How exactly is it "racist" to point out the fact that most terrorists are male and Muslim? Just because something is a stereotype doesn't mean it's not true. My in laws shouldn't have to be subjected to the same kind of security as me.
Oh, and btw, I worked in the middle east back and forth for a couple of years: Dubai, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia (Dhahran). You want to see racism? Go there. It was ridiculous. And not just for the white & black expats mind you, but my heart especially sank every day for the Bangladeshi workers there, oh man. One of my co-workers was a British guy whose parents came from Pakistan, Muslim of course, the Saudi guys at the firm we were working at would invite him to their houses for dinner every night, while the rest of us were always looked at like we were worms or something, it was ridiculous. And of course I don't have to tell you about the women there. The people in Dubai were somewhat civil at least, lots of expats there though.
Don't throw around words like "racist" so recklessly, you undermine their real meaning. You use it as a tool to intimidate people who dare say something you don't like to hear. Peace.
Sigh, so now we'll all have to get the 3rd degree whether we're 8 year old kids or 82 year old grandmothers. I'll bet anybody on here a pint that every single suspect in the case is a Muslim male between the ages of 18 and 45, most likely of middle eastern descent, British born or not.
Why do my 60+ year old in laws have to suffer when they fly to visit us next week? For God's sake, put the political correctness down for a bit, let's be reasonable! I'm a 32 year old white/brown male with brown hair and brown eyes. When I fly alone, I expect to be scrutinized, it's normal, I won't be offended if they don't check the 82 year old grandmother behind me. They actually pulled Al Gore out of line to search his bags a couple of years ago! Come on!
Remember that movie "Airplane" from the 80's, there's a part where security is doing a full body search of an old lady while a group of sheiks in the white robes fly through, life immitates art.
You're really nuts you know. I suppose you also think that it was Republican operatives that orchestrated 9/11?
About the Brazilian dude, when you run AT a bunch of agents armed to the teeth when you're wearing a heavy jacket on a warm day, you shouldn't be surprised when you get shot in the head, whether you're a terrorist or not.
World War II was going to be won by the one that managed to develop the nuclear bomb first. Japan and Germany were collaborating on theirs, and they started before the US. Do you think that Japan would have spared Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle had they gotten there first? I don't think so.
Using the bomb was the only way to end the war. The Japanese refused to surrender even as they crumbled, they were even training women and children to fight with spears to repel a ground invasion. To attempt a ground invasion would have cost tens of thousands of American lives.
Now you may bring up the point that by using the bomb we punished civilians. Well those civilians were hardly innocent. They brought up their children to believe that they would rule the world over the inferior white man, that their emperor was God and that the world belonged to them. They approved of the aggression and the attrocities commited in China and the rest of the pacific, as well as the reckless attack on Pearl Harbour.
Was it devastating? Of course, horrific. But I assure you, there is strong irrefutable evidence that the Germans were pretty far along until their fanatic anti-semitism cost them the services of their best scientists on the project, one Albert Einstein and colleagues.
Thank God we got there first. Remember to put it into context. It's easy to say how evil we are for using it, but all things considered, what would you had done if you were Truman?
Wow that's a depressing point of view. Although there is a lot of truth in what you say, you make it sound like the exception is the rule. Not so. Let's examine:
- You say we torture, and yes this administration has been criminal in what it encourages, but remember that those that do so are eventually prosecuted and condemned, the people responsible for Abu Ghraib are sitting in jail as we speak. People who castrate people alive and cut their heads off with a dull knife in the middle east and Africa will never even get a slap on the wrist.
- We do NOT install dictators for our economic pleasure. We do so because it is the lesser of two evils. Allow me to expound on this with an example: Afghanistan. Context: cold war, choice: communists or Islamic fundamentalists. Given the choice, at the time, we cannot allow this repressive expantionist empire to annex more territory. Same thing with proxy countries like Chile in 74 and many African and central American countries. What would you have done in the place of the CIA folks making those decisions? Capitalist democracies do allow for foreign investment, which ultimately prevents war. Everybody wins.
