"You claimed both of these because you can not admit that a continual repeating of this lie could have made a difference in the outcome of the election (and therefore making profound difference in the world)."
Actually, I can't believe that the continual repeating of a stupid joke would make a difference in the outcome of an election. Considering that Gore didn't do anything to make sure that voting machine fiasco didn't happen again, makes me think that he didn't care either.
"Not only that but you are incapable of admitting that lying about somebody is probably hurtful to them and their family."
Lies are part of politics. If this one stupid joke wreaks havoc on the Gore family, then they're dead meat when the professional lies and spin comes along.
"You insist that that it was a "harmless lie" and that it did not "hurt anybody". Any logical person would have to conclude that it was not a harmless lie because in a close election there is a high probability that it had an effect on the election and that it not only hurt Gore family but because of it's effect on the election it hurt all democrats."
Any logical person would like a bit more proof than "You think it sounds right." Normally, I'd be happy to chew on that concept with you. Except that when I put forth my theory, you suddenly wanted proof. So fine, if you want to be like that, bring me proof that it had an effect on the election. You have NO IDEA what people use as a criteria for voting, and giving the impression that you know what they do is a lie.
"Of course I can't see a Gore presidency being so indifferent to the plight of the Palestinians and declaring a war on Iraq so you could theoretically add the upcoming deaths of tens of thousands of iraquis to the list of people hurt by that "harmless lie"."
The Palestinians have been in this "Plight" for how long? 30 years? And despite the constant aid from many western nations and the UN, they have barely improved. Maybe trying something different, like Bush is doing, is the key to fixing the problems. You're right though, Gore probably would of continued to push the same policies that don't work, causing no improvement in the situation. What bold leadership!
As to the "Tens of Thousands" that will die in Iraq from the future attack. Is that the total, or the people that Sadamm takes down with him as he invades? It's probably just a rumor that he's been planting chemical bombs in his own cities for the US invasion. After all, he wouldn't kill his own people, would he?
But I'm glad you're here to stick up for Tyranny. That no matter how bad other people have it, or how much our interests are threatened, you're here to let us know that we shouldn't do anything to solve it, if it involves people dying.
Two groups of people who are ideologically opposed to each other will pick up anything that sounds true, as long as it trashes the other side.
"Sir! Did you hear that Al Gore is claiming that he invented the internet?" 'What? Did he?' "No! I was invented by the military!" 'Ha! We got him on that one! Start running the presses!'
"Just goes to show how ideologically rigid people are incapable of coming to any conclusion which may conflict with their religious beliefs."
Ok, now you're just trolling. What does a person's religious beliefs have to do with this?
It's not like that. For instance, you can do 200mph on the highway in theory. In reality, your car's top speed is 120. The manufacturer can say that the car is perfectly compliant with the highway. They're correct; the highway will allow the car to reach maximum speed.
The limitation here is how fast the drive can get the data up off the platters. It changes depending on where on the platter it's reading from.
If you're still upset, think of this, why would anyone upgrade to a 7200 RPM drive if not for the fact that it can move large amounts of data faster than a 5600 RPM drive?
You see, the problem is that no one cares. It's a funny story that doesn't really hurt anyone. Pointing out that it's technically wrong is like watching a movie and pointing out things that are impossible.
The 100MB transfer speeds are for all your drives together. If your board could only do ata-66, and you had 4 hard drives plugged in, the data rate between ALL FOUR hard drives and the motherboard would be limited to a total of 66MB per second.
So if you were reading from all four at once and loading into memory, the drives would be sending a total of 66MB per second, even though they each could probably send at 30MB per second.
What exactly has to be dealt with? The weapons, or the reason people want to use them?
What can you realistically DO something about? The weapons, or the reason people want to use them?
Who cares? His point was that the US is constantly being bitched at for taking care of things, and when an OBVIOUS trouble spot like N. Korea pops up, none of the other countries are doing shit.
They're developing nukes to threaten their neighbors into giving them aid. If the rest of the world doesn't think that's a problem, then I give up.
