It is not because we have big guns that we are a terrorist target.
The US is a terrorist target because our way of life threatens their way of life. In other words, we seek freedom for ourselves and believe others should have the same choice. Most of these terrorist are from oppresive regimes that require terror and force to remain in power, hence we are a threat to them and they are using the only means they know how to react.
For your information all coutries are terrorist targets. The US just happens to have the highest profile because other that Israel and Russia very few countries are actively trying to combat terrorism.
What will your claim be when Terrorist bomb the summer olympics? You know its a target, I don't think athletes have guns.
Actually recent events in Israel showed that by not listening to the whiny US and Europe that they know how to solve their problems.
Kill the leaders of the terrorist organization.
Separate them from you.
Neither option is politically correct, yet no politically correct acitivity will ever save lives. You cannot protect something if you make exceptions right and left.
The TSA doesn't work simply because it is bound by PC issues. Profiling is what would work, what works in Israel, and what will reduce the burden imposed on the rest of the public. No security system is worth its cost if it does not attempt to select those who can be a threat.
People joke about stopping little old white ladies don't get it, that is a real problem. It occurs EVERY DAY because we are so wrapped up in not offending someone that we are willing to allow someone the opportunity to kill the very same people we claim to protect.
Flat out, any non-US citizen, and specifically those from a threat nation, should not be excepted from extra security precautions just because they may be offended.
If biometrics helps get people on planes faster and safe then more power to it, however it doesn't solve anything unless we are willing to do what is required.
This is a typical trick of the left. when they know they are lieing or twisting facts to an extreme they launch a preemptive "I'm a victim" or "I'm going to sue anyone who claims I am lieing" process.
Sorry, but if anyone believes the tripe that is in this film needs to have their heads examined. Some very well know liberals and Bush haters think very little of this film.
The best article on SLATE
http://politics.slate.msn.com/id/2102723/
His own film contradicts itself many times. He has to go out of his way to make the President look like a bufoon to make it stick. When his story gets really stupid he just goes faster hoping no one pays enough attention.
Sway voters? No, he will put off more voters than he gains. You do not gain voters by spewing ludicrous hate like MM.
MM is a marketing genius, but he never ever let a fact get in his way of making a buck.
At least not in its present form. Too many countries making exceptions to the rules for themselves. Hell their idea of a Constitution is the worst abomination seen yet. They are trying to form a government of unequals which will never work.
China will become less of a threat the freerer its people become. Capitalism will lead them that way. The Chinese government knows this but is smart enough to NOT follow Russia's footsteps.
I was created a few years ago, but it seems to apply more and more. America is leaving the classification of "superpower" behind and moving towards what can be defined as a "hyperpower".
Many new weapon systems currently deployed or being staged for deployment are many years advanced, even decades, compared to other nations that it begs to question.
Will the US be perceived more as a threat to the world or will the world be perceived as less of a threat to the US. There is a distiction there that might escape people.
The NAVY is moving their big obvious targets further out of range of land based weaponary while also developing non-interceptable technologies (as in very fast projectiles ala a RG). The Air Force is set to deploy the F22 which is literally can fight a squadron of previous generation fighters on its own. With GPS guided everything it puts a big stand off range.
The only wrench in the scenarios, is how do you protect your populace versus terrorist who don't play by normal rules? Will it come down to holding "terrorist" countries hostage to the actions of a few of their people or the groups they support?
Sure, specifying legal limits to its use. Perhaps only by order of a judge.
Any non-lethal means given to the police to subdue a dangerous suspect or suspects should be available.
RIOTs are clearly one area where large scale non-lethal intrevention is warranted. It would not be a violation of Freedom of speech or similar non-sense arguments. If a large group is violently breaking the law then give the police a means to control them.
Whats worse, being stunned or gased? Hell I think stunning may be useful compared to water hoses and rubber bullets.
This trend is as old as politics. It is used by both governments and business alike.
Don't like the numbers, then change them.
As for press articles, go read The Economist and leave the liberal Bush-bashing papers in the US out of it. I found that during the Clinton years that the only fair reporting came from OUTSIDE this country. (yeah, some papers were unfairly bashing Clinton too...)
Regardless of the outcome of this trial a lot of businesses are storing this data. Sarbanes & Oxley generated a lot of new rules for us. We now have retention rules for about everything, and restrictions on which IM and related packages we can use. I used to think quite a few are the result of overzealous or just plain fearful executives but then I forget just how much revolves around the legal profession and other people's money.
Same trick as with counterfit dollars. Who says you have to use them in the place where they are produced? Many countries accept US and EU notes, that is an opportunity for the counterfieters.
