The reasons for us going to war weren't correct, but you can be sure that oil had very little to do with it. Anytime there is a war in a major oil producing country the price of oil spikes. This really does not benefit us at all. Who does it benefit?
"And all Iraqi military and civilian personnel should listen carefully to this warning. In any conflict, your fate will depend on your action. Do not destroy oil wells, a source of wealth" George W. Bush, March 17, 2003
And you obviously need to watch this educational video. Pay attention to the part starting at 2:22.
BitTorrent is nice to have, but word processing is mission critical. That's the lack of quality freeware I was talking about. What's wrong with TextEdit?
4. Illegal file-sharers don't care whether the copyright-infringing work they distribute is from a major or independent label. 10. P2P networks are not hotbeds for discovering new music. It is popular music that is illegally file-shared most frequently.
Aren't these counter to each other? Forget that, isn't point 10 not an actual point but a retarded circular logic spin?
"The most popular downloads are the most popular song" really? ya think?
The point is that he doesn't get any of the benefits of ownership -- he will be in exactly the same position if Haliburton does well as he'll be in if Haliburton tanks. FactCheck: Yes, Cheney has received $2,000,000USD from Halliburton. FactCheck: Yes, Halliburton got $7,000,000,000USD in no-bid Iraq contracts.
All I'm saying is that Cheney had nothing to do with it. That's just left-wing spin left over from the 2004 election Funny, you apologists were telling me BEFORE the fucking war started that Cheny had renounced all ties to Haliburton and that my predictions of no-bid contracts were liberal hate.
But back to how your facts are, in fact, fiction:
Cheney is performing any work for Haliburton. He has two potential financial ties: (1) he received stock options, the rights to which he has donated to charity (no tie there) He still OWNS THE DAMN STOCK, he just promised he'd give the profits to charity. He's getting hundreds of thousands in deferred payments AND his government salary, he needs the PR of charity more than the pre-war profits from his stock. His actions as Grand Vizier of the United States has led to his stock rising in worth by the thousandfold! You think his old buddies at his Clinton-era job won't want to thank him?
Do you think he's planning on staying in the Oval Office for the rest of his life? He's going to need another job in 2009, will you stop deluding yourself when he moves to Dubai then?
Russia isn't Communist any more. And yet, they're still up to no good. It's as though the economic model had nothing to do with their totalitarian tendencies! That's unpossible!
Umm, if you drop your toothbrush and it bounces off the toilet seat and lands on the floor below, as far as I'm concerned, you might as well have dropped it into the bowl. Throw it away and get on with your life. I catch it on the bounce up;-)
Now, tiny droplets of shit and piss water won't kill you--if you are healthy, you could likely french kiss your toilet seat and not get sick, but that doesn't mean you wanna. I find the mere knowlege that, if I don't shut the toilet first, I will be bathed an a microscopic shit shower to be sufficiently unappealing that I always do so. Summon BILL NYE:
The rise in allergies may also be connected to--or explained through--an understanding of the theory of evolution. The reasoning would go like this: We've come to exist as we are through millions of years of coexistence with billions of microbes. Our immune systems have grown up in the presence of irritants and attackers. As each of us grows to adulthood, our immune systems take time to develop along with the rest of our bodies. When we don't provide enough external stimulation, our immune systems don't develop enough memories of attackers and irritants. That's the "too clean" idea.
However, if you are living together and sharing a space, then insisting that the toilet seat be down (or up, for that matter, although I've never encountered that) is simply a selfish insistence that your needs are more important than your partner's. Consider: when a man wants to pee, if the toilet seat is down, he must first put it up, or the seat will end up with drops of urine on it, which no one (including the man) wants. When a woman wants to pee, if the toilet seat is up, she must put it down, because she cannot sit on the rim. Which is why, as someone else has pointed out, we should always put the seat and lid down when we are done. That way, everyone has to put the same effort before and after any toilet uses, AND you can't possibly drop your toothbrush in the bowl if the lid is down.
Everyone wins.
This, off course, totally pisses off the prissy wimminz who use the toilet seat as some kind of petty ammunition in the pointless fights they plan to have, which is a huge bonus.
Link to Image The image shows that they can be used with an adapter to fit an existing SD card slot. Thank you very much, this is exactly what I wanted from this thread:) That article was useless without it.
There is nothing I've said even remotely "flamebait" or "troll"ish and yet looking through the karma I'm being attacked left and right. That happens when a comment is made that disagrees with the official US position. Don't let them silence you:) Hopefully the metamoderation system will work well enough for these abuser to have their mod points taken away in the future.
I'm not so sure about that. My take is that those four have been brainwashed by the Cylons to think they're Cylons too (the XO can't be a Cylon, he was fighting them before they evolved into skinjobs).
