That doesn't fit the pattern. There was a bombing or attempted bombing every 2 weeks. The next scheduled bombing would have been August 4, not July 28.
Term limits are counter productive. What you wind up with is representatives who are more concearned with landing a high paying job after they are out of office than representing the best interests of the people while they are in. Personally I see no problem with someone who wishes to remain in public service for life, in fact I would suggest a lifetime pension for members of congress with the stipulation that they are not allowed to receive any other income once they are out of office - that way there is no conflict of interest.
What we have now is representatives who milk the system for all they can, and THEN land a high paying job for whoever they sold their souls to. And I'm sure the first part of your suggestion would pass, but not the second.
Your experience is probably the exception, at least based on my experience. I bought a Dell craptop years ago, and it earned the name "craptop". I've had my iBook less than a year, but it's already outlasted the craptop by several months with no sign of any problems. The only way I'll ever buy an x86 laptop is if it's from Apple.
I mean, there is nothing else left to the Republican platform at this point.
Small government? Personal responsibility? Fiscal responsibility? Liberty? Freedom? Integrity?
That's exactly why I voted Libertarian in 2004. Neither of the Big 2 parties represent me anymore. The Repubs give lip service to them, but their actions say otherwise. The Dems are no better in this regard. The only differences are that they want unlimited taxation instead of irresponsible borrowing, and they're influenced by a different bunch of radicals than the R's.
The extreme left doesn't care about "equality". They will raise racial/sexual issues just as a means to power, but they do as much harm to real equality as the extreme right. Admittedly, some rank-and-file leftists do care about equality, but very few normal right-wingers are hate-mongers either, and I'm as disgusted with the Pat Roberts/Fred Phelps crowd as you are.
The Democrats in the local & state governments are supposed to be the first responders. They were also the first to screw up - badly! I never said any part of this job was done right. The FEMA guy should insert his head back into the horse's ass and keep it there, and Bush fucked up appointing a guy whose only disaster experience involoved horses. I'm just saying that the Democrats did not cover themselves in glory either.
Who left their busses in the parking lot to get flooded? Who failed to follow their own evacuation plan? Who was slow to ASK for FEMA assistance? Who herded refugees into the SuperDome without food, water, or working bathrooms?
Like I said, it was a bi-partisan disaster; the Dems certainly didn't do well in this mess! No level of government did shit in this mess!
Anyway you do it, there will be some pain. The more likely scenario is that MS tech support, or some geek friend, will show the victim how to make his account an admin. That person will still be running an insecure system, but when he eventually upgrades to a newer computer, it will give him a limited account, and if Acrobe hasn't fixed their crappy software by then, they'll get more angry calls. Or at the very least, the victim will have to make a choice to run admin, instead of it being the default.
The Democrat primaries were over before I even got the chance to vote. Technically, I could vote against Kerry, but Dean had already imploded, screaming loudly, and everyone else was a non-factor. And there weren't really any good Dems anyway, just a few that were better than Kerry.
Anyone who thinks there is no difference between the Republican 50% + 1 indictable money-hungry lobbyist-happy cronified upper-class-tax-cutting postmodern-PR national-debt-dollar-crisis bubble hellhole and the Democrat hellhole needs to look at a few more pictures of poor black people starving to death in New Orleans
But Louisiana is controlled by the Democrats 50% - 1 indictable money-hungry lobbyist-happy cronified upper-class-tax-cutting postmodern-PR national-debt-dollar-crisis bubble hellhole! It was a bi-partisan disaster.
And please note I don't blame MS for this. Everything since Win2K has a had a great system of ACL's and user privs, but the devs have been lazy and not bothered to follow the MS's recommendations and are still stuck in the 9x days (although some of MS'ssoftware suffers from the same problems), so because half of the software out there doesn't run in an unpriveliged environment, MS's are half-forced into making everyone an administrator
I blame MS for making the default user an administrator. Perhaps if the average user was NOT an admin, the developers would have made their crap work in a limited envirionment after getting calls from lusers that their software didn't work. Until MS makes their defaults safe and sane, they ARE to blame for Windows insecurity!
I don't know about you, but I read a lot of books in the daytime when the sun's streaming in my window. I also sometimes read while sitting on my front porch. I can still read in the daytime during a 5-day power outage (rare, but I've experienced prolonged outages). With an e-book, I'd be screwed.
