If that comment is your idea of wit, then thanks for vindicating my opinion of you. Let me ask you a question: Can you define realpolitik without looking it up? No? Then fuck off. You don't know shit about the discussion at hand. I have contributed more real information on current US foreign policy than you even know.
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You obviously don't know the first thing about foreign policy in general, and Bush's foreign policy in particular. Please don't waste any more of my time until you do.
I find it hard to believe that MS releases a commercial server product that actually loses data as a result of it's normal running. As users of MySQL, the slashdot staff should be aware of the precautions necessary with any database use -- even fault-impervious Open Source Tee Emm databases -- to prevent data loss and allow recovery. I place the blame for the missing nuclear material in the hands of the government adminsistrators, who were obviously too lazy to do their jobs.
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The claim that small "rogue" states are the greatest danger to the US is not only absurd, but flies in the face of Bushes self-avowed adherence to a "new realist" foreign policy, unless "new realism" means precisely the opposite of what "realism" used to mean in foreign policy terms. If Bush actually bothered to read up on the ideologies he cloaks himself in, he would understand that the nations a "realist" foreign policy would consider worthy of concern are mostly US allies. France, Germany, Japan, even UK and Canada. Of course, this would make it hard for him to put fear into dupes like you.
"Rogue" states are no more a threat to the US than Australia. They are just a smokescreen for Bushes billion dollar donations to the defense contractors who put him in office. Why do you think the US defense budget just got raised by another 40 billion? In peacetime, this is a ridiculous amount of money to be given to defense, particularly with the social problems that the US has.
Guns are a drain on hospitals, and should be banned. No argument here. Gates donates less money to charity each year than the amount he and MS should be paying in tax to the government, baut aren't. Cisco and MS paid no money at all in tax for the last two years. None. So you dupes can stick that up your illegal immigrant red herring.
If you don't like the US, pardon my asking, why are you coming here? NAFTA guarantees you get as much of our money as we do. Why not stay up there with it?
And is it our fault if being american is better than the alternatives? Somebody has to be number one, after all.
Ha! Classroom sizes in white neighbourhoods are growing because governments have been shortchanging the education the education system for years. Classes for the immigrants are five times the size, if they even have schools at all. Trust me. The drain on education is coming from the top, not the bottom.
Illegal immigrants are lucky to get any treatment at all in the current system. You, on the other had can pay for health insurancet that guarantees you treatment. You appear to lack compassion for others. Do you think it's wrong to save the lives of the poor? Or just people with different coloured skin from you?
What if it were a white girl? There's plenty of no good white trailer trash around here who do less than the wetbacks, but cost us more. They cause more trouble and cost more in health and education, since the authorities actually pay attention to them. Where should the white people be deported to?
I bet these people would love to become proper, tax-paying citizens of the US, unlike Bill Gates and John Chambers, who barely pay a cent in tax. Is that the kind of citizen you think the US should have.
You buy into the corporate smokescreen so easily. Immigrants couldn't hope to be as much of a drain on the system as rich white tax dodgers. If they commanded that much money, they wouldn't be poor.
I'm not saying that you, personally are a racist. I'm saying you've bought the racist lies. They've gotten pretty good at clouding the issue, so when I pull back the wool from your eyes, it looks like I've flown off topic. Sadly, the rise of racism in the government and media of the US makes things like Prop. 187 look reasonable, when they are just means of protecting corporate interests.
I've already shown you how immigrants bring growth with them. The claim that they are a drain on schools and health benefits is absurd. The schools they go to are all but derelict. The health benefits they get are little better than band-aids. As for welfare, they wouldn't be living 20 to a rusted out trailer if they were significantly able to rip off welfare, would they? I don't think I'm the one who needs to open his eyes.
Why don't you pop on down to the nearest South Californian shanty town and see where these mythical welfare dollars simply are not going.
All this racism is a result of the every popular NAFTA. Companies want to ensure that they can keep their low-cost workers in Mexico, where the law protects nobody, rather than allow them to come to the US, where they can benefit and contribute to a working society, and get some sort of education for their kids, so their children can hope to advance themselves. I see these people every day. They work hard. I've seen with my own eyes the falseness of the media representation.
Remember, this post was brought to you by NAFTA: building a continent where money has more freedom than people.
Alarmism strikes again. Of course terrorists have borders. They may not be working directly for the governments of the nations that shelter them, but they most definitely have arrangements or understandings with those governments. Quaddafi shelters terrorists for a reason. If he didn't have one, he certainly wouldn't be dumb enough to put himself in the position of having econonic sanctions placed on him by the US. The Taliban shelter Bin Laden because they agree with him, and have come to an understanding, monetary most likely.
They're all in each other's pockets, and they all have something to lose if Uncle Sam gets seriously pissed off. From this perspective, even the most fanatical terrorist can see that if you are going to cost the lives of tens of thousands of your fellow muslims, you'd better leave a 50 mile crater where Manhattan used to be.
