Britain's version of democracy is not modern democracy, which is not to say that britain is not a modern democracy now.
Allow me to explain: the british model comes as a series of reforms on thee monarchic model that you can even see today in britain. I mean, your "senate" is called the House of the Lords (AND TO THIS VERY DAY IT STILL IS A HOUSE OF LORDS) while your "congress" is called the House of the "Commons": how very democratic, yes?.
American democracy is much more populist, is not a parliamentary regime, but a true liberal democracy. And thats what i mean by "modern" democracy.
This is true. The republican party even has a Gay Republican group but I think I would rename it Masochists Of America. Reggan threw their money back at them, the republicans keep em tight in the closet and they still go, stupidly drooling, and vote republican.
And I didnt get you either when you elected GWB fucking TWICE.
And I dont get how can you guys pass the check on the economy to Obama when he received a wreck of a country that was made first and foremost by the republicans and GWB.
I really don't understand Americans. You guys are the craddle of modern democracy, you invented the damned thing, fucked it over, killed each other, and then emerged with something a big country could be governed by.... for a while. Yes, you guys are right in that perhaps the model doesnt fit in into todays balance of power: money is power today, not votes. And there is no turning back that particular clock (BTW, you guys also invented that one).
However, you still need to choose between people that will have "some" (even if not much) say over what Gov. does with your taxes and what Gov. does to attempt to regulate social activity. And you yourself brings me the following options:
"Dems - taken over by statists and leftists.
Reps - taken over by the lunatic Evangelical Christian nuts and the folks who can be easily bought with low taxes - balanced budgets be damned!"
I mean, come on, to me, thats a FUCKING NO BRAINER. American leftists, even the extreme (like say, Michael Moore), are dinky dickless dipshits compared to true communists with a government financed party like they have in spain or france. Those guys over there really get out and burn shit, they dont go crying to mama in a two hour long documentary and get filthy rich at it: they believe in communism like your teabaggers believe in 'mericuh.
No matter how bad you perceive the american left to be, when compared with a republican party perfectly portrayable as a fucking bag of nutjobs that will govern with faith and faith alone (Sarah Palin and her newer teabag-clone), its OBVIOUS your country is in DEEP peril.
The sad reality is that IT departments have turned themselves actually in a specialized branch of the Purchases department, without any training in actually being good purchasers that look after the interests of the company that they work for.
NO, all of them have bought into the very strange idea that what vendors sell, is what they buy.
Hopefully, this will change with this kind of shenanigans exposed: companies got PLAYED by "startegists" that weree nothing short of microsoft SHILLS.
Okay, you and your IT dept. are not stupid. You just got played by Microsoft shills that talked about "corporate strategy" as if it was in your best interest to lock yourselves into what was actually MICROSOFT'S corporate startegy.
They very much made you loose a wad of cash because you trusted a company without paying any regards to the fact they do EXACTLY what your company does: maximize profits and secure their position.
This is exactly the problem they are in. I have talked to HUGE microsoft customers with hundreds of web apps that can ONLY run in IE6 thanks to their IT department buying into the Microsoft "superior" practices that includes some activex and obscure tags that wont work in newer windows nor in any modern browser (including ie 7 or 8).
If Microsoft wont support them, they get really, really angry and they have an IT budget in the many millions of dollars for their desktop. Microsoft however DOES support them: on IE6 for new operating systems. But that gives a message, you know? It is a big WE FUCKED UP sign and this customers are now weary of stuff microsoft tells them to do.
It is not the begining of the end of anything. Its just a big mistake on Microsoft part that will cost them even in the long term, but will not by any means whatsoever, kill them.
I didnt know.ly was lybia.... you have to be an IDIOT to use that one, DUH.
DO NOT make your service depend on crazy ass muslim police states! REALLY. There is NO SUCH THING as free speech in those contries and they are well within their rights to do whatever they want with their own country's name.
Damn, next thing you know the se.cu domain will be used for all nyse operations.... sheesh.
Kay you say: why would One buy IT etc etc..... just to be able to be used in the way they want to use it?
Im going to taje the wild shot here that people like the hardware, knows IT can do more, and find IT worthwhile to tinker with IT.
For fucking example, i fucking hate the new iPad keyboard setting because there IS no easy way to change from spanish to english, as there uses to be in the iPhone 3. This IS why i cant type IT like i want because IT fucking turns IT into bigcaps foro some fucking resano i cannot fathom. Aditionally, im writing english and continuously this shit chantes words to spanish. To change IT, i wouldhave to go to settings, touch my nose three times and take a purple dump every time i switch from commmenting on slashdot (english) or on my Facebook (spanish)...
Argh. I fucking hate you jobs. Not everyone IS a fucktard that can only speak or grite in their own lenguaje (aaaaaaarghhhhh).
