"described his transition from being Christian only in name to acquiring a belief system"
Yeah, but WHAT belief system?
Obama is seldom consistent on anything (ex: tax policy, first its 250k, then 200K, then 150K, etc), other than his desire for power. Its the one consistent thread in his political career.
Furthermore, 20 years of sitting in a hate-preaching church without finding it objectionable calls into question Obama fundamental judgement, or else Obama's cynicism (it was politically convenient for him to attend that church for "street cred" after being an Ivy League lawyer and now living in a 1.6 million dollar mansion while his brother lives in abject poverty in Africa and his aunt whoim he mentions in his book is on welfare in Boston).
He has had questionable associations with many questionable people throughout his career, adding up to questionable judgement for somone being elected to the highest executive office int he government. Its worrisome that he may come into office with the shadiest cast of characters since Nixon.
Obama's cynicism is especially evident in the way he treated Rev Wright in the campaign by "throwing him under the bus". This leads one to beleive that either Obama is embarassed by the exposure of his true beleif (bad core beliefs), or more likely, that Obama will do whatever is expedient to get elected (no core beliefs other than his will to power).
Perhaps if you'd quit buying the hype and look at actual words and deeds (Not the promises, and "inspirational delivery" and the grand "idea" that he represents), you'd not excuse the man so much - he is extremely flawed, and will be harmful to the US
McCain is flawed too (those are off topic in this discussion, but are numerous and readily available on the internet), and likewise, McCain if elected will be harmful to the US.
I find it sad that these two are the "best" our political apparatus can come up with.
How exactly are you going to get users to accept an EULA for a virus?
Simple - make it 3 pages of scolldown crap that pops up, looking like a typical EULA, when the user launches a targeted binary. Or make it part of a legit but stupid install, like BonziBuddy.
Plenty of people will just scroll down to the bottom and click yes without reading it.
Write a benign virus (say one that patches other viruses), put an EULA on it requiring the user to NOT alter the actions of the program as intended, specifically forbidding the use of antivirus that interferes with your program.
Sue anyone that runs your program and has an anti-virus stop it, on the basis of making an illegal copy.
After all they broke the EULA by loading your virus when there was Antivirus present, so they are not allowed to "make a copy" in RAM.
FBonus touch...a special handicapped sticker on your GIANT SUV. If you are so damned handicapped that you need close up parking, then why in the hell are you driving a giant vehicle? Maybe because that "GIANT SUV" has the capability to hold a wheelchair, a walker and other devices more easily, and (more likely) it is a hell of a lot easier to get in and out of for someone whose legs and back no longer work so well, than your standard econobox.
Try engaging your brain instead of your pinheaded hatred and bias.
FYI its a REPUBLIC First, per Benjamin Franklin who was instrumental in the founding.
Democracy falls second to being a republic of laws where the Constitution reserves all rights to the people and only grants limited powers to government.
Or at least it did until we got too fat and comfortable to exercise those rights and defend those freedoms against government usurpation in the name of "democracy".
Jindal is a sellout, like most of republicans. Converting to Christianity should warn any sane person how ambitious he is to do such phony act. So you are claiming he cynically (rather than genuinely) converted to Christianity at age 16 in high school while planning his decades later sellout as Republican Gov of the state of Louisiana?
How prescient of him!
Really, you should put down the hate and engage your brain.
The differences between McCain and Obama are so stark that people have very little choice in the matter. 3/4s of this country want the war to end By "end the war" I presume you mean Obama's "immediate withdrawal of all troops".
Latest Quinnipac poll says you are incorrect. Only 33% want to withdraw all our troops (end the war immediately as Obama proposes). Its actually 65% that want to keep some troops over there in one form or another. So its completely the opposite of your statement, unless you meant "End the War by winning it with troops there".
The Poll:
"Which comes closest to your view about what the U.S. should now do about the number of U.S. troops in Iraq? The U.S. should send more troops to Iraq. The U.S. should keep the number of troops as it is now. The U.S. should withdraw some troops from Iraq. OR, The U.S. should withdraw all of its troops from Iraq."
