If criminals (the news item mentioned murderers, although I think it may have applied to all court cases) plead guilty they can have a severly reduced sentence, since it will save substancial amounts of money on court cases...
This is one of the arguments against the death penalty in the US. It may be cheaper to give someone a life sentence than to give someone the death penalty. Opponents claim that the cost of appeals on the average death penalty case outweigh the cost of keeping someone locked up for life.
The "Wait a minute, don't you think he looks kind of... French...?" moment may have been as low a moment for the American electoral process as Karl Rove's South Carolina push polls implying John McCain had sired a mixed-race child out of wedlock. Hear all about it from McCain's own campaign people.
My wife and I adopted a daughter from S. Asia and this smear campaign is the reason that I will never, ever vote for W. Bush may have beat McCain, but there are in excess of 10K int'l adoptions in the US every year where the kid came from a 3rd world country. Hmmm. 10K kids @ 2 parents each x 4 years is maybe 80K votes that W's tactics could cost him (more if you add in those parents that adopted more than 4 years ago). He won FL by, what, 800 votes? The adoptive parents alone could cost him his job.
Even though red wine contains more polyphenols than beer, this study showed the body absorbs about equally effective amounts of bioactive molecules such as polyphenols from beer and wine. Beer, wine, stout, and matured spirits (rum, whisky, sherry and port), which extract tannins from the oak casks they are matured or stored in, all contain significant amounts of polyphenols.
Colorado Republicans are worried that Kerry might win Colorado, so this is designed to help Bush.
I'd like to see a modest change to the EC. The winner within a Congressional District in a state gets the EV for that House seat. The winner of the entire state gets 2 EVs for the Senate seats. This forces the presidential race to be a little more local in the bigger states and forces both sides to campaign in states where they have significant minorities even though they are likely to lose across the entire state. It would probably hurt the Dems overall since the Repubs control Congress. The Dems would lose places like Orange Co, CA, and upstate NY, but pickup EVs in places like Cleveland, OH or Atlanta, GA.
Forbes once wrote an article about 64 bit computing where they defined a 64 bit machine as one that could address 64! bytes of memory. There writers and editors really don't have much of a clue about technology.
What I don't understand is why can't a public utilities company provide a public utility if their rate payers want it?
Your terminology is a bit off. A public utility is a "company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation." It need not be owned by a gov't.
That said, there are examples of systems where distribution is owned by the gov't or by a local cooperative. Many communities, particulary small towns or rural areas in the US, have electrical coops that handle distribution of power to individual homes. I'm not sure why politicians believe internet service should not also be handled like this.
Though proportional-spaced typewriters existed then and were quite common (despite claims to the contrary by some people here), they were still mechanical devices. There were only 4 (perhaps 5) letter widths possible, and the numbers (the "en-space") were 3 units (this is for the IBM Selectric I am familiar with). This produces obvious alignement vertically between far more letters than the Word output, as there is a 1/3 chance of a letter aligning with one below it. TrueType fonts have 1000 or more possible widths (I may be thinking of PostScript Type 1 fonts).
Many folks in this discussion have tried reproducing the memos with MS Word and, given the similarities, cried foul. But that is a meaningless experimiment. Nobody seems to have tried the simplest experiment: Can the memos be accurately reproduced with the proportional-spaced typewriters available at the time? I'll withhold judgement until I see that experiment run.
Telecomms: What exactly do you think we are missing? Cell phones? Broadband? Don't think any of those were around in the 1940s.
Textiles: Anyone can make textiles. So everyone does. At $1/day wages or less. It wasn't the unions that killed the textile industry in the US. It was cheap overseas labor.
Autos: I've was just given a Chevy by my 92 year old aunt. Trust me on this one: it wasn't the unions that killed the US auto firms, it was managers and engineers who couldn't figure out how to design and build a car that worked.
Airlines: I used to work in IT for an airline. Airlines live and die more often based on fuel costs and passenger loads than unions. But when fuel costs go up, the first thing management wants to cut is wages.
