"Iraq has been trying to get yellow cake uranium." (Well, okay, that one was solidly debunked, but hundreds of people still got killed.)
"Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11." Well, okay, he never actually came out and said that. But he never actually went out of his way to deny it either until he was forced to.
And didn't he say something about how much he loved our veterans and wanted to help them, while happily slashing their health benefits and their childrens' education benefits? He won't even go to their funerals, for God's sake.
Biggest whopper of all: "I am a uniter, not a divider."
If Bush were so honest and pure, then why is this administration the most secretive since Nixon? Why can't we see the details about Cheney's meetings about the energy bill? Why won't the White House cooperate with the 9/11 investigation? And what's up with those 28 blacked-out pages, anyway? The federal government should be subject to the same transparency on these issues that the USA PATRIOT act makes all of us. And yet, somehow, it is not. If we're gonna go with Bushie logic, this sounds fishy to me.
You live in a little fantasy world where Bush et. al. will take care of all your problems and make the bad people go away and you won't have to do anything about it, except maybe figure out how to spend your tax refund and maybe let the Department of Justice snoop around your records a bit (because you have nothing to hide, right? Nothing that you know of, at least).
The conservatives complain that the media is "too liberal".
The liberals complain that the media is "too conservative".
The media, as a conglomerate entity as a whole, is not driven by liberal values or conservative values. It is drive by money. And whatever viewpoint will sell more papers or more airtime is what gets the press. Right now, lots of radio stations find that mindless conservative ranting is really popular, so that's what gets aired. If mindless liberal ranting were what was popular, THAT would be aired.
Really, it's all a joke. The "leberal media" is a colossal myth, as is the "conservative media".
Actually, what bothers me about this is that Red Hat, for many people transitioning from Windows to Linux, represented the most visible and consumer-friendly version of Linux. Just about everyone I know who has made that switch has chosen Red Hat, just because it had the name recognition and because it was cheap and the installation was amazingly simple.
I like Red Hat, and I'm sorry that I will no longer be able to use their product. I have experimented with Debian, and my try that for my mail/web server. I may also try SuSe or Mandrake.
Nobody is as smart or advanced as they would like to think they are. And no one -- no one at all -- has been presented with a guarantee that they will never end up "on the skids". Not even you.
Besides the "perfectly capable drunks" who are on the streets, there are thousands upon thousands of people who have lost their jobs, who are mentally disabled (and literally have no place to go), who have lost their homes to disaster or plain corruption, or who are just plain down on their luck.
I've met, worked with, and talked to hundreds of welfare recipients in California, and have found that the "perfectly capable drunks" make up a minority of them.
How many of them have you deigned to speak with? How much have you even bothered to learn about your fellow humanity?
Actually, "an eye for an eye" was pretty radical at its time. It implied that once a crime was punished or avenged for, the killing stops.
The problem is that both sides keep plucking out eyes and teeth, long after it's done anyone any good. If people weren't dying because of the situation, it would actually be comical, the stuff of Gilbert & Sullivan. As it is, it's just stupid.
(I'm critical of both the Palestinians and the Israelis here -- I suppose that makes me a Zionist anti-Semite.)
I'm not sure I understand your argument. At what point do people stop being people and start being "them"? Do you designate a radius in miles? "Those people who are within two miles are my neighbors, but people outside of that are fair game"? I honestly think that Jesus meant for us to consider all our relations with everyone as personal relations.
Check out Matthew 5:38-48. It seems pretty clear there that Jesus means for us to include everyone as our "neighbors". That whole "Love your enemies and pray for them" (Mt 5:43) thing, you know?
I do agree with you about Carter, though. He had vision and compassion and courage and honor and integrity... which, of course, made him absolute unqualified for the Presidency. At least he's the best ex-President we've got!
The FCC passed new rules which allow large media corporations to effectively monopolize the media channels in some markets. The Senate passed a bill which would block this insane ruling, but our very own GWB (himself a few ants short of a picnic) announced that he would veto any such bill from the Senate.
In other words, with good ol' Dubya in charge, the only government response we're likely to see is a hearty "Good going, guys!"
