Its flubs like this that are key in driving up MAC ownership (or licensing depending on your point of view).
Micro$oft finally needs to learn that their old bait and switch business model they've used from MS-DOS, to Windows 3.1, to "Vista", releasing a new OS every few years forcing upgrading, has finally worn out. They need to stick to an architecture and mature it.
Apple did it quite smart by moving to, and building on, mature and stable BSD code for the core of their OS. I was never a fan of Apple for many years, but when the made this move, they got my attention. Now if they would just get their head out of their ass and move that next 10% to reach real achievement they would murder the rest of the market... I refer to the inaccessibility of items like the battery in iPods and iTouch/Phones that should allow users to change them when needed; unlocking features that users could customize for their use, etc...
I'm more inclined to believe its China doing it in order to make claims that fall in line with previous statements, how good would they look if they say 'we will do 'X' by 2007' and internally they hear 'we can't do 'X' by 200*... *click* BLAM!...*thump*'.... 'We did 'X'... See how great we are!"
Photoshop is easier than a real space program, and always successful... Soviets were no better
Communists think alike, my little red book says so.
Being that this site is in Britain... will I be anally probed, DNA sampled, mind scanned, fingerprinted, photographed, background checked, retina scanned, biopsied, frisked for my decryption keys, and groped and goosed by British Customs Agents if I go to this site?
There was a lot to dislike about this bill regardless, but NONE of those reasons were why this bill didn't see the light of day... because NO ONE could see the bill in the light of day.
I watched the proceedings on CSPAN2 all yesterday morning, and the fact of the matter was that the bill was a chinese fire drill, and musical chairs being played all at the same time!!
Boxer, Reid and Kennedy were constantly touting and demanding the need for this that and the other thing and immediate passage, and the Republicans kept asking to see the new bill with the amendments incorporated in its entirety, and when they asked for a full vote for the bill to be read before the final vote, one of the three would object... SO BASICALLY THEY WANTED THE SENATE TO VOTE ON A BILL WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT WAS IN IT!! The bill was constantly being rewritten from day to day, know one other than the Democrats writing it, knew what was in it at any given time.
A clear lesson to be learned here is don't believe the soundbites you see in the news regardless of what or who is reporting it... when you see it live and for yourself, you get a wholly different perspective on what is happening in Washington, and it clearly sounds like some shell games are being played here... and apparently in the best interest of a select few, and DEFINITELY NOT what's good for the country!
This is sheer bullshit! Its the absolute folly of arrogance on such a massive scale as to think that our very existence damages this planet. Gee.. I guess our emissions are causing both Mars and Jupiter to warm as well... don't forget the Solar cycle ended about a year ago, and we've had the coldest winters on record.
By the way... if it weren't for the greenhouse effect driving precipitation systems, the natural temperature on this planet without them would be uniformally 140deg F. (Cite: Dr. Roy Spencer, former chief climatologist for NASA, and currently Research Fellow for Climatology at U of Ala.)
So Bullshit to Global Warming... the only GW occurring is when Al Gore eats the menu at his latest high dollar restaurant before he hops his private plane fueled by carbon offsets which he pays himself for, on his way to the next 'Gore'ge fest (ROFLMFAO)...
Oh and did I mention, that consensus among a bunch of money hungry scientists looking for a free ride money doesn't constitute science... a theory by consensus without passing the muster of proof and peer review doesn't mean a thing... its a theory, and a bad one at that... its meaningless.
Ahh ok... so its hip to attack Christians for there beliefs... and how 'irrational' it is to believe in such things...
