And, obviously by the tone in your post you don't seem to believe in the statement "That government is best which governs least." If you want the Federal Imperal Goverment to rule over everything in your life, fine. Move to a Socialist nation, or a communist one if that suits your fancy. But the government of the US is supposed to be a constitutional republic, not a repbulican ran theocracy nor a liberal democratic socialist regime.
For my "coup d'grace" I was speaking of not the political parties, but rather citizens political view point.
And if you bothered to do a little research, military funding could easly be taken care of with other means of taxation. Aside from interstates the Federal government doesn't fund road projects, except if a state asks for it, which most of the have to because of the weak position the federal government has put them in.
You seem not able to understand our system of government at all. Responsibility IS placed in a body representative of Americans. It's called congress. However, the job of the Federal government is supposed be things which outreach the State governments, i.e. issues that effect the nation as a whole, and issues that involve foreign states. My point, which you seem to have totally missed, is that big government is largely ineffective and problematic.
And just out of curiosity, what is this little box you think I've been placed in? You seem to think things are going hunky-dory here in the ol'US. True, we might be the most rich and powerful nation in the world, but I think the founders of this nation would be pretty appaled to see what the US has degenerated to.
We're caught in a vicous circle, and there is truly no escape. If we neglect to advance our weapons or put contengency plans in place then we have fallen behind and are in a weak position. If we advance our weapons and put contengency plans into place we force other nations to due the same or be in a weak position themselves.
Until there is one world governmnet, or worldwide peace the arms race and cold wars are inevatible and a fact of life.
Yea, I absolutly want the Federal Govt. to have more power than it already does. The Federal Govt. that uses it's police powers to force me to pay for people that refuse to pay for themselves. The same Federal Govt. that has made a fiasco of the social security system.
This is one of the major problems with the US today. People that are uneducated on our form of goverenment. The Federal Goverenment IS NOT supposed to have even the amount of control it currently enjoys. Our forefathers founded this country with the vision of a very minimalistic Federal government. Over the course of history States rights have gradually been eroded to the point that the very concept of States rights is laughable.
More over the current income tax we are forced to pay at gunpoint was rule unconstitutional by the Supream Court in 1895. So the Congress passed the 16th amendment, and income tax was here to stay.
Regardless of political affiliation, I think both Dems and GOPs will both agree that the last thing the Fed needs is more power and influence over us.
So use one of the many dvd copying utilities to strip the dvd of it's region encoding. It might be a hassel and add an expense, but considering you don't ever have to worry about whether or not the DVDs you buy can be played where you choose, I think it's a small price to pay.
While I dislike Windows quite alot, and currently don't use it on a day to day basis (thank god), saying that "This kind of behavior does not happen under Linux, Unix or Mac." is simply untrue. At least for Linux and Unix. I can't speak to whether OS X does this or not because I don't use it. Crashes of an app on Unix or Linux very very rarely cause the OS to crash but it does happen. Applications that come to mind that I personally have personally seen cause an OS crash are VMWare (both on FreeBSD and Fedora Core 1) XFree86 (various and sundry Linux Distros and *BSD) and Oracle on an enterprise level Sun box. Also, I've seen POS terminals crash and need a reboot on quite a regular basis, and these were running SCO.
True, compared to Windows, I've hardly ever experianced an app crash that causes the OS to crash, but it does happen.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Dresden were all tragic events. But it was the fault of the German and Japanese governments. Except for the exception of Nagasaki, since Japan had already surrendered, albeit unbeknownst to the people who ordered the attack.
Erm, I guess I'm not being clear. I don't think any country should use ANY kind of WMDs. Nuke, chemical or biological. However, this isn't going to happen. I'd much rather an ally have them than a nation that is openly hostile to the US.
I don't know what country you live in, maybe it's one that has no enemies and thats why your so hot for everyone to have nukes, but sitting here, with as much hate as a good portion of the world feels against the US, I'm not comfortable with nations like North Korea having nuclear weapons.
Gods yes! Lets appease them so they can bend us over a barrel! What a great idea! While were at it we can apologize to Germany and Japan for WW2. In fact, fuck it, everyone hates the US so lets just disarm and let them kick the shit out of us. God knows we deserve it.
