So many myths, and all in one post. Let's see here:
And Bush is a bigger threat than Al Qaeda. He invaded the wrong two countries, turned the entire Islamic world against us, humiliated and alienated everyone else, and let all the bad guys get away.
Fortunately, the people of Iraq and Afganistan are now free of the tyrants that the "peace protesters" so desperately wanted to keep in power.
He's deactivated at least four amendments to the Bill of Rights.
None of the amendments of the Bill of Rights have been "deactivated".
He's established that he is not subject to any court.
Uh...where did you get that one? We're talking about Bush here, not Clinton, right? What ARE you talking about?
He can make any of us disappear at any time.
Phew...ok...even farther off the deep end....
We are not permitted to protest in his holy presence.
The just want where those little shin-digs those pro-Saddam activists were having in various parts of the country before the war?
He and his people are looting the Treasury.
Bzzzt! Wrong again, thanks for playing. If you're so against tax cuts, by all means, rip that check up, or send more money next time tax season rolls around. Can't bring yourself to do that... Hmm...at least we know where you draw the line now.
He will make destitute millions of people when the U.S. won't have the money to pay Social Security.
Faulty prediction.... or is that just wishful thinking, so you have someone to blame?
He is the worst, most clueless, most arrogant president we have ever had.
No, that would be that the impreached Mr. Clinton.
And he wasn't even elected.
Certainly he was. Got the majority of the electoral votes in this country, and that's how it works. Gore repeatedly try to count votes until he got a vote total he was happy with (and with some help of the Democrat-controlled Supreme Court), and steal that election. Period. End of Story. This is as stupid as the "Gore got the majority of the votes in the country" argument. Presidents are elected through the electoral college for a damn good reason, so every state in the country has a say in who gets elected president, not just the most populous states.
Look, we get the idea that you hate Bush. If you want to convince people with arguments, at least state facts, not made up things, things that you wish had happened, or out and out lies. People will be much more interested in that, and much less likely to blow off what you have to say.
Another thing to keep in mind while all this is going on, is to see where the cudos go for a suggestion that's well received. You might not be aware of what's said. If your manager passes the word that you're the one that needs to be praised, that's good. If the manager takes credit for it, get the hell out of there. The manager is just using you for their own career, instead of helping you in yours. Cynical, yes, but it's true.
It basically comes down to this: Making someone aware of the decision they made was the wrong one, even though you were completely right, isn't something other people like to hear. Some people react to it differently than others. I've had some people thank me when I did it, and I've had others go into complete denial that they were the ones that suggested it in the first place.
The real time to bring this up would be at the next deployment of something similar and say "We tried X last time, and that didn't work. We should try Y because it will". Don't assign blame, because like it or not, you'll be the one that gets in trouble.
Bottom line: Pointing something like this out to someone is nearly always the wrong way to go, no matter what your modivation is.
Sorry, but this still doesn't answer the main point, which is the Democrats never EVER admit they're wrong. You're just yet another person proving my point.
Always choose white over black? The Republicans were the ones that stood up for civil rights, while the democrats were blocking the ways into schools.
Rich over poor? That's crap too. Most of the democrat contributors to election campaigns are millionaires, while the Republican contributors are the ones that give less than $2000. The top 1% of earners in this country pay the majority of the taxes in this country, and yet, if they get any money back, you'd think the sky is falling.
Worker rights? You mean those unions that the democrats have in their pockets and that feed the democrat machine, despite what the INDIVIDUALs in the unions really want? That's not individual choice.
Corporate rights? You mean the very same corporations (Enron, etc). that conducted scams during the 1990s against their own people, only to be found out and prosecuted by the current Republican administration?
Church dogma over individual choice? Which individual choice do you mean? School vouchers for kids that want to get out of the crappy public school system? Oh, no...can't have choice there.
As another person pointed out, all these arguments are class warfare, the typical Democrat argument.
First he was impeached for perjury in a case where he was getting sued by one of the many women he tried to bed.
Second, there are WMDs. The UN sanctions where over them, and they had inspectors there trying to oversee the destruction of them before they were thrown out. Clinton took a few pot shots at them over this, and claimed the same WMDs when he did that. About a month ago, an Iraqi scientist brought Americans to his back yard and dug up a component for a nuclear arms program, plus the documentation to go with it.
