Because by that time, we had no reason to believe that Saddam would ever act in good faith.
Umm, stop and consider that statement for a second in light of the charges that W had predetermined that he was going invade Iraq. In that case, why even bother with the pretense of sending weapons inspectors into Iraq at all?
(Which is to say that the point you've made is probably not the one you intended...)
There are never any real issues mentioned on the Democrats side. This "We aren't Republicans" campaign hasn't been working. In 1994, Newt at least had a list of things they'd do if they took over Congress.
It's just too bad that Newt and Co. decided that dedicating themselves to the failure of Clinton's Presidency was more important than, you know, trying to run the country.
Shutting down the government to spite Clinton was the act of petulant children.
I use a CF-Y2, not too cheap, but it's got decent battery life and is lightweight (about 3.5 pounds), not to mention that it survived a fall off my desk with no problems.
Who puts their vital power infrastructure controls online anyway?
Infrastucture attacks are no joke. Consider the East Coast blackout of 2003 -- power shut off to millions of Americans, disruption of the world financial markets, interruption of the food supply, transportation systems offline, and more importantly to/.'ers, problems with accessing parts of the internet. If the blackout had lasted longer (there was almost no damage done to the infrastructure itself, so technicians were able to restart the grid normally), we'd have probably seen serious issues with health care.
It's been hypothesized that a cyber attack could potentially cause a cascading failure similar to the 2003 blackout. If combined with traditional physical "terrorist" attacks, we could see area of the country suffer extended loss of electric power. Not good.
As far as "who would leave SCADA systems exposed to the internet...", you probably don't want to know.
On the first offense, lock up *every* drug user over the age of 12 for 5 years with no parole and *every* drug dealer for 10 years without parole instead of groaning on and on about their "bad upbringing" and "disease of addiction."
Good plan. Oh wait, did you realize that 45.7 Percent of High School seniors have reported using Marijuana? Locking up half of the Senior class (not to mention a substantial portion of the adult population) for the next five years might have a few drawbacks, I think. It would appear that your plan is infeasible on it's face.
Besides, expanding the prison system enough to the point that it could house a large percentage of the population of the United States would probably cut into our glorious leader's all important tax cuts.
I'm running an Atheros miniPCI card with the MadWifi Driver under Linux and haven't had any problems.
I've also used Orinoco and Prism2 cards with Linux out of the box.
Work with me here for a second. You are one the way to the soup kitchen to volunteer. You see a rape occurring. You have a weapon, and believe you can stop it. Do you stop going to the soup kitchen and stop the rape, waiting for the police, and helping the woman to the hospital? Or do you continue to the soup kitchen because you have a limited time to help people? Do you help the one, or the many?
If you stop the rape, the single violent crime, then you agree with what Bush did, and not your own previous comment. If you continue on to the soup kitchen, then this rapist will escape justice and continue on his rampage and rape other women, this causing more harm than if you had put a stop to it in the first place.
That's not what Bush did. A better analogy would be:
If a Kerry supporter lives in a Bush State, that's already like saying that that person's vote doesn't matter anymore. Or am I misunderstanding the "swing" status of a State?
Nope, you've got it figured out. I'm a liberal Democrat currently living in one of the Reddest states in the union (Red == Republican, if you didn't know), and I definitely feel that my vote doesn't matter. The Electoral College sucks.
The idea of an American "heartland" is a crock of shit. People in Iowa and Nebraska don't have a monopoly on being "real" Americans any more than people in California do.
Large voter turnouts are not good news for Republicans. Why? Large numbers of voters mean that groups who typically don't swing Republican (minorities and young people) came out to vote. Republicans are scared shitless of the minority vote. Look no farther than the voter suppression efforts the Republicans are staging in Ohio RIGHT NOW for evidence of that.
If you can't legally keep the voters away from the polls, the devil's advocate in me says that it's easier to alter their vote after they've cast it.
