A simple picture VCD that plays in your DVD Player?? Seems like a whole lot simpler to burn off a picture CD than to deal with all that extra hardware.
"I think it's pretty bad that everyone focuses on the "atrocities" of the Muslim religion and simply seems to overlook the fact that it is not the religion in general that is bad, it is the few extremists that take their interpretation a bit too far.
Any religion interpreted directly would suffer the same issues. As I pointed out....extremists that interpret their religion extremely literally are the MINORITY. If they were the rule, even most Christians and Catholics would see nothing wrong in killing people in the Old Testament fashion (an eye for an eye). Both eastern and western religions have had their share of extremist acts and atrocities. I think however, if you actually read the Quran and I mean....literally...you will find that it also suffers from many areas where it is open for extremist interpretation (or mis-interpretation if you will).
"But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem; But if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practice regular charity, then open the way for them: For Allah is oft forgiving, most merciful." 9:5
This can be interpreted as seek out ALL non-believers and kill them off (unless they convert and repent) when it is taken out of context. In context, it could be interpreted to mean ONLY the pagans that attack you and persecute you for your beliefs. Again...very different interpretations for the same passages.
If you'll read my post again you may notice that I never stated a suicide bombing was automatically a terrorist attack. Note how my arguments hinged on the type of target and not the methods used. In light of this, I would think it may be extremely hard for a suicide bomber to do any major damage to a platoon of tanks and soldiers....therefore they are left with terrorist suicide bombings on civilian rather than military targets. You'll also note that in my opinion they are forced to use these methods based on the fact that they do not have the military hardware necessary to wage a proper war against the Israeli army. Suicide bombings have been used for many years that were not considered terrorism. During WWII the Japanese used kamikaze pilots...again...this was an attack against MILITARY targets but still a "suicide bombing" all the same.
As far as the initial war, yes...it was a territorial battle. You can blame Britain for this as their Balfour Declaration was used to establish a homeland for the Jews in what was once a Turkish Ottoman Arab empire. Britain was placed in control of Palestine and basically kicked off this entire mess with the establishment of Jewish colonies in Palestine. The Jews (Israelis) were not happy with the portions they were given and decided to take control of more of the territory. Yes, they also invaded Lebanon (with the intentions of eliminating the PLO, which is fine...it's war...but I do disagree with the massacre of the refugees at Sabra and Shatilla.
As I see it, this is far more than a territory battle. The Muslim extremist world will not tolerate Zionists living on Muslim soil in any capacity at all. They are not willing to live together with the Israelis peacefully as......you guessed it...they are not Muslims. Many wars have been fought over territory with eventual compromises and resolutions. It's just that when an extremist form of religion is involved no compromises can be made; especially when one or both of the parties is unwilling to put aside religion for the sake of a logical and peaceful resolution. I think that the majority of Palestinians would be absolutely thrilled to death if a fair solution was available....it's just that the extremist groups have more power than the non-extremists and are not willing to let this happen.
Well, to be honest with you the US is not "for" either side. The US is against any form of terrorism at all against any country. The reason I think that we tend to fund Isreal is based on the fact that they traditionally act in a more militarily proper fashion than the Palestinian extremist terrorists do. The Israeli army typically has an intended military target (terrorist leader, etc.) however there may be, as in any war, collateral damage. The Palestinian terrorists on the other hand tend to purposely direct their attacks against civilians rather than military targets.
What it all boils down to is a big holy war between two opposing factions. Whenever you have extremists in ANY religion (Christians and the Crusades, Catholics and the Spanish Inquisition, Christians once again in the Salem witch hunts, Jim Jones and his order of cyanide drinking followers, etc.) you will have problems. I think it's pretty bad that everyone focuses on the "atrocities" of the Muslim religion and simply seems to overlook the fact that it is not the religion in general that is bad, it is the few extremists that take their interpretation a bit too far. I'm pretty sure that if the Palestinians had tanks, aircraft, and weaponry to match the Israeli army that they would most likely fight using them instead of suicide bombings. Terrorism has never proven to be a very successful method af waging a war, but in desperation and lack of any other alternatives it is most likely the ONLY alternative the Palestinians have. The only failing point here is that Islam is in fact not a peaceful religion and the Quoran as written dictates that a peacful Muslim is the most vile of beasts and that it is the Muslim duty to eliminate all other religions from the face of the planet. If a Muslim shall die in performing this duty his reward is an afterlife where there is an endless supply of virgins and the rivers run of wine.