It is simply a matter of scale. A crazy with a gun can only kill as many people as he has ammuntion for (or gets killed himself) and causes no long term enviromental damage. A nuclear weapon on the other hand... I'm completely anti-gun control. However, nuclear weapons are just silly. There's no paradigm to compare them with. No nukes is good nukes, but they exist, and I'm much more comfortable with a "responsible" nation having them than some crackpot.
And BTW there is a third party to take nukes away from crazy nations. It's called NATO and the United Nations. Unfortunatly NATO has no back bone and NATO peace keepers are a big joke. Just ask a Rawandan, oh wait, never mind most of the ones that were alive during the 90s no longer are.
The problem is countries having nukes per say. It's unstable countires having nukes. Take the USSR as the prime example. When it fell who was in charge of the nukes? Much has been made of the availability of low-yeild nukes on the Russian black market. If unstable countries have nuclear arms, their is no telling where they might end up. Especially if the government of that country is ousted by a coup. And it's not just the US that has to worry about non-nation-states getting their hands on nukes, but is in fact a far more serious threat to the Eurasian peoples because it's easier to smuggle weapons through the poorer countries there to a major population center, or to a US friendly country.
I think it's telling that the offical who is quoted in the story said the cloud could be the result of a forest fire. Either this story has been blow waaaaay out of proportion or it's being downplayed until the current administation has a chance to make an offical press release and response.
Thats the stupidest generalization I've ever heard. People die in war, thats a fact. Commanders send troops into battles that they know many will not return from. But I've never known a single military person who had absolutly no regard for human life, even the enimies. The purpose of the American military is to meet their objective with the least number of casualities possible, both of our troops and of the enemies.
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Well, most libertarians support the Fair tax plan: http://fairtax.org/.
And, obviously by the tone in your post you don't seem to believe in the statement "That government is best which governs least." If you want the Federal Imperal Goverment to rule over everything in your life, fine. Move to a Socialist nation, or a communist one if that suits your fancy. But the government of the US is supposed to be a constitutional republic, not a repbulican ran theocracy nor a liberal democratic socialist regime.
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For my "coup d'grace" I was speaking of not the political parties, but rather citizens political view point.
And if you bothered to do a little research, military funding could easly be taken care of with other means of taxation. Aside from interstates the Federal government doesn't fund road projects, except if a state asks for it, which most of the have to because of the weak position the federal government has put them in.
You seem not able to understand our system of government at all. Responsibility IS placed in a body representative of Americans. It's called congress. However, the job of the Federal government is supposed be things which outreach the State governments, i.e. issues that effect the nation as a whole, and issues that involve foreign states. My point, which you seem to have totally missed, is that big government is largely ineffective and problematic.
And just out of curiosity, what is this little box you think I've been placed in? You seem to think things are going hunky-dory here in the ol'US. True, we might be the most rich and powerful nation in the world, but I think the founders of this nation would be pretty appaled to see what the US has degenerated to.
We're caught in a vicous circle, and there is truly no escape. If we neglect to advance our weapons or put contengency plans in place then we have fallen behind and are in a weak position. If we advance our weapons and put contengency plans into place we force other nations to due the same or be in a weak position themselves.
Until there is one world governmnet, or worldwide peace the arms race and cold wars are inevatible and a fact of life.
Yea, I absolutly want the Federal Govt. to have more power than it already does. The Federal Govt. that uses it's police powers to force me to pay for people that refuse to pay for themselves. The same Federal Govt. that has made a fiasco of the social security system.
This is one of the major problems with the US today. People that are uneducated on our form of goverenment. The Federal Goverenment IS NOT supposed to have even the amount of control it currently enjoys. Our forefathers founded this country with the vision of a very minimalistic Federal government. Over the course of history States rights have gradually been eroded to the point that the very concept of States rights is laughable.
More over the current income tax we are forced to pay at gunpoint was rule unconstitutional by the Supream Court in 1895. So the Congress passed the 16th amendment, and income tax was here to stay.
Regardless of political affiliation, I think both Dems and GOPs will both agree that the last thing the Fed needs is more power and influence over us.
