Oil? The total yearly export value of Iraq's oil doesn't even pay for 2 months of the troops over there. The coalition would have to confiscate Iraq's entire oil exports for a decade to make up what they have spent.
It is simple math. There is ZERO profit motive, therefore this ridiculous, moronic, stupid belief that it is a war for oil belies all common sense and economic theory.
(Math is a thing they teach in schools along with a subject called "history". You should investigate those two topics some day.)
The U.S. citizens EARNED OUR SUCCESS with our blood and sweat. Our ancestors came from all around the world, fleeing oppression, religious hatred (like your anti-semitism), and poverty.
My mother lived in absolute poverty growing up. She worked THREE JOBS to pull my family out of poverty. The U.S. is the hardest working country in the world. We have the least vacation and the highest productivity. We work. We give a larger percentage of our personal income to charity then any industrialized country in the world.
Your comment about Jews just proves you are a racist. Fix your own government before you blame mine for its corruption and incompetence. If your country can't make good business decisions, blame yourselves not the entire Jewish race.
Pathetic. Do you blame all your problems on the Jews?
Evidence? They have TRUCKLOADS of documents detaling his weapons research programs. Just because they haven't found a swimming pool of chemicals doesn't mean Saddam didn't have weapons or weapons programs. He could make biological weapons in a one room condo-- and produce enough to kill thousands. Hussein showed no compunction about killing the thousands he killed. Do you think he wouldn't gladly give biological weapons to a terrorist group that promised to use it on the western world? You're NUTS.
My god. They have found so many documents detailing his weapons programs they say it will take at least a year to go through them!
Your position is indefensible, as is your understanding of the incredible threat posed by Saddam Hussein and the other terrorist nations.
Darn Right! Give the U.S. the credit it deserves. The cowardly nations shouldn't be included in that. The coalition countries, particularly Britain and Spain, along with the U.S. have changed the world for the Iraqi people. Terrorists are running desperately trying to prove they still have influence, and you can see this desperation in the fact they are now targeting ARAB INNOCENTS. The U.S. and the coalition are winning the war on terror, despite the betrayal of countries like France.
The French are just going to have to find another murdering dictator to make money from-- oh wait, they are still one of the biggest trading partners with Iran.
If you can't tell, I don't like France. They'll ignore any atrocity if they can make money from it.
Does anyone really care about this series any more? Lucas couldn't have ruined any more than he already did. Who was that moron that got to play Anakin in the 2nd movie? My dog does better acting.
It still amazes me that George Lucas so completely fails to understand what made the first movie a success.
What a ridiculous statement. Every administrator in my company is a current or former programmer. We also KNOW how systems interact. Developers are usually fresh-out-of-school know-it-alls who do NOT know the big picture, and have never worked a day in a real business with millions of dollars on the line.
I have had developers insist that the the database user for their application needs super-user privileges. I have had developers make code changes on a production box without testing, and then destroy a day's worth of data. I have had developers mix up their version control and give us old releases to deploy, which is a really BAD thing in a Ecommerce application. I've said it before and I'll say it again, programming is not difficult. Any moron can do programming. It is not calculus. It is not brain surgery. Most programming in the business world is very simple and repetitive.
Good administrators have been there before. The fact that they may have programmed in C or C++ and not in Java does not mean they don't know what they are talking about. Programmers are the fast food workers of the tech industry (sorry, but it's true). Good programmers are very rare, and I love when I get to work with them, but I don't trust most of them as far as I can throw them. They only know the latest trendy programming language, they don't know the legacy systems they are dealing with, they don't even understand the database schema they are programming against.
Red Hat just announced very low pricing plans for.edus. I don't have the URL available, but look into it. I was quite surprised how inexpensive they were.
Maybe we just need to stop letting people trademark common words. To me it is ridiculous that anyone can trademark a word that is found in a dictionary.
Goodness.. do you really hate your country that much?
What is America's culture? America is UNIQUE in the world in that it is very difficult to reduce our culture to a simple concept. We are a hodge-podge of cultures from all over the world. You can hardly compare the culture of rural Kentucky to that of Brooklyn. California is an entirely separate country it is so different than the rest of the U.S. Right here in my home city there are entire neighborhoods that speak only one language, and it is not English. What culture are they exactly? That is the defining characteristic of "American culture"-- we have everything!
