I agree with you, but here's one thing to consider when condemning the fact that governments ask you for your race when they deal with you - stopping discrimination is not the same thing as stopping thinking about race. What about situations where action is required to bring circumstances into a race-neutral situation?
For example, possibly your local government is responsible for things like public Christmas decorations (I don't know if this is the case in the US, but it is in the UK). Does the same government also provide decoration of appropriate places at times that are significant to other races? In this example, simply not making any changes does nothing to make things equal.
The government would need to know what race its populations are in order to know how many resources to devote to satisfying each request, otherwise a request for decorations appropriate to Hannukah (if there are any?) would have to be treated with equal importance to decorations for Flying Spaghetti Monster day.
The levels of self delusion in your post (especially the bits about Rome) are actually breath taking. Do they actually brainwash you in American schools these days?
Anyway.. the particular part of your diatribe that I was going to criticise was this: "I think most other nations would just as soon blast the country and be done with it".
Considering that there was barely any international support for the invasion anyway (if you exclude politicians who have their collective tongues wedged in Bush's anus - yes, I'm aware than includes my own 'leader'), we never would have been IN Iraq without the US. Subsequently, there would not be any insurgents.
But anyway, this will never get through your bubble of self-delusion, so don't let me interrupt your flag waving. I await downward moderation for daring to criticise the infallible US.
I guess one side effect is that I should be able to anonymously browse the web through google.
Presumably, you mean anonymous to everyone except Google, who will be keeping much tighter logs on what you are up to than your normal ISP would anyway (in line with their terms of service)?
Data permanence is also a big issue in Opera. If you go backwards and forwards in Firefox, you lose any text you may have typed into a comment box. If you go backwards and forwards in Opera, your comment stays right where it was. On Slashdot this lets you go a couple of links back, launch a new window with the story in it, and go back forwards to what you were writing. It also caches the rendered page, so that going forwards and backwards is instantaneous.
I just tested this, and this seems to work in Firefox 1.5 now, FYI. 1.5 also does the cache-rendered-page thing so that back/forwards navigation is very fast.
I know we've already done the 'you shouldn't live in a flood zone' theme to death in the discussions on Katrina, but am I the only one who things that it is especially retarded to stick research labs like this in a place like that?
In the meantime, Michael conveniently neglects to mention that Osama was basically an outcast in his own family.
This is quite demonstrably false. The film includes an interview with the Saudi ambassador (or similar high up) who says that Osama is the black sheep of the Bin Laden family and that they have nothing to do with him.
Is that the best you can do as an example of Moore making stuff up? I mean he put the interview in the film for Christs sake.
So come on, provide some proper examples of Moore making stuff up to make Bush look bad.
Incidentally, the phone companies here in the UK use these to provide increased coverage for events attracting large numbers of people.
I have just returned from this year's Reading Rock Festival, and they always have a mobile cell tower set up just outside and angled to cover the festival site.
Not to sound like a miserable bastard, but exactly which of these are supposed to be funny? This article is really lame, uninformative and about as funny as colon cancer.
The first item on the list takes the piss out of some guy for putting a HD in the freezer in an attempt to get it to work, when that is well known for sometimes working in temporarily resuscitating dead drives, if the death is due to a mechanical fault.
Also, the link for page two seems to keep taking me back to the first page in Firefox.
I did it once because I didn't fully plug my laptop all the way into a docking station and the link failed even though my laptop was 1 foot from the router.
Yeah, you'd have thought the electrons could jump that far.
I'm interested that you think that the X Window system rips off MS Windows, considering MS Windows doesn't actually provide as much functionality as X Window does.
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Good thing too. Being a male "sexit pig" sounds anally hazardous.
These concerns might also be addressed by reading the fricking article and observing that the bag is not transparent.
Here in the UK we also have a subway that is beneath the water table.
I agree with you, but here's one thing to consider when condemning the fact that governments ask you for your race when they deal with you - stopping discrimination is not the same thing as stopping thinking about race. What about situations where action is required to bring circumstances into a race-neutral situation?
For example, possibly your local government is responsible for things like public Christmas decorations (I don't know if this is the case in the US, but it is in the UK). Does the same government also provide decoration of appropriate places at times that are significant to other races? In this example, simply not making any changes does nothing to make things equal.
