granted in an ideal world, may come at a cost, but it certainly shouldn't be the government's role to be attacking them in any way.
I don't quite agree with your poetic interpretation. To me, ignorant foreigner that I am, the WTC stood for the economic powers that have sucked the 3rd world dry and won't stop at anything because greed knows no limits.
I will never justify terrorism or putting an end to anyone's life in any way other than euthanasia, but instead of calls for retaliation, I would rather see people wondering why and establishing the obvious link between today and the hatred that US domination in all things economic and military generates. And please don't give any more airtime to angry Republicans using this tragedy to justify spending more money in "defence".
So basically you're suggesting that the US switch to the popular vote system! Think about it, if the number of electoral votes was representative of a state's population, and the number of votes obtained by each candidate in a state was representative of the number of voters...
I agree with your conclusion. Can't argue with the popular vote and then everybody's vote is just as important.
because it's more important to have a reliable result than to be "the first to call" something
they had to retract later. I know this is the US, but the arguments of "closure now", "three strikes you're out" and other folklore should not apply.
This is way too important to rush a decision, and there are way too many irregularities considering the narrow difference. Far from over.
if you have an account you can telnet to,
you can install the mindjar java applet
that I got from
www.mindbright.se/mindterm.
It allows me to read my email when I'm at the
local supermarket, which has a PC with Windows
but telnet is disconnected.
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what an ignorant selfish post. The fact that those poor kids are born in a country whose economy is subjugated to the rest of the world's should not justify the fact that they have to play in the midst of piles of toxic waste. Globalization doesn't justify this.
Saying "if you don't like it move" is showing how little you know about mobility in other parts of the world. You missed the whole point of the article. The comfortable life we lead here in the US is based and dependent on the fact that people earn $1.50 a day in toxic conditions to dismantle the computer we can buy at Costco for $500 and try to recycle some parts out of it once we've dumped it. Would you like to have been born there and not here? Why would those people have fewer rights in their life? Because of their "government"?? Gimme a break, read a book, open your eyes.
That's just plain wrong. Privacy, like freedom, and other rights I would like to take for granted in an ideal world, may come at a cost, but it certainly shouldn't be the government's role to be attacking them in any way.
I don't quite agree with your poetic interpretation. To me, ignorant foreigner that I am, the WTC stood for the economic powers that have sucked the 3rd world dry and won't stop at anything because greed knows no limits.
I will never justify terrorism or putting an end to anyone's life in any way other than euthanasia, but instead of calls for retaliation, I would rather see people wondering why and establishing the obvious link between today and the hatred that US domination in all things economic and military generates. And please don't give any more airtime to angry Republicans using this tragedy to justify spending more money in "defence".
So basically you're suggesting that the US switch to the popular vote system! Think about it, if the number of electoral votes was representative of a state's population, and the number of votes obtained by each candidate in a state was representative of the number of voters... I agree with your conclusion. Can't argue with the popular vote and then everybody's vote is just as important.
because it's more important to have a reliable result than to be "the first to call" something they had to retract later. I know this is the US, but the arguments of "closure now", "three strikes you're out" and other folklore should not apply. This is way too important to rush a decision, and there are way too many irregularities considering the narrow difference. Far from over.
if you have an account you can telnet to, you can install the mindjar java applet that I got from www.mindbright.se/mindterm. It allows me to read my email when I'm at the local supermarket, which has a PC with Windows but telnet is disconnected.