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Um, I'm listening to Binkley, who did his Biography and the Chicago Tribune, both of whom state there are some two hundred pages of records which HAVE NOT been released. I'm also looking at the Defense Department which states that Kerry has NOT signed form 180 authorizing full disclosure of his military records.
All we have is John Kerry's word that all the records on his website are all the records they are. We already know Kerry lied about being in Cambodia in Christmas 1968. Why should we believe what he tells us about the records on his website?
Read Kerry's testimony. He said that he, himself, was guilty of committing the same atrocities that he reported.
But even if he didn't commit them, as an officer, he was still guilty of war crimes by witnessing the acts and failing to either a) act upon them or b) report them up the chain of command.
Of course, the fact that all the atrocities he reported never existed outside of his fertile imagination is something that no Kerry supporter actually likes to admit, for obvious reasons.
Which basically tells the bad guys exactly what they want to know: when they can hit Iraq hard without fear of American soldiers shooting back at them.
Only a fool publicly advertises military withdrawl plans when you're still engaging an enemy.
OK. What part of 99% didn't you understand. I'll make it clearer. The 1% is the eye candy that requires massive GPU processing. Kill all the compositing stuff and just implement the other usability components.
There's a ton of OS X usability outside the graphic elements that Linux could incorporate right now with no change to the current windowing system. I'll give you the biggest one right now: A way to install software that doesn't require a computer science degree.
No, arrogant developers who think a prety icon is good GUI has been the weak link in the chain of wonderfull OSS for years (if by OSS you mean a usable desktop Linux).
You could make Linux a Windows killer to day WITH the current XFree86 just by duplicating the Mac OS X folder structure and usability.
I've never understood this massive desire to try and copy Windows on the Linux desktop. Windows is not a *Nix OS. You're trying to hammer a square peg into a round hole.
Copy Apple for crying out loud. They've ALREADY made an incredibly usable GUI slapped on top of a *nix operating system.
OS X uses an openGL rendering engine, but you can reproduce 99% of the GUI functionality using XFree86 as it stands now and still be 3 years ahead of Windows.
No, another company that was successful would buy out the floundering company and its source code because of the promising potential.
Closed source gets forked all the time. In the real world it's called a business transaction as the source is sold to another company.
What the private sector does that OSS does NOT is prune the deadwood. In OSS the crappy product gets forked, but still dangles out there like a noxious weed. In the private sector, the weed gets pulled and burned.
Start a quicktime movie. Minimize it to the dock. See the movie continue playing.
Start a print job. Depending on the print driver you're using, note the printed pages count update in the dock icon.
Launch Adium. Set the preferences to display buddy status in the Adium icon.
Drag and drop onto dock icons. Watch applications launch or files get saved, etc.
What exactly do you mean by not interactive?
A better question. Why are you even commenting on GUI features without even seeing what the new versions of OS X provide. No one would take you seriously if you criticized the Windows GUI using examples from Win 3.1 why should anyone take you seriously here?
Of course you don't get BSOD in XP. Microsoft removed it because of bad PR. You know those times in XP when your computer just spontaneously restarts out of nowhere right in the middle of that lovely document you were composing? Well, you just had a blue screen of death.
MS just figured, since there's nothing you can do with a BSOD except restart anyway, they'd just remove the screen part, and automatically reboot the computer for you.
from a malady known as Windows-itis, a state of deep confusion and insecurity brought about by having things work too easily.
The main symptom is the continual vocalization of: That can't be right, it's too easy.
The cure is heavy exposure to OS X. Unfortunately, this has the side effect of producing Windows Intolerance. Symptoms of Windows Intolerance include a deep sense of dread when thinking of Windows, and physical illness when forced to actually interact with a Windows computer.
The United States NEVER sold or provided Iraq with chemical weapons. As long as you continue insisting in delusional fantasies, you are beyond the reach of reason.
Reagan himself explained his foreign policy approach to Iraq as part of a Q&A he gave at BYU in 1990 (I was there). He basically said, Iraq was perceived as the lesser evil than Iran, and Iran was winning that war, so we aided Iraq to keep Iran from conquering them. An Iraq, disgusting as it was, checking Iran was better than an Iran in both Iran and Iraq.
--- "The "Saddam was a changed man" argument is what you'd call a "straw man." ---
Study up on your fallacies. It's not a straw man, it's called an irony to illustrate to absurdity of an argument, basically the argument there were no WMD.
--- The war was supposed to be about preventing the proliferation of WMDs ---
No, the war was to shut down Iraq as a haven for terrorists, and to remove the growing, but not yet imminent threat Saddam was posing to America. Bush was very clear about his purposes for doing this in his State of the Union speech. It's public record. Go look it up instead of repeating Democrat propaganda.
Unreal. We discovered Saddam's chemical weapons when he freakin' used them on the Kurds in the 1980s. Now folks like you are honestly trying to get us to believe that Saddam was a changed man. That under the blistering gaze of Bill Clinton, he saw the error of his ways and just got rid of all of them (without bothering to tell the UN inspectors how and where).