Hmmm.. then by that reckoning, global warming is just as much a myth as that of Christianity. Interesting.. they're idiots for their beliefs, just as much as those who believe in the quasimodo science which has absolutely NO basis in proven facts whatsoever... pure theory with no proof.. peddled by those with more interest in peddling a political agenda and seeing their names in the paper or on TV ("Dr." Heidi Cullen anyone?) and even more hilarious is people out there raking in HUGE amounts of money 'sounding the alarm'. ROFL... Oh and I'm sure you're aware that global warming is now the new Christianity... you have a deity, the earth or "mother gaia"; you have sin, your very existence as a human being; you have repentance (so long as you pay your fair share), carbon offsets; and you have your messiah... Algore... now how funny and ridiculous is that? (Nevermind that he buys carbon offsets from himself, and has an electric bill bigger than what most people owe on their cars or homes per year.)
I think it was Global Warming that killed the forest... and it must've been those mean nasty republican Christians too!! Yea That's It!!
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Boats to invade Alaska wouldn't work... the coast line is rocky and impassable... no where to land there is very little if any hospitable shore line to accomodate landing craft. Why do you think the North Koreans built tunnels under the DMZ? to MOVE TROOPS THROUGH!
If you have a tunnel vs. landing craft, you could conceivably move massive amounts of troops overnight thru a tunnel vs trying to land hundreds of ships to offload troops. Especially if the landing area was small given no beach in AK.
So yes.. a tunnel would be a great idea since the Russians have wanted AK back for years, and from what I've heard a few in Congress want to give it back to appease them.
Go figure... Cowards in Congress.. what a concept.
No, there really is no debate at all... if you listen to idiots like Dr.(of what?) Heidi Cullen who claim that its settled science and call for the de-certification of those who don't agree with her... then the debate is over.
This is old news really, and has been HUGELY ignored by everyone... even the astronomers have acknowledged that "mini-ice age" experienced during the middle ages which was a period of cool temps along with a very quiet sunspot period and additional evidence suggests that when the sun is in a solar max period temperatures were higher. Its no different now than before. The sun's Solar Max period right now is the strongest on record... and DUH.. you turn up the heat on the stove, the pot starts to get warmer... and NO... Humans (or Americans if you listen to that retard Al Gore) aren't the primary cause of global warming.
With all the hogwash about global warming being spewed forth by scientists (mostly those with no background in climatology) and the likes of Algore... they seem to conveniently ignore the little known fact that the sun's output of energy has increased 30% in the last 20+ years... Hmmm.. like turning up the stove a little... But of course you can't blame the evil Americans for global warming then can you?
I just love how we're the ones that get the blame, yet when you look at the pollution index for cities around the globe, US cities are at the bottom of the list, and the least polluted.
Let the flamewar begin now that I threw that little nugget into the ring ROFLMFAO!!
Its already a method of stealing cars that have biometric access. There was a story awhile back (I think here on Slashdot) that mentioned a man getting his finger cut off when the perps realized they needed it to start the car.
I like a debate about this "junk" science... there are just as many scientists that will argue against global warming as there are scientists saying its happening... no matter what you believe, the data is inconclusive, what we DO know is that the atmosphere goes thru cyclical temperature changes over MANY decades (possibly centuries). Its been this hot before as evidenced by the ice core record, and its cooled off...and this cycle has repeated itself over and over... I love when "scientists" and politicians say "we really don't have proof, but we can't afford to wait to find out"... and when the rebuttal comes "what do you base this on?" and the answer sounds like Patrick from Sponge Bob when ordering at the Krusty Krab... quote: "UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHH!!!!"
What most people don't know about the "gang of five" who consistently rule in an activist fashion is that they are ALL not the first picks for the job... they are all tertiary in the list at the time of their appointments, and generally their preceding nominees were filibustered by senate liberal democrats for being "not liberal enough" well... for those who think liberals are for the little guy... I think you need to reassess that view now... seize the little guys stuff, under the guise of more tax revenue.... the season is now open on your private property...
The 5th Amendment has been repealed... welcome to the new Oligarchy...
I think that he should sue the begeezis out of Best Buy for punitive measure... and the idiotic manager on down to the cashier should be FIRED!!!... Not to mention he should sue the Baltimore PD for detaining him WITHOUT cause... 9/11 or no 9/11... this gestapo crap is getting out of hand!!
