I've seen since W first proposed his tax breaks. Clinton's first 3 years: priceless stuff.
I'll make it simple for you, AC.
We're not talking about unemployment rate, but job creation. The time frame is a Presidential term in office, 4 years.
WJC, WJC, GHWB, RWR, RWR, JC, RMN/GF, RMN, LBJ, JFK/LBJ, JFK, DWE, DWE, HST, FDR/HST, FDR, FDR, FDR: None of them had a net loss of jobs during these terms in office.
Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933 was the last President who presided over a net loss of jobs during his 4 year term in office. Now do you get it AC?
1) Career bureacrats or not, Democrats or not, none of them were punished/admonished/demoted/fired/talked sternly to because that would have implied that in the 9 months that W was in office, he should have been able to prevent 9/11. Since nobody in the current administration is willing to take responsibility for anything bad that ever happens, all those folks who screwed up are there (or promoted) to screw up worse next time.
2) It's the length of a Presidential administration. W is in line to be the first one in 70 years to have a net loss of jobs. How is that arbitrary?
3) The economy has been in the tank for three years (and counting). Despite getting all of the tax breaks he asked for and despite having control over both houses and despite all of the positive sentiment coming out of the WH, the economy has been down for 3 years. When does he start taking responsibility for this? Oh, wait. We dealt with that in number 1: never.
4) a) We've found lots of mass graves of the dead of Kosovo killed by Milosevic. That's one of the reasons he's on trial now.
b) As an obvious supporter of the current invasion of Iraq, are you saying it was bad of Clinton to bomb them to try and get them to comply?
c) Are you saying you would have supported an invasion of Rwanda to save the Tutsis? That was during the previous administration, after all.
d) No, I was talking about Iraq. I was talking about taking all of the good will towards the US after 9/11 and throwing it in the crapper, taking a big dump on it, pouring on some gasoline and setting it on fire. I'm talking about invading Iraq on false pretenses (WMD, al-Quaeda) and then rewriting your reasons after you can't support your original ones (killing fields, democracy-building). I'm talking about failing to secure the supposed prime target again (where are Osama and Mullah Omar?). I'm talking about living in a dream world as to post-invasion circumstances (they'll be tossing flowers in our path and giving us their daughters to use) and having no real plan that approached reality. I'm talking about he huge number of conventional weapons caches that we know about and continue to leave totally unguarded because Rummy has determined that exactly the right number of soldiers are there right now. Those are the things I'm talking about.
You know, there's more, but I'm too annoyed thinking about it.
if there are any American citizens at Gitmo. The current adminstration won't give anyone (including the Red Cross) a listing of who is there.
We do, of course, have two American citizens (Padilla and Hamdi) declared as enemy combatants kept in Naval brigs, not charged with any crimes, not allowed access to lawyers, not allowed the right to remain silent, held indefinitely by fiat of W alone. But you're right, they're not at Gitmo. They're here in the US.
You say you have Google proof. So where are the links?
The AC provided no proof for the assertion that the companies also donated heavily to the previous administration, just like you didn't. All the AC said was "I'm sure" (just like you said you'd seen the proof but didn't include any links).
Hmmm, are you the same AC pretending to be someone else?
1) 9/11 happens and nobody from the administration, CIA, FBI, Department of Transportation, Department of Immigration etc. is fired/held responsible for the falling asleep on the job
2) We have the first net loss of jobs for 70 years
3) The economy tanks (unless you make over $300,000 a year from investments, in which case, sit back and enjoy your big, big tax breaks buddy)
4) We pre-emptively invade a country with no real International backing, find no WMD which was our specific reason for invading in the first place, sign off on lots of no bid price+profit deals for big, big, big connected companies, fail to find Enemy Number 1 (just like we failed to do with Enemies 1 and 2 from Afghanistan), declare "Mission Accomplished" and then so screw up the occupation that we go crawling on our knees to the UN begging them to come help and they laugh in our face
You know, there's more, but I'm still angry just thinking about it.
led away to his Guantanamo relocation center, he was quoted as saying...oh, wait. The Official Information Minister has informed me that reporting Vidal's final statement would make me an enemy combatant, and would mean that the terrorists had won. And that would be doubleplusungood.