I wat a fucking gun (for fuck sake, this thing changes gun to gnu, what to wat, reason to resano, write to grite, take to taje, changes to chantes and purple dump to purple dump).
You know what? If you are an IT pro that needs to speak moré than One tongue, never the fuck ever even look at an iPad. Fuck you apple.
The thing is that in a good QCS, you should be able to tell if Eve is arround. This guys did this without anyone noticing. Yes, its an ugly hack, it does not change the beautiful math behind QC. But hell, last I checked, this is how cracking works.
Look, its not like that. I think any judge or any persona actually, would like people to not only cite ONE source for anything at all. In order to build a credible case against an expert's witness account, I would say its good to expect the plaintiff to actually research, as opossed to just cut and paste from whatever single source he could find, even a reputable "elitist" one.
There are slashdot readers in most of the world. And yes, the world IS not the usa. And by the way, just so you know, telefónica IS part of the third largest financial group in the world. Welcome to earth, usaian
This is absolutely true. Thing is the mexican president is being pressured into a legalization debate. Now him, being the conservative asshole he is, prefers to pressure the U.S. by saying the problem is the guns, when most of the guns the narcs use, are ak47s which I dont think are that popular in the US. They are popular in all of central america though, and Chavez in Venezuela, and the FARC in colombia probably buy them and/or build them by the hundreds of thousends each year.
Mexico does not produce any kind of assault rifle at all. The sheer number of guns (plus 60k rifles, grannades, 50mm barrett ), makes it hard for me to buy what you say about them coming from the mexican army. Not even they have this number of assault rifles.
I also dont think that they necesarrily come from the legal US market. But I do think that SOME in that market have enough connections and ways to smuggle them or otherwise get them from israel and even from canada and then to sell them to the cartels who, in turn, pass them through tunnels they already have. The same ones they use to pass drugs and people to the US.
Nothing about this thing is black and white. Nothing at all.
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Britain's version of democracy is not modern democracy, which is not to say that britain is not a modern democracy now.
Allow me to explain: the british model comes as a series of reforms on thee monarchic model that you can even see today in britain. I mean, your "senate" is called the House of the Lords (AND TO THIS VERY DAY IT STILL IS A HOUSE OF LORDS) while your "congress" is called the House of the "Commons": how very democratic, yes?.
American democracy is much more populist, is not a parliamentary regime, but a true liberal democracy. And thats what i mean by "modern" democracy.
Oh really?
What policies did the democrat congress pass that caused the recession?
+10 rotfl
This is true. The republican party even has a Gay Republican group but I think I would rename it Masochists Of America. Reggan threw their money back at them, the republicans keep em tight in the closet and they still go, stupidly drooling, and vote republican.
Im not an american. I just dont get you guys.
And I didnt get you either when you elected GWB fucking TWICE.
And I dont get how can you guys pass the check on the economy to Obama when he received a wreck of a country that was made first and foremost by the republicans and GWB.
Its really amazing.
Your point being?
I really don't understand Americans. You guys are the craddle of modern democracy, you invented the damned thing, fucked it over, killed each other, and then emerged with something a big country could be governed by.... for a while. Yes, you guys are right in that perhaps the model doesnt fit in into todays balance of power: money is power today, not votes. And there is no turning back that particular clock (BTW, you guys also invented that one).
However, you still need to choose between people that will have "some" (even if not much) say over what Gov. does with your taxes and what Gov. does to attempt to regulate social activity. And you yourself brings me the following options:
"Dems - taken over by statists and leftists.
Reps - taken over by the lunatic Evangelical Christian nuts and the folks who can be easily bought with low taxes - balanced budgets be damned!"
I mean, come on, to me, thats a FUCKING NO BRAINER. American leftists, even the extreme (like say, Michael Moore), are dinky dickless dipshits compared to true communists with a government financed party like they have in spain or france. Those guys over there really get out and burn shit, they dont go crying to mama in a two hour long documentary and get filthy rich at it: they believe in communism like your teabaggers believe in 'mericuh.
No matter how bad you perceive the american left to be, when compared with a republican party perfectly portrayable as a fucking bag of nutjobs that will govern with faith and faith alone (Sarah Palin and her newer teabag-clone), its OBVIOUS your country is in DEEP peril.
GET THE FUCK OUT AND VOTE AGAINST REPUG. NOW.
The sad reality is that IT departments have turned themselves actually in a specialized branch of the Purchases department, without any training in actually being good purchasers that look after the interests of the company that they work for.
NO, all of them have bought into the very strange idea that what vendors sell, is what they buy.
Hopefully, this will change with this kind of shenanigans exposed: companies got PLAYED by "startegists" that weree nothing short of microsoft SHILLS.
