Bullshit. As an American I find the entire operation offensive in the extreme. It's nothing more than colonialism, pure and simple, with a good dollop of dick-measuring added in so that King George can prove to the world that his willy is much more impressive than it appears at first glance.
The fact that my own people are such fucking ignoramuses, willing to piss away the very concept of liberty just so they can convince themselves that they're superior to everyone else, is just plain sickening. If it were select individuals acting through the government via coup it would be one thing; but the fact of the matter is is that most of my fellow citizens are becoming more and more Orwellian with each passing day.
To be an American right now is shameful. And the worst thing about it is that the vast majority of Americans *like* how things are going and only wish to shred the Constitution, and the ideals upon which it's based, even more than they've already done. Iraq is just a result of the ever-burgeoning desire for dictatorship, a dictatorship which it appears they wish to impose world-wide.
It's enough to put any sane person off their feed.
So lemme get this straight: we went to war to 'free' the Iraqis so they could have their own democratically elected government, which would in turn craft laws based on the will of the Iraqi people.
Where, exactly, does Fraulein Rosenberg ("sieg heil!") come into this fairy tale story of good triumphing over evil?
Max
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In this case the reason they haven't "taken their encoder to the street" is because others have already done it. The results? Vorbis ranked #1 hands down, with AAC near or at the bottom in all tests - *even below mp3s*.
This was for the average listener, which is the only listener that counts when trying to sell things. Apple is making claims about AAC, rather than throwing it to the wolves for comparison, because they already know they'd lose out to Vorbis and the current mp3 standard.
The link for one of the comparison articles is already in this thread, and I think I saw one other. I won't repost here, they're easy enough to locate. Both of the articles are good starting points on comparisons, and IIRC a simple google search will turn up others.
Vorbis is still the best way to go. Unfortunately for Apple, they aren't in a position to make any money off of it.
Off-topic: my entire music library is mp3, not Vorbis. Why? Can you even begin to imagine re-ripping nearly a thousand cds just to get better sound? Perhaps an audiophile would go to this trouble, but even someone like myself who has exceptional hearing thinks mp3 is 'good enough', especially in comparison to the work that'd have to be done to make a conversion. Vorbis is certainly better, but mp3 is decent as well; when thinking about the work involved in doing another library conversion the differences between the two become more and more trivial with each passing second....
Which is no doubt why mp3 is still the default, even though Vorbis is clearly better than mp3 or any of the alternatives. Everyone else out there is just as lazy as I am.
There are a fair number of people who have a similar reaction to violins. Although it's not as bad as a harpsichord, a violin has strong high-frequency harmonics that are often badly out of tune. If you clip off everything above 15 kHz or so, you eliminate this distracting noise and the music comes through.
And if you do that, those of us who have exceptional hearing will immediately notice that the violin seems 'flat'; much of the 'character' of the person playing it will be cut out completely, which is often expressed on the high end.
Not that most people will notice; they don't have the hearing for it.
Like duuuuuuuuuudddee! Purple, like, rocks dude! If the old guys don't like it it *must* be cool, dude! Rock on! I'm sooooo cool and, like, even groundbreaking 'cuz I said I like the purple - dude!
I'm, like, sooooo cool, even if I am still a virgin, and like, the only girl who'll look at me is the one on my new XBox game....
...towards U.S. global domination. As a U.S. citizen I'm firmly opposed to any national attempts to build empire, whether it be militarily or economically. I hope this thing falls flat on its face, and that many developing countries out there take the things that have been given ridiculous patents in the U.S., 'steal' them, and then turn a nice fat profit off of them.
Perhaps then my people will see that they aren't capable of imposing a world-wide dictatorship and will just give up on this insanity altogether...yeah, right. Hey, at least I can dream of an America not ruled by loons and people who spit on the Constitution.
What galls me is that there's a certain type of person who laments the fact that six billion people walk the planet, then suggest that everything would be just peachy keen if only 90% of them didn't exist.
