Unless you are being sarcastic, I think you know the majority are presently manufactured in Taiwan - although I'm sure their mfr. is in the process of being offshored to China. Excellent point you are making - and should China take over Taiwan before all the chip manufacturing is shifted there - well, then, they've just hurried along the process, I guess.......(note my sarcasm here).
but Captialism only exists and flourishes in a manifestly free society.
Dood, what are you snorting??? China, and any number of Middle Eastern dictatorial countries are indeed capitalist - and there have been many totalitarian capitalist states throughout human history. This is the problem with the presumptious posters lately who've obviously never read a book in their entire lives.
Capitalism is an economic system, democracy is a political system, note the difference??? (No answer required.)
We (unwisely in my humble opinion) turned a blind eye to the horrible conditions in the ME for decades in the interest of 'stability'.
This remark proves conclusively your complete ignorance of any and all Middle Eastern history - especially with regard to the interaction of the US with those countries and cultures there. You have failed to answer any of my remarks the troll mod should have been with your rebuttal (and original post). Meth minds are always incapable of addressing the facts. (And the reason no one pays attention to/. anymore is directly attributable to these troll mods - no one that is, excepting for the lowbrow neocon/neofeudalist swill.......)
No the Taliban are not defeated, operating now out of remote areas of Pakistan, but they no longer rule much actual territory.
Have you read any news from inside your cage over the past 3 years? Geez! What a completely duffas remark! And your buddies (Cheney, et al.) sure didn't have any trouble in dealing with the Taliban (and Myanmar, and every other bloody and crazy dictatorship in existence) before their ascension to their throne --- by any chance your last name Ledeen???
The amazing thing is they have managed to keep anything from going FOOM! for almost six years....
Hmmm...let's see: was there any such 9/11/01 attack prior to Bush taking office? No, only after. Hmmm...has there been another day - the first in American history - when a series of American military exercises (three in number) took place on the exact same day, in the exact same time frame, replicating the very terrorist attacks that took place that day? (That would be plane hi-jackings and planes flying into government buildings - with a biowarfare exercise going on in NYC that very same day - conveniently placing certain people away from the Emergency Ops Center at the WTC.) Negative on that as well.
Gee...what a peculiar, mind-numbing set of coincidences which transpired that day - and only that day!
Listen up you primitive screwheads, I really think we should be playing to win...
Hmmm.....so let's completely destablize the Middle East by attacking the one secular country not involved with 9/11/01 attacks and which Osama (you might remember he's supposed to have something to do with that stuff) considers his mortal enemies. Next, the USA should attack Osama's second mortal enemy, Iran (again, another country which had nothing to do with 9/11/01 - I believe that was supposed to be the work of those Bush family friends, the bin Ladens)? Over 1/2 a trillion dollars spent - still no Osama and the Taliban are stronger than ever - but at least that drug trafficking is stronger than ever from Afghanistan - something which always occurs whenever a Bush is in - or near - the White House.
I'm not saying 9/11 was fake or anything (those 9/11 conspiracy people are nuts)..
Hmmmm.....I see....so it was logical for an immediate investigative commission to be created after the Challenger explosion, but not illogical for this Bush administration to do everything possible to interdict any sort of investigative 9/11/01 commission from ever taking place, and finally when they capitulate to its existence, they refuse to allow it to have any subpoena powers, refuse to allow Bush and Cheney to testify under oath, severely underfund it, then try to have the American Business Representative of the BinLaden Group, Henry Kissinger, as the head of this investigative commission....Holy Crap!!!!
Would we like to define your very weird definition of "nuts"???
And FYI, numnuts, you might check out the passenger list (as would have been done during a real criminal investigation) of those four commercial airliners involved....you might just learn something....for a change!
Ya know, Good Citizen mattgreen, the other day I was discussing the similarities with a sociopolitically like-minded fellow (who actually still believes the "official" stories of the JFK assassination and the attacks on 9/11/01) between those two events - JFK's assassination and 9/11/01 - and I stopped immediately after mentioning that half of the clowns on the Warren Commission had been fired by JFK and the clown they used to justify stereotyping Oswald as a nutjob (that would be General Walker) was fired with extreme prejudice by President Kennedy (in fact, the telephone tapes of many of the problems JFK had with this rightwing, Liberty Lobby/John Birch/pro-segregation nutjob are to be found at the Kennedy Presidential Library) as I realized how ludicrous it sounds to even discuss this.
And to repeat, the House Select Assassinations Committee (1979) did find that it was indeed a conspiracy and testimony and documentation was provided that Oswald was an FBI informant and on the CIA's payroll - why does everyone forget that???? I mention this as the people involved with this are still alive and brought us 9/11/01 and bringing us this imbecile in the White House.....
