Sure Iraq's military wasn't a threat to the US. However Iraq's money was. Just as Saddam was paying the families of homicide bombers in Israel he was sponsoring terrorism elsewhere.
Where do you think most terrorist come up with their cash? Bake sales? No, they are sponsored by governments.
Your ignorance is only outdone by your anti-American screed. France invaded New Guinea (?) I believe without UN authorization. Did a fair job of helping the wrong side when they did. Russia has been in Chechnya for how long? Russia has also been indirectly causing problems in Georgia and Ukraine as well. China still throttles Tibet and threatens Thailand all the time.
So the US invaded Afghanistan, is it better off than Tibet or Chechnya? How about all the countries in the former Yugoslavia/Chech areas? Are they better off after US action in the 90s of which the UN didn't approve?
The UN is a joke mainly because of countries like France. How many times do you see the UN condemn Russia of Chechyna? The UN is simply an anti-Israel and anti-American institution. It turns its head when homicide bombers kill civilans in Israel and then condemns Israel for striking back. It condemns America for invading Iraq but gave Saddamn a free pass at murdering his own people. It gives Sudan a free pass in genocide just like it ignored Rawanda.
Sorry bub, but the world sucks and most of it is not the fault of the US. It is the fault of countries that face away from genocide because they are afraid to get their hands dirty. Ignoring problems like the UN has done is far far worse than the US being in Iraq.
Seeing that a lot of these are very good items it does remove a significant incentive. Now the area where Blizzard will have issues with is the in game money system. Gold is something that people will sell and its hard to track any stackable item.
Now, what I am waiting for is these companies being held liable for downtime. They love to toss around the term "service" but that is last thing they want to be classified as.
If an ISP had as much downtime as some games they would be out of business or have regulators on their butts.
I believe the JDE software that Oracle wants to keep is the OneWorld - which is PC server based and rarely works. I am curious what happens to the World software (runs on IBM iSeries). Considering how much money my company dumped on it this is going to decide some things for us.
Hopefully we will ditch it soon, we are 4+ years in and only deployed at 2 out of 55 locations. Can you say "software doesn't fit us"?
Knowing of prior art he still applied for his patent and specifically ignored Viola in his application even though he was corresponding with the guy?
This reeks.
Worse than that a Judge actually ruled against possible evidence because it might actually damage Eolas's case? Isn't that what court is all about? Showing ALL relevant evidence?
Well one thing I have seen is that CEO/CFO/CXX do not always write the documents their names are attached to. Even some seemingly direct e-mails are actually written by an executive assistant or a pool of people whose job is just that.
Granted I would want to make sure that anything my name is attached to has proper grammar and spelling.
My local county and many others around here make tax assessment records of private property available via the web.
In my case I could, without any requirements, look up the value of a piece of property and the value of improvements (ie the house), and the registered owner by address, lot/plot, or name. You can even wildcard these searches.
In two counties I checked you can search the past and present court dockets to see if someone has been in the system lately.
Of course non-government sources include any store with debit/cc or check acceptance. How many people actually tell their CCs via the CC companies terms not to share?
Privacy is an illusion anymore. Yes I would like to protect what little I have left but there is also credit to be given to the idea that if there is no privacy what would there be to fear that isn't already a problem today?
The mob is fully healed if you flee or die (as long as others are not combatting it) within a very short time.
Honestly I never knew why there had to be death penalities. The idea of a game isn't to punish the players. Stopping the current action through character death is sufficient.
Oh, its not for pussies, its for people who are there to enjoy themselves. They don't have anything to prove to you or others.
They can and usually spell the end for start ups and small companies. Large companies can absorb a few bad ideas before they succumb.
That leads to the problem where you have really large companies. Some of their bad ideas, like this one, can have a large impact on many users but not show a direct effect//measurable// on the company itself.
There is a reason why many large companies have an internal motto along the lines of "We make money in spite of ourselves"
Simple, because they are not looking to serve people. They are looking to buy votes and a place to put cronies who need good jobs.
