"Was Clinton's budget surplusses caused by increased taxes, reduced spending, or both?"
It was increased revenue but not increased taxes per se. The economy was booming, people and businesses were making more money and more taxes were being collected even though the actual rate of taxation was not fiddled with by a significant amount.
"Was Clinton a "tax and spend" democrat?""
All politicians tax, all politicians spend. Name one administration since the invention of the income tax that collected no taxes or name one administration that spent no money. Go ahead I dare you.
republicans spend money on different things then democrats but they all tax and they all spend. You are making a childish and false distinction.
I have already pointed out the fiscally irresponsible growing of the govt and subsequent spending in a previous post.
She is not talking about all guns just the so called assault weapons. Are you one of those people who think that your right to bear arms includes shoulder launched missles and tanks? Clearly some arms are banned from personal use and she is talking about a specific class of weapons. Thanks for taking it out of context though it shows exactly how rational you are when it comes to this subject.
" Only the most radical fringe of firearm rights advocates would want to deregulate firearm ownership down to the level at which we regulate driving."
Hit and miss on that point. In some states you don't need a license to own a gun, in some states minors can own guns, in some states it's legal to carry concealed weapons. For a constitutional issue like this there ought to be federal regulations not state ones.
Also cars are subject to extreme safety regulations which guns are not. There are all kinds of regulations about who can drive, there are tests, age limits, physical health (eyesight etc) requirements etc. Most cars also have child safety features which guns don't have. All cars require keys so that only the owner (or somebody he/she gives the key to) can operate the car, something that is sorely needed in the gun world.
I would be very happy if guns were regulated as strictly as cars including yearly registrations, licenses that expire, and keys.
"In reality, it just annoys any free-thinking, reasonably intelligent person who sees how juvenile and silly it is."
No it doesn't it only annoys the astro turfers. If it annoyed most people there would be a crapflood of protests. As it is you are the only one who said anything.
"Wow, a company that makes money"
No it has nothing to do with it. It's a double entendre. One of course is that it indicts Bill gates as being the richest person on the planet and M$ as being the richest corporation on the planet (40 billion in cash!!!! it's unheard of).
Secondly it refers to Visual Basic where you used to have to put a $ after your string variable declarations. I think VB still maintains backwards compatibility so that M$ = "Evil Empire" and Gate$ ="Antichrist" are syntactically correct VB code. Try it for yourself.
"Wrong, they do it because their idiot 12-year old IRC friends who just installed Mandrake for the first time call it "Micro$haft Winbloze" "
No really, people do it because the astro turfers throw fits. It's really funny to watch you guys go into convultions about the $. It's hilarious.
"Microsoft can't rig any competition"
Sure it can. It's a monoply and it's immune from prosecution. It can do whatever it wants. It owns the president and the attorney general. Do you really think Ashcroft would dare disobey Bill gates? History shows that he would not.
"Linux is just as succeptible to your 16 year old hacker friends "
" I know that chart makes Clinton look good and Bush look really bad, but I'm not quite sure you can assign the blame/credit quite so easily"
OTOH you also can not claim that he had nothing to do with it.
GW for example created a brand new dept which ended up being one of the largest departments in history. In other words he grew the size of the federal govt more then anybody else in recent history.
He also undertook one of the largest rollbacks in civil rights in history.
He of course also went to war and caused insane amounts of deficit spending.
All under a republican senate and house.
Anybody who says republicans are for a smaller govt or that republicans care about individual liberties may now proceed to eat their own words.
"You will notice that even Clinton's record surplus started declining in 2000, the same time as the economy."
When I was growing up my parents thought me to save money for a rainy day. That's the purpose of surpluses, to build up reserves in case something bad happens.
"1.) You use the word "Micro$oft." Wow. A dollar sign. "
Using the $ for some reason really seems to piss off M$ astro turfers. You can say the vilest thing about Bill Gates or M$ and the astro turfer will instantly zero in on the $ and start whining about it. I guess it does not bother them that their company is evil but it bothers them when somebody types M$.
People do it because it's funny to read the replies of the astro turfers.
"2.) Your premise is idiotic."