The government would need to know what race its populations are in order to know how many resources to devote to satisfying each request, otherwise a request for decorations appropriate to Hannukah (if there are any?) would have to be treated with equal importance to decorations for Flying Spaghetti Monster day.
Andy
For duck huntin'?
The levels of self delusion in your post (especially the bits about Rome) are actually breath taking. Do they actually brainwash you in American schools these days?
Anyway.. the particular part of your diatribe that I was going to criticise was this:
"I think most other nations would just as soon blast the country and be done with it".
Considering that there was barely any international support for the invasion anyway (if you exclude politicians who have their collective tongues wedged in Bush's anus - yes, I'm aware than includes my own 'leader'), we never would have been IN Iraq without the US. Subsequently, there would not be any insurgents.
But anyway, this will never get through your bubble of self-delusion, so don't let me interrupt your flag waving. I await downward moderation for daring to criticise the infallible US.
I guess one side effect is that I should be able to anonymously browse the web through google.
Presumably, you mean anonymous to everyone except Google, who will be keeping much tighter logs on what you are up to than your normal ISP would anyway (in line with their terms of service)?
Data permanence is also a big issue in Opera. If you go backwards and forwards in Firefox, you lose any text you may have typed into a comment box. If you go backwards and forwards in Opera, your comment stays right where it was. On Slashdot this lets you go a couple of links back, launch a new window with the story in it, and go back forwards to what you were writing. It also caches the rendered page, so that going forwards and backwards is instantaneous.
I just tested this, and this seems to work in Firefox 1.5 now, FYI. 1.5 also does the cache-rendered-page thing so that back/forwards navigation is very fast.
I know we've already done the 'you shouldn't live in a flood zone' theme to death in the discussions on Katrina, but am I the only one who things that it is especially retarded to stick research labs like this in a place like that?
In the meantime, Michael conveniently neglects to mention that Osama was basically an outcast in his own family.
This is quite demonstrably false. The film includes an interview with the Saudi ambassador (or similar high up) who says that Osama is the black sheep of the Bin Laden family and that they have nothing to do with him.
Is that the best you can do as an example of Moore making stuff up? I mean he put the interview in the film for Christs sake.
So come on, provide some proper examples of Moore making stuff up to make Bush look bad.
"Bush is the worst president this country has ever had"
You mean you've had worse? How the fuck do you guys pick 'em over there?
The BBC are prohibited from spending money from the licence fee on providing services to people outside the UK by their charter. It's not up to them.
Incidentally, the phone companies here in the UK use these to provide increased coverage for events attracting large numbers of people.
I have just returned from this year's Reading Rock Festival, and they always have a mobile cell tower set up just outside and angled to cover the festival site.
Not to sound like a miserable bastard, but exactly which of these are supposed to be funny? This article is really lame, uninformative and about as funny as colon cancer.
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The first item on the list takes the piss out of some guy for putting a HD in the freezer in an attempt to get it to work, when that is well known for sometimes working in temporarily resuscitating dead drives, if the death is due to a mechanical fault.
Also, the link for page two seems to keep taking me back to the first page in Firefox.
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Bah. Humbug.
The majority of YOUR voting population elected Bush. Twice.
If the fools have a leader, he's gotta be it.
It's expensive to be a voyeur in these digital times.
I did it once because I didn't fully plug my laptop all the way into a docking station and the link failed even though my laptop was 1 foot from the router.
Yeah, you'd have thought the electrons could jump that far.
Xen supports live migration already. Sounds free. ;)
Even the words we use today are manmade.
Yeah, those lazy fish and insects rarely kick in with any good lingo these days.
I realise this is a bit pedantic and inconsequential, but in actual fact they shot him 7 times. 1 in the back, the rest in the head.
Dude, you may not like his question, but atleast he wrote his in english.
I'm interested that you think that the X Window system rips off MS Windows, considering MS Windows doesn't actually provide as much functionality as X Window does.
Also, X Window predates MS Windows by atleast a year.
Those sneaky Unix geeks and their time travel!
I belive it is pronounced "0wnz0red!". HAND.
What's the air conditioner ever done to you?
Look on the bright side; it is in the middle...
Thanks for that. That's the clearest explanation of a sonic boom I've read.