First, let me say that I'm an agnostic coming from a formerly catholic-now laic country and wish we'd wipe the idea of religions (ANY) out of our lives once and for all.
Now, having said that, what you say about how Americans view Christians is true (aside from the mental illness which seems too strong a term). However, it's not only on the democrat side. It's just a general perception that probably was inherited from the protestant waves of immigrants before USA was USA.
Now, republicans have a tendancy to "bigotry", first being Mister Bush who thinks he's sent by God and of being overzealous with their religious beliefs. What you notice about democrats is probably a reaction to that bigotry.
Apparently not, although I've married one. That explains things...
they only care to be the best they can be.
Yes, bringing the worse to others in the process. Maybe what you think is being the "best" is considered being "bad" to others. That's were you may want considering what others think
Unfortunately, the world doesn't work that way and you HAVE to consider the others too. I think you actually pointed out part of the whole issue heree.
You don't read too much foreign newspapers, do you?
The prevision for USA is an economy decline, loss of status regarding its position among all the countries, disbelief and lack of trust.
The word does not hinge on who is President but still, it's a major concern. Bush is NOT respected as a leader in many countries.
As an example of how Bush completely lost it, on Sept 11, France quoted "We are all americans". I challenge you to find a frenchman who still thinks that way, 3 years (only) after. On the contrary, idiots from the senate invented the "freedom fries". More than being ridiculous, it's an example of how sadly and fastly Bush consummed its popularity with the other countries.
Yes, but that doesn't mean anything, your comment is biased:
USA never had that much registered voters who actually voted in overall.
Because each year there is MORE people allowed to vote in USA (like normal population growth, immigrants becoming citizens, etc.), there are more voters.
and because what matters is the RATIO of voters (you know that bizarre % sign used all over the place).
Number of actual voters many vary a lot depending on variables that has nothing to do with being electable or not: weather, current political context (like, people are generally enclined to not go vote when they are sure their candidate will win or there is not much at stake - check the last presidential election in France: a lot more people showed up when extreme right suddenly became a possibility - they blasted their number of voters for such an election.).
Actually, the current mobilisation of voters shows only one thing: there is more people who doubt of the future, hence go to vote to secure theirs. So basically, there are a lot more people who are in doubt and do not know where to stand, which doesn't sound good for a supposedly "united" country.
But/.tters and/statistics rarely share the same DNS.
Yes, the statement of the parent is weird. Why have elections when a 3% population sample is enough to have accurate polls? After all, if it doesn't change anything "statistically", why bother?
Heh. It takes $$$ to run a webserver. Even not for profit still needs revenue.
Well...That depends what you mean by $$$ and what your webserver does or is supposed to do.
Mine costs me nothing more than the work I put in it. It's a Linux based PC with only open-source softwares on it that I thought was dead until my dad came and fixed it by drilling holes in the motherboard to fix the CPU radiator.
So with a supposedly-dead PC I still can do pretty descent web hosting for my family.
Granted that it's not a commercial thing and the various sites have very low traffic. If you go into serious commercial website, that takes a lot more!
there ain't no such thing as civilians in Iraq. Only various factions of verious fanatical terrorist groups
Have you tried to re-read yourself become clicking "submit"?
In one sentence you summarized your level of idiocy, ignorance and mental sickness. Mod me troll or flamebait, blast my karma, but I am sorry, I cannot read such a misguided statement without reacting. That is because of people like you who are blindlessly and blissfully ignorant that things like the Iraq war happen in the first place.
Do you really think that a mother of four with her children are all terrorists? I don't.
Interesting example.. tell me, do you eat the plates when you go to a restaurant?
Unless you have a telekinesis talent, you can hardly avoid touching the plate. And if you pour the content of your plate on your knees...shit hits the fan (as well as you...).
When my kid burns her mouth because her pasta was too hot, she gets upset but she's been warned and she knows she should have waited for it to cool, or blow her spoonful to make it colder. She's 6, an age where she now gets replied "you've been warned - make sure it wont happen next time by listening to what we told you"
When your coffee says "hot content", maybe you've been warned enough and should have taken that advice into account? If you can't read...too bad for you...This woman apparently knew how to read enough to order a coffee and pay for it.
Not all people are as bright as a 6-years old apparently, but when you reach adulthood, you ARE responsible for your own stupidity (let's exclude the unlucky people suffering from mental disorder from that statement, that would not be fair)
the misunderstanding of the term 'Communist', most probably confusing it with 'socialist', though the term 'liberal' (even someone only slightly left of center) would probably qualifiy in this author's mind as perjorative (an insult).