When will we see UN, or Iraqi, or North Korean inspectors checking out the US's weapons of mass destruction and shaking their heads and saying 'This is not good enough. These are clear signs or your intent to invade us. We will therefore make a pre-emptive strike!'.
If you can't tell the difference between N. Korea, Iraq and the US, you've got bigger problems. Do you run around saying cops shouldn't have guns because murderers kill people with guns?
Everyone else (except for Israel) is quite happy left to their own devices, and only has weapons to protect themselves from the inevitable invasion from the US military / economy.
Excuse me? If the US wanted to take over the world they would of done it LONG time ago. If the US has shown anything time and time again is that they don't want to take over the world, they want to stay home. Pretty understandable when you realize that most Americans think their country is the best in the world. It's obvious now that you just hate the US and have no rational arguments.
The US has more nuclear, chemical and biological weapons than every other country on earth combined. And they have proved on numerous occasions that they are willing to use them to assert their economic 'rights' (while pretending that they are fighting the 'good fight' for democracy).
Hehe. And just with this sentence alone you show yourself to be troll/flamebait. Yeah, you got WWII pegged. We nuked Japan to assert our economic rights. And all those other countries too. You just don't hear about it in the news because the US controls all the communication mediums on the planet. Did you know that South America is actually a barren wasteland? It's where we conducted all those biological warfare experiments you've been talking about.
"So, how is experiment 626 turning out?"
'Not so good, we're getting a lot of abnormalities.' "Ah, screw this. Let's just brew some beer."
'What?' "You know, we've got the tanks, I'll go down to the supply store and get the hops and yeast, toss all this crap out and we should be able to make 1000 gallons easy."
'...ok.'
Er, I'd believe that they would sit by and not do it because they're afraid.
They're afraid that the technology isn't mature enough. Even the cattle cloning industry has a disturbingly high failure rate.
They're afraid of public backlash costing them their jobs, or perhaps shutting down the company they work for.
They're afraid of loosing their friends.
They're afraid of screwing up, and ending up with a...thing. At that point they'll have to decide if they're going to put it out of it's misery or not.
Not exactly. Imagine that the price of gas goes up to 4$ a gallon. The US economy would screech to a halt.
The price of goods and services already get bumped up quite a bit when gas goes up a quarter. It would be much worse if the US adopted a European system.
Taxes on Gas in Europe also serve other purposes. When I lived in the UK for a few years, I found out that only 5% of the taxes on gas actually go to upkeep of the roads.
Uh, how about defective products? I bought a DVD from Best Buy. I couldn't view all the episodes on the DVD and examining the disk it looks like the metal on the inside was "Corrupted" on the edges.
I took the damned thing back, they offered to replace it with the exact same DVD. Having a clue about manufactering processes I opened up the new DVD at the counter. Same flaw.
Their offer? To give me "Store Credit". What a heaping pile of BS. You sell a defective product, as a consumer I deserve to return it and get my money back.
We're having a problem with this on the farscape newsgroup. A loud majority just want VCDs that they can burn to a CD and watch on TV. They say that Divx looks bad when re-encoded to VCD format.
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"You claimed both of these because you can not admit that a continual repeating of this lie could have made a difference in the outcome of the election (and therefore making profound difference in the world)."
Actually, I can't believe that the continual repeating of a stupid joke would make a difference in the outcome of an election. Considering that Gore didn't do anything to make sure that voting machine fiasco didn't happen again, makes me think that he didn't care either.
"Not only that but you are incapable of admitting that lying about somebody is probably hurtful to them and their family."
Lies are part of politics. If this one stupid joke wreaks havoc on the Gore family, then they're dead meat when the professional lies and spin comes along.
"You insist that that it was a "harmless lie" and that it did not "hurt anybody". Any logical person would have to conclude that it was not a harmless lie because in a close election there is a high probability that it had an effect on the election and that it not only hurt Gore family but because of it's effect on the election it hurt all democrats."
Any logical person would like a bit more proof than "You think it sounds right." Normally, I'd be happy to chew on that concept with you. Except that when I put forth my theory, you suddenly wanted proof. So fine, if you want to be like that, bring me proof that it had an effect on the election. You have NO IDEA what people use as a criteria for voting, and giving the impression that you know what they do is a lie.