People here seem to think its evil to allow a corporate interest to make a buck. For some stupid reason they blithely believe the government agency will be better.
FACT IS: IT WILL NOT.
They are rarely accountable to the public in any meaningful way. Investigations get stifled, polios turn the other way, and when pressed they scream racism or "its for the children".
Sure Verizon is getting something they want and I am glad. We already have to deal with city managed airports (jobs programs, places to put bad cops, crony ville), rotten public schools, and overstaffed agencies AND YA'LL WANT THEM TO DO WHAT?
Oh great,government managed X means... it starts out being "Y" it ends up be "Z"
as we get stories that group A needs it free or discounted. We then need to insure "kids" have it, and then, oh yeah, all government employess must have access for nothing. That gets tabled and the weasel in teachers or something they can tug heart strings with. Suddenly it morphs into adminstrators, then police, then fire, then suddenly everyone in government gets it free.
Well it isn't free for you. Your taxes are being wasted to pay for things that are only being used to buy votes. If the service is shitty do you think a government agency is going to care? Obviously if you do you haven't dealt with many of them.
the key is that we are not doing manned exploration. Sending people up in to space isn't exploration.
We have probes to many of the planets, Mars in paticular, we are going to smack a asteroid soon, and there are plans to a new space observatory.
Considering the costs associated with space I think the US is doing just fine. Hell, I like to wonder, where is everyone else?
Besides this is just a mock up, it is no more valuable to space travel than a brochure from marketing... actually that is what it is, an attempt to stir up interest in what they do.
I wrote them a nice long LETTER about their pricing before finally giving up and switching to MS products for PC development.
For around a 100 bucks I get a great editor, debugger, and good libraries to start from with MS products. Why Borland would not provide the entry level product with an install wizard I will never understand, you had to go up to the professional package to get that functionality.
I love Pascal, it was my first hobby language and I moved from the TP3.0 all the way to Delphi 4 before giving up as Borland priced themselves out of the market.
The enthusist (sp) made Borland yet they turned their back on us. They now "bind" together disparate functions to force the user to buy crap they don't need for the stuff they do. I guess the found a surefire way to reduce their market.
Long live Pascal and Delphi, DIE DIE DIE Borland.
Oh, as for compilers, the guy who wrote C# was from Borland's Delphi group and in many ways it shows. C# is highly type restrictive.
Yeah I know I am a little off topic, but SOX has got many auditors running amok in companies. Our IT department got hit by a train. Conflicting requirments and the need to document all work in 15 minute increments, get 5 sign offs on anything over a day, etc,etc...
So can they program 80 hours in a week? Only in they work 100+ as 20 will be SOX compliance.
How in the heck is EA and those slave houses complying? Do their auditors just brush it off?
The problem I have with city, county, or state provided wireless is that not everyone needs the service.
Combine this with the fact that with a government group running it you will run afoul of all sorts of special groups demanding free access let alone those imposing their views on what is and what is not acceptable.
Don't think so, its not hard to shop for courts that favor one view or another.
Think about it, the first whine will be "Its for the children", then comes "they are a disenfranchised group", followed by "well of course group X should get a free ride". Until you finally have yet another government program sucking dollars out of your pocket to buy votes.
Corporations may not have your intrest in mind but at least they are an equal opportunity screw. I don't need another "airport" - as in - lets stick all of our cronies into that service to draw fat checks and provide no work other than being a crony.
Permanent death? Consider the buggy state of most MMORPGs and where some won't even guarantee character inventories you want people to trust these developers to not have bugs, exploits, or whatnot that result in losing their character permanently?
Then you top it off with the age old reply of "PVP will solve everything". Actually most MMORPG problems stem from PVP and the behavior of the players involved.
See one thing I have learned in my nearly 10 years of similar gaming is that PVP people think they are the only ones who really know how to play yet at the same time they are the first to justify every asshat activity they do.