We're going to conclude that at least 10 people did. It relieves the copyright owner of having to prove that any violation of
their rights actually happened.
What a wonderful breakthrough in law enforcement: assuming that an actual crime has been committed and acting accordingly. In a day and age when people can be automagically declared enemy combatants and permanently removed from the legal system, I guess this was the next step.
Since we're all theoretically capable of criminal actions, I think we should all pre-emptively surrender to the proper authorities.
Disrespecting the "Mission Accomplished. Oh wait, no it isn't but I never said it was in the first place. It was the Navy's idea all along. And didn't I look cool in that flightsuit that I didn't need to wear because I could have taken a helicopter to the ship which would have been safer/smarter but that wouldn't have been as nice of a photo op." Selected President* does not equal slamming the US.
You do realize that the Selected President*, his cadre of debt-exploding, job-decimating, occupation-failing chicken hawks and their AC flunkies like yourself don't equal the US, don't you? Even though the Selected President* has worked so hard to advance the notion of the imperial Presidency:
"I get to decide who's an enemy combatant. Nobody has the right to judge me.
Everyone who advises me is free from oversight."
And even though the Selected President*, who was actually selected by the SC, keeps believing that he was chosen for the job by God.
implicitly implies that you should have found/fixed the flaws before releasing the software. Shutting up anyone that notes the security flaws you never noticed/corrected leaves you free to claim to have none. That's doublegood. By the way, they've raised the chocolate rations to 5 units.
.."cared about writing quality, robust code". ..
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"One of the thing I liked at Microsoft was that most of the programmers there, in addition to being very bright, cared about writing quality, robust code.... People cared about their code being as bug free as possible and were willing to sacrifice their weekends and social lives in order to write the best code they could. It was an attitude I saw throughout my twelve and a half years at Microsoft."
Which raises the big, big questions: Why is it that they are writing all this great, quality, robust code, but releasing/selling all these crappy, bloated, consistently insecure products? Are they hiring good programmers and keeping them working on stuff they'll never release just to keep them off the market?
JOEL: [carries in Ultamate blue screen] All right, well. We've gotta really neat treat for you guys. We worked on some heavy charts about sidehackin'. Cambot, I want you to run that race footage in there? On the, uh, Chromakey. Okay, you guys--vamp.
[music starts]
JOEL: Yeah, I'm trapped up in outer space. Sometimes my life feels like a big pile of nothin'. So what? Word. I live with it. Dig it. But anyway, we [sic] and my bloods would like to wail out a song about our friends, the sidehackers. Goes like this:
SERVO: 1, 2. 1, 2, 3, 4.
JOEL: [sings]
Sidehackin' is the thing to do
When it doesn't hurt to have a low IQ.
Take a life you like and a little love.
The big band prize is twenty-five bucks.
Sidehackin'll quench your danger thirst
The stupid ones always seem to come in first, yeah.
Sidehackin' is one big bash;
The favorite sport of cheap white trash.
When you're on your sidehack, make sure you don't slip;
You'll end up with five metal pins in your hip.
Lean way back 'til you scrape your butt;
Make it look like a quarter-pound of ground chuck, yeah.
Oh, sidehack it, Crow!
[music breakdown]
SERVO: Whoo! Oh, go, Crow!
JOEL: It's a sport that attracts a lot of racing fools.
A lot of people get hurt 'cause there are no rules.
All you need is a toxic landfill,
A cycle and a sidecar and an urge to kill.
Better get with the sport 'cause it won't last long;
The founders of this sport are at Forest Lawn.
Transcribed by Lisa Jenkins, with help from Mitch Gelly and Dave Harris.
While I respect the effort, ...