Okay, you and your IT dept. are not stupid. You just got played by Microsoft shills that talked about "corporate strategy" as if it was in your best interest to lock yourselves into what was actually MICROSOFT'S corporate startegy.
They very much made you loose a wad of cash because you trusted a company without paying any regards to the fact they do EXACTLY what your company does: maximize profits and secure their position.
Let this be a lesson to you and move on.
This is exactly the problem they are in. I have talked to HUGE microsoft customers with hundreds of web apps that can ONLY run in IE6 thanks to their IT department buying into the Microsoft "superior" practices that includes some activex and obscure tags that wont work in newer windows nor in any modern browser (including ie 7 or 8).
If Microsoft wont support them, they get really, really angry and they have an IT budget in the many millions of dollars for their desktop. Microsoft however DOES support them: on IE6 for new operating systems. But that gives a message, you know? It is a big WE FUCKED UP sign and this customers are now weary of stuff microsoft tells them to do.
It is not the begining of the end of anything. Its just a big mistake on Microsoft part that will cost them even in the long term, but will not by any means whatsoever, kill them.
I didnt know .ly was lybia.... you have to be an IDIOT to use that one, DUH.
DO NOT make your service depend on crazy ass muslim police states! REALLY. There is NO SUCH THING as free speech in those contries and they are well within their rights to do whatever they want with their own country's name.
Damn, next thing you know the se.cu domain will be used for all nyse operations.... sheesh.
AWWWW
Come on. Its certaintly better than the "frog that doesnt jump out of boiling water" high school experiment they used to make.
Nah I take it back. It actually does work fine.
Kay you say: why would One buy IT etc etc..... just to be able to be used in the way they want to use it?
Im going to taje the wild shot here that people like the hardware, knows IT can do more, and find IT worthwhile to tinker with IT.
For fucking example, i fucking hate the new iPad keyboard setting because there IS no easy way to change from spanish to english, as there uses to be in the iPhone 3. This IS why i cant type IT like i want because IT fucking turns IT into bigcaps foro some fucking resano i cannot fathom. Aditionally, im writing english and continuously this shit chantes words to spanish. To change IT, i wouldhave to go to settings, touch my nose three times and take a purple dump every time i switch from commmenting on slashdot (english) or on my Facebook (spanish) ...
Argh. I fucking hate you jobs. Not everyone IS a fucktard that can only speak or grite in their own lenguaje (aaaaaaarghhhhh).
I wat a fucking gun (for fuck sake, this thing changes gun to gnu, what to wat, reason to resano, write to grite, take to taje, changes to chantes and purple dump to purple dump).
You know what? If you are an IT pro that needs to speak moré than One tongue, never the fuck ever even look at an iPad. Fuck you apple.
The thing is that in a good QCS, you should be able to tell if Eve is arround. This guys did this without anyone noticing. Yes, its an ugly hack, it does not change the beautiful math behind QC. But hell, last I checked, this is how cracking works.
Look, its not like that. I think any judge or any persona actually, would like people to not only cite ONE source for anything at all. In order to build a credible case against an expert's witness account, I would say its good to expect the plaintiff to actually research, as opossed to just cut and paste from whatever single source he could find, even a reputable "elitist" one.
Its just a bad way to win an argument. Its weak.
Well, its okay to cite it properly, just dont expect people to treat it as a source of canonical fact.
And the tea party IS, of course, Fox News's workers union
There are slashdot readers in most of the world. And yes, the world IS not the usa. And by the way, just so you know, telefónica IS part of the third largest financial group in the world. Welcome to earth, usaian
What is this time you speak of at those moments?
Oh wait...
A company with that kind of HR people is just idiotic. I wouldnt work there anyhow.
This is absolutely true. Thing is the mexican president is being pressured into a legalization debate. Now him, being the conservative asshole he is, prefers to pressure the U.S. by saying the problem is the guns, when most of the guns the narcs use, are ak47s which I dont think are that popular in the US. They are popular in all of central america though, and Chavez in Venezuela, and the FARC in colombia probably buy them and/or build them by the hundreds of thousends each year.
Mexico does not produce any kind of assault rifle at all. The sheer number of guns (plus 60k rifles, grannades, 50mm barrett ), makes it hard for me to buy what you say about them coming from the mexican army. Not even they have this number of assault rifles.
I also dont think that they necesarrily come from the legal US market. But I do think that SOME in that market have enough connections and ways to smuggle them or otherwise get them from israel and even from canada and then to sell them to the cartels who, in turn, pass them through tunnels they already have. The same ones they use to pass drugs and people to the US.
Nothing about this thing is black and white. Nothing at all.
The iPad does not believe in hell. It believes in he'll. This is from my laptop.
The iPad doesn't believe in he'll.
See?