The Geneva Convention is something diplomats agreed to during peacetime. Once a real war breaks out, it goes out the window. Both sides blatantly violate it, but only the losing side gets prosecuted for war crimes. The Geneva Convention is a piece of paper, nothing more.
Don't praise the Tektronix/Xerox phaser line. They make pretty pictures when they are working, but the Phaser 1235, and 2135 are rebranded Okidata C7200s and C9200s. Unservicable heaps of crap that make a Rube Goldberg device seem simple. Since Oki, not Xerox, makes them, Xerox can't provide useful tech support, and since they have been rebranded, Oki refuses to offer support. I have had to fix them. HP is badly slipping, and may go under, but even they are better than Boxerox, who gobbled up Tektronix's printing and imaging to create the illusion of growth.
Our entire economy seems to be based on lies. CEOs, Executives, working for bonuses and stock options, Salesmen working for commissions. Politicians running for office. Everyone tells us what we want to hear just to grab our money. The liars lie, the suckers buy, then it all comes crashing down. The honest man who works for a flat wage or salary always ends up getting screwed. When enough bubbles burst at once, the economy goes into recession, and depression. The second great depression seems to be on the horizon. There has got to be a better way then "greed is good, and the dollar is god" We need to stop pretending that the difference between right and wrong goes away if we are in business.
Educating the public won't fix this. Only Red-Ass Baboons with VCRs flashing 12:00 use WebTV. A bios flash won't work. Again, that's to complicated for the RABs. All WebTV baxes need to be smashed into bits. Maybe RABs can be convinced to do that.
Don't give the French credit where none is due. Your insignificant island nation never could have held on to us. We are the reason the sun has set on the British Empire. By the way, when are you going to give the Falkland Islands back to Argentina, you imperialist dogs?
How can 17,000 out of work be a good thing? With enough unemployment, we could have a second great depression. What regulations could fix the problem? -Outlawing stock-option shell games -Limiting executive pay. Many CEOs make 500 times what the average worker does, and for what? We have a minimum wage, why not a salary cap? -Crooked executives actually go to jail. They arent just slapped with fines that they will deduct from workers' wages, and never pay themselves.
In a nutshell, greed is self-destructive. Someone must watchdog the economy, or the few mega-rich will put the rest of us on street corners rattling tin cups, and only the government has the authority to pull this off.
By the way, corporations don't exist just to make a profit. They are supposed to provide a valuable product or service in exchange for money, hopefully a profit. Charters, the legal documents that create a corporation in the first place, require a public service to be performed. If your only goal is to take people's money, you should be in theft, not legitimate business. There should be a big difference between the two. Only regulation can assure that legitimate business and theft are not the same thing.
That is a great question that deserves an answer. I wish I had one. What about the thousands of people who used to have a job, but now, thanks to these scandals may not be able to afford food, clothing, and shelter any more? All the media and the government care about is when can greedy stock speculators start getting filthy rich again. No one seems to give a damn about the real victims of these corporate robber barons, and that is wrong. If this leads to a second great depression, they will still only talk about how the rich are affected.
Worldcom, Enron, and all of this mess are direct results of the deregulation from Newt Gingrich, and the Republican Party's Contract with America. "Let's get government off of business' back, and watch the economy soar!" they said. No one opposed them. They put all the watch dogs to sleep, and look what they did when left to their devices! Government needs to do more then just be on business' back. It needs to knock business down face first, and stand on it's neck.
Florida is such a banana republic that they should make Yes, We Have No Bananas! their state song. Thanks to Florida, The whole US has to put up with Bush. Maybe the Star Spangled Banner should be changed to God Save The King
Hitler's final solution was partially based on indian reservations. It was also no accident that so many Cherokee died on the trail of tears. They were not meant to survive it. There is a lot more to American history then the feelgood stories we were spoonfed in elementary school. They were mostly fairy tales. Anyone who tries to shine a light on the dark side of american history is beaten down for promoting "political correctness."