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the important question is: Are the games formerly soley available on the N-Gage that good that they're worth playing on other phones/devices/etc.?
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Like, isn't that for us to determine, you know? I mean, they say it's RAD, for sure. But what if, like, I don't agree?
Top that!
Oh, okay. I'll stop complaining now. Everything will be alright.
I'll make it simple for you, AC.
We're not talking about unemployment rate, but job creation. The time frame is a Presidential term in office, 4 years.
WJC, WJC, GHWB, RWR, RWR, JC, RMN/GF, RMN, LBJ, JFK/LBJ, JFK, DWE, DWE, HST, FDR/HST, FDR, FDR, FDR: None of them had a net loss of jobs during these terms in office.
Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933 was the last President who presided over a net loss of jobs during his 4 year term in office. Now do you get it AC?
2) It's the length of a Presidential administration. W is in line to be the first one in 70 years to have a net loss of jobs. How is that arbitrary?
3) The economy has been in the tank for three years (and counting). Despite getting all of the tax breaks he asked for and despite having control over both houses and despite all of the positive sentiment coming out of the WH, the economy has been down for 3 years. When does he start taking responsibility for this? Oh, wait. We dealt with that in number 1: never.
4) a) We've found lots of mass graves of the dead of Kosovo killed by Milosevic. That's one of the reasons he's on trial now.
b) As an obvious supporter of the current invasion of Iraq, are you saying it was bad of Clinton to bomb them to try and get them to comply?
c) Are you saying you would have supported an invasion of Rwanda to save the Tutsis? That was during the previous administration, after all.
d) No, I was talking about Iraq. I was talking about taking all of the good will towards the US after 9/11 and throwing it in the crapper, taking a big dump on it, pouring on some gasoline and setting it on fire. I'm talking about invading Iraq on false pretenses (WMD, al-Quaeda) and then rewriting your reasons after you can't support your original ones (killing fields, democracy-building). I'm talking about failing to secure the supposed prime target again (where are Osama and Mullah Omar?). I'm talking about living in a dream world as to post-invasion circumstances (they'll be tossing flowers in our path and giving us their daughters to use) and having no real plan that approached reality. I'm talking about he huge number of conventional weapons caches that we know about and continue to leave totally unguarded because Rummy has determined that exactly the right number of soldiers are there right now. Those are the things I'm talking about.
You know, there's more, but I'm too annoyed thinking about it.
Take a read, AC. Too bad the SC didn't
We do, of course, have two American citizens (Padilla and Hamdi) declared as enemy combatants kept in Naval brigs, not charged with any crimes, not allowed access to lawyers, not allowed the right to remain silent, held indefinitely by fiat of W alone. But you're right, they're not at Gitmo. They're here in the US.
to the exceedingly anti-social. Don't we deserve some programming effort too?
The AC provided no proof for the assertion that the companies also donated heavily to the previous administration, just like you didn't. All the AC said was "I'm sure" (just like you said you'd seen the proof but didn't include any links).
Hmmm, are you the same AC pretending to be someone else?
1) 9/11 happens and nobody from the administration, CIA, FBI, Department of Transportation, Department of Immigration etc. is fired/held responsible for the falling asleep on the job
2) We have the first net loss of jobs for 70 years
3) The economy tanks (unless you make over $300,000 a year from investments, in which case, sit back and enjoy your big, big tax breaks buddy)
4) We pre-emptively invade a country with no real International backing, find no WMD which was our specific reason for invading in the first place, sign off on lots of no bid price+profit deals for big, big, big connected companies, fail to find Enemy Number 1 (just like we failed to do with Enemies 1 and 2 from Afghanistan), declare "Mission Accomplished" and then so screw up the occupation that we go crawling on our knees to the UN begging them to come help and they laugh in our face
You know, there's more, but I'm still angry just thinking about it.
I guess that makes it insightful, as opposed to a steaming pile.
