Till bandwidth increases dramatically this ain't going to change. IT isn't quick or convenient to download DVD images. I average $4/movie to BUY it, why would I waste the hours downloading and burning it?
They are also not below the law. The "liberal whining" is the part where you are assuming guilt without facts or convictions. Just like the other 10 stories just like it in the news today.
We have this thing in the US called the "legal system". Folks are actually innocent till proven guilty. As opposed to al you you lynch mobbers ready to hang anyone who happens to not subscribe you your ideas or ideals.
He was essentially the PR rep for that branch of service. Lots of honorable folks disagree with the policies they are charges to uphold but don't decide to air their differences in a political stunt in front of Congress.
Serving in one of America's seven uniformed services, the SG serves the people at the pleasure of the President (Executive). He's there to take orders and perform assigned duties, not promote his personal agenda. If he wanted to be a politician there are plenty of offices he can get himself elected to. If he wants to create Koop2.com or whatever he can resign and go into the civilian sector.
"Al-Haramain worked to spread a strict view of Islam through philanthropy, missionary work and support for mosques around the world." I'm pretty sure that alone qualifies as supporting terrorism.
Is the price/performance ratio. Intel is currently ahead in the CPU performance top-end but AMD is ahead in the price and GPU areas. Thinking of past history I would expect a "Coup de grâce" from AMD in the near future. They seem to be some clever folks over there at AMD.
I'm not particularly fond of politicians either but I'm enough of a realist to know that in this world you sometimes have to make decisions where every response is a potential negative. I don't agree with every decision but I've seen enough firsthand evidence to convince me that other alternatives would have had a worse outcome. Tell me what you would have done? Did you even know what Saddam was doing by 2002? He was starving 3/4 of his own population to make the US and UK look bad. Paying off the families of suicide bombers in Palestine and naming streets in Baghdad after them, violating the no-fly zone and shooting at our planes, spending millions in the Arabic press to make himself look like a Islamic martyr against the infidels, bribing UN officials to look the other way on illegal oil sales, blaming the US for the supposed deaths of millions of Iraqi infants fro starvation while building dozens of HUGE palaces around the country, lobbying OPEC to raise oil prices to force the UN to drop sanctions, suppressing Kurds and other minorities and torturing dissidents, and on and on. Ok, since you know better, what would you have done?
I said "misrepresentation or lie". In each case you would have to prove that the person intentionally lied or misrepresented the facts. Being wrong isn't the same. He made those statements due to intelligence briefing he was given that came to the conclusion that those statements were correct. Read the 2004 ISG final report to get a taste of that the President and Vice president were being told by the intel community and UN inspectors.
You need to open your eyes and realize that we are in an ideological world war and the other side doesn't give a crap if you want to fight or not. Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria, Philippines, Chad, Bali, Spain, Russia, Denmark..on and on and on it spreads and you stuff your head down a hole in the sand.
You listened to the press who know very little at all and warp what little they do know to fit their agenda. You also never bother really thinking what would have happened had we not gone to war. What I can guarantee you is that if he had not gone to war and Saddam was still in power the lefty press and Democrats would be condemning Bush's inaction. Hell, they were doing that before the war too. The press propped up the WMD strawman to have something to punch and you fell for it.
Here's a challenge. Find me one verifiable misrepresentation or lie directly quoted from a member of the Executive branch or military pertaining to Iraq.
When you grow up you have to make decisions. When you make decisions some people will disagree for the sake of disagreeing. Some folks will disagree because they truly believe differently. Either way someone has to make responsible decisions.
As far as the whole Valerie Plame ordeal, you are making assumptions based on opinions not FACT. You have let the press brainwash you. If you were so concerned with such matters you would feel even more strongly about the leaks consistently coming from Congress over the last four years that have severely damaged out abilities to act covertly and collect intelligence. But those leaks don't fit your anti-Bush agenda.
As far as Bush's speech, I have personal firsthand knowledge of the intelligence that speech was derived from and his conclusions are directly distilled from them. Again, you have let the press brainwash you to believe assertions not in evidence. You also have no understanding of how the systems that produced that intelligence work.
Just because you choose to denigrate things you disagree with doesn't mean your opinions are valid. I chose to serve 9 years. My wife is still serving. I agree with most of what is being done and has been done with foreign policy. I read a big chunk of the intelligence that lead to these decisions as it was coming in and came to the same conclusions. I might add that most of Congress came to the same conclusions only some choose political expediency over honor and integrity. I listened to GB's UN speech before the UN and know for a fact that it is almost entirely correct, even today with hindsight.
I don't like the poor fiscal policy of Congress. I think too many things are pushed to the Federal level. I think the Federal government is too powerful. I believe in "these united states" over "The United States". I think that lawyers have taken over all three branches of government and it's a BAD thing.
The only things stopping me to wish that the US would feel the same pain they inflict on other, is that on the contrary to your policy, I do not wish the death of innocent people.
But you do. By ignorantly assuming there is a better choice without really looking at the alternatives you would cause suffering by any action or inaction. You blame the US for intervening in the Mideast and for not intervening enough in Africa. If the situations were reversed you would still be talking crap. Welcome to the real world.
I think you need to study history a little more. And be a little more realistic. In the real world you are often faced with nothing but bad and worse choices. You obviously have an anti-US agenda. The really sad part is that statistical analysis has proven that economic sanctions are worthless but we keep trying to use the tactic to appease the idealists. But idealists are never appeased and are more than willing to stab you in the back whatever decision you make.
The whole point of sanctions is to have the population put political pressure on the government. Unfortunately the French, Germans and Russians were more than happy to sell Saddam what HE wanted under the table. And Saddam didn't give a crap about his own starving people. In fact, the situation helped solidify his power since he controlled all the wealth which he used to fuel his regime and build lots of palaces.