Free for all PVP is just stupid. Why? Simple because players cannot govern their own worlds properly. What you have is anarchy and no one wants to invest time in that type of world. Another way to put it, there are not enough mature players to handle all the immature twits that would ruin any attempts at imposing some type of law. (don't bring of ATITD)
Your terminology also indicates that your blinded by this PVP or anything idea. Dismissing everyone else as "whiny brats" I am surprised you forgot to toss in carebear.
Get this, the majority of North American players do not want PvP. They do not want to waste their investment of time. They do not want their play time which they pay for controlled by the actions of a bunch of immature punks. In other words, they want to enjoy the game with others in a cooperative environment.
Let me save you the trouble. There are many PvP centric games available for you to play. The trouble I am saving you is the standard reply "but game X didn't do it right, but this game Y could be right IF ONLY THEY HAD PVP".
In other words you will whine till the cows come home because many of us refuse to allow you to impose upon us your lack of maturity.
You can can toss all the money you want and it will not fix the situation and possibly make it worse. The issue isn't the squalor they live in, for some of those people they don't see it as squalor. Many live as those who lived before them and it is by OUR standards that their living standards are not acceptable. You cannot buy them a new lifestyle. You cannot pay them to think and act differently.
Sure spend some money, but also realize that the national pride will go a lot further for many Indians with a successful space program. It allows them to dismiss people who constantly call India "3rd world". Too many people see that country as "3rd world" while ignoring all they accomplished.
Why do people mostly complain about DEMOCRATIC countries that do this but give a pass to China who not only throws a ton of money into their space race, their military, and such and at the same time likes to whack 5000+ of thier own people?
India is progressing nicely, I don't think they need our Western standards to intefer with a job they are doing.
Your economy is no where as healthy as you might think. Already there have been articles coming from within Canada about what is going to be needed to pay for the universal health care, which is anything but free. Estimates of it consuming nearly 40% of Quebec's budget by 2010 are not that far off from reality. I suggest you start looking into government and independant studies about the situation up there. Apparently you are either not looking or failing to see it. Don't take it as a slight to Canada, I have friends in BC and they are worried about what is coming in the future. One comment that I found interesting is a push to have nurses replace Doctors for some treatment programs and that isn't a direction that will go over lightly.
Your economy is also heavily dependant on US trade, hence when the US economy picks up as it has been for 2+ years there is a recipricol effect for the region.
Considering that the bulk of China's population has no real income let alone any ability to paticipate in air pollution.
One thing this treaty is not doing is preventing the widespread pollution of the ground and water by other means, of which China and many of the former Soviet states excelled at.
The "50%" item is just an estimate, worst case scenario, in no way is it provable. Hell one of the hurricanes hitting Florida this year was thought to have pushed an endangered species of Turtle to near extinction... Nothing works better to build up excitement than to use extremist examples.
It most likely won't be Creative, at least not this year or next, but the Koreans are coming with a slew of low priced harddrive based music players. Some of the 20gb are going to be less than $200!
I have a 3rd gen iPod and while its nice some of the accessories are just junk or wear badly, like the apple remote control.
People too easily dismiss the competitors to the iPod while ignoring the big picture. There isn't just one iPod killer, there are dozens. One of them may just get the idea right. Look bad to the 80s when Apple was flying high with their PC. Yet there were dozens of "others" coming along using someone elses product.
Also, don't forget there are many people who don't like Apple either and that is something many still like to ignore.
Californians screwed themselves by not allowing property taxes to rise with true value of property.
It basically is an example of a democracy run amok. The people vote for every benefit and against every attempt to make them pay for it.
Hence their government is reduced to what some see as hair brained methods of raising taxes, or worse punishing corporations with such high taxes that many just get up an move futher exaggerating the problem.
What California needs to do is revoke the ability of the public to pass initiatives that make it impossible for the government to function while at the same time reigning in all the frivolous governement spending. My favorite, non-essential employees. If they are NE why do we have them anyway?
Other than being pissed away on Public Schools. Of course your statement is that standard inane response of someone who doesn't have a real one.
Sure it would be nice if we spent defense money elsewhere but this world is chock full of crazies who see nothing wrong with killing innocents. Some in fact think targeting innocents is far more viable.
