1 - Fiscal responsibility. The interest paid annually on the national debt (~10 trillion dollars) is approaching the size of the entire military budget. This is a big waste of American's money. To achieve that goal:
2 - End senseless wars immediately, keep a strong military at home ready for some sensible wars, wars of self defense.
3 - End foreign aid to uncooperative nations.
4 - Establish a surplus tax revenue to pay off the national debt. In fact, let's keep the coffers in the positive numbers, and let the interest work for us.
5 - Push through an energy bill which taxes wasteful energy use. Use those funds to develop solar, wind, geothermal, etc.
6 - Enforce or change immigration law.
7 - Higher education. Make it more affordable to all Americans.
8 - End the war on drugs. Let the market demand decide. Tax it and let Darwin sort out the rest.
9 - If you're born here, to illegal immigrants, you're not a citizen.
10 - Ensure even handed foreign policy, treat all nations equitably, to ensure national security, and avoid terrorism.
11 - Respect all sovereign nations. Democracy is not mandatory. Except for the USA.
12 - Resume trade with communist Cuba, as we trade with communist China. It will be good for both nations.
13 - Reduce dependence on foreign oil through conservation. Promote fuel efficient vehicles.
14 - End waterboarding, close Guantanamo. America does not torture. We have standards.
15 - Turn in America's policeman of the world badge. The US president is elected by Americans, not the world.
16 - Health care, is there an answer? Or shall we leave it to Darwin? Free universal health care? Who are we as Americans, brothers and sisters, or competing cutthroats? Lets try the former and take care of one another. Free medical school, and you work for the government when you get out.
Obviously my administration would get nothing done, because I would be battled tooth and nail on every step.
Hi, this is Clippy. I noticed you appear to be pounding the keyboard with your fist. Would you like help composing an email to anger management service?
You think lane sharing is nutty, but it's legal in much of the free world.
In the UK, you will fail your license exam if you don't split lanes when it's necessary.
What is the point of using a motorcycle, only to pretend it's the size of a bus?
The fact is riding between lanes is no less safer. Cars have bumpers on the front and rear and not the sides for a reason.
I believe the value of copyright might be overrated.
Were the works of J.S. Bach, or William Shakespeare, for example, hindered by lack of copyright?
No, they were driven by the need to create, and a passion for their art.
Fry's are geek heaven, and I'm always envious when I visit the West Coast.
They even have electronics type parts, for the electronics tinkerer.
45th Street in NYC used to be the block for electronic parts and such, but seems to have gone by the wayside.
When the hell are they gonna open in the region?
I don't recommend IE, but I recommend keyboard shortcuts.
In firefox;
Address bar - ctrl+L
Search - ctrl+k
Backwards/forwards - back/shift+back or alt+/alt+
Stop - esc
Next tab/previous tab (not functional in IE) - ctrl+pageup/down
These are all much quicker, and it doesn't matter how far away your cursor is, or even where it is for that matter, the keystrokes are always the same, and faster.
Uncle Sam thinks otherwise. You need need him to defend you against an impotent dictator with imaginary WMD, at a cost of trillions. Nobody cares if your car is stolen, but if your kid is on a bicycle he damn well better strap on a helmet. And you damn well better buckle up when you drive your keyless entry automobile. And even if you're 75, you'd better produce some ID before buying that case of PBR. Try driving that car over the speed limit, while you're at it, even on an empty highway, and see if the safety patrol doesn't give you an expensive reminder that they're concerned about your safety. Just because the state allows you a gun, and a car, (driving it is not a right, but a privilege they'll tell you), does not mean that your freedoms and liberties, are not gradually being eroded by the nanny state, and litigious fools.
When was the last time you took a flight? Surely you'd be familiar with the song and shoeless dance required of you, for your safety.
Let's see you walk around in any major metropolitan area with your high powered rifle, and see if the safety patrol exhibits any concern for your safety, or the safety of others.
Look around, are you getting more freedoms and liberties, or less?
It's the price of living in a litigious and SAFE society.
