Actually, I took several minutes before writing what I wrote. I never said that I did not respect the position of those who do not believe or choose to believe in something else. Nor did I accuse ONLY one side of being disrespectful. Maybe you should "take a second" and realize that YOU jumped to a conclusion that I was bashing non-religious persons.
What I stated was a simple point: More people have witnessed the divine than have EVER witnessed evolution. You can choose to either believe in one or the other. I don't believe that believing in evolution will condemn anyone to hell, because quite honestly, I don't believe in a God that would condemn anyone to eternal damnation.
I think you'll find that more people in this world, including myself, have had a divine experience with the Creator than have ever had with witnessing real evolution.
Bashing religious people, especially Christians, is easy. What's difficult is treating people with respect who will never understand why you believe the way you do because they are afraid of your beliefs.
God is with all of us, even if you choose not to listen to his words. One day, you will know him, and you will know what it feels like to be truly loved.
You'd better contact Dell and get a new battery then, because my 2.5 year old Dell 8200 was getting three hours when new, five hours now that I've added a new second battery. Your new system with Centrino, better APM, and a better battery should be getting 1.5 times the battery life of my older computer.
BTW, if you really do like foreigners coming here and telling us how to live our lives and vote for who they think should be president, why don't you just go live in their country? We won't miss you.
Also, while I do have a few distant relatives that live in trailers somewhere out in Virginia, I am by no means trailer trash. I've also visited about 20 different countries in just the last 4 years. The only places I really have gotten any static about being American is your standard London pub where the limeys are so blitzed they don't know what they're saying. I also have some friends from Spain that are pretty pissed about what happened with their election there too.
Americans like you are what is wrong with this country. You think we can just lay back with the rest of the world and just appease the terrorists while they amass more funding and deadlier weapons. You believe that if we just move Israel to Baja and give money and food to Iran and Palestine that the problems will just go away. Wake up, man! Those people will never stop until we are all either under the Islamic thumb or dead. The rest of the world is used to backing down, but we Americans are not! If you vote for John Kerry, you will get someone who is used to backing down and slithering away. And then the terrorists will have won the war!
Comments like "The US electorate needs to wake up" only piss Americans off. How would you feel if Americans started saying that about Australians, Spaniards, or the French? How would you feel if your country was attacked and the rest of the world told you that you can't do anything about it? How would you feel if your friends were dying because they believed in the cause of liberating Iraq and Afghanistan and trying to secure the world from terrorist groups like al-Qaeda?
This is what makes me not want to travel overseas. It's because I know some gutless Euro is going to trash me and my country no matter where I go. Guess what? Most Americans don't really like your spineless fucking governments either! You know why? Because they supply arms and material support to our enemies. Yeah, I got a little choked up when I saw the candlelight vigils at the Brandenburg Gate and the Arc de Triumph after 9/11. Then when we really needed the Germans and the French, they backed off. And it wasn't because the governments didn't want to go to war, they didn't want to lose money. Well, thank you very fucking much! Thank you so much for reinforcing the terrorists' message that the world won't unite behind America because all they worship is the almighty dollar. Thanks for backing up their theory that the world won't react because they don't have the will, heart, or strength to face down the worst evil the world has seen since Hitler.
You want an example of an electorate that needs to wake up? Spain. Spineless fucking bastards. You let the terrorists win, guys. You let them convince you to elect a spineless asshole who turned his back on a pledged responsibility to back us up in Iraq. You know who's got some cajones? England, Poland, and Italy. I'll go to any three of those countries any day. They at least back up their promises with action.
The last thing I have to say is as far as your respect for Americans but not our government, fuck you. Our government is chosen by us and most of us our willing to pick up a rifle and defend our way of life to the death. When you say you don't respect the American government, you're disrespecting the citizenry, too.
I don't claim to represent the views of all Americans viewing and posting to Slashdot. What I do represent is a growing number of people who can't stand the hypocritical, pacifist-wannabe views of the so-called "rest of the world" coming in here and telling us how to live our lives and defend our homeland. If you don't like America, fine, I probably won't like you very much, either. Just remember that when the chips are down and your government comes knocking on our door, those American kids dying in your hedgerows and streets are dying for you, again.