- Yes I was going to say women's rights and gay rights and all. The shameful state of Virginia aside, we do not hang people for being gay. We don't make women wear full body burqas and walk behind men, and give them clitorectomies. We don't flip out and kill a bunch of people when somebody draws a picture of a religious figure. 50 years won't change that if you're not allowed to question anything without getting killed. The Vatican doesn't have priests chanting the equivalent of "Death to America, death to Israel". We don't fly planes into buildings to get to heaven into the arms of 72 virgins. When we accidentally kill civilians, we don't celebrate in the streets, we grieve. The hizbollah folks AIM for civilians and rejoice when they hit their target.
Look, as Sir Winston Churchill remarked, secular democratic capitalisism is a terrible way to govern a country, absolutely awful. Unfortunately it's the best available option. I'd rather live in a world where we're in power instead of fundamentalists or communists. I am deeply ashamed of George Bush's regime. The damage he has done will take decades to fix. But in the end we'll still be on the right side of history. I appreciate your point of view, I really do, and there is nothing healthier than honest criticism, which is a right that not everybody in the world has, by the way, but please, do make it honest, recognize the good. Peace.
That's a very irresponsible comparison. I know it's fashionable to loathe yourself and your government, but let's not forget who the good guys are. That's not to say we're perfect, far from it, but relatively speaking, it's no contest. Would you rather live in Cameroon or some other God foresaken country, or in the US / UK? I thought so.
Speaking of central authority for faiths, it's amazing to me how Mecca, the holiest site for Muslims in the world, is the scene of chants calling for the destruction of Israel and America, lead by Imams. Can you imagine if something similar went on at the Vatican? With the pope leading a crowd to call for the destruction of Mecca?!
Sometimes words take on a life of their own and become taboo. For instance, "Chinaman" is considered racist, yet "Englishman" is not. These days even, you get a funny look from people when you say "Mexican" to describe someone whereas when you say "Swedish" you get nothing.
"Redneck" is definitely taboo and should be avoided in polite society, since it refers to the working poor in the Appalachia region, white people whose necks have become red due to working in the sun all day. If that's not racist, I don't know what is, since if the people it targets were not white, the term could not exist.
However, this word (redneck) has also taken on a life of its own: it has become synonimous with fat, uneducated, tobacco chewing, wife beating, negro lynching, ignorant white man. Similarly, the word "nigger" has taken on a life of its own too, synonomous with a person of limited vocabulary, who commits crimes in greater numbers, smokes marijuana, drinks 40 ounce bottles of beer, dresses and behaves in an immature fashion. These two words, with these meanings, can apply to anyone, of any race, but they are rooted with a specific race, and hence are still racist.
Bloomberg, a lifelong member of the Democratic party, cleverly ran as a Republican for the simple reason that securing the nomination on that side would be very easy given there were no Republicans in the running, thus avoiding the bloodbath that was the democratic primary election.
As for Andrew Sullivan, the man is a conservative, not a Republican. He voted for John Kerry in 2004. The Republican party used to adhere to conservative principles (small government, fiscal restraint, individual freedom, etc) but it has been hijacked by the religious right and the neo-con establishment. W masqueraded himself as a conservative prior to being elected and has betrayed everyone except his right wing base, which explains his (Rove's) obsession with "protecting" marriage. This serves to get this base fired up so they ignore everything else. The rest of the fools who voted for him buy the whole 911-world-has-changed-everything-and-only-I-can-ke ep-you-safe line.
A new conservative party is needed to dethrone these buffoons. The Dems are spinless fools with no ideas and no solutions and do not deserve to win anything, although I'd vote for a ham sandwich to get the current majority government out of power. Somebody like Ross Perot would do very well in 2008.
