I was worried about that 2012 date myself until I found out why the Maya chose that date as the end of their time. I'm amazed at how much the Maya were able to learn and I believe they had knowledge that we've yet to discover but I'm beginning to believe now that the 2012 date is simply an astronomical event. The Maya were deeply religious and their religion was based on astronomy. Their convictions led them to construct pyramids so they could see over the jungle canopy to the horizon. It's on the horizon where they could view the rising and setting of the stars, planets, sun, and moon. The thing they discovered that prompted them to set 2012 as an important date is the precession of Earth. As Earth precesses on about a 25,000 year cycle, the sun rises at a slightly different location for each given day of the year. The Maya discovered that they could calculate that movement and believed it held some religious significance. For all astronomically-based religions, the winter solstice was especially significant, but the Maya saw another significant astronomical feature. They viewed the intersection of the ecliptic (the line the planets, moon, and sun follow) and the galactic plane (as represented by the milky way) as the entry point whereby one could begin the journey along the milky way to the heart of the sky (a dark area near Polaris that used to be at the celestial north pole.) But one could only enter there when an opening was created by another celestial object at the point of the crossroad. The key thing about the 2012 date is that the Winter solstice of 2012 has the sun rising exactly at the intersection of the ecliptic and the galactic plane. To the Maya, that probably represented the closing of a great cycle after which a new era would be born. In fact, the evidence seems to indicate that they actually worked backwards from December 21, 2012 to determine their current date when the Long Count calendar was created (some say as early as 355 B.C.) The incredible precision by which they were able to predict astronomical events is uncanny. While our calendar uses clumsy gimmicks like leap years to overcome its inherent flaws, the Mayan calendar was able to accurately predict events thousands of years into the future with perfection and no need for adjustments. If you realize the movement of the Winter solstice sunrise due to precession occurs at a rate of about one degree every 72 years then you can realize the precision it takes to accurately predict such an event. There is so much valuable knowledge that has been lost due to our destructive and arrogant approach to other cultures and it continues today as we try to eliminate cultures that compete with western values. Maybe one day we'll come full circle and embrace our ancient past just like the sunrise will do on December 12, 2012.
Or did you just mean to elect Howard Dean in 2004 and again in 2008 which brings us to 2012, in which case I've completely overanalyzed your sig and owe you an Emily Litella, "Never mind"?
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If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from any body. Accordingly, it is a fact, as far as I am informed, that England was, until we copied her, the only country on earth which ever, by a general law, gave a legal right to the exclusive use of an idea. In some other countries it is sometimes done, in a great case, and by a special and personal act, but, generally speaking, other nations have thought that these monopolies produce more embarrassment than advantage to society; and it may be observed that the nations which refuse monopolies of invention, are as fruitful as England in new and useful devices.
- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Isaac McPherson, August 13, 1813
Does anything MS makes scale? This is the kind of reverse logic that goes into MS shops. I can't tell you how many times a consultant has come in to our shop and shown off an app that runs on Windows that our management fell for. Then, when we put it into production it falls on it's face because people actually attached to it and tried to use it in more than single digit numbers. Management (not wanting to admit it's mistake) digs the hole deeper by just shouting "Buy more servers!" Not considering the creeping O&M costs as we add more and more servers. Now we have over 200 Windows servers in the server room and we're a utility company! It's really frustrating if you're a NetWare admin. I had 1200 users on a single processor, 200 MHz 4.11 server a few years ago and it rocked. Scaled through the roof. Then when Windows exploded into the server room (we had to expand it several times) management looks around at all the Windows servers and says, "Hey, we have too many servers. Lets get rid of these NetWare boxes." Arrgh! The Microsoft Cult wins again! Resistance is futile.
I knew that post would bring out the F1 haters. You're obviously in a state of hate-itude over something you know nothing about, though. For one thing, F1 cars don't go "Vrmmm vrmmm vrmmm vrmmm." They kinda scream like really loud banshees due to their extreme RPM range. "Girls who shake the champagne"??!! Hmmm, what would you call those... Shake-HOs, Bubbly Bimbos. "Schumacher hands the bottle now to the Shake-ho for its ritual shaking. Now she passes it to the Cork Queen for the popping. This is terribly exciting! Now the Cork Queen passes the uncorked bottle back to Schumacher but it's apparently run out of fizz as he has to turn it up over Montoya's head." Get a grip, dude. Save your dissing for things that you know something about.
