Oh, and by the way Mossadegh was an puppet run by the Fadayan-e Islam arranged a bunch of assassinations to install him in power in place of the Shah, so could it not rightly be said that we put the rightful ruler back in?
The Shah, we 'installed' (your term) was their rightful ruler under their own system of government, and could trace his lineage as such back to 1501. His family had been rulers since 1925, so, where did we (the USA) install him?
Uh, did you forget about that little 8 year long war they had against Iraq? Seriously, before making statements you should do a little research... while one might call the Iran - Iraq war a war of aggression on Iraq's part, they can only do so up until a certain point when Iran certainly was the aggressor.
The Department of Defense does not 'advise' the President.
You are posting as an anonymous coward so I can have no clue as to your nationality, but if you are a US citizen this was all taught you in all those course you slept through in high school.
The President is advised on military matters by his cabinet and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
I strongly suggest that you read the law. He is forbidden by law from making many types of comments, he is forbidden by good sense (like, maybe he wants a promotion) from saying some other things.
Nowhere is he required to give a straight answer to a question from a group of people on the internet. He retreats into bureaucratic doublespeak as you call it whenever the questions were stupid to begin with... I do not know who selected those questions, or what the selection criterion were but I highly suspect they were selected because persons of your ilk thought that he was in some way 'required' to answer them to your satisfaction. Not having done so, now you pull the argument that all citizens get to call Bullshit on any part of the government at any time card, which, BTW is not exactly true... I mean, you can call Bullshit at any time on anything, but frankly, what does that do? Nothing. Elections are what does something, not whiny people upset because they didn't get a free pint...
But I digress.
It is the duty of the people to participate in our democratic system, but there are not laws enforcing this (as there were in ancient Greece). So?
You first sentence shows me that you would never consider putting a cause above your own needs.
Oh, I get it, you think Generals are hatched and wear Stars on their shoulders fresh out of the egg!
Nope, they gotta do their time as LT's, then CPT's, then MAJ's, then LTC's, then COL's, all of which takes years... No general is such without having done like 20 years at the lower officer ranks, thus proving his willingness to protect your sorry, sarcastic ass...
Did you actually think he would say anything that later could come back to haunt him? You really aren't that naive, are you? I mean, he can't legally say anything about; Anything in contract talks now, anything with any level of clearance, anything about any existing program with any level of clearance. He also is a representative of the U.S. Military, as such he is not allowed to make policy, only to obey the orders of the elected officials, who do make policy and law which govern his acts, so asking about policy or law is stupid because he doesn't control that and if he comments negatively on it then he in effect is throwing shite at his bosses... not usually a good way to get promoted, or has that worked for you?
Seriously, interviews like this you can't expect any 'meat' out of unless the guy is a total idiot. Rarely do TOTAL idiots get promoted to generals. I did say rarely!
Remarks like yours which start out with an insult Helpful comments to new users: 1) RTFM 2) If you don't like it, here's the source code, go write the change yourself 3) Man pages suck so much it is ridiculous 4) Coders write programs for their own use, then wonder why no one else uses them 5) Cryptic 3 letter names for shite I want to use daily 6) Command line needed to reconfigure simple shite that should be in a simple gui control panel 7) Command line needed for anything 8) Wireless support, Linux doesn't (this is an example people, read it and treat it as such) work with wireless right out of the box, it needs one to delve into it's guts to get it working 9) OpenOffice may or may not take an hour to load (see previous post) but it does automatically default to a file type for saving that MS Office can not read, thus making user generated files unreadable by MS Office, with whom 99% of the people you need to talk will not understand or be able to open 10) Being more concerned with a philosophy than with usability 11) Rude and condescending user base 12) Do you really want me to go on?
Linux is a fine set of OSes for the hobbyist, fine for people who get satisfaction in delving into the guts, but for the average joe or jane user it sucks so bad they wonder why anyone in their right mind would even suggest it! They just want their computer to work. One of the Computer Scientists at the R&D lab where I work was having issues with Vista... Pre installed on her new laptop, so I gave her Ubuntu to try... Long story short, after running it off of the cd that night she gave me back the cd and told me that she wasn't interested in wasting time attempting to relearn everything about her computer in order to get work done, she just wanted to get work done, so she pulled out her old XP install disk and installed that on her laptop...
People, stop thinking you are going to take over the world until you realize that feeling superior and being insulting aren't winning social engineering strategies, and start thinking, gee, how could we make that GUI more useable and intuitive for a non-technical user... oh and GUIs for every conceivable setting need to be developed.
Yeah, I have a chip on my shoulder from every damn time I have gone to a newsgroup to ask a question and been told one of two things: RTFM (I already did or I wouldn't have been there asshole) or well, if you can't figure it out, then you have no business owning a computer. WTF? Over. I use a mac and a pc mostly because guess what? Apple and MS never say that if I don't take the time to figure it out that I don't deserve to own it, they are helpful and walk me through it.
