Remember, in both 2000 and 2004, exactly HALF of the country voted for Republican time-out. Actually, it was a little more than half in 2000 for what it's worth (which is not much due to our shitty electoral system).
Thank you for your retraction. Hillary has been labeled a far left nut job ever since her time as first lady (I guess it goes back to her "crazy" talk about everyone being entitled to health coverage) but her time in the Senate has shown this to be anything but true. She is a centrist in the worst possible way.
I'm liberal and quite proud of it, thank you very much. That doesn't change the fact that the term liberal is very frequently used by the far right in a derogatory manner.
They hate us because we're rich, and not muslims. Hell, probably mostly because we're rich. That's the easy part. Oh really? Ever ask yourself why the son of a wealthy businessman would hate us if they hate our wealth? Why would the rich people of Iran and Saudi Arabia who are supposedly funding the insurgency hate our wealth? The US isn't even the wealthiest nation in the world per capita, so why do they hate the US so much more than everyone else?
The real reason is because of our history of interfering in the Middle East in order to further our own interests.
And it is OK when we do it, OK for us at least, because we're us. Given the choice between them and us, there is no choice. Your lack of empathy is disturbing.
The number one thing to be doing about it is to understand why they hate us. Hint: They don't hate our freedoms. Killing innocent people because they might be terrorists or potentially could be terrorists is both self defeating as that is precisely the type of stuff that breeds people willing to strap a bomb on and it is also disgustingly evil.
If you think we have the right to bomb random people to try and prevent them from attacking us, why don't you think they have the right to bomb random American's to try and prevent us from attacking them? But I suppose it's ok if we do it, right? Cause we're "good".
I'm sorry, what does your self righteous ego stroking have anything to do with the discussion at hand? The GP was obviously hinting at doing great violence towards innocent populations of foreign countries just so that his life can be a little easier and now you are apparently defending him by going off about some straw man liberals are killing the country bullshit. Whatever.
Have fun giving up all those rights that you weren't using anyway. I'm sure the founding fathers just threw those in cause they though the Constitution looked better without all the blank space at the bottom.
What you call a "tubular bundle" most people call a battery. And contrary to what you may think, it is not uncommon to find wires and even electronics attached to such an object.
Ok, so it was wrapped in plastic so they couldn't see the Duracell logos maybe, but what did they think was powering the lights then? High explosives don't power lights, batteries do. Think.
A powered device has been mounted in a public place. It is big enough to contain an explosive charge and projectiles. The person who mounted it is nowhere to be found. That only makes sense if the powered device had no discernible purpose. A battery operated sign does not qualify. Not even slightly.
I cannot mention any of them here because I would be moderated troll, since they are unacceptable. Indeed, if you refuse to think outside the box of current western "christianity-based" morality, the situation is untenable, and the "war" is unwinnable. Almost every great evil in history has been done under guise of doing good. Don't pretend what you want to do is acceptable just because you wrote your own moral code to justify it.
Look around. If we went into full emergency response every time we find something that doesn't look like a bomb we'll spend all our time and money running around like idiots. If the terrorists wanted to make a bomb that we would ignore they would not put blinking lights on it, they would put it in a dirty paper bag or behind a tree or disguise it as any of the other millions of things you find lying around a city any given day.
No, I did explicitly disable offline folders because that was a whole other bunch of problems. I really have no need to access my network files when i take my laptop home from work. I don't want to be able to access the files when I'm not on the office network and I just want windows to ignore the network drives, but that doesn't happen.
Hell, even in smaller companies, My Document is quite commonly on a network drive, for backup purposes. Which sucks, btw, because Windows doesn't know what to do when your mounted network drives aren't available. Over two minutes of hanging while Windows tries to figure out that your file server isn't available? That's real reasonable when it takes the ping command no more than a few seconds to figure out the same.
I cant imagine a real company allowing its data to be housed outside its control. Really? So you can't think of any real companies that store backups with Iron Mountain? I can think of a few. It's got it's problems, but it's done all the time.
I don't typically disparage people who don't know anything about the music I like. Instead I use it as a great change to expand their music experience. I think that's common amongst music geeks. What's the point of knowing all this music if we can't share it with others?
Now if after listening to my music if they still don't like it, well... nobodies perfect I suppose.
Yes, they absolutely should be. You disagree, so which do you prefer? Should Gitmo follow Cuban law or should it be a lawless black hole where guards can do whatever they want to the prisoners?
POW's are guaranteed rights under International law but that's an entirely different thing since these aren't POW's per the President. If the US wanted to follow the Geneva convention then I'd be fine with that, but they don't. They don't think they have to follow US or International law in Gitmo and that's just wrong on every imaginable level.
No that's not a loop-hole, that's a bullshit excuse that I just responded too here. IIRC, the Constitution dictates how the US government is to operate, it doesn't say anything about applying when you stand on one plot of dirt and not applying when on another. If the US government is running Gitmo then the Constitution applies.
And that's the key difference. On US soil. The terrorists in Gitmo were never on US soil. Hence, no part of the constitution applies to them. That's one of the most idiotic arguments to come from an Administration rife with idiotic arguments. Does Castro have a say in how the prisoners in Gitmo are treated? I mean if what you say is true they must Cuban prisoners. That's the only other choice since that's Cuban soil they are being held on. Obviously that's not the case though. Any nitwit knows they are in US custody so US law should apply.
Well it would be silly to say that the United States Constitution applies to everyone everywhere. If you told someone in Somalia that they had the right to bear arms, they would laugh at you. True. Di you think why that is? Because they aren't under US jurisdiction. Under US jurisdiction, that includes Gitmo, the constitution applies. Well, obviously the 2nd Amendment wouldn't apply but they should have all the rights granted any other Prisoner in the US.