For the record, I am an atheist and I loathe the idea of any religion at all. Unfortunately, I think the human species will be plagued with them until some 4.5 to 5 billion years from now when we are engulfed by our sun as it expands into a red giant and eliminates the earth as we know it.
Hey, leave Winnipeg and Canada alone. They are very progressive in their thinking! Something like, 15% tax on everything purchased (GST and PST), cigarettes that cost around 10 bucks a pack, it's about $65.00 to fill up your car with gas, absolutely outrageous income tax and Manitoba even has a gay lietennant governor I believe. Well, unless you're a "native" then everything is free. taxi cabs, busses, no tax on anything at all, and all the welfare you can drink away. Not to mention the cool socialized medicine where people who actually work have to foot the bill for the non-working class by paying out the majority of their income in taxes.
Well, not to be an ass or anything....But don't the teachers kinda' know the pay grade BEFORE they decide to dedicate their career to it? It's not like there is some form of "bait and switch" being pulled where they think they will make 'X' dollars and are being paid far less than expected. A friend of mine is a cop and hell....he even admits that he knew the pay sucked when he decided on that career path, but he does like his job far more than I like mine....which coincidentally pays more than his.
I can just see the jokes coming now about my state....ack.
Anyways, we have a 'sales and usage tax'. Even if you purchase something out of state you are expected to report it to the state and pay 'usage' tax in lieu of 'sales' tax. A friend of mine recently received a letter from the state demanding their 6% usage tax since he purchased furniture from an out of state company and had it shipped to him here in Florida. The real kicker is that if you do pay sales tax out of state then you just have to pay Florida the difference to equal 6%. For example, you pay say 5% sales tax somewhere....then you only owe Florida 1% more.
Well, actually the usual setup is many upstream ports per cable card. i.e. you may have 4 cards in a box and upstream ports 0-5 on each card. This is done so that no particular upstream port gets too saturated with noise, as the main factor limiting upstream speeds is noise. The downstream signal is very easy to keep fairly clean as everything on an HFC network coming from the headend is pretty much fiber up until the "last mile". In other words, you are taking a clean signal and distributing it outwards. As for the upstream, you are taking dirty RF signals over coax through amplifiers which in turn amplify the noise as well as the signal itself. The upstream will always have far more noise in it than the downstream due to the nature of how it is being sent back to the headend.
Basically, 6Mhz of RF on an HFC network is good for approximately 26Mbps using QAM 64 and about 41Mbps using QAM 256....regardless of direction. It is simply the massive amounts of noise introduced into the upstream that limit its speed. In some older systems QPSK is still being used for the upstream which even further inhibits upstream speeds.
Basically, I am of the opinion that SCO will lose their court battle and is only doing this to pump and dump stocks. Sure the SCO execs will be fat and rich, but they may also be subject to an investigation for this entire fiasco.
And now on to my real good point...
This kind of media coverage could definitely send Linux to the top of the enterprise server arena after the lawsuits all disintegrate. All these actions do is give extreme amounts of credibility to Linux and it's viability in an enterprise setting. I can see the "suits" now. "Hmm, maybe geeky bob in IT was right, there is something to this Linux thing."
I would assume that most people (even IT illiterate ones) could draw the conclusion that if Linux was just a "hacker toy", then why is it making SCO, Microsoft, and SUN so nervous in the enterprise server market?
Well, where I work this is exactly what we do. Email the offending party, if they do not reply and remedy the situation they are shut off. This is usually as far as it has to go...as people all of a sudden seem to actually care when they find that their internet access is disconnected but seem to care very little if they are screwing up other peoples computers.
Where I work, the password situation is absolutely absurd. I have a password for email, one for our old *nix based customer database software, one for VPN access, one for my login to the domain, one for our network monitoring utility, one for remote FTP only, one for the infamous DOCSIS tools, one for "whats up gold" monitoring software, one for the MRTG machine that monitors the main routers. All fine and well but the damned passwords are required to be changed at an interval that varies from system to system. Of course, not a single one of the damned passwords is ever able to be the same and you cannot repeat the same password in several of the systems for at least 6 password changes.
