Communism SHOULD NOT have a bad name.
The fact is, that other than Israels little communes, and perhaps some hippy packs, Communism has never occurred.
What SHOULD have a bad name is the totalitarianism as practiced by USSR and what is STILL practiced by China.
Even now, ppl like to claim that China is capitalist. Nothing could be further from the truth. Unless you are involved in exporting, then Chinese gov. still controls the economy. For example, they control the bulk of the coal mines (though it is via a 'corporation'). The laws say what is the MAX pay for gov. owned corps, while there is a MINIMUM wage for foreign partial owned, and the minimum is > the max.
China is nothing but a totalitarian nation who is in a cold war with the west. Sadly, the American leaders, esp. the neo-cons, have done more to help Chinese leaders than they have for Chinese ppl.
No. The communist invasion and takeover of China did not last that long. In fact, it was over in 1949. From 1949 until about 1979, the Chinese were gutted by the communist party. In many ways, it was worse than stalinism. To this day, the Chinese communist party still runs with a constitution that says what rights the citizen has (which are VERY limited) and that all else, belongs to the state. More importantly, China runs roughshod over those rights unless it becomes an issue in the LOCAL papers or businesses.
To try and compare this to slavery from over 250 years ago, or to a 4 year civil war, is ridiculous.
Australia does not have the same issues as the USA. Here in the USA, our politicians are available to ANY foreign nation, as long as they pay in dollars. In all of the rest of the western nations, the politicians are at least somewhat loyal to their nation.
China would be propping up economies only IF it were buying other goods from other nations. Instead, it cheats by fixing their money to western money, subsidizing and dumping on foreign markets thereby destroying western economies, and then blocking everything except for nations that they want to woo, or have raw resources.
China's action are a big part of why we are having a meltdown in the global economy 5 years ago and now again.
Yes, things from 200-400 years ago, is certainly relevant to the conversation. And I hate to say this, esp. to another AC troll, but the slaves were captured by Africans, brought and instituted here by the europeans, and it was our war to say NO to it that costs us.
OTOH, a civil war, is not the same thing as going after your citizens to make them support you 100% or die.
Sigh. How much global telecom info does NSA look at?
Personally, I would be more upset about the ability of China to shut down our infrastructure just prior to an attack, then their ability to listen. Listening is about 'Trust, but Verify'. Shutting down infrastructure is what you do to your enemies that are stupid enough to trust your word (esp. when you have been breaking it all along).
Actually, it is far more likely for China to launch an attack. In addition, their wonderful Chinese great network wall is designed for TWO ways. IOW, it will also serve to protect their own infrastructure. Sadly, the west is going to allow it because the GD neo-cons want cheap goods as well as more money from Chinese gov. in their slimy pockets.
There are all sorts of ppl that are on this site, and others, saying to look the other way. The Chinese would NEVER spy on the west, or put in backdoors to use for an offensive attack. I mean, these ppl all know that the communist China are the good guys. Likewise, that bunch of Chinese naval ships caught 50 miles off the phillipines coast is a non-issue is well. The fact that they were close to a number of telecom trunks has no bearing on anything.
So, relax. China will not try what they did to India. And the communists are heading towards being capitalists so there is no chance that they are working to kill off the west.
The neo-cons, including Lamar Smith, have another interesting bill that will be coming up. Oddly, I support a revised version of it. Basically, HR-2885 was put forward by Lamar smith to address the illegal alien issues. However, it has sat in committee controlled by neo-cons for almost a year. It was SUPPOSED to push e-verify on ALL businesses with stiff penalties. Now, it is only for some of the businesses (you can sub out to another business without checking that they use e-verify), and the penalties are worthless.
Had this bill been any good, it would be a COMPROMISE. It should have dealt differently with those that were brought here and raised here in our schools, etc. Likewise, it should deal differently with those that have served in the military. Finally, it needs STIFF penalities for businesses that hire illegals. But, it will not.
Yet, it will be dragged out by the neo-cons in about 2-3 months and will fail. So why do this? Purely for politics. This will be a pure rove style tactic.