Our culture did not start 300 years ago, it started thousands of years ago, because everyone here came from "somewhere else." Do you think they just forgot where they came from?
Nice of you to gratuitously drop that "exterminating native Americans" line-- you must REALLY hate your country. Do you also claim that ALL modern Germans are responsible for the extermination of the Jews in WWII? If you hate the U.S. so much try living somewhere else with 70% taxes, crappy health-care, inaccessible higher education-- try Norway. Their court just ruled that the government needs to purchase a car for a short man because he is embarassed to ride the bus because he is only 4'2" tall. (I'm not making that up).
I would suggest that you put any computers in general living areas, not bedrooms. Make sure the screens are facing the center of the room. Sorry, but it is too easy to get into trouble when you are alone with the Internet. Would you rather be installing spying software and feeling like you are betraying them?
Heck, if my parents had any idea what I did back in the old BBS days I would be walking around to this very day without a tuckus. Now with porn and predators all over the place, it is too scary.
Forget all this stuff about trusting your kids. Keep in mind these immortal words, "Trust, but verify." If you regulate the environment, you prevent unpleasant situations from occuring.
It has nothing to do with exploiting workers. Most computer jobs, particularly programming for most business needs, are NOT that difficult. It was inevitable that as hardware became cheaper, more people would have access to building computer skills.
I hate to remind people of this: this is a free market economy driven by competitive forces. Know what that means? We techies are just as likely to be put out of work as auto-workers, steel-workers, or any other group.
I also worry about my career, but also I am laughing because all the elite techies are asking for government protections just like the union and blue-collar workers that many techies have looked down on for so many years. Should President Bush put some kind of import tariffs on imported programmers?
Free markets can bring you up or bring you down. Free markets are great for the general good of the economy, but they suck when your job has become a commodity rather than a specialty good. Learn to go with the flow, adjust, and learn. I figure my career has no more than five years left. So I am in school and will be ready for a complete career change when the time comes.
Considering that I pay $10,000/year PER CPU to Oracle for support on their products, and $80k a year for our financial system, I think what Red Hat is charging for the Enterprise line is awfully reasonable.
Serious businesses should always purchase support anyways. It is not worth not the risk to go without it. As much as I love the Open Source movement, the fact is that support costs money, and you can't expect to get it for nothing.
In their defense, they just can't justify the cost of maintaining those systems when compared with the minimal income they receive from it.
Further, the Fedora Project will still be heavily influenced by Red Hat. If you take a look at how the project is developing, it has a lot of potential. Remember that Fedora is merging with Red Hat, so it can become something quite interesting, with a large community base like Gentoo or Debian, and Enterprise-level programming and planning from Red Hat.
Give it a chance. I was quite skeptical when Red Hat announced this originally, but as I have watched the Fedora project start to move, I am becoming more hopeful.
Yes, they doctored the videotape, and that has been WELL-documented. Michael Moore lied, totally doctored the entire "documentary". The proof of that has been all over the media and the internet, including the original unedited footage of Charlton Heston.
We Americans had to fight against tyranny, using guns, to defend our freedom.
My mother knows how to shoot. My sister, who has been attacked when she was alone in the house, knows how to shoot. If you had your way she would have been raped or killed. Thanks for nothing.
Your last sentence is simply more anti-American racism.
You Canadians have a crapload to learn about racism.
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Oil? The total yearly export value of Iraq's oil doesn't even pay for 2 months of the troops over there. The coalition would have to confiscate Iraq's entire oil exports for a decade to make up what they have spent.
It is simple math. There is ZERO profit motive, therefore this ridiculous, moronic, stupid belief that it is a war for oil belies all common sense and economic theory.
(Math is a thing they teach in schools along with a subject called "history". You should investigate those two topics some day.)
230 Million? Million? That's pennies. That is nothing.
The DMCA has nothing to do with terrorism-- it is an abomination and but it was hardly the brainchild of the Defense Department. Hello? Do you read?
If you noticed I specifically thanked the other countries who had the integrity to support the Iraq effort.
230 million.. what a joke.
Don't get me wrong, Canada has mostly been a great neighbor and ally to the U.S. over the years.. but 230 million? *laugh*
The U.S. citizens EARNED OUR SUCCESS with our blood and sweat. Our ancestors came from all around the world, fleeing oppression, religious hatred (like your anti-semitism), and poverty.