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Yes, and I trust you show such indignation at every unjust situation in the world, even those that aren't somehow either Israel's or the US's fault? Most of those are far worse than what goes on in Israel / Palestine. Don't forget about them.
Darfur (Arabs in north killing all blacks in south of Sudan), Western Sahara (occupied by Morocco), Congo (gigantic mess of tribal genocides), etc.
Why is everybody so obsessed with the plight of Palestinians? What about the Congolese, Chinese peasants, Cuban citizens? Oh wait none of that is our fault so it's no fun to whine about to make ourselves feel good about ourselves.
It's also hard to feel sympathy for people who blow themselves up in restaurants and markets killing innocent people, and who refuse to do anything to make their own lives better, instead just whining and sucking up foreign aid, blaming others for everything. Israel has a right to exist. They actually create things, their intellectual property output dwarfs the rest of the middle east combined. Just or not, I'm on Israel's side. I like Zend Studio. I don't think any such thing ever came out of Palestine, and somehow I get the feeling that even if the fertile crescent were devoid of Jews, we wouldn't get any more contributions to progress from Palestine that we do now. Israel existing is a good thing. So quit yer playa' hatin':)
WTF? If I've got anyone in IT putting 1,000,000 rows in a spreadsheet, I'm seriously considering demoting them. If you're going to have a million rows, get a database.
Well, sometimes that's how it is with legacy systems that have been in place for 10 years and you haven't had the time or money to devote to doing it "right". There are many, many applications out there that have a giant Excel spreadsheet in the thick of it getting data from here and exporting it to there.
The person you want to demote left the company 8 years ago and we don't have the money to hire a contractor for 60 bucks an hour for 3 months to make it a spiffy LAMP application. Not to mention the cost of bringing the idiot back to fix his own bugs for 100 bucks an hour.
So in this case, I think you're being a bit harsh on MS, a lot of people will appreciate this as applications age and spreadsheets grow.
I have a feeling you're referring to our presidential elections which are, for all intents and purposes, open only to highly centralized ubiquitous parties that represent nobody. It's inevitable since they have to average out all of the population's whims and views in order to get the maximum number of votes.
Disregard the presidential elections. The real democracy starts at the school boards in your local township. From there it moves up to state offices, all the way up to governor, senator, and finally president. These latter three are not the real democracy, it's the former that are.
The house of representatives is also real democracy, each district votes in the person that best represents the views of a group of people concentrated in one area of the country. All in all I think that works pretty well.
For all its faults, our government is still the best in the world. That's right, for a country this big, so diverse in its population, it's the best in the world. People immediately jump on me when I say this and say "Ohh, but look at Sweden, they do great with their socialist government!" yeah well that's easy when you're small homogenous society where everybody looks and thinks the same way. Try that approach when you have to reconcile the differences between Billy Bob in Alabama and Berkeley hippies. Oh, and BTW, Sweden is collapsing thanks to its absurd immigration policies, but that's another story for another time.
Winston Churchill said something to this effect: democracy is horrible way to run a country. It's just better than everything else that's been tried.
Quite right.
Another favourite from him:
With capitalism, the blessings are distributed unequally. In socialism/communism, the misery is shared amongst all.
Superman III was the best one!! How can we not love Richard Pryor as the computer whiz hacker dude, playing with traffic signals, manipulating satellites to fetch him some kryptonite, and then there's the whole evil angry Superman under the influence of the krypto. Best... episode... ever!
I think it's a disgrace that it's being made though. I mean, Christopher Reeve IS Superman, that's it, and especially what happened to him, the man was an inspiration, I'm moved just thinking about it. Reeve as Superman was beloved, and no new actor can reprise the role. This isn't a James Bond kind of franchise where the actor playing the hero is interchangeable, and it's not like Batman where none of the actors playing the hero was impressive enough to be Batman forever (c'mon, even George Clooney played Batman!) A Superman remake does nothing but tarnish the legacy of Reeve. If you want more Superman action, just watch Smallville.