So yeah, people laugh at how users leave passwords on sticky notes or use simple things such as names, dates, etc....but hell, with policies like these it's impossible to be able to remember all of this crap. I say let me use one password for everything and I'll gladly tote one of those ghastly RSA Securid keys again.
There is something for Windows that is absolutely free that does this very same thing, it's called Gator....now If you'll excuse me, I have this strange feeling that someone is watching me..*sigh*
just forget about SCO for the time being and stop giving them all of this free publicity. When everyone continues to argue the point it tends to imply that SCO does in fact have something worthy of an argument. Hell, if someone told you that the moon was made of cheese....you would probably simply ignore them until they could prove as such. Until then, the moon is still made of....err...rocks and dust?
Basically, they do not have to illegally search your machine. As I understand, in a P2P environment you are offering up files for the whole world to see and download. This would be similar to someone setting up a strret corner kiosk to trade pirated copies of CD's. If the RIAA happens to stop by your publicly open kiosk and see what you have I would most definitely think that they would be free to pursue it however the felt necessary. Now, if you had pirated CD's in your home...and they kicked the door down and searched your premises, this would be called burglary.
Basically, if you are offering to the public anyone can swing by and take a little look to see what you have. This is not intercepting and monitoring her internet activity...this is simply walking into her shop that is open to the public.
Unfortunately, when you are as big as Microsoft it is much easier to simply consider it a cost of doing business. How much in fines or judgements would it take to bankrupt Microsoft?? They are most likely profiting far more than any ruling against them would award. Let's say that Microsoft was forced to pay (insert payee here) $1 million dollars a day in damages, that would be a mere $365 million a year. 1000 million is a billion, multiply by what the company is worth.....hell..Microsoft would still be in business for quite a long time even if they had absolutely zero in revenues.
I think what he is really trying to figure out is if the upgrade price would be worth it. Should he be ready to sell off his old Mac and plunk down the cash on a shiny new G5?? Or is it maybe a few percentage points faster than his G4?? I do a similar thing with video cards. Is my GeForce 3 Ti-500 only a hair slower than the new 4x00?? It's just a way to get a bearing on things as relative to your current setup. He probably doesn't use PC's as often as to be able to draw a clear conclusion. I know I would want to see how my stuff stacks up and not see benchmarks of a new card (which I don't have and have no guage as to how fast it is) compared to some other newer card.
As a side note, I am presently typing this on an old iMac 266 with 160MB of RAM that I got as a tip from one of my customers:-) Yes, It's slow...but it lets me see OS X. I for one would definitely be a Mac convert just for this OS alone. Too bad the hardware is so damned expensive.
This should be considered pure flamebait. how anyone could consider this insightful is beyond me.
"Here's why you'll start seeing more crazy-sounding initiatives like this "lan tax":
"1. Outsourcing jobs overseas = massive amounts of lost taxes for USA. Since IT jobs were hit the hardest and California was the hottest IT area, it doesn't take a genius to figure out one substantial reason why they're in a budget crisis (which is a taste of things to come for our federal budget)."
Our economy is directly driven by the rich and big business. More money being made equals more money being injected into the economy. I seriously doubt that average joe sixpack who receives a big refund every year has contributed anywhere near as much as the rich and big business.
"2. Huge tax cuts without requirements on how it should be spent = lost tax revenues that might not be spent at all or spent in ways that improve the economy. This is kinda like giving a total stranger $100K and expecting him to spend it in ways that help you while not giving him any expectations on how to spend it (i.e. he can spend it all on building offshore infrastructure to move even more US jobs overseas!)."
Of course you neglect the fact that these tax cuts will be spent by the people receiving them. Again, more profit means more tax revenue.
"3. Our president's failure to build consensus in the UN to attack Iraq and then being exposed for making false justification statements means that other countries are less willing to send their young soldiers to die in Iraq. This means more of OUR taxes going to pay for this ongoing fiasco which will likely INCREASE the odds of future terrorist attacks & boycotts against US-made products."
The terrorists are extremist Muslims that are in fact LITERALLY interpreting the Quran. The Quran as directly interpreted requires the complete elimination of anyone who is not a Muslim. To die in this endeavor means a nice fat chair next to Allah with an endless supply of virgins and rivers that run of wine. Our involvement in middle eastern affairs simply serves to fan the flames a little bit higher. As a side note, the information that was given to our president from various intelligence sources pointed towards weapons of mass destruction being in Iraq, and possibly being scuttled and/or shipped across the Jordanian borders.