My mother lived in absolute poverty growing up. She worked THREE JOBS to pull my family out of poverty. The U.S. is the hardest working country in the world. We have the least vacation and the highest productivity. We work. We give a larger percentage of our personal income to charity then any industrialized country in the world.
Your comment about Jews just proves you are a racist. Fix your own government before you blame mine for its corruption and incompetence. If your country can't make good business decisions, blame yourselves not the entire Jewish race.
Pathetic. Do you blame all your problems on the Jews?
Evidence? They have TRUCKLOADS of documents detaling his weapons research programs. Just because they haven't found a swimming pool of chemicals doesn't mean Saddam didn't have weapons or weapons programs. He could make biological weapons in a one room condo-- and produce enough to kill thousands. Hussein showed no compunction about killing the thousands he killed. Do you think he wouldn't gladly give biological weapons to a terrorist group that promised to use it on the western world? You're NUTS.
My god. They have found so many documents detailing his weapons programs they say it will take at least a year to go through them!
Your position is indefensible, as is your understanding of the incredible threat posed by Saddam Hussein and the other terrorist nations.
GREAT POST.
Bush pledged 15 BILLION DOLLARS to fight AIDS in Africa, you racist.
How much did Europe pledge? ZERO!!!!!!!
ZERO from EUROPE. ZERO FROM FRANCE!
Any money from Brazil?
Your hateful anti-U.S. attitude aside, let me be the first to recognize the incredible support and sacrifice made by our allies in this war.
Thank God for Britain and Spain, along with the 30+ other countries that have the backbone to take a stand against terrorism and torture.
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France sucks cheese
Darn Right! Give the U.S. the credit it deserves. The cowardly nations shouldn't be included in that. The coalition countries, particularly Britain and Spain, along with the U.S. have changed the world for the Iraqi people. Terrorists are running desperately trying to prove they still have influence, and you can see this desperation in the fact they are now targeting ARAB INNOCENTS. The U.S. and the coalition are winning the war on terror, despite the betrayal of countries like France.
The French are just going to have to find another murdering dictator to make money from-- oh wait, they are still one of the biggest trading partners with Iran.
If you can't tell, I don't like France. They'll ignore any atrocity if they can make money from it.
This is an absolute lie. The U.S. DID support Iraq in the 80's., but NEVER provided weapons. Period. That is a simple unassailable fact.
Stop lying.
Does anyone really care about this series any more? Lucas couldn't have ruined any more than he already did. Who was that moron that got to play Anakin in the 2nd movie? My dog does better acting.
It still amazes me that George Lucas so completely fails to understand what made the first movie a success.
What a ridiculous statement. Every administrator in my company is a current or former programmer. We also KNOW how systems interact. Developers are usually fresh-out-of-school know-it-alls who do NOT know the big picture, and have never worked a day in a real business with millions of dollars on the line.
I have had developers insist that the the database user for their application needs super-user privileges. I have had developers make code changes on a production box without testing, and then destroy a day's worth of data. I have had developers mix up their version control and give us old releases to deploy, which is a really BAD thing in a Ecommerce application. I've said it before and I'll say it again, programming is not difficult. Any moron can do programming. It is not calculus. It is not brain surgery. Most programming in the business world is very simple and repetitive.
Good administrators have been there before. The fact that they may have programmed in C or C++ and not in Java does not mean they don't know what they are talking about. Programmers are the fast food workers of the tech industry (sorry, but it's true). Good programmers are very rare, and I love when I get to work with them, but I don't trust most of them as far as I can throw them. They only know the latest trendy programming language, they don't know the legacy systems they are dealing with, they don't even understand the database schema they are programming against.
Red Hat just announced very low pricing plans for .edus. I don't have the URL available, but look into it. I was quite surprised how inexpensive they were.
Maybe we just need to stop letting people trademark common words. To me it is ridiculous that anyone can trademark a word that is found in a dictionary.
I'm going to trademark the word "the".
Goodness.. do you really hate your country that much?
