Dude, have you even been in a hospital in the past twenty-five years? Even if the list of horrors that you cite were true (most of them aren't), the hospital involved would have so few maternity patients that no one would go there.
In addition, you act as if these things you mention are forced upon the unsuspecting parents by the evilllllll doctors who want to make sure that babies and mothers never bond and the child remains a sickly degenerate for all of its life. In reality, most of the "horrible" things you mention are of medically debatable value and usually the parents are given a choice about them. You really should read up on the current state of childbirth, both in and out of hospital from some unbiased sources.
However it's more entertaining to watch you spout alarmist stupidity, so please feel free to carry on.
Surely America can aspire to build something world class rather than average.
We could, but the Republicans in Congress and the rest of the Conservatards would ensure that it would never be done outside the aegis of the vaunted "Free Market" (TM) and some sort of public-private partnership would ensue. This would ensure that marketing and management costs (as well as a mandatory profit) would make it so expensive that ridership would be low, the costs would be high, and Conservatards have another failed "guvmint program" to be all teabagged off about.
GP: You don't have the right to do whatever you want on your PC, trust me on this.
PP: Of course I do.
Your right to throw a PC ends at the point where it hits me. There are many other things you cannot do with a PC. Stop being stupid with the blanket statements.
There's NO way this administration would ever actually do anything to support coal.
Actually, Obama has lots of ties to the coal industry.
Illinois has a fair amount of coal underneath it (see Kidder and Peabody companies) with almost half of the counties having some exploitable coal deposits underneath them (An Illinois State Geological Survey study that mapped the coal deposits in the states funded part of my graduate school at the University of Illinois. In fact, the ISGS is one of the many recipient of federal DoE funds studying carbon sequestration).
But to get back to my original point, Obama took mucho money from the coal firms, both during his Senate and Presidential campaigns. This is why in each of his energy speeches he makes sure to mention "clean coal" technology. It's pretty obvious that Obama political operatives forced Chu to change his stance on the matter.
Now, more importantly, why do you think that Obama and his administration would oppose clean coal? I know you right wingnuts always assume that Democrats == environment => hate coal, but anyone with half a brain to do research knows that this isn't the case with Obama. Don't you idiots bother to do research? Or are you too blinded by Obama Derangement Syndrome to do that anymore?
So what are the Profession's requirements for being a Software Engineer?
There aren't any, and that's the problem. If "professionals" don't take themselves seriously enough to say that not just anyone can be one, they don't deserve the appellation. And it shows in our "profession" where anyone that has a pulse can call himself a software engineer.
And, BTW, I'll see your IEEE and raise you an ACM and AMS.
An action that I can concur with, but it really doesn't solve today's problem, nor is it particularly likely to solve it in the future.
The bottom line is that Windows users don't have to write their Congresspersons (and, BTW, your juvenile characterization of them as animals is neither witty nor helpful) and their system works out of the box. Unless Linux folks (and, yes, I count myself as one since I run it at home) pull their head out of their butts and stop giving out unhelpful information like yours and start solving the problem, Linux will never advance.
Our problem is that two private organizations, the Democratic and Republican parties, have hijacked our government.
Wrong. The Ds and Rs are only the public faces of the corporations and wealthy individuals who have used the parties as proxies for their control. Unless you deal with the root cause (corporate personhood and the notion that money=speech), whomever you elect will be corrupted.
Medicare has a 3% overhead, compared to about 17% for private health care providers - it seems that advertising and CEOs take up a lot of money. The government runs a lot of things efficiently and, more importantly, it runs them fairly.
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We all know that bipartisanship is a dumb idea already.
Dude, have you even been in a hospital in the past twenty-five years? Even if the list of horrors that you cite were true (most of them aren't), the hospital involved would have so few maternity patients that no one would go there.
In addition, you act as if these things you mention are forced upon the unsuspecting parents by the evilllllll doctors who want to make sure that babies and mothers never bond and the child remains a sickly degenerate for all of its life. In reality, most of the "horrible" things you mention are of medically debatable value and usually the parents are given a choice about them. You really should read up on the current state of childbirth, both in and out of hospital from some unbiased sources.
However it's more entertaining to watch you spout alarmist stupidity, so please feel free to carry on.
While rational, your point does not coincide with the values of our society.
Actually, the majority of people would choose the life of the mother over the life of the infant. Stop making false statements.
