1) Supporting the likes of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein by castrating the CIA
Actually I think castrating the CIA would do a good bit to prevent the rise to power of types like OBL and Saddam. Ya' see both of them had a lot of help from the CIA earlier in there 'careers'. The CIA has a policy of supporting the enemy of our enemy, no matter how unsavory the character is, or what his motives are. Well, when you lie down with dogs you get fleas. And we are paying the price for our past actions now. And we are doing it again. We are, so hypocritically, allowing a terror group in Iraq to keep it's weapons and camps, because they are against Iran. I for one will not be surprised one bit when in 10-20 years we are dealing with that group forcefully after they blew up some Americans.
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I don't know about the other ones, but at the jet engine company I work for, the birds are never frozen, and have not been dead for very long before the test...
I thought the FAA required it that way, but I don't know about that for sure...
Sorry if I don't trust you, but you appear to have misquoted your own data (you claim that the 50% number is about 55K, but the table shows it as the 25% number). Also (nitpick) it's 3.91, not 3.81. finally the stats you provided do not show anything below the 50% mark, so how am I to get that the bottom 40 don't pay? Are these individuals, households, does this included retired folks?
In order for me to understand the situation, it is necessary for me to have the facts about the stats, you can make stats say just about anything you want them to say...
You need to clean and lubricate your weapon but this is true of all weapons.
That is the official line, but unofficially the AK47 does amazingly well with little to no care at all, I have heard stories of people who brought them back from Vietnam, who let the corrode to the point where they freeze up, just sitting there, they can kick the bolt open and fire away...
OK, if you want to believe that the human brain is entirely deterministic, I can play devils advocate...
The human mind is a the very least a chaotic system, and being such you can not determine the initial conditions from the final conditions, therefore it can not be claimed that any input to the human mind (video game violence...) causes a human being to become violent.
Neither can you say with 100% certainty that violent games do not cause violent behavior - it depends on too many different factors - but violent games by themselves cannot be proven to definitely cause violent behavior.
I think I can say that, and this might sound like a nitpick, but I believe that this is a very important difference.
Freewill causes violence, no matter what anyone has watched they are still the ones that choose to commit an act of violence. Now, they might be more likely to be violent after having played a violent game, but the game does not cause the violence
Depends on your idea of fair. The federal government already taxes gasoline. Some people feel that the state tax should be based on road usage, not pollution.
That is fair... But heavier vehicles, which get worse gas mileage, also damage the roads more, so there is still a very clear case for gas taxation.
I was not trying to say that communism is great or that I wish the USSR had won the cold war or anything. I just don't think that people should not be so quick to dismiss communist countries as being week or incapable because of the fact that they are communist.
Most of the 'stolen plans' were in the early phase of the cold war when the USSR was playing catch up. Later on they did quite well at designing damn good products on their own, just look at the later migs, although we still don't know all of the performance characteristics of the later ones, we are pretty sure that they would knock most of our stuff out of the sky, one on one...
Also: Do you really think that the US has always played fair in the innovation game?
Nope, I know what I think... Small arms can do very little (they can make it happen, but in desparate situations anything can be a weapon) against modern a military.
I like the 2nd becasue I don't feel that anyone who wants to use an objest for fair, legitamate purposes should be denied that freedom becasue of societies fear of what he could use that object for...
Saddam disallowed inspectors for years before the threat of war forced him to comply.
The UN decided to withdraw the inspectors because it did not feel they were being effective. Was this the correct way to handle it? No... but Saddam did not kick them out.
Perhaps it would have been modded up if there was anything in it of substance.
Loose your "the world is againct me" attitude and look around/. informative or insiteful comments from the right get modded as such, but your post was niether...
Or it could mean that the current american administration is evil, and it is flourishing becasue the Americans who have not been brainwashed by their propaganda are not doing enough to stop the propaganda...
It is all in how you look at it.
B.T.W. I don't think many people wanted the US to do nothing, I think they wanted the US to let the inspectors work...
I'm sorry, but the Kurd would have had their asses kicked so hard without the no fly zone, meaning American and British air power.
Sure, they weren't calling in strikes, but they were not having bombs dropped on them either, and they would have if they had fought With just their own soldiers and their own arms...
Would the US Army fight against other people from the USA in their own country?
I heard something about some government report recently that estimated a ~50% desertion rate if those were the orders, with a smaller, but still large subset (can't remember the number) attempting mutiny...
I don't know if you are trolling, or if you really believe that, but...