Don't put words in my mouth. I never said that bin Laden and al Q'aida didn't actually carry out the attack. They probably had a half dozen different attacks planned and 9/11 just happened to be the one that came along with the right timing.
It wasn't necessary to implement the attack to get it to happen. All that was necessary was to commit a little strategic head-turning at the right moments to let something succeed that could have been stopped. Then we have a rallying cry to focus peoples' anger and get them to support atrocities that further the interests of the powerful elite.
And if you think it's "poppycock" to believe that the US government would use an event like this to further a geopolitical goal then you just don't know much about US history. Read up on the incident with the USS Maine that was used as a pretext for the Spanish-American war or the Gulf of Tonkin incident that Johnson used to escalate the Vietnam war. It's not at all far-fetched to believe something that has multiple precedents in our history and I resent your arrogant implication that my intellect is suspect.
Another interesting precedent is the Reichstag fire in 1933 which Hitler used to consolidate his power and round up his enemies. It's even more interesting when you discover the well-documented cooperation between the Bush family and, not only the Naziregime, but also the bin Ladenfamily. These guys have been players for a long time and it's intellectually dishonest to discount the fact that they're not working for the freedom of US citizens but for the furtherance of their elitist Straussian agenda.
Sometimes I wonder who's more kooky -- people who see conspiracies everywhere or people who refuse to see them at all. You can take the intellectually safe route and just repeat what you're told or you can seek out the truth that some would rather keep hidden for obvious reasons. Take your choice.
It's also a happy coincidence that I'm posting this on Independence Day. The day when we celebrate our independence from tyranny. Those must have been heady days when our forefathers fought against tyranny instead of for it as we do now.
I love this country and I want to see it put back on the course that The Constitution set it on. Psychopatriots and lazy "intellectuals" notwithstanding.
Yeah, but then Mothra flew down and God and Mothra were, like, battling and stuff and Mothra threw God to the ground and was getting ready to stomp on him until Superman showed up and kicked Mothra's ass. And then all the people went, "Yay!" But they looked around and all their houses had been crushed in the battle so Superman spun the world around backwards and everything went back to normal.
You're obsessing over myths, dude. And I bet you'd kill for them, too. Embrace reason. Free your mind.
How many Japanese suicide bombers has the US had to deal with? The Japanese attacked us. Granted, we provoked them by cutting off their oil supply, but they still struck us which made them combatants. I don't think many Japanese believe we had no reason to fight them and thus harbor little or no residual hatred. They do tend to get a little riled up when our soldiers stationed there rape school girls, though.
It isn't like the US actually targets noncombatants these days.
How about the whole nation of Iraq? They were noncombatants until we invaded them.
There is a lot more to the problems in the mideast than "the US bombs too many innocent people".
I have no argument with you there. My post wasn't meant to be a history of the Middle East, though.
...you can see, children, the hate-filled bile spewed by the neo-conservative of the early twenty-first century. Vitriolic ranting and ad hominem attacks were the normal mode of operation and became quite effective in moving their society toward unrest and, eventually, destruction...very similar to the Nazi movement of the mid twentieth century. Now lets move on to the thousand-year dark ages that followed this period of war and destruction and then, in the next exhibit, the exciting birth of the Re-Enlightenment period.
So you suggest the US get off its ass and take over the world, cause we are freemarketing?
No, the Project for the New American Century suggested that and it's currently in progress.
Should we be isolationistic and not help any other country?
Well, since a lot of that money goes to dictators who stifle the natural evolution of society and often comes with strings attached (like forcing them to open certain markets to US corporations), then, yeah, it would be good if we stopped skewing the economic and social playing field.
But remember, its our money, our military, not yours. If you want to, give your own money/military.
My tax money helped build and wield that military and I AM a US citizen so that IS my military. WE THE PEOPLE!
...they'll still hate us if someone close to them tells them to. Or if we invade their countries and kill them when they've done nothing to us. Or if we give billions of dollars every year to Israel so Jews can build settlements on their land. Or if we overthrow their government and install a Shah, etc, etc, etc.
As can be seen from 9/11, terrorists will enjoy the freedoms and opportunities while living in our very country, then turn around and use those very freedoms to destory us.
Well, that settles it then. The solution is to do away with our freedoms. Bring on USA-PATRIOT II!
We'd probably even have peace if there were a mix of Christians and Jews, since one is the child of the other.
