"Maybe she's not tied to her party lines, and instead is saying what she actually believes?"
Hillary Clinton? Not tied to her party? Are you serious? When she gets a shoe-in Senatorial vote in one of the most Democrat laden states in the US (New York)? Nice try at deflecting the real core issue...
OK, if noone is going to refute what I've said in my parent post, then riddle me this...
Where's the outcry from Democrats and the Democratic Party on Hillary's stance?
For example, could you imagine what Democrats would say if SCOTUS nominee John Roberts called abortion a "sad and tragic event"? OMFG, Democrats would portray Roberts as the next AntiChrist! Yet, when Hillary says that, feminist groups line up behind Hillary and say "boy, isn't she great and says what she believes in"??!?!?!
I could give tons of examples such as this, but why do Democrats look at Hillary's republican rhetoric and say she's represents the Democratic Party and be our next President? Do Democrats want to put a Democrat president so badly that they're willing to abandon all their beliefs (at least until Nov 2008)?
"A male congressmember can be an asshole and nobody complains, but as soon as Senator Clinton gets uppity, you all call her a bitch. Where the even-handedness here?"
Democrats and Slashdotters love moral relativism, anything goes, while Hillary is now championing moral values through banning violent/sex ladened video games.
Democrats and Slashdotters hate the Iraq war. Hillary supports it.
Democrats love to abort babies because they may be inconvenient, while Hillary referred to abortion as a "sad, even tragic, act""
Get the pattern yet?
Let me spell it out, unlike the republican senators, Hillary is slowly abandoning her own beliefs just to be President. You know where republican senators stand, but what about her? Where will she stand after she's elected president?
Don't need to restrict the tax code, as many apparently find it too complex to understand already. Therefore, a large percentage already go to some private organization (HR Block, CPA, tax lawyers, etc.) to do their taxes already. Now we have a have a huge private infrastructure layer that will do anything to prevent tax simplification, including buying off congress.
Hate to drop the "intelligent design" bomb, but I still want to know just what theory explains how we got from a chemical soup to a single cell organism? I understand how evolution takes us from single cells to sponges to etc to us, but it doesn't explain how we got from amino acids to single cells...
RNA world I think takes us part of the way, but even an early single celled organism is extremely complex and doesn't explain everything...
that makes programmers want to abandon the time / resources / existing efforts / training to go from Win32 APIs to.NET? I've heard other programmers say "I've got to learn.NET" or "we're doing this project in.NET" when the same project could easily have been done in native Win32? Especially when now I have to worry about if the target machine has the right CLR or not (one or more configurations hassles). For a virtualized machine, I'd rather do Java, as it can at least go across machines...
What does.NET offer that doing the same thing in native Win32 does not?
Recently, I've attended a workshop for a rather large GIS software package, and they've discussed migration from COM to.NET. All I had to say were two words "Garbage Collection", and the next half hour was spent on the problems they're having with.NET... When you have something that already works in native, why would I want to migrate it to.NET?
Is part of this transition some sort of "groupthink" as opposed to actual design considerations?
I'm all for creating and enforcing reasonable immigration laws rather than the current don't as/don't tell open border situation, but someone's gotta pick the lettuce and I'm quite sure that nobody posting here is doing it.
My brother-in-law (ex) who lives in SoCal mowed grass for a living for a local gov't agency. He got laid off 6 months ago, and has been unsuccessful getting another mowing job, despite the large demand for landscaping there. So there you go, a white person looking for a job "noone else wants to do". Bull-fucking-shit.
Want to know why "noone wants to do it"? They don't want to get paid below minimum wage with no benefits and say "Thank you sir, may I have some more work...", that's why...
Those "jobs noone else wants to do", such as landscaping, are often run by some well-off person (usually white) who then hires a bunch of sub-minimum wage illegals for more profit for him (her).
The irony of this is when liberals mandate minimum wage and a ton of other labor laws, they ensure illegal alien labor will be used instead. THAT's why "no one else wants to do it..."