"Of course I can't see a Gore presidency being so indifferent to the plight of the Palestinians and declaring a war on Iraq so you could theoretically add the upcoming deaths of tens of thousands of iraquis to the list of people hurt by that "harmless lie"."
The Palestinians have been in this "Plight" for how long? 30 years? And despite the constant aid from many western nations and the UN, they have barely improved. Maybe trying something different, like Bush is doing, is the key to fixing the problems. You're right though, Gore probably would of continued to push the same policies that don't work, causing no improvement in the situation. What bold leadership!
As to the "Tens of Thousands" that will die in Iraq from the future attack. Is that the total, or the people that Sadamm takes down with him as he invades? It's probably just a rumor that he's been planting chemical bombs in his own cities for the US invasion. After all, he wouldn't kill his own people, would he?
But I'm glad you're here to stick up for Tyranny. That no matter how bad other people have it, or how much our interests are threatened, you're here to let us know that we shouldn't do anything to solve it, if it involves people dying.
Or...
Two groups of people who are ideologically opposed to each other will pick up anything that sounds true, as long as it trashes the other side.
"Sir! Did you hear that Al Gore is claiming that he invented the internet?"
'What? Did he?'
"No! I was invented by the military!"
'Ha! We got him on that one! Start running the presses!'
"Just goes to show how ideologically rigid people are incapable of coming to any conclusion which may conflict with their religious beliefs."
Ok, now you're just trolling. What does a person's religious beliefs have to do with this?
"And you know this how?"
The same way you know that it "Probably hurts his family." Don't apply levels of proof to me that you are not willing to apply to yourself.
"Which scenario is more likely?"
Nobody knows.
"He himself pronounces it dubya. What you want me to do correct him?"
I was going to respond to that question phonetically, but that requires too much effort and I doubt you'd get the point.
Oh, the vast majority of them will just be killed off. Humans and their livestock have lived in a symbotic relationship for thousands of years.
And maybe we would all be dead if he was, "What if" scenerios are endless.
I doubt it hurts his family...at all.
It may have cost him the election? It may have gotten him votes. After all, if he invented the Internet, he must be a pretty smart guy.
You don't like to see your canidate look stupid. That's understandable. Let me know when you start protesting when people go "George Dubya Bush".
It's not like that. For instance, you can do 200mph on the highway in theory. In reality, your car's top speed is 120. The manufacturer can say that the car is perfectly compliant with the highway. They're correct; the highway will allow the car to reach maximum speed.
The limitation here is how fast the drive can get the data up off the platters. It changes depending on where on the platter it's reading from.
If you're still upset, think of this, why would anyone upgrade to a 7200 RPM drive if not for the fact that it can move large amounts of data faster than a 5600 RPM drive?
You see, the problem is that no one cares. It's a funny story that doesn't really hurt anyone. Pointing out that it's technically wrong is like watching a movie and pointing out things that are impossible.
It's just annoying.
The 100MB transfer speeds are for all your drives together. If your board could only do ata-66, and you had 4 hard drives plugged in, the data rate between ALL FOUR hard drives and the motherboard would be limited to a total of 66MB per second.
So if you were reading from all four at once and loading into memory, the drives would be sending a total of 66MB per second, even though they each could probably send at 30MB per second.
I work for Maxtor.
The head is the point that reads off the platter. You normally get two heads per platter, one for the top and one for the bottom.
SCSI drives are built the same way.
Well, if the drives are hot swappable, I don't see why not. Just have a SATA data and power plug on the case. Plug in SATA drive when needed.
What, a nuculear bomb isn't enough proof?
Who cares? His point was that the US is constantly being bitched at for taking care of things, and when an OBVIOUS trouble spot like N. Korea pops up, none of the other countries are doing shit.
They're developing nukes to threaten their neighbors into giving them aid. If the rest of the world doesn't think that's a problem, then I give up.
When will we see UN, or Iraqi, or North Korean inspectors checking out the US's weapons of mass destruction and shaking their heads and saying 'This is not good enough. These are clear signs or your intent to invade us. We will therefore make a pre-emptive strike!'.
