Eventually it needs to come to clued in users demanding that this happen. Unfortunately, the process of clueing in the users takes too long. Something that was said a long time ago that Microsoft plays to the hilt (their entire business model is based on it): There is a sucker born every minute.
So even if you made it your lifes mission to clue in every user you could find, even if it only took you five minutes to explain to each one why it was important for them to behave this way, even if you were 75% effective in your efforts and even if you had hundreds of people helping you, you'd still fall behind. More suckers would be born while you are eating, sleeping attempting to have a life. And Microsoft would be there to take their money. And you can take that to the bank!
I find it strange that both Ford and GM just killed their electric car programs. Perhaps their CEO's know something about the future US oil supply that we don't?? Naaa....
US Dollars spend well in all cultures. It may require more dollars to buy them off (than it did here) but it's not like Microsoft has a shortage of cash.
Why then do 90% of you live with in 100 miles of the US border?
It's called climate. You'd know that if you'd been awake in social studies.
Why do you drive our cars?
Actually, GM and Ford make a lot of cars in Canada. Which you'd know if you'd been awake during economics.
Eat our food?
Actually, we mainly eat whale blubber and Tim Horton's donuts. Neither of which you'd know anything about.
And invest in our markets?
Actually, we own your markets so technically, you're investing in our markets.
Because you secretly want to be Americans.. or some of you think your French.
See the above post about George Bush.
Your a weak, helpless country. You should be God Damn happy that you live in our shaddow. No one would attack you or put sanctions on you. You owe your big brother a little respect instead of *trying* to back stab US in a resultless attempt to become a player in the big leagues. When that private shipping company releases 18% of your military for shipping payments you didn't pay, then maybe you can get in line to open your mouth.
Serge, shut off the water and turn off the lights. Winter is almost over and the natives down south are getting uppity again.
Shit, three of our states have bigger GDPs than your whole fucking nation!
And three times the poverty, gangs, teenage pregnancy, property crime, prison populations, sick people because they can't afford healthcare, grade nine dropouts (per capita, look it up), shall I continue? $$$ mean fuck all to quality of life or humanity of civilization.
Sit down you monkey with a small mustache.
Ouch, you got me, that hurt. I'm gonna cry now.
Homo sapiens neanderthalensis.
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i'd be worried of the terrorits flying planes into the space elevator:(
Build serious anti-aircraft defenses into the project. If an aircraft gets within 100 miles of the cable, it gets wiped by lasers from orbit. End of story. No exceptions, no second chances.
It never ceases to amaze me how people who would be offended to be lumped in so silly a stereotype regarding their own nationality/ethnicity/interest group will cheerfully make those types of accusations about the US or its citizens.
Where do you think I live??
I suppose its a part the same urge that makes the you an self-proclaimed "expert" on US politics and policy.
Never proclaimed myself an expert. I did say that I refuse to take what the US media feeds me at face value.
I hate to break it to you, but that vey fact you think you have interesting opinions about the motivations of the US citizenry is a pretty solid argument that the US is still very much relevant in all the areas you might conceive being important decades in the future.
I despair at the motivations of the US leadership and the apathy of the US citizenry that allows the leadership to get away with it.
Right or wrong US policies and economics will shape the world to come more substantially than anything likely to appear in Europe in the next "decades out into the future". China, on the other hand, has s shot at relevance, but they have to avoid an economic collapse first.
Relevant to who? The country that makes the largest missiles with the biggest warheads? Or countries that learn to live together and get along? How do you measure relevance?
Let us try not comparing to anyone for a moment. From the perspective of decades out into the future, do you really think people will be talking about the new improved Swiffer Mop and the 2003 season of Survivor? The US has lost interest in anything that is not related to a higher GDP, more money in the old IRA and a decent BLT with extra mayo.
Europe can claim a few achievments, but they pale in comparison to the US.
Killing your own and your allies troops? Yes, the US is much better than the Europeans at that.
People who use mustard gas on their own countrymen are not to be defended, however much you dislike their enemy's policies.
And what of the country who sells it to them? What is their moral position?
The results of that war should have been pretty conclusive proof that it's not about oil - we wouldn't even let him sell it afterwards.
It's not about oil, I never said it was. It's about taking US taxpayer dollars and laundering them via shares in munitions companies and landing the residue in the accounts of a who's who of the rich and powerful in America.
Use your freakin' head.
I do. I use it to look behind the scenes, never taking what the media feeds me and thinking about the real motive behind things. Take the current situation. Saddam Hussein is the leader of a country. He is a heinous human being and the leadership of the US has repeatedly told the public through the media that the US needs to do something about that. That something is war.
