"Amazingly most people in the non-industrialized nations still seem to think their life worth living. "
Theres a big difference between being born into a situation and being driven to a situation.
Also, none of the non-industrialized nations are suffering nuclear fallout and the panic that ensues if a few nukes went off in your country. Buying the new Prada dress or going to a nightclub would be the least of your worrys, power, safety, general resources would be your new worry.
"while small disturbances to the balance of power between our levels and branches of gov't (and the citizens themselves) can be, and regularly are, endured or corrected by more conventional political means."
So...a nuclear attack is just another "small disturbance", write a few letters to your local mayor and all will be well. Whatever you say Jack.
And do you think that living in America would actually be worth while after all that? So not every inch of US soil is destroyed, the parts that are left will just be a slow burning grave yard for the people left. US needs the likes of China as much as it trys not to admit it. Cheap labour helps the American way of life. Hell if just bits of California and New York were destroyed then rest of America will just flounder.
Regardless, the cowardly tactics of the likes of the IRA are amazing. You know N.I will ALWAYS remain part of the UK now, only fools that are holding onto a violent past see it returning one day if enough explosives are used. While the new generations are sick of the deaths that the IRA pretend are for the good of the country.
You just conviently ignore the targeted deaths of innocent people, thinking your true fighters, placing a bomb secretly in a shopping area...wow, big brave men. If you were not so dangerous in your ignorance and lack of brains it would be laughable.
Nine children are among the 28 people killed in the Omagh car bombing, it has emerged.
Thirteen women - one of whom was pregnant - and six men died, the authorities have said. About 220 people were injured or maimed.
Fifty-three people remain unaccounted for but this is understood to include 20 of the dead who have still to be formally identified.
The blast in the packed town centre hit Protestants and Catholics alike. Among the dead was an 18-month-old infant.
I agree, after all most Linux people seem to go on about CHOICE, dont get upset if someone doesnt choose the same as you! Get your army of linux coders and start another Source Forge project then maybe in 5 years you will have another Tux Racer!!
I see where your coming from, but personally I would still rather cure cancer even if some company makes millions from it than looking for signs of something in infinite space.
What an absurd statement you make, perhaps the little old lady walking down the street is the one REALLY at fault because she should have a sawn off shotgun under her coat to protect against muggers, after all if shes not defending herself properly shes asking for it!
If ease of attack is a deemed resonable motive for the attack then perhaps blowing up school busses is resonable also.
A great many are poor, but just as many are becoming a new breed of Chinas middle class, with extra income, and a western lifestyle expectation. Even if 70% of people in China are in poverty, that leaves millions to buy your products in an as yet unsaturated market.
Im picturing an army of Muhammads flying across the atlantic with bomb clusters strapped to themselves. Ofcourse due to flight time provisions of night time sandles, turban press and a copy of "Suicide For Dummies" or "All-ah Need Is My AK47" is also provided by the MAD (Muslim Air Drop) squad.
Just because a computer can crunch numbers really fast does not mean it is anyway as good as the human brain. Machines are coded by men more often than not to do just one repetitive task, ask it to do something different then bang goes any superior power. They cant learn a new task with ingenuity(sp?). They cant invent. Think how much the brain is controlling at any one moment in time, and how much memory is stored within your brain that can be accessed in split seconds.
If you mean the homepage under your name then im viewing it just fine in IE.
Ive installed Moz a number of times, used it for a week, then uninstalled it. Im not lazy, I just dont like it.
BTW> Im not blind.
I understand all your points fully, and yes perfectly valid. Im just making the comparison that when the shoe is on the other foot so to speak dont just discount the other users.
Yes you can make your site work with ALL browsers, but you could also make these sites work for the blind just by putting in a bit of extra effort for that one bit, their not asking for rocket science here.
While I can see the points being made that you cant change everything to suit a fairly small (in comparison) group of people. Perhaps alot of the ignorant/.ers could also stop moaning about sites being IE only etc etc...after all, who cares about the small number (in comparison) of people who dont use IE? I could make my sites compatible, but the numbers that cant access it are not worth my while either.
Record low mortgage rates are fuelling the housing market, not a good economy. If rates go higher then boom goes your nice comfy home. If rates go lower, real estate continues to go higher to unsustainable levels. Real estate is actually the next bubble, not the sign of recovery.
Im a EU citizen and quite frankly sick of taxes, paying shed loads to fund people who dont want to work, paying loads for political red tape. Keeping far more civil servants in a job than is needed. Conflict of intrest? Try saying that to France whos Iraq business deals were under threat. They opposed the war, but I dont believe for one minute it was for moral reasons.
Look at the huge pensions black hole now suffocating the whole of Europe, France and Germany especially are at the brink of a social disaster being unable to pay the pensions, this is why so many strikes are going on because their people dont want to work longer hours, dont want pension cuts..just want money for free.