Quinnipac Survey 4/28-30/08
8% Send More 21% Keep Same Number 35% Withdraw Some 33% Withdraw All 3% Unsure
I'll probably get modded down for speaking an inconvenient truth to the uninformed anti-war crowd here at slashdot. But hey, silencing me doesn't change the facts on the ground that the "surge" appears to have achieved its goals at this time.
They're racist. I know it's a shocking claim. Cubans are probably the most racist people I've ever met and that's including my grandmother who was wicked racist. I know a lot of Cubans and they're all racist. They won't vote for Obama because he's black. African-Americans are racist too if you go by your labeling scheme for Cuban-Americans - as a group we do tend to vote mindlessly against our interests with a preference for skin color and treat Democrats like they are all Bobby Kennedy from his civil rights crusading days, and will unthinking pull the lever for D.
Its difficult because the dominant "black" culture derides any person of color that gets "out of line" with the expected obedience to liberal/Democrat politics and gangsta/hood memes - you get called "poindexter" for achieving academically in science and math, and get called "Uncle Tom" if you back individualism and capitalism, get accused of being an "Oreo" if you speak proper English instead of "ebonics". There's a ton of cultural pressure.
For example, try finding an significant number of black libertarians.
So understand that there are likely cultural issues at work, but it may not constitute "racism" as most people understand that term. Or else you have to say that most African Americans are racist by the same standards - you comfortable with that?
By the way, I have known some Cuban-Americans who are most definitely look to be of African descent - they are darker than me. Are they "racists" too? I think your characterization of Cubans as racists fails on that point in and of itself.
Is this really the best the US can come up with for presidential candidates? Its a symptom of a broken system. 2 party politics are what delivers such mediocre candidates. If you look back at US history, a dynamic effective leader is seldom the result of our system in the US.
On the bright side, as long as "we the people" continue to push back against bad government and work to retain basic personal and economic freedoms, mediocrity from a President is usually good enough.
In World of Warcraft, here is his head I got as a trophy.
Maybe I can sell it on the AH to McCainiacs and disappointed Hillary backers. Bwah!
(serious note: If he gets elected, I wonder if WoW will change that NPC name? It is rather bizarre to be told to go kill Barak then go around with his head as a trophy to be turned in for a bounty).
Its not about terrorism you short sighted fool. If you think that it is, then you've bought the Bush BS, hook line and sinker.
Its well beyond that now. Bush shoudl have not stirred this up, but now that it is the way it is, its up to us to do the right things and go long term.
"Guess what? I don't give a shit."
Then you are an idiot.
Allowing Iraq to collapse into anarchy, becoming a "failed state" would destabilize the entire region. Look at the geopolitical connections that meet in Iraq - various tribes, Sunnis, Shias, Arabs, Kurds, Persians. And look at Syria, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon that all border Iraq. Its a keystone to the region socially and geographically.
Abandoning it to anarchy will cause the US and the entire west to spend MORE time money and blood over there to re-stabilize it. Why? Because of the importance of the petroleum supply there to the global economy. It is that important. Don't be naive about how the world economy could collapse if the oil regions were turned upside down with an anarchy at their center.
Bush was stupid to stir this place up - but thats the past, and one must deal with the here and now. What are we going to do to fix it? Your infantile "screw them" abandonment is the worst possible thing you can do.
Also, there is the humanitarian angle: are you sure you really don't "give a shit" about the oppression we would leave in our wake when the representative government there collapses under the weight of tribalism and terror - the radicals take over, the mass deaths of anyone suspected in allying with Alliance forces, repression of women, the refugee crises in the surrounding countries (that is already bad), and other human disasters?
As for being in the mid west protecting you, are you really THAT ignorant? The Mexican border is porous, and if anything the middle part of the US is much more open to terrorist infiltration, since the major efforts for controlling possible terrorism are in the big coastal cities. The terrorist are smart when it comes to strikes - lok at their rather ingenuous way of hitting us with those hijacked aircraft. They will strike where it is less expected and less defended: the midwest, via cargo brought over the souther border, and up to Chicago, St Louis, Minneapolis, etc. Even Denver. Think about how much damage to the economy woudl be done by destroying a major transportation nexus like the railyards and port facilities in Chcago along with its mercantile exchanges and food centers.