Very interesting point you make, Thinker gr8_phk, which leads me the event which got me kicked out of a physics class one time when I pointed out Einstein's major contradiction:
(1) the speed of light is constant, but
(2) the universe is round (i.e., gravity is acting upon - bending - light).....
Speaking of crackpots, a great early SF treatment of time travel can be found in the original Outer Limits' show written by Harlan Ellison, entitled "The Glass Hand." Really outstanding.
Ya know, while I've always wanted to believe in the efficacy of the EPR paradox, Seth Lloyd, quantum mech prof at MIT, states in his book, Programming The Universe that it actually has never been proven. Interesting concept though....
...and don't constantly vilify every single thing that Bush or anyone else who is Republican/conservative simply because they are.
Dood, you are like a total clown. For shooooor....
Bush ain't no conservative -- he is pure neofeudalist/regressive at best - although in pure truth, he is actually the imbecilic face for a criminal organization which has taken over this country and is bleeding it dry. Your bullcrapola on NOC Valerie Plame is simpleton talking points through and through - try to come up with something original...something denoting a least minimal thinking skills....there be no excuse whatsoever for excusing the treasonous disclosure of an active CIA agent - and simultaneously blowing the cover of a counter proliferation op (i.e., Brewster Jennings) --- people died because of this. Period. No excuses. No BS. Time you, and your soulmate I. "Scotty" Libby went to the front lines of Iraq and hugged a few IEDs.....
But...does it really matter? With the government (i.e., the Busheviks) having dropped SilentRunner apps at each IXP location in North America, what does it really matter what those ISPs do.....
God Bless you, Great Citizen, Doc Ruby, Good Bless you (OK, so I'm an atheist, but one can still hope, after all...). And you saved me so much typing....
The poster you are responding to, Sky something-or-other-crap, obviously has little to no real-world experience and just keeps repeating that same old talking point: it only takes 19 Arabs but requires hundreds or thousands of Americans (one hears the same lame neocon-neofeudalist-regressive talking point about illegal immigration - "We can't find any Americans who are capable (for H1-Bs) or willing to do the work (for illegals)." Gooollly, I guess those Arabs and Mexicans are just two SUPER RACES after all (no offense intended to either group).
In a well-thought out operation - which, after all, didn't work perfectly (review Flight 93 situation, please) they would use cutouts (that would be Osama's chums) and support personnel who would be taken care of later (for any ignoramuses out there, please do a thorough and detailed research into the backgrounds of the passengers aboard those four jets - remember, no actual criminal investigation was ever performed).
..it's happening right now in Iraq, where millions have been wasted and in many cases...
Seriously, u-bend, it's billions upon billions, I believe, with $12 billion in hard currency which disappeared a few years back with another $8.8 billion unaccounted for (total = $20.8 billion). Gee, do you think that 10-year, no-bid contract to Halliburton, and those single-source, no-bid contracts (over 4,000 total) for Hurrican Katrina clean up are part of the problem???
Sorry to be the one to break this to you guys, but democracy is dead and a criminal organization is running (make that bleeding) the ole US of A....(And what about that $2.3 trillion that's unaccounted for over at the Penta(costal)gon????
Finally, someone who understands the intel craft, Good Citizen turing_m.
Many years ago, when I was in the US military during the draft, they were routinely sending teams out to pick up jettisoned satellite spy film from space ---- even though they were in actuality transmitted said data directly from the satellite to ground stations - they just wanted the Sovs to think they still weren't capable of direct transmission. That, and who knows how many other cutout-type ops they were doing, and continue to do......and to support your point - who knows how much shadow ops monies are going into TIA and future 9/11/01s (I'd keep a close eye on the ports, if I was curious.....)....
Please ignore the post below yours (the one signed Your Master) as this clown obviously has no real life experience. The number for the 9/11/01 attacks: roughly 17 to 25 total - along with clueless support personnel. As to why we haven't heard from those clueless (as in innocent parties) support personnel - show some unAmerican initiative and do some research on the passenger lists of the four commercial airliners that day.......
And, mgblst, the other other logical failure on the above post is the suggestion that there were no screwups on 9/11/01 and with the other events. (The moon landing wasn't fake, BTW!)
The disrepancies of the Warren Commission "investigation" (Gee, imagine having a commission where half the people on it were fired by the victim: JFK, and the individual who is used to typecast the "assassin" as a nut job [General Walker] was fired - with prejudice - by the victim: JFK!!!!) along with the crash of Flight 93 - but I'm sure there will be many who accept the official story on Flight 800 even though 4 military pilot witnesses along with hundreds of others, suggest otherwise......
Your post is hilarious: as no human can be both that stupid and ignorant - and as most of us no longer possess the required time to list all the illegal transgressions of the Bush Crime Family, I wish you well with your delusions.....