Of course, the DoD perpetuates the myth of the mindless fanatic to keep everyone jumping at shadows. The real problem they need to face isn't nuclear terrorism of the suitcase or ICBM variety. It's the hundreds of tin-pot dictators they've spent the last three decades giving conventional weapons to. The US is the only country in history that has spent over a trillion dollars arming it's potential enemies.
For the amount of wages they get paid, their income tax would be negligible. In return, they put in a hell of a lot of hard work, and tend to buy american, since it's all they can afford. Immigrants, illegal or otherwise, create growth. The argument that they are a drain on resources is a racist lie. The argument that illegal immigrants make use of the welfare system is an even greater lie. How could they use the welfare system when they don't have social security numbers?
Do you really think mandatory unionism is just? This seems like a coercive method to create organisations that stand in the way of progress for American companies. Mexicans do more for this country than greedy whining unions do.
You think these people don't deserve to benefit from the prosperity of the US? That kind of mentality is part of what earns the US a bad name overseas. They contribute a lot to my home town and my state. I don't know many white people who are willing to do field work and factory work for rates that actually make farming and manufacturing competitive. Perhaps you think they should just all go back where they came from, do you? I can tell you, if you think they're stealing jobs here, if you deport them, they'll take the jobs with them. Ask anyone who used to work for the auto industry in Detroit where their job is now.
The risk is that the person is caught, interrogated, and the US retaliates, devastating your tin-pot country for the next century or so. I'd call that quite a significant risk for a measly 10 kilotons, wouldn't you?
I'm more concerned about the simpicity of bringing certain kinds of contraband in by ship along the North Western coast. This area is wide open to smuggling, simply because most cocaine exporting nations cannot get to it easily.
Sorry my nation can't tell a good Canadian tourist from a no-good job stealing illegal immigrant. Wonder how much of a problem they have with your kind stealing jobs in Northern states? Down where I am, we tend only to be concerned with Hispanics, and I frankly don't mind them. They seem to be doing all the jobs I don't want to do.
Unless you assemble the nukes in Canada (do you know of any Canadians who actually want to nuke the US?), you have to get it into Canada first. Everyone else seems to have figured this out for themselves pretty quickly, I notice.
The NY Post is owned by a subsidiary company of the Moon cult. Their editorial policy is highly suspect, and this story reeks of BS alarmism. When the story is reported in the NY Times, maybe I'll believe you.
But, yeah, Mexico would be a better entry point, although if I were Hussein I'd smuggle it into Washington state on a tanker. Mexican border customs is pretty tight, and getting tighter. The only reason drugs get through is the amount that gets sent. You only get one chance with a nuke.
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Guess that says more about you than it does about me.
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You obviously don't know the first thing about foreign policy in general, and Bush's foreign policy in particular. Please don't waste any more of my time until you do.
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I find it hard to believe that MS releases a commercial server product that actually loses data as a result of it's normal running. As users of MySQL, the slashdot staff should be aware of the precautions necessary with any database use -- even fault-impervious Open Source Tee Emm databases -- to prevent data loss and allow recovery. I place the blame for the missing nuclear material in the hands of the government adminsistrators, who were obviously too lazy to do their jobs.
I will agree that choosing the correct RDBMS solution is crucial. Smart companies use Oracle, not MS._ _____
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"Checking your fact is, of course, a feat beyond the capabilities of 99.5% of all /. posters.
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Lucky for me.
Can't they both be?
The claim that small "rogue" states are the greatest danger to the US is not only absurd, but flies in the face of Bushes self-avowed adherence to a "new realist" foreign policy, unless "new realism" means precisely the opposite of what "realism" used to mean in foreign policy terms. If Bush actually bothered to read up on the ideologies he cloaks himself in, he would understand that the nations a "realist" foreign policy would consider worthy of concern are mostly US allies. France, Germany, Japan, even UK and Canada. Of course, this would make it hard for him to put fear into dupes like you.
"Rogue" states are no more a threat to the US than Australia. They are just a smokescreen for Bushes billion dollar donations to the defense contractors who put him in office. Why do you think the US defense budget just got raised by another 40 billion? In peacetime, this is a ridiculous amount of money to be given to defense, particularly with the social problems that the US has.
Guns are a drain on hospitals, and should be banned. No argument here. Gates donates less money to charity each year than the amount he and MS should be paying in tax to the government, baut aren't. Cisco and MS paid no money at all in tax for the last two years. None. So you dupes can stick that up your illegal immigrant red herring.
And is it our fault if being american is better than the alternatives? Somebody has to be number one, after all.
Ha! Classroom sizes in white neighbourhoods are growing because governments have been shortchanging the education the education system for years. Classes for the immigrants are five times the size, if they even have schools at all. Trust me. The drain on education is coming from the top, not the bottom.
Illegal immigrants are lucky to get any treatment at all in the current system. You, on the other had can pay for health insurancet that guarantees you treatment. You appear to lack compassion for others. Do you think it's wrong to save the lives of the poor? Or just people with different coloured skin from you?