You really have not thought this through, have you?
We broke Iraq. It will have to be fixed sooner or later.
And fixing such things after the fact has a high cost in blood and time and money; We can reduce that by following through as we are now doing - deaths are down (civilain and military), violence is down, and the government is asserting itself in all the major population centers of Iraq, much of the time without Alliance assistance other than airlift and logistics.
Abandon this now and you throw away all of that.
We should fix it to where it can at least stand on its own and protect its citizens, before we leave. Its the right thing to do for the peopel there - and also the best course of action in the long term.
And before you ask, yes I was at Balad AB, and I have friends deployed over there now. so I did walk the walk.
Insha'Allah, things will work out. But running away is not the right thing, nor is it even a good thing, not if you think it through instead of throwing a tantrum based on ignorance.
"Pull out of Iraq, allow citizens to opt out of social security, and eliminate the federal income tax."
Collapse Iraq right when their government is finally getting some traction and cohesiveness? You'll throw anarchy stright into the middle of the middle east, creating refugee crises, and breeding terrorists, as well as completely discrediting the US as an ally for anyone - completely untrustworthy.
pull out of social security - how do you fund the obligation to those on it? Its a ponzi scheme and will collapse unless you shut to down "gracefully", leaving millions in poverty with little to no income. People who will become an immediate burden on overwhelmed state and local agencies.
Eliminate the Fed Income Tax? OK. And replace it with? Consumption taxes? Good luck with the 20% or more added cost of retail goods.
You might want to think all that sudden change through.
Try coming up with a way of gradually accomplishing it.
Like training and handing over responsibility to the Iraqis in increasing amounts as they become more capable. Oops already doing that, per Congress and their endorsement of Petreaus and his strategy.
Allowing people to talk their social security and put it into private investment accounts. Oops already tried to get that passed and got it shot down by Congress.
Fed Income tax? "Fair Tax" has yet to get any traction in Congress despite efforts form some people on both sides of the aisle in Congress.
So nice ideas, shame none of them will ever be implemented.
Unemployment below 5%, inflation below 4%, and up until the past 2 months, 3-5 percent annual economic expansion (down to something about 0.8% the past 2 months, but still expanding and unemployment still very low by historical standards).
And this has been sustained in spite of a partial war-footing draining the economy of productive workers and money, and trillions of losses fromt he WTC and subsequent economic shutdown.
So Economy in a gutter? Idiot. Did you eject your mind when you signed up for your political beliefs?
I dont like Bush all that much, but to say the economy is "in the gutter" is an out and out lie.
Its every bit as good as Clinton's good years in the mid 90's.
Seems it doesn't really matter who the president is in terms of economic growth - just keep the government out of the way of the economy as Clinton and Bush II have done, on purpose or by accident.
White people also like Eddie Murphy, but that doesn't mean they want him as our next president.
Is that Eddie Murphy from Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cops, and Dreamgirls? Or Eddie Murphy from The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Beverly Hills Cop II, and Norbit?
"I'll leave it up to you to decide which "wing" has more idiots. (Disclaimer: I consider myself a progressive turning increasingly cynical about the entire political system.)"
FYI: Cynical is where I am already.
And you state the problem well: both sides "wings" have lost their fricken minds and are running the show, and both sides have discarded civil discourse and reason, substituting brawling and emotion.
Don't think so? Try showing up at a McCain rally with a "Support the Troops Retreat from Iraq Now" t-shirt, or a "Support the Troops Win the Iraq War" placard at an Obama rally. (Figure to be equally offensive to both sides).
You'll be getting the full Two Minutes Hate, visceral and raw, as you are hustled out the door from BOTH sets of people in turn.
One wonders how long a representational democratic republic of laws such as the US can continue to exist when emotion trumps reason so consistently on both ends of the false 2-pole system, and the system ceases to be representational, democratic, and a republic of laws.
Does it actually get more fun when you get to the really high levels? It's very slow walking around, and there isn't much of interest to look at. There are a couple of small villages, some dirt tracks, and not much else. Are all MMOs like this? If so I really don't see why they carry so much interest. Its like sex.
Yeah, you can do it by yourself like you did. But its repetitive and boring, as you found out.