But they do. So overpopulation, while it may be a problem, is just not something you can 'solve'. Not unless you're willing to wipe out a great many of those people. And if that's so, I nominate *you* to be one of the one's to be exterminated.
To a person not invested in murdering billions, overpopulation isn't a 'problem', it's a simple fact of life that one has to deal with. You might decide to try to do something about the growth rate (the most effective method being to raise the standard of living for every country on the planet), but the current numbers will not decline unless some rabid greenie with a supervirus is let loose upon the world.
The world has a certain population of human beings. Deal with it. Problem or not it's a fact of life and the gnashing of teeth and the wringing of hands does nothing other than to suggest that certain nations with high birth rates are to 'blame'.
No doubt these same folks will scream for the banning of immortality since it would exacerbate the 'problem' - well, ban it for everyone else *but themselves*, of course.....
The logical conclusion is that communism leads directly to fascism, because the whole philosophy is so very wrong in almost every conceivable way that it's impossible to even implement partially correctly!
That's bullshit. No one has ever attempted to implement anything even remotely like communism. The Soviet Union, China, and Cuba are simple fascist dictatorships that have used the rhetoric of communism without applying any actual communism whatsoever.
BTW, I'm not a communist, I'm a Randian libertarian. I think real, marxist communism is extreme bullshit idealism without any grounding in real-world human behavior. But I recognize, quite clearly, the fundamental difference between a dictator claiming communism and an actual attempt at communism, and the latter has never happened.
By your reasoning if these societies had instead claimed to be 'democratic' and 'capitalism', any person claiming to be a capitalistic democrat who tried to institute such a society would invariably be nothing more than a monster prepped to kill millions. Oh, wait....
Nobody claimed that "individual rights would solve everything". You made that up yourself, pulling the words out of your ass with no regard to what the original poster said.
Very deceptive of you. Perhaps you should run for office....
Ironically enough, the federally-owned land in the state of Oregon, where I live, is leased to logging firms in rotation. This means that there are now exactly three tiny patches of old-growth forest left in the entire state; the rest has been logged by private companies who pay the government for the privilege.
All of the range land - and I mean every bit of it - is leased to ranchers, primarily for cattle production. Nothing is 'preserved' by the government. Very little 'natural' rangeland exists (not that I give a shit, but it certainly seems to upset the environmentalists).
Oddly enough, the land that has the least amount of logging is that owned by the Weyerhauser corporation. You see, this company's life blood is logging, and they know that they have to preserve their crops *over the course of a century* to maintain sustainable logging. Something the U.S. government doesn't do in any way, shape or form.
So the best maintained forest land in the state belongs to a private company whose sole interest is long-term financial motivation. A company which is aggressively investigating selective cutting over clear-cutting because it seems to be more profitable in the long run, something the federal government refuses to do because clear-cutting is more profitable in the short run.
So much for trusting the government to preserve natural resources....
The proposed technical standard would be aimed at identifying "good" from "bad" e-mails on any platform.
So whether you're running Win98, Win2000, or WinXP, you'll be certain to meet the technical standards! Oh, and open source need not apply: you're all terrorists and communists anyway, and obviously a part of the problem.
If somebody punches you, do you punch them straight back?
No, I pull out my.38, point the barrel right between the son-of-a-bitch's eyes, and say "you want to try that again?"
When threatened with violence, the production of a firearm has never, in my experience, resulted in an escalation of that violence. In fact, the assholes who're being violent seem to discover pacifism quite quickly, as well as the location of the nearest available exit.
This works well for me. If it doesn't work for you, well then, don't punch me.
While much of your post made sense, your rabid anti-communism makes you look like a loon.
The so-called 'Communists' in the former Soviet Union and modern-day China are actually fascists. Their economic systems have nothing whatsoever to do with communism. Most intelligent people recognize there's a huge difference between the communism-as-theory and communism-as-rhetoric. The Soviet Union and Communist China were, or are, communist in name only. Their use of 'communism' is nothing more than a propaganda tool.