Since the SC made him the Selected President*, that's the official descriptor now.
led away to his Guantanamo relocation center, he was quoted as saying ...oh, wait. The Official Information Minister has informed me that reporting Vidal's final statement would make me an enemy combatant, and would mean that the terrorists had won. And that would be doubleplusungood.
wouldn't qualify as either without the quotes and the accompanying hand gesture.
"actress" Bo Derek.
What a wonderful breakthrough in law enforcement: assuming that an actual crime has been committed and acting accordingly. In a day and age when people can be automagically declared enemy combatants and permanently removed from the legal system, I guess this was the next step.
Since we're all theoretically capable of criminal actions, I think we should all pre-emptively surrender to the proper authorities.
Disrespecting the "Mission Accomplished. Oh wait, no it isn't but I never said it was in the first place. It was the Navy's idea all along. And didn't I look cool in that flightsuit that I didn't need to wear because I could have taken a helicopter to the ship which would have been safer/smarter but that wouldn't have been as nice of a photo op." Selected President* does not equal slamming the US.
Or do you really not grasp that?
You do realize that the Selected President*, his cadre of debt-exploding, job-decimating, occupation-failing chicken hawks and their AC flunkies like yourself don't equal the US, don't you? Even though the Selected President* has worked so hard to advance the notion of the imperial Presidency:
"I get to decide who's an enemy combatant.
Nobody has the right to judge me.
Everyone who advises me is free from oversight."
And even though the Selected President*, who was actually selected by the SC, keeps believing that he was chosen for the job by God.
thank you personally for your insightful comments. They'd like to, but The Man(tm) won't let them.
implicitly implies that you should have found/fixed the flaws before releasing the software. Shutting up anyone that notes the security flaws you never noticed/corrected leaves you free to claim to have none. That's doublegood. By the way, they've raised the chocolate rations to 5 units.
Insensitive clod!
Which raises the big, big questions: Why is it that they are writing all this great, quality, robust code, but releasing/selling all these crappy, bloated, consistently insecure products? Are they hiring good programmers and keeping them working on stuff they'll never release just to keep them off the market?
202 The Sidehackers
"Sidehackin'"
Music: The Brains
[On the satellite:]
[Crow is on guitar, Servo has drums]
JOEL: [carries in Ultamate blue screen] All right, well. We've gotta really
neat treat for you guys. We worked on some heavy charts about sidehackin'.
Cambot, I want you to run that race footage in there? On the, uh, Chromakey.
Okay, you guys--vamp.
[music starts]
JOEL: Yeah, I'm trapped up in outer space. Sometimes my life feels like a big
pile of nothin'. So what? Word. I live with it. Dig it. But anyway, we
[sic] and my bloods would like to wail out a song about our friends, the
sidehackers. Goes like this:
SERVO: 1, 2. 1, 2, 3, 4.
JOEL: [sings]
Sidehackin' is the thing to do
When it doesn't hurt to have a low IQ.
Take a life you like and a little love.
The big band prize is twenty-five bucks.
Sidehackin'll quench your danger thirst
The stupid ones always seem to come in first, yeah.
Sidehackin' is one big bash;
The favorite sport of cheap white trash.
When you're on your sidehack, make sure you don't slip;
You'll end up with five metal pins in your hip.
Lean way back 'til you scrape your butt;
Make it look like a quarter-pound of ground chuck, yeah.
Oh, sidehack it, Crow!
[music breakdown]
SERVO: Whoo! Oh, go, Crow!
JOEL: It's a sport that attracts a lot of racing fools.
A lot of people get hurt 'cause there are no rules.
All you need is a toxic landfill,
A cycle and a sidecar and an urge to kill.
Better get with the sport 'cause it won't last long;
The founders of this sport are at Forest Lawn.
Transcribed by Lisa Jenkins, with help from Mitch Gelly and Dave Harris.
the important question is: Are the games formerly soley available on the N-Gage that good that they're worth playing on other phones/devices/etc.?