You never did answer my question. Do you even know the answer? What were you fighting for? Low oil prices? (BTW, where are those low oil prices now?) Our military sure weren't defending American soil. America wasn't attacked at all. Nor was Israel (our 51st state).
I did concede that the military did risk their lives; I wonder how many of these wondered if foreign military adventures were part of what they signed up for. Maybe that's why enlistments are seriously down these days.
I have watched NO movies about those events (can anyone expect to get accurate history from TV? that includes the "news" shows). I have never been drunk in my life. And the history that gets taught at grad schools is generally by the court historians who are apologists for the regimes whose lapdogs they are. And I do read web pages: http://www.antiwar.com among many others, which generally has links to articles from news outlets all over the world.
What annoyed me was that Gumbel guy went on about how these military guys made some sacrifice for their country. Sure, they were obedient to their superiors, even to the point of death, but I sure don't remember Hussein threatening our shores in any way whatsoever. What the heck were we fighting for? If I recall correctly, he overran some sultanate or kingdom or something. Did I miss something? I was in grad school when it all happened.
>The Onion may be the premier parody newspaper,
>but Despair, Inc is a corperation...they're not
>supposed to rip on people like Microsoft, Apple,
>and Fry's Electronics. That wouldn't be
>Politically Correct of them!
We should all give a tip o' the hat to despair.com: they put "Windows 95 officially debuts (1995)" on their 1999 calendar August 24 entry.
For those who don't know, despair.com calendars have a variety of tidbits put in some of the days of each month, chronicling something bad that happened that day in history.
I worked at a war company (euphemism: "defense contractor") as a mechanical engineer; once upon a time, the machinist's union went on strike. All the engineers not essential to the production line (including me) were put on the production line. It was common for 2 engineers to do the work of 5 collectivist stooges, taking a 2-month backlog of work and putting the line 2 months ahead. In the end, production didn't miss a beat and the union accepted the last, best offer that the company made. Some of the union literature I saw lying around was downright vitriolic: "Management is the Devil", basically.
The economy exists not for some mystical secularized religious reasons (which is what Marxism is about), but to satisfy consumer demands. If your company can't do that, find a company that does it well, and go there.
I saw some nice stuff, well beyond "velcro". Thanks for looking it up. By that measure (the spinoffs), war too is a great thing. Maybe that's why we (USA) seem to be involved in perpetual war nowdays--the NSF is driving it!
Sorry, but I hope NASA gets the total axe. It's a huge waste of money. The programs of 30 years ago seem only to have created a huge nostalgia industry (for the freakin' "race to the moon" with the commies). Somebody enlighten me about any real benefits of the space program (and "velcro" doesn't count).
I know this is an offtopic tangent; can I run VMWare on NT, install and run Linux in VMWare, then install VMWare in that Linux, and then install and run windows in that VMWare? Etc?Maybe it's time for me to go home today...
It seems that movie adaptations of first-rate books turn out somewhat dismally. Just imagine a movie of _War and Peace_ (I know there is one, but haven't seen it; I _have_ read the book); I can't imagine it doing any kind of justice to the book.
Most good movie adaptations are of second-rate books. I think it's a matter of expectations.
>You have poverty, not because people are lazy (yes there are plenty of those), not because of jobs going overseas (yes there are plenty of those too, but because we as people allow it. Do you honestly belive that poverty cannot be eliminated? A recent study (read it in a newspaper, I think L.A. Times but unsure) shows a small $80 per year tax on all tax payers would go a long way to solving the United States poverty siuation.
Basic economic law: you subsidize it, you get more of it. See: War on Poverty.
>At the risk of sounding like a Marxist, let me point this out: Property is not a concept that we find in nature, and it's not an idea handed to us by God. It is an arbitrary social construct, a scheme of points and benefits that we set up so that all of society can benefit.
Actually, it IS an idea handed to us by God: Thou shalt not steal. Because is ain't yours. If you can't keep the fruit of your labor, you are a slave. If you can, you are a free man. The Marxists only want to steal, plunder, loot, and pillage what others have built up.
Beg your parents, "Get me outta here! Homeschool me." You'll be able to focus on learning material you should be learning, and not on the "socialization" that so many seem to think homeschoolers will be deprived of (losing the kind of socialization you get in high school is a gain, if you ask me). You'll have a lot more time for games and Linux/BSD hacking, too, because homeschoolers get stuff done a lot faster--you can get school done in a morning. You'll find out if your parents have the guts to try something radical. If both parents work, tell them that since you're not on the Microsoft treadmill, you ought to be able to afford for one of them to stay home, to start some work from home on the computer. You can be their sysadmin, too.