So if you're a reasonably intelligent sort you can indeed be a communist without backing the fascist propaganda states of the Soviet Union or China. It's really quite simple.
Equating little-c communists with Soviet or Chinese Communists is just plain ridiculous. The two have nothing to do with one another.
Money and power make the law in every country, not just the U.S. Any country in Europe is just as much a whore in this regard as America is.
This system isn't new; it's as ancient as civilization itself. What's happening in America is the same thing that's been happening in America and all over the world since time immemorial.
And protests change nothing. At best they manage to oust one powermonger and replace him with someone a bit more intelligent and a bit less obvious. The movements of the Sixties did nothing to improve this country, and in case you haven't noticed the very same protesters are now Boomers happily electing anti-liberty politicians and passing anti-freedom laws just to buy themselves the illusion of safety. These former radicals are more invested in the status quo than their parents ever were.
The 'apathy' of the 'average American' (read: anyone in Gen X or younger) is entirely due to the fact that the system resists all attempts at change, and everyone who is older and already 'has theirs' is actively assisting the system to crack down on anyone who wants change. Change = danger to the power structure, and is therefore evil if you're already set and happy with things just the way they are.
"unless a man tries to harm ye, or your family, or your property; or attempts to harm your neighbor, or your neighbor's family, or your neighbor's property; ye shall fuck off and mind your own business and tend to your own affairs.
but if that man does try to do harm to ye, your family, your property, or to your neighbor or his family or his property, then ye shall pull out your.38 and empty the weapon into him. And if ye have a second clip, ye shall reload and empty that one into him as well. And that man who wishes to do others harm will never raise a hand against anyone ever again, and life will be good."
It doesn't matter how well liked a murdering bad guy is. The very fact that he murdered makes him fair game. We might let a court system decide whether or not he's truly guilty, but if he is then he deserves nothing less than death.
An eye for an eye sounds just and equitable to me, not to mention very, very satisfactory.
Goddamn, the naive little trolls just pop out of the woodwork, don't they?
I can not believe the people who sit back and take unemployment. That is true laziness.
Not only is the troll naive, he's obnoxious as well. And apparently he has no idea how unemployment works, or who pays for it (hint: *you* pay for *yourself*).
Next our little troll will tell us that luck plays no part in life and that everything is pre-ordained. Therefore if something bad happens to you *it's your fault and you deserved it*.
Yet another naive little boy. First you deign to gift us with your 'wisdom' on how to go about getting a job, then you declare that using your valuable insights it won't take anymore more than a couple of weeks to find work.
Move along, you little twerp. The last thing I want to hear is condescension from some snot-nosed little brat who's been incredibly lucky but is too blind or too egotistical to recognize that fact.
The FAQ said that Slashdot was created as a US-centric site. What part of this don't you understand?
If it bothers you, go elsewhere. There are plenty of sites which focus on Europe, or specific European countries. I know because I visit them, yet you don't see me demanding that they carry U.S. news with equal weight to their own.
What a naive little fuck you are. It's apparaent from your post that you don't have the first damned clue what the hell you're talking about, nor have you ever been without money. It's privileged little shits like you, who've never had a rough day in their lives, who need to be seriously bitch-slapped with a good, strong dose of reality.
In any event, unemployment insurance is something we have already *paid* for. YOUR taxes aren't used for MY unemployment. I'm simply getting back what I've already paid into the system, much like drawing upon savings.
Your 18th-century 'solution' has already been tried, junior, and found by most civilized folk to be too barbaric to continue. Try learning a little history, you ignorant twit.
Forget call blocking and caller i.d. Do what I did: disconnect your phone and go with a cell service.
Turns out that with all the long-distance calling I do the cell was actually cheaper than the regular phone line. Furthermore, it's illegal to make an unsolicited sales call to a cell - because the cell owner has to pay if *you* call.