So why do people only take offense when it is applied to what they can obtain on the net? Would you be so willing to make this cry about your local laws the forbid child pornography?
Your application of censorship is no better than what you decry. It is illegal to have, obtain, or distribute. Why should this be any different on the net? In other words, if you do not want the net censored of this filth then start at home. Protest to your local government and such, or is the anonyminity of the net your escape?
Please don't see this as an attack on you. It merely points out the fallacy many here operate under. They are quick to cry "CENSORSHIP", but only when it comes to the net. Yet almost always what is the subject of that censorship is already illegal to distribute locally or heavily regulated.
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It would be akin to receiving the secret formulae to Coke with a disclaimer/legalese at the bottom and posting it. The results would be interesting.
Do these disclaimers have more weight if the e-mail is resent from another businesses domain?
What NEC did is bad, but don't forget a lot of school boards are just as responsible if not more so. They don't have accountability until after they do something wrong. The problem in Atlanta is really horrid as the per pupil expenditure for education in Atlanta is one of the highest yet produces some of the worst results (we are in the 12k per student range)
A few artists got their big breaks on mega-corp stations. This is mostly because successful shows are given a lot of leeway in what they do and play.
Norah Jones got a lot of airplay here on one of the most popular stations and she catapulted from there.
I think that where the megacorps kill variety are in cities that are not large enough to support their own personalities. That isn't much different from those cities that cannot support major concerts.
Another thing to remember, there is one beneficial side effect of CC. In Atlanta they changed the format of a few of their stations to avoid duplication resulting a stations playing formats rarely served.
At least in the way we are using them. A small diesel, constantly running at a set RPM, generating electricty should be more efficient than these on/off gasoline engines and their batteries.
We don't need better batteries for cars, we just need to move off of the current combustion engine to a cleaner more available fuel.
Finally, there are gas and diesel powered cars that get better mileage than hybrids, and I am talking demonstratable mileage, not what you see on the EPA tag.
That hummer can haul 6 people, maybe more, so it could be very good for commuting compared to a Prius, which by the way rarely if ever gets its advertised mileage.
When you factor in the premium charge most hybrids have they cost you more in the long run than a similarly sized car with a regular engine. Right now they are more marketing gimmic.
As for flying cars / widgets. With the propensity for local politicians to use small planes and airports as sources of fear I doubt these would get very far. You probably could not get permission to go near most metropolitan areas at the altitudes you need.
NASA needs to be shut down and replaced. Since that will never happen as Government Employee Unions have too much control the best we can hope for is a reassignment of all the upper management and outsiders brought in to run the place.
NASA has had no real direction for 20+ years. The space shuttle hobbled it beyond compare. It was a stupid 70s pipe dream that should have died on the drawing board. If they are going to build a spaceplane then build one, don't build a rocket lifted glider.
Hopefully the X-Prize will show people that we are capable of putting stuff into space without a monolithic Government entity.
The goals of a moonbase and Mars landing are laudable. They are true attempts to move forward. The space station was a sick waste of money and worse, we were forced to keep the shuttle around just because of it. A base on the moon would finally move us forward. We aren't going to get there with the old NASA mentality which is still stuck in the 70s.
First I don't agree with Microsoft being a monopoly. PCs are just a small part of the computer world. Microsoft has quite a few competitors on that platform, they just happen to offer what people want and what people think they need. They don't control both the hardware and the software thereby lessing their total dominance. I don't think XP or MS products are addictive, they just simply do what little people need their computers for. There are suitable OSes but face it, there isn't a real reason to run much of anything else other than a Windows derivative if your John Q. Public.
The various government know this, hence they simply come up to the plate and tell Microsoft to pay them fines under the guise of "monopoly behaviour". This works out because the public believes that the fines are for just that, monolpolistic behaviour. Microsoft pays the fines because this is a no win situation for them, they just treat it as the expense of doing business. This turns around and becomes yet another indirect tax.
Whether or not you choose to buy a Microsoft product or not you will pay this "Tax" in one form or another.
Regardless, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO RUN THEIR PRODUCTS ON YOUR PC. No one does. However nothing else is viable as a solution to John Q. Public. Linux + StarOffice - Get real. The configuration woes of setting up Linux are what us geeks when through in our DOS and Win3x days. Do you think anyone wants to do that now? Hell I don't want to set up linux boxes for people I know because they will ask for things I know are a bear to solve. They will have hardware which just doesn't work or there are no drivers for.
I tell them either get a cheap windows machine or if they are anti-MS go get a cheap iMac.