Every species is a "transition" between what came before and what is to come. No one is looking for a half-cat half-dog fossil. It makes no sense.
Neither does the notion that one species disappears and another starts... I.E. Birds are related to Reptiles... They can't explain how this can be, (Bird has warm blood, but lays eggs)... So to invent the link some "scientist" forges a fossil called Archeopteryx (Remember that "strawman"?) and makes the claim of a "species in transition" or words to that effect...
Word has it as well that even Darwin in his much later years stated that his theories were taken out of context and the present view isn't what he intended.
I really wish that SA was more scientific, and less political... I've always preferred magazines that just spoke to the subject matter at hand without all the skewed diatribe... Michael Crichton's positions are usually based on an analysis of the evidence available, and most recently a book he wrote was just that (the title escapes me right now), which contradicts the "status quo" view of "global warming" so he's considered as not being "in the know", "he's not learn-ed" etc... the part that they fail to mention in their "joke" is that in addition to "senators" and "best-selling novelists" there are SCIENTISTS who do dispute the conclusions as well... but you won't hear that in SA because the "Editors" don't agree with those scientists views, so therefore it isn't "Science" to them. So again... more about agenda forwarding, than real science reporting...
Hmmm.. and as far as creation vs. evolution vs. "the dinosaurs lived only 6k years ago" thing... I have to wonder about that recent find of supple soft tissues inside the thigh bone of T-Rex!! That kinda puts the whole "millions of years" argument up for questioning now doesn't it? "Based on the evidence, of course." The thing I find interesting about the "Theory of evolution" is that they've never found anything in "transition"... but never allow the facts to get in the way of an agenda, right? Even creation has its questions too... (I'm still wrestling with the Big Bang Theory, and the violation of the 2nd law of Thermodynamics, something about order coming OUT of chaos..)
The down side is that even here on Slashdot, if the moderators opinions are in contradiction with say... a rather alternative to the "status quo" or a "conservative" view... of a given topic... the Karma will reflect it... (I'm waiting to see what that last one will do, HEHE)
Enjoy your day, All:)
Good Day, Juggernaut (Yes from the movie of the same name HEHE)
I know this post is going to be flame bait... but here goes...
The US has taken the lead in the world in terms of environmental efforts and has made far exceeding gains in these areas. Most of the folks on Slashdot are probably 20 somethings, so they don't even remember how bad the air and water was say 30 to 40 years ago. Mornings over Manhattan were a brown haze... now the air is far clearer.. the Hudson actually has fish in it again..(though you still don't want to eat it, PCB's deep in the mud, dredging was an option a few years ago, but it was better determined to leave them and not stir them up.) If anyone has ever been to the Pacific rim they would know what I'm talking about... there is a scale that gauges the emissions of cities around the world, and the US is near the bottom of the list where many cities overseas expecially in PacRim, mideast, and near east europe (Italy comes to mind, no environmental controls on cars at all) are way up there and are consistently the highest polluters.. so much so that health warnings are issued daily and people where masks to walk the streets(Singapore)!! I have no doubt this treaty will fail because no one in the third world, even a few first world nations (You really believe Russia is going to stick to this one?) will want to cripple there fragile economies to enforce the protocols... If anything, this treaty was designed to knock the US economy off its pins in order to elevate others (China?(Currently the biggest polluter) Russia? the EU?), it failed because the US saw it for what it really was. Of course when it fails, the US will get the blame from many here as well as abroad... more jealousy of America and bitter back biting... LOL... never fails... *End Flame Bait hehehe
I agree... what DOES he stand for?? Nothing!! He's changed his position so many times and says everytning to everyone just what they want to hear even if he contradicts what he says between one speech and the next... says Yes to everything.. "I have a better plan..." its 8 days away from the election... I'm still waiting to hear what his "plan" is... all I hear "Bash Bush" and then crickets about his plans from Kerry...
