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  1. Re:Hello Pinocchio, Nice Nose on Bush, Kerry, and Nader Respond to Youth Voter Questions · · Score: 1

    He should act correctly in the first place. Surely you aren't aruging that the President of the United States isn't personally accountable because of what might happen.

  2. Re:ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION on Bush, Kerry, and Nader Respond to Youth Voter Questions · · Score: 1

    You're kidding right? Illegal immigrants provide American businesses with the necessary cheap labor they need to remain competitive.

  3. Re:President George Bush Responds: on Bush, Kerry, and Nader Respond to Youth Voter Questions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does that invalidate the claim about our health care system?

  4. Re:Hello Pinocchio, Nice Nose on Bush, Kerry, and Nader Respond to Youth Voter Questions · · Score: 2, Informative

    He made a mistake with his claims about WMDs. He had advisors saying the aluminum tubes were for rockets. The yellowcake claims were proven false. Supposed vehicles for use in WMD production were just firetrucks. Which of the following statements are true?

    "The fact that he tried to kill my father and my wife shows the nature of the man: He's cold-blooded, he's a dictator, and he's a tyrant," Bush told reporters on March 3, 2003. "The decision I'm making and have made to disarm Saddam Hussein is based on the security of the American people."

    I didn't realize that Iraq had attacked us or was harbouring terrorists or had harbored terrorists that attacked us. It was personal, and no amount of revisionist lying will change that. Saddam was a bad guy(to put it mildly) but peopel in North Korea are starving under a dictator with the capability to hit Cities on our west coast. Iraq wasn't a threat, it was flat out lying to act like they were the next source of terror for us. The worst part of this whole situation is the only real alternative(given American voting patterns) isn't one I want either. For the second election in a row I really don't like either of the major canidates.

  5. Re:So where is John Boys plan? on Bush, Kerry, and Nader Respond to Youth Voter Questions · · Score: 1

    Search google for Bush's answers. They are repeats. Kerry knew his audience too. You know what I want for president? Somebody who can admit mistakes. Thinks this over:

    The case for war: WMDs
    The use of diplomacy: declared useless
    Where WMDs found: no
    Would the fact that no WMDs where there been established without war: possibly but the threat wasn't there.
    Was the stated cause for the war justified: no

    Now a moral impetus is trying to be placed as the justification for war. North Korea probably has nukes and can probably hit the West Coast. Iran is enriching Uranium. The invasion didn't stop bombs in Bali or Madrid. Al Qaeda, though injured is still viable and should be the focus instead of having hundreds of thousands troops occupying a foreign nation that wasn't a threat. Lots of people in this world hate the US, that is not an excuse to attack them. We need to work to protect ourselves and to maintain respect in the world. If you want an example of how disengous this administration is, look no further than Cheney claiming that Kerry and Edwards calling the war bad hampers our ability to recruit other nations to help. Seems to me that our major allies of the last 50 years didn't want join up before the rhetoric in this election. I'm not a democrat, nor do I really like Kerry or Edwards, but this administration really hurts our crediblity. I personally know of two people that say they are from Canada when travelling internationly, too much tension is involved when they acknowledge being from the United States. We had every right to level Afghanistan, going to Iraq was wrong.

  6. Re:Hello Pinocchio, Nice Nose on Bush, Kerry, and Nader Respond to Youth Voter Questions · · Score: 2, Informative

    Has nothing to do with decisiveness. You can't trust somebody that won't acknowledge mistakes, it points to a fundamental dogmatic belief that their decisions are right and correct.

  7. Re:umm... on Bush, Kerry, and Nader Respond to Youth Voter Questions · · Score: 1

    OK, so the guy that writes his speeches and Allawi's speeches makes the occasional spelling error.

  8. Re:SOLD $11,500.00 on Biggest Console System Collection on eBay · · Score: 1

    Retro is in right now. The buyer should be able to parlay that into a profit.

  9. Mountain Sun Brewery in Boulder, CO on Caffeinated Beer Becomes a Reality · · Score: 1

    Grab yourself a table and order a Java Porter.

  10. Rights on Supreme Court Backs Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 1

    So why is it even a question about whether or not I have the right to sign up to a list that blocks calls from coming to my house?

  11. Re:nothing to see here folks on Mount St. Helens Lets Off Some Steam · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have a relative that was sitting at the dining table eating breakfast and looking out his window right at the volcano as it erupted in 1980. Now that would've been something to see.