Back to your comment. Spend the money on vouchers and let parents decide which school system or type best teaches their kids. Public Schools exist only to service the Teacher UNION and not the students. The local city here (Atlanta) is a prime example of this problem with far more admins than necessary.
We love to talk that our children our are most valuable investment but we saddle them with people protected by tenure and lawsuits. We are no longer concerned that a teacher cannot even pass the test given to the students.
That 10b will be just going down a know rat hole. Better it possibly lead to something that actually serves people.
After all they have blamed everyone BUT THEMSELVES.
they blame evangelicals they blame rednecks they blame idiots they blame racists they blame bigots they blame homophobes they blame ballot tampering they blame initimidation they blame lack of information they blame the swift boat veterans they blame the Clinton team (new one today)
So suddenly if they won how would they explain Bush's loss?
Until you look inward you will never find the problem. This has been the primary problem with the Democrat party these last 4+ years. You cannot win if all you are doing is blaming someone else for your failure.
Asking for a recount is just another way of trying to insinuate something was amiss and caused the loss. Having these third party people demanding a recount is nothing but pure audacity which will cost many communities more money than is justifiable.
What should be done is to identify ways to make the next Presidential election smoother. Instead of wasting taxpayer money on an election that will NOT change I want the money used to prevent this type of BS.
I don't want a recount.
I want a verifiable election system where the voter is photo verified that they are who they are and they have proof that their vote was accounted for properly. That is all we need.
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Sure Iraq's military wasn't a threat to the US. However Iraq's money was. Just as Saddam was paying the families of homicide bombers in Israel he was sponsoring terrorism elsewhere.
Where do you think most terrorist come up with their cash? Bake sales? No, they are sponsored by governments.
Your ignorance is only outdone by your anti-American screed. France invaded New Guinea (?) I believe without UN authorization. Did a fair job of helping the wrong side when they did. Russia has been in Chechnya for how long? Russia has also been indirectly causing problems in Georgia and Ukraine as well. China still throttles Tibet and threatens Thailand all the time.
So the US invaded Afghanistan, is it better off than Tibet or Chechnya? How about all the countries in the former Yugoslavia/Chech areas? Are they better off after US action in the 90s of which the UN didn't approve?
The UN is a joke mainly because of countries like France. How many times do you see the UN condemn Russia of Chechyna? The UN is simply an anti-Israel and anti-American institution. It turns its head when homicide bombers kill civilans in Israel and then condemns Israel for striking back. It condemns America for invading Iraq but gave Saddamn a free pass at murdering his own people. It gives Sudan a free pass in genocide just like it ignored Rawanda.
Sorry bub, but the world sucks and most of it is not the fault of the US. It is the fault of countries that face away from genocide because they are afraid to get their hands dirty. Ignoring problems like the UN has done is far far worse than the US being in Iraq.
Seeing that a lot of these are very good items it does remove a significant incentive. Now the area where Blizzard will have issues with is the in game money system. Gold is something that people will sell and its hard to track any stackable item.
Now, what I am waiting for is these companies being held liable for downtime. They love to toss around the term "service" but that is last thing they want to be classified as.
If an ISP had as much downtime as some games they would be out of business or have regulators on their butts.
I believe the JDE software that Oracle wants to keep is the OneWorld - which is PC server based and rarely works. I am curious what happens to the World software (runs on IBM iSeries). Considering how much money my company dumped on it this is going to decide some things for us.
Hopefully we will ditch it soon, we are 4+ years in and only deployed at 2 out of 55 locations. Can you say "software doesn't fit us"?
I still see this buy as a customer buy.
Knowing of prior art he still applied for his patent and specifically ignored Viola in his application even though he was corresponding with the guy?
This reeks.
Worse than that a Judge actually ruled against possible evidence because it might actually damage Eolas's case? Isn't that what court is all about? Showing ALL relevant evidence?
Well one thing I have seen is that CEO/CFO/CXX do not always write the documents their names are attached to. Even some seemingly direct e-mails are actually written by an executive assistant or a pool of people whose job is just that.