Because when you have a bunch of dispicable liberal a**holes who just loath off road vehicles (oh they're so noisy and dirty), recreational gold panners, parasailers, mountain bike riders, snowboarding and skiing, remote controlled airplanes, and on and on and on and want to eliminate those activities off the earth, they turn to the Endangered Species Act as a tool of choice to eliminate any group of people from "their" area.
All these liberal weenies do is just
1) turn to well funded environmental lawyer groups such as the Environmental Defense Center
2) EDC et all calls up the Fish and Game service to find a unique weed or bug (ironically using park fee money paid by the people they're trying to eliminate) without any analysis on exactly how this will impact the ecosystem. Please note that because of evolution, it's pretty easy to find some unique flora or fauna species of any given area that has to be "protected" from the big bad public
3) and then claim through the Endangered Species act that people cannot use said park for recreation anymore
4) Activity eliminated
That's why when an average person reads the original topic, they will say "great, I'm glad the Bush administration is on our side...
Although the Endangered Species Act is a noble cause and wilderness areas have a good purpose, there are many people (growing by the day). Look, there needs to be places for untouched habitat, but don't humans need areas to explore and for recreation also?
For most Slashdotters who don't ever get off the keyboard, this may be a non-issue, but for many others, this issue has turned many people against environmental causes...
Quoting from an online article: "NASA had considered a robotic servicing mission, but now doubts the technology would be mature enough before Hubble suffers a fatal equipment breakdown."
Well, let me get this straight. They don't want to repair the Hubble with a manned mission. Well, OK. Assuming no planned repair, the Hubble is guaranteed to fail anyways. So, what's the risk of trying a robotic repair mission? They are spending the money to make a robot to bring down the Hubble, so why not at least try a robot that will attempt to repair the Hubble? If it doesn't work, oh well, it was coming down anyways, right?
My God, it's quite evident that NASA has SO lost any initiative to take any risk at all now.
If someone uses a program like Painter and uses it to "clone" a photograph, ie, copy the photo's color with a "computer brush", is that an original artwork or a "cleverly manipulated photograph"?
"Something" about them that makes people want to help or buy from them...
I was thinking about becoming a consultant. After looking at various successful self-employed people I've known in or out of my family circle, I've come to the conclusion they have one thing in common. Due to their personality, charisma, looks, or whatever combination thereof, other people feel compelled to do something for them or buy something from them.
Because of that "something", they can get the contacts, get the customers, get the personnel to help them, etc. If you don't have that "something", people will not feel compelled to buy anything from you or do anything for you (as is in my case).
Note, that's orthogonal from actually truely knowing what they're doing. In some cases, the successful person IS an expert at his/her field. But I've also worked with people who could charm the shit out of a customer and get the contract, but didn't know jack about what he was talking about.
In conclusion, I feel you really have to take an honest introspective self evaluation on who you are and how well you fit in with your clients prior to getting into your own business...
The case for the mini looks good enough for a home entertainment PC. I'm not going to put an ugly black or beige box next to the TV
I priced an equivalent Shuttle for that purpose and arrived at about the same price as a Mini. That's not including the effort required to put the Shuttle parts together and install the OS. The Mini comes with everything ready to go...
So, yes, the Mini is a good deal when comparing apples with apples...
Even if you add the Mac Mini DVD burner, larger hard drive and extra RAM, you're still not saving much with the Shuttle. I'm not even going to mention the operating system and having to set it all up...
Please don't counter with a el cheapo price quote from some other scum dealer either, just Newegg... If you counter, make sure it has the same features also...
Or buy the Mac Mini, with the OS installed, plug it in, and have it up and running.
The mini has a DVI output for an HDTV monitor and Firewire for either DV or cable box (MPEG-TS) input. I personally think the Mini price is great for what you get. Especially if you want it in your living room next to your HDTV as a Media Center...
If the reports are true (DVI output, firewire), the Mac Mini would be perfect for my home HDTV firewire recorder! Mac already has a
DVHS recorder, and would work with my cable box (with firewire) and HDTV w/DVI input.