The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
Habeas Corpus has been suspended before, such as during the Civil War. However, Writ of Habeas Corpus does not apply to civil cases like ACLU v. Ashcroft. The Supreme Court is also in the midst of deciding whether or not it applies to enemy combatants, too.
I am very confused as to why people say it is unfortunate that the USA PATRIOT act was passed. Seriously, even if it was rolled back, the gummit would still have pretty much the same power, they just wouldn't be able to do it as fast or communicate between agencies. If the Act is not renewed and we are attacked again, the blood will be on the hands of the people that voted it down.
I also find it very interesting how the people that want the Act to expire are the same people who blame Bush for not doing enough to prevent 9/11.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects
This doesn't necessarily include information stored on a computer that doesn't belong to the person being investigated. The courts must answer this question, but I doubt that they'll rule that it does.
Yeah, yesterday a friend of mine gave me a slightly used Socket A ATX mobo to build a new server. He slipped with a screwdriver and took out a small resistor network IC, so he bought a whole new board and gave me this one. I'm going to fix it for $1.00 worth of parts and solder.
Anyway, it's going to replace the Soyo Super Socket 7 AT board with a K6-500 and 256MB RAM that I have running Red Hat 9 right now. Just when I finally get an ATX board and a new case, they change it again. Same thing happened when I went AT for my first machine seven years ago.
You've presented an interesting theory about finite element analysis and the reasons why old American car designs are better than new Asian imports, but you've failed to see the real reason why people started buying imports.
They got sick of breakdowns.
American cars, at least the basic body and frame, used to last as long as no rust appeared on the car. Unfortunately, the components inside them did not. The imports gave us simple, precise craftsmanship that worked up until a certain time, which you did point out. Unfortunately for GM, Ford, and what used to be Chrysler, people found out about these cars and decided to buy them once the repairs on their current vehicle exceeded the monthly payment on a new CVCC. It's taken the Big Two 25 years to make every component on the car last the LIFE of the car. That's all people want now. Nobody wants to rebuild a transmission in a car that's got torn upholstery, mall rash, and looks like a ten-year-old Accord.
The funny thing is, Hondas and Toyotas aren't lasting upwards of 15 years anymore, at least in big numbers. Five, maybe six years, tops. The cars are more bloated and complex than the old CVCCs ever were. But American cars are lasting longer in bigger numbers than ever. Especially the ones from 1992-94.
But soon it will be the Koreans that will beat the Japanese with 80% lights-out plants and barely anyone to support for retirement. The economies of scale will shift and GM will buy out Honda or Toyota's American divisions, maybe both, and Saturn, Buick, and Chevy cars will fade away.
Maybe the well-armed militia would have worked if the airline passengers were allowed to carry concealed firearms, too. You'd have to book a whole plane full of ragheads in order to overpower the local crowd. Since the 2nd Amendment has been thoroughly neutered by the Democrats' social engineering, no one can protect themselves in this country anymore.
I think your analysis of our war tactics is flawed. We cannot scorch the earth with atomic bombs anymore. The people that perpetrated 9/11 know this. If we could, Korea, Vietnam, Iran, Libya, Afghanistan, and Iraq would have been over in a matter of minutes. General MacArthur tried to order the atomic bombing of China in order to end the Korean War, but Truman fired him and let the war rage on. The man who ordered the first atomic bomb strikes set the precedent for never using them again.
Personally, I think it's going to come down to us getting a little dirty again. Especially if they start sending over suicide bombers to our shopping malls and houses of worship. The majority of the American population still support the war on terror, and the sh*t would really fly if they pulled anything like that. People would demand that every Ohio-class boomer be positioned in the Med and Persian Gulf.
But seeing the child in that firefighter's arms, that caused just a note of cognitive dissonance for them.