How much will these filters cost? Most libraries are on very, very tight budgets (many libraries have suspended book purchases for the fiscal year because their budgets are so tight -- either that or reduce their staff to less-then-skeletal levels); will the purchasing of these filters cause financial hardships on libraries that can't afford them?
I predict that in 200 years, Linus will either be canonized by the Pope as the "Saint of Information Technology", or counted as one of the greatest villains in human history (for those people who will have purchased the rights to read human history, that is).
Yes! View Codes was the best feature throughout all of the iterations of WordPerfect that I used.
When I found a copy of WP9 for Windows, I was excited beyond words and picked up a copy right away. I installed it, and was deeply disappointed in its implementation; it crashed far too often and many features just didn't work. I know that there is a newer version of WINE than I had before, and perhaps that would help; however, I was so disappointed with WP9 for Linux that I haven't bothered trying.
But "View Codes" is a feature that I really miss. I wish the OOo folks would fit it in.
Seems to me that, based on this and other actions, the Bush administration is the most anti-American administration ever to come along (though I guess Nixon did a fair job of disgracing himself and the country).
The airline industry... the telecommunications industry... the energy industry in California...
Can anybody tell me why de-regulation is necessarily a good thing? As far as I can tell, de-regulation means that the richest companies get richer, the smaller companies get crushed, and the consumers get hosed.
My first computer was a TRS-80 Color Computer 2. Error messages on that system were given as question mark followed by a 2-letter code and the word "Error". So, for example, a syntax error in your BASIC program would look like this:
?SN ERROR IN LINE 210
My favorite error of all showed up when you tried to write to or read from a disk file that wasn't open. This is the message I got:
?NO ERROR IN LINE 210...Which always confused the hell out of me until I finally figured out that NO stood for "Not Open"...
An interesting, thought-provoking, original and fan-friendly show on Fox? I give it four episodes, max, before Fox kills it. Remember "Space: Above and Beyond"? Or "Harsh Realm"? Or "VR5"? "Millennium" only lasted two seasons because it had Chris Carter's name on it. And "X-Files" only lasted as long as it did because it started when Fox was just a brand new network that hadn't invented trash TV yet. "The X-Files" wouldn't have lasted long at all if it started this season.
Nothing against "Firefly". Honest. I'm really looking forward to it, because I like the way Joss Whedon thinks. I'm going to a party but we've set the VCR. But Fox as a network sucks. Really. It does.
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Personally, I don't think we're in any more immediate danger of terrorist attacks than we were before 9/11. It's just that now we're finally taking the threat seriously.
I'm an American, and proud (though increasingly less so as "attack Iraq" rhetoric gets stronger) to be one. And two of my fundamental beliefs are:
1. "Freedom" and "Security" are not mutually exclusive; and
2. "Dissent" is the most important component of democracy.
I also believe in duties and responsibilities to your nation, but that among those duties and responsibilities are to change the way things are going if they are going wrong.
Ashcroft and Bush are the two most dangerous men our country has ever had at the helm... at least recently.
True... and we're unlikely to be able to monitor the e-mail communications of senators, representatives, governors, legislators, presidents, vice-presidents, attorneys general, etc., and anyone else who works in the "interest of the people.
When I got engaged, I gave my wife-to-be a silver Hopi story ring that I had picked up in Cody, Wyoming. Later on, my mother mailed to me the enagement ring that my late father had given to her; and that his father had given to his mother; and the diamond in it had been my father's father's father's tie tack.
The best thing, in my opinion, is something of personal value instead of monetary value. My wife now tells me that she feels very connected to my family because of the heirloom diamond I gave her.
Forget Baron Harkonnen and his nasty heart-plugs. Just fit everyone with a pacemaker running Windows LifeSaver 2010, and watch Bill Gates rule the world with his iron fist...
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"I am sure your boy Bush never lied right?"
He hasn't yet.
"Iraq has weapons of mass destruction."
"Iraq has been trying to get yellow cake uranium." (Well, okay, that one was solidly debunked, but hundreds of people still got killed.)
"Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11." Well, okay, he never actually came out and said that. But he never actually went out of his way to deny it either until he was forced to.