Actually, I have plenty of areas where I have ripped O at, and will continue to do so. However, that is a different issue.
I use neo-cons CORRECTLY. Basically, the followers of reagan called themselves neo-cons back in the 80's. And just like the term COOL, or SIC, it has many meanings. Now, I call those that are followers of reagan/W neo-cons because that is what they called themselves for ages. They only wanted it stopped when they realized that neo-cons had the same connotation as NAZI.
Likewise, you have dems (a party) that has various sub-groups in there. Some are Liberals (reid, polosi come to mind), while others are moderates and then you have the blue dogs ( social moderates, but strong fiscal conservatives: like John Barrow, Mike McIntyre, etc).
Now, a lot of dems point fingers at the blue dogs and blame them for not following on all of the liberal policies. So, can you paint these ppl with the same 'Liberal' moniker? Nope.
BUT, like reagan/W, neo-cons remain a group of ppl that are social conservatives, fiscal idiots, and constantly promise loads, but have ZERO intentions of delivering most of it. Worst of all, they represent big business and foreign gov. esp China (in spite of their pointing fingers at them, neo-cons are the best friends that China has EVER had), far more than they represent any American, or even the citizens that elected them.
Lamar smith is a WELL KNOWN neo-con. And his backers are big businesses. Should I paint him with a REPUBLICAN paint brush, or neo-con? The fact is, that he ran as a republican, but compared to the republicans BEFORE reagan, Lamar smith has absolutely NOTHING in common with them. Just like the tea party runs under the republican umbrella, but other than being controlled by the neo-cons (yes, the top ppl of the tea party ARE neo-cons; to them, the tea party is a lightening rod that can do their dirty work), the members have very little to do with neo-cons.
The AC is upset because he wants a single brush to paint all of them. More importantly, he knows that the neo-cons have a dirty reputation (kind of like liberal, who now call themselves progressives). But, if it WALKS like a duck, QUACKS like a duck, FLIES like a duck, SWIMS like a duck, lays eggs like a duck, and tastes like a duck, then his calling it a robin will not change the fact that it is STILL a duck.
The first bill WAS bi-partisan. ANd like I said, I thought it was dead. Said so at the time.
HOWEVER, it is the neo-cons that continue to bring it up in different fashions. And it is fuck heads ACs like you that are worthless and serve to retard all down to your level
Back when the first bill was killed, I was certain that it was over. And yet, the neo-cons try over and over and over to get their agenda through. My guess is that their under-the-table money depends on getting these bills through.
Sad. They put more effort into styming our nation, then they do into solving unemployment, high deficits, and our on-going illegal issue (though they will no doubt introduce HR-2885 in the next couple of months; an e-verify bill that is so bad (basically, little penalties on the businesses) that the dems will not pass it).
What was high-risk was outsourcing to the likes of IBM, HP, CapGemeni, wipepro, etc. who outsource the work to India or China. That information is then able to be used against GM. Real stupid on GM's part.
Just kill the method patents. The fact is, that patents make good sense for mechanical items. But method patents? Most stupid idea that I have EVER heard.
Even before that, there was WAIS. Wide Area Information Server was a distributed search engine in which it actually indexed your machine that it searched first and then went to other systems close by, and continued on. And that was around long before MS was doing searches on the net.
Seriously, this is an interesting opportunity for Google/Motorola to not only bring manufacturing back to the USA/west, but to get sales just by being environmental about it.
responsible. If they put up garbage servers, and they allow their employees on garbage OS, then it is an invite to be cracked sooner, rather than later. Similarly, BOA was cracked in the same way several years ago. They are another one that will be cracked again and this time, I hope that large lawsuits follow.
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Communism SHOULD NOT have a bad name.
The fact is, that other than Israels little communes, and perhaps some hippy packs, Communism has never occurred.
What SHOULD have a bad name is the totalitarianism as practiced by USSR and what is STILL practiced by China.