Teachers: Schools in the US are falling apart at the seams because no one wants to pay for them. The teachers are not responsible for school districts that don't care if the student teacher ratio is 40+:1 or that the roof leaks or that the library has no books. Would you like to teach 7th graders at a yearly starting salary of $26K? And universities in the US do have faculty unions. They are called the Faculty Senate.
Construction: 1st Class office space looks very different today than it did 30 years ago and is much more energy efficient.
No matter what he says today Kerry voted to give the president the ability to go to war, then he voted to not support the war, but is quoted on a TV interview saying he'd spend as much as it takes to win the war.
There were two votes on funding the war. The Democratic version required that spending for the war be matched by new revenues to fund it. Kerry voted for this version. Bush threatened a veto and the Republicans voted against it. The Republican version had no provisions for revenues, only for spending. The Republican version also contained a $20 billion provision for Iraq reconstruction with no plan for how it would be spent. The $20 billion was given to Bush with no oversight provisions. It seems eminently sensible that the rich and even the middle class could give up a little of that tax cut we got in exchange for body armor for our troops rather than just pay for it with the Federal charge card. We have now spent nearly $200 billion on the Iraq fiasco. That is one of my major objections to the way in which Bush is conducting this war. War demands sacrifices from every one of us, not just those few with the guts to join the military. Of course Dick "I had other priorities at the time" Cheny will never understand this.
Oh, and just who was it who sent our troops into combat without the proper gear in the first place?
I speak and understand english fine, its what I'm hearing that has me confused.
Dude, ya gotta read more than just the headlines and listen to more than just the sound bites if you want to really understand what's going on.
Clean water, electricity and education are all things that you can live without, but education will eventually solve the other two problems.
Without clean water, the children get dysentery and other nasty diseases that can kill them long before they can be educated well enough to figure out how to solve their own problems. Trust me. I lived in rural India for a while. You don't want to drink the tap water. This is analogous to the problem that led the US to develop its school lunch program. Without good nutrition, the children were not learning.
Think of it as a computer engineering problem. You want to put all of your efforts into speeding up the cpu. This is not very useful if the cpu is starved because no money was spent building a memory system to support it. Development requires a package of stuff all done together. And the package contents must vary depending on local circumstances.
Whether either voted, signed, wrote, or read the bill, at the time it was considered (by many) as essential. 9/11 shocked everyone, and quick action was seen as more important than properly debated, methodical, slow, correct, action.
To be fair to both the Patriot Act and our oft maligned Congress(wo)men, most of the provisions in the Patriot Act had been around for a while and had been examined in depth by Congressional Committees at one point or another. The Patriot Act was a hastly assembled laundry list of provisions that the Congress had denied the FBI for years. 9/11 just scared the Congress into pulling out old ideas from the files.
I am amused by how quickly the Patriot Act was passed considering the reason that many of the provisions could not pass before was because Conservatives were afraid that their constituents were the ones most likely to be targeted after Ruby Ridge, Waco, and the Oklahoma City bombing. Liberals, on the other hand, seem to have forgotten until very recently that they were the targets of similarly heavy handed shenanigans 30 years ago. There have been recent attempts to amend the act by a coalition of far right and far left members of Congress, but they've gone nowhere.
If you want to decide your vote by the PATRIOT Act, it might be better to research what the two candidates think of the Act now, and if they plan on strengthing, or to weakening it.
Many of those provisions (not all) are set to expire on 31 Dec 2005. Bush wants them renewed, Kerry is willing to take a 2nd look.
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Oh, did you shoot yourself in the ass and get a silver star for it too? I support my troops, and I am voting for Bush.
Comments like that are a great way to win people over to your side. In fact, it is precisely the tactics of the Swift Boat Liars and rude fools like this AC who have convinced me to wholeheartedly support Kerry even though I'd rather vote for a third party candidate. Well, that and the fact that Bush has proven to be really incompetent at conducting wars.