"4. and so on including our mounting budget deficit which is like running up a huge credit card bill with mounting interest that YOU and I must pay later with...you guessed it--more freaking taxes than EVER given the aging demographics of babyboomers and their impact on social security, medicare and reduced collection of income taxes from them as they retire."
On this I can partially agree. The deficit does need to be reduced. Tax cuts are one way to provide incentives for the major tax payers (the rich and big business) to invest more in the economy and pay more taxes. If everyone was a multi-millionaire the tax revenues would be huge. The average joe is not the person responsible for driving the economy.
"NOTE: $100K is roughly how much VP. Cheney will save in taxes in one year due to the Bush tax cuts. Since that money has to come from somewhere, many of our brave soldiers sacrificing their lives in Iraq will receive PAY CUTS of around $200/month."
A completely unfounded statement
"services like public schools and homeland security facing massive budget cuts in the future--it doesn't HAVE to happen but I don't see a way out if we continue managing our government in the most idiotic way I've seen in decades."
Let's get with the program then and let big business make more money and drive our economy back up. Tax cuts serve as an incentive...not a deterrent.
"I feel sorry for the poor soul who'll get elected as our president next because he's gonna have an almost impossible task on his hands (he'll need to take massive and very unpopular action to fix this mess being created by the current politicians)."
Because of course we all know that Clinton acheived a lot and didn't leave a complete mess that Bush is having to fix now (heavy sarcasm). In fact, I think Clinton will be one of the most unmemorable presidents in history (save for his little blow job incident).
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A simple picture VCD that plays in your DVD Player?? Seems like a whole lot simpler to burn off a picture CD than to deal with all that extra hardware.
Well, it's right here actually: http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/aircraft/private/aero car/info/info.htm
"I think it's pretty bad that everyone focuses on the "atrocities" of the Muslim religion and simply seems to overlook the fact that it is not the religion in general that is bad, it is the few extremists that take their interpretation a bit too far.
Any religion interpreted directly would suffer the same issues. As I pointed out....extremists that interpret their religion extremely literally are the MINORITY. If they were the rule, even most Christians and Catholics would see nothing wrong in killing people in the Old Testament fashion (an eye for an eye). Both eastern and western religions have had their share of extremist acts and atrocities. I think however, if you actually read the Quran and I mean....literally...you will find that it also suffers from many areas where it is open for extremist interpretation (or mis-interpretation if you will).
"But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem; But if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practice regular charity, then open the way for them: For Allah is oft forgiving, most merciful." 9:5
This can be interpreted as seek out ALL non-believers and kill them off (unless they convert and repent) when it is taken out of context. In context, it could be interpreted to mean ONLY the pagans that attack you and persecute you for your beliefs. Again...very different interpretations for the same passages.
As far as the initial war, yes...it was a territorial battle. You can blame Britain for this as their Balfour Declaration was used to establish a homeland for the Jews in what was once a Turkish Ottoman Arab empire. Britain was placed in control of Palestine and basically kicked off this entire mess with the establishment of Jewish colonies in Palestine. The Jews (Israelis) were not happy with the portions they were given and decided to take control of more of the territory. Yes, they also invaded Lebanon (with the intentions of eliminating the PLO, which is fine...it's war...but I do disagree with the massacre of the refugees at Sabra and Shatilla.
As I see it, this is far more than a territory battle. The Muslim extremist world will not tolerate Zionists living on Muslim soil in any capacity at all. They are not willing to live together with the Israelis peacefully as......you guessed it...they are not Muslims. Many wars have been fought over territory with eventual compromises and resolutions. It's just that when an extremist form of religion is involved no compromises can be made; especially when one or both of the parties is unwilling to put aside religion for the sake of a logical and peaceful resolution. I think that the majority of Palestinians would be absolutely thrilled to death if a fair solution was available....it's just that the extremist groups have more power than the non-extremists and are not willing to let this happen.