I grew up in Oklahoma City. I was in high school on April 19, 1995. A lot of people in Oklahoma were pissed about what happened in Waco two years before, but no one would have dreamed of blowing up a building full of children and old people picking up Social Security checks. The "cognitive dissonance" your relatives felt is what we call "conscience". It's the same feeling most people get when we see children on TV that were maimed by our bombs in Iraq. Most Christian people I know, even Southern Baptists, have a conscience.
The dangerous thing about radical Islam is that the imams teach their "martyrs" to have no conscience. No conscience for the innocent people they kill, or the buried grief their own families will experience.
Didn't they elect a Republican for governor in California?
Oh yeah, as for the Presidential election and Supreme Court Justice term limits, RTFC (Read The Fscking Constitution).
You know, I'd been using Ernie Ball Slinkys for years but switched to GHS Boomers a couple years ago. I know it's dumb, but I think I'll buy a pack of slinkys now that my strings need changing again. We need to support the open-source business supporters where we can. If all the Slashdotters with guitars just bought one pack of slinkys, that'd be some good support for a good start.
Actually, I think the point is to make "less-lethal" nuclear weapons. Weird, yes, but if you can develop nukes with no radioactive fallout, better ground penetration, and lower overall yield, you will save civilian lives.
I'd be willing to bet that 80% of our stockpile isn't even useable anymore. All the chemicals used in their construction has some sort of expiration date.
Nuclear weapons are the shittiest form of battlefield technology we've ever invented, aside from chemical and biological weapons. I believe that the WORLD should disarm itself of such devices. However, with the threat posed by these tertiary dictators and despots all over the world, not to mention Islamic extremists, it's hard to justify giving up deterrence. Maybe some day we can.
The most important information for you would probably be the ripple current test and the rail wattage information. Ripple voltage is the minute amount of under or overvoltage that your DC components are getting out of the power supply. Ripple is probably one of the most damaging side effects of an AC-DC conversion on DC components. In other words, get the power supply with little to no noticable ripple on the test. Everything connected to it will last longer.
Rail wattage is also important because power supplies have 12, 5, and 3.3 volt supply rails. If the 5 and 3.3 are sharing the same rail then you are limited to the wattage from that single rail. Antec was the only power supply to have separate 5 and 3.3 rails. If you don't have enough power going to your components under a heavy load, your system will crash. Think of the power supply like a carburetor. If it's running too lean or you put one 2 barrel carb on a Hemi, it won't run right. If your power supply can't get enough voltage or current out to your components, or you put one on that's too small, your computer won't run right.
Needless to say, I'd buy the Antec. Separate rails for 5 and 3.3 plus the second-lowest ripple make it a good choice for stable power.
Unfortunately, it's really not fringe wackos at the wrong end of the bell curve. The deaf community views society in two distinct groups: hearing and deaf. Skin color, age, gender, and sexual orientation really do not matter. The deaf community has its own unique culture, forms of communication, and politics. Hearing impaired is not even a politically correct term to describe the deaf. They are deaf. It is not considered a disability to them.
I used to date a woman who taught at a state school for the deaf. If a deaf kid has been brought up by deaf parents, they've already assimilated into that culture. If a deaf kid has been brought up by hearing parents and can vocalize (speak audibly), they are either assimilated into the culture at the school or decide to be sort of "shunned".
It really isn't as radical a movement as you might think. Deaf culture has been around for centuries to be the home for those whom the hearing have shunned. Cochlear implants are understandably viewed as the extinction of their "race", from the deaf point of view. The prospect of being released into a society which has historically rejected them is scary, especially when you've got visible implants on your head. The idea of "making yourself better" is lost on them because the culture does not view deafness as a disability.
Well, take a look at the automotive industry. Every year more and more workers are laid off and replaced by robots. You don't have to pay retirement pensions for robots. Sure, new people are brought in to maintain and develop the technology, but one person in charge of five robots costs a lot less than five union workers. Go take a look at the Michigan economy, especially Flint. I think Micheal Moore is 90% bullsh*t, but he's right about what happened to the economy there when automation, globalization, and foreign competition came to the American auto worker.