Well, I get a dollar every time somebody downloads and activates Firefox with the Google toolbar from my website (near the bottom on the right pane), and I'm pretty sure Google wouldn't give me that dollar if they weren't making a couple of bucks of their own.
Complain about that why don't'cha. Amazing bias here. Here's the link for this Google / Firefox programme. So for all intents and purposes, Google and Firefox go together like Microsoft and IE.
And of course if selecting the default search engine becomes part of the setup procedure, as is advocated here, then this crowd will complain that MSN is the first choice in the list, right? Geesh.
Google has the name recognition thing going on, it's even a verb for crying out loud. Marge Simpson doesn't tell Homer "from what I hear you spend your day MSN'ing your own name all day"
The clueless grandmother who has never used a computer no longer exists. And if she does still exist, she wouldn't even understand what that search box is, she'd be afraid of it and ignore it altogether and type in google.com when she wants to search anyway.
Our discovery of this pyramid was orchestrated by the predators to lure us there so that when they revive the alien queen and she starts laying her eggs, there would be hosts for the face-huggers to implant their eggs. Once a few aliens are running around, down will come some teenage predators looking to pass their manhood ritual by trying to survive an alien hunt in the pyramid. It's all been foretold here. Beware if the predators lose though, they'll blow the whole place up.
The most important thing to get out of this state visit is concessions on Chinese imports of American goods. They have an alarming double standard of providing Wal-Mart with everything under the sun yet keeping our products out. No wonder we have a multi-trillion dollar trade deficit.
When the main character doing the time travel in the 2002 adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic goes into the future, doesn't he end up in the midst of mass panic due to the orbit of the moon having been disturbed by resort construction that used explosives or something?
As always, the thing that will make this technology catch on and be successful is, of course, pr0n. Imagine what that that kind of resolution will do for the industry! Oh man! Nobody pushes the tech envelope more than pr0n, to this day their product is about the only ones that make use of the multiple angle feature of DVDs (uh, or so I've heard, yea)
I can't even recall seeing any HD-DVD's anyway. Of course, once this technology catches on, they'll re-relase every movie in HD-DVD thus rendering your current DVD collection obsolete. But what the heck, I don't care, I still watch VHS stuff.
I'm not religious nor do I believe in any kind of organized religion whereby God has written books and what not, but please allow me to come to the defense of reasonable everyday Christians.
Technically, everything in the Old Testament is null and void after Jesus Christ's sacrifice. It's like how before Christ, you had to sacrifice animals to wash sins away and what not. With Christ having made "the ultimate" sac, you can ride on that if you just say "I'm with him", so when you get to the pearly gates and God says "Dude, what's all this junk you did? You think you're good enough to get in here? Are you nuts? Didn't you read the rules?" then Jesus is supposed to intervene on your behalf and say "It's ok dad, he's with me" and then He lets you in. Of course it's not enough to just say that you're with Jesus, you actually have to believe it and do your best to follow the rules, which no human could ever really achieve, it's impossible, but Christ makes it possible to get in in spite of our shortcomings, because he did follow all the rules, he was perfect but he sacrificed himself to save all of us.
Yes, I went through a "phase", but then I decided that I was much happier with pr0n and Star Wars toys. Although I don't believe in all this stuff literally, nor do I abide by it, it does have some influence on my behaviour toward other people, the Bible does have some very good advice for living in it. Believe in Him or not, Jesus was a pretty righteous dude:) Not a bad role-model for sure. It's a pretty admirable faith as long as you don't use it to channel your fear and your hate (the dark side):)
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How exactly is it "racist" to point out the fact that most terrorists are male and Muslim? Just because something is a stereotype doesn't mean it's not true. My in laws shouldn't have to be subjected to the same kind of security as me.