You are very true, and I will add that this misconception appears in countries where there is no left wing, no socialists and no communists, hence from people who aren't familiar with this concept or idea of multiple political parties (90% of the people belonging to only 2 parties is not a multi-party country - sorry US folks). Having just been qualified as a "Socialist" here on slahsdot today, I can tell that most people just don't understand the difference. Moreover, when people on the other side of the pound use "liberal" to qualify the "right wing".
There is a whole misconception of genres that probably come from the cold war and the MacCartism where you had 2 alternatives: being a communist because you are not right-wing, or being right-wing
USA has NO left-wing, "liberals" are just a moderate right wing.
How much of the 100.000 are the feat of US/UK soldiers?
Anyway, because some sucker slaughtered his own people, does it excuses some other sucker to continue the work?
And numbers don't count. Your life is as valuable as mine as an Iraki one, as much as anyone, even though they think that killing you make them better.
The same rethoric can be applied to Bush and his invasion of Iraq. It's not because you suffered losses that you should inflict death on others
You did a good job at completely missing the point. How many products are not suitable for consumption out of the box? Go in a high-enough class restaurant. Plates are always EXTREMELY hot so your meal keeps warm. You cannot touch them without burning yourself. Do you sue the restaurant because they knew you cannot touch the plate right away, even though the waiter told you it was too hot to touch? If yes, I have an answer to your question:
Again, if this was so simple, why was the lawsuit successful?
Because in the US, all kind of stupid lawsuits have a chance to succeed. SCO vs the rest of the world, DMCA, suing M$ for a failing XBox, Homeland security forcing you to remove a product claiming potential infrigement where the patent has expired long ago...A whole range of things that are either frivolous or completely non-sensical.
I'd take as an example, France, where a similar lawsuit was filled and dismissed right away by the court. Some other people tried to sue cigarette manufacturers...To no avail. It doesn't happen like it does in US. People are asked to be responsible for themselves.
Let me tell you something: the whole "suing everyone macarena" in United States appears so ridiculous to many other countries that it makes up for good laughs at dinner time, in front of a burning hot expresso.
You boil water for pasta and accidentally spill it off all over you. Whom do you sue? The pasta company who requires boiling water to cook the pasta, Mother Nature for having water boil at 100 degres Celsius or...your own stupidity?
Come on, you buy something hot, it's hot. You burn yourself, you should have been careful.
I got burned to 3rd degrees myself when I was 6, because I put my hands directly on an infrared heater. Do you think I should have sued the company who makes the heater? Or my parents for not telling me? Give me a break!
This scumbag by e-mail thing has got to stop somehow. This has just gotten too far with child porn.
This whole way of extracting money from people just reach an unacceptable point here.
There are many good techies in Slashdot, why not retaliate against those scumbags in an "open source retaliation scheme against scumbags". I am thinking of some sort of open source militia that would take down the systems from those criminals with the same kind of attacks (or more clever) that they do.
AskSlashdot::How can I contribute in stopping this electronic non-sense?
Strange..My wife received her absentee form last week and sent it two days ago...No deadline whatsoever. The ballot only have to be mailed before 2 November.
Ohh...and georgebush.whatever is accessible from our Canadian internet connection
The only correlation that would make sense is the amount of typing on a keyboard.
Long class and variable names cause more hits on the keyboard. As I am writing, I am currently finding out that the index finger is the one I use the most.
So probably, my index get shorten by absorbing shocks on the keyboard.
Otherwise, and more seriously, this kind of correlation is at best funny, and a very bad interpretation of statistics at worse
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In many European countries there is a month long period where everyone goes on vacation. As I understand it, pretty much the entire country except for basic service industries shuts down for a month.
Great to see that you've been modded "insightful". Mod me "offtopic" if you want but this is a big misconception of european countries. Basically, people there take their holidays at the same time as everyone else, that is, mostly summer time and christmas time.
I leave in north america, and 90% of the companies I have been in do close for the whole christmas week.
As much as you would love europeans to be different, the holidays thing is not the issue in the article, and what you say is simply irrelevant.
Just wanted to clarify a few things for our friends from the new continent who have a wicked conception of the old one.
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"Genova" is the italian for "Genes", a major city in Italy.
"Geneva" is the english name for "Geneve" which is in Switzerland
And NO, Columbus was not Swiss...
First, let me say that I'm an agnostic coming from a formerly catholic-now laic country and wish we'd wipe the idea of religions (ANY) out of our lives once and for all.
