That this would not have stopped them since they were not on file, and if same thing happened now Im sure they would pick someone so low in line to do it, that we would not be monitoring that person and let them come in. Therefore we are just wasting money to make white people feel safer.
Uh, not really. Shouldnt the rules in a Democracy be set by the majority. And yet our rules are being set by dubya, who was elected by a minority of the people.
Or in our case a single dubya. With all the racism in the world do you see Nigeria putting up 20 foot walls around their borders? Israel is attacked constantly and you dont see them putting a Nuke in the middle of Saudi. And yet we start bombing diffensless countries. I did not vote at all. My vote would not have mattered. I live in IL and there was no chance of dubya getting our electoral votes. And now he is killing both Americans and anyone else who looks suspicious to him. Dont talk about national conscience, when we did not even elect our leader. Know of any other countries where leaders are not elected?
Most things passed these days would have no direct impact on preventing a 9/11 type disaster. There are some exceptions like maybe the stronger doors. But a lot of things like the patriot act for example does nothing but take away our liberties. When 9/11 happened there was a system already in place that should have taken care of it. The system is that if at any time a plane flies out of its designated flight path it has 10 minutes to make radio contact before F18s are scrambled and are sent to take the plane down. The orders to scramble the planes come directly from the Pentagon, and to stop them from lifting off would take a direct order from someone very high up. The jets on 9/11 took 30 minutes before they took off. Nobody still knows who gave the order to stop them. And I did not see this in the press, why was this not reported at all is my question. If someone wants all the details of these provisions I can find them again.
This new fingerprinting will only allow the government keep track of us even more. Cost millions in taxes, or get passed down to the consumer by the airline. Considering all the terrorists of 9/11 came into this country legally(as far as I know, dont quote me and tell me if Im wrong) this would not have stopped them from getting on the plane. And offcourse if the terrorists(aka evildoers(for 5 year olds and the mentally challenged)) were to try carry out another attack on the level of 9/11 they would not use known previous people, they would use someone we do not know about.
Oh and to continue my rant: Why do we not question Osamas guiltyness? If I remember correctly he said he was not responsible. If my memory serves me correctly, after all other attacks he completely admitted to doing it. I would like to see this evidence that convicts him. After seeing the WMD all over Iraq Im getting a bit skeptical. He seems to perfect a scapegoat for the Bush administration, who might know nothing about who was really responsible.
Disagree all you want, but I will only change my opinions if you back up what you say with facts. I am not trying to just spew out opinions here, but to get to the truth.
What if for your 10,000 they give you a car worth 200. If asked about in court you could say it had senimental value. Could they still leech after your parents for the original 10,000?
Maybe it could be a fun surprise for their 20th aniversary:
Wife: Hey honey I think the sting of our love life is extremely low. I got us a little video to spice it up.
Him: It's not "Cowgirls Down Under" is it?
Her: Yes, how did you know?
Him:...
Her: Well...
Him: Can I please get visiting rights, I really love our children.
You should try driving in New Mexico. If you can imagine people using the wrong turn signal (at least they're using them,right?), turning right across three lanes of busy traffic from the left turn lane, and routinely running red lights just 'cause they have fast cars, then you can imagine my daily commute. I see more idiocy in one day than you can imagine. And it's not so much the aggressive drivers as it is the "bad" drivers, who don't know what "yield" means, who are indecisive and erratic, and who are incredibly unaware of the drivers around them. If you want to go fast, you have to really watch out for those who are "slow."
Consider a motorcycle flying down an empty road at 90mph. The old lady turning out of BlockBusters might see the motorcycle a ways off, but can't see that it is moving very quickly. So she pulls out, and *CRASH*.
Only in theory. The chances of this happening in the real world are pretty minute. As a matter of fact when you pulled out on your motorcycle did you have to swerve to avoid the other motorcyclist? The answer is probably no, no matter how close he went next to you. In fact I like to go over 60mph inches away from standing cars about to turn. The wind from my car actually shakes their car(I think its funny). If in fact you were driving a truck he would have changed lanes or slowed down because he would see that there was a large object coming into his lane. A motorcycle on the other hand he did not care about since he knew he would avoid it anyways.
Actually I am constantly looking behind me. I still remember in driving school the teacher taught me to always know whether there is a car behind me, guess Im the only one who took that seriously. And in fact I help other people avoid accidents by letting people in, and letting them turn in front of me. The only accidents I have seen were all when I was not driving. One caused by some 100 year old blasting through a stop sign and destroying my fathers car. Another was when some guy was trying to turn left and a guy on the other side was trying to go through the yellow. The first could easily have been avoided with harsher yearly driving retests. The second was just not paying attention.
Have you seen the new Cadillacs? Models:XLR,Seville; Concept cars:Sixteen,cien,evoq. I dont see my grandfather driving any of those cars. Especially the cien. The car looks like a lamborgini. My friend drives the 94' seville and he is 19. And his father is over 50 and driving the 700 series BMW.