Its a lot more fun with someone else. Especially if they really know how to play well.
And you saw only the beginner area. You missed all the exciting advanced content, plus as you get better at it, its a lot more enjoyable.;-)
Put your nearly insane conspiracy theories to rest on this one, thats one of the reasons we have open source: to keep things like Microsoft's backdoors from being slipped in.
And aside from that, lets see, they have arguably several hundred to thousands of the best crypto and security people working for them so yeah lets completely ignore what they have to say in favor of some nebulous conspiracy.
Think about this: could such a conspiracy exist with that many people being informed of it? All it takes is one person to anonymusly leak stuff to the papers or internet. I mean really, the secret money tracing stuff they were doing got splashed on the front pages of the NYTimes, and the previous administration couldn't even keep a presidential blowjob a secret.
But the bottom line is: It is OPEN SOURCE (and even GPL'd!). Read the code. They cannot hide a backdoor from the kernel group when those programmers and all the patchers, testers, and users have all the source.
Actually the rootkits mentioned did not "get int". They were preloaded along with tons of other security messes and misconfigurations on machines that the cadets were then challenged to secure on their network.
The point of that part of the exercise being how good you are at detecting threats from the inside (far more common due to users introducing viruses and trojans from web sites they stupidly vision, hijacked browsers, programs loaded from thumb drives, CDs burned at home, etc.
If someone reading this thread simply wants a high quality card for playback and gaming, look at the ASUS D2X (PCIe). Digit-life has a fairly detailed audiophile review of the D2, complete with sampling shots, etc. It looks like a good replacement for Creative, and it cost about 2/3 of the equivalent. I do not know about Linux compatibility - I only have it installed on my windows overclocked SLI gaming rig.
Great attitude there. Real fan of free speech are you? Nice little totalitarian moron that you are, you should first Read What I Wrote. I am criticizing people cheering the bill, because, as I note, it APPROVES THE SURVEILLANCE. You ignornat asshole, I did not "talk shit about how awesome everything its". And there is no place in that post that I said so.
The net effect is that the surveillance is put in place just as it was before. The only contention was on telecom immunity. Not on the basics of the wiretap program. They gave Bush what he wanted except for immunity.
Are you too stupid to comprehend that?
Then you truly are one of the useful idiots to your masters on the left and right../ is rapidly filling up with angry fucktards like you, and you will be the cannon fodder for the politicians that readily supply you with things to rage against, real or imagined.
Wake UP dipshit. Those who claim to be your friends are not.
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"described his transition from being Christian only in name to acquiring a belief system"
Yeah, but WHAT belief system?
Obama is seldom consistent on anything (ex: tax policy, first its 250k, then 200K, then 150K, etc), other than his desire for power. Its the one consistent thread in his political career.
Furthermore, 20 years of sitting in a hate-preaching church without finding it objectionable calls into question Obama fundamental judgement, or else Obama's cynicism (it was politically convenient for him to attend that church for "street cred" after being an Ivy League lawyer and now living in a 1.6 million dollar mansion while his brother lives in abject poverty in Africa and his aunt whoim he mentions in his book is on welfare in Boston).
He has had questionable associations with many questionable people throughout his career, adding up to questionable judgement for somone being elected to the highest executive office int he government. Its worrisome that he may come into office with the shadiest cast of characters since Nixon.
Obama's cynicism is especially evident in the way he treated Rev Wright in the campaign by "throwing him under the bus". This leads one to beleive that either Obama is embarassed by the exposure of his true beleif (bad core beliefs), or more likely, that Obama will do whatever is expedient to get elected (no core beliefs other than his will to power).
Perhaps if you'd quit buying the hype and look at actual words and deeds (Not the promises, and "inspirational delivery" and the grand "idea" that he represents), you'd not excuse the man so much - he is extremely flawed, and will be harmful to the US
McCain is flawed too (those are off topic in this discussion, but are numerous and readily available on the internet), and likewise, McCain if elected will be harmful to the US.
I find it sad that these two are the "best" our political apparatus can come up with.
How exactly are you going to get users to accept an EULA for a virus?
Simple - make it 3 pages of scolldown crap that pops up, looking like a typical EULA, when the user launches a targeted binary. Or make it part of a legit but stupid install, like BonziBuddy.