Yes, fahrbot-bot, they are most definitely technically illegal:
to repeat, when firing a federal attorney in the midst of an ongoing criminal investigation constitutes obstruction of justice, interference with a criminal prosecution, and violation of several other federal laws.
As you don't seem current (a common failing at/. lately) the recent testimony under oath by Monica Goodling established:
(1) perjury by both the attorney general and assistant AG, (2) election fraud on a massive scale ("caging"), (3) the firing or substitution of US attorneys in order to prevent prosecution for past - and future - election fraud. Legally, this constitutes conspiracy.
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Unless you are being sarcastic, I think you know the majority are presently manufactured in Taiwan - although I'm sure their mfr. is in the process of being offshored to China. Excellent point you are making - and should China take over Taiwan before all the chip manufacturing is shifted there - well, then, they've just hurried along the process, I guess.......(note my sarcasm here).
If someone cannot even grasp the basic terms, why in the world would they attempt any conceivable semblance of a nonsensical post?
Dood, what are you snorting??? China, and any number of Middle Eastern dictatorial countries are indeed capitalist - and there have been many totalitarian capitalist states throughout human history. This is the problem with the presumptious posters lately who've obviously never read a book in their entire lives.
Capitalism is an economic system, democracy is a political system, note the difference??? (No answer required.)
Failure to address the facts. That is your only rebuttal? End of this post trail....
This remark proves conclusively your complete ignorance of any and all Middle Eastern history - especially with regard to the interaction of the US with those countries and cultures there. You have failed to answer any of my remarks the troll mod should have been with your rebuttal (and original post). Meth minds are always incapable of addressing the facts. (And the reason no one pays attention to /. anymore is directly attributable to these troll mods - no one that is, excepting for the lowbrow neocon/neofeudalist swill.......)
No the Taliban are not defeated, operating now out of remote areas of Pakistan, but they no longer rule much actual territory.
Have you read any news from inside your cage over the past 3 years? Geez! What a completely duffas remark! And your buddies (Cheney, et al.) sure didn't have any trouble in dealing with the Taliban (and Myanmar, and every other bloody and crazy dictatorship in existence) before their ascension to their throne --- by any chance your last name Ledeen???
Hmmm...let's see: was there any such 9/11/01 attack prior to Bush taking office? No, only after. Hmmm...has there been another day - the first in American history - when a series of American military exercises (three in number) took place on the exact same day, in the exact same time frame, replicating the very terrorist attacks that took place that day? (That would be plane hi-jackings and planes flying into government buildings - with a biowarfare exercise going on in NYC that very same day - conveniently placing certain people away from the Emergency Ops Center at the WTC.) Negative on that as well.
Gee...what a peculiar, mind-numbing set of coincidences which transpired that day - and only that day!
Listen up you primitive screwheads, I really think we should be playing to win...
Hmmm.....so let's completely destablize the Middle East by attacking the one secular country not involved with 9/11/01 attacks and which Osama (you might remember he's supposed to have something to do with that stuff) considers his mortal enemies. Next, the USA should attack Osama's second mortal enemy, Iran (again, another country which had nothing to do with 9/11/01 - I believe that was supposed to be the work of those Bush family friends, the bin Ladens)? Over 1/2 a trillion dollars spent - still no Osama and the Taliban are stronger than ever - but at least that drug trafficking is stronger than ever from Afghanistan - something which always occurs whenever a Bush is in - or near - the White House.
Hmmmm.....I see....so it was logical for an immediate investigative commission to be created after the Challenger explosion, but not illogical for this Bush administration to do everything possible to interdict any sort of investigative 9/11/01 commission from ever taking place, and finally when they capitulate to its existence, they refuse to allow it to have any subpoena powers, refuse to allow Bush and Cheney to testify under oath, severely underfund it, then try to have the American Business Representative of the BinLaden Group, Henry Kissinger, as the head of this investigative commission....Holy Crap!!!!
Would we like to define your very weird definition of "nuts"???
And FYI, numnuts, you might check out the passenger list (as would have been done during a real criminal investigation) of those four commercial airliners involved....you might just learn something....for a change!
And to repeat, the House Select Assassinations Committee (1979) did find that it was indeed a conspiracy and testimony and documentation was provided that Oswald was an FBI informant and on the CIA's payroll - why does everyone forget that???? I mention this as the people involved with this are still alive and brought us 9/11/01 and bringing us this imbecile in the White House.....
What I want to know is.....do I have to wear one of them rebel hats when I'm reading that rebel site???
(1) the speed of light is constant, but
(2) the universe is round (i.e., gravity is acting upon - bending - light).....
Speaking of crackpots, a great early SF treatment of time travel can be found in the original Outer Limits' show written by Harlan Ellison, entitled "The Glass Hand." Really outstanding.
