Agreed. Instead, they should just be telling people that war is ugly and we do the best that we can.
They tell the lie hoping to silence the critics who say one civilian casualty is too much, because they fail to realize that the civilian casualty cry is a smokescreen. If these folks were concerned about civilian casualties they would be cheering the US on in Iraq, because there will be no more mass graves, no more rape squads, no more prison torture chambers or prison biochemical laboratories, etc.
Very true, because they know the US will be there to pull their bacon out of the fire with it's military technology.
The world is full of bad guys (and we are not them, as much as that might offend your little agenda), and they leave us alone because they know we can kick the crap out of them.
The problem is, we've portrayed a weakness. We showed in Somalia, that if you bleed us too much, we whimper and run away. So that's the strategy in Iraq right now.
Heck, that was Saddam's strategy at the beginning of the Gulf war. He thought if he could send 20,000 American body bags home, he would force the US to the negotiating table. He's hoping the same thing right now, and the media and the slashdot crowd are so ready to bolt it's pathetic.
Ooh. Please, yes, do that. Then we can drop the laser guided bomb right on to it, because I certainly assume you don't think we're going to scrap every other weapon in our arsenal once we get the laser working.
This isn't Star Trek where they suddenly forgot all about nuclear weapons once they got a phaser up and running.
Or, in the famous words of Ripley: I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Not true. The Qwerty keyboard was designed to keep commonly typed letters from being adjacent to one another. Quite a bit of thought went into the layout.
Qwerty and Dvorak each have their advantages. I used both, and went back to QWERTY because it handles load balancing between the hands better. Dvorak puts too much typing of words all on one hand.
Funny. When I lived in Japan, de aru was never used in polite conversation. Desu was the polite form. de aru was informal, and da was for casual conversation among friends.
Of course, this is spoken Japanese. Since I don't have a degree in Japanese Literature, never interned in the Japanese Diet, and don't run operations for a software firm in Japan, I can only draw from my experience of living in the country and speaking with people on the street for 18 months in their native language.
Yep, the gene pool suddenly shifted and all Americans are BORN stupid today. No hope for them at all. Has nothing to do with perhaps the fact that nobody expects much of them, so they meet that expectation.
Nope, the idea of perhaps inspiring them to be greater is, in itself, a stupid idea, because it's all genetic. Besides, the idea that with some work maybe we could improve these folks means I have to get off my lazy butt and start working instead of just sitting around pontificating about how stupid everyone except me is.
Right. I forgot. The potential is irrelevant. It's not a problem until they actually have USED one on a city. THEN we go after them.
Read the Iraq report. Iraq had a massive WMD PROGRAM up and running. They were ready to ramp up to full production in a matter of WEEKS once they felt they could do so.
The CAPABILITY to be churning out tons of Sarin and Biological agents in a couple of months is just as damning and dangerous as having the stuff already stock piled.
Oh, come one. You can't be serious. Everyone knows that the civil right to download MP3s over Kazaa anonymously is the most fundamental of all liberties and without it, freedom crumbles to dust and tyranny reigns supreme.
Obviously you do care about branding because you're so annoyed that iTunes doesn't use the Windows branding that you're totally ignoring the functionality of the program.
Here's how you play your iTunes purchased music at work:
1. Authorize your work computer. 2. Drag the purchased music files from your iTunes player to your desktop on your home pc to make a copy of them. 3. Transfer the copies to your work PC. 4. drag the copied files into iTunes on your work PC to import them. 5. Delete the copied files on both machines. 6. Enjoy your music at work.
Yep. The most evil thing that can happen in this world is that an oil company might get a good deal on oil supplies, and another company might get a good contract because they have ties to the President.
That's way, way more evil than a tyrannical dictator with a massive WMD program (read the report) who tried to assassinate a former U.S. president, thumbed his nose at the world community, and thought it was great fun to have prisoners eaten alive as punishment for criticizing him.
Oh, yeah. An oil contract is way, way worse than that. Thanks for putting it all in perspective for me.
The accepted definition of terrorism is the DELIBERATE killing of civilians with the specific purpose of creating fear and uncertainty in the general population.
The accepted definition of geurilla warfare is targeting military and political targets in an attempt to disrupt military and governmental operations.
Jews engaged in geurilla warfare pre 1948. The Palestinian terrorists, for the most part, engage in terrorism (there are some exceptions; attacks at military checkpoints, assassinations of political leaders).
This is not complicated. People make it complicated because they want the Jews to be the bad guys, so they have to warp and twist the facts to fit their world picture.