So use one of the many dvd copying utilities to strip the dvd of it's region encoding. It might be a hassel and add an expense, but considering you don't ever have to worry about whether or not the DVDs you buy can be played where you choose, I think it's a small price to pay.
Lemme guess, you usually do this after getting high right? ;-)
While I dislike Windows quite alot, and currently don't use it on a day to day basis (thank god), saying that "This kind of behavior does not happen under Linux, Unix or Mac." is simply untrue. At least for Linux and Unix. I can't speak to whether OS X does this or not because I don't use it. Crashes of an app on Unix or Linux very very rarely cause the OS to crash but it does happen. Applications that come to mind that I personally have personally seen cause an OS crash are VMWare (both on FreeBSD and Fedora Core 1) XFree86 (various and sundry Linux Distros and *BSD) and Oracle on an enterprise level Sun box. Also, I've seen POS terminals crash and need a reboot on quite a regular basis, and these were running SCO.
True, compared to Windows, I've hardly ever experianced an app crash that causes the OS to crash, but it does happen.
Man if that wasn't at my expense it would have been incredibly funny ;-) .
Thanks, and to you as well.
not so much flame bait as exteme sarcasm
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Dresden were all tragic events. But it was the fault of the German and Japanese governments. Except for the exception of Nagasaki, since Japan had already surrendered, albeit unbeknownst to the people who ordered the attack.
Erm, I guess I'm not being clear. I don't think any country should use ANY kind of WMDs. Nuke, chemical or biological. However, this isn't going to happen. I'd much rather an ally have them than a nation that is openly hostile to the US.
I don't know what country you live in, maybe it's one that has no enemies and thats why your so hot for everyone to have nukes, but sitting here, with as much hate as a good portion of the world feels against the US, I'm not comfortable with nations like North Korea having nuclear weapons.
Gods yes! Lets appease them so they can bend us over a barrel! What a great idea! While were at it we can apologize to Germany and Japan for WW2. In fact, fuck it, everyone hates the US so lets just disarm and let them kick the shit out of us. God knows we deserve it.
It is simply a matter of scale. A crazy with a gun can only kill as many people as he has ammuntion for (or gets killed himself) and causes no long term enviromental damage. A nuclear weapon on the other hand... I'm completely anti-gun control. However, nuclear weapons are just silly. There's no paradigm to compare them with. No nukes is good nukes, but they exist, and I'm much more comfortable with a "responsible" nation having them than some crackpot.
And BTW there is a third party to take nukes away from crazy nations. It's called NATO and the United Nations. Unfortunatly NATO has no back bone and NATO peace keepers are a big joke. Just ask a Rawandan, oh wait, never mind most of the ones that were alive during the 90s no longer are.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/11/nkorea .blast/index.html
Sorry, f***** up the link
Sorry that first sentance should read "The problem ISN'T ..." guess that'll teach me to preview before I post...
The problem is countries having nukes per say. It's unstable countires having nukes. Take the USSR as the prime example. When it fell who was in charge of the nukes? Much has been made of the availability of low-yeild nukes on the Russian black market. If unstable countries have nuclear arms, their is no telling where they might end up. Especially if the government of that country is ousted by a coup. And it's not just the US that has to worry about non-nation-states getting their hands on nukes, but is in fact a far more serious threat to the Eurasian peoples because it's easier to smuggle weapons through the poorer countries there to a major population center, or to a US friendly country.
Just exactly what do you mean by "play ball"?
Indeed. One has to wonder at that.
hahah sorry, I work in the IT department, so I'm constantly checking the website. I forget that we do TV as well ;-)
try again. unless I'm mistaken that quote is from Starcraft.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/11/nkorea
yes it has.....
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/11/nkorea .blast/index.html
I think it's telling that the offical who is quoted in the story said the cloud could be the result of a forest fire. Either this story has been blow waaaaay out of proportion or it's being downplayed until the current administation has a chance to make an offical press release and response.
Thats the stupidest generalization I've ever heard. People die in war, thats a fact. Commanders send troops into battles that they know many will not return from. But I've never known a single military person who had absolutly no regard for human life, even the enimies. The purpose of the American military is to meet their objective with the least number of casualities possible, both of our troops and of the enemies.