The premise was not idiotic but the specifics may have been silly. M$ (does that give you goosebumps?) could simply not allow people using IE to visit google or make IE crash everytime people visit google for example. IE could throw an ominous warning when you visit google something like "Warning! google may return links or images of adult nature. Google may also expose you or your kids to web sites of communists, white supremacists and people who hate america, would you like to block google from your browser?".
M$ could rig the competition any way it wants and there is nothing anybody can do about it. Remember this is the corporation that bitchslapped the US justice dept and took a shit in it's mouth. Nothing can touch them except maybe some 16 year old crackers.
"You're the liar. Mozilla doesn't necessarily load on startup, only if you keep that crappy tray icon activated. And that slows down the startup procedure something chronic. So you get to pick where you want your slowdown - when you start the computer, or when you start the browser. I prefer the browser option, since it's a bit more 'honest' about where the speed problems are."
IE does the same thing what's the big deal? The only difference is that you have no choice with IE. You have to load it up with windows.
"Faulty logic. Just because it was usable to you doesn't mean it was ready to ship. They obviously care or they wouldn't have waited so long for v1 to ship."
It is not a product. It is not for sale. It never shipped. It's an open source product. You use it if it's useful to you. To me mozilla was useful two years ago and it got better and faster with every release including the latest 1.3 version.
It is you who has faulty logic. This is not a product it's a project.
No but it's stil better then burying your product forever. This way you can at least throw it into OSS and hope that one it becomes a thorn in your competitors (read MS) side. In other words it's the final finger before MS kills you and eats you.
In the original sourceforge when you sign up as a developer you can log into the box because the authentication is via LDAP. This allows you to log into cvs using ssh.
IIRC gforge does not do this for you. You need to manually create accounts for your CVS users. Also according to Tim Purdue the LDAP code is still untested.
It seems like it ought to be possible to use pam_pgsql though.
Gforge forgoes the most difficult aspect of sourceforge which is providing shell and CVS access (which means no LDAP integration either). OTOH it does add some neat features like gantt charts.
How is it when not doing java? I use Jedit right now for almost all my writing and programming. It's great for XML/XSL, perl, python, PHP and it even has some odball plug ins like memento which is a small PIM and code2HTML which I use way more then I ever thought I would.
Is Eclipse as good as Jedit? Better? I love jedit but I'll switch if it's better.
"And the capabilities are far beyond what the PHP version had (although, this was in part due to the fact it's a newer version, but some things PHP's object model would not have been able to handle, such as the integration of any given object, and adding syntax for class and method metadata)."
I don't know exactly what you mean by this but PHP does support changing objects at runtime. For example you can do sort of a mixin-type-thing as illustrated here
"When we are done with Iraq, where are we going next?"
Were you listening to bush? Iran and north korea will be invaded next. Maybe syria before iran though.
It all depends on how much fight the iraqis put up. If we kill them easy and install our companies in there to divvy up the war spoils then we can move rapidly on iran. North korea will not be invaded though nothing to get there. We will probably just level the place and kill them. We can let the south koreans go into the parking lot once we kill everybody there.
It will be interesting to see what china does when we declare war in north korea though.
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"Was Clinton's budget surplusses caused by increased taxes, reduced spending, or both?"
It was increased revenue but not increased taxes per se. The economy was booming, people and businesses were making more money and more taxes were being collected even though the actual rate of taxation was not fiddled with by a significant amount.
"Was Clinton a "tax and spend" democrat?""
All politicians tax, all politicians spend. Name one administration since the invention of the income tax that collected no taxes or name one administration that spent no money. Go ahead I dare you.
republicans spend money on different things then democrats but they all tax and they all spend. You are making a childish and false distinction.
I have already pointed out the fiscally irresponsible growing of the govt and subsequent spending in a previous post.
She is not talking about all guns just the so called assault weapons. Are you one of those people who think that your right to bear arms includes shoulder launched missles and tanks? Clearly some arms are banned from personal use and she is talking about a specific class of weapons. Thanks for taking it out of context though it shows exactly how rational you are when it comes to this subject.
