Quite a bit- but I'm talking about those who WON against terrorism, not those who lost. (A win in this case means actually getting the terrorists to stop committing acts of terrorism for a large period of time). I'm open to you suggesting examples which do NOT include giving in to terrorist demands and turning society into an armed camp OR killing off all the terrorists, all of their sympathizers, and all of thier family. Partial solutions, though, don't work very well once the situation has degraded to the point of terrorism. The most successfull example of a partial solution working has been Ireland- and we've yet to see if it will stand the test of time (it's been less than a decade since the last "Real IRA" or "Real Orangemen" bomb went off, and to a large extent Ulster is still an armed camp, and will be for another generation at least). East Timor was brought up- but the Indonesian thugs were an invader in that situation, and thus the armed surrender option worked completely in that case. Similarily, the armed surrender worked to end the Malaysian Emergency. Got any other examples?
Canada is located in the same geographic area as USA, has roughly the same ethnic and religious background, same economic system, very similar legal system. Canada never done any genocide, nor had they surrendered to anybody.
Maybe you should try telling that to the Jowadaino....there's been just as much genocide within Canadian borders as there has been WITHIN US borders.
Having said that- I would actually say that not being militant is a surrender- a surrender of tolerance, but still a surrender. I'm not talking about *complete* surrender to the Islamofascists- just to the point where we're no longer killing "random civilians" for profit and cutting back on trade and energy usage to defuse the situation somewhat. After that, it's just a matter of defining anybody entering the country illegally as a terrorist and an invader- and dealing with them appropriately AFTER they prove that they are by attempting to enter the country illegally.
and I've pointed it out before. Define "terrorism" in this context. How you can hold up Titus' genocide against the Jews -- he ordered the complete destruction of Judea -- as an example of stopping terrorism is beyond me.
Gee- 40 years of rebellion and terrorism, and you still think the main reason was to steal gold? Call it "Jewish resistance" if you want to- there's no difference between Jewish resistance in 70 A.D. and Arabic resistance to the Israeli/American Empire now (well, except for the fact that Israeli/American Empire has stopped at economic/cultural domination instead of continuing on to full fledged governmental domination).
Perhaps the morons modding this crap up every time you post it would stop to think if they knew you were advocating genocide based on an example of the near extermination of Jews that was actually an influence on Hitler's strategy of annihilation during WWII.
And like before- you've failed to notice that what I'm REALLY advocating is the armed isolationist surrender of St. Augustine rather than the genocide of General Titus- because after all, it's much easier to get a new economy than it is to get a new religion.
With the independence of Malaya under Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman on August 31, 1957, the insurrection lost its rationale as a war of colonial liberation.
I would suggest this was the real end of the Malayan Emergency- and that this is indeed Surrender by St. Augustine's idea of respecting the sovereignity of one's enemy. I'm not familiar with the East Timor operation- but I'd suggest that if it did a good job keeping the local populace on the side of the government AND addressing the justice concerns of the Indonesian-Supported thugs (like in the Malayan Emergency- by giving the jungle dwellers fortified villages where they could be safe, they fullfilled the objective of Justice as required by an Augustinian Just War Surrender), then this too was an Augustinian Surrender.
The point is though that Bush is doing neither- and as long as he continues this path, we're going to have 2-3 terrorists created for each terrorist or civilian killed- at last count, well over 100,000 Iraqis and 40,000 Afghanis.
Thus the key is- either don't treat them like an enemy until they ACT like an enemy (Augustine, Just War Theory, don't take your war to other countries, fight it on your own soil instead and only against a foreign invader), OR, alternatively, kill them off quickly (and everybody they ever met).
It's high time he at least HAD an idea. The fact is, historically only TWO strategies have succeeded in ending terrorism: Genocide (Titus) and Surrender (Augustine). We need to do one or the other- and soon, because while all of our soldiers are involved in Iraq, the Arizona and Texas border is practically unguarded.
Uh, you do know who he was, right? NSA chief for 30 years? It was his JOB to be in the center of every friggin' national security crisis or even glitch for the past 30 years, that's what we taxpayers paid his salary to do. If he hadn't been there, I would have damn well wanted to know why.
The forms in Oregon are all now fill-in-the-bubble scantrons- after the Florida debacle the last two counties using punch cards switched, and the State required standardization on a single ballot style. Thus, all potential voters in Oregon get 12 years of training in the public school system (and on tests for home schooled students) before being allowed to vote. People who fail to fill in a section of the form are therefore at their own risk- the state certainly took the time to train them!:-)
Hmm- methinks you probably shouldn't link to Drudge as a source of what Democrats think- or a FreeRepublic writer either. May I suggest getting your information of what Democrats think from a source that is actually Democratic? http://www.airamericaradio.com/ had all of their talk radio hosts embracing absentee voting as THE solution to Diebold machines. Of course, in many states, absentee voters are basically disenfranchised- the votes aren't counted unless the election is close enough to make a difference.
