I won't allow a guy that obviously never lived in France to insult this country and its people.
Why not millions of french people take shots at Americans having never lived here? My sig was intended as a joke and if you cant take a joke im sorry but thats your problem not mine.
It's called "La resistance" and nobody in the World would agree on their cowardness, beside ill-informed rethoricians like you.
Do not presume to call me ill-informed you know nothing about me, my education or life experience. Now yes the resistance fought as individules, but when the brittish burned our capitol to the ground in 1812 not only did the people but the government kept fighting. The french government left it to the Americans and English to do most fo the fighting and most of the Dying, hell even canada played more of a role than France.
Like you didn't help Afghans by destroying all of their countries infrastructures and leave it to their formers Taliban chieves hands (what ? no status on CNN ?)
now who looks ill informed, If you were an afgan woman would you prefer roads or freedom, because freedom is now something they have. Not to further show how ignorent you sound but guess who is rebuilding those roads?? the US Taxpayer (which I have no problem with as a US taxpayer).
Now, if the French do not want to fight in Iraq, which I can understand (mirko stands for pacific in Croatian) it is because they considered the million of dead Iraqis that Madeleine Allbright just publicly designated as some "ill side-effect".
No the French want out of Iraq becuase they are currently Saddams largest trading partner (built a nuke plant for them which thankfully Isreal blew up). And if france would have the balls to come out and say its not good for thier economy to do this I could at least respect that. The Frenchwill never state their true reasons because it does not give them the moral ground they think they own.
As you can see, because of our country multi-ethnicity, we are just encouraged to live with our neighbours differences and we accept these as you should with yours.
I, and most americans speak at least two languages (English and Spanish), I also happen to speak Japanese (though its been years so im rusty), and some Korean. Why is it the euros call language the be all end all of culture? America is FUll of different cultures, 14% of our currennt population are directly from other nations (not counting their kids). You have never walked around NYC (neighborhoods in which there are no signs in English), Miami, LA, San Antonio,... have you.
Just a couple of corrections (not to insult you just to inform):
The English past tence for Leave, is Left
The English possesive or Iraq is Iraqi
-Regards
lol of course you do not want to compare our histories of war???
You lost to the friggen Haitians! Were saved twice from Germany by in no small part the US (btw the second time we saved France we were also fighting a war against Japan). Yes we lost Vietnam (formerly know as French indo-china (with Kampuchea and Laos) who also booted out the French. You lost Quebec to the English, you won the 100 years war but burned alive the woman who led you to victory. Hmm Napoleon won a few but he was Corsican.
The US defeated England in our revolution (I will grant the French were there but we did most of the fighting) and the war of 1812, we defeated Mexico (another nation that kicked the crap out of France), Beat Spain in the late 1800's, helped save you in WW1, then again in WW2 (while fighting at the same time two very powerful nations), we fought to a stalemate soviet plans and Chinese troops in Korea, lost Vietnam because we did not play to win, then won a few minor wars with Panama, and Iraq (again France cant beat Haiti so it relevant), and most recently helped the NA removed the Taliban from Afghanistan (umm Karzai is still president of that nation and the taliban is shrinking more and more every day).
Now on to what you are not trying to hide from is France Socially superior to the US??
Literacy: both France and the US have over 90% literacy Here . The french are a whopping 2% higher than the us here . When you take into account that nearly 4% of the US population are illegal immigrants (people who want to come to this land of misery as you call it) here and documented imigrants are around 10% of our population here we have a much harder task in front of us than the French. There are schools in our cities with kids who speak more than 30 languages doubt France has to deal with that.
Now onto "misery, insecurity and unhappiness are more present in the USA than in France." I would like to see how you quantified that? As it's not something you can measure but Ill give it a try.
Lets start with lenght of life People in France live one year longer than Americansas a % that is 1.3% longer (that can probably be written off to a large immigrant population who may come from a nation with a poor health care system, but even if not that's statistically insignificant as the US and Germany are tied so they must be miserable too.
Now lets look at standard of living the US GDP per capita is nearly 30% higher in the US, same source as above and also here
The US has a higher quality of life according to UN data here.
Now while none of this prooves the US is a more happy, and secure place than the zoo between Germany and Spain it goes allot further than your post. If you care to get into a war of wits (again be careful about being French and in a war) at least come armed next time.
Finally about most of our genius coming from abroad if you speaking to our roots as a nation (being we are 70% of European decent) than I would put it to you that you have no point as they are educated and nurtured in America. If you are referring to the # of foreign students in our universities I would ask you why are they coming here rather than going to France? I would also put it to you that your culture was started when you lost a War to the Romans and had their culture put on you, Western Culture owes more to the Italians and Greeks than the French, English, and Americans put together. There is nothing to argue we are not perfect but we are better in most ways than the French.