Ever since I disconnected my land line and went to a cell (more than two years now) I've been completely telemarketer free. Not one bloody sales call, not even from those hell-fiends at AT&T.
You can't imagine just how much nicer life is when you know that *every* call you get is from someone you want to hear from, or at least need to hear from.
And the UN is so good at working things out, huh? There's a huge number of dead in Rwanda, the Balkens, Ivory Coast, etc... that might disagree with you -- were they alive to voice their opinion. The UN is a good place to TRY and work out deals, but it's not the END of the road when it fails.
As an American, I say "what fucking business is it of ours?" Not a single one of the so-called 'threats to national security' is any threat at all, if we just mind our own goddamned business and stop trying to impose a 'Pax Americana' on the rest of the world.
I don't want an empire, thanks. And no, I'm not so fucking paranoid as to think that every goddamned Third World country is out to 'get me' and that I have to conquer one of their asses every once in a while to show who's boss. That's the purview of dick-measuring loons, much like our own King George.
Let the world work out its own problems. All we need are places to buy things from, and places to sell things to. Other than that the rest just isn't our goddamned business.
Unfortunately both the government and my own people seem to think that *everything* is their business nowadays, including my own private life. Seems to me the only thing that'll teach the average American to keep the fuck out of my life and the life of others is to bitch-slap the cocksuckers into submission, much like those very same cocksuckers are doing to others right now.
How about just leaving the rest of us the fuck alone?
Buddy, I'm an American and I can't get my government to leave me the fuck alone. Hell, I can't even get my neighbors to leave me the fuck alone. What chance do you furriners think you have?
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Bullshit. As an American I find the entire operation offensive in the extreme. It's nothing more than colonialism, pure and simple, with a good dollop of dick-measuring added in so that King George can prove to the world that his willy is much more impressive than it appears at first glance.
The fact that my own people are such fucking ignoramuses, willing to piss away the very concept of liberty just so they can convince themselves that they're superior to everyone else, is just plain sickening. If it were select individuals acting through the government via coup it would be one thing; but the fact of the matter is is that most of my fellow citizens are becoming more and more Orwellian with each passing day.
To be an American right now is shameful. And the worst thing about it is that the vast majority of Americans *like* how things are going and only wish to shred the Constitution, and the ideals upon which it's based, even more than they've already done. Iraq is just a result of the ever-burgeoning desire for dictatorship, a dictatorship which it appears they wish to impose world-wide.
It's enough to put any sane person off their feed.
Max
So lemme get this straight: we went to war to 'free' the Iraqis so they could have their own democratically elected government, which would in turn craft laws based on the will of the Iraqi people.
Where, exactly, does Fraulein Rosenberg ("sieg heil!") come into this fairy tale story of good triumphing over evil?
Max
In this case the reason they haven't "taken their encoder to the street" is because others have already done it. The results? Vorbis ranked #1 hands down, with AAC near or at the bottom in all tests - *even below mp3s*.
This was for the average listener, which is the only listener that counts when trying to sell things. Apple is making claims about AAC, rather than throwing it to the wolves for comparison, because they already know they'd lose out to Vorbis and the current mp3 standard.
The link for one of the comparison articles is already in this thread, and I think I saw one other. I won't repost here, they're easy enough to locate. Both of the articles are good starting points on comparisons, and IIRC a simple google search will turn up others.
Vorbis is still the best way to go. Unfortunately for Apple, they aren't in a position to make any money off of it.
Off-topic: my entire music library is mp3, not Vorbis. Why? Can you even begin to imagine re-ripping nearly a thousand cds just to get better sound? Perhaps an audiophile would go to this trouble, but even someone like myself who has exceptional hearing thinks mp3 is 'good enough', especially in comparison to the work that'd have to be done to make a conversion. Vorbis is certainly better, but mp3 is decent as well; when thinking about the work involved in doing another library conversion the differences between the two become more and more trivial with each passing second....