Hyundai/Kia is building a plant down in either Louisiana or Alabama that is going to be 90% lights out. It will produce 500,000 cars, trucks, and minivans a year. They will then undercut every other manufacturer even more than they are now, even precious Honda and Toyota.
I think the American people need to wake up. Maybe this whole moving the IT/White Collar jobs to India/Russia thing will give the yuppies a taste of what it's like to suffer layoffs in the name of the future of the corporation. Maybe all those people who bought Hondas and Toyotas over the last 25 years will see what it's like to lose to the "faster, better, cheaper" competition.
Am I biased? Hell yes. My father is an American automotive worker. He's worked in plants for 35 years. He put my mother and himself through both college and grad school, raised two kids and put them through college, and still somehow managed to dodge layoffs. I grew up wondering every three months if Dad would still have a job once the quarterly earnings were announced. Now he's facing the cutting of his retirement because the damn Koreans have figured out how to outfox everyone else, even the Japanese. I do not feel sorry for a single damn yuppie IT worker who drives a foreign car and loses their job to someone in India or Russia. Even if that foreign car was supposedly "Assembled by Americans" in Kentucky or Louisiana. Who's economy gets 90% of the money from that car? Not the US.
One of my customers said it best: "We are becoming a nation of whores and mercenaries."
By the way, I was a yuppie IT worker at one time. I have the leather jacket and SUV to prove it.
So, what made Iraq a "sovereign" nation? Let's see, the UN imposed trade sanctions and no-fly zones on Iraq 12 years ago. Essentially, the only power Saddam had left was being able to sneak oil out to build new palaces for himself while his people were starving. Saddam didn't even control every part of his country. The Kurds had pretty much autonomy in the north, and even helped the US Army in the invasion.
Iraq hasn't been a real sovereign nation in 12 years, so let's just stop pretending that it really was.
Actually, it was better for Saddam not to use WMD during the war, even if he was backed into a corner. By not using them, he has tried to establish his own credibility for when he comes back to power.
Think about it. He said for years that there were no more WMD in Iraq. He also had 4 years to put them anywhere he wanted to. Anyway, since he did not use them in the war, even though he was backed into a corner, everyone's automatically going to think he didn't have them available.
He's counting on wearing down America like Vietnam. He's put a bounty of $350-$1500 for each American soldier killed by a loyalist. So just about everyday since the "official" end of hostilities, at least 1 American soldier has been killed by sniper, RPG, or ambush.
When the Americans leave, he can come back in from Syria or Jordan and set up shop again. He's counting on Americans to get tired of soldiers getting picked off, one at a time, every day. He's playing off the media, the EU, and skeptics of Bush to get his power back. Saddam is not an idiot. He's survived a lot longer than he should have, and there's good reasons for that.
Maybe it was because Brigham Young, the one that the Utah mormons claim was the successor to the prophet, had several polygamous wives and about fifty kids as a result.
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The PowerComputing boxes were awful. My undergraduate college outfitted our Mac labs and our Mac-using faculty with them six years ago. We only used them for one year because they all kept dying. I was one of the few people working in computer support that knew anything about Macs, and we were constantly busy with those damn things. Bad ethernet, dead logic boards, and flaky power supplies with proprietary connectors all the time.
We wound up getting an emergency appropriation from our college president to replace every machine. We purchased G3 Macs (gray box) as soon as they were available from Apple. All the old PowerComputing machines were sold in a massive sale to students for $200, monitor included, as-is, no warranty. PC was out of business by then anyway.
Of course, we also bought a bunch of Gateways for our PC labs and faculty, and wound up replacing them all with Dells a year and a half later, too. Not all clones are a good deal, Mac or PC.
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What I stated was a simple point: More people have witnessed the divine than have EVER witnessed evolution. You can choose to either believe in one or the other. I don't believe that believing in evolution will condemn anyone to hell, because quite honestly, I don't believe in a God that would condemn anyone to eternal damnation.