Open your mind you ignorant twit. Capitalism and communism are both extremes, neither works in it's pure form, and just so you know, the US is FAR from being the most capitalistic nation on the planet, you will find most of those in Asia.
Do you know what condition Russia was in right after the communist revolution? They were a mostly agrarian, poor as hell, big nation. They had the one of (the?) fastest industrializations in history. They went from being little other than a source of men to put into a German meat grinder in WWII (sometimes men were required to share rifles!). to being the only significant military and technology competitor to the US in a decade or two. How the hell is that a failure of communism, also during that time the standard of living of the average Russian citizen was skyrocketing, even though it never got up to what the American one was (America was not hit nearly as hard by WWII), it was growing very fast. Remember that AMERICAN astronauts had to ride a RUSSIAN capsule (developed under communism) back to earth recently, because our shit wasn't working. Also remember that the moon was just about the only space related achievement that we beat them to (first artificial satellite, man in space, orbit of the moon...)
I am an American, I love what my country is supposed to stand for, but there are too many ignorant dumb asses here f***ing it up. I am a patriot, I love my country, but we are not inherently superior, other ways of doing things do work. OPEN YOUR DAMN MIND!
you can tell by the size of the plane relative to the people that it is a narrow body (single isle), which in this case (between A340 and A321) would mean the A321...
I will admit up front that I am not terribly familiar with this case, but I have to say that I think you are wrong.
Don't misunderstand me, I am a HUGE fan of the first amendment (and an ACLU member). But I believe that the Bonzi ads are fraud. Fraud is not protected, not should it be. They are trying to trick people into clicking, not entice people into clicking, a very important difference. I don't think that this adversely effects the 1st, even in cases of interface parody... (esp. since it is a settlement, not a decision).
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1) Supporting the likes of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein by castrating the CIA
Actually I think castrating the CIA would do a good bit to prevent the rise to power of types like OBL and Saddam. Ya' see both of them had a lot of help from the CIA earlier in there 'careers'. The CIA has a policy of supporting the enemy of our enemy, no matter how unsavory the character is, or what his motives are. Well, when you lie down with dogs you get fleas. And we are paying the price for our past actions now. And we are doing it again. We are, so hypocritically, allowing a terror group in Iraq to keep it's weapons and camps, because they are against Iran. I for one will not be surprised one bit when in 10-20 years we are dealing with that group forcefully after they blew up some Americans.
I don't know about the other ones, but at the jet engine company I work for, the birds are never frozen, and have not been dead for very long before the test...
I thought the FAA required it that way, but I don't know about that for sure...
God damn, post like that make me wish I had some mod points!
thank you.
Got a link for that?
Sorry if I don't trust you, but you appear to have misquoted your own data (you claim that the 50% number is about 55K, but the table shows it as the 25% number). Also (nitpick) it's 3.91, not 3.81. finally the stats you provided do not show anything below the 50% mark, so how am I to get that the bottom 40 don't pay? Are these individuals, households, does this included retired folks?
In order for me to understand the situation, it is necessary for me to have the facts about the stats, you can make stats say just about anything you want them to say...
Bet you didn't know that the poorest 40% of people in America pay zero in taxes, and the poorest 30% get a check from the government each year
Your right, I didn't know that, could you show a source on that one, 'cause I won't know it from you telling me either.
Also, correct me if I am wrong, but even the poor pay sales tax. Income taxes are not the only taxes you know...
You need to clean and lubricate your weapon but this is true of all weapons.
That is the official line, but unofficially the AK47 does amazingly well with little to no care at all, I have heard stories of people who brought them back from Vietnam, who let the corrode to the point where they freeze up, just sitting there, they can kick the bolt open and fire away...
What's to seperate these caches from ordinary litter.
Why not come up with park approved geocache containers that are standardized and therefor obviosly not litter?
OK, if you want to believe that the human brain is entirely deterministic, I can play devils advocate...
The human mind is a the very least a chaotic system, and being such you can not determine the initial conditions from the final conditions, therefore it can not be claimed that any input to the human mind (video game violence...) causes a human being to become violent.
Neither can you say with 100% certainty that violent games do not cause violent behavior - it depends on too many different factors - but violent games by themselves cannot be proven to definitely cause violent behavior.
I think I can say that, and this might sound like a nitpick, but I believe that this is a very important difference.
Freewill causes violence, no matter what anyone has watched they are still the ones that choose to commit an act of violence. Now, they might be more likely to be violent after having played a violent game, but the game does not cause the violence
Depends on your idea of fair. The federal government already taxes gasoline. Some people feel that the state tax should be based on road usage, not pollution.