This comes as no surprise. Greedy robber barons would sell to Hitler if he were still alive, and in power. Our money says "In God We Trust," because the Almighty Dollar is the God in which we trust. It is distressing to note that the US's allies are those in bed with our business interests, no matter how brutal or repressive their regimes. Examples include Saudi Arabia, and China. We were also good buddies to the Taliban before 9/11, when we were trying to get an oil pipeline across Afghanistan. Manuel Noriega was our ally until he stopped sharing drug money with the CIA. They are the world's biggest drug dealers. In God We Trust.
Anti crypto laws are pointless. Organized crime and terrorists don't use crypto. They hide messages where no one is looking for them, and send plain text using code words that mean nothing to an outsider. A lot of stupid legislators think that if they pass a law against rain, then every day can be sunny. They are idiots.
If microsoft is really going to stoping spewing nonsense, and start dealing in reality, maybe they will drop their lawsuit against Andersen and Pella for using the term, "windows."
It's not just patents. The whole crazy idea of intellectual property is an anachronism. It's been a long time since patents or copyrights served their purpose. Scrap them, and start over.
I tried to read the proposal. It is pure legalese, and assumes familiarity with the entire body of previous law. I can guarantee that our Congressmen don't understand it either, and the few who want to understand it will need a team of lawyers to explain it to them. If this is an example of a typical bill before Congress, then who can imagine what they hell they'll be tricked into signing. It makes me sick.
How annoying! They will probably cover up important parts of the screen, like the score in a sporting event with these damn things. If the public boycotts products advertised this way, instead of gobbling them up, then they will knock it off.
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The Geneva Convention is something diplomats agreed to during peacetime. Once a real war breaks out, it goes out the window. Both sides blatantly violate it, but only the losing side gets prosecuted for war crimes. The Geneva Convention is a piece of paper, nothing more.
Which hand do you call Warcraft III? The left or right?
That's funny, most people would love to kick Anonymous Coward's ass. It's just so hard to figure out who that guy is.
Shouldn't that be Dude, yer goin' to Dell?
Don't praise the Tektronix/Xerox phaser line. They make pretty pictures when they are working, but the Phaser 1235, and 2135 are rebranded Okidata C7200s and C9200s. Unservicable heaps of crap that make a Rube Goldberg device seem simple. Since Oki, not Xerox, makes them, Xerox can't provide useful tech support, and since they have been rebranded, Oki refuses to offer support. I have had to fix them. HP is badly slipping, and may go under, but even they are better than Boxerox, who gobbled up Tektronix's printing and imaging to create the illusion of growth.
Our entire economy seems to be based on lies. CEOs, Executives, working for bonuses and stock options, Salesmen working for commissions. Politicians running for office. Everyone tells us what we want to hear just to grab our money. The liars lie, the suckers buy, then it all comes crashing down. The honest man who works for a flat wage or salary always ends up getting screwed. When enough bubbles burst at once, the economy goes into recession, and depression. The second great depression seems to be on the horizon. There has got to be a better way then "greed is good, and the dollar is god" We need to stop pretending that the difference between right and wrong goes away if we are in business.
Educating the public won't fix this. Only Red-Ass Baboons with VCRs flashing 12:00 use WebTV. A bios flash won't work. Again, that's to complicated for the RABs. All WebTV baxes need to be smashed into bits. Maybe RABs can be convinced to do that.
Don't give the French credit where none is due. Your insignificant island nation never could have held on to us. We are the reason the sun has set on the British Empire. By the way, when are you going to give the Falkland Islands back to Argentina, you imperialist dogs?
How can 17,000 out of work be a good thing? With enough unemployment, we could have a second great depression. What regulations could fix the problem?
-Outlawing stock-option shell games
-Limiting executive pay. Many CEOs make 500 times what the average worker does, and for what? We have a minimum wage, why not a salary cap?
-Crooked executives actually go to jail. They arent just slapped with fines that they will deduct from workers' wages, and never pay themselves.