Bashing religious people, especially Christians, is easy. What's difficult is treating people with respect who will never understand why you believe the way you do because they are afraid of your beliefs.
God is with all of us, even if you choose not to listen to his words. One day, you will know him, and you will know what it feels like to be truly loved.
You'd better contact Dell and get a new battery then, because my 2.5 year old Dell 8200 was getting three hours when new, five hours now that I've added a new second battery. Your new system with Centrino, better APM, and a better battery should be getting 1.5 times the battery life of my older computer.
BTW, if you really do like foreigners coming here and telling us how to live our lives and vote for who they think should be president, why don't you just go live in their country? We won't miss you.
Also, while I do have a few distant relatives that live in trailers somewhere out in Virginia, I am by no means trailer trash. I've also visited about 20 different countries in just the last 4 years. The only places I really have gotten any static about being American is your standard London pub where the limeys are so blitzed they don't know what they're saying. I also have some friends from Spain that are pretty pissed about what happened with their election there too.
Americans like you are what is wrong with this country. You think we can just lay back with the rest of the world and just appease the terrorists while they amass more funding and deadlier weapons. You believe that if we just move Israel to Baja and give money and food to Iran and Palestine that the problems will just go away. Wake up, man! Those people will never stop until we are all either under the Islamic thumb or dead. The rest of the world is used to backing down, but we Americans are not! If you vote for John Kerry, you will get someone who is used to backing down and slithering away. And then the terrorists will have won the war!
This is what makes me not want to travel overseas. It's because I know some gutless Euro is going to trash me and my country no matter where I go. Guess what? Most Americans don't really like your spineless fucking governments either! You know why? Because they supply arms and material support to our enemies. Yeah, I got a little choked up when I saw the candlelight vigils at the Brandenburg Gate and the Arc de Triumph after 9/11. Then when we really needed the Germans and the French, they backed off. And it wasn't because the governments didn't want to go to war, they didn't want to lose money. Well, thank you very fucking much! Thank you so much for reinforcing the terrorists' message that the world won't unite behind America because all they worship is the almighty dollar. Thanks for backing up their theory that the world won't react because they don't have the will, heart, or strength to face down the worst evil the world has seen since Hitler.
You want an example of an electorate that needs to wake up? Spain. Spineless fucking bastards. You let the terrorists win, guys. You let them convince you to elect a spineless asshole who turned his back on a pledged responsibility to back us up in Iraq. You know who's got some cajones? England, Poland, and Italy. I'll go to any three of those countries any day. They at least back up their promises with action.
The last thing I have to say is as far as your respect for Americans but not our government, fuck you. Our government is chosen by us and most of us our willing to pick up a rifle and defend our way of life to the death. When you say you don't respect the American government, you're disrespecting the citizenry, too.
I don't claim to represent the views of all Americans viewing and posting to Slashdot. What I do represent is a growing number of people who can't stand the hypocritical, pacifist-wannabe views of the so-called "rest of the world" coming in here and telling us how to live our lives and defend our homeland. If you don't like America, fine, I probably won't like you very much, either. Just remember that when the chips are down and your government comes knocking on our door, those American kids dying in your hedgerows and streets are dying for you, again.
The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
Habeas Corpus has been suspended before, such as during the Civil War. However, Writ of Habeas Corpus does not apply to civil cases like ACLU v. Ashcroft. The Supreme Court is also in the midst of deciding whether or not it applies to enemy combatants, too.
I am very confused as to why people say it is unfortunate that the USA PATRIOT act was passed. Seriously, even if it was rolled back, the gummit would still have pretty much the same power, they just wouldn't be able to do it as fast or communicate between agencies. If the Act is not renewed and we are attacked again, the blood will be on the hands of the people that voted it down.
I also find it very interesting how the people that want the Act to expire are the same people who blame Bush for not doing enough to prevent 9/11.
This doesn't necessarily include information stored on a computer that doesn't belong to the person being investigated. The courts must answer this question, but I doubt that they'll rule that it does.