Even now, ppl like to claim that China is capitalist. Nothing could be further from the truth. Unless you are involved in exporting, then Chinese gov. still controls the economy. For example, they control the bulk of the coal mines (though it is via a 'corporation'). The laws say what is the MAX pay for gov. owned corps, while there is a MINIMUM wage for foreign partial owned, and the minimum is > the max.
China is nothing but a totalitarian nation who is in a cold war with the west. Sadly, the American leaders, esp. the neo-cons, have done more to help Chinese leaders than they have for Chinese ppl.
No. The communist invasion and takeover of China did not last that long. In fact, it was over in 1949. From 1949 until about 1979, the Chinese were gutted by the communist party. In many ways, it was worse than stalinism. To this day, the Chinese communist party still runs with a constitution that says what rights the citizen has (which are VERY limited) and that all else, belongs to the state. More importantly, China runs roughshod over those rights unless it becomes an issue in the LOCAL papers or businesses.
To try and compare this to slavery from over 250 years ago, or to a 4 year civil war, is ridiculous.
Australia does not have the same issues as the USA. Here in the USA, our politicians are available to ANY foreign nation, as long as they pay in dollars. In all of the rest of the western nations, the politicians are at least somewhat loyal to their nation.
China would be propping up economies only IF it were buying other goods from other nations. Instead, it cheats by fixing their money to western money, subsidizing and dumping on foreign markets thereby destroying western economies, and then blocking everything except for nations that they want to woo, or have raw resources.
China's action are a big part of why we are having a meltdown in the global economy 5 years ago and now again.
Yes, things from 200-400 years ago, is certainly relevant to the conversation. And I hate to say this, esp. to another AC troll, but the slaves were captured by Africans, brought and instituted here by the europeans, and it was our war to say NO to it that costs us.
OTOH, a civil war, is not the same thing as going after your citizens to make them support you 100% or die.
And you can confirm this how? My guess is that you are making a BIG assumption that you should not.
Sigh. How much global telecom info does NSA look at?
Personally, I would be more upset about the ability of China to shut down our infrastructure just prior to an attack, then their ability to listen. Listening is about 'Trust, but Verify'. Shutting down infrastructure is what you do to your enemies that are stupid enough to trust your word (esp. when you have been breaking it all along).
Or they knew the situation.
Actually, it is far more likely for China to launch an attack. In addition, their wonderful Chinese great network wall is designed for TWO ways. IOW, it will also serve to protect their own infrastructure. Sadly, the west is going to allow it because the GD neo-cons want cheap goods as well as more money from Chinese gov. in their slimy pockets.
There are all sorts of ppl that are on this site, and others, saying to look the other way. The Chinese would NEVER spy on the west, or put in backdoors to use for an offensive attack. I mean, these ppl all know that the communist China are the good guys. Likewise, that bunch of Chinese naval ships caught 50 miles off the phillipines coast is a non-issue is well. The fact that they were close to a number of telecom trunks has no bearing on anything.
So, relax. China will not try what they did to India. And the communists are heading towards being capitalists so there is no chance that they are working to kill off the west.
No doubt. But of course, all pols do it. I view the neo-cons as being worse, but few in CONgress are winners.
The neo-cons, including Lamar Smith, have another interesting bill that will be coming up. Oddly, I support a revised version of it. Basically, HR-2885 was put forward by Lamar smith to address the illegal alien issues. However, it has sat in committee controlled by neo-cons for almost a year. It was SUPPOSED to push e-verify on ALL businesses with stiff penalties. Now, it is only for some of the businesses (you can sub out to another business without checking that they use e-verify), and the penalties are worthless.
Had this bill been any good, it would be a COMPROMISE. It should have dealt differently with those that were brought here and raised here in our schools, etc. Likewise, it should deal differently with those that have served in the military. Finally, it needs STIFF penalities for businesses that hire illegals. But, it will not.
Yet, it will be dragged out by the neo-cons in about 2-3 months and will fail. So why do this? Purely for politics. This will be a pure rove style tactic.
