I have to read *3* *books* *a* *week* on average. Not picture books either I assue you. It is a lot of work, but the upshot is improved grammer and spelling skills that are lacking in the technical.
And yet somehow you cannot spell properly or form complete sentences.
"Not picture books either I assue you." - That's not a complete sentence. grammer - It's spelled grammar
The U.S. government is doing a great job of making the papers out to be 'the bad guys', and one can only imagine that it's certainly not helping their subscribership.
Actually, I'd guess that in this political climate, it's helping their subscribership quite a bit.
Two things:
1) The Bush administration has failed to realize that the "trust us, we know what we're doing" meme has died. Every time they push it these days their numbers go down. 2) The facts of this particular story was out YEARS before the NYT (and two other papers, btw) put it in the public eye. As those facts come out (and they have been) it will exascerbate #1 above.
Gov: "Realeasing this information will kill us all!!" NYT: "So why did you release it on government websites two years ago?" Gov: "UUUhhhhhh.... MMmmmmmMMmmm...."
It's well established that Bush's approval rating got a good upward swing after every terror alert during his first term. After laying off that tactic for a couple of years the Republicans are back at it again, it seems. This "foiled major threat" and the Miami "terrorists" are attempts to get the "Republicans are tough on terror" meme back out. I'm not sure it'll work that well, though. Folks won't fall for the unspecified terror alert stuff anymore, and when they specify it's not that terrible.
Need anyone be reminded of the thousands of employees, shareholders and suppliers that the late Mr Lay metaphorically urinated, on as he profited from their misfortune?
Dude! You miss the point. That's called "trickle down economics."
A simple analogy would be the farms that I grew up on. No one specialized in one crop or animal. Why? Because sometimes the market would tank for one particular thing and it would tank hard.
Then a giant corporate farm that specialized in one crop would come in and buy it out, right?
PLEASE PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPON. YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY.
It's best to say this quote after taking a breath of nitrous oxide. Not only does that drop your voice by an octave, but makes you laugh uncontrollably afterwards.
They stifle a million years of instinct and evolution...
You stifle a million years of instinct and evolution by getting on an airplane and driving a car. Heck, you do it by posting on/. or by using written communication at all.
Arguments like yours would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
Then they try to hook up with the same guy they met 8 yrs ago, but find he is married and has kids.
That's really funny. My fiancee is 39 (I'm 35) and we're getting married after having dated each other briefly six years ago. Yes, we want to have kids. I think we're much better equipped to do so now than we would have been in our 20's.
Then they spend the rest of their lives wondering what the hell went wrong and why is the World so cruel to them.
Feminism says it's about choice, but I know my wife is torn over the issue of staying home with our son. She has an MBA, and had a good career.
Your wife probably wouldn't have been able to do that without Feminism and the social gains it's made possible over the last century.
The fact that my wife feels like that, and the fact that I know she is not unique in this regard, I cannot buy the party line that Feminism is _really_ about choice.
Without Feminism she wouldn't be in the position to make that choice at all.
I'd like to call academic feminists "useful idiots" in that respect, but that'd be letting them off the hook as they have often whole-heartedly promoted the idea that women have no legitimate right to choose a traditional housewife role.
Nice caricature, and I'm sure it's useful to you when maintaining your worldview, but it doesn't represent reality. Feminist ideology is, and always has been, about choice.
Before you go all "1984" on our asses, take a moment to stop and realize that this is the company that SELLS THE CHIPS making the proposal, NOT the government.
Right. And we all know that corporations NEVER write government policy, especially under this administration.
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Today Im diacritical mark deficient.
You're not cynical about others, just yourself. Otherwise you'd change.
Of course doing that would invalidate your worldview, and you may not be prepared to do that.
Anyway, have fun, or at least a close approximation of it.
Cynicism is not a useful trait...
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Au contraire, mon fraire! Everything has it's use, you simply need to look.
More required reading for you: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bookSearch/isbnI
I suggest starting with the section on mild depression.