Presumably. For all you know, the skinjobs are older than that, or he's a prototype Well, the timeline suggested in the opening credits (created by man, revolt, evolve) lets me know that shouldn't be the case. The quality of the series thus far also suggest that they aren't likely to pull a retcon like that on us (*knock on wood*). So far they've followed up on their cues pretty consistently.
Lots of competent people don't wish to pee in a cup. A few may be light drug users that would still manage to do good work. The rest are just insulted that anybody would suggest that drugs might be in use. And then there are the ones who simply don't like their privacy invaded on principle.
You're right -- it's trollish, mainly because it's wrong. Go to fact check here for the actual truth. Cheney has received some deferred compensation and turned over a bunch of his stock options to charity. Apart from that, he has no continuing interest. He's working for Haliburton while getting paid by the taxpayers.
How many no-bid contracts will it take to get that through your +1 Cursed Shield Of Mental Delusions? How many overcharging and tainted food scandals before you accept reality in place of your rosy fantasy?
all of the secrecy can lead to corruption, as though it may happen. I'd argue that we're well past that point- the first sign that something is amiss is the unprecedented secrecy. The surveillance and other illegal acts are just window dressing. Actually, the secrecy is a sign of corruption.
If i dont let you peek into my home its beacuse i didnt agree to it as a condition of surrender.. Saddam did agree to this. When he started playing games its logical to asume shady activity was going on. Letting inspectors into specially 'cleansed' areas does not qualify as 'opening the doors' in my opinion. ( and many others ) Your opinion is worth diddly squat. The inspectors themselves had valid opinions that run contrary to your uninformed ramblings.
He still deserved to have his country leveled in either case. Fuck you. About three hundred thousand people killed. What did THEY do to deserve being murdered?
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"And all Iraqi military and civilian personnel should listen carefully to this warning. In any conflict, your fate will depend on your action. Do not destroy oil wells, a source of wealth"
George W. Bush, March 17, 2003
And you obviously need to watch this educational video. Pay attention to the part starting at 2:22.
http://isp.netscape.com/
Wasn't Netscape a cheap ISP for a while? Now it's a browser again?
I'm confused.
Don't forget the results of deregulating the power grid.
But I'm sure once the general public starts to feel the effects of it, they'll blame Canada for that too.
10. P2P networks are not hotbeds for discovering new music. It is popular music that is illegally file-shared most frequently.
Aren't these counter to each other? Forget that, isn't point 10 not an actual point but a retarded circular logic spin?
"The most popular downloads are the most popular song" really? ya think?
You misspelled "iPhone Killer"...
And since it isn't even out yet, I guess that would be an iPhone Aborter.
FactCheck: Yes, Halliburton got $7,000,000,000USD in no-bid Iraq contracts.
You think he forgot his friends?
Or that he didn't take office for the express purpose of conquering Iraq and changing their laws so Halliburton could profit from their oil?
But back to how your facts are, in fact, fiction: Cheney is performing any work for Haliburton. He has two potential financial ties: (1) he received stock options, the rights to which he has donated to charity (no tie there) He still OWNS THE DAMN STOCK, he just promised he'd give the profits to charity. He's getting hundreds of thousands in deferred payments AND his government salary, he needs the PR of charity more than the pre-war profits from his stock. His actions as Grand Vizier of the United States has led to his stock rising in worth by the thousandfold! You think his old buddies at his Clinton-era job won't want to thank him?
Do you think he's planning on staying in the Oval Office for the rest of his life? He's going to need another job in 2009, will you stop deluding yourself when he moves to Dubai then?
It's as though the economic model had nothing to do with their totalitarian tendencies! That's unpossible!
The rise in allergies may also be connected to--or explained through--an understanding of the theory of evolution. The reasoning would go like this: We've come to exist as we are through millions of years of coexistence with billions of microbes. Our immune systems have grown up in the presence of irritants and attackers. As each of us grows to adulthood, our immune systems take time to develop along with the rest of our bodies. When we don't provide enough external stimulation, our immune systems don't develop enough memories of attackers and irritants. That's the "too clean" idea.
Everyone wins.
This, off course, totally pisses off the prissy wimminz who use the toilet seat as some kind of petty ammunition in the pointless fights they plan to have, which is a huge bonus.
The image shows that they can be used with an adapter to fit an existing SD card slot. Thank you very much, this is exactly what I wanted from this thread
That article was useless without it.
Hopefully the metamoderation system will work well enough for these abuser to have their mod points taken away in the future.
The quality of the series thus far also suggest that they aren't likely to pull a retcon like that on us (*knock on wood*). So far they've followed up on their cues pretty consistently.
How many no-bid contracts will it take to get that through your +1 Cursed Shield Of Mental Delusions? How many overcharging and tainted food scandals before you accept reality in place of your rosy fantasy?
About three hundred thousand people killed. What did THEY do to deserve being murdered?