Americans appear to be willing to achieve supreme safety at any cost, be it from their wallets, liberty, privacy, freedom, respect, dignity etc.
Time saving feature request: take everything that I just inadvertently typed with the caps lock on, and with a simple keystroke combination turn it to lowercase.
If humanity will have trouble reconciling disputes in outer space, interplanetary colonization looks pretty bleak.
Then again with humans on the path to rendering an entire planet uninhabitable, a space capsule wouldn't stand a chance.
I bought a hard drive from Best Buy. It was remarkably cheap, and there was only one box on the shelf. This box was open, but eager to get a bargain, I grabbed it, and peeked inside to make sure there was a drive in it.
There was so I checked out.
When I got home I opened the box and found a old used 6GB drive instead of the 80GB that the box label said.
Those motherfuckers would not refund or even listen to me.
I took it to small claims, won, partly because the process server messed up and they were a no show in court.
The collection process was a bitch and I was busy with work so I let it slide, just like a rebate.
Some pimply punk store employee must have made the swap and put the box on the shelf. Although, it might have been a manager, because of the suspiciously low price.
Bottom line:
Fuck Best Buy
...how can they prove the content is what it says it is?
Suppose I filled my shared folder with files renamed as copyrighted mp3's, when they in fact were jpegs or something else? .
Does the MPAA actually download and examine the content of the files?
'More than half of Americans believe that Internet content such as video should be controlled in some way by the government'
My opinion is that fools should be regulated.
Hopefully I'm in the majority.
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Arguing the existance of God with an athiest is like arguing the existance of red with a blind man.
I prefer to think of it as arguing the existence of a purple elephant with a drunk man.
No, a theory just explains a fact. Like the theory of gravity.
Creationist museums are like museums of human stupidity, we must save them, and encourage more of them, they are quite educational.
1 - Fiscal responsibility. The interest paid annually on the national debt (~10 trillion dollars) is approaching the size of the entire military budget. This is a big waste of American's money. To achieve that goal:
2 - End senseless wars immediately, keep a strong military at home ready for some sensible wars, wars of self defense.
3 - End foreign aid to uncooperative nations.
4 - Establish a surplus tax revenue to pay off the national debt. In fact, let's keep the coffers in the positive numbers, and let the interest work for us.
5 - Push through an energy bill which taxes wasteful energy use. Use those funds to develop solar, wind, geothermal, etc.
6 - Enforce or change immigration law.
7 - Higher education. Make it more affordable to all Americans.
8 - End the war on drugs. Let the market demand decide. Tax it and let Darwin sort out the rest.
9 - If you're born here, to illegal immigrants, you're not a citizen.
10 - Ensure even handed foreign policy, treat all nations equitably, to ensure national security, and avoid terrorism.
11 - Respect all sovereign nations. Democracy is not mandatory. Except for the USA.
12 - Resume trade with communist Cuba, as we trade with communist China. It will be good for both nations.
13 - Reduce dependence on foreign oil through conservation. Promote fuel efficient vehicles.
14 - End waterboarding, close Guantanamo. America does not torture. We have standards.
15 - Turn in America's policeman of the world badge. The US president is elected by Americans, not the world.
16 - Health care, is there an answer? Or shall we leave it to Darwin? Free universal health care? Who are we as Americans, brothers and sisters, or competing cutthroats? Lets try the former and take care of one another. Free medical school, and you work for the government when you get out.
Obviously my administration would get nothing done, because I would be battled tooth and nail on every step.
Video games have no calories, therefore are not fattening.
Food intake is the soul source of body fat.
Hi, this is Clippy. I noticed you appear to be pounding the keyboard with your fist. Would you like help composing an email to anger management service?
You think lane sharing is nutty, but it's legal in much of the free world.
In the UK, you will fail your license exam if you don't split lanes when it's necessary.
What is the point of using a motorcycle, only to pretend it's the size of a bus?
The fact is riding between lanes is no less safer. Cars have bumpers on the front and rear and not the sides for a reason.