And didn't he say something about how much he loved our veterans and wanted to help them, while happily slashing their health benefits and their childrens' education benefits? He won't even go to their funerals, for God's sake.
Biggest whopper of all: "I am a uniter, not a divider."
If Bush were so honest and pure, then why is this administration the most secretive since Nixon? Why can't we see the details about Cheney's meetings about the energy bill? Why won't the White House cooperate with the 9/11 investigation? And what's up with those 28 blacked-out pages, anyway? The federal government should be subject to the same transparency on these issues that the USA PATRIOT act makes all of us. And yet, somehow, it is not. If we're gonna go with Bushie logic, this sounds fishy to me.
You live in a little fantasy world where Bush et. al. will take care of all your problems and make the bad people go away and you won't have to do anything about it, except maybe figure out how to spend your tax refund and maybe let the Department of Justice snoop around your records a bit (because you have nothing to hide, right? Nothing that you know of, at least).
Grow up.
Strange.
The conservatives complain that the media is "too liberal".
The liberals complain that the media is "too conservative".
The media, as a conglomerate entity as a whole, is not driven by liberal values or conservative values. It is drive by money. And whatever viewpoint will sell more papers or more airtime is what gets the press. Right now, lots of radio stations find that mindless conservative ranting is really popular, so that's what gets aired. If mindless liberal ranting were what was popular, THAT would be aired.
Really, it's all a joke. The "leberal media" is a colossal myth, as is the "conservative media".
Actually, what bothers me about this is that Red Hat, for many people transitioning from Windows to Linux, represented the most visible and consumer-friendly version of Linux. Just about everyone I know who has made that switch has chosen Red Hat, just because it had the name recognition and because it was cheap and the installation was amazingly simple.
I like Red Hat, and I'm sorry that I will no longer be able to use their product. I have experimented with Debian, and my try that for my mail/web server. I may also try SuSe or Mandrake.
So long, Red Hat.
Nobody is as smart or advanced as they would like to think they are. And no one -- no one at all -- has been presented with a guarantee that they will never end up "on the skids". Not even you.
Besides the "perfectly capable drunks" who are on the streets, there are thousands upon thousands of people who have lost their jobs, who are mentally disabled (and literally have no place to go), who have lost their homes to disaster or plain corruption, or who are just plain down on their luck.
I've met, worked with, and talked to hundreds of welfare recipients in California, and have found that the "perfectly capable drunks" make up a minority of them.
How many of them have you deigned to speak with? How much have you even bothered to learn about your fellow humanity?
Actually, "an eye for an eye" was pretty radical at its time. It implied that once a crime was punished or avenged for, the killing stops.
The problem is that both sides keep plucking out eyes and teeth, long after it's done anyone any good. If people weren't dying because of the situation, it would actually be comical, the stuff of Gilbert & Sullivan. As it is, it's just stupid.
(I'm critical of both the Palestinians and the Israelis here -- I suppose that makes me a Zionist anti-Semite.)
when Congress used to work on laws that affected the Nation?
Whoa... when was that?
I'm not sure I understand your argument. At what point do people stop being people and start being "them"? Do you designate a radius in miles? "Those people who are within two miles are my neighbors, but people outside of that are fair game"? I honestly think that Jesus meant for us to consider all our relations with everyone as personal relations.
Check out Matthew 5:38-48. It seems pretty clear there that Jesus means for us to include everyone as our "neighbors". That whole "Love your enemies and pray for them" (Mt 5:43) thing, you know?
I do agree with you about Carter, though. He had vision and compassion and courage and honor and integrity... which, of course, made him absolute unqualified for the Presidency. At least he's the best ex-President we've got!
Perhaps this will kick the US space program back into gear?
I doubt it. A space program would require a high degree of vision and high-level leadership which our country is not currently capable of.
In this case, the word should have read, "crackers". Hackers, in this case, was a typo.
Government response?
The FCC passed new rules which allow large media corporations to effectively monopolize the media channels in some markets. The Senate passed a bill which would block this insane ruling, but our very own GWB (himself a few ants short of a picnic) announced that he would veto any such bill from the Senate.
In other words, with good ol' Dubya in charge, the only government response we're likely to see is a hearty "Good going, guys!"