Oh, and btw, I worked in the middle east back and forth for a couple of years: Dubai, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia (Dhahran). You want to see racism? Go there. It was ridiculous. And not just for the white & black expats mind you, but my heart especially sank every day for the Bangladeshi workers there, oh man. One of my co-workers was a British guy whose parents came from Pakistan, Muslim of course, the Saudi guys at the firm we were working at would invite him to their houses for dinner every night, while the rest of us were always looked at like we were worms or something, it was ridiculous. And of course I don't have to tell you about the women there. The people in Dubai were somewhat civil at least, lots of expats there though.
Don't throw around words like "racist" so recklessly, you undermine their real meaning. You use it as a tool to intimidate people who dare say something you don't like to hear. Peace.
Ah ok, I'll take your word for it, sorry about that, I stand corrected.
Man, I have to fly to Paris in 3 weeks, tis' gonna suck.
Sigh, so now we'll all have to get the 3rd degree whether we're 8 year old kids or 82 year old grandmothers. I'll bet anybody on here a pint that every single suspect in the case is a Muslim male between the ages of 18 and 45, most likely of middle eastern descent, British born or not.
Why do my 60+ year old in laws have to suffer when they fly to visit us next week? For God's sake, put the political correctness down for a bit, let's be reasonable! I'm a 32 year old white/brown male with brown hair and brown eyes. When I fly alone, I expect to be scrutinized, it's normal, I won't be offended if they don't check the 82 year old grandmother behind me. They actually pulled Al Gore out of line to search his bags a couple of years ago! Come on!
Remember that movie "Airplane" from the 80's, there's a part where security is doing a full body search of an old lady while a group of sheiks in the white robes fly through, life immitates art.
You're really nuts you know. I suppose you also think that it was Republican operatives that orchestrated 9/11?
About the Brazilian dude, when you run AT a bunch of agents armed to the teeth when you're wearing a heavy jacket on a warm day, you shouldn't be surprised when you get shot in the head, whether you're a terrorist or not.
Yes, but let's put that into context, shall we?
World War II was going to be won by the one that managed to develop the nuclear bomb first. Japan and Germany were collaborating on theirs, and they started before the US. Do you think that Japan would have spared Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle had they gotten there first? I don't think so.
Using the bomb was the only way to end the war. The Japanese refused to surrender even as they crumbled, they were even training women and children to fight with spears to repel a ground invasion. To attempt a ground invasion would have cost tens of thousands of American lives.
Now you may bring up the point that by using the bomb we punished civilians. Well those civilians were hardly innocent. They brought up their children to believe that they would rule the world over the inferior white man, that their emperor was God and that the world belonged to them. They approved of the aggression and the attrocities commited in China and the rest of the pacific, as well as the reckless attack on Pearl Harbour.
Was it devastating? Of course, horrific. But I assure you, there is strong irrefutable evidence that the Germans were pretty far along until their fanatic anti-semitism cost them the services of their best scientists on the project, one Albert Einstein and colleagues.
Thank God we got there first. Remember to put it into context. It's easy to say how evil we are for using it, but all things considered, what would you had done if you were Truman?
Wow that's a depressing point of view. Although there is a lot of truth in what you say, you make it sound like the exception is the rule. Not so. Let's examine:
- You say we torture, and yes this administration has been criminal in what it encourages, but remember that those that do so are eventually prosecuted and condemned, the people responsible for Abu Ghraib are sitting in jail as we speak. People who castrate people alive and cut their heads off with a dull knife in the middle east and Africa will never even get a slap on the wrist.
- We do NOT install dictators for our economic pleasure. We do so because it is the lesser of two evils. Allow me to expound on this with an example: Afghanistan. Context: cold war, choice: communists or Islamic fundamentalists. Given the choice, at the time, we cannot allow this repressive expantionist empire to annex more territory. Same thing with proxy countries like Chile in 74 and many African and central American countries. What would you have done in the place of the CIA folks making those decisions? Capitalist democracies do allow for foreign investment, which ultimately prevents war. Everybody wins.