Note: I consider an Immigrant who comes to this nation and becomes a citizen to be the most loyal and important kind of American one who made the choice
really I think fvwm95 looked alot more like windows than gnome?
among the innovations is that you can choose your interface (I use strait fvwm 1.3 at home). Ill be the frist to say windows has a nice interface, its the lipstick on the pig.
Give it a little thought before you open your mouth.
Not only have I given it thought but study as you obviously have not! The only people who pay tax under an income tax scheme is the middle class. Its that simple and if you think the shrinking middle class should continue to prop up the poor / corporations go right ahead your every gvt big spenders best friend an uninformed tool.
Growing up my father lost his job at the plant so dont give me shit about how 'you cant know' because I do! I watched him and my mother work their hands to the bone only to pay more than 40% in state and federal taxes!
Do you know why the rich pay little in taxes? its because they work the system and no matter what you do they will find a way to work it. Even with them working the system the top 50% of Americans pay 96% of the taxes (think about how 'fair' that is). If you put in a sales tax (and eliminate income tax) it will be much harder to get around the system because if its you or a corporation in your name taxes will still be paid.
BTW if you make minimum wage you only pay social security not income tax (they are two different taxes) and income tax taken out of your check will be refunded at years end (or if you care to you can file exempt on your W4 and have none taken out).
what the hell are you talking about how would the rich benefit from a sales tax over income? you see if you spen more (as rich people do) than you pay more.
lets say its 20% if your rich and you buy a 300k house you pay 60 thousand in taxes! if youre middle class and buy a 70K house you pay only 14 thousand. you cant hide your income with corporations as the rich do now because no matter who spends it or how they spend it they will pay sales on it.
I love when people poo-poo the sales tax as being unfair to the poor they have never really thought about it they just react. Do you really think someone who makes 100K a year will spend less than someone who make 30K a year? really will the rich start living on hash and noodles instead of steak? will they buy Neons instead of BMW's?
Currently rich people form corporations to hid their own income and pay a lower rate (or give themselves benefits from the corporation (balancing the books so as to show a small profit) and pay virtually no tax. the more realistic solution is a sales tax.
Give it a little thought before you jump all over me.
actullay I rather think a large sales tax and no income tax would be better (and by the way more constitutional) but a flat tax is far better than the mess we have now..
The last really bad movie. I saw this because I am a TNG nut but only because I was a TNG nut. The movie I though was on the good side of ok (6 or 7 out of 10). The last move was SOOOOOOO bad it was really hard for me to drop the money to see this one. My hopes were it would be good enough to wash the last one out of my mind but it did not.
The only Good TNG movie was Fist Contact.
No I think that its more people going to their local providers (cable, dsl etc..) people are more literate than they used to be no longer is AOL the internet.
I used to work as a Civi in for the US Army and you are right. The pace is much much slower in a government office, so its not just the stability you gain but also the stress level is much lower. Now working in the private sector I am making more than one and a half times what I was making for the Govenrment (to say nothing of Bounses and Benns) but I really do have to move at a whole other pace to keep ahead of people.
Thats what VPN with no split tunnel is for, if the admin did not push for it he was not doing his job (note: him pushing for it does not mean he would get it so it still may not be his fault).
You are 100% right in that we will see more worms aimed at Linux or other Open source projects but this does not mean the system is as vulnerable. In my experience one of the main reasons for sytems not being up to date is the complexity of the pacth and the history of the particular applications patches breaking the server (well Lazy admins is #1 but this is a much closer second than people think).
Not long ago we had a rogue admin patch a system without following our promotion process is was for SQL server 2000 (I think it was SP3). He did this thinking he would fix a problem, but in reality he destroyed a server (there went my weekend).
I think we can all agree that any change to a production box needs to be tested (but almost never is in the case of os patches) regardless of the application or operating system. I think you would be nuts to apply a patch to MySQL, or Linux, or... without **PROPERLY** testing it first.
Proper testing is both functionality and regression, in my experience smaller shops than cant afford the hardware to do alot of testing need to look into getting VMWare and a half way decent server. Then again this would be the same world in which people all drove at or around the speed limit and gave enough space between them and the car in front (ie it will never happen on a large scale).
But you need to understand that other than office MS makes little if any money on its applications and MS knows this. If they make apps for Linux (other than office) they stand to lose operating systems sales. this is hardly a case of MS is diong this to increase wealth.
It is far more likely MS does not want this to happen at all but even though they 'won' their suit they know that they are still under the public eye.
The truth. Both parties are addiceted to money. When the income tax was passed (and I use that term looly because it was never really ratified) it was sold to the public as a tax on the ultra rich (think gates, and turner) but when the money started coming in they spent more needed more spent more...
The truth is those who think that the government is responsable for feeding the hungry, clothing the needy,... are just plain lazy. They want to give there 30% and not think about any other human beings its pathetic. If people gave 20% to charities what we give the government in taxes we could do a far better job
. Look at your charts and tell me what happened to the market at the end of January, when bush was elected.