Psst, dude, your ignorance is showing. Muslims worship the God of Abraham (Ibrahim) and recognize many of the same religious figures that Jews and Christians do. Peace won't happen until we throw off the chains of religion entirely. No god to kill or die for.
And in order for Israel to exist it must have 4 BILLION dollars per year of US taxpayer money and continue driving Palestinians from their homes? Why don't conservatives believe in the free market when it comes to statehood? If it's a viable state then why do we keep pumping welfare to it? Why doesn't Israel just get off its ass and get a job?
Many people would argue that it was already too unlikely for the hijackers to have pulled this off without inside assistance. Why, for instance, weren't fighters scrambled to intercept hijacked planes headed hundreds of miles off-course? Why were the CIA and FBI told to back off of investigations of suspected terrorists and associates? Could it be that we needed a crisis so that we could keep the populace in reactionary fear, ram through draconian laws, force congress to roll over while we unleash our military on people who had nothing to do with the attack but have plenty of valuable resources? There are plenty of people in this country who hated New York City and the US federal government long before Arabs did and plenty of people with an economic self-interest in the state of war.
Among newspapers, #2 behind USA Today is the Wall Street Journal, only about 10% lower. And #3 is the NY Times.
You think WSJ readers are intelligent? Haven't you seen the Monty Python skits? "I'm a chartered accountant and my name is... Well, I can't remember my name right now, but I am a chartered accountant."
Granted, he probably read the Financial Times instead but six of one... And how about that WSJ editorial page. Absolute, total, utter, lying bullshit. It takes an idiot to believe that stuff. NYT ain't much better (Judith Miller, anybody?) And as if trying to prove the guy's point, how about this sentence in the USA Today article, "We're actually providing even lower pricing now for education then[sic] we ever have..." I expect that kind of writing on Slashdot, but this is supposedly a journalist writing this article.
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You'll also find that, if you study the entire faculty and staff, you'll discover that they are actually made of individual particles called "persons".
Nice. That's one of the best self-contradictions I've seen on Slashdot. First statement: RFID's do not broadcast. Contradiction: ...providing power for the chip to broadcast.
The fact that they use an external power source doesn't eliminate their ability to broadcast.
...I doubt florida is going to have much luck with wind power- it's dead flat, and the best places for wind power tend to be mountain passes, which 'funnel' in the wind.
Which is why the next Americas Cup race will be held in Colorado.
This suit is getting especially nasty. I see two agendas. 1) Microsoft wants to stop IBM from undermining their OS monopoly using hard-core litigation. 2) (and more importantly) Microsoft is using SCO like a preliminary boxer to discover what tactics and skills the open source community can bring into the ring. Or, to use another analogy, Microsoft is forcing OSS to put their cards on the table by sending in a substitute poker player. That way, they don't have to risk putting their cards on the table, too. As OSS shows Microsoft what tactics they'll use to defend open source, Microsoft is preparing for the final battle by studying their tactics and developing attacks that are more likely to defeat those defenses.
I will take a stupid and lazy government any day over a stupid and industrious one. Hell, I'd take a stupid and lazy government over a smart and industrious one.
Power, like nature, abhors a vacuum. A stupid, lazy government is a weak government. A weak government will quickly be eclipsed by some other form of power. In the case of the US, that power is the power of corporations. So what you are saying is that you'd rather be ruled by corporations than by yourself. In the US, the government is the people. That's why they say, "The People vs. whomever" in a criminal case. And it's why the Constitution begins with . ..
We the People
Don't be so quick to give away your only source of power.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands...
Uh, can you point out where it says that in the Constitution? I'm pretty sure that's just a little pledge written by an individual much later and then altered to include God even later.
Once the govt has a tools to destroy anyone they want lives what'll stop the corp.s from getting them etc...
Yes, true. Be aware, though, that the US government and corporations are in the midst of a merger. The conservatives want us to hate government because only government has the power to control the massive abuse of the people by corporations. They want to allow corporations to run the country rather than people. But government of, by, and for the people is our only hope of remaining a free and open society. Our real enemy isn't government, it's corporations. The US government is supposed to be our collective will . . . We the people. If one opposes democratic government, then they oppose the people. The current batch of idiots in Washington oppose the people and should be removed come next election so that the people may regain control and restore democracy and a strong, people's government to this country.
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I was worried about that 2012 date myself until I found out why the Maya chose that date as the end of their time. I'm amazed at how much the Maya were able to learn and I believe they had knowledge that we've yet to discover but I'm beginning to believe now that the 2012 date is simply an astronomical event.
