Until Israel took egyptian, syrian and jordanian land in the interest of self preservation, there were no palestinians. They were Egyptian, Syrian or Jordanian. Instead of choosing as many muslims have to assimilate into Israeli society, they chose to be a thorn in the side. Further, if they are occupied now, they were occupied before, so why weren't they baby-bombing Egypt, Syria or Jordan?
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So journalistic "integrity" boils down to Oww, I might lose my job.
If you want a look at real integrity, right or wrong, look at the troops in Iraq; yeah, the ones facing prison time; I don't know if they were right or wrong, and for the purposes of this discussion it doesn't matter. They chose to disobey an apparently lawful order for what they believed was a greater good and they may lose their careers or freedom because of that. That is integrity.
They don't. They may or may not try, but they can't and don't. Ultimately the press reports what people want to hear, if they reported what people needed to hear, they might become unpopular. Members of the press complain about censorship, but what they mean is any threat to their pocketbooks that might be caused by "integrity". In any large population area of this country, you can buy or receive free local "dissident" publications, that are just as well written as the mainstream(usually) but who skip the whinging about censorship and just tell it like it is, warts and all. Guess what, these people don't make $100k a year like the mainstream press, and many work second jobs, why?? because they are telling something that nobody cares about.
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And it didn't occur to you to use the press power you had to expose this malfeasance? Hmmm, guess you just wanted to complain, otherwise you would have used part of your 2 hours a day of "news" to impact your viewers and get some help?? NAHH! I'll just suppress it and complain on slashdot years later.
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The design of the current US media is to suppress debate, to limit the scope of ideas, to divert people from things which actually matter and which they might do something about if they were aware of it. In short, to keep us in the dark, to encourage us to be lazy and insular, and to feel powerless.
Obviously it isn't working because here we are at a us centric site debating, sharing and expanding the cope of our ideas, and diverting ourselves from stuff that matters(like work).
Israel hasn't survived by military might, although that is part of it. Israel has survived by being smarter, tougher, more determined, and luckier than their enemies. On at least 4 occassions, the combined, co-ordinated might of the Arab world has joined to attempt to push Israel into the sea. Through effective tactics, luck and technology the Israelis have successfully repelled up to 7 to 1 numerical odds.
Good thing the idiot didn't win and we got Bush instead, Hopefully, bush will win again.
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Under the Geneva conventions, due process for war criminals amounts to senior present officer "No uniform...check, hiding in civilian population....check, not acting in accordance with laws of war ie firing on civilians etc...check; Ok you're guilty. CAP!...~dead war criminal~"
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DO you qualify for and use a parking decal? My wife does, and Frequently someone will question her qualification to use it. Usually "You don't look f---ing handicapped to me." to which I have learned to either ignore or respond "And you don't look like a doctor to me" depending on whether or not he appears able or willing to cause me with physical harm.
Yes, I remember, Every person who griped about that admitted "OH, well I only shared my password with all 70 guys in my guild, and this guy, and these other people".
I didn't see the Oprah in question and I've only watched a total of 1(well parts of about 5 total 1 hour) of Oprah, but the difference would be that after mentioning it she almost certainly went off on some crazy moralizing bit, where Stern just said it for shock.
Right, wrong, idunno, ditto for stuff that shows up on PBS, ie breast exams, holocaust stuff, schindler's list, etc. They don't flash something and move on, its in a context that while shocking and offensive has a purpose other than shock and offense.
Yes, and it was time to STOP playing the games that were getting no-where, we should have stopped 6 years earlier, but instead we allowed the oil for food fiasco/appeasement.. on "9/11" we as a nation came to realize that appeasement and negotiation have a definite END and we were well past that end.
Yes, it was worth it to go in alone rather than commit to another 20-30 years of appeasements and circle running. it's nice that we had other nations UK/Aus/poland/etc with us, but our national security is not their responsibility, and their national security is only marginally ours.
you are confusing the vb 6 ui with the vb 4 ui... the vb 6 ui had the one true window layout, the vb 4 ui had the fully detachable strew your toolboxes all over the desktop layout. vb 6 could be configured to have all detached windows but didn't come that way by default.
How about we save them... That way in 400 years when we figure out all the neato things that can be done with "waste products" we actually have them available and accessible.
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Until Israel took egyptian, syrian and jordanian land in the interest of self preservation, there were no palestinians. They were Egyptian, Syrian or Jordanian. Instead of choosing as many muslims have to assimilate into Israeli society, they chose to be a thorn in the side. Further, if they are occupied now, they were occupied before, so why weren't they baby-bombing Egypt, Syria or Jordan?
So journalistic "integrity" boils down to Oww, I might lose my job.
If you want a look at real integrity, right or wrong, look at the troops in Iraq; yeah, the ones facing prison time; I don't know if they were right or wrong, and for the purposes of this discussion it doesn't matter. They chose to disobey an apparently lawful order for what they believed was a greater good and they may lose their careers or freedom because of that. That is integrity.