Granted I would want to make sure that anything my name is attached to has proper grammar and spelling.
My local county and many others around here make tax assessment records of private property available via the web.
In my case I could, without any requirements, look up the value of a piece of property and the value of improvements (ie the house), and the registered owner by address, lot/plot, or name. You can even wildcard these searches.
In two counties I checked you can search the past and present court dockets to see if someone has been in the system lately.
Of course non-government sources include any store with debit/cc or check acceptance. How many people actually tell their CCs via the CC companies terms not to share?
Privacy is an illusion anymore. Yes I would like to protect what little I have left but there is also credit to be given to the idea that if there is no privacy what would there be to fear that isn't already a problem today?
The mob is fully healed if you flee or die (as long as others are not combatting it) within a very short time.
Honestly I never knew why there had to be death penalities. The idea of a game isn't to punish the players. Stopping the current action through character death is sufficient.
Oh, its not for pussies, its for people who are there to enjoy themselves. They don't have anything to prove to you or others.
They can and usually spell the end for start ups and small companies. Large companies can absorb a few bad ideas before they succumb.
//measurable// on the company itself.
That leads to the problem where you have really large companies. Some of their bad ideas, like this one, can have a large impact on many users but not show a direct effect
There is a reason why many large companies have an internal motto along the lines of "We make money in spite of ourselves"
and other areas like it.
,government managed X means...
Why?
Simple, because they are not looking to serve people. They are looking to buy votes and a place to put cronies who need good jobs.
People here seem to think its evil to allow a corporate interest to make a buck. For some stupid reason they blithely believe the government agency will be better.
FACT IS: IT WILL NOT.
They are rarely accountable to the public in any meaningful way. Investigations get stifled, polios turn the other way, and when pressed they scream racism or "its for the children".
Sure Verizon is getting something they want and I am glad. We already have to deal with city managed airports (jobs programs, places to put bad cops, crony ville), rotten public schools, and overstaffed agencies AND YA'LL WANT THEM TO DO WHAT?
Oh great
it starts out being "Y"
it ends up be "Z"
as we get stories that group A needs it free or discounted. We then need to insure "kids" have it, and then, oh yeah, all government employess must have access for nothing. That gets tabled and the weasel in teachers or something they can tug heart strings with. Suddenly it morphs into adminstrators, then police, then fire, then suddenly everyone in government gets it free.
Well it isn't free for you. Your taxes are being wasted to pay for things that are only being used to buy votes. If the service is shitty do you think a government agency is going to care? Obviously if you do you haven't dealt with many of them.
the key is that we are not doing manned exploration. Sending people up in to space isn't exploration.
We have probes to many of the planets, Mars in paticular, we are going to smack a asteroid soon, and there are plans to a new space observatory.
Considering the costs associated with space I think the US is doing just fine. Hell, I like to wonder, where is everyone else?
Besides this is just a mock up, it is no more valuable to space travel than a brochure from marketing... actually that is what it is, an attempt to stir up interest in what they do.
1. Get the girl
and for that they can keep it.
I wrote them a nice long LETTER about their pricing before finally giving up and switching to MS products for PC development.
For around a 100 bucks I get a great editor, debugger, and good libraries to start from with MS products. Why Borland would not provide the entry level product with an install wizard I will never understand, you had to go up to the professional package to get that functionality.
I love Pascal, it was my first hobby language and I moved from the TP3.0 all the way to Delphi 4 before giving up as Borland priced themselves out of the market.
The enthusist (sp) made Borland yet they turned their back on us. They now "bind" together disparate functions to force the user to buy crap they don't need for the stuff they do. I guess the found a surefire way to reduce their market.
Long live Pascal and Delphi, DIE DIE DIE Borland.
Oh, as for compilers, the guy who wrote C# was from Borland's Delphi group and in many ways it shows. C# is highly type restrictive.
One thing to watch out for are claims that it is safer because of X oe Y. It still comes down to that it is a small car.