  12. Re:Coping can be a strange thing on Auto Accident at SANE Conference Kills One · · Score: 1

    You have some valid points. Do you really believe that some of those jokes were really coping though? I guess more than anything, I posted realizing that most of the "jokes" were just from losers and really didn't merit a response.

    FYI, I'm one of those that copes in multiple ways. I've only really cried when young people have died. I never cry when somebody old dies. I've lashed out, picked fights and destroyed things. For the most part, I'm not sad if they had a full life and did as they wanted.

  13. Re:Welcome to the internet on Auto Accident at SANE Conference Kills One · · Score: 1

    I've had access since 92 and been on the web with pre 1.0 netscape and lynx and mosaic but I'm not posting to see whose Internet dick is bigger. For some reason it just struck me wrong when I clicked and the first 3 things I read were jokes and I decided to post on it.

  14. Re:Somebody dies in an accident on Auto Accident at SANE Conference Kills One · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When it's personal or when it is your job to deal with anothers death I can see it. I have friends that routinely recover bodies, they are volunteer rescuers. Together when they are retrieving victims they'll make jokes but are sure to not say anything in public. The anguish I've seen on their faces when talking about things later belies the jokes during the recovery. I know laughter helps us cope but the jokes I saw were not of a coping nature.

  15. Somebody dies in an accident on Auto Accident at SANE Conference Kills One · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ..and the first 3 posts I see are jokes about it.

  16. Re:"Have they considered..." on Computer Viruses Cripple Colorado DMV · · Score: 1

    That's why the change isn't done on a production system. In those few years the Windows machines would have ample opportunities to be infected while the Linux solution would be implemented and tested.

  17. Re:My e-voting experience last Tuesday on More Diebold E-Voting Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    It's always somebody else that is supposed to do that, don't you know that?

  18. Re:My e-voting experience last Tuesday on More Diebold E-Voting Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    Did you leave your ballot in that box?

  19. Re:Democratic and Friendly Iraq? Done. on Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea · · Score: 1

    Yeah it will happen soon. Major combat ended last year.

  20. Re:Democratic and Friendly Iraq? Done. on Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea · · Score: 1

    Name one US installed government that still exists. Tell me about the history of Iraq and Iran and previous governments friendly to the US. Hell the US was friendly with Saddam. When the Iraqis came to us complaining about slant drilling by Kuwait we told them that we don't get involved in Arab-Arab disputes.

  21. Re:Troop numbers... on Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea · · Score: 1

    Spoken like someone who doesn't remember the protests in Pakistan and New York(!) in October of 2001, among other places.

    I remember the whining fuckers who think you should not return the abuse you receive. I was talking about governments, pretty much nobody was going to say anything about taking the Taliban out and going after Al Qaeda.

    As for the rest of your statement, I didn't once say a thing about Bin Laden. The terrorists networks around the world need to be worked on, of which Al Qaeda and Bin Laden are a part of. The Iraq war was Jr acting out a personal vendetta for Sr. He gave that away when he spoke out about how Saddam tried to kill his father. You know how many world leaders have somebody wanting to kill them right now at this moment? Iraq was a poor country that wasn't more than a symbolic threat. The continuing terrorism, which has accellerated since 9/11, shows that overthrowing Saddam didn't do shit. A people can only affect change if they decide to make that change. An addict has to want to stop, a fat person has to want to lose weight, and the people of a country have to be willing to wage war for their own freedom.

  22. Re:Troop numbers... on Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea · · Score: 1

    You're right it does show that. I doubt you take any active role in testing the air you breath or have even a clue about the contents of it.

    Did those 134,000 troops stop the Madrid or Bali bombings? Did they stop the latest bombing in Indonesia or the continued fighting that goes on in Iraq? Face it, Bush fucked up in going to Iraq, there are much worse threats facing us in this world. You'll note that nobody blinked an eye when we took the Taliban out.

  23. clean the power supplies and replace if necessary on Cleansing Hardware Of Dead Pig Odors? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I bet a lot of the smell is in the dust on power supply fans and components. I had computer that was from a smoking environment and just blowing it out and running it in a clean environment for awhile caused the smell to die.

  24. Re:My Impressions from the Commercials on Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    She's got DSL and it ain't got nothing to do with high speed networking

  25. Take a few CS and EE courses and read Nemeth on Best Training in Linux Administration? · · Score: 1

    I'd recommend through algorithms and digital logic and computer architecture. I don't wanna sound like a dick but your asking that question shows that you don't think about a computer in terms of the computer but in terms of the operating system running on top of it. This hampers your ability to be a good system administrator as you don't really understand what a computer is or how it works. The short route would be to pick up Nemeths System administration book and just read it.