Why not simply send in a 3 man assassination squad and get it done? Not enough media, no profits for United Defense and no innocents die. Do you think this would ever happen? What world are you living in?
You're trying to tell us all that George Bush is more dangerous than Saddam Hussein.
Who has the potential to order the deaths of more human beings over the next 6 months? That's the only point I'm trying to make.
At the moment, the single person who has the potential to kill the most human beings through one irrational act would have to be the leader of North Korea.
At the moment, the single person who has the potential to kill the most human beings through coldly calculated, profit motivated war would be the leader of the United States of America.
The most dangerous person on the planet to other human beings today is... not Saddam Hussein. The poster also said nothing about Americans, he mentioned humankind. Are you a member?
Are we supposed to go do it again? Considering we did this four decades ago?
Yes. Or admit that the USA has passed its prime as a society and is now on the slow slide into cultural and moral decay. It is not what you did in the past, it is what have you done lately that counts.
Maybe it's about making, selling and using up armaments?armaments? After all, Dubya gets to inherit someday, so he has a vested interest in seeing daddy succeed in business.
It would be better to use the randomly generated "gif word" such as Yahoo uses to ensure scripts can't sign-up for e-mail. You would then have to implement it in the router or it is useless. You need to keep the flow out of your network, your processors, your servers, your memory. When you implement a now trespassing policy, you don't invite the trespasser in for a drink (at your expense) while you explain the concept. Put up a wall, have a simple mechanism that requires a living, breathing human on the other side and then implement it network wide.
Prediction: First ISP out of the gate with a 100% guaranteed SPAM filter with 0% false positives will quickly have a loyal following. Nationwide.
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Eventually it needs to come to clued in users demanding that this happen. Unfortunately, the process of clueing in the users takes too long. Something that was said a long time ago that Microsoft plays to the hilt (their entire business model is based on it): There is a sucker born every minute.
So even if you made it your lifes mission to clue in every user you could find, even if it only took you five minutes to explain to each one why it was important for them to behave this way, even if you were 75% effective in your efforts and even if you had hundreds of people helping you, you'd still fall behind. More suckers would be born while you are eating, sleeping attempting to have a life. And Microsoft would be there to take their money. And you can take that to the bank!
I find it strange that both Ford and GM just killed their electric car programs. Perhaps their CEO's know something about the future US oil supply that we don't?? Naaa....
US Dollars spend well in all cultures. It may require more dollars to buy them off (than it did here) but it's not like Microsoft has a shortage of cash.
Do you propose a waiting period for out-going mail?
If every ISP was required by law to do this, it would very quickly become "the way it is" and we could all get on with our lives.
Oh they knew it was near... it's just that the new season of "Survivor" was starting and they were busy with that whole "mammal" civil war and all.
If we ever get out of this fireswamp...
Where's Canadia? I can't find it on the map. Oh... you meant Canada...
Why then do 90% of you live with in 100 miles of the US border?
It's called climate. You'd know that if you'd been awake in social studies.
Why do you drive our cars?
Actually, GM and Ford make a lot of cars in Canada. Which you'd know if you'd been awake during economics.
Eat our food?
Actually, we mainly eat whale blubber and Tim Horton's donuts. Neither of which you'd know anything about.
And invest in our markets?
Actually, we own your markets so technically, you're investing in our markets.
Because you secretly want to be Americans.. or some of you think your French.
See the above post about George Bush.
Your a weak, helpless country. You should be God Damn happy that you live in our shaddow. No one would attack you or put sanctions on you. You owe your big brother a little respect instead of *trying* to back stab US in a resultless attempt to become a player in the big leagues. When that private shipping company releases 18% of your military for shipping payments you didn't pay, then maybe you can get in line to open your mouth.
Serge, shut off the water and turn off the lights. Winter is almost over and the natives down south are getting uppity again.
Shit, three of our states have bigger GDPs than your whole fucking nation!
And three times the poverty, gangs, teenage pregnancy, property crime, prison populations, sick people because they can't afford healthcare, grade nine dropouts (per capita, look it up), shall I continue? $$$ mean fuck all to quality of life or humanity of civilization.
Sit down you monkey with a small mustache.
Ouch, you got me, that hurt. I'm gonna cry now.
Homo sapiens neanderthalensis.
Aircraft. Automobiles. Mountain Bikes. Fishing Rods.