Anyway, it's going to replace the Soyo Super Socket 7 AT board with a K6-500 and 256MB RAM that I have running Red Hat 9 right now. Just when I finally get an ATX board and a new case, they change it again. Same thing happened when I went AT for my first machine seven years ago.
1984-1990? That's nothin', my IIe had to last me from 1985 until 1997!
They got sick of breakdowns.
American cars, at least the basic body and frame, used to last as long as no rust appeared on the car. Unfortunately, the components inside them did not. The imports gave us simple, precise craftsmanship that worked up until a certain time, which you did point out. Unfortunately for GM, Ford, and what used to be Chrysler, people found out about these cars and decided to buy them once the repairs on their current vehicle exceeded the monthly payment on a new CVCC. It's taken the Big Two 25 years to make every component on the car last the LIFE of the car. That's all people want now. Nobody wants to rebuild a transmission in a car that's got torn upholstery, mall rash, and looks like a ten-year-old Accord.
The funny thing is, Hondas and Toyotas aren't lasting upwards of 15 years anymore, at least in big numbers. Five, maybe six years, tops. The cars are more bloated and complex than the old CVCCs ever were. But American cars are lasting longer in bigger numbers than ever. Especially the ones from 1992-94.
But soon it will be the Koreans that will beat the Japanese with 80% lights-out plants and barely anyone to support for retirement. The economies of scale will shift and GM will buy out Honda or Toyota's American divisions, maybe both, and Saturn, Buick, and Chevy cars will fade away.
I think your analysis of our war tactics is flawed. We cannot scorch the earth with atomic bombs anymore. The people that perpetrated 9/11 know this. If we could, Korea, Vietnam, Iran, Libya, Afghanistan, and Iraq would have been over in a matter of minutes. General MacArthur tried to order the atomic bombing of China in order to end the Korean War, but Truman fired him and let the war rage on. The man who ordered the first atomic bomb strikes set the precedent for never using them again.
Personally, I think it's going to come down to us getting a little dirty again. Especially if they start sending over suicide bombers to our shopping malls and houses of worship. The majority of the American population still support the war on terror, and the sh*t would really fly if they pulled anything like that. People would demand that every Ohio-class boomer be positioned in the Med and Persian Gulf.
I grew up in Oklahoma City. I was in high school on April 19, 1995. A lot of people in Oklahoma were pissed about what happened in Waco two years before, but no one would have dreamed of blowing up a building full of children and old people picking up Social Security checks. The "cognitive dissonance" your relatives felt is what we call "conscience". It's the same feeling most people get when we see children on TV that were maimed by our bombs in Iraq. Most Christian people I know, even Southern Baptists, have a conscience.
The dangerous thing about radical Islam is that the imams teach their "martyrs" to have no conscience. No conscience for the innocent people they kill, or the buried grief their own families will experience.
Didn't they elect a Republican for governor in California? Oh yeah, as for the Presidential election and Supreme Court Justice term limits, RTFC (Read The Fscking Constitution).
Kinda like Prince, It'd be the Computer Company Formerly Known As Apple Computer. Their name would just be the apple silohuette.
You know, I'd been using Ernie Ball Slinkys for years but switched to GHS Boomers a couple years ago. I know it's dumb, but I think I'll buy a pack of slinkys now that my strings need changing again. We need to support the open-source business supporters where we can. If all the Slashdotters with guitars just bought one pack of slinkys, that'd be some good support for a good start.
I'd be willing to bet that 80% of our stockpile isn't even useable anymore. All the chemicals used in their construction has some sort of expiration date.
Nuclear weapons are the shittiest form of battlefield technology we've ever invented, aside from chemical and biological weapons. I believe that the WORLD should disarm itself of such devices. However, with the threat posed by these tertiary dictators and despots all over the world, not to mention Islamic extremists, it's hard to justify giving up deterrence. Maybe some day we can.