Back on topic with SG1 and SGA. I'm not looking forward to the time change that is coming on January 21st, which will put SG-1 in direct conflict with Enterprise. Enterprise fans already had to fight to get this season made, being in conflict with SG-1 will more than likely seal Enterprises fate for good...
However, I've noticed that when SciFi Channel does things like this, they re-run three hours later- so there's no conflict for me (besides, I time shift everything anyway- and Enterprise is already in conflict with Joan of Arcadia to me).
AFL-CIO *supports* immigrant workers. What they hate, however, is the abuse of immigrant workers.
This alone shows that they're clueless about the larger problem- the wholesale replacement of American workers with "guest worker" visas. As a rather active member of ORTech, Washtech, and the CWA- you can bet that any union with tech workers that makes political decisions by a vote of the union members isn't buying the ITAA's lies about there not being enough educated Americans available.
Mail in ballots are subject to fraud, intimidation, and even theft.
Or so claim the mail-in ballot opponents.
Can you imagine an control-freak head of household stealing all the ballots that come to his home then forging the signatures on each?
Yes, but I fail to see how this is any different than the control freak telling his wife how to vote beforehand and then beating her up afterwords if she fails to vote properly or tell him how she voted.
You can't do that in a voting booth.
You damn well can if you're a high tech enough control freak who has access to standard consumer electronics. Combine a 2.4Ghz camera, with electronics from a toy, in a gaudy broach and you'd have no problems seeing how the person you are controling is voting, AND placing punishment on site before they finalize the vote if they do it wrong.
Sure, family members could go to the police, but would they?
Probably as often as they go to the police for my other two examples...which is damn well not often enough. HOWEVER- it doesn't take going to the police to correct your example- it takes being aware enough to notice that your ballot failed to come when all of your friends got their ballots, and going down to the county courthouse or local balloting station to find out why. In Oregon, if you were registered and your ballot failed to arrive, you can vote in person at any county ballot drop off for the entire three weeks of the election. Sure, the control freak may prevent the person from doing it- but that's no different than with a traditional polling place either.
Where back in reality- most software projects are only tested for correctness according to the contract written to the outsourcing company, not compared with the end customers at all.
In other words, the software is written to the specs provided- and once the bill is paid there's no real way to hold any single programmer responsible.
Are the American Public Health Association's ratings good enough for you?
http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_detail.php? sig_id=002938M
Notice something curious? Why, Democrats tend to get far, far better ratings on average than Republicans! Gee, who would have imagine that a party that has an IDEOLOGY of government-provided services to help the less fortunate would support public healthcare, and a party that has an IDEOLOGY of every-person-for-themselves wouldn't.
I don't consider leaving HMOs or major insuance companies in charge to be universal single payer health care. That's just a scam to get the insurance company more money.
Note that once again, the Democrats tend to rate notably better. Once again, it's IDEOLOGY. The parties are ideologically different, and they *vote* along these ideologies.
Note that the Wobblies or the CWA aren't represented- and neither is any union trying to actually EXPAND unionization (as opposed to the shrinking number of unionized workplaces in the last 40 years...the Democrats are voting according to their ideologies all right; for unions that co-operate with managment and against unions that don't.
Unless you're going to claim that interest groups know nothing about the interests they're promoting, you're completely wrong about your view of both parties being the same.
To a large extent, that's exactly what I'm claiming- when it comes to the interests that the interest groups CLAIM to be promoting, they seem to know absolutely nothing. If they did, for instance, the omnibus appropriations bill for this year would be held up in committee forever- because it would expand the number of foreign workers on the H-1b and H-2a visas, which is obviously against the interests of worker rights- yet those unions you quoted support such a measure. This is EXACTLY why I say ideology is just a weapon of mass distraction- and keeps you from seeing the reality.
It's a code snippet, it doesn't need to compile, and human beings don't need to match parentheses to understand it. Are you sure somebody didn't come by, scoop out your brain, and replace it with a LISP machine?
Why then have there been so many boneheaded problems? These machines should have worked perfectly the first time out.
A possible hint: All three major voting machine companies are well into the cheap labor movement, and use recent graduates from third world countries for programming. It's possible that they simply haven't got the experience necessary for the job.
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Quite a bit- but I'm talking about those who WON against terrorism, not those who lost. (A win in this case means actually getting the terrorists to stop committing acts of terrorism for a large period of time). I'm open to you suggesting examples which do NOT include giving in to terrorist demands and turning society into an armed camp OR killing off all the terrorists, all of their sympathizers, and all of thier family. Partial solutions, though, don't work very well once the situation has degraded to the point of terrorism. The most successfull example of a partial solution working has been Ireland- and we've yet to see if it will stand the test of time (it's been less than a decade since the last "Real IRA" or "Real Orangemen" bomb went off, and to a large extent Ulster is still an armed camp, and will be for another generation at least). East Timor was brought up- but the Indonesian thugs were an invader in that situation, and thus the armed surrender option worked completely in that case. Similarily, the armed surrender worked to end the Malaysian Emergency. Got any other examples?