Basically, anything that would benefit from a light and extremely strong material.
i'd be worried of the terrorits flying planes into the space elevator :(
Build serious anti-aircraft defenses into the project. If an aircraft gets within 100 miles of the cable, it gets wiped by lasers from orbit. End of story. No exceptions, no second chances.
It never ceases to amaze me how people who would be offended to be lumped in so silly a stereotype regarding their own nationality/ethnicity/interest group will cheerfully make those types of accusations about the US or its citizens.
Where do you think I live??
I suppose its a part the same urge that makes the you an self-proclaimed "expert" on US politics and policy.
Never proclaimed myself an expert. I did say that I refuse to take what the US media feeds me at face value.
I hate to break it to you, but that vey fact you think you have interesting opinions about the motivations of the US citizenry is a pretty solid argument that the US is still very much relevant in all the areas you might conceive being important decades in the future.
I despair at the motivations of the US leadership and the apathy of the US citizenry that allows the leadership to get away with it.
Right or wrong US policies and economics will shape the world to come more substantially than anything likely to appear in Europe in the next "decades out into the future". China, on the other hand, has s shot at relevance, but they have to avoid an economic collapse first.
Relevant to who? The country that makes the largest missiles with the biggest warheads? Or countries that learn to live together and get along? How do you measure relevance?
Let us try not comparing to anyone for a moment. From the perspective of decades out into the future, do you really think people will be talking about the new improved Swiffer Mop and the 2003 season of Survivor? The US has lost interest in anything that is not related to a higher GDP, more money in the old IRA and a decent BLT with extra mayo.
Europe can claim a few achievments, but they pale in comparison to the US.
Killing your own and your allies troops? Yes, the US is much better than the Europeans at that.
People who use mustard gas on their own countrymen are not to be defended, however much you dislike their enemy's policies.
And what of the country who sells it to them? What is their moral position?
The results of that war should have been pretty conclusive proof that it's not about oil - we wouldn't even let him sell it afterwards.
It's not about oil, I never said it was. It's about taking US taxpayer dollars and laundering them via shares in munitions companies and landing the residue in the accounts of a who's who of the rich and powerful in America.
Use your freakin' head.
I do. I use it to look behind the scenes, never taking what the media feeds me and thinking about the real motive behind things. Take the current situation. Saddam Hussein is the leader of a country. He is a heinous human being and the leadership of the US has repeatedly told the public through the media that the US needs to do something about that. That something is war.
Why not simply send in a 3 man assassination squad and get it done? Not enough media, no profits for United Defense and no innocents die. Do you think this would ever happen? What world are you living in?
You're trying to tell us all that George Bush is more dangerous than Saddam Hussein.
Who has the potential to order the deaths of more human beings over the next 6 months? That's the only point I'm trying to make.
who would you like to nominate for that position?
At the moment, the single person who has the potential to kill the most human beings through one irrational act would have to be the leader of North Korea.
At the moment, the single person who has the potential to kill the most human beings through coldly calculated, profit motivated war would be the leader of the United States of America.
You didn't have to ask, you already knew it.
The most dangerous person on the planet to other human beings today is... not Saddam Hussein. The poster also said nothing about Americans, he mentioned humankind. Are you a member?
Are we supposed to go do it again? Considering we did this four decades ago?
Yes. Or admit that the USA has passed its prime as a society and is now on the slow slide into cultural and moral decay. It is not what you did in the past, it is what have you done lately that counts.
humankind won't be able to progress if it's destroyed or held hostage by criminally insane dictators with WMDs.
So when is the next US federal election anyway?
Compare deaths per passenger mile. I haven't run the numbers but it seems to me that the shuttle is pretty safe compared to say, school busses.
Yes.
Maybe it's about making, selling and using up armaments?armaments? After all, Dubya gets to inherit someday, so he has a vested interest in seeing daddy succeed in business.
Better liquor that selling steel to the Nazis. Like the Bushes.
That would be the "Mobile" processors. Less heat that way.
Describes spammers to a T.
It would be better to use the randomly generated "gif word" such as Yahoo uses to ensure scripts can't sign-up for e-mail. You would then have to implement it in the router or it is useless. You need to keep the flow out of your network, your processors, your servers, your memory. When you implement a now trespassing policy, you don't invite the trespasser in for a drink (at your expense) while you explain the concept. Put up a wall, have a simple mechanism that requires a living, breathing human on the other side and then implement it network wide.
Prediction: First ISP out of the gate with a 100% guaranteed SPAM filter with 0% false positives will quickly have a loyal following. Nationwide.
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