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In "Apache: The Definitive Guide", Ben and Peter Laurie suggest a way to learn how to build an Apache config file - start with a blank file, and start Apache. Oops, it won't start. OK, so what's it missing? Check the log files. It needs a User directive - OK, add that. Try to start. Hm, it started, but where do I put my HTML? Ah, add a DocumentRoot. And so forth.
No, its not add that. Its copy that and the associated comment from the original stock config file apache provides. Now your lean config file is documented, looks just like apache's and won't confuse your successor. I generally do this with any new daemon I install that requires a config file. Note that from a security standpoint this may not be good enough if the daemon's secure options are turned off by default since you may not see any warnings in the logs.
Funny, I've come to exactly the opposite conclusion and decided that I'm going to buckle down and get the following certs: Java Programmer, Developer, and Architect, IBM XML and Rational RUPP/UML, and PMI. The sample tests I've seen for these look pretty easy and the test costs aren't too awful bad since I don't need the training.
And then I'm gonna make the bastards put me in charge and I'm gonna run an IT shop the way it should be run.
Well, maybe not. But at least I won't have to keep rewriting my resume to show the marketing folks at the consulting companies how the 10+ years experience I have directly matches each and every one of the next customer's requirements. Here's to hoping that buzzword checklist compliance will reduce my marketing costs.
But seriously, it doesn't matter whether it really "works" or it's just a placebo - if the machinery does what you want it to do, you don't need to look at the insides.
One of the questions from the guy test:
Alien beings from a highly advanced society visit the Earth, and you are the first human they encounter. As a token of
intergalactic friendship, they present you with a small but incredibly sophisticated device that is capable of curing all
disease, providing an infinite supply of clean energy, wiping out hunger and poverty, and permanently eliminating
oppression and violence all over the entire Earth. You decide to:
a. Present it to the President of the United States.
b. Present it to the Secretary General of the United Nations.
c. Take it apart and see how it works.
The only reason for not looking inside a black box is that there is some other more interesting black box next to it or maybe if your wife and kids are yelling at you to fix the plumbing disaster currently under way in the bathroom.
RTFP... "Kerry is a Backshooter" is factual by John Kerry's own admission in sworn testimony. No verification needed. It's not Republican propaganda, it's Kerry's record.
The whole truth from the record:
This guy could have dispatched us in a second, but for . . . I'll never be able to explain, we were literally face to face, he with his B-40 rocket and us in our boat, and he didn't pull the trigger. I would not be here today talking to you if he had," Kerry recalled. "And Tommy clipped him, and he started going [down.] I thought it was over.
Instead, the guerrilla got up and started running. "We've got to get him, make sure he doesn't get behind the hut, and then we're in trouble," Kerry recalled.
So Kerry shot and killed the guerrilla. "I don't have a second's question about that, nor does anybody who was with me," he said. "He was running away with a live B-40, and, I thought, poised to turn around and fire it." Asked whether that meant Kerry shot the guerrilla in the back, Kerry said, "No, absolutely not. He was hurt, other guys were shooting from back, side, back. There is no, there is not a scintilla of question in any person's mind who was there [that] this guy was dangerous, he was a combatant, he had an armed weapon."
Many of the Swiftboat Vets coming out against Kerry are *also* decorated combat vets... Have you the gall to call them liars?
Yes, since all of the personel who were present with Kerry on those missions back his version and none of the Swift Boat Veterans for Fantasy were present.
One of those statements is actually true, (because we know that John Kerry really is a backshooter, he personally capped an unarmed teenager who was running away at the time) wouldn't that make it OK?
You were there and saw this personally? Or are you just the naive type who would believe anything that the Republicans say? You sound as if you'd buy the Brooklin Bridge if Karl Rove offered to sell it to you.
Kerry fought in Vietnam. Goerge Bush did not. Dick Cheney did not serve in the military. John Ashcroft did not serve in the military. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert did not serve in the military. Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey did not serve in the military. House Majority Leader Tom Delay did not serve in the military. House Majority Whip Roy Blunt did not serve in the military. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist did not serve in the military. Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell did not serve in the military. Rick Santorum, third ranking Republican in the Senate, did not serve in the military. Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott did not serve in the military. And you probably did not serve in the military either. And yet all of you have the gall to claim that a decorated combat veteran is a liar.