Hardly. It sounds like the good ol' American way of Big Business For Nothin' But the Bucks that the Administration is most fond of.
Energy deregulation. A Republican idea, inflicted on our state by Pete Wilson.
How much will these filters cost? Most libraries are on very, very tight budgets (many libraries have suspended book purchases for the fiscal year because their budgets are so tight -- either that or reduce their staff to less-then-skeletal levels); will the purchasing of these filters cause financial hardships on libraries that can't afford them?
Heck, it's in the New York Times!
I predict that in 200 years, Linus will either be canonized by the Pope as the "Saint of Information Technology", or counted as one of the greatest villains in human history (for those people who will have purchased the rights to read human history, that is).
Yes! View Codes was the best feature throughout all of the iterations of WordPerfect that I used.
When I found a copy of WP9 for Windows, I was excited beyond words and picked up a copy right away. I installed it, and was deeply disappointed in its implementation; it crashed far too often and many features just didn't work. I know that there is a newer version of WINE than I had before, and perhaps that would help; however, I was so disappointed with WP9 for Linux that I haven't bothered trying.
But "View Codes" is a feature that I really miss. I wish the OOo folks would fit it in.
Seems to me that, based on this and other actions, the Bush administration is the most anti-American administration ever to come along (though I guess Nixon did a fair job of disgracing himself and the country).
The airline industry... the telecommunications industry... the energy industry in California...
Can anybody tell me why de-regulation is necessarily a good thing? As far as I can tell, de-regulation means that the richest companies get richer, the smaller companies get crushed, and the consumers get hosed.
...and my wife will probably be grabbing me out of work early on opening day. :)
My first computer was a TRS-80 Color Computer 2. Error messages on that system were given as question mark followed by a 2-letter code and the word "Error". So, for example, a syntax error in your BASIC program would look like this:
...Which always confused the hell out of me until I finally figured out that NO stood for "Not Open"...
?SN ERROR IN LINE 210
My favorite error of all showed up when you tried to write to or read from a disk file that wasn't open. This is the message I got:
?NO ERROR IN LINE 210
An interesting, thought-provoking, original and fan-friendly show on Fox? I give it four episodes, max, before Fox kills it. Remember "Space: Above and Beyond"? Or "Harsh Realm"? Or "VR5"? "Millennium" only lasted two seasons because it had Chris Carter's name on it. And "X-Files" only lasted as long as it did because it started when Fox was just a brand new network that hadn't invented trash TV yet. "The X-Files" wouldn't have lasted long at all if it started this season.
Nothing against "Firefly". Honest. I'm really looking forward to it, because I like the way Joss Whedon thinks. I'm going to a party but we've set the VCR. But Fox as a network sucks. Really. It does.
Personally, I don't think we're in any more immediate danger of terrorist attacks than we were before 9/11. It's just that now we're finally taking the threat seriously.
I'm an American, and proud (though increasingly less so as "attack Iraq" rhetoric gets stronger) to be one. And two of my fundamental beliefs are:
1. "Freedom" and "Security" are not mutually exclusive; and
2. "Dissent" is the most important component of democracy.
I also believe in duties and responsibilities to your nation, but that among those duties and responsibilities are to change the way things are going if they are going wrong.
Ashcroft and Bush are the two most dangerous men our country has ever had at the helm... at least recently.
True... and we're unlikely to be able to monitor the e-mail communications of senators, representatives, governors, legislators, presidents, vice-presidents, attorneys general, etc., and anyone else who works in the "interest of the people.
...Or the color of their shirt!
When I got engaged, I gave my wife-to-be a silver Hopi story ring that I had picked up in Cody, Wyoming. Later on, my mother mailed to me the enagement ring that my late father had given to her; and that his father had given to his mother; and the diamond in it had been my father's father's father's tie tack.
The best thing, in my opinion, is something of personal value instead of monetary value. My wife now tells me that she feels very connected to my family because of the heirloom diamond I gave her.
Forget Baron Harkonnen and his nasty heart-plugs. Just fit everyone with a pacemaker running Windows LifeSaver 2010, and watch Bill Gates rule the world with his iron fist...