These things are buried, and will be found. They're finding things every day. Hell, they found buried PLANES for crying out loud... And they just found those. Check this for details. Here's another report.
The thing is, if we didn't even know those planes were there and the Iraqis were willing to bury them in the desert, why isn't it possible that they did the same with the other unaccounted for (but by the UN inspectors own reports, real!) biological, chemical and nuclear weapons?
At the time the statement was made, we believed that was true. The British government, the source of that quote, still stands behind it to this day. The BBC said it was "sexed up", and even the government inquiry into it said it didn't find any evidence of the BBC's claim.
In any event, finding out something you believed to be true at one time is now false isn't lying.
The main point, and the one you've completely ignored is that the Democrats never EVER admit they're wrong. NEVER.
So, by this theory, anyone getting in bed with a particular political party shows proof that political part is not to be trusted?
That's pretty interesting, considering that the head of RIAA, the group that's been causing all of these problems so far, is a supporter and contributor to the Democrat party:
That's because if a Republican makes a legimate stupid mistake, everyone, including Republicans, jump on their case. If a Democrat does the exact same thing, the same Republicans still get on their case, but the Democrats NEVER EVER admit they're wrong. NEVER.
Yeah, I know...I know... technically (offical Sun party line), it's not dead, but for all practical purposes, you're right, it is dead. I was just relating what one of the developers said at JavaOne. I did a lot of work with it, so it's hard to see it go.
It'll be interesting what happens with the patents, particularly the.compile() part of the API, since I believe that's one of the things Henry Swizworal (I never could spell that) and the hardware guy (who's name escapes me at the moment...John Deering maybe?) got a patent on. At one time I believe they were going to implement that in hardware, but the PC hardware vendors overtook the industry and basically made that irrelevent.
The real shame of Java3D's history is they never did put the proper number of resources on this project. I don't think there were more than three or four people working on it at any one time at Sun. I think they did one more release after Henry left for that networking company in Seattle, and that was basically it. They were working with Hanrahan's group on a shading extension, but I think that basically went away because of OpenGL's new stuff, and NVIDIA's stuff.
And actually, they do declare things dead. They put them into "end of life cycle" or something like that. HotJava is one of them. They have a page of the others, but I don't have that link handy. As you say, this rarely happens though.
It's not "officially dead" until Sun says it is. When I spoke to the developers at JavaOne, they said it was on hold. That's the official line right now.
I'm using JOGL now, and haven't run into any problems. It's basically straight OpenGL, with only minor set-up things you have to do (initing the window, etc).
Java3D is currently on hold. This isn't a replacement for Java 3D, it's just something different. Kinda like Inventor is different than OpenGL, although it uses OpenGL.
"The preliminary injunction followed a hearing this morning in which the plaintiffs in the Cobell v. Norton litigation, who represent American Indian trust beneficiaries, sought the injunction. The goal of the injunction is to protect American Indian trust accounts from intrusion via the Internet. "
The American Indians requested that the injunction be put into place, and it was granted.
This has nothing to do with what administration is in power.
The flaw with this argument is that the problem with the network been going on for a very long time and started during the Clinton administration. Had it been funded from the beginning, there wouldn't be this problem in the first place.
...and what I mean by "heads would have rolled", is that critics in the US would have screamed about how this was "yet another instance" of the US doing what they wanted. Instead, we're seeing critics siding with the company. They wouldn't have done that if it was a US company.
They started running everything before the contract was awarded, and that's why they were stopped. They didn't win the contract and have it yanked. They tried to get their own stuff in use and excepted as the "defacto" standard, and then turn around and try and say "Hey, we have this in place, why not just use us".
Like I said, if this had been an American company that tried this, heads would have rolled.
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And Bush is a bigger threat than Al Qaeda. He invaded the wrong two countries, turned the entire Islamic world against us, humiliated and alienated everyone else, and let all the bad guys get away.
Fortunately, the people of Iraq and Afganistan are now free of the tyrants that the "peace protesters" so desperately wanted to keep in power.
He's deactivated at least four amendments to the Bill of Rights.
None of the amendments of the Bill of Rights have been "deactivated".
He's established that he is not subject to any court.