I've got a titanium rod and two set of pins in my lower leg. When the surgeon put them in, he told me one or more of the parts may eventually have to be removed. These things can shift in slow and subtle but painful ways as bone and muscles re-grow and become stronger. A friend of mine had to have her pins removed when they started to puah their way out through her skin several years after her broken ankle.
I disagree. 60 million people sharing files on P2P networks contributing $100 each to EFF or their Anti-DMCA Congress candidate instead of buying CDs? We not only outnumber them, but we have more money, too. In fact, we have all the money since we can easily survive without the RIAA but they would wither and die without us.
I saw 2001 in the theater when it first came out. For me it ranks first not just as best sci-fi, but as best film ever made. Blade runner would be second. I saw Star Wars while on a weekend pass from US Army Basic Training. Gets my vote as best all round escape from dreary reality.
But then we are stuck with the classic problem of too many things to fit into too few slots. I might have tried to add Metropolis, A Boy And His Dog, the Andromeda Strain, and/or Jurrasic Park in there somewhere. Any one of those beats Close Encounters which I thought was awfully slow and had nothing interesting to say.
It amazes me how the Democrats hounded Bush about his guard service, made Michael Moore their golden boy, yet cry foul when a group of veterans organize against him.
The Swift Boat book is co-authored by Jerome Corsi who has said anti-Catholic, anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic things on a right-wing Website.
These are not just any vets, they are the same folks Nixon hired in the 1970s to disrupt his political enemies at any cost. Looks to me like Bush is borrowing from Nixon's old ethically-challenged playbook and even hiring the same old players.
In my experience, software companies (probably true of many other industries as well) fail because they are trying to sell kewl technology instead of selling a solution to the customer's problem.
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If criminals (the news item mentioned murderers, although I think it may have applied to all court cases) plead guilty they can have a severly reduced sentence, since it will save substancial amounts of money on court cases...
This is one of the arguments against the death penalty in the US. It may be cheaper to give someone a life sentence than to give someone the death penalty. Opponents claim that the cost of appeals on the average death penalty case outweigh the cost of keeping someone locked up for life.
90% of US beer tastes like crap. Do you believe you have the right to steel a beer in order to try it before deciding whether to buy a six-pack?
The "Wait a minute, don't you think he looks kind of... French...?" moment may have been as low a moment for the American electoral process as Karl Rove's South Carolina push polls implying John McCain had sired a mixed-race child out of wedlock. Hear all about it from McCain's own campaign people.
My wife and I adopted a daughter from S. Asia and this smear campaign is the reason that I will never, ever vote for W. Bush may have beat McCain, but there are in excess of 10K int'l adoptions in the US every year where the kid came from a 3rd world country. Hmmm. 10K kids @ 2 parents each x 4 years is maybe 80K votes that W's tactics could cost him (more if you add in those parents that adopted more than 4 years ago). He won FL by, what, 800 votes? The adoptive parents alone could cost him his job.
RTFM:
Even though red wine contains more polyphenols than beer, this study showed the body absorbs about equally effective amounts of bioactive molecules such as polyphenols from beer and wine. Beer, wine, stout, and matured spirits (rum, whisky, sherry and port), which extract tannins from the oak casks they are matured or stored in, all contain significant amounts of polyphenols.
As if I needed another excuse to drink.
Colorado Republicans are worried that Kerry might win Colorado, so this is designed to help Bush.
I'd like to see a modest change to the EC. The winner within a Congressional District in a state gets the EV for that House seat. The winner of the entire state gets 2 EVs for the Senate seats. This forces the presidential race to be a little more local in the bigger states and forces both sides to campaign in states where they have significant minorities even though they are likely to lose across the entire state. It would probably hurt the Dems overall since the Repubs control Congress. The Dems would lose places like Orange Co, CA, and upstate NY, but pickup EVs in places like Cleveland, OH or Atlanta, GA.
factorial.