That's Ask.com to you, if you please.
Surely America can aspire to build something world class rather than average.
We could, but the Republicans in Congress and the rest of the Conservatards would ensure that it would never be done outside the aegis of the vaunted "Free Market" (TM) and some sort of public-private partnership would ensue. This would ensure that marketing and management costs (as well as a mandatory profit) would make it so expensive that ridership would be low, the costs would be high, and Conservatards have another failed "guvmint program" to be all teabagged off about.
GP: You don't have the right to do whatever you want on your PC, trust me on this.
PP: Of course I do.
Your right to throw a PC ends at the point where it hits me. There are many other things you cannot do with a PC. Stop being stupid with the blanket statements.
I spent a month in Salt Lake once - it was the longest ten years of my life.
So I don't know what he's smoking, but in Portland it's probably meth or weed.
Yeah, but you could say that of just about anyplace - crack is soooo late 80's.
OK. Quit making things up. Everyone knows that the 405 never goes faster than about 5 mph. Especially at rush hour.
There's NO way this administration would ever actually do anything to support coal.
Actually, Obama has lots of ties to the coal industry.
Illinois has a fair amount of coal underneath it (see Kidder and Peabody companies) with almost half of the counties having some exploitable coal deposits underneath them (An Illinois State Geological Survey study that mapped the coal deposits in the states funded part of my graduate school at the University of Illinois. In fact, the ISGS is one of the many recipient of federal DoE funds studying carbon sequestration).
But to get back to my original point, Obama took mucho money from the coal firms, both during his Senate and Presidential campaigns. This is why in each of his energy speeches he makes sure to mention "clean coal" technology. It's pretty obvious that Obama political operatives forced Chu to change his stance on the matter.
Now, more importantly, why do you think that Obama and his administration would oppose clean coal? I know you right wingnuts always assume that Democrats == environment => hate coal, but anyone with half a brain to do research knows that this isn't the case with Obama. Don't you idiots bother to do research? Or are you too blinded by Obama Derangement Syndrome to do that anymore?
HPs are so much more secure.
That's because only backward Polish people can figure out how to use them.
Because 10,000 years from now we're still going to be using the same calendar and time system.
So what are the Profession's requirements for being a Software Engineer?
There aren't any, and that's the problem. If "professionals" don't take themselves seriously enough to say that not just anyone can be one, they don't deserve the appellation. And it shows in our "profession" where anyone that has a pulse can call himself a software engineer.
And, BTW, I'll see your IEEE and raise you an ACM and AMS.
Don't like it? Write your congresscritter.
An action that I can concur with, but it really doesn't solve today's problem, nor is it particularly likely to solve it in the future.
The bottom line is that Windows users don't have to write their Congresspersons (and, BTW, your juvenile characterization of them as animals is neither witty nor helpful) and their system works out of the box. Unless Linux folks (and, yes, I count myself as one since I run it at home) pull their head out of their butts and stop giving out unhelpful information like yours and start solving the problem, Linux will never advance.
I guess that will stop the terrorists! I'd hate to be in their shoes now.
People who bitch about improper editing should know the difference between "drivel" and "dribble".
Now we're going to get a ton of "South will rise again" jokes.
I hope they do rise again. This time we'll let them go.
-- Another Smug Yankee
I'm shocked. We'll have to get our lobbyists and diplomats working on our ability to advertise freely as soon as we can.
Does Segway make anything that doesn't make you look like a dork when riding in/on it?
if we mean Acetaminophen we'd probably say Tylenol.
Unless you were in Britain, where if you meant paracetamol, you'd probably say Tylenol. Hooray for worldwide branding.
And they sold you that Robin Hood story too, just like the fairy tale that is America.
Amen.
Our problem is that two private organizations, the Democratic and Republican parties, have hijacked our government.
Wrong. The Ds and Rs are only the public faces of the corporations and wealthy individuals who have used the parties as proxies for their control. Unless you deal with the root cause (corporate personhood and the notion that money=speech), whomever you elect will be corrupted.
Fox news calling a non-liberal's behavior reprehensible - it must be really bad.
Medicare?
Medicare has a 3% overhead, compared to about 17% for private health care providers - it seems that advertising and CEOs take up a lot of money. The government runs a lot of things efficiently and, more importantly, it runs them fairly.
now is your cue, crusty Unix overlords, to come and tell me you started with sun2
Effin'-A, yeah!