" Only the most radical fringe of firearm rights advocates would want to deregulate firearm ownership down to the level at which we regulate driving."
Hit and miss on that point. In some states you don't need a license to own a gun, in some states minors can own guns, in some states it's legal to carry concealed weapons. For a constitutional issue like this there ought to be federal regulations not state ones.
Also cars are subject to extreme safety regulations which guns are not. There are all kinds of regulations about who can drive, there are tests, age limits, physical health (eyesight etc) requirements etc. Most cars also have child safety features which guns don't have. All cars require keys so that only the owner (or somebody he/she gives the key to) can operate the car, something that is sorely needed in the gun world.
I would be very happy if guns were regulated as strictly as cars including yearly registrations, licenses that expire, and keys.
"Sure, democrats never try to take away your gun rights."
No they don't. They don't try to prevent you from having a gun they simply want some sane controls over it. Much like driving.
"In reality, it just annoys any free-thinking, reasonably intelligent person who sees how juvenile and silly it is."
No it doesn't it only annoys the astro turfers. If it annoyed most people there would be a crapflood of protests. As it is you are the only one who said anything.
"Wow, a company that makes money"
No it has nothing to do with it. It's a double entendre. One of course is that it indicts Bill gates as being the richest person on the planet and M$ as being the richest corporation on the planet (40 billion in cash!!!! it's unheard of).
Secondly it refers to Visual Basic where you used to have to put a $ after your string variable declarations. I think VB still maintains backwards compatibility so that M$ = "Evil Empire" and Gate$ ="Antichrist" are syntactically correct VB code. Try it for yourself.
"Wrong, they do it because their idiot 12-year old IRC friends who just installed Mandrake for the first time call it "Micro$haft Winbloze" "
No really, people do it because the astro turfers throw fits. It's really funny to watch you guys go into convultions about the $. It's hilarious.
"Microsoft can't rig any competition"
Sure it can. It's a monoply and it's immune from prosecution. It can do whatever it wants. It owns the president and the attorney general. Do you really think Ashcroft would dare disobey Bill gates? History shows that he would not.
"Linux is just as succeptible to your 16 year old hacker friends "
Facts show otherwise, sorry.
" I know that chart makes Clinton look good and Bush look really bad, but I'm not quite sure you can assign the blame/credit quite so easily"
OTOH you also can not claim that he had nothing to do with it.
GW for example created a brand new dept which ended up being one of the largest departments in history. In other words he grew the size of the federal govt more then anybody else in recent history.
He also undertook one of the largest rollbacks in civil rights in history.
He of course also went to war and caused insane amounts of deficit spending.
All under a republican senate and house.
Anybody who says republicans are for a smaller govt or that republicans care about individual liberties may now proceed to eat their own words.
"You will notice that even Clinton's record surplus started declining in 2000, the same time as the economy."
When I was growing up my parents thought me to save money for a rainy day. That's the purpose of surpluses, to build up reserves in case something bad happens.
" My salary declined 100% to 0 FUCKING DOLLARS per hour, week, month AND year. And i'm pretty sure its a republicans fault."
you may be more right then you think
"1.) You use the word "Micro$oft." Wow. A dollar sign. "
Using the $ for some reason really seems to piss off M$ astro turfers. You can say the vilest thing about Bill Gates or M$ and the astro turfer will instantly zero in on the $ and start whining about it. I guess it does not bother them that their company is evil but it bothers them when somebody types M$.
People do it because it's funny to read the replies of the astro turfers.
"2.) Your premise is idiotic."
The premise was not idiotic but the specifics may have been silly. M$ (does that give you goosebumps?) could simply not allow people using IE to visit google or make IE crash everytime people visit google for example. IE could throw an ominous warning when you visit google something like "Warning! google may return links or images of adult nature. Google may also expose you or your kids to web sites of communists, white supremacists and people who hate america, would you like to block google from your browser?".
M$ could rig the competition any way it wants and there is nothing anybody can do about it. Remember this is the corporation that bitchslapped the US justice dept and took a shit in it's mouth. Nothing can touch them except maybe some 16 year old crackers.
"Netscape 7 has or is capable of supporting all of those features."