I fairly scientifically literate and yet I've never understood the point of Maxwell's Demon. The first time I heard of it I thought, "That's stupid, why is he ignoring the work the Demon is doing?". I still think that. Am I missing something? Does this thought experiment really teach us something about physics? If so I don't see it.
That would be pointless. You could just as easily disguise a bomb as a rock, or a plant, or any of the other sundry crap regularly lying around the sides of Boston freeways.
Ummm, when did he say anything about Duval being the Mayor? Could it be that maybe he was talking about the actual Mayor who was idiotically threating stiff penalties against the perpetrator of these renegade Christmas lights?
If you are part of a bomb squad and you get several reports of strange electronic things hanging from bridges, then you see a strange tubular thing wrapped in duct tape, you are going to take it very seriously. Until I see the lit up cartoon character with a middle finger extended. Seriously, if you see these things it becomes incredibly obvious that this is a case of seriously idiotic over-reaction. Don't get me wrong, I love my home state but this is just embarrassing.
Yeah...well, before 9/11 did you think that terrorists could kill over 3,000 people with box cutters? IIRC, there was some large quantaties of jet fuel and aircraft involved as well. Just saying...
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Thank you for your retraction. Hillary has been labeled a far left nut job ever since her time as first lady (I guess it goes back to her "crazy" talk about everyone being entitled to health coverage) but her time in the Senate has shown this to be anything but true. She is a centrist in the worst possible way.
I'm liberal and quite proud of it, thank you very much. That doesn't change the fact that the term liberal is very frequently used by the far right in a derogatory manner.
The real reason is because of our history of interfering in the Middle East in order to further our own interests. And it is OK when we do it, OK for us at least, because we're us. Given the choice between them and us, there is no choice. Your lack of empathy is disturbing.
The number one thing to be doing about it is to understand why they hate us. Hint: They don't hate our freedoms. Killing innocent people because they might be terrorists or potentially could be terrorists is both self defeating as that is precisely the type of stuff that breeds people willing to strap a bomb on and it is also disgustingly evil.
If you think we have the right to bomb random people to try and prevent them from attacking us, why don't you think they have the right to bomb random American's to try and prevent us from attacking them? But I suppose it's ok if we do it, right? Cause we're "good".
I'm sorry, what does your self righteous ego stroking have anything to do with the discussion at hand? The GP was obviously hinting at doing great violence towards innocent populations of foreign countries just so that his life can be a little easier and now you are apparently defending him by going off about some straw man liberals are killing the country bullshit. Whatever.
Have fun giving up all those rights that you weren't using anyway. I'm sure the founding fathers just threw those in cause they though the Constitution looked better without all the blank space at the bottom.
What you call a "tubular bundle" most people call a battery. And contrary to what you may think, it is not uncommon to find wires and even electronics attached to such an object.
Ok, so it was wrapped in plastic so they couldn't see the Duracell logos maybe, but what did they think was powering the lights then? High explosives don't power lights, batteries do. Think.
Look around. If we went into full emergency response every time we find something that doesn't look like a bomb we'll spend all our time and money running around like idiots. If the terrorists wanted to make a bomb that we would ignore they would not put blinking lights on it, they would put it in a dirty paper bag or behind a tree or disguise it as any of the other millions of things you find lying around a city any given day.
Insightful??? Could someone explain to me how Boston was negligent on 9/11? I'm thinking but nothing's coming to mind.
That and the lack of any explosive charges. Or maybe I'm just buying into the land of hollywood fantasy where bombs are capable of exploding.
No, I did explicitly disable offline folders because that was a whole other bunch of problems. I really have no need to access my network files when i take my laptop home from work. I don't want to be able to access the files when I'm not on the office network and I just want windows to ignore the network drives, but that doesn't happen.
I don't typically disparage people who don't know anything about the music I like. Instead I use it as a great change to expand their music experience. I think that's common amongst music geeks. What's the point of knowing all this music if we can't share it with others?
Now if after listening to my music if they still don't like it, well... nobodies perfect I suppose.
Yes, they absolutely should be. You disagree, so which do you prefer? Should Gitmo follow Cuban law or should it be a lawless black hole where guards can do whatever they want to the prisoners?
POW's are guaranteed rights under International law but that's an entirely different thing since these aren't POW's per the President. If the US wanted to follow the Geneva convention then I'd be fine with that, but they don't. They don't think they have to follow US or International law in Gitmo and that's just wrong on every imaginable level.
No that's not a loop-hole, that's a bullshit excuse that I just responded too here. IIRC, the Constitution dictates how the US government is to operate, it doesn't say anything about applying when you stand on one plot of dirt and not applying when on another. If the US government is running Gitmo then the Constitution applies.
I fairly scientifically literate and yet I've never understood the point of Maxwell's Demon. The first time I heard of it I thought, "That's stupid, why is he ignoring the work the Demon is doing?". I still think that. Am I missing something? Does this thought experiment really teach us something about physics? If so I don't see it.
Well maybe my perspective is biased since I worked at a B&N with a very diverse and knowledgeable music staff. YMMV.
That would be pointless. You could just as easily disguise a bomb as a rock, or a plant, or any of the other sundry crap regularly lying around the sides of Boston freeways.
Ummm, when did he say anything about Duval being the Mayor? Could it be that maybe he was talking about the actual Mayor who was idiotically threating stiff penalties against the perpetrator of these renegade Christmas lights?