The Federal Government should not be used in the role of a nanny.
People: Raise your own children, or hire a nanny that you trust.
I think Wendy's triple burgers, and BK Whoppers have more beef than Big Macs.
...and punch them in the face...
Or maybe better, try a different ISP.
I believe the value of copyright might be overrated.
Were the works of J.S. Bach, or William Shakespeare, for example, hindered by lack of copyright?
No, they were driven by the need to create, and a passion for their art.
Fry's are geek heaven, and I'm always envious when I visit the West Coast.
They even have electronics type parts, for the electronics tinkerer.
45th Street in NYC used to be the block for electronic parts and such, but seems to have gone by the wayside.
When the hell are they gonna open in the region?
I don't recommend IE, but I recommend keyboard shortcuts.
In firefox;
Address bar - ctrl+L
Search - ctrl+k
Backwards/forwards - back/shift+back or alt+/alt+
Stop - esc
Next tab/previous tab (not functional in IE) - ctrl+pageup/down
These are all much quicker, and it doesn't matter how far away your cursor is, or even where it is for that matter, the keystrokes are always the same, and faster.
As an ipod killer, the Zune is a failure, as reports of the ipod's death are greatly exaggerated.
If they could find a bug that eats petroleum, they'd really be onto something.
Who needs agriculture? They can just order food online after making some quick cash with some online scams.
Still, the benchmarks from this powerful CPU are something awesome to behold.
Does that mean it can run Vista?
Uncle Sam thinks otherwise. You need need him to defend you against an impotent dictator with imaginary WMD, at a cost of trillions. Nobody cares if your car is stolen, but if your kid is on a bicycle he damn well better strap on a helmet. And you damn well better buckle up when you drive your keyless entry automobile. And even if you're 75, you'd better produce some ID before buying that case of PBR. Try driving that car over the speed limit, while you're at it, even on an empty highway, and see if the safety patrol doesn't give you an expensive reminder that they're concerned about your safety. Just because the state allows you a gun, and a car, (driving it is not a right, but a privilege they'll tell you), does not mean that your freedoms and liberties, are not gradually being eroded by the nanny state, and litigious fools.
When was the last time you took a flight? Surely you'd be familiar with the song and shoeless dance required of you, for your safety.
Let's see you walk around in any major metropolitan area with your high powered rifle, and see if the safety patrol exhibits any concern for your safety, or the safety of others.
Look around, are you getting more freedoms and liberties, or less?
It's the price of living in a litigious and SAFE society.
Americans appear to be willing to achieve supreme safety at any cost, be it from their wallets, liberty, privacy, freedom, respect, dignity etc.
Time saving feature request: take everything that I just inadvertently typed with the caps lock on, and with a simple keystroke combination turn it to lowercase.
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
If humanity will have trouble reconciling disputes in outer space, interplanetary colonization looks pretty bleak.
Then again with humans on the path to rendering an entire planet uninhabitable, a space capsule wouldn't stand a chance.
I bought a hard drive from Best Buy. It was remarkably cheap, and there was only one box on the shelf. This box was open, but eager to get a bargain, I grabbed it, and peeked inside to make sure there was a drive in it.
There was so I checked out.
When I got home I opened the box and found a old used 6GB drive instead of the 80GB that the box label said.
Those motherfuckers would not refund or even listen to me.
I took it to small claims, won, partly because the process server messed up and they were a no show in court.
The collection process was a bitch and I was busy with work so I let it slide, just like a rebate.
Some pimply punk store employee must have made the swap and put the box on the shelf. Although, it might have been a manager, because of the suspiciously low price.
Bottom line:
Fuck Best Buy
...how can they prove the content is what it says it is?
Suppose I filled my shared folder with files renamed as copyrighted mp3's, when they in fact were jpegs or something else?
. Does the MPAA actually download and examine the content of the files?
'More than half of Americans believe that Internet content such as video should be controlled in some way by the government' My opinion is that fools should be regulated.
Hopefully I'm in the majority.