What if it were a white girl? There's plenty of no good white trailer trash around here who do less than the wetbacks, but cost us more. They cause more trouble and cost more in health and education, since the authorities actually pay attention to them. Where should the white people be deported to?
I bet these people would love to become proper, tax-paying citizens of the US, unlike Bill Gates and John Chambers, who barely pay a cent in tax. Is that the kind of citizen you think the US should have.
You buy into the corporate smokescreen so easily. Immigrants couldn't hope to be as much of a drain on the system as rich white tax dodgers. If they commanded that much money, they wouldn't be poor.
I'm not saying that you, personally are a racist. I'm saying you've bought the racist lies. They've gotten pretty good at clouding the issue, so when I pull back the wool from your eyes, it looks like I've flown off topic. Sadly, the rise of racism in the government and media of the US makes things like Prop. 187 look reasonable, when they are just means of protecting corporate interests.
I've already shown you how immigrants bring growth with them. The claim that they are a drain on schools and health benefits is absurd. The schools they go to are all but derelict. The health benefits they get are little better than band-aids. As for welfare, they wouldn't be living 20 to a rusted out trailer if they were significantly able to rip off welfare, would they? I don't think I'm the one who needs to open his eyes.
Why don't you pop on down to the nearest South Californian shanty town and see where these mythical welfare dollars simply are not going.
All this racism is a result of the every popular NAFTA. Companies want to ensure that they can keep their low-cost workers in Mexico, where the law protects nobody, rather than allow them to come to the US, where they can benefit and contribute to a working society, and get some sort of education for their kids, so their children can hope to advance themselves. I see these people every day. They work hard. I've seen with my own eyes the falseness of the media representation.
Remember, this post was brought to you by NAFTA: building a continent where money has more freedom than people.
Alarmism strikes again. Of course terrorists have borders. They may not be working directly for the governments of the nations that shelter them, but they most definitely have arrangements or understandings with those governments. Quaddafi shelters terrorists for a reason. If he didn't have one, he certainly wouldn't be dumb enough to put himself in the position of having econonic sanctions placed on him by the US. The Taliban shelter Bin Laden because they agree with him, and have come to an understanding, monetary most likely.
They're all in each other's pockets, and they all have something to lose if Uncle Sam gets seriously pissed off. From this perspective, even the most fanatical terrorist can see that if you are going to cost the lives of tens of thousands of your fellow muslims, you'd better leave a 50 mile crater where Manhattan used to be.
Of course, the DoD perpetuates the myth of the mindless fanatic to keep everyone jumping at shadows. The real problem they need to face isn't nuclear terrorism of the suitcase or ICBM variety. It's the hundreds of tin-pot dictators they've spent the last three decades giving conventional weapons to. The US is the only country in history that has spent over a trillion dollars arming it's potential enemies.
For the amount of wages they get paid, their income tax would be negligible. In return, they put in a hell of a lot of hard work, and tend to buy american, since it's all they can afford. Immigrants, illegal or otherwise, create growth. The argument that they are a drain on resources is a racist lie. The argument that illegal immigrants make use of the welfare system is an even greater lie. How could they use the welfare system when they don't have social security numbers?
Then it wouldn't be a "suitcase nuke" would it?
Do you really think mandatory unionism is just? This seems like a coercive method to create organisations that stand in the way of progress for American companies. Mexicans do more for this country than greedy whining unions do.
You think these people don't deserve to benefit from the prosperity of the US? That kind of mentality is part of what earns the US a bad name overseas. They contribute a lot to my home town and my state. I don't know many white people who are willing to do field work and factory work for rates that actually make farming and manufacturing competitive. Perhaps you think they should just all go back where they came from, do you? I can tell you, if you think they're stealing jobs here, if you deport them, they'll take the jobs with them. Ask anyone who used to work for the auto industry in Detroit where their job is now.
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The risk is that the person is caught, interrogated, and the US retaliates, devastating your tin-pot country for the next century or so. I'd call that quite a significant risk for a measly 10 kilotons, wouldn't you?
Sorry my nation can't tell a good Canadian tourist from a no-good job stealing illegal immigrant. Wonder how much of a problem they have with your kind stealing jobs in Northern states? Down where I am, we tend only to be concerned with Hispanics, and I frankly don't mind them. They seem to be doing all the jobs I don't want to do.
My point was, the explosive yield of such a small weapon does not justify the risk/effort involved. Think about it.
Unless you assemble the nukes in Canada (do you know of any Canadians who actually want to nuke the US?), you have to get it into Canada first. Everyone else seems to have figured this out for themselves pretty quickly, I notice.
But, yeah, Mexico would be a better entry point, although if I were Hussein I'd smuggle it into Washington state on a tanker. Mexican border customs is pretty tight, and getting tighter. The only reason drugs get through is the amount that gets sent. You only get one chance with a nuke.