Yes, the loss of life is horrible and unfortunate. But, in the long run, it will be worth it. If the troops didn't feel this way, why will they vote 3 to 1 Bush to Kerry
Not a knock against our military personnel, but our men and women in uniform don't ponder political issues all that deeply, on average. My experience with "the troops" (I have about two dozen friends that have served/are serving in various branches of the US military) suggests that they are more brainwashed then the average American (their words, not mine).
This is not all that surprising, considering that the military actively fosters a "Group-think" mentality. At any rate, the military usually tends to be conservative. It's not an endorsement of Bush, by any means.
The only grants I see as being useful are highway funds (trade and defense reasons), and they are so loaded with mandates and requirements to get the money that it is effectively extorting the states into making laws that the people would otherwise not support.
Like Reagan did with the drinking age. Which is why an 18-year old in the US can do whatever the hell they please except drink in a bar. RIP Mr. Reagan, but I think it's hilarious that people remember Reagan as favoring smaller government.
Unbelievable. I was sure this was a troll, but discovered that Wired Magazine ran a story in December 2001 called The Geek Syndrome addressing this phenomenon. Amazing.
Lucky for me, my wife has a degree in Communications, and is about as non-technical as they come.:)
I suppose it depends on your definition of "we". When "we" move our manufacturing centers to other countries, CEO's get fat bonuses and shareholders are happy. "We" also lose thousands of good jobs.
But it's okay, right? Since, the "free" market is always right, right? It's not like other countries don't manipulate the system to make them more attractive to business (with tax incentives, and other "artificial" limitations), do they?
You sir, are an idiot.
I'm not sure what you're replying too, since you obviously haven't read the book.
The argument made is not that the American lifestyle is "Unsustainable", but rather that the post-Industrial economy itself cannot be sustained. His argument is compelling
Read first, then reply.
It depends on how you define a "decent living". Indian programmers don't make as much as their American counterparts (they average about $10K/year, AFAIK), but by all accounts their wages allow them to live extremely comfortably.
Exactly right. What makes this situation worse is that we abandoned "Old Economy" (Capital intensive, like manufacturing) in favor of these "New Economy" industries (which require almost no capital to get into), and now we're getting our asses kicked by India and China. It's going to get worse, too.
What's the consequence of doing nothing, especially during a recession? Should we sacrifice the IT industry in the name of globalism? Should we just wave as the good paying jobs leave the country? Why shouldn't we penalize supposedly American companies who don't employ Americans?
Would you rather have decreased sales due to increased costs (your scenario) or decreased sales due to nobody having a job?
Sure, a properly implemented (read: open, with an audit trail) e-voting system has tremendous upside.
Consider: a nice big touch screen to select your choice (no confusion. Put your finger on your candidates picture to cast your ballot) and fast, accurate results (accuracy trumping fast, IMHO).
If we're doing this upstream, why not just require ISP's to use Ingress Filtering? Getting rid of the ability to spoof your IP makes it a lot harder to DOS.
Your analogy is a little weak. In this case, the criminals are not getting into the house through an open door, they're coming in through the wide open space where the walls should be.
When vulnerabilities are discovered, companies issue patches and (usually) security is improved.
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Fifty percent of the nation will think they have free shit coming their way because they voted for That One.
Fixed that for you.
Umm, stop and consider that statement for a second in light of the charges that W had predetermined that he was going invade Iraq. In that case, why even bother with the pretense of sending weapons inspectors into Iraq at all?
(Which is to say that the point you've made is probably not the one you intended...)
It's just too bad that Newt and Co. decided that dedicating themselves to the failure of Clinton's Presidency was more important than, you know, trying to run the country.
Shutting down the government to spite Clinton was the act of petulant children.
The semi-rugged laptops are good machines.
I use a CF-Y2, not too cheap, but it's got decent battery life and is lightweight (about 3.5 pounds), not to mention that it survived a fall off my desk with no problems.