(less aborted babies = more kids in school = more teaching jobs)
nah, it's more like "more aborted babies == less unwanted children in school == less discipline problems"
Or, as it applies to crime, see this
And yet somehow you cannot spell properly or form complete sentences.
"Not picture books either I assue you." - That's not a complete sentence.
grammer - It's spelled grammar
Curious.
Actually, I'd guess that in this political climate, it's helping their subscribership quite a bit.
Two things:
1) The Bush administration has failed to realize that the "trust us, we know what we're doing" meme has died. Every time they push it these days their numbers go down.
2) The facts of this particular story was out YEARS before the NYT (and two other papers, btw) put it in the public eye. As those facts come out (and they have been) it will exascerbate #1 above.
Gov: "Realeasing this information will kill us all!!"
NYT: "So why did you release it on government websites two years ago?"
Gov: "UUUhhhhhh.... MMmmmmmMMmmm...."
Can you spot the subtle irony in this sentence? I new you cud!
It's well established that Bush's approval rating got a good upward swing after every terror alert during his first term. After laying off that tactic for a couple of years the Republicans are back at it again, it seems. This "foiled major threat" and the Miami "terrorists" are attempts to get the "Republicans are tough on terror" meme back out. I'm not sure it'll work that well, though. Folks won't fall for the unspecified terror alert stuff anymore, and when they specify it's not that terrible.
Don't you mean SKUL?
Copyleft.
Dude! You miss the point. That's called "trickle down economics."
Then a giant corporate farm that specialized in one crop would come in and buy it out, right?
And, what's wrong with this?
OSS software is like the water that's seeped into the rock. (The rock being the IT and software developemnt world.)
Freeze the water, shatter the rock.
The rootkit's code name is "The Matrix"?
...to be deployed in 3...2...1...
I hate to say this, but the only way to stop this is through gov intervention (I wont say regulation because I hate regulation)
:)
Ain't it funny how folks hate regulation until they want something regulated?
Welcome to the left side of the aisle, buddy. I hope you don't hate Liberals. You're one of us now.
PLEASE PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPON. YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY.
It's best to say this quote after taking a breath of nitrous oxide. Not only does that drop your voice by an octave, but makes you laugh uncontrollably afterwards.
I usually don't reply to AC's, but what the heck.
My grandmother had her FIRST child at age 40. This was back in 1944, before all them high falutin' fertility treatments.
Where there's a will there's a way.
They stifle a million years of instinct and evolution...
/. or by using written communication at all.
You stifle a million years of instinct and evolution by getting on an airplane and driving a car. Heck, you do it by posting on
Arguments like yours would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
Then they try to hook up with the same guy they met 8 yrs ago, but find he is married and has kids.
That's really funny. My fiancee is 39 (I'm 35) and we're getting married after having dated each other briefly six years ago. Yes, we want to have kids. I think we're much better equipped to do so now than we would have been in our 20's.
Then they spend the rest of their lives wondering what the hell went wrong and why is the World so cruel to them.
Assholes like you probably contribute to that.
Feminism says it's about choice, but I know my wife is torn over the issue of staying home with our son. She has an MBA, and had a good career.
Your wife probably wouldn't have been able to do that without Feminism and the social gains it's made possible over the last century.
The fact that my wife feels like that, and the fact that I know she is not unique in this regard, I cannot buy the party line that Feminism is _really_ about choice.
Without Feminism she wouldn't be in the position to make that choice at all.
I'd like to call academic feminists "useful idiots" in that respect, but that'd be letting them off the hook as they have often whole-heartedly promoted the idea that women have no legitimate right to choose a traditional housewife role.
Nice caricature, and I'm sure it's useful to you when maintaining your worldview, but it doesn't represent reality. Feminist ideology is, and always has been, about choice.
In November, you can vote out the incumbents.
And what if the election system isn't valid? What then?
Before you go all "1984" on our asses, take a moment to stop and realize that this is the company that SELLS THE CHIPS making the proposal, NOT the government.
Right. And we all know that corporations NEVER write government policy, especially under this administration.