The lesson isn't for Microsoft, its for us. Fines are not the cost of doing business, they are embedded taxes that the consumer gets to pay.
Regardless of your animosity towards Christians I will oblige you with a response.
Exodus provides the story of when Moses was given the Ten Commandments and what they were. In the same book, ch 21+ The Lord sets down other laws of which his people, Israel, are to obey. Many of these laws, while not of the stature of the Ten Commandments, are never the less important. Specifically the kidnap of any being is subject to the punishment of DEATH.
21'16 A kidnaper, whether he sells his victim or still has him when caught, shall be put to death.
About as clear as can be.
The fact is EVERY ABHORRENT ACT did not need to be categorized. That categorization is the defense used by people who cannot put forth a logical argument.
So instead of filling your child with your hatred towards Christians, which can and may manifest itself in ways you never imagined or intended; in otherwords bigotry knows no bounds, perhaps it would be best to allow him to decide for himself.
The belief in God is not separable from the believe that God gave man the choice. He "tests" to see those who have chosen correctly. That is not to say that there are not instances where he has decided someone will do a thing, but it is not correct to compare the two.
It is not a very hard concept to grasp unless you come at it from an anti-religious angle.
If Canada's damn healthcare worked so well then a family friend would not have had to come here TWICE to get operations. The first saved his life, heart surgery, which was "delayed" in BC. The second was for knee surgery, since it wasn't life threatening, was also "delayed"... If he had not had the knee surgery the damage could have been irrepairable.
No person in the US is without availability to healthcare. Emergency rooms treat all who come. The US still has the finest hospitals in world and will remain so until someone manages to foist governmnet health care upon everyone.
Seems to me, based on numerous sites and the Economist, federal health care in major countries isn't all its cracked up to be. In Britian if you pay you get better accomodations.. go figure.
PS: I don't see how Republicans are a problem to your National Health Care's standing... You have a chip on your shoulder and apparently its far better for you to act emotional then provide facts.
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It is not because we have big guns that we are a terrorist target.
The US is a terrorist target because our way of life threatens their way of life. In other words, we seek freedom for ourselves and believe others should have the same choice. Most of these terrorist are from oppresive regimes that require terror and force to remain in power, hence we are a threat to them and they are using the only means they know how to react.
For your information all coutries are terrorist targets. The US just happens to have the highest profile because other that Israel and Russia very few countries are actively trying to combat terrorism.
What will your claim be when Terrorist bomb the summer olympics? You know its a target, I don't think athletes have guns.
Actually recent events in Israel showed that by not listening to the whiny US and Europe that they know how to solve their problems.
Kill the leaders of the terrorist organization.
Separate them from you.
Neither option is politically correct, yet no politically correct acitivity will ever save lives. You cannot protect something if you make exceptions right and left.
The TSA doesn't work simply because it is bound by PC issues. Profiling is what would work, what works in Israel, and what will reduce the burden imposed on the rest of the public. No security system is worth its cost if it does not attempt to select those who can be a threat.
People joke about stopping little old white ladies don't get it, that is a real problem. It occurs EVERY DAY because we are so wrapped up in not offending someone that we are willing to allow someone the opportunity to kill the very same people we claim to protect.
Flat out, any non-US citizen, and specifically those from a threat nation, should not be excepted from extra security precautions just because they may be offended.
If biometrics helps get people on planes faster and safe then more power to it, however it doesn't solve anything unless we are willing to do what is required.
This is a typical trick of the left. when they know they are lieing or twisting facts to an extreme they launch a preemptive "I'm a victim" or "I'm going to sue anyone who claims I am lieing" process.
Sorry, but if anyone believes the tripe that is in this film needs to have their heads examined. Some very well know liberals and Bush haters think very little of this film.
The best article on SLATE
http://politics.slate.msn.com/id/2102723/
His own film contradicts itself many times. He has to go out of his way to make the President look like a bufoon to make it stick. When his story gets really stupid he just goes faster hoping no one pays enough attention.
Sway voters? No, he will put off more voters than he gains. You do not gain voters by spewing ludicrous hate like MM.
MM is a marketing genius, but he never ever let a fact get in his way of making a buck.
At least not in its present form. Too many countries making exceptions to the rules for themselves. Hell their idea of a Constitution is the worst abomination seen yet. They are trying to form a government of unequals which will never work.
China will become less of a threat the freerer its people become. Capitalism will lead them that way. The Chinese government knows this but is smart enough to NOT follow Russia's footsteps.
I was created a few years ago, but it seems to apply more and more. America is leaving the classification of "superpower" behind and moving towards what can be defined as a "hyperpower".