Netscape 7 is simply an oldr version of Mozilla. Why would you ever use it instead of the latest version of Moz? Makes no sense.
"You're the liar. Mozilla doesn't necessarily load on startup, only if you keep that crappy tray icon activated. And that slows down the startup procedure something chronic. So you get to pick where you want your slowdown - when you start the computer, or when you start the browser. I prefer the browser option, since it's a bit more 'honest' about where the speed problems are."
IE does the same thing what's the big deal? The only difference is that you have no choice with IE. You have to load it up with windows.
"Faulty logic. Just because it was usable to you doesn't mean it was ready to ship. They obviously care or they wouldn't have waited so long for v1 to ship."
It is not a product. It is not for sale. It never shipped. It's an open source product. You use it if it's useful to you. To me mozilla was useful two years ago and it got better and faster with every release including the latest 1.3 version.
It is you who has faulty logic. This is not a product it's a project.
Again why do you care? I have been using since version .6 something. It was usable back then and it's great now.
"It took nearly 5 years to get to version 1"
So what? It was usable way before it got to 1.0. Why do you care so much about version numbers?
Is windows 2000 1996.5 times better then nt 3.5?
"It's not an easy road."
No but it's stil better then burying your product forever. This way you can at least throw it into OSS and hope that one it becomes a thorn in your competitors (read MS) side. In other words it's the final finger before MS kills you and eats you.
" OTOH, Mozilla's performance is abysmal on Windows. It takes long to start up and responds slowly to mouse clicks."
Liar. Mozilla preloads at startup. It launches faster then IE in most cases.
" I get instant response and rendering from IE."
Liar. For most web sites Mozilla renders as fast or faster then IE.
" What would you think are the biggest incentives to use Mozilla vs. newer Netscapes for ordinary end-users (i.e. not open-source zealots)?"
Faster loading, faster rendering, no popups, tabs, gestures, better customization, skins, bookmarklets.
In the original sourceforge when you sign up as a developer you can log into the box because the authentication is via LDAP. This allows you to log into cvs using ssh.
IIRC gforge does not do this for you. You need to manually create accounts for your CVS users. Also according to Tim Purdue the LDAP code is still untested.
It seems like it ought to be possible to use pam_pgsql though.
Gforge forgoes the most difficult aspect of sourceforge which is providing shell and CVS access (which means no LDAP integration either). OTOH it does add some neat features like gantt charts.
"Sourceforge is my principal source of informations when I search for a project that do what I need to do."
When did the sourceforge search engine start working?
"So is this Saudi news site not good enough?"
I didn't know I was limited to just one.
Only if there was an arabic news channel that broadcast in english or had an english web site. Opps wait a minute al jeezera tried and were shut down.
How is it when not doing java?
I use Jedit right now for almost all my writing and programming. It's great for XML/XSL, perl, python, PHP and it even has some odball plug ins like memento which is a small PIM and code2HTML which I use way more then I ever thought I would.
Is Eclipse as good as Jedit? Better? I love jedit but I'll switch if it's better.
It's not the fault of PHP if the developers don't read the manual and learn the language.
"And the capabilities are far beyond what the PHP version had (although, this was in part due to the fact it's a newer version, but some things PHP's object model would not have been able to handle, such as the integration of any given object, and adding syntax for class and method metadata)."
I don't know exactly what you mean by this but PHP does support changing objects at runtime. For example you can do sort of a mixin-type-thing as illustrated here
Arabs have been proven to be very hard to domesticate. Just ask the israelis how their attempt at domesticating the arabs is going.
Remember when we liberated Kuwait and now Kuwait is a robust and vibrant democracy? It will be just like that.
You didn't answer my question.
"When we are done with Iraq, where are we going next?"
Were you listening to bush? Iran and north korea will be invaded next. Maybe syria before iran though.
It all depends on how much fight the iraqis put up. If we kill them easy and install our companies in there to divvy up the war spoils then we can move rapidly on iran. North korea will not be invaded though nothing to get there. We will probably just level the place and kill them. We can let the south koreans go into the parking lot once we kill everybody there.
It will be interesting to see what china does when we declare war in north korea though.