- Yes I was going to say women's rights and gay rights and all. The shameful state of Virginia aside, we do not hang people for being gay. We don't make women wear full body burqas and walk behind men, and give them clitorectomies. We don't flip out and kill a bunch of people when somebody draws a picture of a religious figure. 50 years won't change that if you're not allowed to question anything without getting killed. The Vatican doesn't have priests chanting the equivalent of "Death to America, death to Israel". We don't fly planes into buildings to get to heaven into the arms of 72 virgins. When we accidentally kill civilians, we don't celebrate in the streets, we grieve. The hizbollah folks AIM for civilians and rejoice when they hit their target.
Look, as Sir Winston Churchill remarked, secular democratic capitalisism is a terrible way to govern a country, absolutely awful. Unfortunately it's the best available option. I'd rather live in a world where we're in power instead of fundamentalists or communists. I am deeply ashamed of George Bush's regime. The damage he has done will take decades to fix. But in the end we'll still be on the right side of history. I appreciate your point of view, I really do, and there is nothing healthier than honest criticism, which is a right that not everybody in the world has, by the way, but please, do make it honest, recognize the good. Peace.
That's a very irresponsible comparison. I know it's fashionable to loathe yourself and your government, but let's not forget who the good guys are. That's not to say we're perfect, far from it, but relatively speaking, it's no contest. Would you rather live in Cameroon or some other God foresaken country, or in the US / UK? I thought so.
Speaking of central authority for faiths, it's amazing to me how Mecca, the holiest site for Muslims in the world, is the scene of chants calling for the destruction of Israel and America, lead by Imams. Can you imagine if something similar went on at the Vatican? With the pope leading a crowd to call for the destruction of Mecca?!
Sometimes words take on a life of their own and become taboo. For instance, "Chinaman" is considered racist, yet "Englishman" is not. These days even, you get a funny look from people when you say "Mexican" to describe someone whereas when you say "Swedish" you get nothing.
"Redneck" is definitely taboo and should be avoided in polite society, since it refers to the working poor in the Appalachia region, white people whose necks have become red due to working in the sun all day. If that's not racist, I don't know what is, since if the people it targets were not white, the term could not exist.
However, this word (redneck) has also taken on a life of its own: it has become synonimous with fat, uneducated, tobacco chewing, wife beating, negro lynching, ignorant white man. Similarly, the word "nigger" has taken on a life of its own too, synonomous with a person of limited vocabulary, who commits crimes in greater numbers, smokes marijuana, drinks 40 ounce bottles of beer, dresses and behaves in an immature fashion. These two words, with these meanings, can apply to anyone, of any race, but they are rooted with a specific race, and hence are still racist.
Too young?! Back in my day, 14 year olds were desperately seeking out their fathers' playboys and whatever we could get our hands on.
Bloomberg, a lifelong member of the Democratic party, cleverly ran as a Republican for the simple reason that securing the nomination on that side would be very easy given there were no Republicans in the running, thus avoiding the bloodbath that was the democratic primary election.
e ep-you-safe line.
As for Andrew Sullivan, the man is a conservative, not a Republican. He voted for John Kerry in 2004. The Republican party used to adhere to conservative principles (small government, fiscal restraint, individual freedom, etc) but it has been hijacked by the religious right and the neo-con establishment. W masqueraded himself as a conservative prior to being elected and has betrayed everyone except his right wing base, which explains his (Rove's) obsession with "protecting" marriage. This serves to get this base fired up so they ignore everything else. The rest of the fools who voted for him buy the whole 911-world-has-changed-everything-and-only-I-can-k
A new conservative party is needed to dethrone these buffoons. The Dems are spinless fools with no ideas and no solutions and do not deserve to win anything, although I'd vote for a ham sandwich to get the current majority government out of power. Somebody like Ross Perot would do very well in 2008.