They don't. They may or may not try, but they can't and don't. Ultimately the press reports what people want to hear, if they reported what people needed to hear, they might become unpopular. Members of the press complain about censorship, but what they mean is any threat to their pocketbooks that might be caused by "integrity". In any large population area of this country, you can buy or receive free local "dissident" publications, that are just as well written as the mainstream(usually) but who skip the whinging about censorship and just tell it like it is, warts and all. Guess what, these people don't make $100k a year like the mainstream press, and many work second jobs, why?? because they are telling something that nobody cares about.
And it didn't occur to you to use the press power you had to expose this malfeasance? Hmmm, guess you just wanted to complain, otherwise you would have used part of your 2 hours a day of "news" to impact your viewers and get some help?? NAHH! I'll just suppress it and complain on slashdot years later.
Israel hasn't survived by military might, although that is part of it. Israel has survived by being smarter, tougher, more determined, and luckier than their enemies. On at least 4 occassions, the combined, co-ordinated might of the Arab world has joined to attempt to push Israel into the sea. Through effective tactics, luck and technology the Israelis have successfully repelled up to 7 to 1 numerical odds.
Good thing the idiot didn't win and we got Bush instead, Hopefully, bush will win again.
Under the Geneva conventions, due process for war criminals amounts to senior present officer "No uniform...check, hiding in civilian population....check, not acting in accordance with laws of war ie firing on civilians etc...check; Ok you're guilty. CAP! ...~dead war criminal~"
DO you qualify for and use a parking decal? My wife does, and Frequently someone will question her qualification to use it. Usually "You don't look f---ing handicapped to me." to which I have learned to either ignore or respond "And you don't look like a doctor to me" depending on whether or not he appears able or willing to cause me with physical harm.
At which point, you use the fisheye camera embedded in the diebold machine, and go eliminate them from the gene pool.
Uh, because bandwidth is expensive? REALLY expensive when you start streaming video 24x7.
Yes, I remember, Every person who griped about that admitted "OH, well I only shared my password with all 70 guys in my guild, and this guy, and these other people".
I think Planetside is a different MMORPG from Sony.
see dictionary.com for dueling. I think dualing is when you have a multiprocessor machine.
THose aren't transcripts, those are exerpts. They are completely contextless.
I didn't see the Oprah in question and I've only watched a total of 1(well parts of about 5 total 1 hour) of Oprah, but the difference would be that after mentioning it she almost certainly went off on some crazy moralizing bit, where Stern just said it for shock.
Right, wrong, idunno, ditto for stuff that shows up on PBS, ie breast exams, holocaust stuff, schindler's list, etc. They don't flash something and move on, its in a context that while shocking and offensive has a purpose other than shock and offense.
Yes, and it was time to STOP playing the games that were getting no-where, we should have stopped 6 years earlier, but instead we allowed the oil for food fiasco/appeasement.. on "9/11" we as a nation came to realize that appeasement and negotiation have a definite END and we were well past that end.
Yes, it was worth it to go in alone rather than commit to another 20-30 years of appeasements and circle running. it's nice that we had other nations UK/Aus/poland/etc with us, but our national security is not their responsibility, and their national security is only marginally ours.
Actually, technically, the moon will be eclipsed by ...
Wait for it
the earth.
The earth will pass between the moon and the sun.
rent a cops don't carry m-203s and drive APCs. rent a cops don't fight pitched battles against enemy soldiers and call in for mortar fire support.
in the real world, we call people who do these things mercenaries.
you are confusing the vb 6 ui with the vb 4 ui... the vb 6 ui had the one true window layout, the vb 4 ui had the fully detachable strew your toolboxes all over the desktop layout. vb 6 could be configured to have all detached windows but didn't come that way by default.
HOw about using vb 6 over .net because long doesn't change definitions when you move from a pentium to a xeon?
VB 4 was the pinacle of the MS RAD environment design. after that they went with the locked window no overlap style with no desktop space.
Ok, here from TIMETime magazine
blackwater
look into what blackwater inc really does, and what they offer.
How about we save them... That way in 400 years when we figure out all the neato things that can be done with "waste products" we actually have them available and accessible.
Not knowing that civilian contractors perform "armed combat" is an idiot mistake One source
During the first Persian Gulf War, one civilian contractor was employed for every 60 active-duty personnel. That figure has grown to about one in 10, according to a Century Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy research foundation in New York City. More than 20,000 private contractors are being used in Iraq. While many perform engineering, clerical and construction work, others "have increasingly engaged in the exchange of fire formerly limited to soldiers," according to the foundation's September 2004 study titled "Legions Stretched Thin: the U.S. Army's Manpower Crisis." "It is perfectly appropriate to hire contractors, and most of their uses are not controversial, but we have no way of knowing what is happening with them in Iraq or elsewhere," said Leif Wellington Haase, co-author of the report. "There is little if no oversight for contractors, and in a democracy that is pretty troubling." Since the first stories of abuse at Abu Ghraib, the role of private contractors in America's war on terror has been brought into question. "Private security people are out of control," said Carl Conneta, co-director of the Project On Defense Alternatives, a nonpartisan arms control think tank in Cambridge, Mass. "Accountability is very tough to impose on them, and they are operating in a Wild West environment. "They don't have the same type of legal constraints that are operating inside the military," Conneta said.