"Terrorism is not a threat" - John Kerry 3000 dead at WTC... hmmm.... Ostrich or Eagle.... Which do YOU think Kerry is? HMMM??
I have three words "Oil for Food"... Now didn't Koffi Annan's own son get pinched for embezzling multi-millions from the program in a shell game with Saddam Hussein? The only appropriate role is, for the most part what it was supposed to do... provide a "Town Meeting" of sorts.. but AT NO TIME should it be allowed to decide what is best for us or anyone else.. levy taxes on individual citizens...(a stated goal of theirs)... Others in the world have their own agendas and many not so noble.
As much as left likes to think with a rose colored "one world gov't, non-racist, tolerant to a fault, believe in nothing, accept everything, group hug" mentality... the rude awakening they will find is the exact opposite with the majority of those in the UN hating everyone else with a smile on their face, and what advantage they can gain for themselves at the expense of everyone else. They're not interested in long-term anything... only what they can get now. The Chinese have demonstrated that, Bill Clinton was bought and paid for with Chinese money for his campaign as well as having that very same mentality stated above... and allowed the export to China of technologies decades ahead of their own... which the immediately put to use in the development of new military applications and technologies. With the Chinese Army making public political statements that they're just itching for a fight with the US... we have in essence.. given them the means to kill Americans on our own soil if they really decide they want to be a big player in the world again (Vietnam? North Korea?) World Communism again anyone? Oh... I'm sure the campus set today buying the diatribe of the professors there today are all carrying their little red books and awaiting the day. LOL...
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I'd say thats about as relevant as that reply.
J.
Its flubs like this that are key in driving up MAC ownership (or licensing depending on your point of view).
Micro$oft finally needs to learn that their old bait and switch business model they've used from MS-DOS, to Windows 3.1, to "Vista", releasing a new OS every few years forcing upgrading, has finally worn out. They need to stick to an architecture and mature it.
Apple did it quite smart by moving to, and building on, mature and stable BSD code for the core of their OS. I was never a fan of Apple for many years, but when the made this move, they got my attention. Now if they would just get their head out of their ass and move that next 10% to reach real achievement they would murder the rest of the market... I refer to the inaccessibility of items like the battery in iPods and iTouch/Phones that should allow users to change them when needed; unlocking features that users could customize for their use, etc...
Good Day,
Juggernaut
I'm more inclined to believe its China doing it in order to make claims that fall in line with previous statements, how good would they look if they say 'we will do 'X' by 2007' and internally they hear 'we can't do 'X' by 200*... *click* BLAM!...*thump*' .... 'We did 'X'... See how great we are!"
Photoshop is easier than a real space program, and always successful... Soviets were no better
Communists think alike, my little red book says so.
Good Day,
Juggernaut
Being that this site is in Britain... will I be anally probed, DNA sampled, mind scanned, fingerprinted, photographed, background checked, retina scanned, biopsied, frisked for my decryption keys, and groped and goosed by British Customs Agents if I go to this site?
Inquiring minds wanna know!!
Good Day,
Juggernaut
There was a lot to dislike about this bill regardless, but NONE of those reasons were why this bill didn't see the light of day... because NO ONE could see the bill in the light of day.
I watched the proceedings on CSPAN2 all yesterday morning, and the fact of the matter was that the bill was a chinese fire drill, and musical chairs being played all at the same time!!
Boxer, Reid and Kennedy were constantly touting and demanding the need for this that and the other thing and immediate passage, and the Republicans kept asking to see the new bill with the amendments incorporated in its entirety, and when they asked for a full vote for the bill to be read before the final vote, one of the three would object... SO BASICALLY THEY WANTED THE SENATE TO VOTE ON A BILL WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT WAS IN IT!! The bill was constantly being rewritten from day to day, know one other than the Democrats writing it, knew what was in it at any given time.