Kudos to the ACLU for striking while the brand is hot to USE this moment to push an agenda. Again Congress has proven that doing nothing for the wrong reason is easier than doing something for the right reason. Huh?
Maybe this guy doesn't actually play them. He has Robot Wars pitting the systems against each other. PSP and DS are small and maneuverable. The PS3 has that low profile wing cross section. With all those blunt corners the 360 takes the most damage.
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Till bandwidth increases dramatically this ain't going to change. IT isn't quick or convenient to download DVD images. I average $4/movie to BUY it, why would I waste the hours downloading and burning it?
They are also not below the law. The "liberal whining" is the part where you are assuming guilt without facts or convictions. Just like the other 10 stories just like it in the news today.
We have this thing in the US called the "legal system". Folks are actually innocent till proven guilty. As opposed to al you you lynch mobbers ready to hang anyone who happens to not subscribe you your ideas or ideals.
This is dumb in so many ways. They could have bought 5000 smoke detectors too! What retards. GAO is a joke.
Read the article. The terrorist databases are seperate from the other databases used to identify and track FEDERAL (F as in FBI) crimes.
He was essentially the PR rep for that branch of service. Lots of honorable folks disagree with the policies they are charges to uphold but don't decide to air their differences in a political stunt in front of Congress.
Yes, and other uniformed officers should be allowed to blow off their duties and ignore orders.
Serving in one of America's seven uniformed services, the SG serves the people at the pleasure of the President (Executive). He's there to take orders and perform assigned duties, not promote his personal agenda. If he wanted to be a politician there are plenty of offices he can get himself elected to. If he wants to create Koop2.com or whatever he can resign and go into the civilian sector.
You forgot the part where you beat people for hugging in public and enslave females.
"Al-Haramain worked to spread a strict view of Islam through philanthropy, missionary work and support for mosques around the world." I'm pretty sure that alone qualifies as supporting terrorism.
Is the price/performance ratio. Intel is currently ahead in the CPU performance top-end but AMD is ahead in the price and GPU areas. Thinking of past history I would expect a "Coup de grâce" from AMD in the near future. They seem to be some clever folks over there at AMD.
The space Shuttle program will cost at least $174 billion and the ISS $140 billion by 2010. Think of all the starving babies.
Is that it is primarily corrective instead of primarily preventative.
I'm not particularly fond of politicians either but I'm enough of a realist to know that in this world you sometimes have to make decisions where every response is a potential negative. I don't agree with every decision but I've seen enough firsthand evidence to convince me that other alternatives would have had a worse outcome. Tell me what you would have done? Did you even know what Saddam was doing by 2002? He was starving 3/4 of his own population to make the US and UK look bad. Paying off the families of suicide bombers in Palestine and naming streets in Baghdad after them, violating the no-fly zone and shooting at our planes, spending millions in the Arabic press to make himself look like a Islamic martyr against the infidels, bribing UN officials to look the other way on illegal oil sales, blaming the US for the supposed deaths of millions of Iraqi infants fro starvation while building dozens of HUGE palaces around the country, lobbying OPEC to raise oil prices to force the UN to drop sanctions, suppressing Kurds and other minorities and torturing dissidents, and on and on. Ok, since you know better, what would you have done?
"Make no mistake. We made things worse" now who is making blanket statements?
You need to open your eyes and realize that we are in an ideological world war and the other side doesn't give a crap if you want to fight or not. Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria, Philippines, Chad, Bali, Spain, Russia, Denmark..on and on and on it spreads and you stuff your head down a hole in the sand.
Here's a challenge. Find me one verifiable misrepresentation or lie directly quoted from a member of the Executive branch or military pertaining to Iraq.
As far as the whole Valerie Plame ordeal, you are making assumptions based on opinions not FACT. You have let the press brainwash you. If you were so concerned with such matters you would feel even more strongly about the leaks consistently coming from Congress over the last four years that have severely damaged out abilities to act covertly and collect intelligence. But those leaks don't fit your anti-Bush agenda.
As far as Bush's speech, I have personal firsthand knowledge of the intelligence that speech was derived from and his conclusions are directly distilled from them. Again, you have let the press brainwash you to believe assertions not in evidence. You also have no understanding of how the systems that produced that intelligence work.
I don't like the poor fiscal policy of Congress. I think too many things are pushed to the Federal level. I think the Federal government is too powerful. I believe in "these united states" over "The United States". I think that lawyers have taken over all three branches of government and it's a BAD thing.
But you do. By ignorantly assuming there is a better choice without really looking at the alternatives you would cause suffering by any action or inaction. You blame the US for intervening in the Mideast and for not intervening enough in Africa. If the situations were reversed you would still be talking crap. Welcome to the real world.
I think you need to study history a little more. And be a little more realistic. In the real world you are often faced with nothing but bad and worse choices. You obviously have an anti-US agenda. The really sad part is that statistical analysis has proven that economic sanctions are worthless but we keep trying to use the tactic to appease the idealists. But idealists are never appeased and are more than willing to stab you in the back whatever decision you make.
The whole point of sanctions is to have the population put political pressure on the government. Unfortunately the French, Germans and Russians were more than happy to sell Saddam what HE wanted under the table. And Saddam didn't give a crap about his own starving people. In fact, the situation helped solidify his power since he controlled all the wealth which he used to fuel his regime and build lots of palaces.
Kudos to the ACLU for striking while the brand is hot to USE this moment to push an agenda. Again Congress has proven that doing nothing for the wrong reason is easier than doing something for the right reason. Huh?
Maybe this guy doesn't actually play them. He has Robot Wars pitting the systems against each other. PSP and DS are small and maneuverable. The PS3 has that low profile wing cross section. With all those blunt corners the 360 takes the most damage.