Golda Maer summed it up beautifully: "We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us."
Of course, if we really lived in a police state, you would have been hauled off to jail by now for even making this post.
Comparing the Patriot Act and Ashcroft to the Gestapo or the KGB, or the Chinese Secret Police just shows your stunning ignorance of what tyrannny really is.
Your tinfoil hat is coming loose. If Bush had wanted to help his oil cronies, he could have just lifted the sanctions. Quicker, easier and more profitable for the oil companies.
Until the print display on ebook readers is at least 600 DPI, forget it. The print you read on a cheap paperback is 1200 DPI. The text displayed on your ebook reader is about 96 dpi, or the quality of a poor dotmatrix printout.
Studies have shown that difference in resolution slows reading by about 30% and causes eyestrain and headache.
The interesting thing is, most people will not identify these problems, rather just express a dissastisfaction with the overall experience.
a 600 DPI reflective display for an ebook reader is essential for the technology to take off.
Digital ink may be the answer. It will be interesting to find out.
The "horrors" of child labor are grossly overplayed. We all have images of 12-year old kids crawling around inside dangerous machinery, and so think any kind of child labor is horrible, even a 14-year old working for four hours after school snapping plastic covers on the front of a beige metal case.
Personally, I think we could do with a bit more child labor in this country and a little bit less with smoking teenagers cruising the streets or surfing internet porn in their bedrooms at night.
But, then, I'm a cold heartless slob who actually thinks we pamper our kids too much today, probably out of a sense of guilt for dumping them in day care for most of their lives.
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Agreed. Instead, they should just be telling people that war is ugly and we do the best that we can.
They tell the lie hoping to silence the critics who say one civilian casualty is too much, because they fail to realize that the civilian casualty cry is a smokescreen. If these folks were concerned about civilian casualties they would be cheering the US on in Iraq, because there will be no more mass graves, no more rape squads, no more prison torture chambers or prison biochemical laboratories, etc.
Except for the fact that they light up really nicely and make a great target for conventional bombs. So, pick how you want to get scratched...
Very true, because they know the US will be there to pull their bacon out of the fire with it's military technology.
The world is full of bad guys (and we are not them, as much as that might offend your little agenda), and they leave us alone because they know we can kick the crap out of them.
The problem is, we've portrayed a weakness. We showed in Somalia, that if you bleed us too much, we whimper and run away. So that's the strategy in Iraq right now.
Heck, that was Saddam's strategy at the beginning of the Gulf war. He thought if he could send 20,000 American body bags home, he would force the US to the negotiating table. He's hoping the same thing right now, and the media and the slashdot crowd are so ready to bolt it's pathetic.
Ooh. Please, yes, do that. Then we can drop the laser guided bomb right on to it, because I certainly assume you don't think we're going to scrap every other weapon in our arsenal once we get the laser working.
This isn't Star Trek where they suddenly forgot all about nuclear weapons once they got a phaser up and running.
Or, in the famous words of Ripley: I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Not true. The Qwerty keyboard was designed to keep commonly typed letters from being adjacent to one another. Quite a bit of thought went into the layout.
Qwerty and Dvorak each have their advantages. I used both, and went back to QWERTY because it handles load balancing between the hands better. Dvorak puts too much typing of words all on one hand.
Difficult (the CORRECT symbol for does not equal) impossible.
The fact that a computer would hire a lawyer is proof positive that it is NOT intelligent. Case closed.
It's pronounced wa, not ha when used as a subject marker in the sentence.
Ga sounds odd in this context. Kedo is better.
Chikara wa taisetsu desu kedo namida mo hitsuyo desu.
Funny. When I lived in Japan, de aru was never used in polite conversation. Desu was the polite form. de aru was informal, and da was for casual conversation among friends.
Of course, this is spoken Japanese. Since I don't have a degree in Japanese Literature, never interned in the Japanese Diet, and don't run operations for a software firm in Japan, I can only draw from my experience of living in the country and speaking with people on the street for 18 months in their native language.
Making up totally unrealistic scenarios to demonstrate a supposed limitation in iTunes is a classic strawman fallacy.
Yep, the gene pool suddenly shifted and all Americans are BORN stupid today. No hope for them at all. Has nothing to do with perhaps the fact that nobody expects much of them, so they meet that expectation.
Nope, the idea of perhaps inspiring them to be greater is, in itself, a stupid idea, because it's all genetic. Besides, the idea that with some work maybe we could improve these folks means I have to get off my lazy butt and start working instead of just sitting around pontificating about how stupid everyone except me is.