I travel with 3-5 books, and I'd pack more if I had room. OTOH, if I lose my luggage, I've only lost 3-5 books. If I lost an e-book, I might lose 4,000+ books!
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I wouldn't object to that myself. But the very fact that we CAN'T demonstrates the difference between us and a REAL totalitarian country like China.
That doesn't fit the pattern. There was a bombing or attempted bombing every 2 weeks. The next scheduled bombing would have been August 4, not July 28.
What do you call taking something that works but is overpriced *cough*Mac*uncough* and making a cheap copy that sucks?
What we have now is representatives who milk the system for all they can, and THEN land a high paying job for whoever they sold their souls to. And I'm sure the first part of your suggestion would pass, but not the second.
I think Perot would make a better President than the fools who have HAD the job since 1992, and I mean both of them!
But, under the Democrats, I STILL couldn't switch from SBC! Or from Time Wartner if I wanted Cable.
No, there actually are people who meet his criteria. And 2 or 3 of them are running for office. Somewhere.
Well, if there IS a fire in the theater, I should be allowed to warn everyone.
Your experience is probably the exception, at least based on my experience. I bought a Dell craptop years ago, and it earned the name "craptop". I've had my iBook less than a year, but it's already outlasted the craptop by several months with no sign of any problems. The only way I'll ever buy an x86 laptop is if it's from Apple.
That's exactly why I voted Libertarian in 2004. Neither of the Big 2 parties represent me anymore. The Repubs give lip service to them, but their actions say otherwise. The Dems are no better in this regard. The only differences are that they want unlimited taxation instead of irresponsible borrowing, and they're influenced by a different bunch of radicals than the R's.
Nope, because the day DRM forces me to throw my Tivo out the window, my TV will hit the ground first!
What's wrong with sending letters to your congress-critter AND to Tivo?
I totally agree with that statement.
The Democrats in the local & state governments are supposed to be the first responders. They were also the first to screw up - badly! I never said any part of this job was done right. The FEMA guy should insert his head back into the horse's ass and keep it there, and Bush fucked up appointing a guy whose only disaster experience involoved horses. I'm just saying that the Democrats did not cover themselves in glory either.
The amoeba were farting long before the first dinosaur crawled out of the primordial ooze!
And where is your evidence of any left-wing morality? All they care about is raising taxes, spending money, and holding on to power.
Who left their busses in the parking lot to get flooded? Who failed to follow their own evacuation plan? Who was slow to ASK for FEMA assistance? Who herded refugees into the SuperDome without food, water, or working bathrooms?
Like I said, it was a bi-partisan disaster; the Dems certainly didn't do well in this mess! No level of government did shit in this mess!
Anyway you do it, there will be some pain. The more likely scenario is that MS tech support, or some geek friend, will show the victim how to make his account an admin. That person will still be running an insecure system, but when he eventually upgrades to a newer computer, it will give him a limited account, and if Acrobe hasn't fixed their crappy software by then, they'll get more angry calls. Or at the very least, the victim will have to make a choice to run admin, instead of it being the default.
The Democrat primaries were over before I even got the chance to vote. Technically, I could vote against Kerry, but Dean had already imploded, screaming loudly, and everyone else was a non-factor. And there weren't really any good Dems anyway, just a few that were better than Kerry.
But Louisiana is controlled by the Democrats 50% - 1 indictable money-hungry lobbyist-happy cronified upper-class-tax-cutting postmodern-PR national-debt-dollar-crisis bubble hellhole! It was a bi-partisan disaster.
I think the parent is referring to the Congressional elections. If Congress goes Democrat, that will presumably put some brakes on Bush.
No, what's REALLY frightening is the right wing is more moral than the left.
We're doooomed!!
I blame MS for making the default user an administrator. Perhaps if the average user was NOT an admin, the developers would have made their crap work in a limited envirionment after getting calls from lusers that their software didn't work. Until MS makes their defaults safe and sane, they ARE to blame for Windows insecurity!
I don't know about you, but I read a lot of books in the daytime when the sun's streaming in my window. I also sometimes read while sitting on my front porch. I can still read in the daytime during a 5-day power outage (rare, but I've experienced prolonged outages). With an e-book, I'd be screwed.
I travel with 3-5 books, and I'd pack more if I had room. OTOH, if I lose my luggage, I've only lost 3-5 books. If I lost an e-book, I might lose 4,000+ books!