A clear lesson to be learned here is don't believe the soundbites you see in the news regardless of what or who is reporting it... when you see it live and for yourself, you get a wholly different perspective on what is happening in Washington, and it clearly sounds like some shell games are being played here... and apparently in the best interest of a select few, and DEFINITELY NOT what's good for the country!
Good Day,
Juggernaut
I don't think a blogroll can be defamatory or fattening... ...But I prefer my rolls with butter and jelly ;)
This is sheer bullshit! Its the absolute folly of arrogance on such a massive scale as to think that our very existence damages this planet. Gee.. I guess our emissions are causing both Mars and Jupiter to warm as well... don't forget the Solar cycle ended about a year ago, and we've had the coldest winters on record.
By the way... if it weren't for the greenhouse effect driving precipitation systems, the natural temperature on this planet without them would be uniformally 140deg F. (Cite: Dr. Roy Spencer, former chief climatologist for NASA, and currently Research Fellow for Climatology at U of Ala.)
So Bullshit to Global Warming... the only GW occurring is when Al Gore eats the menu at his latest high dollar restaurant before he hops his private plane fueled by carbon offsets which he pays himself for, on his way to the next 'Gore'ge fest (ROFLMFAO)...
Oh and did I mention, that consensus among a bunch of money hungry scientists looking for a free ride money doesn't constitute science... a theory by consensus without passing the muster of proof and peer review doesn't mean a thing... its a theory, and a bad one at that... its meaningless.
Ahh ok... so its hip to attack Christians for there beliefs... and how 'irrational' it is to believe in such things...
... Oh and I'm sure you're aware that global warming is now the new Christianity... you have a deity, the earth or "mother gaia"; you have sin, your very existence as a human being; you have repentance (so long as you pay your fair share), carbon offsets; and you have your messiah... Algore ... now how funny and ridiculous is that? (Nevermind that he buys carbon offsets from himself, and has an electric bill bigger than what most people owe on their cars or homes per year.)
Hmmm.. then by that reckoning, global warming is just as much a myth as that of Christianity. Interesting.. they're idiots for their beliefs, just as much as those who believe in the quasimodo science which has absolutely NO basis in proven facts whatsoever... pure theory with no proof.. peddled by those with more interest in peddling a political agenda and seeing their names in the paper or on TV ("Dr." Heidi Cullen anyone?) and even more hilarious is people out there raking in HUGE amounts of money 'sounding the alarm'. ROFL
I think it was Global Warming that killed the forest... and it must've been those mean nasty republican Christians too!! Yea That's It!!
Boats to invade Alaska wouldn't work... the coast line is rocky and impassable... no where to land there is very little if any hospitable shore line to accomodate landing craft. Why do you think the North Koreans built tunnels under the DMZ? to MOVE TROOPS THROUGH!
If you have a tunnel vs. landing craft, you could conceivably move massive amounts of troops overnight thru a tunnel vs trying to land hundreds of ships to offload troops. Especially if the landing area was small given no beach in AK.
So yes.. a tunnel would be a great idea since the Russians have wanted AK back for years, and from what I've heard a few in Congress want to give it back to appease them.
Go figure... Cowards in Congress.. what a concept.
No, there really is no debate at all... if you listen to idiots like Dr.(of what?) Heidi Cullen who claim that its settled science and call for the de-certification of those who don't agree with her... then the debate is over.
This is old news really, and has been HUGELY ignored by everyone... even the astronomers have acknowledged that "mini-ice age" experienced during the middle ages which was a period of cool temps along with a very quiet sunspot period and additional evidence suggests that when the sun is in a solar max period temperatures were higher. Its no different now than before. The sun's Solar Max period right now is the strongest on record... and DUH.. you turn up the heat on the stove, the pot starts to get warmer... and NO... Humans (or Americans if you listen to that retard Al Gore) aren't the primary cause of global warming.
C.
With all the hogwash about global warming being spewed forth by scientists (mostly those with no background in climatology) and the likes of Algore... they seem to conveniently ignore the little known fact that the sun's output of energy has increased 30% in the last 20+ years... Hmmm.. like turning up the stove a little... But of course you can't blame the evil Americans for global warming then can you?