For some reason, the firewire MPEG-TS output is not blocked (encrypted) as I tried other software on my XP based laptop). I was looking at a Shuttle, but the Mini would be better. Apple, here I come!
1. I paint a picture on a canvas with oil and it takes me a week or so to do it. I sell same picture for $600.
2. I paint a picture on a computer (using Painter) using virtual oil brushes and it takes me a week or so to do it. I print the picture with an Epson 7600. Now, how much is the digital image? How much is the print itself?
If you're typing there telling me the digital image is free, while the act of printing the digital painting is worth $600, uh you don't understand what went into making the painting, do you?
Yeah, except that water is 55 degs, maybe 58 in the summer, so watch yourself turn blue without a wetsuit. And the locals better know you if you surf or else your car or yourself will not make it out too well. From Zuma to Santa Barbara, there's only two weeks max out of the year where it's warm enough to go to the beach (let alone the water) without a jacket. And the water generally sucks in many places (especially in the winter rains) due to the pollution.
Then, there's "it only takes two hours to go from the beach to the snow". Yeah, two hours one way (half a day on the road both ways at the very least) to go ANYWHERE in the most miserable, congested, God forsaken freeway system on the planet. Can't do anything locally, as it's either nothing but private property (read oceans of housing tracts) or public land that's illegal to do anything but look at it (but now requires a parking placard to stop to look at it for federal forests). I hardly go out of town anymore because as soon as I go onto the 101 parking lot, I can feel my life slip away. To go to more interesting places (Pismo (ATVs), Tahoe, Big Sur, Yosemite, LV), it's a multiday experience.
Also, don't forget this is the People's Republic of Kalifornia, where environmentalists are trying their best to make every human activity illegal except for a few EXTREMELY CROWDED areas (one of a million examples, go to Pismo (Oceano) and fly a kite, see you get fined. Flying parafoils in Oxnard was made illegal, etc.). Never mind the utter hypocracy as they too travel in gas sucking cars and dwell in former wildlife habitat, your ATV is destroying the planet... At any rate, you'll soon have to travel to another state to to actually DO something.
So yeah, come to SoCal if you like surfing, but get to know the locals first. That's ALL you'll be doing so you better like it, or else learn to love the freeway and spend the rest of your life on it. And yes, I've lived in Ventura County 18 years... So why was SoCal better again?
To all the people who voted for Kerry because it was a vote against Bush and the Republican party (NOTE: not the same as liking Kerry), will another four years of Bush push you enough to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2008, regardless of which Republican runs?
Who will bet that Hillary runs and gets the nomination for President in 2008?
Nothing will change until we get out of a two party system mentality. Nothing. I don't understand why people don't see that it's just too fucking easy for a powerful group of people to buy BOTH parties, give the general population the bone every four years, and say "just be glad you have the right to vote!" When was the last presidential election where we actually had someone we really wanted to elect? 1992:-/? 1980:-)? 1960?
If the Internet is supposed to be this massive force of change, why can't an internet based "popular" party nominate someone through the Internet, and then everyone can vote for that person to do an end-around this fucked up two party system? You know, I can just see all the fat-assed geeks say "well, just think of the fraud from overseas voters, and blah blah blah." Well, instead of just sitting there on your big fat asses and criticize, why don't you use your supposed massive intellect and THINK of a way to do a national based internet nomination of a candidate... Our only other alternative is for everyone to choose another party such as this or this.
I also think it's time for all the Democrat and Republican Koolaid drinkers to wake up from their coma and realize these two choices are actually more alike than different. They are in agreement with military issues, immigration, and other misc. topics. So what does that leave, abortion? Great, that's leaves a whole lot for me to pick from...
Until then, don't be surprised for another round of pick the worst of the two in 2008...