Plenty of people will just scroll down to the bottom and click yes without reading it.
How about this:
Write a benign virus (say one that patches other viruses), put an EULA on it requiring the user to NOT alter the actions of the program as intended, specifically forbidding the use of antivirus that interferes with your program.
Sue anyone that runs your program and has an anti-virus stop it, on the basis of making an illegal copy.
After all they broke the EULA by loading your virus when there was Antivirus present, so they are not allowed to "make a copy" in RAM.
Its valid under this decision.
That's the farcical aspect of this decision.
Try engaging your brain instead of your pinheaded hatred and bias.
FYI its a REPUBLIC First, per Benjamin Franklin who was instrumental in the founding.
Democracy falls second to being a republic of laws where the Constitution reserves all rights to the people and only grants limited powers to government.
Or at least it did until we got too fat and comfortable to exercise those rights and defend those freedoms against government usurpation in the name of "democracy".
How prescient of him!
Really, you should put down the hate and engage your brain.
Latest Quinnipac poll says you are incorrect. Only 33% want to withdraw all our troops (end the war immediately as Obama proposes). Its actually 65% that want to keep some troops over there in one form or another. So its completely the opposite of your statement, unless you meant "End the War by winning it with troops there".
The Poll:
"Which comes closest to your view about what the U.S. should now do about the number of U.S. troops in Iraq? The U.S. should send more troops to Iraq. The U.S. should keep the number of troops as it is now. The U.S. should withdraw some troops from Iraq. OR, The U.S. should withdraw all of its troops from Iraq."
Quinnipac Survey 4/28-30/08
8% Send More
21% Keep Same Number
35% Withdraw Some
33% Withdraw All
3% Unsure
I'll probably get modded down for speaking an inconvenient truth to the uninformed anti-war crowd here at slashdot. But hey, silencing me doesn't change the facts on the ground that the "surge" appears to have achieved its goals at this time.
Its difficult because the dominant "black" culture derides any person of color that gets "out of line" with the expected obedience to liberal/Democrat politics and gangsta/hood memes - you get called "poindexter" for achieving academically in science and math, and get called "Uncle Tom" if you back individualism and capitalism, get accused of being an "Oreo" if you speak proper English instead of "ebonics". There's a ton of cultural pressure.
For example, try finding an significant number of black libertarians.
So understand that there are likely cultural issues at work, but it may not constitute "racism" as most people understand that term. Or else you have to say that most African Americans are racist by the same standards - you comfortable with that?
By the way, I have known some Cuban-Americans who are most definitely look to be of African descent - they are darker than me. Are they "racists" too? I think your characterization of Cubans as racists fails on that point in and of itself.
On the bright side, as long as "we the people" continue to push back against bad government and work to retain basic personal and economic freedoms, mediocrity from a President is usually good enough.
In World of Warcraft, here is his head I got as a trophy.
Maybe I can sell it on the AH to McCainiacs and disappointed Hillary backers. Bwah!
(serious note: If he gets elected, I wonder if WoW will change that NPC name? It is rather bizarre to be told to go kill Barak then go around with his head as a trophy to be turned in for a bounty).
Purists are aping RMS.
Basically he's the Soup Nazi of Free software. Cross him and his hyper-pure hyper-strict rules, even "suggest" a non-free piece of software and BAM!
No Program For You!
Its not about terrorism you short sighted fool. If you think that it is, then you've bought the Bush BS, hook line and sinker.
Its well beyond that now. Bush shoudl have not stirred this up, but now that it is the way it is, its up to us to do the right things and go long term.
"Guess what? I don't give a shit."
Then you are an idiot.
Allowing Iraq to collapse into anarchy, becoming a "failed state" would destabilize the entire region. Look at the geopolitical connections that meet in Iraq - various tribes, Sunnis, Shias, Arabs, Kurds, Persians. And look at Syria, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon that all border Iraq. Its a keystone to the region socially and geographically.
Abandoning it to anarchy will cause the US and the entire west to spend MORE time money and blood over there to re-stabilize it. Why? Because of the importance of the petroleum supply there to the global economy. It is that important. Don't be naive about how the world economy could collapse if the oil regions were turned upside down with an anarchy at their center.