Now, having said that, what you say about how Americans view Christians is true (aside from the mental illness which seems too strong a term). However, it's not only on the democrat side. It's just a general perception that probably was inherited from the protestant waves of immigrants before USA was USA.
Now, republicans have a tendancy to "bigotry", first being Mister Bush who thinks he's sent by God and of being overzealous with their religious beliefs. What you notice about democrats is probably a reaction to that bigotry.
You don't understand Americans do you?
Apparently not, although I've married one. That explains things...
they only care to be the best they can be.
Yes, bringing the worse to others in the process. Maybe what you think is being the "best" is considered being "bad" to others. That's were you may want considering what others think
Unfortunately, the world doesn't work that way and you HAVE to consider the others too. I think you actually pointed out part of the whole issue heree.
Thanks, I didn't had much time elaborating on the false statements regarding France and Chirac ;-)
Our Aussie friend is wrong about Chirac, as he is about World affairs and USA.
Ah well...In Soviet Russia...
It wasn't to no avail...NH is a pretty nice win if you are Kerry-sided. Congrats!
You don't read too much foreign newspapers, do you?
The prevision for USA is an economy decline, loss of status regarding its position among all the countries, disbelief and lack of trust.
The word does not hinge on who is President but still, it's a major concern. Bush is NOT respected as a leader in many countries.
As an example of how Bush completely lost it, on Sept 11, France quoted "We are all americans". I challenge you to find a frenchman who still thinks that way, 3 years (only) after. On the contrary, idiots from the senate invented the "freedom fries". More than being ridiculous, it's an example of how sadly and fastly Bush consummed its popularity with the other countries.
Bush got more votes than any American in history.
Yes, but that doesn't mean anything, your comment is biased:
Number of actual voters many vary a lot depending on variables that has nothing to do with being electable or not: weather, current political context (like, people are generally enclined to not go vote when they are sure their candidate will win or there is not much at stake - check the last presidential election in France: a lot more people showed up when extreme right suddenly became a possibility - they blasted their number of voters for such an election.).
Actually, the current mobilisation of voters shows only one thing: there is more people who doubt of the future, hence go to vote to secure theirs. So basically, there are a lot more people who are in doubt and do not know where to stand, which doesn't sound good for a supposedly "united" country.
But /.tters and /statistics rarely share the same DNS.
Yes, the statement of the parent is weird. Why have elections when a 3% population sample is enough to have accurate polls? After all, if it doesn't change anything "statistically", why bother?
I must say that's a bit scary
Bush - 56% // Kerry - 49%
Am I too old for Maths or is that 105% of votes? No wonder why you have to recount votes and the majority doesn't always win in your country...
Heh. It takes $$$ to run a webserver. Even not for profit still needs revenue.
Well...That depends what you mean by $$$ and what your webserver does or is supposed to do.
Mine costs me nothing more than the work I put in it. It's a Linux based PC with only open-source softwares on it that I thought was dead until my dad came and fixed it by drilling holes in the motherboard to fix the CPU radiator.
So with a supposedly-dead PC I still can do pretty descent web hosting for my family.
Granted that it's not a commercial thing and the various sites have very low traffic. If you go into serious commercial website, that takes a lot more!
Out of curiosity, how does one go about doing that and supporting it without some sort of ad revenue coming in?
Faith about your skills and will to do things you require, young jedi. Do not let the dark side of profit descend upon you!there ain't no such thing as civilians in Iraq. Only various factions of verious fanatical terrorist groups
Have you tried to re-read yourself become clicking "submit"?
In one sentence you summarized your level of idiocy, ignorance and mental sickness. Mod me troll or flamebait, blast my karma, but I am sorry, I cannot read such a misguided statement without reacting. That is because of people like you who are blindlessly and blissfully ignorant that things like the Iraq war happen in the first place.
Do you really think that a mother of four with her children are all terrorists? I don't.
This is just plain sick reasoning.
Interesting example.. tell me, do you eat the plates when you go to a restaurant?
Unless you have a telekinesis talent, you can hardly avoid touching the plate. And if you pour the content of your plate on your knees...shit hits the fan (as well as you...).When my kid burns her mouth because her pasta was too hot, she gets upset but she's been warned and she knows she should have waited for it to cool, or blow her spoonful to make it colder. She's 6, an age where she now gets replied "you've been warned - make sure it wont happen next time by listening to what we told you"
When your coffee says "hot content", maybe you've been warned enough and should have taken that advice into account? If you can't read...too bad for you...This woman apparently knew how to read enough to order a coffee and pay for it.