Which is no doubt why mp3 is still the default, even though Vorbis is clearly better than mp3 or any of the alternatives. Everyone else out there is just as lazy as I am.
Max
There are a fair number of people who have a similar reaction to violins. Although it's not as bad as a harpsichord, a violin has strong high-frequency harmonics that are often badly out of tune. If you clip off everything above 15 kHz or so, you eliminate this distracting noise and the music comes through.
And if you do that, those of us who have exceptional hearing will immediately notice that the violin seems 'flat'; much of the 'character' of the person playing it will be cut out completely, which is often expressed on the high end.
Not that most people will notice; they don't have the hearing for it.
Max
Like duuuuuuuuuudddee! Purple, like, rocks dude! If the old guys don't like it it *must* be cool, dude! Rock on! I'm sooooo cool and, like, even groundbreaking 'cuz I said I like the purple - dude!
I'm, like, sooooo cool, even if I am still a virgin, and like, the only girl who'll look at me is the one on my new XBox game....
...towards U.S. global domination. As a U.S. citizen I'm firmly opposed to any national attempts to build empire, whether it be militarily or economically. I hope this thing falls flat on its face, and that many developing countries out there take the things that have been given ridiculous patents in the U.S., 'steal' them, and then turn a nice fat profit off of them.
Perhaps then my people will see that they aren't capable of imposing a world-wide dictatorship and will just give up on this insanity altogether...yeah, right. Hey, at least I can dream of an America not ruled by loons and people who spit on the Constitution.
Max
What galls me is that there's a certain type of person who laments the fact that six billion people walk the planet, then suggest that everything would be just peachy keen if only 90% of them didn't exist.
But they do. So overpopulation, while it may be a problem, is just not something you can 'solve'. Not unless you're willing to wipe out a great many of those people. And if that's so, I nominate *you* to be one of the one's to be exterminated.
To a person not invested in murdering billions, overpopulation isn't a 'problem', it's a simple fact of life that one has to deal with. You might decide to try to do something about the growth rate (the most effective method being to raise the standard of living for every country on the planet), but the current numbers will not decline unless some rabid greenie with a supervirus is let loose upon the world.
The world has a certain population of human beings. Deal with it. Problem or not it's a fact of life and the gnashing of teeth and the wringing of hands does nothing other than to suggest that certain nations with high birth rates are to 'blame'.
No doubt these same folks will scream for the banning of immortality since it would exacerbate the 'problem' - well, ban it for everyone else *but themselves*, of course.....
Max
The logical conclusion is that communism leads directly to fascism, because the whole philosophy is so very wrong in almost every conceivable way that it's impossible to even implement partially correctly!
That's bullshit. No one has ever attempted to implement anything even remotely like communism. The Soviet Union, China, and Cuba are simple fascist dictatorships that have used the rhetoric of communism without applying any actual communism whatsoever.
BTW, I'm not a communist, I'm a Randian libertarian. I think real, marxist communism is extreme bullshit idealism without any grounding in real-world human behavior. But I recognize, quite clearly, the fundamental difference between a dictator claiming communism and an actual attempt at communism, and the latter has never happened.
By your reasoning if these societies had instead claimed to be 'democratic' and 'capitalism', any person claiming to be a capitalistic democrat who tried to institute such a society would invariably be nothing more than a monster prepped to kill millions. Oh, wait....
Max
The world is overpopulated.
And your solution to this problem, mein fuhrer?
Max
Nobody claimed that "individual rights would solve everything". You made that up yourself, pulling the words out of your ass with no regard to what the original poster said.
Very deceptive of you. Perhaps you should run for office....
Ironically enough, the federally-owned land in the state of Oregon, where I live, is leased to logging firms in rotation. This means that there are now exactly three tiny patches of old-growth forest left in the entire state; the rest has been logged by private companies who pay the government for the privilege.