(For the record, I don't like either Bush or Kerry or most third party candidates) Living on the left coast of California, here's what I observe with my own eyes:
When I flip through channels (which I rarely do anymore) and watch the national news (CBS,ABC,NBC) I constantly hear slams against Bush, nothing about Kerry
I went ATV riding with my kids at Oceano State Beach recently. Despite having 80% of the area off limits to humans, environmentalists want that last 20% closed. Also despite having 99.99% of the coastline off limits to ATVs. This also goes for mountain biking or gold panning (which my family has done), where huge volumes of land is being converted to wilderness area. In fact, viturally any development out here is met with a environmental legal group armed with a endangered species that needs saving. The whole forking state is virutally off limits to most recreation for my kids...
The school systems out here (from elementary school to UC) is a repository for liberal thinking. Don't even try to express any conservative thought to any of those people...
Despite many of our hospital emergency rooms being shut down due to waves of uninsured patients (ie, illegal immigrants) and other crumbling of our infrastructure, many are against enforcing our borders, especially our newpaper editors. This despite rumors of terrorists coming across the Mexican border...
I could go on and on, but from what I see every day, I see LOTS of left leaning thinking here, so I don't know where the parent poster is coming from...
What's your position on illegal immigration and/or outsourcing? I would think a libertarian would say "keep the gov't out of it". However, at some point, doesn't having too much of either outsourcing or illegal immigration ultimately impact our national socio-economic stability?
You have access to Google, right? Do a Google search on "nuclear fallout". For example, in the wiki on world wide fallout. For dispersion, look up "jet stream" (example: wiki). Granted the amount of radiation would be minor, but it could be in the same ballpark as a "dirty bomb" and look how much concern that has on people (especially the press). I thought this stuff was known since the 60s.
BTW, if the explosion was not nuclear, then this discussion is null and void
anyway. I haven't seen any confirmation of this yet
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"Maybe she's not tied to her party lines, and instead is saying what she actually believes?"
Hillary Clinton? Not tied to her party? Are you serious? When she gets a shoe-in Senatorial vote in one of the most Democrat laden states in the US (New York)? Nice try at deflecting the real core issue...
OK, if noone is going to refute what I've said in my parent post, then riddle me this... Where's the outcry from Democrats and the Democratic Party on Hillary's stance?
For example, could you imagine what Democrats would say if SCOTUS nominee John Roberts called abortion a "sad and tragic event"? OMFG, Democrats would portray Roberts as the next AntiChrist! Yet, when Hillary says that, feminist groups line up behind Hillary and say "boy, isn't she great and says what she believes in"??!?!?!
I could give tons of examples such as this, but why do Democrats look at Hillary's republican rhetoric and say she's represents the Democratic Party and be our next President? Do Democrats want to put a Democrat president so badly that they're willing to abandon all their beliefs (at least until Nov 2008)?
"A male congressmember can be an asshole and nobody complains, but as soon as Senator Clinton gets uppity, you all call her a bitch. Where the even-handedness here?"
Democrats and Slashdotters love moral relativism, anything goes, while Hillary is now championing moral values through banning violent/sex ladened video games.
Democrats and Slashdotters hate the Iraq war. Hillary supports it.
Democrats love to abort babies because they may be inconvenient, while Hillary referred to abortion as a "sad, even tragic, act""
Get the pattern yet?
Let me spell it out, unlike the republican senators, Hillary is slowly abandoning her own beliefs just to be President. You know where republican senators stand, but what about her? Where will she stand after she's elected president?
Isn't it getting old for April Fools jokes by now?
Oh, this IS an April Fools joke, right?
Don't need to restrict the tax code, as many apparently find it too complex to understand already. Therefore, a large percentage already go to some private organization (HR Block, CPA, tax lawyers, etc.) to do their taxes already. Now we have a have a huge private infrastructure layer that will do anything to prevent tax simplification, including buying off congress.
Hate to drop the "intelligent design" bomb, but I still want to know just what theory explains how we got from a chemical soup to a single cell organism? I understand how evolution takes us from single cells to sponges to etc to us, but it doesn't explain how we got from amino acids to single cells...
RNA world I think takes us part of the way, but even an early single celled organism is extremely complex and doesn't explain everything...