The Maya were deeply religious and their religion was based on astronomy. Their convictions led them to construct pyramids so they could see over the jungle canopy to the horizon. It's on the horizon where they could view the rising and setting of the stars, planets, sun, and moon. The thing they discovered that prompted them to set 2012 as an important date is the precession of Earth. As Earth precesses on about a 25,000 year cycle, the sun rises at a slightly different location for each given day of the year. The Maya discovered that they could calculate that movement and believed it held some religious significance.
For all astronomically-based religions, the winter solstice was especially significant, but the Maya saw another significant astronomical feature. They viewed the intersection of the ecliptic (the line the planets, moon, and sun follow) and the galactic plane (as represented by the milky way) as the entry point whereby one could begin the journey along the milky way to the heart of the sky (a dark area near Polaris that used to be at the celestial north pole.) But one could only enter there when an opening was created by another celestial object at the point of the crossroad.
The key thing about the 2012 date is that the Winter solstice of 2012 has the sun rising exactly at the intersection of the ecliptic and the galactic plane. To the Maya, that probably represented the closing of a great cycle after which a new era would be born. In fact, the evidence seems to indicate that they actually worked backwards from December 21, 2012 to determine their current date when the Long Count calendar was created (some say as early as 355 B.C.)
The incredible precision by which they were able to predict astronomical events is uncanny. While our calendar uses clumsy gimmicks like leap years to overcome its inherent flaws, the Mayan calendar was able to accurately predict events thousands of years into the future with perfection and no need for adjustments. If you realize the movement of the Winter solstice sunrise due to precession occurs at a rate of about one degree every 72 years then you can realize the precision it takes to accurately predict such an event.
There is so much valuable knowledge that has been lost due to our destructive and arrogant approach to other cultures and it continues today as we try to eliminate cultures that compete with western values. Maybe one day we'll come full circle and embrace our ancient past just like the sunrise will do on December 12, 2012.
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Also, see Hopi prophecy.
Or did you just mean to elect Howard Dean in 2004 and again in 2008 which brings us to 2012, in which case I've completely overanalyzed your sig and owe you an Emily Litella, "Never mind"?
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from any body. Accordingly, it is a fact, as far as I am informed, that England was, until we copied her, the only country on earth which ever, by a general law, gave a legal right to the exclusive use of an idea. In some other countries it is sometimes done, in a great case, and by a special and personal act, but, generally speaking, other nations have thought that these monopolies produce more embarrassment than advantage to society; and it may be observed that the nations which refuse monopolies of invention, are as fruitful as England in new and useful devices.
- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Isaac McPherson, August 13, 1813
Does anything MS makes scale? This is the kind of reverse logic that goes into MS shops. I can't tell you how many times a consultant has come in to our shop and shown off an app that runs on Windows that our management fell for. Then, when we put it into production it falls on it's face because people actually attached to it and tried to use it in more than single digit numbers. Management (not wanting to admit it's mistake) digs the hole deeper by just shouting "Buy more servers!" Not considering the creeping O&M costs as we add more and more servers. Now we have over 200 Windows servers in the server room and we're a utility company!
It's really frustrating if you're a NetWare admin. I had 1200 users on a single processor, 200 MHz 4.11 server a few years ago and it rocked. Scaled through the roof. Then when Windows exploded into the server room (we had to expand it several times) management looks around at all the Windows servers and says, "Hey, we have too many servers. Lets get rid of these NetWare boxes." Arrgh! The Microsoft Cult wins again! Resistance is futile.
"Amanda Huggankiss! I need Amanda Huggankiss!"
-Moe
I knew that post would bring out the F1 haters. You're obviously in a state of hate-itude over something you know nothing about, though.
For one thing, F1 cars don't go "Vrmmm vrmmm vrmmm vrmmm." They kinda scream like really loud banshees due to their extreme RPM range.
"Girls who shake the champagne"??!! Hmmm, what would you call those... Shake-HOs, Bubbly Bimbos. "Schumacher hands the bottle now to the Shake-ho for its ritual shaking. Now she passes it to the Cork Queen for the popping. This is terribly exciting! Now the Cork Queen passes the uncorked bottle back to Schumacher but it's apparently run out of fizz as he has to turn it up over Montoya's head."
Get a grip, dude. Save your dissing for things that you know something about.
Don't put words in my mouth. I never said that bin Laden and al Q'aida didn't actually carry out the attack. They probably had a half dozen different attacks planned and 9/11 just happened to be the one that came along with the right timing.