The economy was already on its way down when Bush came in, the fact is that the economy is more affected by what heppened yesterday than what happens today..
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I won't allow a guy that obviously never lived in France to insult this country and its people.
Why not millions of french people take shots at Americans having never lived here? My sig was intended as a joke and if you cant take a joke im sorry but thats your problem not mine.
It's called "La resistance" and nobody in the World would agree on their cowardness, beside ill-informed rethoricians like you.
Do not presume to call me ill-informed you know nothing about me, my education or life experience. Now yes the resistance fought as individules, but when the brittish burned our capitol to the ground in 1812 not only did the people but the government kept fighting. The french government left it to the Americans and English to do most fo the fighting and most of the Dying, hell even canada played more of a role than France.
Like you didn't help Afghans by destroying all of their countries infrastructures and leave it to their formers Taliban chieves hands (what ? no status on CNN ?)
now who looks ill informed, If you were an afgan woman would you prefer roads or freedom, because freedom is now something they have. Not to further show how ignorent you sound but guess who is rebuilding those roads?? the US Taxpayer (which I have no problem with as a US taxpayer).
Now, if the French do not want to fight in Iraq, which I can understand (mirko stands for pacific in Croatian) it is because they considered the million of dead Iraqis that Madeleine Allbright just publicly designated as some "ill side-effect".
No the French want out of Iraq becuase they are currently Saddams largest trading partner (built a nuke plant for them which thankfully Isreal blew up). And if france would have the balls to come out and say its not good for thier economy to do this I could at least respect that. The Frenchwill never state their true reasons because it does not give them the moral ground they think they own.
As you can see, because of our country multi-ethnicity, we are just encouraged to live with our neighbours differences and we accept these as you should with yours.
I, and most americans speak at least two languages (English and Spanish), I also happen to speak Japanese (though its been years so im rusty), and some Korean. Why is it the euros call language the be all end all of culture? America is FUll of different cultures, 14% of our currennt population are directly from other nations (not counting their kids). You have never walked around NYC (neighborhoods in which there are no signs in English), Miami, LA, San Antonio, ... have you.
Just a couple of corrections (not to insult you just to inform): The English past tence for Leave, is Left The English possesive or Iraq is Iraqi -Regards
Yes I do know, at soe point we willbe called on to liberate Frace again (maybe from the Swiss this time)
You lost to the friggen Haitians! Were saved twice from Germany by in no small part the US (btw the second time we saved France we were also fighting a war against Japan). Yes we lost Vietnam (formerly know as French indo-china (with Kampuchea and Laos) who also booted out the French. You lost Quebec to the English, you won the 100 years war but burned alive the woman who led you to victory. Hmm Napoleon won a few but he was Corsican.
The US defeated England in our revolution (I will grant the French were there but we did most of the fighting) and the war of 1812, we defeated Mexico (another nation that kicked the crap out of France), Beat Spain in the late 1800's, helped save you in WW1, then again in WW2 (while fighting at the same time two very powerful nations), we fought to a stalemate soviet plans and Chinese troops in Korea, lost Vietnam because we did not play to win, then won a few minor wars with Panama, and Iraq (again France cant beat Haiti so it relevant), and most recently helped the NA removed the Taliban from Afghanistan (umm Karzai is still president of that nation and the taliban is shrinking more and more every day).
Now on to what you are not trying to hide from is France Socially superior to the US??
Literacy: both France and the US have over 90% literacy
Here . The french are a whopping 2% higher than the us here . When you take into account that nearly 4% of the US population are illegal immigrants (people who want to come to this land of misery as you call it)
here and documented imigrants are around 10% of our population
here we have a much harder task in front of us than the French. There are schools in our cities with kids who speak more than 30 languages doubt France has to deal with that.
Now onto "misery, insecurity and unhappiness are more present in the USA than in France." I would like to see how you quantified that? As it's not something you can measure but Ill give it a try.
Lets start with lenght of life
People in France live one year longer than Americansas a % that is 1.3% longer (that can probably be written off to a large immigrant population who may come from a nation with a poor health care system, but even if not that's statistically insignificant as the US and Germany are tied so they must be miserable too.
Now lets look at standard of living the US GDP per capita is nearly 30% higher in the US, same source as above and also here
The US has a higher quality of life according to UN data here
We are also a Cleaner Nation here
Now while none of this prooves the US is a more happy, and secure place than the zoo between Germany and Spain it goes allot further than your post. If you care to get into a war of wits (again be careful about being French and in a war) at least come armed next time.