In Europe it still only got a 3-star rating. Follow the link to the MSNBC artcile from the ZAP link at the top.
Oh, boucning is no good if you bounce into another moving vehicle. I don't thing road way ping pong is a safety feature I want to try out.
Yeah I know I am a little off topic, but SOX has got many auditors running amok in companies. Our IT department got hit by a train. Conflicting requirments and the need to document all work in 15 minute increments, get 5 sign offs on anything over a day, etc,etc...
So can they program 80 hours in a week? Only in they work 100+ as 20 will be SOX compliance.
How in the heck is EA and those slave houses complying? Do their auditors just brush it off?
The problem I have with city, county, or state provided wireless is that not everyone needs the service.
Combine this with the fact that with a government group running it you will run afoul of all sorts of special groups demanding free access let alone those imposing their views on what is and what is not acceptable.
Don't think so, its not hard to shop for courts that favor one view or another.
Think about it, the first whine will be "Its for the children", then comes "they are a disenfranchised group", followed by "well of course group X should get a free ride". Until you finally have yet another government program sucking dollars out of your pocket to buy votes.
Corporations may not have your intrest in mind but at least they are an equal opportunity screw. I don't need another "airport" - as in - lets stick all of our cronies into that service to draw fat checks and provide no work other than being a crony.
Permanent death? Consider the buggy state of most MMORPGs and where some won't even guarantee character inventories you want people to trust these developers to not have bugs, exploits, or whatnot that result in losing their character permanently?
Then you top it off with the age old reply of "PVP will solve everything". Actually most MMORPG problems stem from PVP and the behavior of the players involved.
See one thing I have learned in my nearly 10 years of similar gaming is that PVP people think they are the only ones who really know how to play yet at the same time they are the first to justify every asshat activity they do.
Free for all PVP is just stupid. Why? Simple because players cannot govern their own worlds properly. What you have is anarchy and no one wants to invest time in that type of world. Another way to put it, there are not enough mature players to handle all the immature twits that would ruin any attempts at imposing some type of law. (don't bring of ATITD)
Your terminology also indicates that your blinded by this PVP or anything idea. Dismissing everyone else as "whiny brats" I am surprised you forgot to toss in carebear.
Get this, the majority of North American players do not want PvP. They do not want to waste their investment of time. They do not want their play time which they pay for controlled by the actions of a bunch of immature punks. In other words, they want to enjoy the game with others in a cooperative environment.
Let me save you the trouble. There are many PvP centric games available for you to play. The trouble I am saving you is the standard reply "but game X didn't do it right, but this game Y could be right IF ONLY THEY HAD PVP".
In other words you will whine till the cows come home because many of us refuse to allow you to impose upon us your lack of maturity.
Your comment is ignorant.
You can can toss all the money you want and it will not fix the situation and possibly make it worse. The issue isn't the squalor they live in, for some of those people they don't see it as squalor. Many live as those who lived before them and it is by OUR standards that their living standards are not acceptable. You cannot buy them a new lifestyle. You cannot pay them to think and act differently.
Sure spend some money, but also realize that the national pride will go a lot further for many Indians with a successful space program. It allows them to dismiss people who constantly call India "3rd world". Too many people see that country as "3rd world" while ignoring all they accomplished.
Why do people mostly complain about DEMOCRATIC countries that do this but give a pass to China who not only throws a ton of money into their space race, their military, and such and at the same time likes to whack 5000+ of thier own people?
India is progressing nicely, I don't think they need our Western standards to intefer with a job they are doing.
I am running a SATA/Raptor and I get the stuttering problem. It does seem to occur more if I pause the game often or alt-tab out.
2500Barton/1gb/6800OC... so my system isn't wimping out. Compared to DOOM3 the loading and sound problems are shameful.