It wasn't necessary to implement the attack to get it to happen. All that was necessary was to commit a little strategic head-turning at the right moments to let something succeed that could have been stopped. Then we have a rallying cry to focus peoples' anger and get them to support atrocities that further the interests of the powerful elite.
And if you think it's "poppycock" to believe that the US government would use an event like this to further a geopolitical goal then you just don't know much about US history. Read up on the incident with the USS Maine that was used as a pretext for the Spanish-American war or the Gulf of Tonkin incident that Johnson used to escalate the Vietnam war. It's not at all far-fetched to believe something that has multiple precedents in our history and I resent your arrogant implication that my intellect is suspect.
Another interesting precedent is the Reichstag fire in 1933 which Hitler used to consolidate his power and round up his enemies. It's even more interesting when you discover the well-documented cooperation between the Bush family and, not only the Nazi regime, but also the bin Laden family. These guys have been players for a long time and it's intellectually dishonest to discount the fact that they're not working for the freedom of US citizens but for the furtherance of their elitist Straussian agenda.
Sometimes I wonder who's more kooky -- people who see conspiracies everywhere or people who refuse to see them at all. You can take the intellectually safe route and just repeat what you're told or you can seek out the truth that some would rather keep hidden for obvious reasons. Take your choice.
It's also a happy coincidence that I'm posting this on Independence Day. The day when we celebrate our independence from tyranny. Those must have been heady days when our forefathers fought against tyranny instead of for it as we do now.
I love this country and I want to see it put back on the course that The Constitution set it on. Psychopatriots and lazy "intellectuals" notwithstanding.
We the People!
Yeah, but then Mothra flew down and God and Mothra were, like, battling and stuff and Mothra threw God to the ground and was getting ready to stomp on him until Superman showed up and kicked Mothra's ass. And then all the people went, "Yay!" But they looked around and all their houses had been crushed in the battle so Superman spun the world around backwards and everything went back to normal.
You're obsessing over myths, dude. And I bet you'd kill for them, too. Embrace reason. Free your mind.
Yeah, but what's that have to do with Iraq?
Are you:
a) simple minded and corporate media brainwashed into believing that Iraq had something to do with 9/11?
b) a racist advocating genocide because one arab is as good as another?
...I bet it can't touch Bull Semen.
How many Japanese suicide bombers has the US had to deal with?
The Japanese attacked us. Granted, we provoked them by cutting off their oil supply, but they still struck us which made them combatants. I don't think many Japanese believe we had no reason to fight them and thus harbor little or no residual hatred. They do tend to get a little riled up when our soldiers stationed there rape school girls, though.
It isn't like the US actually targets noncombatants these days.
How about the whole nation of Iraq? They were noncombatants until we invaded them.
There is a lot more to the problems in the mideast than "the US bombs too many innocent people".
I have no argument with you there. My post wasn't meant to be a history of the Middle East, though.
...you can see, children, the hate-filled bile spewed by the neo-conservative of the early twenty-first century. Vitriolic ranting and ad hominem attacks were the normal mode of operation and became quite effective in moving their society toward unrest and, eventually, destruction...very similar to the Nazi movement of the mid twentieth century. Now lets move on to the thousand-year dark ages that followed this period of war and destruction and then, in the next exhibit, the exciting birth of the Re-Enlightenment period.
So you suggest the US get off its ass and take over the world, cause we are freemarketing?
No, the Project for the New American Century suggested that and it's currently in progress.
Should we be isolationistic and not help any other country?
Well, since a lot of that money goes to dictators who stifle the natural evolution of society and often comes with strings attached (like forcing them to open certain markets to US corporations), then, yeah, it would be good if we stopped skewing the economic and social playing field.
But remember, its our money, our military, not yours. If you want to, give your own money/military.
My tax money helped build and wield that military and I AM a US citizen so that IS my military.
WE THE PEOPLE!
Or if we invade their countries and kill them when they've done nothing to us. Or if we give billions of dollars every year to Israel so Jews can build settlements on their land. Or if we overthrow their government and install a Shah, etc, etc, etc.
As can be seen from 9/11, terrorists will enjoy the freedoms and opportunities while living in our very country, then turn around and use those very freedoms to destory us.
Well, that settles it then. The solution is to do away with our freedoms. Bring on USA-PATRIOT II!