Canada is located in the same geographic area as USA, has roughly the same ethnic and religious background, same economic system, very similar legal system. Canada never done any genocide, nor had they surrendered to anybody.
Maybe you should try telling that to the Jowadaino....there's been just as much genocide within Canadian borders as there has been WITHIN US borders.
Having said that- I would actually say that not being militant is a surrender- a surrender of tolerance, but still a surrender. I'm not talking about *complete* surrender to the Islamofascists- just to the point where we're no longer killing "random civilians" for profit and cutting back on trade and energy usage to defuse the situation somewhat. After that, it's just a matter of defining anybody entering the country illegally as a terrorist and an invader- and dealing with them appropriately AFTER they prove that they are by attempting to enter the country illegally.
and I've pointed it out before. Define "terrorism" in this context. How you can hold up Titus' genocide against the Jews -- he ordered the complete destruction of Judea -- as an example of stopping terrorism is beyond me.
Gee- 40 years of rebellion and terrorism, and you still think the main reason was to steal gold? Call it "Jewish resistance" if you want to- there's no difference between Jewish resistance in 70 A.D. and Arabic resistance to the Israeli/American Empire now (well, except for the fact that Israeli/American Empire has stopped at economic/cultural domination instead of continuing on to full fledged governmental domination).
Perhaps the morons modding this crap up every time you post it would stop to think if they knew you were advocating genocide based on an example of the near extermination of Jews that was actually an influence on Hitler's strategy of annihilation during WWII.
And like before- you've failed to notice that what I'm REALLY advocating is the armed isolationist surrender of St. Augustine rather than the genocide of General Titus- because after all, it's much easier to get a new economy than it is to get a new religion.
With the independence of Malaya under Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman on August 31, 1957, the insurrection lost its rationale as a war of colonial liberation.
I would suggest this was the real end of the Malayan Emergency- and that this is indeed Surrender by St. Augustine's idea of respecting the sovereignity of one's enemy. I'm not familiar with the East Timor operation- but I'd suggest that if it did a good job keeping the local populace on the side of the government AND addressing the justice concerns of the Indonesian-Supported thugs (like in the Malayan Emergency- by giving the jungle dwellers fortified villages where they could be safe, they fullfilled the objective of Justice as required by an Augustinian Just War Surrender), then this too was an Augustinian Surrender.
The point is though that Bush is doing neither- and as long as he continues this path, we're going to have 2-3 terrorists created for each terrorist or civilian killed- at last count, well over 100,000 Iraqis and 40,000 Afghanis.
More that apparently there is quite a problem with Pakistanis coming into Texas from Mexico- running weapons and drugs.
Considering that their main purpose currently is running illegal drugs into Tuscon and killing American ranchers along the way- yes, quite deadly.
Thus the key is- either don't treat them like an enemy until they ACT like an enemy (Augustine, Just War Theory, don't take your war to other countries, fight it on your own soil instead and only against a foreign invader), OR, alternatively, kill them off quickly (and everybody they ever met).
Isn't it obvious? Michael Moore and W Bush 0wn the media....
It's high time he at least HAD an idea. The fact is, historically only TWO strategies have succeeded in ending terrorism: Genocide (Titus) and Surrender (Augustine). We need to do one or the other- and soon, because while all of our soldiers are involved in Iraq, the Arizona and Texas border is practically unguarded.
Uh, you do know who he was, right? NSA chief for 30 years? It was his JOB to be in the center of every friggin' national security crisis or even glitch for the past 30 years, that's what we taxpayers paid his salary to do. If he hadn't been there, I would have damn well wanted to know why.
When it comes to voting machines and how accurate they are, why would the 51% care? Their guy got in. If it was me- I wouldn't care.
Having said that- integrity is where it's at to me, and neither of the major candidates displayed any.
I think after this last election, about 49% of the electorate, at least, has some clue that there *is* a problem.
The forms in Oregon are all now fill-in-the-bubble scantrons- after the Florida debacle the last two counties using punch cards switched, and the State required standardization on a single ballot style. Thus, all potential voters in Oregon get 12 years of training in the public school system (and on tests for home schooled students) before being allowed to vote. People who fail to fill in a section of the form are therefore at their own risk- the state certainly took the time to train them! :-)
That's only 300 disks...I had backup sets on floppy larger than this back in the day. But what do you do when your hard drive crashes?