Bush was stupid to stir this place up - but thats the past, and one must deal with the here and now. What are we going to do to fix it? Your infantile "screw them" abandonment is the worst possible thing you can do.
Also, there is the humanitarian angle: are you sure you really don't "give a shit" about the oppression we would leave in our wake when the representative government there collapses under the weight of tribalism and terror - the radicals take over, the mass deaths of anyone suspected in allying with Alliance forces, repression of women, the refugee crises in the surrounding countries (that is already bad), and other human disasters?
As for being in the mid west protecting you, are you really THAT ignorant? The Mexican border is porous, and if anything the middle part of the US is much more open to terrorist infiltration, since the major efforts for controlling possible terrorism are in the big coastal cities. The terrorist are smart when it comes to strikes - lok at their rather ingenuous way of hitting us with those hijacked aircraft. They will strike where it is less expected and less defended: the midwest, via cargo brought over the souther border, and up to Chicago, St Louis, Minneapolis, etc. Even Denver. Think about how much damage to the economy woudl be done by destroying a major transportation nexus like the railyards and port facilities in Chcago along with its mercantile exchanges and food centers.
You really have not thought this through, have you?
We broke Iraq. It will have to be fixed sooner or later.
And fixing such things after the fact has a high cost in blood and time and money; We can reduce that by following through as we are now doing - deaths are down (civilain and military), violence is down, and the government is asserting itself in all the major population centers of Iraq, much of the time without Alliance assistance other than airlift and logistics.
Abandon this now and you throw away all of that.
We should fix it to where it can at least stand on its own and protect its citizens, before we leave. Its the right thing to do for the peopel there - and also the best course of action in the long term.
And before you ask, yes I was at Balad AB, and I have friends deployed over there now. so I did walk the walk.
Insha'Allah, things will work out. But running away is not the right thing, nor is it even a good thing, not if you think it through instead of throwing a tantrum based on ignorance.
"Pull out of Iraq, allow citizens to opt out of social security, and eliminate the federal income tax."
Collapse Iraq right when their government is finally getting some traction and cohesiveness? You'll throw anarchy stright into the middle of the middle east, creating refugee crises, and breeding terrorists, as well as completely discrediting the US as an ally for anyone - completely untrustworthy.
pull out of social security - how do you fund the obligation to those on it? Its a ponzi scheme and will collapse unless you shut to down "gracefully", leaving millions in poverty with little to no income. People who will become an immediate burden on overwhelmed state and local agencies.
Eliminate the Fed Income Tax? OK. And replace it with? Consumption taxes? Good luck with the 20% or more added cost of retail goods.
You might want to think all that sudden change through.
Try coming up with a way of gradually accomplishing it.
Like training and handing over responsibility to the Iraqis in increasing amounts as they become more capable. Oops already doing that, per Congress and their endorsement of Petreaus and his strategy.
Allowing people to talk their social security and put it into private investment accounts. Oops already tried to get that passed and got it shot down by Congress.
Fed Income tax? "Fair Tax" has yet to get any traction in Congress despite efforts form some people on both sides of the aisle in Congress.
So nice ideas, shame none of them will ever be implemented.
"Bush #2, economy in the gutter".
Umm Bullshit.
Unemployment below 5%, inflation below 4%, and up until the past 2 months, 3-5 percent annual economic expansion (down to something about 0.8% the past 2 months, but still expanding and unemployment still very low by historical standards).
And this has been sustained in spite of a partial war-footing draining the economy of productive workers and money, and trillions of losses fromt he WTC and subsequent economic shutdown.
So Economy in a gutter? Idiot. Did you eject your mind when you signed up for your political beliefs?
I dont like Bush all that much, but to say the economy is "in the gutter" is an out and out lie.
Its every bit as good as Clinton's good years in the mid 90's.
Seems it doesn't really matter who the president is in terms of economic growth - just keep the government out of the way of the economy as Clinton and Bush II have done, on purpose or by accident.
White people also like Eddie Murphy, but that doesn't mean they want him as our next president.