So, in short stop thinking that Mom and Pop are stupid and start thinking that if you want a user base, outside of your current users then you need to think of those peoples needs and meet them
Read up on some physics... Neutrinos have been proven to have mass (1998) and things can exist with no mass (see photons)
Neutron detectors exist and because neutrons are VERY weakly interacting, only are detected a small percentage of the time, for which you should be grateful as several zillion of 'em zipped through youo as you read this!
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Oh, and by the way Mossadegh was an puppet run by the Fadayan-e Islam arranged a bunch of assassinations to install him in power in place of the Shah, so could it not rightly be said that we put the rightful ruler back in?
Reinstall.
He was the legal ruler at one point, not a US puppet.
US/UK, not a US only job.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_of_Iran
The Shah, we 'installed' (your term) was their rightful ruler under their own system of government, and could trace his lineage as such back to 1501. His family had been rulers since 1925, so, where did we (the USA) install him?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
The Department of Defense does not 'advise' the President.
You are posting as an anonymous coward so I can have no clue as to your nationality, but if you are a US citizen this was all taught you in all those course you slept through in high school.
The President is advised on military matters by his cabinet and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
I strongly suggest that you read the law. He is forbidden by law from making many types of comments, he is forbidden by good sense (like, maybe he wants a promotion) from saying some other things.
Nowhere is he required to give a straight answer to a question from a group of people on the internet. He retreats into bureaucratic doublespeak as you call it whenever the questions were stupid to begin with... I do not know who selected those questions, or what the selection criterion were but I highly suspect they were selected because persons of your ilk thought that he was in some way 'required' to answer them to your satisfaction. Not having done so, now you pull the argument that all citizens get to call Bullshit on any part of the government at any time card, which, BTW is not exactly true... I mean, you can call Bullshit at any time on anything, but frankly, what does that do? Nothing. Elections are what does something, not whiny people upset because they didn't get a free pint...
But I digress.
It is the duty of the people to participate in our democratic system, but there are not laws enforcing this (as there were in ancient Greece). So?
You first sentence shows me that you would never consider putting a cause above your own needs.
end rant.
Nope, they gotta do their time as LT's, then CPT's, then MAJ's, then LTC's, then COL's, all of which takes years... No general is such without having done like 20 years at the lower officer ranks, thus proving his willingness to protect your sorry, sarcastic ass...
Seriously, interviews like this you can't expect any 'meat' out of unless the guy is a total idiot. Rarely do TOTAL idiots get promoted to generals. I did say rarely!
Why Linux sucks:
Remarks like yours which start out with an insult
Helpful comments to new users:
1) RTFM
2) If you don't like it, here's the source code, go write the change yourself
3) Man pages suck so much it is ridiculous
4) Coders write programs for their own use, then wonder why no one else uses them
5) Cryptic 3 letter names for shite I want to use daily
6) Command line needed to reconfigure simple shite that should be in a simple gui control panel
7) Command line needed for anything
8) Wireless support, Linux doesn't (this is an example people, read it and treat it as such) work with wireless right out of the box, it needs one to delve into it's guts to get it working
9) OpenOffice may or may not take an hour to load (see previous post) but it does automatically default to a file type for saving that MS Office can not read, thus making user generated files unreadable by MS Office, with whom 99% of the people you need to talk will not understand or be able to open
10) Being more concerned with a philosophy than with usability
11) Rude and condescending user base
12) Do you really want me to go on?
Linux is a fine set of OSes for the hobbyist, fine for people who get satisfaction in delving into the guts, but for the average joe or jane user it sucks so bad they wonder why anyone in their right mind would even suggest it! They just want their computer to work. One of the Computer Scientists at the R&D lab where I work was having issues with Vista... Pre installed on her new laptop, so I gave her Ubuntu to try... Long story short, after running it off of the cd that night she gave me back the cd and told me that she wasn't interested in wasting time attempting to relearn everything about her computer in order to get work done, she just wanted to get work done, so she pulled out her old XP install disk and installed that on her laptop...
People, stop thinking you are going to take over the world until you realize that feeling superior and being insulting aren't winning social engineering strategies, and start thinking, gee, how could we make that GUI more useable and intuitive for a non-technical user... oh and GUIs for every conceivable setting need to be developed.
Yeah, I have a chip on my shoulder from every damn time I have gone to a newsgroup to ask a question and been told one of two things: RTFM (I already did or I wouldn't have been there asshole) or well, if you can't figure it out, then you have no business owning a computer. WTF? Over. I use a mac and a pc mostly because guess what? Apple and MS never say that if I don't take the time to figure it out that I don't deserve to own it, they are helpful and walk me through it.
So, in short stop thinking that Mom and Pop are stupid and start thinking that if you want a user base, outside of your current users then you need to think of those peoples needs and meet them
End Rant.
Dude,
Read up on some physics... Neutrinos have been proven to have mass (1998) and things can exist with no mass (see photons)
Neutron detectors exist and because neutrons are VERY weakly interacting, only are detected a small percentage of the time, for which you should be grateful as several zillion of 'em zipped through youo as you read this!
Obviously you have never studied history...