If you can't tell the difference between N. Korea, Iraq and the US, you've got bigger problems. Do you run around saying cops shouldn't have guns because murderers kill people with guns?
Everyone else (except for Israel) is quite happy left to their own devices, and only has weapons to protect themselves from the inevitable invasion from the US military / economy.
Excuse me? If the US wanted to take over the world they would of done it LONG time ago. If the US has shown anything time and time again is that they don't want to take over the world, they want to stay home. Pretty understandable when you realize that most Americans think their country is the best in the world. It's obvious now that you just hate the US and have no rational arguments.
The US has more nuclear, chemical and biological weapons than every other country on earth combined. And they have proved on numerous occasions that they are willing to use them to assert their economic 'rights' (while pretending that they are fighting the 'good fight' for democracy).
Hehe. And just with this sentence alone you show yourself to be troll/flamebait. Yeah, you got WWII pegged. We nuked Japan to assert our economic rights. And all those other countries too. You just don't hear about it in the news because the US controls all the communication mediums on the planet. Did you know that South America is actually a barren wasteland? It's where we conducted all those biological warfare experiments you've been talking about.
Sheesh.
Thanks for that image...
"So, how is experiment 626 turning out?"
'Not so good, we're getting a lot of abnormalities.'
"Ah, screw this. Let's just brew some beer."
'What?'
"You know, we've got the tanks, I'll go down to the supply store and get the hops and yeast, toss all this crap out and we should be able to make 1000 gallons easy."
'...ok.'
Yes. There's a cattle cloning industry. Look it up.
I don't know why you bothered to comment on that second statement, you're agreeing with me.
Er, I'd believe that they would sit by and not do it because they're afraid.
They're afraid that the technology isn't mature enough. Even the cattle cloning industry has a disturbingly high failure rate.
They're afraid of public backlash costing them their jobs, or perhaps shutting down the company they work for.
They're afraid of loosing their friends.
They're afraid of screwing up, and ending up with a...thing. At that point they'll have to decide if they're going to put it out of it's misery or not.
Not exactly. Imagine that the price of gas goes up to 4$ a gallon. The US economy would screech to a halt.
The price of goods and services already get bumped up quite a bit when gas goes up a quarter. It would be much worse if the US adopted a European system.
Taxes on Gas in Europe also serve other purposes. When I lived in the UK for a few years, I found out that only 5% of the taxes on gas actually go to upkeep of the roads.
If you're getting help, it's not masturbation.
Uh, how about defective products? I bought a DVD from Best Buy. I couldn't view all the episodes on the DVD and examining the disk it looks like the metal on the inside was "Corrupted" on the edges.
I took the damned thing back, they offered to replace it with the exact same DVD. Having a clue about manufactering processes I opened up the new DVD at the counter. Same flaw.
Their offer? To give me "Store Credit". What a heaping pile of BS. You sell a defective product, as a consumer I deserve to return it and get my money back.
The point of using Linux is so you don't have an easy way to install software and a standardize interface?
That's a good point, the thing is, that your friends will be in the same boat.
I've found that we tend to get tired of our characters around the same time. It's easy to start over with a new one on a new server.
Actually, it's not the poor. It's the poor smokers.
And a great way to not have to pay this tax is to stop smoking.
When the wire are small enough, sometimes the electrons just jump off of them.
http://lists.jammed.com/IWAR/1998/02/0023.html
Not really an article on it, but on a transistor that uses the effect.
We're having a problem with this on the farscape newsgroup. A loud majority just want VCDs that they can burn to a CD and watch on TV. They say that Divx looks bad when re-encoded to VCD format.
Actually, I took a trip this summer to check out Colorado. To see if I liked the place before moving there.
NONE of the public libraries required that I had a library card to use their public internet terminals. Including the main one in Denver.
Out of curiosity, what the heck is a terrorist going to do with internet access that we're so afraid of?
Big Deal. Maxtor sells external 250GB Firewire/USB2 drives. The cool thing is that they come with backup software and a button on the case.
Push the button, make a backup.
I've been looking at this as a backup solution, I just need to get a firewire or a USB2 card.