>>The process of democracy in this country encourages everyone to vote. You can be as stupid as a pumpkin and still vote. "Get out the vote" rhetoric only further encourages those who wouldn't vote in the first place to go and do so, adding to the number of people who will vote on things like "how much will it increase my wellfare/social security/income" and "what government programs will it create to help my particular selfish need".
>>
It's a conflict of interest to be able to vote and to receive money from the government at the same time. You end up voting for the money.
What Nader is really saying:
"I am willing to use the coercive power of the state to take some people's money, and give it to others, and I get to decide both parties."
We need to vote _against_ the barbarian leftist hordes who want to plunder and loot this country at gunpoint. But he does have a good non-interventionist foreign policy.
>Everyone here is ranting and raving about the system and then everyone rants and raves about no one doing anything about it. I'm pretty ticked off about the whole thing too so I need to know how many of you would back me for a political stand.
Sign me up! Can I be Minister of Internal Security?
Obviously the only way to deal with the question is to have an intellectual Olympics. Imagine, Einstein winning the Physics events, wearing his Nike lab jacket!
>of course... everyone knows that alien computers are all i386 compatible.
I'm surprised the DOJ failed to note this far-reaching extent of the Wintel monopoly.
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Take them away from the clutches of the union hacks who buy into the profiling-program-of-the-day. School them yourself. Do whatever it takes so that you or your spouse can stay home and school them. You and your spouse will not ever call WAVE; you will teach them to be responsible and liberty-loving. You will also teach them Linux. You will learn more than you learned in school yourself.
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You never did answer my question. Do you even know the answer? What were you fighting for? Low oil prices? (BTW, where are those low oil prices now?) Our military sure weren't defending American soil. America wasn't attacked at all. Nor was Israel (our 51st state).
I did concede that the military did risk their lives; I wonder how many of these wondered if foreign military adventures were part of what they signed up for. Maybe that's why enlistments are seriously down these days.
I have watched NO movies about those events (can anyone expect to get accurate history from TV? that includes the "news" shows). I have never been drunk in my life. And the history that gets taught at grad schools is generally by the court historians who are apologists for the regimes whose lapdogs they are. And I do read web pages: http://www.antiwar.com among many others, which generally has links to articles from news outlets all over the world.
What annoyed me was that Gumbel guy went on about how these military guys made some sacrifice for their country. Sure, they were obedient to their superiors, even to the point of death, but I sure don't remember Hussein threatening our shores in any way whatsoever. What the heck were we fighting for? If I recall correctly, he overran some sultanate or kingdom or something. Did I miss something? I was in grad school when it all happened.
>Check out This insane patent which is referenced
> in the press release. I almost burst a gut!
Not a cat gut, I hope. I think that method is patented.
>The Onion may be the premier parody newspaper,
>but Despair, Inc is a corperation...they're not
>supposed to rip on people like Microsoft, Apple,
>and Fry's Electronics. That wouldn't be
>Politically Correct of them!
We should all give a tip o' the hat to despair.com: they put "Windows 95 officially debuts (1995)" on their 1999 calendar August 24 entry.
For those who don't know, despair.com calendars have a variety of tidbits put in some of the days of each month, chronicling something bad that happened that day in history.
>1. Any group has more power acting cohesively.
Actually, the group cedes power collectively to a few. That has led to union bosses, who are notoriously corrupt. So you end up being a union flunky.
I worked at a war company (euphemism: "defense contractor") as a mechanical engineer; once upon a time, the machinist's union went on strike. All the engineers not essential to the production line (including me) were put on the production line. It was common for 2 engineers to do the work of 5 collectivist stooges, taking a 2-month backlog of work and putting the line 2 months ahead. In the end, production didn't miss a beat and the union accepted the last, best offer that the company made. Some of the union literature I saw lying around was downright vitriolic: "Management is the Devil", basically.
The economy exists not for some mystical secularized religious reasons (which is what Marxism is about), but to satisfy consumer demands. If your company can't do that, find a company that does it well, and go there.
I saw some nice stuff, well beyond "velcro". Thanks for looking it up. By that measure (the spinoffs), war too is a great thing. Maybe that's why we (USA) seem to be involved in perpetual war nowdays--the NSF is driving it!
Sorry, but I hope NASA gets the total axe. It's a huge waste of money. The programs of 30 years ago seem only to have created a huge nostalgia industry (for the freakin' "race to the moon" with the commies). Somebody enlighten me about any real benefits of the space program (and "velcro" doesn't count).