Finally about most of our genius coming from abroad if you speaking to our roots as a nation (being we are 70% of European decent) than I would put it to you that you have no point as they are educated and nurtured in America. If you are referring to the # of foreign students in our universities I would ask you why are they coming here rather than going to France? I would also put it to you that your culture was started when you lost a War to the Romans and had their culture put on you, Western Culture owes more to the Italians and Greeks than the French, English, and Americans put together. There is nothing to argue we are not perfect but we are better in most ways than the French.
Note: I consider an Immigrant who comes to this nation and becomes a citizen to be the most loyal and important kind of American one who made the choice
boy a joke of a sig file sure got your barret in a knot...
how would me pointing out the french are a bunch of spinelss wimps have anything to do with my opinion of GWB?
Good point... BUt if there was legal weight behind it and a monetary loss to $dipshits then I could deal..
Honestly I would not let the french that close to my rear end...
Now all we need is a do not send email...
You are the RIAA in which case feel free to not only look at web traffic but look at peoples HD's..
How about C Shift-3
among the innovations is that you can choose your interface (I use strait fvwm 1.3 at home). Ill be the frist to say windows has a nice interface, its the lipstick on the pig.
Not only have I given it thought but study as you obviously have not! The only people who pay tax under an income tax scheme is the middle class. Its that simple and if you think the shrinking middle class should continue to prop up the poor / corporations go right ahead your every gvt big spenders best friend an uninformed tool.
Do you know why the rich pay little in taxes? its because they work the system and no matter what you do they will find a way to work it. Even with them working the system the top 50% of Americans pay 96% of the taxes (think about how 'fair' that is). If you put in a sales tax (and eliminate income tax) it will be much harder to get around the system because if its you or a corporation in your name taxes will still be paid.
BTW if you make minimum wage you only pay social security not income tax (they are two different taxes) and income tax taken out of your check will be refunded at years end (or if you care to you can file exempt on your W4 and have none taken out).
lets say its 20% if your rich and you buy a 300k house you pay 60 thousand in taxes! if youre middle class and buy a 70K house you pay only 14 thousand. you cant hide your income with corporations as the rich do now because no matter who spends it or how they spend it they will pay sales on it.
I love when people poo-poo the sales tax as being unfair to the poor they have never really thought about it they just react. Do you really think someone who makes 100K a year will spend less than someone who make 30K a year? really will the rich start living on hash and noodles instead of steak? will they buy Neons instead of BMW's?
Currently rich people form corporations to hid their own income and pay a lower rate (or give themselves benefits from the corporation (balancing the books so as to show a small profit) and pay virtually no tax. the more realistic solution is a sales tax.
Give it a little thought before you jump all over me.
actullay I rather think a large sales tax and no income tax would be better (and by the way more constitutional) but a flat tax is far better than the mess we have now..
The last really bad movie. I saw this because I am a TNG nut but only because I was a TNG nut. The movie I though was on the good side of ok (6 or 7 out of 10). The last move was SOOOOOOO bad it was really hard for me to drop the money to see this one. My hopes were it would be good enough to wash the last one out of my mind but it did not. The only Good TNG movie was Fist Contact.
No I think that its more people going to their local providers (cable, dsl etc..) people are more literate than they used to be no longer is AOL the internet.
I used to work as a Civi in for the US Army and you are right. The pace is much much slower in a government office, so its not just the stability you gain but also the stress level is much lower. Now working in the private sector I am making more than one and a half times what I was making for the Govenrment (to say nothing of Bounses and Benns) but I really do have to move at a whole other pace to keep ahead of people.
Ditto 4 Jobs in the past 3 years...
Yea I forgot they send it out to the "free fab" place so they really dont pay to produce their chips.
Thats what VPN with no split tunnel is for, if the admin did not push for it he was not doing his job (note: him pushing for it does not mean he would get it so it still may not be his fault).
Not long ago we had a rogue admin patch a system without following our promotion process is was for SQL server 2000 (I think it was SP3). He did this thinking he would fix a problem, but in reality he destroyed a server (there went my weekend).
I think we can all agree that any change to a production box needs to be tested (but almost never is in the case of os patches) regardless of the application or operating system. I think you would be nuts to apply a patch to MySQL, or Linux, or ... without **PROPERLY** testing it first.
Proper testing is both functionality and regression, in my experience smaller shops than cant afford the hardware to do alot of testing need to look into getting VMWare and a half way decent server. Then again this would be the same world in which people all drove at or around the speed limit and gave enough space between them and the car in front (ie it will never happen on a large scale).
It is far more likely MS does not want this to happen at all but even though they 'won' their suit they know that they are still under the public eye.
The truth is those who think that the government is responsable for feeding the hungry, clothing the needy, ... are just plain lazy. They want to give there 30% and not think about any other human beings its pathetic. If people gave 20% to charities what we give the government in taxes we could do a far better job
The economy was already on its way down when Bush came in, the fact is that the economy is more affected by what heppened yesterday than what happens today..