Forbes once wrote an article about 64 bit computing where they defined a 64 bit machine as one that could address 64! bytes of memory. There writers and editors really don't have much of a clue about technology.
What I don't understand is why can't a public utilities company provide a public utility if their rate payers want it?
Your terminology is a bit off. A public utility is a "company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation." It need not be owned by a gov't.
That said, there are examples of systems where distribution is owned by the gov't or by a local cooperative. Many communities, particulary small towns or rural areas in the US, have electrical coops that handle distribution of power to individual homes. I'm not sure why politicians believe internet service should not also be handled like this.
Though proportional-spaced typewriters existed then and were quite common (despite claims to the contrary by some people here), they were still mechanical devices. There were only 4 (perhaps 5) letter widths possible, and the numbers (the "en-space") were 3 units (this is for the IBM Selectric I am familiar with). This produces obvious alignement vertically between far more letters than the Word output, as there is a 1/3 chance of a letter aligning with one below it. TrueType fonts have 1000 or more possible widths (I may be thinking of PostScript Type 1 fonts).
Many folks in this discussion have tried reproducing the memos with MS Word and, given the similarities, cried foul. But that is a meaningless experimiment. Nobody seems to have tried the simplest experiment: Can the memos be accurately reproduced with the proportional-spaced typewriters available at the time? I'll withhold judgement until I see that experiment run.
Hmmm...
Telecomms: What exactly do you think we are missing? Cell phones? Broadband? Don't think any of those were around in the 1940s.
Textiles: Anyone can make textiles. So everyone does. At $1/day wages or less. It wasn't the unions that killed the textile industry in the US. It was cheap overseas labor.
Autos: I've was just given a Chevy by my 92 year old aunt. Trust me on this one: it wasn't the unions that killed the US auto firms, it was managers and engineers who couldn't figure out how to design and build a car that worked.
Airlines: I used to work in IT for an airline. Airlines live and die more often based on fuel costs and passenger loads than unions. But when fuel costs go up, the first thing management wants to cut is wages.
Teachers: Schools in the US are falling apart at the seams because no one wants to pay for them. The teachers are not responsible for school districts that don't care if the student teacher ratio is 40+:1 or that the roof leaks or that the library has no books. Would you like to teach 7th graders at a yearly starting salary of $26K? And universities in the US do have faculty unions. They are called the Faculty Senate.
Construction: 1st Class office space looks very different today than it did 30 years ago and is much more energy efficient.
Bottom line: Your examples suck.
No matter what he says today Kerry voted to give the president the ability to go to war, then he voted to not support the war, but is quoted on a TV interview saying he'd spend as much as it takes to win the war.
There were two votes on funding the war. The Democratic version required that spending for the war be matched by new revenues to fund it. Kerry voted for this version. Bush threatened a veto and the Republicans voted against it. The Republican version had no provisions for revenues, only for spending. The Republican version also contained a $20 billion provision for Iraq reconstruction with no plan for how it would be spent. The $20 billion was given to Bush with no oversight provisions. It seems eminently sensible that the rich and even the middle class could give up a little of that tax cut we got in exchange for body armor for our troops rather than just pay for it with the Federal charge card. We have now spent nearly $200 billion on the Iraq fiasco. That is one of my major objections to the way in which Bush is conducting this war. War demands sacrifices from every one of us, not just those few with the guts to join the military. Of course Dick "I had other priorities at the time" Cheny will never understand this.
Oh, and just who was it who sent our troops into combat without the proper gear in the first place?
I speak and understand english fine, its what I'm hearing that has me confused.
Dude, ya gotta read more than just the headlines and listen to more than just the sound bites if you want to really understand what's going on.
Clean water, electricity and education are all things that you can live without, but education will eventually solve the other two problems.
Without clean water, the children get dysentery and other nasty diseases that can kill them long before they can be educated well enough to figure out how to solve their own problems. Trust me. I lived in rural India for a while. You don't want to drink the tap water. This is analogous to the problem that led the US to develop its school lunch program. Without good nutrition, the children were not learning.