Hmm- methinks you probably shouldn't link to Drudge as a source of what Democrats think- or a FreeRepublic writer either. May I suggest getting your information of what Democrats think from a source that is actually Democratic? http://www.airamericaradio.com/ had all of their talk radio hosts embracing absentee voting as THE solution to Diebold machines. Of course, in many states, absentee voters are basically disenfranchised- the votes aren't counted unless the election is close enough to make a difference.
Back on topic with SG1 and SGA. I'm not looking forward to the time change that is coming on January 21st, which will put SG-1 in direct conflict with Enterprise. Enterprise fans already had to fight to get this season made, being in conflict with SG-1 will more than likely seal Enterprises fate for good...
However, I've noticed that when SciFi Channel does things like this, they re-run three hours later- so there's no conflict for me (besides, I time shift everything anyway- and Enterprise is already in conflict with Joan of Arcadia to me).
Uh, Backups? Toss your full hard drive onto a DVD, then run the MPAA program.
AFL-CIO *supports* immigrant workers. What they hate, however, is the abuse of immigrant workers.
This alone shows that they're clueless about the larger problem- the wholesale replacement of American workers with "guest worker" visas. As a rather active member of ORTech, Washtech, and the CWA- you can bet that any union with tech workers that makes political decisions by a vote of the union members isn't buying the ITAA's lies about there not being enough educated Americans available.
80 days nothing, 3.4285714285714285714285714285714 Hours is more like it.
24000 miles at 7000 miles per hour means you'd be home in 3.4285714285714285714285714285714 hours.
Mail in ballots are subject to fraud, intimidation, and even theft.
Or so claim the mail-in ballot opponents.
Can you imagine an control-freak head of household stealing all the ballots that come to his home then forging the signatures on each?
Yes, but I fail to see how this is any different than the control freak telling his wife how to vote beforehand and then beating her up afterwords if she fails to vote properly or tell him how she voted.
You can't do that in a voting booth.
You damn well can if you're a high tech enough control freak who has access to standard consumer electronics. Combine a 2.4Ghz camera, with electronics from a toy, in a gaudy broach and you'd have no problems seeing how the person you are controling is voting, AND placing punishment on site before they finalize the vote if they do it wrong.
Sure, family members could go to the police, but would they?
Probably as often as they go to the police for my other two examples...which is damn well not often enough. HOWEVER- it doesn't take going to the police to correct your example- it takes being aware enough to notice that your ballot failed to come when all of your friends got their ballots, and going down to the county courthouse or local balloting station to find out why. In Oregon, if you were registered and your ballot failed to arrive, you can vote in person at any county ballot drop off for the entire three weeks of the election. Sure, the control freak may prevent the person from doing it- but that's no different than with a traditional polling place either.
Where back in reality- most software projects are only tested for correctness according to the contract written to the outsourcing company, not compared with the end customers at all.
In other words, the software is written to the specs provided- and once the bill is paid there's no real way to hold any single programmer responsible.
Are the American Public Health Association's ratings good enough for you? http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_detail.php? sig_id=002938M
Notice something curious? Why, Democrats tend to get far, far better ratings on average than Republicans! Gee, who would have imagine that a party that has an IDEOLOGY of government-provided services to help the less fortunate would support public healthcare, and a party that has an IDEOLOGY of every-person-for-themselves wouldn't.
I don't consider leaving HMOs or major insuance companies in charge to be universal single payer health care. That's just a scam to get the insurance company more money.
Note that once again, the Democrats tend to rate notably better. Once again, it's IDEOLOGY. The parties are ideologically different, and they *vote* along these ideologies.
Note that the Wobblies or the CWA aren't represented- and neither is any union trying to actually EXPAND unionization (as opposed to the shrinking number of unionized workplaces in the last 40 years...the Democrats are voting according to their ideologies all right; for unions that co-operate with managment and against unions that don't.
Unless you're going to claim that interest groups know nothing about the interests they're promoting, you're completely wrong about your view of both parties being the same.
To a large extent, that's exactly what I'm claiming- when it comes to the interests that the interest groups CLAIM to be promoting, they seem to know absolutely nothing. If they did, for instance, the omnibus appropriations bill for this year would be held up in committee forever- because it would expand the number of foreign workers on the H-1b and H-2a visas, which is obviously against the interests of worker rights- yet those unions you quoted support such a measure. This is EXACTLY why I say ideology is just a weapon of mass distraction- and keeps you from seeing the reality.
It's a code snippet, it doesn't need to compile, and human beings don't need to match parentheses to understand it. Are you sure somebody didn't come by, scoop out your brain, and replace it with a LISP machine?
Why then have there been so many boneheaded problems? These machines should have worked perfectly the first time out.
A possible hint: All three major voting machine companies are well into the cheap labor movement, and use recent graduates from third world countries for programming. It's possible that they simply haven't got the experience necessary for the job.