All of the range land - and I mean every bit of it - is leased to ranchers, primarily for cattle production. Nothing is 'preserved' by the government. Very little 'natural' rangeland exists (not that I give a shit, but it certainly seems to upset the environmentalists).
Oddly enough, the land that has the least amount of logging is that owned by the Weyerhauser corporation. You see, this company's life blood is logging, and they know that they have to preserve their crops *over the course of a century* to maintain sustainable logging. Something the U.S. government doesn't do in any way, shape or form.
So the best maintained forest land in the state belongs to a private company whose sole interest is long-term financial motivation. A company which is aggressively investigating selective cutting over clear-cutting because it seems to be more profitable in the long run, something the federal government refuses to do because clear-cutting is more profitable in the short run.
So much for trusting the government to preserve natural resources....
Max
The proposed technical standard would be aimed at identifying "good" from "bad" e-mails on any platform.
So whether you're running Win98, Win2000, or WinXP, you'll be certain to meet the technical standards! Oh, and open source need not apply: you're all terrorists and communists anyway, and obviously a part of the problem.
Max
Or use Opera and avoid the pain.
Max
If somebody punches you, do you punch them straight back?
.38, point the barrel right between the son-of-a-bitch's eyes, and say "you want to try that again?"
No, I pull out my
When threatened with violence, the production of a firearm has never, in my experience, resulted in an escalation of that violence. In fact, the assholes who're being violent seem to discover pacifism quite quickly, as well as the location of the nearest available exit.
This works well for me. If it doesn't work for you, well then, don't punch me.
Max
While much of your post made sense, your rabid anti-communism makes you look like a loon.
The so-called 'Communists' in the former Soviet Union and modern-day China are actually fascists. Their economic systems have nothing whatsoever to do with communism. Most intelligent people recognize there's a huge difference between the communism-as-theory and communism-as-rhetoric. The Soviet Union and Communist China were, or are, communist in name only. Their use of 'communism' is nothing more than a propaganda tool.
So if you're a reasonably intelligent sort you can indeed be a communist without backing the fascist propaganda states of the Soviet Union or China. It's really quite simple.
Equating little-c communists with Soviet or Chinese Communists is just plain ridiculous. The two have nothing to do with one another.
Max
Money and power make the law in every country, not just the U.S. Any country in Europe is just as much a whore in this regard as America is.
This system isn't new; it's as ancient as civilization itself. What's happening in America is the same thing that's been happening in America and all over the world since time immemorial.
And protests change nothing. At best they manage to oust one powermonger and replace him with someone a bit more intelligent and a bit less obvious. The movements of the Sixties did nothing to improve this country, and in case you haven't noticed the very same protesters are now Boomers happily electing anti-liberty politicians and passing anti-freedom laws just to buy themselves the illusion of safety. These former radicals are more invested in the status quo than their parents ever were.
The 'apathy' of the 'average American' (read: anyone in Gen X or younger) is entirely due to the fact that the system resists all attempts at change, and everyone who is older and already 'has theirs' is actively assisting the system to crack down on anyone who wants change. Change = danger to the power structure, and is therefore evil if you're already set and happy with things just the way they are.
Max
You forgot this one:
.38 and empty the weapon into him. And if ye have a second clip, ye shall reload and empty that one into him as well. And that man who wishes to do others harm will never raise a hand against anyone ever again, and life will be good."
"unless a man tries to harm ye, or your family, or your property; or attempts to harm your neighbor, or your neighbor's family, or your neighbor's property; ye shall fuck off and mind your own business and tend to your own affairs.
but if that man does try to do harm to ye, your family, your property, or to your neighbor or his family or his property, then ye shall pull out your
That's gotta be my favorite.
Max
It doesn't matter how well liked a murdering bad guy is. The very fact that he murdered makes him fair game. We might let a court system decide whether or not he's truly guilty, but if he is then he deserves nothing less than death.