Think of it as a computer engineering problem. You want to put all of your efforts into speeding up the cpu. This is not very useful if the cpu is starved because no money was spent building a memory system to support it. Development requires a package of stuff all done together. And the package contents must vary depending on local circumstances.
Whether either voted, signed, wrote, or read the bill, at the time it was considered (by many) as essential. 9/11 shocked everyone, and quick action was seen as more important than properly debated, methodical, slow, correct, action.
To be fair to both the Patriot Act and our oft maligned Congress(wo)men, most of the provisions in the Patriot Act had been around for a while and had been examined in depth by Congressional Committees at one point or another. The Patriot Act was a hastly assembled laundry list of provisions that the Congress had denied the FBI for years. 9/11 just scared the Congress into pulling out old ideas from the files.
I am amused by how quickly the Patriot Act was passed considering the reason that many of the provisions could not pass before was because Conservatives were afraid that their constituents were the ones most likely to be targeted after Ruby Ridge, Waco, and the Oklahoma City bombing. Liberals, on the other hand, seem to have forgotten until very recently that they were the targets of similarly heavy handed shenanigans 30 years ago. There have been recent attempts to amend the act by a coalition of far right and far left members of Congress, but they've gone nowhere.
If you want to decide your vote by the PATRIOT Act, it might be better to research what the two candidates think of the Act now, and if they plan on strengthing, or to weakening it.
Many of those provisions (not all) are set to expire on 31 Dec 2005. Bush wants them renewed, Kerry is willing to take a 2nd look.
Oh, did you shoot yourself in the ass and get a silver star for it too? I support my troops, and I am voting for Bush.
Comments like that are a great way to win people over to your side. In fact, it is precisely the tactics of the Swift Boat Liars and rude fools like this AC who have convinced me to wholeheartedly support Kerry even though I'd rather vote for a third party candidate. Well, that and the fact that Bush has proven to be really incompetent at conducting wars.
In "Apache: The Definitive Guide", Ben and Peter Laurie suggest a way to learn how to build an Apache config file - start with a blank file, and start Apache. Oops, it won't start. OK, so what's it missing? Check the log files. It needs a User directive - OK, add that. Try to start. Hm, it started, but where do I put my HTML? Ah, add a DocumentRoot. And so forth.
No, its not add that. Its copy that and the associated comment from the original stock config file apache provides. Now your lean config file is documented, looks just like apache's and won't confuse your successor. I generally do this with any new daemon I install that requires a config file. Note that from a security standpoint this may not be good enough if the daemon's secure options are turned off by default since you may not see any warnings in the logs.
Funny, I've come to exactly the opposite conclusion and decided that I'm going to buckle down and get the following certs: Java Programmer, Developer, and Architect, IBM XML and Rational RUPP/UML, and PMI. The sample tests I've seen for these look pretty easy and the test costs aren't too awful bad since I don't need the training.
And then I'm gonna make the bastards put me in charge and I'm gonna run an IT shop the way it should be run.
Well, maybe not. But at least I won't have to keep rewriting my resume to show the marketing folks at the consulting companies how the 10+ years experience I have directly matches each and every one of the next customer's requirements. Here's to hoping that buzzword checklist compliance will reduce my marketing costs.
One of the questions from the guy test:
Alien beings from a highly advanced society visit the Earth, and you are the first human they encounter. As a token of intergalactic friendship, they present you with a small but incredibly sophisticated device that is capable of curing all disease, providing an infinite supply of clean energy, wiping out hunger and poverty, and permanently eliminating oppression and violence all over the entire Earth. You decide to:
- a. Present it to the President of the United States.
- b. Present it to the Secretary General of the United Nations.
- c. Take it apart and see how it works.
The only reason for not looking inside a black box is that there is some other more interesting black box next to it or maybe if your wife and kids are yelling at you to fix the plumbing disaster currently under way in the bathroom.RTFP... "Kerry is a Backshooter" is factual by John Kerry's own admission in sworn testimony. No verification needed. It's not Republican propaganda, it's Kerry's record.