In a nutshell, greed is self-destructive. Someone must watchdog the economy, or the few mega-rich will put the rest of us on street corners rattling tin cups, and only the government has the authority to pull this off.
By the way, corporations don't exist just to make a profit. They are supposed to provide a valuable product or service in exchange for money, hopefully a profit. Charters, the legal documents that create a corporation in the first place, require a public service to be performed. If your only goal is to take people's money, you should be in theft, not legitimate business. There should be a big difference between the two. Only regulation can assure that legitimate business and theft are not the same thing.
That is a great question that deserves an answer. I wish I had one. What about the thousands of people who used to have a job, but now, thanks to these scandals may not be able to afford food, clothing, and shelter any more? All the media and the government care about is when can greedy stock speculators start getting filthy rich again. No one seems to give a damn about the real victims of these corporate robber barons, and that is wrong. If this leads to a second great depression, they will still only talk about how the rich are affected.
Worldcom, Enron, and all of this mess are direct results of the deregulation from Newt Gingrich, and the Republican Party's Contract with America. "Let's get government off of business' back, and watch the economy soar!" they said. No one opposed them. They put all the watch dogs to sleep, and look what they did when left to their devices! Government needs to do more then just be on business' back. It needs to knock business down face first, and stand on it's neck.
Florida is such a banana republic that they should make Yes, We Have No Bananas! their state song. Thanks to Florida, The whole US has to put up with Bush. Maybe the Star Spangled Banner should be changed to God Save The King
Why can't they use the IMAX screen for something more practical, like prOn?
So, pussy is how crabs got into the ocean in the first place!
If this is real, then they should put an ad for Everquest on the grave of the guy who killed himself over it.
Hitler's final solution was partially based on indian reservations. It was also no accident that so many Cherokee died on the trail of tears. They were not meant to survive it. There is a lot more to American history then the feelgood stories we were spoonfed in elementary school. They were mostly fairy tales. Anyone who tries to shine a light on the dark side of american history is beaten down for promoting "political correctness."
This comes as no surprise. Greedy robber barons would sell to Hitler if he were still alive, and in power. Our money says "In God We Trust," because the Almighty Dollar is the God in which we trust. It is distressing to note that the US's allies are those in bed with our business interests, no matter how brutal or repressive their regimes. Examples include Saudi Arabia, and China. We were also good buddies to the Taliban before 9/11, when we were trying to get an oil pipeline across Afghanistan. Manuel Noriega was our ally until he stopped sharing drug money with the CIA. They are the world's biggest drug dealers. In God We Trust.
Anti crypto laws are pointless. Organized crime and terrorists don't use crypto. They hide messages where no one is looking for them, and send plain text using code words that mean nothing to an outsider. A lot of stupid legislators think that if they pass a law against rain, then every day can be sunny. They are idiots.
If microsoft is really going to stoping spewing nonsense, and start dealing in reality, maybe they will drop their lawsuit against Andersen and Pella for using the term, "windows."
It's not just patents. The whole crazy idea of intellectual property is an anachronism. It's been a long time since patents or copyrights served their purpose. Scrap them, and start over.
I tried to read the proposal. It is pure legalese, and assumes familiarity with the entire body of previous law. I can guarantee that our Congressmen don't understand it either, and the few who want to understand it will need a team of lawyers to explain it to them. If this is an example of a typical bill before Congress, then who can imagine what they hell they'll be tricked into signing. It makes me sick.
How annoying! They will probably cover up important parts of the screen, like the score in a sporting event with these damn things. If the public boycotts products advertised this way, instead of gobbling them up, then they will knock it off.
The third world poor, like the poor anywhere, need basic food clothing and shelter, not a fucking computer!
Mandrake at the redneck mall? Wowee! Are my Dale Earnhart mouse pad, and Dale Jr. Mouse compatible with it?
The chute won't even open. It will be frozen. A 200 pound popsicle will be stuck 50 feet into the ground. He will only prove that it can't be done.