" In craps and blackjack, for example, you're playing against the house. The house will win over the long run"
After my reading up on card counting and "tricks of the trade" type sites, you can actually keep breaking even at Blackjack with no luck or skill, http://www.blackjackinfo.com/cgi-bin/bjbse.cgi?gam e=lv2
has examples of strategy charts on what to do depending on your hand. Ive tried these out and it does keep you at an even 50% win/loss.
Thats difference between US and UK I find, I was listening to an ex SAS man about the same subject, and maybe because what they do is more secret than regular army but many times they do leave men behind dead, or, even injured if it risked the lives of the other men in the team to try and take the injured man with you.
Harsh? Yes. Cowardly? No.
As I mention above, the biggest threat to the US economy is the oil nations selling in Euros more than the dollar (as Saddam started too), if the UK joins the Euro and Brent crude starts being produced in a Euro nation, then this will only push them further into using Euro also, just now the US has a license to print money for the world, that could stop.
The Euro is also on the border of many many eastern nations where the black markets are rampent and arab nations. But its what oil is paid for with that really matters.
Supposing the dollar wants to be helped, the reason the dollar is weak right now is because the US gov want it weak. Sure some of the US economy comes into it but the gov would have stepped in by now to stop the slide if it had wanted to, but their trying to boost exports and keep the US people buying American.
The biggest killer to the dollar will be if the oil nations start selling in Euro as Saddam did, thats a big thorn in Bushs side that will hurt the US a whole lot.
The US could have a good go, but im sorry the sum of every other Nation out there DOES outweigh the US...you could destroy a heck of alot, but theres alot of nukes in other countries also, and far bigger armies. You may have the hi-tech, but it will only last so long. So Yes, we do have nukes/ICMBs, yes we do have spies in all areas of the world although the only area to really count is the US so we at least can concentrate on there, hell the US was so shocked that someone would attack it on its home turf the aircraft sent up at 9/11 were not even armed. Dont be so arrogant, dont be so ignorant. Have a nice day.
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"Amazingly most people in the non-industrialized nations still seem to think their life worth living. "
Theres a big difference between being born into a situation and being driven to a situation. Also, none of the non-industrialized nations are suffering nuclear fallout and the panic that ensues if a few nukes went off in your country. Buying the new Prada dress or going to a nightclub would be the least of your worrys, power, safety, general resources would be your new worry. "while small disturbances to the balance of power between our levels and branches of gov't (and the citizens themselves) can be, and regularly are, endured or corrected by more conventional political means."
So...a nuclear attack is just another "small disturbance", write a few letters to your local mayor and all will be well. Whatever you say Jack.
And do you think that living in America would actually be worth while after all that? So not every inch of US soil is destroyed, the parts that are left will just be a slow burning grave yard for the people left. US needs the likes of China as much as it trys not to admit it. Cheap labour helps the American way of life. Hell if just bits of California and New York were destroyed then rest of America will just flounder.
Regardless, the cowardly tactics of the likes of the IRA are amazing. You know N.I will ALWAYS remain part of the UK now, only fools that are holding onto a violent past see it returning one day if enough explosives are used. While the new generations are sick of the deaths that the IRA pretend are for the good of the country.
You just conviently ignore the targeted deaths of innocent people, thinking your true fighters, placing a bomb secretly in a shopping area...wow, big brave men. If you were not so dangerous in your ignorance and lack of brains it would be laughable.
Yeah, their the evil ones, right.....
Nine children are among the 28 people killed in the Omagh car bombing, it has emerged. Thirteen women - one of whom was pregnant - and six men died, the authorities have said. About 220 people were injured or maimed. Fifty-three people remain unaccounted for but this is understood to include 20 of the dead who have still to be formally identified. The blast in the packed town centre hit Protestants and Catholics alike. Among the dead was an 18-month-old infant.
I agree, after all most Linux people seem to go on about CHOICE, dont get upset if someone doesnt choose the same as you! Get your army of linux coders and start another Source Forge project then maybe in 5 years you will have another Tux Racer!!
Well, cant argue with that, with the shady $hit that has gone on in history it would not suprise me at all to find out they cured Cancer 10 years ago.
I see where your coming from, but personally I would still rather cure cancer even if some company makes millions from it than looking for signs of something in infinite space.
What an absurd statement you make, perhaps the little old lady walking down the street is the one REALLY at fault because she should have a sawn off shotgun under her coat to protect against muggers, after all if shes not defending herself properly shes asking for it!
If ease of attack is a deemed resonable motive for the attack then perhaps blowing up school busses is resonable also.
A great many are poor, but just as many are becoming a new breed of Chinas middle class, with extra income, and a western lifestyle expectation. Even if 70% of people in China are in poverty, that leaves millions to buy your products in an as yet unsaturated market.