Ya know, while I've always wanted to believe in the efficacy of the EPR paradox, Seth Lloyd, quantum mech prof at MIT, states in his book, Programming The Universe that it actually has never been proven. Interesting concept though....
I'm sure someone has asked this question before (probably a few zillion times at least), but has anyone ever patented assholes???
Dood, you are like a total clown. For shooooor....
Bush ain't no conservative -- he is pure neofeudalist/regressive at best - although in pure truth, he is actually the imbecilic face for a criminal organization which has taken over this country and is bleeding it dry. Your bullcrapola on NOC Valerie Plame is simpleton talking points through and through - try to come up with something original...something denoting a least minimal thinking skills....there be no excuse whatsoever for excusing the treasonous disclosure of an active CIA agent - and simultaneously blowing the cover of a counter proliferation op (i.e., Brewster Jennings) --- people died because of this. Period. No excuses. No BS. Time you, and your soulmate I. "Scotty" Libby went to the front lines of Iraq and hugged a few IEDs.....
But...does it really matter? With the government (i.e., the Busheviks) having dropped SilentRunner apps at each IXP location in North America, what does it really matter what those ISPs do.....
Heeeyyy, there's no T.I.A. on that post of yours - sooo that explains that $60 billion.....
God Bless you, Great Citizen, Doc Ruby, Good Bless you (OK, so I'm an atheist, but one can still hope, after all...). And you saved me so much typing....
The poster you are responding to, Sky something-or-other-crap, obviously has little to no real-world experience and just keeps repeating that same old talking point: it only takes 19 Arabs but requires hundreds or thousands of Americans (one hears the same lame neocon-neofeudalist-regressive talking point about illegal immigration - "We can't find any Americans who are capable (for H1-Bs) or willing to do the work (for illegals)." Gooollly, I guess those Arabs and Mexicans are just two SUPER RACES after all (no offense intended to either group).
In a well-thought out operation - which, after all, didn't work perfectly (review Flight 93 situation, please) they would use cutouts (that would be Osama's chums) and support personnel who would be taken care of later (for any ignoramuses out there, please do a thorough and detailed research into the backgrounds of the passengers aboard those four jets - remember, no actual criminal investigation was ever performed).
Seriously, u-bend, it's billions upon billions, I believe, with $12 billion in hard currency which disappeared a few years back with another $8.8 billion unaccounted for (total = $20.8 billion). Gee, do you think that 10-year, no-bid contract to Halliburton, and those single-source, no-bid contracts (over 4,000 total) for Hurrican Katrina clean up are part of the problem???
Sorry to be the one to break this to you guys, but democracy is dead and a criminal organization is running (make that bleeding) the ole US of A....(And what about that $2.3 trillion that's unaccounted for over at the Penta(costal)gon????
Many years ago, when I was in the US military during the draft, they were routinely sending teams out to pick up jettisoned satellite spy film from space ---- even though they were in actuality transmitted said data directly from the satellite to ground stations - they just wanted the Sovs to think they still weren't capable of direct transmission. That, and who knows how many other cutout-type ops they were doing, and continue to do......and to support your point - who knows how much shadow ops monies are going into TIA and future 9/11/01s (I'd keep a close eye on the ports, if I was curious.....)....
Please ignore the post below yours (the one signed Your Master) as this clown obviously has no real life experience. The number for the 9/11/01 attacks: roughly 17 to 25 total - along with clueless support personnel. As to why we haven't heard from those clueless (as in innocent parties) support personnel - show some unAmerican initiative and do some research on the passenger lists of the four commercial airliners that day.......
The disrepancies of the Warren Commission "investigation" (Gee, imagine having a commission where half the people on it were fired by the victim: JFK, and the individual who is used to typecast the "assassin" as a nut job [General Walker] was fired - with prejudice - by the victim: JFK!!!!) along with the crash of Flight 93 - but I'm sure there will be many who accept the official story on Flight 800 even though 4 military pilot witnesses along with hundreds of others, suggest otherwise......
Why don't they just come to the USA and borrow our very own robotic lizard, Dickie Cheney???
Your post is hilarious: as no human can be both that stupid and ignorant - and as most of us no longer possess the required time to list all the illegal transgressions of the Bush Crime Family, I wish you well with your delusions.....
to repeat, when firing a federal attorney in the midst of an ongoing criminal investigation constitutes obstruction of justice, interference with a criminal prosecution, and violation of several other federal laws.
As you don't seem current (a common failing at /. lately) the recent testimony under oath by Monica Goodling established:
(1) perjury by both the attorney general and assistant AG, (2) election fraud on a massive scale ("caging"), (3) the firing or substitution of US attorneys in order to prevent prosecution for past - and future - election fraud. Legally, this constitutes conspiracy.