Not all people are as bright as a 6-years old apparently, but when you reach adulthood, you ARE responsible for your own stupidity (let's exclude the unlucky people suffering from mental disorder from that statement, that would not be fair)
Thanks for your clarifications!
I'd like to comment a point:
the misunderstanding of the term 'Communist', most probably confusing it with 'socialist', though the term 'liberal' (even someone only slightly left of center) would probably qualifiy in this author's mind as perjorative (an insult).
You are very true, and I will add that this misconception appears in countries where there is no left wing, no socialists and no communists, hence from people who aren't familiar with this concept or idea of multiple political parties (90% of the people belonging to only 2 parties is not a multi-party country - sorry US folks). Having just been qualified as a "Socialist" here on slahsdot today, I can tell that most people just don't understand the difference. Moreover, when people on the other side of the pound use "liberal" to qualify the "right wing".
There is a whole misconception of genres that probably come from the cold war and the MacCartism where you had 2 alternatives: being a communist because you are not right-wing, or being right-wing
USA has NO left-wing, "liberals" are just a moderate right wing.
How much of the 100.000 are the feat of US/UK soldiers?
Anyway, because some sucker slaughtered his own people, does it excuses some other sucker to continue the work?
And numbers don't count. Your life is as valuable as mine as an Iraki one, as much as anyone, even though they think that killing you make them better.
The same rethoric can be applied to Bush and his invasion of Iraq. It's not because you suffered losses that you should inflict death on others
"Europe? Ewwww SOCIALISTS!!"
You mean like in Soviet Russia...where..whatever?
Ah well...what's the problem with that?
You did a good job at completely missing the point. How many products are not suitable for consumption out of the box? Go in a high-enough class restaurant. Plates are always EXTREMELY hot so your meal keeps warm. You cannot touch them without burning yourself. Do you sue the restaurant because they knew you cannot touch the plate right away, even though the waiter told you it was too hot to touch? If yes, I have an answer to your question:
Again, if this was so simple, why was the lawsuit successful?
Because in the US, all kind of stupid lawsuits have a chance to succeed. SCO vs the rest of the world, DMCA, suing M$ for a failing XBox, Homeland security forcing you to remove a product claiming potential infrigement where the patent has expired long ago...A whole range of things that are either frivolous or completely non-sensical.
I'd take as an example, France, where a similar lawsuit was filled and dismissed right away by the court. Some other people tried to sue cigarette manufacturers...To no avail. It doesn't happen like it does in US. People are asked to be responsible for themselves.
Let me tell you something: the whole "suing everyone macarena" in United States appears so ridiculous to many other countries that it makes up for good laughs at dinner time, in front of a burning hot expresso.
Yeah right.
You boil water for pasta and accidentally spill it off all over you. Whom do you sue? The pasta company who requires boiling water to cook the pasta, Mother Nature for having water boil at 100 degres Celsius or...your own stupidity?
Come on, you buy something hot, it's hot. You burn yourself, you should have been careful.
I got burned to 3rd degrees myself when I was 6, because I put my hands directly on an infrared heater. Do you think I should have sued the company who makes the heater? Or my parents for not telling me? Give me a break!
Yes and review or japanese terms...
Well...the clothing fashion is waaaaaayy better in Winnipeg than in Guantanamo.
Only football fans dare wearing this ugly bright orange suit.
Did I say such a thing or are you just trying to troll undercover?
This whole way of extracting money from people just reach an unacceptable point here.
There are many good techies in Slashdot, why not retaliate against those scumbags in an "open source retaliation scheme against scumbags". I am thinking of some sort of open source militia that would take down the systems from those criminals with the same kind of attacks (or more clever) that they do.
AskSlashdot::How can I contribute in stopping this electronic non-sense?
Ohh...and georgebush.whatever is accessible from our Canadian internet connection
So probably, my index get shorten by absorbing shocks on the keyboard.
Otherwise, and more seriously, this kind of correlation is at best funny, and a very bad interpretation of statistics at worse
In many European countries there is a month long period where everyone goes on vacation. As I understand it, pretty much the entire country except for basic service industries shuts down for a month.
Great to see that you've been modded "insightful". Mod me "offtopic" if you want but this is a big misconception of european countries. Basically, people there take their holidays at the same time as everyone else, that is, mostly summer time and christmas time.
I leave in north america, and 90% of the companies I have been in do close for the whole christmas week.
As much as you would love europeans to be different, the holidays thing is not the issue in the article, and what you say is simply irrelevant.
Just wanted to clarify a few things for our friends from the new continent who have a wicked conception of the old one.