Right. I forgot. The potential is irrelevant. It's not a problem until they actually have USED one on a city. THEN we go after them.
Read the Iraq report. Iraq had a massive WMD PROGRAM up and running. They were ready to ramp up to full production in a matter of WEEKS once they felt they could do so.
The CAPABILITY to be churning out tons of Sarin and Biological agents in a couple of months is just as damning and dangerous as having the stuff already stock piled.
Oh, come one. You can't be serious. Everyone knows that the civil right to download MP3s over Kazaa anonymously is the most fundamental of all liberties and without it, freedom crumbles to dust and tyranny reigns supreme.
Sheesh. What a maroon...
...world without religion...
Maybe, someday, people will actually learn a little history and this asinine comment will finally be put to rest.
The most brutal, oppressive, bloodthirsty, murderous regimes in history were atheist.
You can copy your purchased music to any other computer, and as long as that computer is authorized, it will play the music.
Drag the file out of your itunes play list to make a copy of it.
Transfer the copy to your other machine.
Drag the copy into iTunes on the other machine to import it.
Delete the copies.
Play your music and enjoy.
Obviously you do care about branding because you're so annoyed that iTunes doesn't use the Windows branding that you're totally ignoring the functionality of the program.
Here's how you play your iTunes purchased music at work:
1. Authorize your work computer.
2. Drag the purchased music files from your iTunes player to your desktop on your home pc to make a copy of them.
3. Transfer the copies to your work PC.
4. drag the copied files into iTunes on your work PC to import them.
5. Delete the copied files on both machines.
6. Enjoy your music at work.
Whereas it's perfectly alright, and even morally superior for you to force your beliefs on us.
A little humility at acknowledging a supreme being is probably something that most people could use.
Yep. The most evil thing that can happen in this world is that an oil company might get a good deal on oil supplies, and another company might get a good contract because they have ties to the President.
That's way, way more evil than a tyrannical dictator with a massive WMD program (read the report) who tried to assassinate a former U.S. president, thumbed his nose at the world community, and thought it was great fun to have prisoners eaten alive as punishment for criticizing him.
Oh, yeah. An oil contract is way, way worse than that. Thanks for putting it all in perspective for me.
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Thinking. Try it, you may like it.
The accepted definition of terrorism is the DELIBERATE killing of civilians with the specific purpose of creating fear and uncertainty in the general population.
The accepted definition of geurilla warfare is targeting military and political targets in an attempt to disrupt military and governmental operations.
Jews engaged in geurilla warfare pre 1948. The Palestinian terrorists, for the most part, engage in terrorism (there are some exceptions; attacks at military checkpoints, assassinations of political leaders).
This is not complicated. People make it complicated because they want the Jews to be the bad guys, so they have to warp and twist the facts to fit their world picture.
Golda Maer summed it up beautifully: "We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us."
It's that simple.
Of course, if we really lived in a police state, you would have been hauled off to jail by now for even making this post.
Comparing the Patriot Act and Ashcroft to the Gestapo or the KGB, or the Chinese Secret Police just shows your stunning ignorance of what tyrannny really is.
Your tinfoil hat is coming loose. If Bush had wanted to help his oil cronies, he could have just lifted the sanctions. Quicker, easier and more profitable for the oil companies.
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Thinking. Try it, you may like it.
Finally had a chance to see the pictures. What are you talking about?
There were no child workers at all. The youngest girl I saw was probably 18. Asians look younger than Europeans at the same age.
The shirts they were wearing were company uniforms.
Until the print display on ebook readers is at least 600 DPI, forget it. The print you read on a cheap paperback is 1200 DPI. The text displayed on your ebook reader is about 96 dpi, or the quality of a poor dotmatrix printout.
Studies have shown that difference in resolution slows reading by about 30% and causes eyestrain and headache.
The interesting thing is, most people will not identify these problems, rather just express a dissastisfaction with the overall experience.
a 600 DPI reflective display for an ebook reader is essential for the technology to take off.
Digital ink may be the answer. It will be interesting to find out.
The "horrors" of child labor are grossly overplayed. We all have images of 12-year old kids crawling around inside dangerous machinery, and so think any kind of child labor is horrible, even a 14-year old working for four hours after school snapping plastic covers on the front of a beige metal case.
Personally, I think we could do with a bit more child labor in this country and a little bit less with smoking teenagers cruising the streets or surfing internet porn in their bedrooms at night.
But, then, I'm a cold heartless slob who actually thinks we pamper our kids too much today, probably out of a sense of guilt for dumping them in day care for most of their lives.