I know this is an offtopic tangent; can I run VMWare on NT, install and run Linux in VMWare, then install VMWare in that Linux, and then install and run windows in that VMWare? Etc?Maybe it's time for me to go home today...
It seems that movie adaptations of first-rate books turn out somewhat dismally. Just imagine a movie of _War and Peace_ (I know there is one, but haven't seen it; I _have_ read the book); I can't imagine it doing any kind of justice to the book.
Most good movie adaptations are of second-rate books. I think it's a matter of expectations.
Now Tolkien, he wrote some first-rate stuff.
>It's nice to know that Larry Ellison has a pool sized subwoofer while a bunch of poor people will either freeze or starve to death this winter.
So what would happen to the subwoofer company if Larry hadn't kept them afloat with his voluntary form of private welfare?
>You have poverty, not because people are lazy (yes there are plenty of those), not because of jobs going overseas (yes there are plenty of those too, but because we as people allow it. Do you honestly belive that poverty cannot be eliminated? A recent study (read it in a newspaper, I think L.A. Times but unsure) shows a small $80 per year tax on all tax payers would go a long way to solving the United States poverty siuation.
Basic economic law: you subsidize it, you get more of it. See: War on Poverty.
>At the risk of sounding like a Marxist, let me point this out: Property is not a concept that we find in nature, and it's not an idea handed to us by God. It is an arbitrary social construct, a scheme of points and benefits that we set up so that all of society can benefit.
Actually, it IS an idea handed to us by God: Thou shalt not steal. Because is ain't yours. If you can't keep the fruit of your labor, you are a slave. If you can, you are a free man. The Marxists only want to steal, plunder, loot, and pillage what others have built up.
When you copy a single source, it's plagiarism. When you copy many sources, it's research.
I put "world domination" as my life goal. Which is why I run Linux (+ GNU) now.
Beg your parents, "Get me outta here! Homeschool me." You'll be able to focus on learning material you should be learning, and not on the "socialization" that so many seem to think homeschoolers will be deprived of (losing the kind of socialization you get in high school is a gain, if you ask me). You'll have a lot more time for games and Linux/BSD hacking, too, because homeschoolers get stuff done a lot faster--you can get school done in a morning. You'll find out if your parents have the guts to try something radical. If both parents work, tell them that since you're not on the Microsoft treadmill, you ought to be able to afford for one of them to stay home, to start some work from home on the computer. You can be their sysadmin, too.
>>The process of democracy in this country encourages everyone to vote. You can be as stupid as a pumpkin and still vote. "Get out the vote" rhetoric only further encourages those who wouldn't vote in the first place to go and do so, adding to the number of people who will vote on things like "how much will it increase my wellfare/social security/income" and "what government programs will it create to help my particular selfish need".
>>
It's a conflict of interest to be able to vote and to receive money from the government at the same time. You end up voting for the money.
What Nader is really saying:
"I am willing to use the coercive power of the state to take some people's money, and give it to others, and I get to decide both parties."
We need to vote _against_ the barbarian leftist hordes who want to plunder and loot this country at gunpoint. But he does have a good non-interventionist foreign policy.
>Everyone here is ranting and raving about the system and then everyone rants and raves about no one doing anything about it. I'm pretty ticked off about the whole thing too so I need to know how many of you would back me for a political stand.
Sign me up! Can I be Minister of Internal Security?
Obviously the only way to deal with the question is to have an intellectual Olympics. Imagine, Einstein winning the Physics events, wearing his Nike lab jacket!
>of course... everyone knows that alien computers are all i386 compatible.
I'm surprised the DOJ failed to note this far-reaching extent of the Wintel monopoly.
>Is it possible to actually sell stuff through spam drops? Is there any evidence that anyone can actually make cash through it? It seems to me that almost all the spam I get is just offers for buying more spam lists.
Sure! Send me $10 and I'll tell you how!
After watching 3 hours of Three Stooges, I wanted to poke my fingers in a friend's eyes. Fortunately, he also watched, and put his hand up to his face, defeating my move. Nyuk nyuk nyuk!
Take them away from the clutches of the union hacks who buy into the profiling-program-of-the-day. School them yourself. Do whatever it takes so that you or your spouse can stay home and school them. You and your spouse will not ever call WAVE; you will teach them to be responsible and liberty-loving. You will also teach them Linux. You will learn more than you learned in school yourself.
It will search your hardware for a CD writer, and try to burn an AOL CD.