What it all boils down to is a big holy war between two opposing factions. Whenever you have extremists in ANY religion (Christians and the Crusades, Catholics and the Spanish Inquisition, Christians once again in the Salem witch hunts, Jim Jones and his order of cyanide drinking followers, etc.) you will have problems. I think it's pretty bad that everyone focuses on the "atrocities" of the Muslim religion and simply seems to overlook the fact that it is not the religion in general that is bad, it is the few extremists that take their interpretation a bit too far. I'm pretty sure that if the Palestinians had tanks, aircraft, and weaponry to match the Israeli army that they would most likely fight using them instead of suicide bombings. Terrorism has never proven to be a very successful method af waging a war, but in desperation and lack of any other alternatives it is most likely the ONLY alternative the Palestinians have. The only failing point here is that Islam is in fact not a peaceful religion and the Quoran as written dictates that a peacful Muslim is the most vile of beasts and that it is the Muslim duty to eliminate all other religions from the face of the planet. If a Muslim shall die in performing this duty his reward is an afterlife where there is an endless supply of virgins and the rivers run of wine.
For the record, I am an atheist and I loathe the idea of any religion at all. Unfortunately, I think the human species will be plagued with them until some 4.5 to 5 billion years from now when we are engulfed by our sun as it expands into a red giant and eliminates the earth as we know it.
So you mean that I actually have a chance of getting laid?
Sounds like a good time to me.
Well, not to be an ass or anything....But don't the teachers kinda' know the pay grade BEFORE they decide to dedicate their career to it? It's not like there is some form of "bait and switch" being pulled where they think they will make 'X' dollars and are being paid far less than expected. A friend of mine is a cop and hell....he even admits that he knew the pay sucked when he decided on that career path, but he does like his job far more than I like mine....which coincidentally pays more than his.
Yes, but it probably guarantees a Linux server only version.
Sure does, a neato symbol rate calculator can be found here: http://home.online.no/~jensts/Satellite/bitrates.h tm
Incorrect! theoretical maximum at 64 QAM is somewhere around 27 Mbps, At 256 QAM it's approximately 42 Mbps (give or take).
Hahaha, I wish. For some reason stuff like this seems to only work in their favor.
Anyways, we have a 'sales and usage tax'. Even if you purchase something out of state you are expected to report it to the state and pay 'usage' tax in lieu of 'sales' tax. A friend of mine recently received a letter from the state demanding their 6% usage tax since he purchased furniture from an out of state company and had it shipped to him here in Florida. The real kicker is that if you do pay sales tax out of state then you just have to pay Florida the difference to equal 6%. For example, you pay say 5% sales tax somewhere....then you only owe Florida 1% more.
What a scam!!
Basically, 6Mhz of RF on an HFC network is good for approximately 26Mbps using QAM 64 and about 41Mbps using QAM 256....regardless of direction. It is simply the massive amounts of noise introduced into the upstream that limit its speed. In some older systems QPSK is still being used for the upstream which even further inhibits upstream speeds.
And now on to my real good point...
This kind of media coverage could definitely send Linux to the top of the enterprise server arena after the lawsuits all disintegrate. All these actions do is give extreme amounts of credibility to Linux and it's viability in an enterprise setting. I can see the "suits" now. "Hmm, maybe geeky bob in IT was right, there is something to this Linux thing."
I would assume that most people (even IT illiterate ones) could draw the conclusion that if Linux was just a "hacker toy", then why is it making SCO, Microsoft, and SUN so nervous in the enterprise server market?
Well, where I work this is exactly what we do. Email the offending party, if they do not reply and remedy the situation they are shut off. This is usually as far as it has to go...as people all of a sudden seem to actually care when they find that their internet access is disconnected but seem to care very little if they are screwing up other peoples computers.
So yeah, people laugh at how users leave passwords on sticky notes or use simple things such as names, dates, etc....but hell, with policies like these it's impossible to be able to remember all of this crap. I say let me use one password for everything and I'll gladly tote one of those ghastly RSA Securid keys again.
There is something for Windows that is absolutely free that does this very same thing, it's called Gator. ...now If you'll excuse me, I have this strange feeling that someone is watching me..*sigh*
just forget about SCO for the time being and stop giving them all of this free publicity. When everyone continues to argue the point it tends to imply that SCO does in fact have something worthy of an argument. Hell, if someone told you that the moon was made of cheese....you would probably simply ignore them until they could prove as such. Until then, the moon is still made of....err...rocks and dust?
Basically, if you are offering to the public anyone can swing by and take a little look to see what you have. This is not intercepting and monitoring her internet activity...this is simply walking into her shop that is open to the public.