Yes, the question is where are the WMD, and it's a question that scares the hell out of me, because he had them and they're not there now, and that means they are somewhere else, and that somewhere else may be the lovely utopian paradise called Syria.
The question would scare the hell out of you, too, if you actually had a single brain cell not entirely devoted to the irrational hatred of George W. Bush.
How about, instead of just saying "spend more money," we actually look at solutions that actually solve a problem, like, oh, disempowering the NEA and implementing vouchers. Oh, wait. That would take actual work instead of a meaningless solution that does nothing more than let people slip back into idle complacency thinking they've actually done something.
Oh, yeah. And we can be just like Japan where they hire people to sit on street corners with hand clickers to count the number of cars passing each hour.
And then we can ban all cars and hire people to carry us around on litters. Or, better yet, we can just follow moveonplease.org's advice and create a federal bureaucracy so large it has to hire everyone in the country. Then we'll have full employment and no one will ever lose his job for anything other than unacceptable efficiency.
Full of factual errors (higher mercury levels, over-extended military, intelligence reform, etc) and it gets modded insightful.
Amazing. More amazing that it still surprises me. However, I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that comments like this and the people who mod it up proves that programming does not require a great deal of intelligence.
You do realize that the reason fetal stem cell research is screaming for government money is because the research is so unpromising no private money is going toward it. Private investors are all funding adult stem cell, cord blood stem cell and placental stem cell research, which is producing dividends right now.
Just like the hemp advocates are a front for the drug legalization crowd, fetal stem cell advocates are a front for pro-abortionists.
The justice department does know. Or weren't you aware that we have cooperative agreements with interpol and law enforcement agencies in other countries, too?
Which explains, of course, why your post makes no logical sense. You were obviously hurrying through it so that you could move to your next safe house before the Ashcroft thought police bashed in your door to arrest you for sedition.
And as soon as you get your transmitter set up again in another safe location, you'll transmit proof that the World Trade center attack was actually coordinated by George Bush, which is why all Republicans and religious conservatives didn't show up for work that day.
After that, you'll show us how this election is really just another smoke screen because Bush long ago made himself king and will ignore whatever election results there are. It was a deal he brokered with the Supreme court in a back room while the Republican congress ran interference for him by forcing Bill Clinton to have oral sex with their top Republican operative, Monica Lewinsky.
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Um, I'm listening to Binkley, who did his Biography and the Chicago Tribune, both of whom state there are some two hundred pages of records which HAVE NOT been released. I'm also looking at the Defense Department which states that Kerry has NOT signed form 180 authorizing full disclosure of his military records.
All we have is John Kerry's word that all the records on his website are all the records they are. We already know Kerry lied about being in Cambodia in Christmas 1968. Why should we believe what he tells us about the records on his website?
Read Kerry's testimony. He said that he, himself, was guilty of committing the same atrocities that he reported.
But even if he didn't commit them, as an officer, he was still guilty of war crimes by witnessing the acts and failing to either a) act upon them or b) report them up the chain of command.
Of course, the fact that all the atrocities he reported never existed outside of his fertile imagination is something that no Kerry supporter actually likes to admit, for obvious reasons.
Which basically tells the bad guys exactly what they want to know: when they can hit Iraq hard without fear of American soldiers shooting back at them.
Only a fool publicly advertises military withdrawl plans when you're still engaging an enemy.
OK. What part of 99% didn't you understand. I'll make it clearer. The 1% is the eye candy that requires massive GPU processing. Kill all the compositing stuff and just implement the other usability components.
There's a ton of OS X usability outside the graphic elements that Linux could incorporate right now with no change to the current windowing system. I'll give you the biggest one right now: A way to install software that doesn't require a computer science degree.
No, arrogant developers who think a prety icon is good GUI has been the weak link in the chain of wonderfull OSS for years (if by OSS you mean a usable desktop Linux).
You could make Linux a Windows killer to day WITH the current XFree86 just by duplicating the Mac OS X folder structure and usability.
I've never understood this massive desire to try and copy Windows on the Linux desktop. Windows is not a *Nix OS. You're trying to hammer a square peg into a round hole.
Copy Apple for crying out loud. They've ALREADY made an incredibly usable GUI slapped on top of a *nix operating system.
OS X uses an openGL rendering engine, but you can reproduce 99% of the GUI functionality using XFree86 as it stands now and still be 3 years ahead of Windows.
No, another company that was successful would buy out the floundering company and its source code because of the promising potential.
Closed source gets forked all the time. In the real world it's called a business transaction as the source is sold to another company.
What the private sector does that OSS does NOT is prune the deadwood. In OSS the crappy product gets forked, but still dangles out there like a noxious weed. In the private sector, the weed gets pulled and burned.
Start a quicktime movie. Minimize it to the dock. See the movie continue playing.
Start a print job. Depending on the print driver you're using, note the printed pages count update in the dock icon.
Launch Adium. Set the preferences to display buddy status in the Adium icon.
Drag and drop onto dock icons. Watch applications launch or files get saved, etc.
What exactly do you mean by not interactive?
A better question. Why are you even commenting on GUI features without even seeing what the new versions of OS X provide. No one would take you seriously if you criticized the Windows GUI using examples from Win 3.1 why should anyone take you seriously here?