It's been hypothesized that a cyber attack could potentially cause a cascading failure similar to the 2003 blackout. If combined with traditional physical "terrorist" attacks, we could see area of the country suffer extended loss of electric power. Not good.
As far as "who would leave SCADA systems exposed to the internet...", you probably don't want to know.
Good plan. Oh wait, did you realize that 45.7 Percent of High School seniors have reported using Marijuana? Locking up half of the Senior class (not to mention a substantial portion of the adult population) for the next five years might have a few drawbacks, I think. It would appear that your plan is infeasible on it's face.
Besides, expanding the prison system enough to the point that it could house a large percentage of the population of the United States would probably cut into our glorious leader's all important tax cuts.
I'm running an Atheros miniPCI card with the MadWifi Driver under Linux and haven't had any problems. I've also used Orinoco and Prism2 cards with Linux out of the box.
The idea of an American "heartland" is a crock of shit. People in Iowa and Nebraska don't have a monopoly on being "real" Americans any more than people in California do.
Large voter turnouts are not good news for Republicans. Why? Large numbers of voters mean that groups who typically don't swing Republican (minorities and young people) came out to vote. Republicans are scared shitless of the minority vote. Look no farther than the voter suppression efforts the Republicans are staging in Ohio RIGHT NOW for evidence of that.
If you can't legally keep the voters away from the polls, the devil's advocate in me says that it's easier to alter their vote after they've cast it.
Not a knock against our military personnel, but our men and women in uniform don't ponder political issues all that deeply, on average. My experience with "the troops" (I have about two dozen friends that have served/are serving in various branches of the US military) suggests that they are more brainwashed then the average American (their words, not mine).
This is not all that surprising, considering that the military actively fosters a "Group-think" mentality. At any rate, the military usually tends to be conservative. It's not an endorsement of Bush, by any means.
I believe you have my stapler.
Unbelievable. I was sure this was a troll, but discovered that Wired Magazine ran a story in December 2001 called The Geek Syndrome addressing this phenomenon. Amazing.
:)
Lucky for me, my wife has a degree in Communications, and is about as non-technical as they come.
I suppose it depends on your definition of "we". When "we" move our manufacturing centers to other countries, CEO's get fat bonuses and shareholders are happy. "We" also lose thousands of good jobs.
But it's okay, right? Since, the "free" market is always right, right? It's not like other countries don't manipulate the system to make them more attractive to business (with tax incentives, and other "artificial" limitations), do they?
You sir, are an idiot.
I'm not sure what you're replying too, since you obviously haven't read the book.
The argument made is not that the American lifestyle is "Unsustainable", but rather that the post-Industrial economy itself cannot be sustained. His argument is compelling
Read first, then reply.
It depends on how you define a "decent living". Indian programmers don't make as much as their American counterparts (they average about $10K/year, AFAIK), but by all accounts their wages allow them to live extremely comfortably.
Exactly right. What makes this situation worse is that we abandoned "Old Economy" (Capital intensive, like manufacturing) in favor of these "New Economy" industries (which require almost no capital to get into), and now we're getting our asses kicked by India and China. It's going to get worse, too.
Another book discussing the wonders of the "new economy" (post-industrialism) is Unsustainable. I just finished, it's excellent.
Would you rather have decreased sales due to increased costs (your scenario) or decreased sales due to nobody having a job?
Consider: a nice big touch screen to select your choice (no confusion. Put your finger on your candidates picture to cast your ballot) and fast, accurate results (accuracy trumping fast, IMHO).
Big ups for linking to my alma mater. Yeah, yeah, -1 offtopic.
If we're doing this upstream, why not just require ISP's to use Ingress Filtering? Getting rid of the ability to spoof your IP makes it a lot harder to DOS.
Your analogy is a little weak. In this case, the criminals are not getting into the house through an open door, they're coming in through the wide open space where the walls should be. When vulnerabilities are discovered, companies issue patches and (usually) security is improved.