Here ya' go..... A quick Google and all is well :-)
http://www.drdos.com/products.html
Unfortunately, when you are as big as Microsoft it is much easier to simply consider it a cost of doing business. How much in fines or judgements would it take to bankrupt Microsoft?? They are most likely profiting far more than any ruling against them would award. Let's say that Microsoft was forced to pay (insert payee here) $1 million dollars a day in damages, that would be a mere $365 million a year. 1000 million is a billion, multiply by what the company is worth.....hell..Microsoft would still be in business for quite a long time even if they had absolutely zero in revenues.
Actually, DR-DOS was a beautiful thing. Multitasking 32 Bit DOS :-) You could actually switch between running DOS applications on it.
As a side note, I am presently typing this on an old iMac 266 with 160MB of RAM that I got as a tip from one of my customers :-) Yes, It's slow...but it lets me see OS X. I for one would definitely be a Mac convert just for this OS alone. Too bad the hardware is so damned expensive.
"Here's why you'll start seeing more crazy-sounding initiatives like this "lan tax":
"1. Outsourcing jobs overseas = massive amounts of lost taxes for USA. Since IT jobs were hit the hardest and California was the hottest IT area, it doesn't take a genius to figure out one substantial reason why they're in a budget crisis (which is a taste of things to come for our federal budget)."
Our economy is directly driven by the rich and big business. More money being made equals more money being injected into the economy. I seriously doubt that average joe sixpack who receives a big refund every year has contributed anywhere near as much as the rich and big business.
"2. Huge tax cuts without requirements on how it should be spent = lost tax revenues that might not be spent at all or spent in ways that improve the economy. This is kinda like giving a total stranger $100K and expecting him to spend it in ways that help you while not giving him any expectations on how to spend it (i.e. he can spend it all on building offshore infrastructure to move even more US jobs overseas!)."
Of course you neglect the fact that these tax cuts will be spent by the people receiving them. Again, more profit means more tax revenue.
"3. Our president's failure to build consensus in the UN to attack Iraq and then being exposed for making false justification statements means that other countries are less willing to send their young soldiers to die in Iraq. This means more of OUR taxes going to pay for this ongoing fiasco which will likely INCREASE the odds of future terrorist attacks & boycotts against US-made products."
The terrorists are extremist Muslims that are in fact LITERALLY interpreting the Quran. The Quran as directly interpreted requires the complete elimination of anyone who is not a Muslim. To die in this endeavor means a nice fat chair next to Allah with an endless supply of virgins and rivers that run of wine. Our involvement in middle eastern affairs simply serves to fan the flames a little bit higher. As a side note, the information that was given to our president from various intelligence sources pointed towards weapons of mass destruction being in Iraq, and possibly being scuttled and/or shipped across the Jordanian borders.
"4. and so on including our mounting budget deficit which is like running up a huge credit card bill with mounting interest that YOU and I must pay later with...you guessed it--more freaking taxes than EVER given the aging demographics of babyboomers and their impact on social security, medicare and reduced collection of income taxes from them as they retire."
On this I can partially agree. The deficit does need to be reduced. Tax cuts are one way to provide incentives for the major tax payers (the rich and big business) to invest more in the economy and pay more taxes. If everyone was a multi-millionaire the tax revenues would be huge. The average joe is not the person responsible for driving the economy.
"NOTE: $100K is roughly how much VP. Cheney will save in taxes in one year due to the Bush tax cuts. Since that money has to come from somewhere, many of our brave soldiers sacrificing their lives in Iraq will receive PAY CUTS of around $200/month."
A completely unfounded statement
"services like public schools and homeland security facing massive budget cuts in the future--it doesn't HAVE to happen but I don't see a way out if we continue managing our government in the most idiotic way I've seen in decades."
Let's get with the program then and let big business make more money and drive our economy back up. Tax cuts serve as an incentive...not a deterrent.
"I feel sorry for the poor soul who'll get elected as our president next because he's gonna have an almost impossible task on his hands (he'll need to take massive and very unpopular action to fix this mess being created by the current politicians)."
Because of course we all know that Clinton acheived a lot and didn't leave a complete mess that Bush is having to fix now (heavy sarcasm). In fact, I think Clinton will be one of the most unmemorable presidents in history (save for his little blow job incident).