I just love how we're the ones that get the blame, yet when you look at the pollution index for cities around the globe, US cities are at the bottom of the list, and the least polluted.
Let the flamewar begin now that I threw that little nugget into the ring ROFLMFAO!!
Signing up for Monster.com and polishing up one's resume' is one thing.... finding the time to go on the interviews is another.
Its already a method of stealing cars that have biometric access. There was a story awhile back (I think here on Slashdot) that mentioned a man getting his finger cut off when the perps realized they needed it to start the car.
Biometrics is a technology we can do without.
I like a debate about this "junk" science... there are just as many scientists that will argue against global warming as there are scientists saying its happening... no matter what you believe, the data is inconclusive, what we DO know is that the atmosphere goes thru cyclical temperature changes over MANY decades (possibly centuries). Its been this hot before as evidenced by the ice core record, and its cooled off...and this cycle has repeated itself over and over... I love when "scientists" and politicians say "we really don't have proof, but we can't afford to wait to find out"... and when the rebuttal comes "what do you base this on?" and the answer sounds like Patrick from Sponge Bob when ordering at the Krusty Krab... quote: "UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHH!!!!"
SO = Supreme Oligarchy
What most people don't know about the "gang of five" who consistently rule in an activist fashion is that they are ALL not the first picks for the job... they are all tertiary in the list at the time of their appointments, and generally their preceding nominees were filibustered by senate liberal democrats for being "not liberal enough" well... for those who think liberals are for the little guy... I think you need to reassess that view now... seize the little guys stuff, under the guise of more tax revenue.... the season is now open on your private property...
The 5th Amendment has been repealed... welcome to the new Oligarchy...
Impeach the Justices, anyone? ROLF!!!
I think that he should sue the begeezis out of Best Buy for punitive measure... and the idiotic manager on down to the cashier should be FIRED!!!... Not to mention he should sue the Baltimore PD for detaining him WITHOUT cause... 9/11 or no 9/11... this gestapo crap is getting out of hand!!
Every species is a "transition" between what came before and what is to come. No one is looking for a half-cat half-dog fossil. It makes no sense.
Neither does the notion that one species disappears and another starts... I.E. Birds are related to Reptiles... They can't explain how this can be, (Bird has warm blood, but lays eggs)... So to invent the link some "scientist" forges a fossil called Archeopteryx (Remember that "strawman"?) and makes the claim of a "species in transition" or words to that effect...
Word has it as well that even Darwin in his much later years stated that his theories were taken out of context and the present view isn't what he intended.
I really wish that SA was more scientific, and less political... I've always preferred magazines that just spoke to the subject matter at hand without all the skewed diatribe... Michael Crichton's positions are usually based on an analysis of the evidence available, and most recently a book he wrote was just that (the title escapes me right now), which contradicts the "status quo" view of "global warming" so he's considered as not being "in the know", "he's not learn-ed" etc... the part that they fail to mention in their "joke" is that in addition to "senators" and "best-selling novelists" there are SCIENTISTS who do dispute the conclusions as well... but you won't hear that in SA because the "Editors" don't agree with those scientists views, so therefore it isn't "Science" to them. So again... more about agenda forwarding, than real science reporting...
:)
Hmmm.. and as far as creation vs. evolution vs. "the dinosaurs lived only 6k years ago" thing... I have to wonder about that recent find of supple soft tissues inside the thigh bone of T-Rex!! That kinda puts the whole "millions of years" argument up for questioning now doesn't it? "Based on the evidence, of course." The thing I find interesting about the "Theory of evolution" is that they've never found anything in "transition"... but never allow the facts to get in the way of an agenda, right? Even creation has its questions too... (I'm still wrestling with the Big Bang Theory, and the violation of the 2nd law of Thermodynamics, something about order coming OUT of chaos..)