Might not be all that environmentally sound :) I've taken drives apart and physically destroyed them, or if I wouldn't be too chagrined if somehow the data were recovered, bent all the pins beyond repair and dunked the drive in water for a few hours before tossing them out.
Yes, and I trust you show such indignation at every unjust situation in the world, even those that aren't somehow either Israel's or the US's fault?
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Most of those are far worse than what goes on in Israel / Palestine. Don't forget about them.
Darfur (Arabs in north killing all blacks in south of Sudan), Western Sahara (occupied by Morocco), Congo (gigantic mess of tribal genocides), etc.
Why is everybody so obsessed with the plight of Palestinians? What about the Congolese, Chinese peasants, Cuban citizens? Oh wait none of that is our fault so it's no fun to whine about to make ourselves feel good about ourselves.
It's also hard to feel sympathy for people who blow themselves up in restaurants and markets killing innocent people, and who refuse to do anything to make their own lives better, instead just whining and sucking up foreign aid, blaming others for everything. Israel has a right to exist. They actually create things, their intellectual property output dwarfs the rest of the middle east combined. Just or not, I'm on Israel's side. I like Zend Studio. I don't think any such thing ever came out of Palestine, and somehow I get the feeling that even if the fertile crescent were devoid of Jews, we wouldn't get any more contributions to progress from Palestine that we do now. Israel existing is a good thing. So quit yer playa' hatin'
WTF? If I've got anyone in IT putting 1,000,000 rows in a spreadsheet, I'm seriously considering demoting them. If you're going to have a million rows, get a database.
Well, sometimes that's how it is with legacy systems that have been in place for 10 years and you haven't had the time or money to devote to doing it "right". There are many, many applications out there that have a giant Excel spreadsheet in the thick of it getting data from here and exporting it to there.
The person you want to demote left the company 8 years ago and we don't have the money to hire a contractor for 60 bucks an hour for 3 months to make it a spiffy LAMP application. Not to mention the cost of bringing the idiot back to fix his own bugs for 100 bucks an hour.
So in this case, I think you're being a bit harsh on MS, a lot of people will appreciate this as applications age and spreadsheets grow.
Aye Aye Aye Homer Simpson el molestario!
I have a feeling you're referring to our presidential elections which are, for all intents and purposes, open only to highly centralized ubiquitous parties that represent nobody. It's inevitable since they have to average out all of the population's whims and views in order to get the maximum number of votes.
Disregard the presidential elections. The real democracy starts at the school boards in your local township. From there it moves up to state offices, all the way up to governor, senator, and finally president. These latter three are not the real democracy, it's the former that are.
The house of representatives is also real democracy, each district votes in the person that best represents the views of a group of people concentrated in one area of the country. All in all I think that works pretty well.
For all its faults, our government is still the best in the world. That's right, for a country this big, so diverse in its population, it's the best in the world. People immediately jump on me when I say this and say "Ohh, but look at Sweden, they do great with their socialist government!" yeah well that's easy when you're small homogenous society where everybody looks and thinks the same way. Try that approach when you have to reconcile the differences between Billy Bob in Alabama and Berkeley hippies. Oh, and BTW, Sweden is collapsing thanks to its absurd immigration policies, but that's another story for another time.
Winston Churchill said something to this effect: democracy is horrible way to run a country. It's just better than everything else that's been tried.
Quite right.
Another favourite from him:
With capitalism, the blessings are distributed unequally. In socialism/communism, the misery is shared amongst all.
Superman III was the best one!! How can we not love Richard Pryor as the computer whiz hacker dude, playing with traffic signals, manipulating satellites to fetch him some kryptonite, and then there's the whole evil angry Superman under the influence of the krypto. Best ... episode ... ever!