Many new weapon systems currently deployed or being staged for deployment are many years advanced, even decades, compared to other nations that it begs to question.
Will the US be perceived more as a threat to the world or will the world be perceived as less of a threat to the US. There is a distiction there that might escape people.
The NAVY is moving their big obvious targets further out of range of land based weaponary while also developing non-interceptable technologies (as in very fast projectiles ala a RG). The Air Force is set to deploy the F22 which is literally can fight a squadron of previous generation fighters on its own. With GPS guided everything it puts a big stand off range.
The only wrench in the scenarios, is how do you protect your populace versus terrorist who don't play by normal rules? Will it come down to holding "terrorist" countries hostage to the actions of a few of their people or the groups they support?
Scary times.
Sure, specifying legal limits to its use. Perhaps only by order of a judge.
Any non-lethal means given to the police to subdue a dangerous suspect or suspects should be available.
RIOTs are clearly one area where large scale non-lethal intrevention is warranted. It would not be a violation of Freedom of speech or similar non-sense arguments. If a large group is violently breaking the law then give the police a means to control them.
Whats worse, being stunned or gased? Hell I think stunning may be useful compared to water hoses and rubber bullets.
Its all about context.
This trend is as old as politics. It is used by both governments and business alike.
Don't like the numbers, then change them.
As for press articles, go read The Economist and leave the liberal Bush-bashing papers in the US out of it. I found that during the Clinton years that the only fair reporting came from OUTSIDE this country. (yeah, some papers were unfairly bashing Clinton too...)
Regardless of the outcome of this trial a lot of businesses are storing this data. Sarbanes & Oxley generated a lot of new rules for us. We now have retention rules for about everything, and restrictions on which IM and related packages we can use. I used to think quite a few are the result of overzealous or just plain fearful executives but then I forget just how much revolves around the legal profession and other people's money.
Same trick as with counterfit dollars. Who says you have to use them in the place where they are produced? Many countries accept US and EU notes, that is an opportunity for the counterfieters.
So why do people only take offense when it is applied to what they can obtain on the net? Would you be so willing to make this cry about your local laws the forbid child pornography?
Your application of censorship is no better than what you decry. It is illegal to have, obtain, or distribute. Why should this be any different on the net? In other words, if you do not want the net censored of this filth then start at home. Protest to your local government and such, or is the anonyminity of the net your escape?
Please don't see this as an attack on you. It merely points out the fallacy many here operate under. They are quick to cry "CENSORSHIP", but only when it comes to the net. Yet almost always what is the subject of that censorship is already illegal to distribute locally or heavily regulated.
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What NEC did is bad, but don't forget a lot of school boards are just as responsible if not more so. They don't have accountability until after they do something wrong. The problem in Atlanta is really horrid as the per pupil expenditure for education in Atlanta is one of the highest yet produces some of the worst results (we are in the 12k per student range)
It does appear there is a perfectly good valley where you could run a road much cheaper.
My guess, it appears they wanted to keep a central theme all the way along the roadway as this portion connects to a section crossing a river.
A few artists got their big breaks on mega-corp stations. This is mostly because successful shows are given a lot of leeway in what they do and play.
Norah Jones got a lot of airplay here on one of the most popular stations and she catapulted from there.
I think that where the megacorps kill variety are in cities that are not large enough to support their own personalities. That isn't much different from those cities that cannot support major concerts.
Another thing to remember, there is one beneficial side effect of CC. In Atlanta they changed the format of a few of their stations to avoid duplication resulting a stations playing formats rarely served.
http://www.allpar.com/model/intrepid-esx3.html
That is but one story on a car using a design you suggest. A few of us bring up the D-E arrangement at various times.
Unfortunately there are too many people who think trains/ships and get this whole concept out of scale.
At least in the way we are using them. A small diesel, constantly running at a set RPM, generating electricty should be more efficient than these on/off gasoline engines and their batteries.
We don't need better batteries for cars, we just need to move off of the current combustion engine to a cleaner more available fuel.
Finally, there are gas and diesel powered cars that get better mileage than hybrids, and I am talking demonstratable mileage, not what you see on the EPA tag.
I would not even give that to someone I hate.
That hummer can haul 6 people, maybe more, so it could be very good for commuting compared to a Prius, which by the way rarely if ever gets its advertised mileage.
When you factor in the premium charge most hybrids have they cost you more in the long run than a similarly sized car with a regular engine. Right now they are more marketing gimmic.
As for flying cars / widgets. With the propensity for local politicians to use small planes and airports as sources of fear I doubt these would get very far. You probably could not get permission to go near most metropolitan areas at the altitudes you need.