What is America's culture? America is UNIQUE in the world in that it is very difficult to reduce our culture to a simple concept. We are a hodge-podge of cultures from all over the world. You can hardly compare the culture of rural Kentucky to that of Brooklyn. California is an entirely separate country it is so different than the rest of the U.S. Right here in my home city there are entire neighborhoods that speak only one language, and it is not English. What culture are they exactly? That is the defining characteristic of "American culture"-- we have everything!
Our culture did not start 300 years ago, it started thousands of years ago, because everyone here came from "somewhere else." Do you think they just forgot where they came from?
Nice of you to gratuitously drop that "exterminating native Americans" line-- you must REALLY hate your country. Do you also claim that ALL modern Germans are responsible for the extermination of the Jews in WWII? If you hate the U.S. so much try living somewhere else with 70% taxes, crappy health-care, inaccessible higher education-- try Norway. Their court just ruled that the government needs to purchase a car for a short man because he is embarassed to ride the bus because he is only 4'2" tall. (I'm not making that up).
Ugh.
I would suggest that you put any computers in general living areas, not bedrooms. Make sure the screens are facing the center of the room. Sorry, but it is too easy to get into trouble when you are alone with the Internet. Would you rather be installing spying software and feeling like you are betraying them?
Heck, if my parents had any idea what I did back in the old BBS days I would be walking around to this very day without a tuckus. Now with porn and predators all over the place, it is too scary.
Forget all this stuff about trusting your kids. Keep in mind these immortal words, "Trust, but verify." If you regulate the environment, you prevent unpleasant situations from occuring.
It has nothing to do with exploiting workers. Most computer jobs, particularly programming for most business needs, are NOT that difficult. It was inevitable that as hardware became cheaper, more people would have access to building computer skills.
I hate to remind people of this: this is a free market economy driven by competitive forces. Know what that means? We techies are just as likely to be put out of work as auto-workers, steel-workers, or any other group.
I also worry about my career, but also I am laughing because all the elite techies are asking for government protections just like the union and blue-collar workers that many techies have looked down on for so many years. Should President Bush put some kind of import tariffs on imported programmers?
Free markets can bring you up or bring you down. Free markets are great for the general good of the economy, but they suck when your job has become a commodity rather than a specialty good. Learn to go with the flow, adjust, and learn. I figure my career has no more than five years left. So I am in school and will be ready for a complete career change when the time comes.
Good luck to everyone!
It won't be long until the environmentalists are blaming global warming for this too...
Don't bother mentioning that it's not actually on our planet. They've never let scientific facts affect their views anyways...
Yeah, but the car turning right has the headlights on, the windshield clean, fuel in the gas tank, and a driver with an IQ above a potted plant.
All of Red Hat's source code is still open and they have no plans to change this. All of the source for RHEL is available on their FTP site.
There are even other sites out there that have instructions on how to use the source to build your own binary install.
Red Hat's enterprise products are also open source.
Considering that I pay $10,000/year PER CPU to Oracle for support on their products, and $80k a year for our financial system, I think what Red Hat is charging for the Enterprise line is awfully reasonable.
Serious businesses should always purchase support anyways. It is not worth not the risk to go without it. As much as I love the Open Source movement, the fact is that support costs money, and you can't expect to get it for nothing.
In their defense, they just can't justify the cost of maintaining those systems when compared with the minimal income they receive from it.
Further, the Fedora Project will still be heavily influenced by Red Hat. If you take a look at how the project is developing, it has a lot of potential. Remember that Fedora is merging with Red Hat, so it can become something quite interesting, with a large community base like Gentoo or Debian, and Enterprise-level programming and planning from Red Hat.
Give it a chance. I was quite skeptical when Red Hat announced this originally, but as I have watched the Fedora project start to move, I am becoming more hopeful.
It was called the Revolutionary War. I use we in a collective sense indicating the people who built my country.
Yes, they doctored the videotape, and that has been WELL-documented. Michael Moore lied, totally doctored the entire "documentary". The proof of that has been all over the media and the internet, including the original unedited footage of Charlton Heston.
Bowling for Columbine is a TOTAL fabrication.
We Americans had to fight against tyranny, using guns, to defend our freedom.
My mother knows how to shoot. My sister, who has been attacked when she was alone in the house, knows how to shoot. If you had your way she would have been raped or killed. Thanks for nothing.
Your last sentence is simply more anti-American racism.
You Canadians have a crapload to learn about racism.