Maybe intelligent design fills in this blank?!?!
that makes programmers want to abandon the time / resources / existing efforts / training to go from Win32 APIs to .NET? I've heard other programmers say "I've got to learn .NET" or "we're doing this project in .NET" when the same project could easily have been done in native Win32? Especially when now I have to worry about if the target machine has the right CLR or not (one or more configurations hassles). For a virtualized machine, I'd rather do Java, as it can at least go across machines...
What does .NET offer that doing the same thing in native Win32 does not?
Recently, I've attended a workshop for a rather large GIS software package, and they've discussed migration from COM to .NET. All I had to say were two words "Garbage Collection", and the next half hour was spent on the problems they're having with .NET... When you have something that already works in native, why would I want to migrate it to .NET?
Is part of this transition some sort of "groupthink" as opposed to actual design considerations?
I'm all for creating and enforcing reasonable immigration laws rather than the current don't as/don't tell open border situation, but someone's gotta pick the lettuce and I'm quite sure that nobody posting here is doing it.
My brother-in-law (ex) who lives in SoCal mowed grass for a living for a local gov't agency. He got laid off 6 months ago, and has been unsuccessful getting another mowing job, despite the large demand for landscaping there. So there you go, a white person looking for a job "noone else wants to do". Bull-fucking-shit.
Want to know why "noone wants to do it"? They don't want to get paid below minimum wage with no benefits and say "Thank you sir, may I have some more work...", that's why...
Those "jobs noone else wants to do", such as landscaping, are often run by some well-off person (usually white) who then hires a bunch of sub-minimum wage illegals for more profit for him (her).
The irony of this is when liberals mandate minimum wage and a ton of other labor laws, they ensure illegal alien labor will be used instead. THAT's why "no one else wants to do it..."
He should go after the ultra-repressive People's Republic of California...
Because when you have a bunch of dispicable liberal a**holes who just loath off road vehicles (oh they're so noisy and dirty), recreational gold panners, parasailers, mountain bike riders, snowboarding and skiing, remote controlled airplanes, and on and on and on and want to eliminate those activities off the earth, they turn to the Endangered Species Act as a tool of choice to eliminate any group of people from "their" area.
All these liberal weenies do is just
1) turn to well funded environmental lawyer groups such as the Environmental Defense Center
2) EDC et all calls up the Fish and Game service to find a unique weed or bug (ironically using park fee money paid by the people they're trying to eliminate) without any analysis on exactly how this will impact the ecosystem. Please note that because of evolution, it's pretty easy to find some unique flora or fauna species of any given area that has to be "protected" from the big bad public
3) and then claim through the Endangered Species act that people cannot use said park for recreation anymore
4) Activity eliminated
That's why when an average person reads the original topic, they will say "great, I'm glad the Bush administration is on our side...
Although the Endangered Species Act is a noble cause and wilderness areas have a good purpose, there are many people (growing by the day). Look, there needs to be places for untouched habitat, but don't humans need areas to explore and for recreation also?
For most Slashdotters who don't ever get off the keyboard, this may be a non-issue, but for many others, this issue has turned many people against environmental causes...
Quoting from an online article: "NASA had considered a robotic servicing mission, but now doubts the technology would be mature enough before Hubble suffers a fatal equipment breakdown."
Well, let me get this straight. They don't want to repair the Hubble with a manned mission. Well, OK. Assuming no planned repair, the Hubble is guaranteed to fail anyways. So, what's the risk of trying a robotic repair mission? They are spending the money to make a robot to bring down the Hubble, so why not at least try a robot that will attempt to repair the Hubble? If it doesn't work, oh well, it was coming down anyways, right?
My God, it's quite evident that NASA has SO lost any initiative to take any risk at all now.
If someone uses a program like Painter and uses it to "clone" a photograph, ie, copy the photo's color with a "computer brush", is that an original artwork or a "cleverly manipulated photograph"?
"Something" about them that makes people want to help or buy from them...
I was thinking about becoming a consultant. After looking at various successful self-employed people I've known in or out of my family circle, I've come to the conclusion they have one thing in common. Due to their personality, charisma, looks, or whatever combination thereof, other people feel compelled to do something for them or buy something from them.