Uh...where did you get that one? We're talking about Bush here, not Clinton, right? What ARE you talking about?
He can make any of us disappear at any time.
Phew...ok...even farther off the deep end....
We are not permitted to protest in his holy presence.
The just want where those little shin-digs those pro-Saddam activists were having in various parts of the country before the war?
He and his people are looting the Treasury.
Bzzzt! Wrong again, thanks for playing. If you're so against tax cuts, by all means, rip that check up, or send more money next time tax season rolls around. Can't bring yourself to do that... Hmm...at least we know where you draw the line now.
He will make destitute millions of people when the U.S. won't have the money to pay Social Security.
Faulty prediction.... or is that just wishful thinking, so you have someone to blame?
He is the worst, most clueless, most arrogant president we have ever had.
No, that would be that the impreached Mr. Clinton.
And he wasn't even elected.
Certainly he was. Got the majority of the electoral votes in this country, and that's how it works. Gore repeatedly try to count votes until he got a vote total he was happy with (and with some help of the Democrat-controlled Supreme Court), and steal that election. Period. End of Story. This is as stupid as the "Gore got the majority of the votes in the country" argument. Presidents are elected through the electoral college for a damn good reason, so every state in the country has a say in who gets elected president, not just the most populous states.
Look, we get the idea that you hate Bush. If you want to convince people with arguments, at least state facts, not made up things, things that you wish had happened, or out and out lies. People will be much more interested in that, and much less likely to blow off what you have to say.
Another thing to keep in mind while all this is going on, is to see where the cudos go for a suggestion that's well received. You might not be aware of what's said. If your manager passes the word that you're the one that needs to be praised, that's good. If the manager takes credit for it, get the hell out of there. The manager is just using you for their own career, instead of helping you in yours. Cynical, yes, but it's true.
It basically comes down to this: Making someone aware of the decision they made was the wrong one, even though you were completely right, isn't something other people like to hear. Some people react to it differently than others. I've had some people thank me when I did it, and I've had others go into complete denial that they were the ones that suggested it in the first place.
The real time to bring this up would be at the next deployment of something similar and say "We tried X last time, and that didn't work. We should try Y because it will". Don't assign blame, because like it or not, you'll be the one that gets in trouble.
Bottom line: Pointing something like this out to someone is nearly always the wrong way to go, no matter what your modivation is.
/slaps self on forehead.... it's a joke!
Man, just the thing to make the old resume stand out in the crowd.
This is hilarious! Wrong on all counts!
Sorry, but this still doesn't answer the main point, which is the Democrats never EVER admit they're wrong. You're just yet another person proving my point.
Always choose white over black? The Republicans were the ones that stood up for civil rights, while the democrats were blocking the ways into schools.
Rich over poor? That's crap too. Most of the democrat contributors to election campaigns are millionaires, while the Republican contributors are the ones that give less than $2000. The top 1% of earners in this country pay the majority of the taxes in this country, and yet, if they get any money back, you'd think the sky is falling.
Worker rights? You mean those unions that the democrats have in their pockets and that feed the democrat machine, despite what the INDIVIDUALs in the unions really want? That's not individual choice.
Corporate rights? You mean the very same corporations (Enron, etc). that conducted scams during the 1990s against their own people, only to be found out and prosecuted by the current Republican administration?
Church dogma over individual choice? Which individual choice do you mean? School vouchers for kids that want to get out of the crappy public school system? Oh, no...can't have choice there.
As another person pointed out, all these arguments are class warfare, the typical Democrat argument.
Well, considering that Disney's head, Michael Eisner, is a Democrat, I don't think that'll happen.
First he was impeached for perjury in a case where he was getting sued by one of the many women he tried to bed.
Second, there are WMDs. The UN sanctions where over them, and they had inspectors there trying to oversee the destruction of them before they were thrown out. Clinton took a few pot shots at them over this, and claimed the same WMDs when he did that. About a month ago, an Iraqi scientist brought Americans to his back yard and dug up a component for a nuclear arms program, plus the documentation to go with it.
These things are buried, and will be found. They're finding things every day. Hell, they found buried PLANES for crying out loud... And they just found those. Check this for details. Here's another report.