Is that Eddie Murphy from Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cops, and Dreamgirls? Or Eddie Murphy from The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Beverly Hills Cop II, and Norbit?
Nah, the old-school 1980's Eddie from Eddie Murphy RAW.
"I'll leave it up to you to decide which "wing" has more idiots. (Disclaimer: I consider myself a progressive turning increasingly cynical about the entire political system.)"
FYI: Cynical is where I am already.
And you state the problem well: both sides "wings" have lost their fricken minds and are running the show, and both sides have discarded civil discourse and reason, substituting brawling and emotion.
Don't think so? Try showing up at a McCain rally with a "Support the Troops Retreat from Iraq Now" t-shirt, or a "Support the Troops Win the Iraq War" placard at an Obama rally. (Figure to be equally offensive to both sides).
You'll be getting the full Two Minutes Hate, visceral and raw, as you are hustled out the door from BOTH sets of people in turn.
One wonders how long a representational democratic republic of laws such as the US can continue to exist when emotion trumps reason so consistently on both ends of the false 2-pole system, and the system ceases to be representational, democratic, and a republic of laws.
The problem is neither one of these idiots is one that will "follow the constitution and do little to hamper our freedoms".
But Ii will say that the cult of personality being built around Obama scares me more than McCain's bluster.
At least with McCain you know what you are fighting against.
How about going to the UK system of torts: Loser pays.
Yeah, you can do it by yourself like you did. But its repetitive and boring, as you found out.
Its a lot more fun with someone else. Especially if they really know how to play well.
And you saw only the beginner area. You missed all the exciting advanced content, plus as you get better at it, its a lot more enjoyable.
Put your nearly insane conspiracy theories to rest on this one, thats one of the reasons we have open source: to keep things like Microsoft's backdoors from being slipped in.
And aside from that, lets see, they have arguably several hundred to thousands of the best crypto and security people working for them so yeah lets completely ignore what they have to say in favor of some nebulous conspiracy.
Think about this: could such a conspiracy exist with that many people being informed of it? All it takes is one person to anonymusly leak stuff to the papers or internet. I mean really, the secret money tracing stuff they were doing got splashed on the front pages of the NYTimes, and the previous administration couldn't even keep a presidential blowjob a secret.
But the bottom line is: It is OPEN SOURCE (and even GPL'd!). Read the code. They cannot hide a backdoor from the kernel group when those programmers and all the patchers, testers, and users have all the source.
Actually the rootkits mentioned did not "get int". They were preloaded along with tons of other security messes and misconfigurations on machines that the cadets were then challenged to secure on their network.
The point of that part of the exercise being how good you are at detecting threats from the inside (far more common due to users introducing viruses and trojans from web sites they stupidly vision, hijacked browsers, programs loaded from thumb drives, CDs burned at home, etc.
And using FreeBSD, you get FAPP.We even still get a pronounceable acronym LAPP. It looks like the future is still rosy for the rest of us.
If someone reading this thread simply wants a high quality card for playback and gaming, look at the ASUS D2X (PCIe). Digit-life has a fairly detailed audiophile review of the D2, complete with sampling shots, etc. It looks like a good replacement for Creative, and it cost about 2/3 of the equivalent. I do not know about Linux compatibility - I only have it installed on my windows overclocked SLI gaming rig.
I'd say ask the inventors about how much Smithore it can get carry, or if it will mine Crystite...
That'll get you the answer you want. Heh.
"just shut up" ?
./ is rapidly filling up with angry fucktards like you, and you will be the cannon fodder for the politicians that readily supply you with things to rage against, real or imagined.
Great attitude there. Real fan of free speech are you? Nice little totalitarian moron that you are, you should first Read What I Wrote. I am criticizing people cheering the bill, because, as I note, it APPROVES THE SURVEILLANCE. You ignornat asshole, I did not "talk shit about how awesome everything its". And there is no place in that post that I said so.
The net effect is that the surveillance is put in place just as it was before. The only contention was on telecom immunity. Not on the basics of the wiretap program. They gave Bush what he wanted except for immunity.
Are you too stupid to comprehend that?
Then you truly are one of the useful idiots to your masters on the left and right.
Wake UP dipshit. Those who claim to be your friends are not.