The whole truth from the record:
This guy could have dispatched us in a second, but for . . . I'll never be able to explain, we were literally face to face, he with his B-40 rocket and us in our boat, and he didn't pull the trigger. I would not be here today talking to you if he had," Kerry recalled. "And Tommy clipped him, and he started going [down.] I thought it was over.
Instead, the guerrilla got up and started running. "We've got to get him, make sure he doesn't get behind the hut, and then we're in trouble," Kerry recalled.
So Kerry shot and killed the guerrilla. "I don't have a second's question about that, nor does anybody who was with me," he said. "He was running away with a live B-40, and, I thought, poised to turn around and fire it." Asked whether that meant Kerry shot the guerrilla in the back, Kerry said, "No, absolutely not. He was hurt, other guys were shooting from back, side, back. There is no, there is not a scintilla of question in any person's mind who was there [that] this guy was dangerous, he was a combatant, he had an armed weapon."
Many of the Swiftboat Vets coming out against Kerry are *also* decorated combat vets... Have you the gall to call them liars?
Yes, since all of the personel who were present with Kerry on those missions back his version and none of the Swift Boat Veterans for Fantasy were present.
One of those statements is actually true, (because we know that John Kerry really is a backshooter, he personally capped an unarmed teenager who was running away at the time) wouldn't that make it OK?
You were there and saw this personally? Or are you just the naive type who would believe anything that the Republicans say? You sound as if you'd buy the Brooklin Bridge if Karl Rove offered to sell it to you.
Kerry fought in Vietnam. Goerge Bush did not. Dick Cheney did not serve in the military. John Ashcroft did not serve in the military. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert did not serve in the military. Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey did not serve in the military. House Majority Leader Tom Delay did not serve in the military. House Majority Whip Roy Blunt did not serve in the military. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist did not serve in the military. Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell did not serve in the military. Rick Santorum, third ranking Republican in the Senate, did not serve in the military. Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott did not serve in the military. And you probably did not serve in the military either. And yet all of you have the gall to claim that a decorated combat veteran is a liar.
I've got a titanium rod and two set of pins in my lower leg. When the surgeon put them in, he told me one or more of the parts may eventually have to be removed. These things can shift in slow and subtle but painful ways as bone and muscles re-grow and become stronger. A friend of mine had to have her pins removed when they started to puah their way out through her skin several years after her broken ankle.
They have the money but we outnumber them.
I disagree. 60 million people sharing files on P2P networks contributing $100 each to EFF or their Anti-DMCA Congress candidate instead of buying CDs? We not only outnumber them, but we have more money, too. In fact, we have all the money since we can easily survive without the RIAA but they would wither and die without us.
I saw 2001 in the theater when it first came out. For me it ranks first not just as best sci-fi, but as best film ever made. Blade runner would be second. I saw Star Wars while on a weekend pass from US Army Basic Training. Gets my vote as best all round escape from dreary reality.
But then we are stuck with the classic problem of too many things to fit into too few slots. I might have tried to add Metropolis, A Boy And His Dog, the Andromeda Strain, and/or Jurrasic Park in there somewhere. Any one of those beats Close Encounters which I thought was awfully slow and had nothing interesting to say.
Maybe because:
- Nearly everything those veterans have said about Kerry is, according to both the U.S. Navy and the folks who were there at the time, a lie.
- Those veterans lied about themselves.
- Bush's friends financed it and his advisors both appeared in the commercials and provided legal advice to the group.
- The Swift Boat book is co-authored by Jerome Corsi who has said anti-Catholic, anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic things on a right-wing Website.
These are not just any vets, they are the same folks Nixon hired in the 1970s to disrupt his political enemies at any cost. Looks to me like Bush is borrowing from Nixon's old ethically-challenged playbook and even hiring the same old players.In my experience, software companies (probably true of many other industries as well) fail because they are trying to sell kewl technology instead of selling a solution to the customer's problem.