Because of that "something", they can get the contacts, get the customers, get the personnel to help them, etc. If you don't have that "something", people will not feel compelled to buy anything from you or do anything for you (as is in my case).
Note, that's orthogonal from actually truely knowing what they're doing. In some cases, the successful person IS an expert at his/her field. But I've also worked with people who could charm the shit out of a customer and get the contract, but didn't know jack about what he was talking about.
In conclusion, I feel you really have to take an honest introspective self evaluation on who you are and how well you fit in with your clients prior to getting into your own business...
The case for the mini looks good enough for a home entertainment PC. I'm not going to put an ugly black or beige box next to the TV
I priced an equivalent Shuttle for that purpose and arrived at about the same price as a Mini. That's not including the effort required to put the Shuttle parts together and install the OS. The Mini comes with everything ready to go...
So, yes, the Mini is a good deal when comparing apples with apples...
I was seriously looking at building a Shuttle, but let's compare it to the Mac Mini
For the Shuttle, you can either buy a complete system from them and spend twice as much or build a system. Don't forget the CPU. And the RAM, and the hard drive, and the DVD drive. At this point, it's about the same cost as a base Mac Mini.
Even if you add the Mac Mini DVD burner, larger hard drive and extra RAM, you're still not saving much with the Shuttle. I'm not even going to mention the operating system and having to set it all up...
Please don't counter with a el cheapo price quote from some other scum dealer either, just Newegg... If you counter, make sure it has the same features also...
Or buy the Mac Mini, with the OS installed, plug it in, and have it up and running.
The mini has a DVI output for an HDTV monitor and Firewire for either DV or cable box (MPEG-TS) input. I personally think the Mini price is great for what you get. Especially if you want it in your living room next to your HDTV as a Media Center...
If the reports are true (DVI output, firewire), the Mac Mini would be perfect for my home HDTV firewire recorder! Mac already has a DVHS recorder, and would work with my cable box (with firewire) and HDTV w/DVI input.
For some reason, the firewire MPEG-TS output is not blocked (encrypted) as I tried other software on my XP based laptop). I was looking at a Shuttle, but the Mini would be better. Apple, here I come!
So what's the difference in this scenario?
1. I paint a picture on a canvas with oil and it takes me a week or so to do it. I sell same picture for $600.
2. I paint a picture on a computer (using Painter) using virtual oil brushes and it takes me a week or so to do it. I print the picture with an Epson 7600. Now, how much is the digital image? How much is the print itself?
If you're typing there telling me the digital image is free, while the act of printing the digital painting is worth $600, uh you don't understand what went into making the painting, do you?
Yeah, except that water is 55 degs, maybe 58 in the summer, so watch yourself turn blue without a wetsuit. And the locals better know you if you surf or else your car or yourself will not make it out too well. From Zuma to Santa Barbara, there's only two weeks max out of the year where it's warm enough to go to the beach (let alone the water) without a jacket. And the water generally sucks in many places (especially in the winter rains) due to the pollution.
Then, there's "it only takes two hours to go from the beach to the snow". Yeah, two hours one way (half a day on the road both ways at the very least) to go ANYWHERE in the most miserable, congested, God forsaken freeway system on the planet. Can't do anything locally, as it's either nothing but private property (read oceans of housing tracts) or public land that's illegal to do anything but look at it (but now requires a parking placard to stop to look at it for federal forests). I hardly go out of town anymore because as soon as I go onto the 101 parking lot, I can feel my life slip away. To go to more interesting places (Pismo (ATVs), Tahoe, Big Sur, Yosemite, LV), it's a multiday experience.
Also, don't forget this is the People's Republic of Kalifornia, where environmentalists are trying their best to make every human activity illegal except for a few EXTREMELY CROWDED areas (one of a million examples, go to Pismo (Oceano) and fly a kite, see you get fined. Flying parafoils in Oxnard was made illegal, etc.). Never mind the utter hypocracy as they too travel in gas sucking cars and dwell in former wildlife habitat, your ATV is destroying the planet... At any rate, you'll soon have to travel to another state to to actually DO something.