Your economy is no where as healthy as you might think. Already there have been articles coming from within Canada about what is going to be needed to pay for the universal health care, which is anything but free. Estimates of it consuming nearly 40% of Quebec's budget by 2010 are not that far off from reality. I suggest you start looking into government and independant studies about the situation up there. Apparently you are either not looking or failing to see it. Don't take it as a slight to Canada, I have friends in BC and they are worried about what is coming in the future. One comment that I found interesting is a push to have nurses replace Doctors for some treatment programs and that isn't a direction that will go over lightly.
Your economy is also heavily dependant on US trade, hence when the US economy picks up as it has been for 2+ years there is a recipricol effect for the region.
Considering that the bulk of China's population has no real income let alone any ability to paticipate in air pollution.
One thing this treaty is not doing is preventing the widespread pollution of the ground and water by other means, of which China and many of the former Soviet states excelled at.
The "50%" item is just an estimate, worst case scenario, in no way is it provable. Hell one of the hurricanes hitting Florida this year was thought to have pushed an endangered species of Turtle to near extinction... Nothing works better to build up excitement than to use extremist examples.
It most likely won't be Creative, at least not this year or next, but the Koreans are coming with a slew of low priced harddrive based music players. Some of the 20gb are going to be less than $200!
I have a 3rd gen iPod and while its nice some of the accessories are just junk or wear badly, like the apple remote control.
People too easily dismiss the competitors to the iPod while ignoring the big picture. There isn't just one iPod killer, there are dozens. One of them may just get the idea right. Look bad to the 80s when Apple was flying high with their PC. Yet there were dozens of "others" coming along using someone elses product.
Also, don't forget there are many people who don't like Apple either and that is something many still like to ignore.
http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/factsheets/doeymp0411.sht ml
Essentially they break it down and then find method to store it in the future. In other words, they don't have a long long term solution yet.
Of course some people have taken to shipping the stuff to Russia and who knows where they are putting it.
Californians screwed themselves by not allowing property taxes to rise with true value of property.
It basically is an example of a democracy run amok. The people vote for every benefit and against every attempt to make them pay for it.
Hence their government is reduced to what some see as hair brained methods of raising taxes, or worse punishing corporations with such high taxes that many just get up an move futher exaggerating the problem.
What California needs to do is revoke the ability of the public to pass initiatives that make it impossible for the government to function while at the same time reigning in all the frivolous governement spending. My favorite, non-essential employees. If they are NE why do we have them anyway?
Other than being pissed away on Public Schools. Of course your statement is that standard inane response of someone who doesn't have a real one.
Sure it would be nice if we spent defense money elsewhere but this world is chock full of crazies who see nothing wrong with killing innocents. Some in fact think targeting innocents is far more viable.
Back to your comment. Spend the money on vouchers and let parents decide which school system or type best teaches their kids. Public Schools exist only to service the Teacher UNION and not the students. The local city here (Atlanta) is a prime example of this problem with far more admins than necessary.
We love to talk that our children our are most valuable investment but we saddle them with people protected by tenure and lawsuits. We are no longer concerned that a teacher cannot even pass the test given to the students.
That 10b will be just going down a know rat hole. Better it possibly lead to something that actually serves people.
for declaring their loss before wasn't true?
(read the whole thing before karma nuking me)
After all they have blamed everyone BUT THEMSELVES.
they blame evangelicals
they blame rednecks
they blame idiots
they blame racists
they blame bigots
they blame homophobes
they blame ballot tampering
they blame initimidation
they blame lack of information
they blame the swift boat veterans
they blame the Clinton team (new one today)
So suddenly if they won how would they explain Bush's loss?
Until you look inward you will never find the problem. This has been the primary problem with the Democrat party these last 4+ years. You cannot win if all you are doing is blaming someone else for your failure.
Asking for a recount is just another way of trying to insinuate something was amiss and caused the loss. Having these third party people demanding a recount is nothing but pure audacity which will cost many communities more money than is justifiable.
What should be done is to identify ways to make the next Presidential election smoother. Instead of wasting taxpayer money on an election that will NOT change I want the money used to prevent this type of BS.
I don't want a recount.
I want a verifiable election system where the voter is photo verified that they are who they are and they have proof that their vote was accounted for properly. That is all we need.