Im one of the most aggressive drivers out there. I obey none of the signs. Except red lights, unless Im turning right. Passing in the oncoming lane is perfectly legal. Passing on the shoulder on the other hand is not, and thats another thing I dont usually do. Most days I drive, I break 100. I have never been in any accident. But just about everyone else I know that drive normally have been in accidents, and gotten tickets for stupid shit. I have had no tickets for over 2 years now. I realize that I have been driving for a short time(4 years), but so far I have seen no proof that my driving is wrong. BTW I live in IL,US. PS look up the history behind speed limits. Did you ever notice how many speed limits are 40. This has been around for a while. It is because the car wastes the least gas(because of gear ratios) at around 38mph. They put up all these limits during WWII to save gas. Oh and the civil engineers who calculate these limits always subtract 5 mph from what they calculate is the correct speed. More in some states.
Also I believe that a lot of the accidents would be solved with harsher driving tests. And have them repeatedly every few years. Although this may be inconvenient, it would save a lot of lives. While at the same time ruining the lives of bad drivers who should not be on the road anyway. It would also reduce traffic and pollution. Anyways, how would you like to drive to the 100 year old swaying back and forth in their Cadilac in the lane next to you because they cant see over the steering wheel?
Is it my fault I believe I am a better driver then the 100 year old who cant see above the steering wheel driving either 20 miles over or 20 miles under the speed limit(but never anywhere near it) that went through a stop sign and destroyed my Dad's car?
Free enough that if I walk down the steet, I won't be shot/beaten/stabbed as an infidel or enemy of society. Sure, people can call me what ever they want and say what they want to say, but that's their right in a free country.
Watch Bowling for Columbine. It blurrs the facts a bit. The truth is that out of 100,000 3.76 die every year in America due to some kind of murder. This is higher than just about every country in the world. For example in Japan its.02(imagine that). Or.76 in Canada right above us. You keep walking down that street.
Speaking of satisfied customers, Im an unsatisfied customer after being ass raped by the RIAA.
To stop this from being flamebait: Does anyone agree that the only way to get the RIAA prices under control would be at the consumer base? If the artists stopped signing with them, it would not help. Their contracts are forced for life. And the copyright periods are way too long. This may suggest we should start pushing shorter copyright periods. I dont know much about politics, but since the republicans are currently pretty strong this would be even harder. So the only answer seems a total boycott.
Well Apple did steal it first, they were quite ahead the hole time. And how do you know they used their own graphics software. As far as I know they dont have any graphics software at all(no, paint is not graphics software). Please dont talk out of your ass, have some real facts.
How is microsoft a ruling power? Microsoft stole ideas from other companies to make money. Name one original thing that came out of microsoft. Even the original graphics for Win 95 were done on Macs(learned from a former employee who actually drew all the stuff). Microsoft has so much influence only because they have a good business model: make people need you until they cant go anywhere else. Their products are sucky. Most other operating systems are much more stable. And also faster, except when microsoft forces hardware companies to make windows specific hardware. Or when hardware companies dont provide specifications to anyone except microsoft. cant really beat that level of a monopoly.
An interesting topic would be whether someone could associate windows(or any other software) piracy with sales. If this could be confirmed, your ideas that it was a specific marketing ploy that rose these sales would be out the window.
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That this would not have stopped them since they were not on file, and if same thing happened now Im sure they would pick someone so low in line to do it, that we would not be monitoring that person and let them come in. Therefore we are just wasting money to make white people feel safer.
Uh, not really. Shouldnt the rules in a Democracy be set by the majority. And yet our rules are being set by dubya, who was elected by a minority of the people.
Or in our case a single dubya. With all the racism in the world do you see Nigeria putting up 20 foot walls around their borders? Israel is attacked constantly and you dont see them putting a Nuke in the middle of Saudi. And yet we start bombing diffensless countries. I did not vote at all. My vote would not have mattered. I live in IL and there was no chance of dubya getting our electoral votes. And now he is killing both Americans and anyone else who looks suspicious to him. Dont talk about national conscience, when we did not even elect our leader. Know of any other countries where leaders are not elected?
Flame on!!! Come on if you are gonna flame, put your name on it. I did took me a while to get back to +1. And I agree completely.
Could you find the source of the jet scrambling info? Did you find anything on who stopped them from lifting off? My comment:comment
Most things passed these days would have no direct impact on preventing a 9/11 type disaster. There are some exceptions like maybe the stronger doors. But a lot of things like the patriot act for example does nothing but take away our liberties. When 9/11 happened there was a system already in place that should have taken care of it. The system is that if at any time a plane flies out of its designated flight path it has 10 minutes to make radio contact before F18s are scrambled and are sent to take the plane down. The orders to scramble the planes come directly from the Pentagon, and to stop them from lifting off would take a direct order from someone very high up. The jets on 9/11 took 30 minutes before they took off. Nobody still knows who gave the order to stop them. And I did not see this in the press, why was this not reported at all is my question. If someone wants all the details of these provisions I can find them again.