So yeah, come to SoCal if you like surfing, but get to know the locals first. That's ALL you'll be doing so you better like it, or else learn to love the freeway and spend the rest of your life on it. And yes, I've lived in Ventura County 18 years... So why was SoCal better again?
To all the people who voted for Kerry because it was a vote against Bush and the Republican party (NOTE: not the same as liking Kerry), will another four years of Bush push you enough to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2008, regardless of which Republican runs?
Who will bet that Hillary runs and gets the nomination for President in 2008?
Nothing will change until we get out of a two party system mentality. Nothing. I don't understand why people don't see that it's just too fucking easy for a powerful group of people to buy BOTH parties, give the general population the bone every four years, and say "just be glad you have the right to vote!" When was the last presidential election where we actually had someone we really wanted to elect? 1992 :-/? 1980 :-)? 1960?
If the Internet is supposed to be this massive force of change, why can't an internet based "popular" party nominate someone through the Internet, and then everyone can vote for that person to do an end-around this fucked up two party system? You know, I can just see all the fat-assed geeks say "well, just think of the fraud from overseas voters, and blah blah blah." Well, instead of just sitting there on your big fat asses and criticize, why don't you use your supposed massive intellect and THINK of a way to do a national based internet nomination of a candidate... Our only other alternative is for everyone to choose another party such as this or this.
I also think it's time for all the Democrat and Republican Koolaid drinkers to wake up from their coma and realize these two choices are actually more alike than different. They are in agreement with military issues, immigration, and other misc. topics. So what does that leave, abortion? Great, that's leaves a whole lot for me to pick from...
Until then, don't be surprised for another round of pick the worst of the two in 2008...
Move more leftward? You're joking right?
(For the record, I don't like either Bush or Kerry or most third party candidates) Living on the left coast of California, here's what I observe with my own eyes:
When I flip through channels (which I rarely do anymore) and watch the national news (CBS,ABC,NBC) I constantly hear slams against Bush, nothing about Kerry
I went ATV riding with my kids at Oceano State Beach recently. Despite having 80% of the area off limits to humans, environmentalists want that last 20% closed. Also despite having 99.99% of the coastline off limits to ATVs. This also goes for mountain biking or gold panning (which my family has done), where huge volumes of land is being converted to wilderness area. In fact, viturally any development out here is met with a environmental legal group armed with a endangered species that needs saving. The whole forking state is virutally off limits to most recreation for my kids...
The school systems out here (from elementary school to UC) is a repository for liberal thinking. Don't even try to express any conservative thought to any of those people...
Despite many of our hospital emergency rooms being shut down due to waves of uninsured patients (ie, illegal immigrants) and other crumbling of our infrastructure, many are against enforcing our borders, especially our newpaper editors. This despite rumors of terrorists coming across the Mexican border...
I could go on and on, but from what I see every day, I see LOTS of left leaning thinking here, so I don't know where the parent poster is coming from...
What's your position on illegal immigration and/or outsourcing? I would think a libertarian would say "keep the gov't out of it". However, at some point, doesn't having too much of either outsourcing or illegal immigration ultimately impact our national socio-economic stability?
You have access to Google, right? Do a Google search on "nuclear fallout". For example, in the wiki on world wide fallout. For dispersion, look up "jet stream" (example: wiki). Granted the amount of radiation would be minor, but it could be in the same ballpark as a "dirty bomb" and look how much concern that has on people (especially the press). I thought this stuff was known since the 60s.
BTW, if the explosion was not nuclear, then this discussion is null and void anyway. I haven't seen any confirmation of this yet
Weren't GPS satellites supposed to detect gamma ray bursts from a nuclear blast?
_IF_ this is a nuclear explosion, where is the fallout heading? Hope it's not the western half of the US...
If it's heading here, shouldn't someone from the US gov't inform it's citizens?
wait for DirectX 20
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