As long as her box lets me get root access she wont need it! If your really lucky she might open up a backdoor.
A poll at CNN here here shows how sometimes no matter what MS does a huge amount of people will be leaving themselves open to problems.
" How are you planning to protect your PC from the LoveSan Internet 'worm' affecting Windows-based PCs?
Going to load a patch from Microsoft 19%
Have already loaded a patch from Microsoft 39%
Doing nothing 41% "
Im picturing an army of Muhammads flying across the atlantic with bomb clusters strapped to themselves. Ofcourse due to flight time provisions of night time sandles, turban press and a copy of "Suicide For Dummies" or "All-ah Need Is My AK47" is also provided by the MAD (Muslim Air Drop) squad.
And with your sample of 1 comments we can conclude that everyone prefers Linux, dont be a smart ass.
Over 2 years old installation, zero crashes. Nuff said.
Just because a computer can crunch numbers really fast does not mean it is anyway as good as the human brain. Machines are coded by men more often than not to do just one repetitive task, ask it to do something different then bang goes any superior power. They cant learn a new task with ingenuity(sp?). They cant invent. Think how much the brain is controlling at any one moment in time, and how much memory is stored within your brain that can be accessed in split seconds.
If you mean the homepage under your name then im viewing it just fine in IE. Ive installed Moz a number of times, used it for a week, then uninstalled it. Im not lazy, I just dont like it.
BTW> Im not blind. I understand all your points fully, and yes perfectly valid. Im just making the comparison that when the shoe is on the other foot so to speak dont just discount the other users. Yes you can make your site work with ALL browsers, but you could also make these sites work for the blind just by putting in a bit of extra effort for that one bit, their not asking for rocket science here.
While I can see the points being made that you cant change everything to suit a fairly small (in comparison) group of people. Perhaps alot of the ignorant /.ers could also stop moaning about sites being IE only etc etc...after all, who cares about the small number (in comparison) of people who dont use IE? I could make my sites compatible, but the numbers that cant access it are not worth my while either.
Record low mortgage rates are fuelling the housing market, not a good economy. If rates go higher then boom goes your nice comfy home. If rates go lower, real estate continues to go higher to unsustainable levels. Real estate is actually the next bubble, not the sign of recovery.
Im a EU citizen and quite frankly sick of taxes, paying shed loads to fund people who dont want to work, paying loads for political red tape. Keeping far more civil servants in a job than is needed. Conflict of intrest? Try saying that to France whos Iraq business deals were under threat. They opposed the war, but I dont believe for one minute it was for moral reasons.
Look at the huge pensions black hole now suffocating the whole of Europe, France and Germany especially are at the brink of a social disaster being unable to pay the pensions, this is why so many strikes are going on because their people dont want to work longer hours, dont want pension cuts..just want money for free.
" In craps and blackjack, for example, you're playing against the house. The house will win over the long run"
m e=lv2
has examples of strategy charts on what to do depending on your hand. Ive tried these out and it does keep you at an even 50% win/loss.
After my reading up on card counting and "tricks of the trade" type sites, you can actually keep breaking even at Blackjack with no luck or skill, http://www.blackjackinfo.com/cgi-bin/bjbse.cgi?ga
Thats difference between US and UK I find, I was listening to an ex SAS man about the same subject, and maybe because what they do is more secret than regular army but many times they do leave men behind dead, or, even injured if it risked the lives of the other men in the team to try and take the injured man with you. Harsh? Yes. Cowardly? No.
As I mention above, the biggest threat to the US economy is the oil nations selling in Euros more than the dollar (as Saddam started too), if the UK joins the Euro and Brent crude starts being produced in a Euro nation, then this will only push them further into using Euro also, just now the US has a license to print money for the world, that could stop. The Euro is also on the border of many many eastern nations where the black markets are rampent and arab nations. But its what oil is paid for with that really matters.
Supposing the dollar wants to be helped, the reason the dollar is weak right now is because the US gov want it weak. Sure some of the US economy comes into it but the gov would have stepped in by now to stop the slide if it had wanted to, but their trying to boost exports and keep the US people buying American. The biggest killer to the dollar will be if the oil nations start selling in Euro as Saddam did, thats a big thorn in Bushs side that will hurt the US a whole lot.
The US could have a good go, but im sorry the sum of every other Nation out there DOES outweigh the US...you could destroy a heck of alot, but theres alot of nukes in other countries also, and far bigger armies. You may have the hi-tech, but it will only last so long. So Yes, we do have nukes/ICMBs, yes we do have spies in all areas of the world although the only area to really count is the US so we at least can concentrate on there, hell the US was so shocked that someone would attack it on its home turf the aircraft sent up at 9/11 were not even armed. Dont be so arrogant, dont be so ignorant. Have a nice day.