An eye for an eye sounds just and equitable to me, not to mention very, very satisfactory.
Max
A job is available to anyone.
Goddamn, the naive little trolls just pop out of the woodwork, don't they?
I can not believe the people who sit back and take unemployment. That is true laziness.
Not only is the troll naive, he's obnoxious as well. And apparently he has no idea how unemployment works, or who pays for it (hint: *you* pay for *yourself*).
Next our little troll will tell us that luck plays no part in life and that everything is pre-ordained. Therefore if something bad happens to you *it's your fault and you deserved it*.
Well, I'm waiting troll....
Max
Yet another naive little boy. First you deign to gift us with your 'wisdom' on how to go about getting a job, then you declare that using your valuable insights it won't take anymore more than a couple of weeks to find work.
Move along, you little twerp. The last thing I want to hear is condescension from some snot-nosed little brat who's been incredibly lucky but is too blind or too egotistical to recognize that fact.
Jesus H., where do these ignoramuses come from?
Max
The FAQ said that Slashdot was created as a US-centric site. What part of this don't you understand?
If it bothers you, go elsewhere. There are plenty of sites which focus on Europe, or specific European countries. I know because I visit them, yet you don't see me demanding that they carry U.S. news with equal weight to their own.
It would be obnoxious and rude, you see.
Max
What a naive little fuck you are. It's apparaent from your post that you don't have the first damned clue what the hell you're talking about, nor have you ever been without money. It's privileged little shits like you, who've never had a rough day in their lives, who need to be seriously bitch-slapped with a good, strong dose of reality.
In any event, unemployment insurance is something we have already *paid* for. YOUR taxes aren't used for MY unemployment. I'm simply getting back what I've already paid into the system, much like drawing upon savings.
Your 18th-century 'solution' has already been tried, junior, and found by most civilized folk to be too barbaric to continue. Try learning a little history, you ignorant twit.
Max
Forget call blocking and caller i.d. Do what I did: disconnect your phone and go with a cell service.
Turns out that with all the long-distance calling I do the cell was actually cheaper than the regular phone line. Furthermore, it's illegal to make an unsolicited sales call to a cell - because the cell owner has to pay if *you* call.
Ever since I disconnected my land line and went to a cell (more than two years now) I've been completely telemarketer free. Not one bloody sales call, not even from those hell-fiends at AT&T.
You can't imagine just how much nicer life is when you know that *every* call you get is from someone you want to hear from, or at least need to hear from.
Max
Sell the cats to a Chinese restaurant. End of problem.
Max
And the UN is so good at working things out, huh? There's a huge number of dead in Rwanda, the Balkens, Ivory Coast, etc... that might disagree with you -- were they alive to voice their opinion. The UN is a good place to TRY and work out deals, but it's not the END of the road when it fails.
As an American, I say "what fucking business is it of ours?" Not a single one of the so-called 'threats to national security' is any threat at all, if we just mind our own goddamned business and stop trying to impose a 'Pax Americana' on the rest of the world.
I don't want an empire, thanks. And no, I'm not so fucking paranoid as to think that every goddamned Third World country is out to 'get me' and that I have to conquer one of their asses every once in a while to show who's boss. That's the purview of dick-measuring loons, much like our own King George.
Let the world work out its own problems. All we need are places to buy things from, and places to sell things to. Other than that the rest just isn't our goddamned business.
Unfortunately both the government and my own people seem to think that *everything* is their business nowadays, including my own private life. Seems to me the only thing that'll teach the average American to keep the fuck out of my life and the life of others is to bitch-slap the cocksuckers into submission, much like those very same cocksuckers are doing to others right now.
Max
How about just leaving the rest of us the fuck alone?
Buddy, I'm an American and I can't get my government to leave me the fuck alone. Hell, I can't even get my neighbors to leave me the fuck alone. What chance do you furriners think you have?
Max