We'd probably even have peace if there were a mix of Christians and Jews, since one is the child of the other.
Psst, dude, your ignorance is showing.
Muslims worship the God of Abraham (Ibrahim) and recognize many of the same religious figures that Jews and Christians do.
Peace won't happen until we throw off the chains of religion entirely. No god to kill or die for.
And in order for Israel to exist it must have 4 BILLION dollars per year of US taxpayer money and continue driving Palestinians from their homes?
Why don't conservatives believe in the free market when it comes to statehood? If it's a viable state then why do we keep pumping welfare to it? Why doesn't Israel just get off its ass and get a job?
I'm not waiting 1000 years for them to stop sending suicide bombers after us.
No, you'd rather bomb the shit out of innocent people now and guarantee that they'll be sending suicide bombers at us for the next 1000 years.
Many people would argue that it was already too unlikely for the hijackers to have pulled this off without inside assistance. Why, for instance, weren't fighters scrambled to intercept hijacked planes headed hundreds of miles off-course? Why were the CIA and FBI told to back off of investigations of suspected terrorists and associates?
Could it be that we needed a crisis so that we could keep the populace in reactionary fear, ram through draconian laws, force congress to roll over while we unleash our military on people who had nothing to do with the attack but have plenty of valuable resources?
There are plenty of people in this country who hated New York City and the US federal government long before Arabs did and plenty of people with an economic self-interest in the state of war.
Among newspapers, #2 behind USA Today is the Wall Street Journal, only about 10% lower. And #3 is the NY Times.
You think WSJ readers are intelligent? Haven't you seen the Monty Python skits?
"I'm a chartered accountant and my name is... Well, I can't remember my name right now, but I am a chartered accountant."
Granted, he probably read the Financial Times instead but six of one...
And how about that WSJ editorial page. Absolute, total, utter, lying bullshit. It takes an idiot to believe that stuff. NYT ain't much better (Judith Miller, anybody?)
And as if trying to prove the guy's point, how about this sentence in the USA Today article,
"We're actually providing even lower pricing now for education then[sic] we ever have..."
I expect that kind of writing on Slashdot, but this is supposedly a journalist writing this article.
You'll also find that, if you study the entire faculty and staff, you'll discover that they are actually made of individual particles called "persons".
Nice.
That's one of the best self-contradictions I've seen on Slashdot.
First statement:
RFID's do not broadcast.
Contradiction:
The fact that they use an external power source doesn't eliminate their ability to broadcast.
Which is why the next Americas Cup race will be held in Colorado.
This suit is getting especially nasty. I see two agendas.
1) Microsoft wants to stop IBM from undermining their OS monopoly using hard-core litigation.
2) (and more importantly) Microsoft is using SCO like a preliminary boxer to discover what tactics and skills the open source community can bring into the ring. Or, to use another analogy, Microsoft is forcing OSS to put their cards on the table by sending in a substitute poker player. That way, they don't have to risk putting their cards on the table, too.
As OSS shows Microsoft what tactics they'll use to defend open source, Microsoft is preparing for the final battle by studying their tactics and developing attacks that are more likely to defeat those defenses.
I will take a stupid and lazy government any day over a stupid and industrious one. Hell, I'd take a stupid and lazy government over a smart and industrious one.
Power, like nature, abhors a vacuum. A stupid, lazy government is a weak government. A weak government will quickly be eclipsed by some other form of power. In the case of the US, that power is the power of corporations. So what you are saying is that you'd rather be ruled by corporations than by yourself. In the US, the government is the people. That's why they say, "The People vs. whomever" in a criminal case. And it's why the Constitution begins with . .
We the People
Don't be so quick to give away your only source of power.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands...
Uh, can you point out where it says that in the Constitution? I'm pretty sure that's just a little pledge written by an individual much later and then altered to include God even later.
Your mother smells of elderberries.
Once the govt has a tools to destroy anyone they want lives what'll stop the corp.s from getting them etc...
Yes, true. Be aware, though, that the US government and corporations are in the midst of a merger. The conservatives want us to hate government because only government has the power to control the massive abuse of the people by corporations. They want to allow corporations to run the country rather than people. But government of, by, and for the people is our only hope of remaining a free and open society. Our real enemy isn't government, it's corporations. The US government is supposed to be our collective will . . . We the people. If one opposes democratic government, then they oppose the people. The current batch of idiots in Washington oppose the people and should be removed come next election so that the people may regain control and restore democracy and a strong, people's government to this country.