Actually, I have plenty of areas where I have ripped O at, and will continue to do so. However, that is a different issue.
I use neo-cons CORRECTLY. Basically, the followers of reagan called themselves neo-cons back in the 80's. And just like the term COOL, or SIC, it has many meanings. Now, I call those that are followers of reagan/W neo-cons because that is what they called themselves for ages. They only wanted it stopped when they realized that neo-cons had the same connotation as NAZI.
Likewise, you have dems (a party) that has various sub-groups in there. Some are Liberals (reid, polosi come to mind), while others are moderates and then you have the blue dogs ( social moderates, but strong fiscal conservatives: like John Barrow, Mike McIntyre, etc).
Now, a lot of dems point fingers at the blue dogs and blame them for not following on all of the liberal policies. So, can you paint these ppl with the same 'Liberal' moniker? Nope.
BUT, like reagan/W, neo-cons remain a group of ppl that are social conservatives, fiscal idiots, and constantly promise loads, but have ZERO intentions of delivering most of it. Worst of all, they represent big business and foreign gov. esp China (in spite of their pointing fingers at them, neo-cons are the best friends that China has EVER had), far more than they represent any American, or even the citizens that elected them.
Lamar smith is a WELL KNOWN neo-con. And his backers are big businesses. Should I paint him with a REPUBLICAN paint brush, or neo-con? The fact is, that he ran as a republican, but compared to the republicans BEFORE reagan, Lamar smith has absolutely NOTHING in common with them. Just like the tea party runs under the republican umbrella, but other than being controlled by the neo-cons (yes, the top ppl of the tea party ARE neo-cons; to them, the tea party is a lightening rod that can do their dirty work), the members have very little to do with neo-cons.
The AC is upset because he wants a single brush to paint all of them. More importantly, he knows that the neo-cons have a dirty reputation (kind of like liberal, who now call themselves progressives). But, if it WALKS like a duck, QUACKS like a duck, FLIES like a duck, SWIMS like a duck, lays eggs like a duck, and tastes like a duck, then his calling it a robin will not change the fact that it is STILL a duck.
The first bill WAS bi-partisan. ANd like I said, I thought it was dead. Said so at the time.
HOWEVER, it is the neo-cons that continue to bring it up in different fashions. And it is fuck heads ACs like you that are worthless and serve to retard all down to your level
Back when the first bill was killed, I was certain that it was over. And yet, the neo-cons try over and over and over to get their agenda through. My guess is that their under-the-table money depends on getting these bills through.
Sad. They put more effort into styming our nation, then they do into solving unemployment, high deficits, and our on-going illegal issue (though they will no doubt introduce HR-2885 in the next couple of months; an e-verify bill that is so bad (basically, little penalties on the businesses) that the dems will not pass it).
Americans do not want these jobs? You trolls are just amazing.
Relax. GM will go back up on forbes list after the election.
What was high-risk was outsourcing to the likes of IBM, HP, CapGemeni, wipepro, etc. who outsource the work to India or China. That information is then able to be used against GM. Real stupid on GM's part.
Can you run it without a display?
No, you speak of them. You obviously do not believe in them. Otherwise, W and his staff would not have been traitors.
VNC is a remote display. This is using a phone for input. Think touchpad. In fact, you could even use this for drawing with.
Just kill the method patents. The fact is, that patents make good sense for mechanical items. But method patents? Most stupid idea that I have EVER heard.
Even before that, there was WAIS. Wide Area Information Server was a distributed search engine in which it actually indexed your machine that it searched first and then went to other systems close by, and continued on. And that was around long before MS was doing searches on the net.
Seriously, this is an interesting opportunity for Google/Motorola to not only bring manufacturing back to the USA/west, but to get sales just by being environmental about it.
responsible. If they put up garbage servers, and they allow their employees on garbage OS, then it is an invite to be cracked sooner, rather than later. Similarly, BOA was cracked in the same way several years ago. They are another one that will be cracked again and this time, I hope that large lawsuits follow.