The down side is that even here on Slashdot, if the moderators opinions are in contradiction with say... a rather alternative to the "status quo" or a "conservative" view... of a given topic... the Karma will reflect it... (I'm waiting to see what that last one will do, HEHE)
Enjoy your day, All
Good Day,
Juggernaut
(Yes from the movie of the same name HEHE)
I know this post is going to be flame bait... but here goes...
The US has taken the lead in the world in terms of environmental efforts and has made far exceeding gains in these areas. Most of the folks on Slashdot are probably 20 somethings, so they don't even remember how bad the air and water was say 30 to 40 years ago. Mornings over Manhattan were a brown haze... now the air is far clearer.. the Hudson actually has fish in it again..(though you still don't want to eat it, PCB's deep in the mud, dredging was an option a few years ago, but it was better determined to leave them and not stir them up.) If anyone has ever been to the Pacific rim they would know what I'm talking about... there is a scale that gauges the emissions of cities around the world, and the US is near the bottom of the list where many cities overseas expecially in PacRim, mideast, and near east europe (Italy comes to mind, no environmental controls on cars at all) are way up there and are consistently the highest polluters.. so much so that health warnings are issued daily and people where masks to walk the streets(Singapore)!! I have no doubt this treaty will fail because no one in the third world, even a few first world nations (You really believe Russia is going to stick to this one?) will want to cripple there fragile economies to enforce the protocols... If anything, this treaty was designed to knock the US economy off its pins in order to elevate others (China?(Currently the biggest polluter) Russia? the EU?), it failed because the US saw it for what it really was. Of course when it fails, the US will get the blame from many here as well as abroad... more jealousy of America and bitter back biting... LOL... never fails... *End Flame Bait hehehe
I agree... what DOES he stand for?? Nothing!! He's changed his position so many times and says everytning to everyone just what they want to hear even if he contradicts what he says between one speech and the next... says Yes to everything.. "I have a better plan..." its 8 days away from the election... I'm still waiting to hear what his "plan" is... all I hear "Bash Bush" and then crickets about his plans from Kerry...
... hmmm....
"Terrorism is not a threat" - John Kerry
3000 dead at WTC
Ostrich or Eagle.... Which do YOU think Kerry is? HMMM??
I have three words "Oil for Food" ... Now didn't Koffi Annan's own son get pinched for embezzling multi-millions from the program in a shell game with Saddam Hussein? The only appropriate role is, for the most part what it was supposed to do... provide a "Town Meeting" of sorts.. but AT NO TIME should it be allowed to decide what is best for us or anyone else.. levy taxes on individual citizens...(a stated goal of theirs)... Others in the world have their own agendas and many not so noble.
As much as left likes to think with a rose colored "one world gov't, non-racist, tolerant to a fault, believe in nothing, accept everything, group hug" mentality... the rude awakening they will find is the exact opposite with the majority of those in the UN hating everyone else with a smile on their face, and what advantage they can gain for themselves at the expense of everyone else. They're not interested in long-term anything... only what they can get now. The Chinese have demonstrated that, Bill Clinton was bought and paid for with Chinese money for his campaign as well as having that very same mentality stated above... and allowed the export to China of technologies decades ahead of their own... which the immediately put to use in the development of new military applications and technologies. With the Chinese Army making public political statements that they're just itching for a fight with the US... we have in essence.. given them the means to kill Americans on our own soil if they really decide they want to be a big player in the world again (Vietnam? North Korea?) World Communism again anyone? Oh... I'm sure the campus set today buying the diatribe of the professors there today are all carrying their little red books and awaiting the day. LOL...
C.
On a Cisco PIX ... from the wee little 506 to the desktop size 535 for BIG enterprises... its called an outbound access list... nothing new...
Checkpoint, Netscreen, they all support it...
I'd say Schwartz and Gates have WAYYY to much crack in their diets...
Hmmm...
:p
Ya think the folks at Sesame Street would be upset by this??
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