Of course you don't get BSOD in XP. Microsoft removed it because of bad PR. You know those times in XP when your computer just spontaneously restarts out of nowhere right in the middle of that lovely document you were composing? Well, you just had a blue screen of death.
MS just figured, since there's nothing you can do with a BSOD except restart anyway, they'd just remove the screen part, and automatically reboot the computer for you.
from a malady known as Windows-itis, a state of deep confusion and insecurity brought about by having things work too easily.
The main symptom is the continual vocalization of: That can't be right, it's too easy.
The cure is heavy exposure to OS X. Unfortunately, this has the side effect of producing Windows Intolerance. Symptoms of Windows Intolerance include a deep sense of dread when thinking of Windows, and physical illness when forced to actually interact with a Windows computer.
The United States NEVER sold or provided Iraq with chemical weapons. As long as you continue insisting in delusional fantasies, you are beyond the reach of reason.
Reagan himself explained his foreign policy approach to Iraq as part of a Q&A he gave at BYU in 1990 (I was there). He basically said, Iraq was perceived as the lesser evil than Iran, and Iran was winning that war, so we aided Iraq to keep Iran from conquering them. An Iraq, disgusting as it was, checking Iran was better than an Iran in both Iran and Iraq.
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"The "Saddam was a changed man" argument is what you'd call a "straw man."
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Study up on your fallacies. It's not a straw man, it's called an irony to illustrate to absurdity of an argument, basically the argument there were no WMD.
---
The war was supposed to be about preventing the proliferation of WMDs
---
No, the war was to shut down Iraq as a haven for terrorists, and to remove the growing, but not yet imminent threat Saddam was posing to America. Bush was very clear about his purposes for doing this in his State of the Union speech. It's public record. Go look it up instead of repeating Democrat propaganda.
Unreal. We discovered Saddam's chemical weapons when he freakin' used them on the Kurds in the 1980s. Now folks like you are honestly trying to get us to believe that Saddam was a changed man. That under the blistering gaze of Bill Clinton, he saw the error of his ways and just got rid of all of them (without bothering to tell the UN inspectors how and where).
Yes, the question is where are the WMD, and it's a question that scares the hell out of me, because he had them and they're not there now, and that means they are somewhere else, and that somewhere else may be the lovely utopian paradise called Syria.
The question would scare the hell out of you, too, if you actually had a single brain cell not entirely devoted to the irrational hatred of George W. Bush.
But many of them use a DIFFERENT 2%.
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How about spending the money on schools?
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How about, instead of just saying "spend more money," we actually look at solutions that actually solve a problem, like, oh, disempowering the NEA and implementing vouchers. Oh, wait. That would take actual work instead of a meaningless solution that does nothing more than let people slip back into idle complacency thinking they've actually done something.
Oh, yeah. And we can be just like Japan where they hire people to sit on street corners with hand clickers to count the number of cars passing each hour.
And then we can ban all cars and hire people to carry us around on litters. Or, better yet, we can just follow moveonplease.org's advice and create a federal bureaucracy so large it has to hire everyone in the country. Then we'll have full employment and no one will ever lose his job for anything other than unacceptable efficiency.
The actual quote is:
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A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
It was made by Gerald Ford.
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That the only thing people seem to care about is that she's a woman; her qualifications seem to be secondary to her sex.
It's an easy question to answer. I impeach the first, because the charges against the second are fabricated.
Obviously, you're some sort of commie.
Well, you would know since you've apparently memorized the Marxist class warfare handbook.
Let me give you a hint. Good humor is based in a parody of reality, not a recitation of Democrat talking points.
Full of factual errors (higher mercury levels, over-extended military, intelligence reform, etc) and it gets modded insightful.
Amazing. More amazing that it still surprises me. However, I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that comments like this and the people who mod it up proves that programming does not require a great deal of intelligence.
Definition of Junk science: Science which disagrees with my politics.
You do realize that the reason fetal stem cell research is screaming for government money is because the research is so unpromising no private money is going toward it. Private investors are all funding adult stem cell, cord blood stem cell and placental stem cell research, which is producing dividends right now.
Just like the hemp advocates are a front for the drug legalization crowd, fetal stem cell advocates are a front for pro-abortionists.
The justice department does know. Or weren't you aware that we have cooperative agreements with interpol and law enforcement agencies in other countries, too?
Then you don't pay much attention. It happens all the time to bad guys, and before 9/11.
Which explains, of course, why your post makes no logical sense. You were obviously hurrying through it so that you could move to your next safe house before the Ashcroft thought police bashed in your door to arrest you for sedition.
And as soon as you get your transmitter set up again in another safe location, you'll transmit proof that the World Trade center attack was actually coordinated by George Bush, which is why all Republicans and religious conservatives didn't show up for work that day.
After that, you'll show us how this election is really just another smoke screen because Bush long ago made himself king and will ignore whatever election results there are. It was a deal he brokered with the Supreme court in a back room while the Republican congress ran interference for him by forcing Bill Clinton to have oral sex with their top Republican operative, Monica Lewinsky.
Yes, because we all know that no organization can do more than one thing at a time.