I think it's a disgrace that it's being made though. I mean, Christopher Reeve IS Superman, that's it, and especially what happened to him, the man was an inspiration, I'm moved just thinking about it. Reeve as Superman was beloved, and no new actor can reprise the role. This isn't a James Bond kind of franchise where the actor playing the hero is interchangeable, and it's not like Batman where none of the actors playing the hero was impressive enough to be Batman forever (c'mon, even George Clooney played Batman!) A Superman remake does nothing but tarnish the legacy of Reeve. If you want more Superman action, just watch Smallville.
Well, I get a dollar every time somebody downloads and activates Firefox with the Google toolbar from my website (near the bottom on the right pane), and I'm pretty sure Google wouldn't give me that dollar if they weren't making a couple of bucks of their own.
Complain about that why don't'cha. Amazing bias here. Here's the link for this Google / Firefox programme. So for all intents and purposes, Google and Firefox go together like Microsoft and IE.
And of course if selecting the default search engine becomes part of the setup procedure, as is advocated here, then this crowd will complain that MSN is the first choice in the list, right? Geesh.
Google has the name recognition thing going on, it's even a verb for crying out loud. Marge Simpson doesn't tell Homer "from what I hear you spend your day MSN'ing your own name all day"
The clueless grandmother who has never used a computer no longer exists. And if she does still exist, she wouldn't even understand what that search box is, she'd be afraid of it and ignore it altogether and type in google.com when she wants to search anyway.
So quit yur biatchin' and your playa' hatin'
Our discovery of this pyramid was orchestrated by the predators to lure us there so that when they revive the alien queen and she starts laying her eggs, there would be hosts for the face-huggers to implant their eggs. Once a few aliens are running around, down will come some teenage predators looking to pass their manhood ritual by trying to survive an alien hunt in the pyramid. It's all been foretold here. Beware if the predators lose though, they'll blow the whole place up.
The most important thing to get out of this state visit is concessions on Chinese imports of American goods. They have an alarming double standard of providing Wal-Mart with everything under the sun yet keeping our products out. No wonder we have a multi-trillion dollar trade deficit.
Make mine a prune juice
When the main character doing the time travel in the 2002 adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic goes into the future, doesn't he end up in the midst of mass panic due to the orbit of the moon having been disturbed by resort construction that used explosives or something?
As always, the thing that will make this technology catch on and be successful is, of course, pr0n. Imagine what that that kind of resolution will do for the industry! Oh man! Nobody pushes the tech envelope more than pr0n, to this day their product is about the only ones that make use of the multiple angle feature of DVDs (uh, or so I've heard, yea)
I can't even recall seeing any HD-DVD's anyway. Of course, once this technology catches on, they'll re-relase every movie in HD-DVD thus rendering your current DVD collection obsolete. But what the heck, I don't care, I still watch VHS stuff.
I'm not religious nor do I believe in any kind of organized religion whereby God has written books and what not, but please allow me to come to the defense of reasonable everyday Christians.
:) Not a bad role-model for sure. It's a pretty admirable faith as long as you don't use it to channel your fear and your hate (the dark side) :)
Technically, everything in the Old Testament is null and void after Jesus Christ's sacrifice. It's like how before Christ, you had to sacrifice animals to wash sins away and what not. With Christ having made "the ultimate" sac, you can ride on that if you just say "I'm with him", so when you get to the pearly gates and God says "Dude, what's all this junk you did? You think you're good enough to get in here? Are you nuts? Didn't you read the rules?" then Jesus is supposed to intervene on your behalf and say "It's ok dad, he's with me" and then He lets you in. Of course it's not enough to just say that you're with Jesus, you actually have to believe it and do your best to follow the rules, which no human could ever really achieve, it's impossible, but Christ makes it possible to get in in spite of our shortcomings, because he did follow all the rules, he was perfect but he sacrificed himself to save all of us.
Yes, I went through a "phase", but then I decided that I was much happier with pr0n and Star Wars toys. Although I don't believe in all this stuff literally, nor do I abide by it, it does have some influence on my behaviour toward other people, the Bible does have some very good advice for living in it. Believe in Him or not, Jesus was a pretty righteous dude