That is fair... But heavier vehicles, which get worse gas mileage, also damage the roads more, so there is still a very clear case for gas taxation.
I think you missed my point.
I was not trying to say that communism is great or that I wish the USSR had won the cold war or anything. I just don't think that people should not be so quick to dismiss communist countries as being week or incapable because of the fact that they are communist.
Most of the 'stolen plans' were in the early phase of the cold war when the USSR was playing catch up. Later on they did quite well at designing damn good products on their own, just look at the later migs, although we still don't know all of the performance characteristics of the later ones, we are pretty sure that they would knock most of our stuff out of the sky, one on one...
Also: Do you really think that the US has always played fair in the innovation game?
Selling my personal data (even if it's anonymous) it's violation of my rights.
Only if they agree not to before you do business with them...
If you don't like, let them know by not using TiVo
I think that you are confused.
Nope,
I know what I think... Small arms can do very little (they can make it happen, but in desparate situations anything can be a weapon) against modern a military.
I like the 2nd becasue I don't feel that anyone who wants to use an objest for fair, legitamate purposes should be denied that freedom becasue of societies fear of what he could use that object for...
Saddam disallowed inspectors for years before the threat of war forced him to comply.
The UN decided to withdraw the inspectors because it did not feel they were being effective. Was this the correct way to handle it? No... but Saddam did not kick them out.
Perhaps it would have been modded up if there was anything in it of substance.
/. informative or insiteful comments from the right get modded as such, but your post was niether...
Loose your "the world is againct me" attitude and look around
Or it could mean that the current american administration is evil, and it is flourishing becasue the Americans who have not been brainwashed by their propaganda are not doing enough to stop the propaganda...
It is all in how you look at it.
B.T.W. I don't think many people wanted the US to do nothing, I think they wanted the US to let the inspectors work...
I'm sorry, but the Kurd would have had their asses kicked so hard without the no fly zone, meaning American and British air power.
Sure, they weren't calling in strikes, but they were not having bombs dropped on them either, and they would have if they had fought With just their own soldiers and their own arms...
Would the US Army fight against other people from the USA in their own country?
I heard something about some government report recently that estimated a ~50% desertion rate if those were the orders, with a smaller, but still large subset (can't remember the number) attempting mutiny...
Get the facts
The Iraqi people are indeed armed, much more so than american civilians are, and it could not protect them from their own totalitarian government.
Didn't help the iraqis...
Disclamer: I am not against the 2nd amendment, it is just that that argument is freakin' weak...
I don't know if you are trolling, or if you really believe that, but...
Open your mind you ignorant twit. Capitalism and communism are both extremes, neither works in it's pure form, and just so you know, the US is FAR from being the most capitalistic nation on the planet, you will find most of those in Asia.
Do you know what condition Russia was in right after the communist revolution? They were a mostly agrarian, poor as hell, big nation. They had the one of (the?) fastest industrializations in history. They went from being little other than a source of men to put into a German meat grinder in WWII (sometimes men were required to share rifles!). to being the only significant military and technology competitor to the US in a decade or two. How the hell is that a failure of communism, also during that time the standard of living of the average Russian citizen was skyrocketing, even though it never got up to what the American one was (America was not hit nearly as hard by WWII), it was growing very fast. Remember that AMERICAN astronauts had to ride a RUSSIAN capsule (developed under communism) back to earth recently, because our shit wasn't working. Also remember that the moon was just about the only space related achievement that we beat them to (first artificial satellite, man in space, orbit of the moon...)
I am an American, I love what my country is supposed to stand for, but there are too many ignorant dumb asses here f***ing it up. I am a patriot, I love my country, but we are not inherently superior, other ways of doing things do work. OPEN YOUR DAMN MIND!
That's likely because you're not American.
Not Joe 6 pack, but I think you will find a suprisingly large number of americans (but not a majority) feel this way.
I will step forward and say that I am one of them, anybody else out there want to back me up?
you can tell by the size of the plane relative to the people that it is a narrow body (single isle), which in this case (between A340 and A321) would mean the A321...
This is a settlement, no precedent here, move along now...
I will admit up front that I am not terribly familiar with this case, but I have to say that I think you are wrong.
Don't misunderstand me, I am a HUGE fan of the first amendment (and an ACLU member). But I believe that the Bonzi ads are fraud. Fraud is not protected, not should it be. They are trying to trick people into clicking, not entice people into clicking, a very important difference. I don't think that this adversely effects the 1st, even in cases of interface parody... (esp. since it is a settlement, not a decision).