The thing is, if we didn't even know those planes were there and the Iraqis were willing to bury them in the desert, why isn't it possible that they did the same with the other unaccounted for (but by the UN inspectors own reports, real!) biological, chemical and nuclear weapons?
At the time the statement was made, we believed that was true. The British government, the source of that quote, still stands behind it to this day. The BBC said it was "sexed up", and even the government inquiry into it said it didn't find any evidence of the BBC's claim.
In any event, finding out something you believed to be true at one time is now false isn't lying.
The main point, and the one you've completely ignored is that the Democrats never EVER admit they're wrong. NEVER.
That's pretty interesting, considering that the head of RIAA, the group that's been causing all of these problems so far, is a supporter and contributor to the Democrat party:
Check out this link:
right here
And type "Recording Industry" into the link. Guess what? It's Hilary Rosen contributing to Gephart's campaign, Kerry's campaign and the like.
Like it or not, this isn't a one party issue, and the party that the head of RIAA is with right now are the Democrats.
That's because if a Republican makes a legimate stupid mistake, everyone, including Republicans, jump on their case. If a Democrat does the exact same thing, the same Republicans still get on their case, but the Democrats NEVER EVER admit they're wrong. NEVER.
Yeah, I know...I know... technically (offical Sun party line), it's not dead, but for all practical purposes, you're right, it is dead. I was just relating what one of the developers said at JavaOne. I did a lot of work with it, so it's hard to see it go.
.compile() part of the API, since I believe that's one of the things Henry Swizworal (I never could spell that) and the hardware guy (who's name escapes me at the moment...John Deering maybe?) got a patent on.
:-)
It'll be interesting what happens with the patents, particularly the
At one time I believe they were going to implement that in hardware, but the PC hardware vendors overtook the industry and basically made that irrelevent.
The real shame of Java3D's history is they never did put the proper number of resources on this project. I don't think there were more than three or four people working on it at any one time at Sun. I think they did one more release after Henry left for that networking company in Seattle, and that was basically it. They were working with Hanrahan's group on a shading extension, but I think that basically went away because of OpenGL's new stuff, and NVIDIA's stuff.
And actually, they do declare things dead. They put them into "end of life cycle" or something like that. HotJava is one of them. They have a page of the others, but I don't have that link handy. As you say, this rarely happens though.
You gonna start a JOGL FAQ site?
It's not "officially dead" until Sun says it is. When I spoke to the developers at JavaOne, they said it was on hold. That's the official line right now.
I'm using JOGL now, and haven't run into any problems. It's basically straight OpenGL, with only minor set-up things you have to do (initing the window, etc).
Java3D is currently on hold. This isn't a replacement for Java 3D, it's just something different. Kinda like Inventor is different than OpenGL, although it uses OpenGL.
Because the lack of initial funding started in the Clinton administration.
In any event, it had nothing to do with Bush, no matter what the initial poster said. It's just another lie.
This is typical blarg from the left, just like the "another Vietnam" argument, and the quagmire argument.
Making things up, and yelling them loudly doesn't make it true.
The other flaw with this is the following:
"The preliminary injunction followed a hearing this morning in which the plaintiffs in the Cobell v. Norton litigation, who represent American Indian trust beneficiaries, sought the injunction. The goal of the injunction is to protect American Indian trust accounts from intrusion via the Internet. "
The American Indians requested that the injunction be put into place, and it was granted.
This has nothing to do with what administration is in power.
The flaw with this argument is that the problem with the network been going on for a very long time and started during the Clinton administration. Had it been funded from the beginning, there wouldn't be this problem in the first place.
Check out:
this link
and type in Recording Industry
If you want to lay this at the feet of a particular political party, don't do it here, because you won't like what you find.
...and what I mean by "heads would have rolled", is that critics in the US would have screamed about how this was "yet another instance" of the US doing what they wanted. Instead, we're seeing critics siding with the company. They wouldn't have done that if it was a US company.
They started running everything before the contract was awarded, and that's why they were stopped. They didn't win the contract and have it yanked. They tried to get their own stuff in use and excepted as the "defacto" standard, and then turn around and try and say "Hey, we have this in place, why not just use us".
Like I said, if this had been an American company that tried this, heads would have rolled.
Probably the same way that the NYT says that the White House ordered the website altered.
Yup...gotta love it when the truth is classified as flamebait.
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