This occured in the late 20s from what I recall. It lead to explosive growth of corporations and turned the US into the powerhouse it is today.
Now, granted, corporations are physcopaths, but they probably get that from the government which is just slightly nuttier
NASA needs to be shut down and replaced. Since that will never happen as Government Employee Unions have too much control the best we can hope for is a reassignment of all the upper management and outsiders brought in to run the place.
NASA has had no real direction for 20+ years. The space shuttle hobbled it beyond compare. It was a stupid 70s pipe dream that should have died on the drawing board. If they are going to build a spaceplane then build one, don't build a rocket lifted glider.
Hopefully the X-Prize will show people that we are capable of putting stuff into space without a monolithic Government entity.
The goals of a moonbase and Mars landing are laudable. They are true attempts to move forward. The space station was a sick waste of money and worse, we were forced to keep the shuttle around just because of it. A base on the moon would finally move us forward. We aren't going to get there with the old NASA mentality which is still stuck in the 70s.
First I don't agree with Microsoft being a monopoly. PCs are just a small part of the computer world. Microsoft has quite a few competitors on that platform, they just happen to offer what people want and what people think they need. They don't control both the hardware and the software thereby lessing their total dominance. I don't think XP or MS products are addictive, they just simply do what little people need their computers for. There are suitable OSes but face it, there isn't a real reason to run much of anything else other than a Windows derivative if your John Q. Public.
The various government know this, hence they simply come up to the plate and tell Microsoft to pay them fines under the guise of "monopoly behaviour". This works out because the public believes that the fines are for just that, monolpolistic behaviour. Microsoft pays the fines because this is a no win situation for them, they just treat it as the expense of doing business. This turns around and becomes yet another indirect tax.
Whether or not you choose to buy a Microsoft product or not you will pay this "Tax" in one form or another.
Regardless, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO RUN THEIR PRODUCTS ON YOUR PC. No one does. However nothing else is viable as a solution to John Q. Public. Linux + StarOffice - Get real. The configuration woes of setting up Linux are what us geeks when through in our DOS and Win3x days. Do you think anyone wants to do that now? Hell I don't want to set up linux boxes for people I know because they will ask for things I know are a bear to solve. They will have hardware which just doesn't work or there are no drivers for.
I tell them either get a cheap windows machine or if they are anti-MS go get a cheap iMac.
The lesson isn't for Microsoft, its for us. Fines are not the cost of doing business, they are embedded taxes that the consumer gets to pay.
Regardless of your animosity towards Christians I will oblige you with a response.
Exodus provides the story of when Moses was given the Ten Commandments and what they were. In the same book, ch 21+ The Lord sets down other laws of which his people, Israel, are to obey. Many of these laws, while not of the stature of the Ten Commandments, are never the less important. Specifically the kidnap of any being is subject to the punishment of DEATH.
21'16 A kidnaper, whether he sells his victim or still has him when caught, shall be put to death.
About as clear as can be.
The fact is EVERY ABHORRENT ACT did not need to be categorized. That categorization is the defense used by people who cannot put forth a logical argument.
So instead of filling your child with your hatred towards Christians, which can and may manifest itself in ways you never imagined or intended; in otherwords bigotry knows no bounds, perhaps it would be best to allow him to decide for himself.
The belief in God is not separable from the believe that God gave man the choice. He "tests" to see those who have chosen correctly. That is not to say that there are not instances where he has decided someone will do a thing, but it is not correct to compare the two.
It is not a very hard concept to grasp unless you come at it from an anti-religious angle.
If Canada's damn healthcare worked so well then a family friend would not have had to come here TWICE to get operations. The first saved his life, heart surgery, which was "delayed" in BC. The second was for knee surgery, since it wasn't life threatening, was also "delayed"... If he had not had the knee surgery the damage could have been irrepairable.
No person in the US is without availability to healthcare. Emergency rooms treat all who come. The US still has the finest hospitals in world and will remain so until someone manages to foist governmnet health care upon everyone.
Seems to me, based on numerous sites and the Economist, federal health care in major countries isn't all its cracked up to be. In Britian if you pay you get better accomodations.. go figure.
PS: I don't see how Republicans are a problem to your National Health Care's standing... You have a chip on your shoulder and apparently its far better for you to act emotional then provide facts.
Sorry, but people DO have the right to take risks with their own personal lives and property. This country //USA// was founded on that principle.
I do not subscribe to the liberal mantra that idividuals are not capable of accomplishing anything.
I also do not see how their risk affects you. You cannot be a victim just because you want to.