Rail wattage is also important because power supplies have 12, 5, and 3.3 volt supply rails. If the 5 and 3.3 are sharing the same rail then you are limited to the wattage from that single rail. Antec was the only power supply to have separate 5 and 3.3 rails. If you don't have enough power going to your components under a heavy load, your system will crash. Think of the power supply like a carburetor. If it's running too lean or you put one 2 barrel carb on a Hemi, it won't run right. If your power supply can't get enough voltage or current out to your components, or you put one on that's too small, your computer won't run right.
Needless to say, I'd buy the Antec. Separate rails for 5 and 3.3 plus the second-lowest ripple make it a good choice for stable power.
I used to date a woman who taught at a state school for the deaf. If a deaf kid has been brought up by deaf parents, they've already assimilated into that culture. If a deaf kid has been brought up by hearing parents and can vocalize (speak audibly), they are either assimilated into the culture at the school or decide to be sort of "shunned".
It really isn't as radical a movement as you might think. Deaf culture has been around for centuries to be the home for those whom the hearing have shunned. Cochlear implants are understandably viewed as the extinction of their "race", from the deaf point of view. The prospect of being released into a society which has historically rejected them is scary, especially when you've got visible implants on your head. The idea of "making yourself better" is lost on them because the culture does not view deafness as a disability.
Hyundai/Kia is building a plant down in either Louisiana or Alabama that is going to be 90% lights out. It will produce 500,000 cars, trucks, and minivans a year. They will then undercut every other manufacturer even more than they are now, even precious Honda and Toyota.
I think the American people need to wake up. Maybe this whole moving the IT/White Collar jobs to India/Russia thing will give the yuppies a taste of what it's like to suffer layoffs in the name of the future of the corporation. Maybe all those people who bought Hondas and Toyotas over the last 25 years will see what it's like to lose to the "faster, better, cheaper" competition.
Am I biased? Hell yes. My father is an American automotive worker. He's worked in plants for 35 years. He put my mother and himself through both college and grad school, raised two kids and put them through college, and still somehow managed to dodge layoffs. I grew up wondering every three months if Dad would still have a job once the quarterly earnings were announced. Now he's facing the cutting of his retirement because the damn Koreans have figured out how to outfox everyone else, even the Japanese. I do not feel sorry for a single damn yuppie IT worker who drives a foreign car and loses their job to someone in India or Russia. Even if that foreign car was supposedly "Assembled by Americans" in Kentucky or Louisiana. Who's economy gets 90% of the money from that car? Not the US.
One of my customers said it best: "We are becoming a nation of whores and mercenaries."
By the way, I was a yuppie IT worker at one time. I have the leather jacket and SUV to prove it.
Or more important, can the mighty Caravan run Linux?
Well, now the bully doesn't need to waste paper and ink on a Kick Me sign...
Iraq hasn't been a real sovereign nation in 12 years, so let's just stop pretending that it really was.
Think about it. He said for years that there were no more WMD in Iraq. He also had 4 years to put them anywhere he wanted to. Anyway, since he did not use them in the war, even though he was backed into a corner, everyone's automatically going to think he didn't have them available.
He's counting on wearing down America like Vietnam. He's put a bounty of $350-$1500 for each American soldier killed by a loyalist. So just about everyday since the "official" end of hostilities, at least 1 American soldier has been killed by sniper, RPG, or ambush.
When the Americans leave, he can come back in from Syria or Jordan and set up shop again. He's counting on Americans to get tired of soldiers getting picked off, one at a time, every day. He's playing off the media, the EU, and skeptics of Bush to get his power back. Saddam is not an idiot. He's survived a lot longer than he should have, and there's good reasons for that.
Maybe it was because Brigham Young, the one that the Utah mormons claim was the successor to the prophet, had several polygamous wives and about fifty kids as a result.
We wound up getting an emergency appropriation from our college president to replace every machine. We purchased G3 Macs (gray box) as soon as they were available from Apple. All the old PowerComputing machines were sold in a massive sale to students for $200, monitor included, as-is, no warranty. PC was out of business by then anyway.
Of course, we also bought a bunch of Gateways for our PC labs and faculty, and wound up replacing them all with Dells a year and a half later, too. Not all clones are a good deal, Mac or PC.