This new fingerprinting will only allow the government keep track of us even more. Cost millions in taxes, or get passed down to the consumer by the airline. Considering all the terrorists of 9/11 came into this country legally(as far as I know, dont quote me and tell me if Im wrong) this would not have stopped them from getting on the plane. And offcourse if the terrorists(aka evildoers(for 5 year olds and the mentally challenged)) were to try carry out another attack on the level of 9/11 they would not use known previous people, they would use someone we do not know about.
Oh and to continue my rant: Why do we not question Osamas guiltyness? If I remember correctly he said he was not responsible. If my memory serves me correctly, after all other attacks he completely admitted to doing it. I would like to see this evidence that convicts him. After seeing the WMD all over Iraq Im getting a bit skeptical. He seems to perfect a scapegoat for the Bush administration, who might know nothing about who was really responsible.
Disagree all you want, but I will only change my opinions if you back up what you say with facts. I am not trying to just spew out opinions here, but to get to the truth.
What if for your 10,000 they give you a car worth 200. If asked about in court you could say it had senimental value. Could they still leech after your parents for the original 10,000?
Maybe it could be a fun surprise for their 20th aniversary:
...
Wife: Hey honey I think the sting of our love life is extremely low. I got us a little video to spice it up.
Him: It's not "Cowgirls Down Under" is it?
Her: Yes, how did you know?
Him:
Her: Well...
Him: Can I please get visiting rights, I really love our children.
"People stop looking for work when they find a job" -- Steven Wright
You should try driving in New Mexico. If you can imagine people using the wrong turn signal (at least they're using them,right?), turning right across three lanes of busy traffic from the left turn lane, and routinely running red lights just 'cause they have fast cars, then you can imagine my daily commute. I see more idiocy in one day than you can imagine. And it's not so much the aggressive drivers as it is the "bad" drivers, who don't know what "yield" means, who are indecisive and erratic, and who are incredibly unaware of the drivers around them. If you want to go fast, you have to really watch out for those who are "slow."
Would someone please mod him +4 funny!!!
Consider a motorcycle flying down an empty road at 90mph. The old lady turning out of BlockBusters might see the motorcycle a ways off, but can't see that it is moving very quickly. So she pulls out, and *CRASH*.
Only in theory. The chances of this happening in the real world are pretty minute. As a matter of fact when you pulled out on your motorcycle did you have to swerve to avoid the other motorcyclist? The answer is probably no, no matter how close he went next to you. In fact I like to go over 60mph inches away from standing cars about to turn. The wind from my car actually shakes their car(I think its funny). If in fact you were driving a truck he would have changed lanes or slowed down because he would see that there was a large object coming into his lane. A motorcycle on the other hand he did not care about since he knew he would avoid it anyways.
Actually I am constantly looking behind me. I still remember in driving school the teacher taught me to always know whether there is a car behind me, guess Im the only one who took that seriously. And in fact I help other people avoid accidents by letting people in, and letting them turn in front of me. The only accidents I have seen were all when I was not driving. One caused by some 100 year old blasting through a stop sign and destroying my fathers car. Another was when some guy was trying to turn left and a guy on the other side was trying to go through the yellow. The first could easily have been avoided with harsher yearly driving retests. The second was just not paying attention.
Anyone wanna actually try that?
Not necessarily, I would vote for her anyway.
BTW she goes to Harvard and is smart as hell, but this is obviously not why I would vote for her.
Have you seen the new Cadillacs? Models:XLR,Seville; Concept cars:Sixteen,cien,evoq. I dont see my grandfather driving any of those cars. Especially the cien. The car looks like a lamborgini. My friend drives the 94' seville and he is 19. And his father is over 50 and driving the 700 series BMW.
Im one of the most aggressive drivers out there. I obey none of the signs. Except red lights, unless Im turning right. Passing in the oncoming lane is perfectly legal. Passing on the shoulder on the other hand is not, and thats another thing I dont usually do. Most days I drive, I break 100. I have never been in any accident. But just about everyone else I know that drive normally have been in accidents, and gotten tickets for stupid shit. I have had no tickets for over 2 years now. I realize that I have been driving for a short time(4 years), but so far I have seen no proof that my driving is wrong. BTW I live in IL,US. PS look up the history behind speed limits. Did you ever notice how many speed limits are 40. This has been around for a while. It is because the car wastes the least gas(because of gear ratios) at around 38mph. They put up all these limits during WWII to save gas. Oh and the civil engineers who calculate these limits always subtract 5 mph from what they calculate is the correct speed. More in some states.
Also I believe that a lot of the accidents would be solved with harsher driving tests. And have them repeatedly every few years. Although this may be inconvenient, it would save a lot of lives. While at the same time ruining the lives of bad drivers who should not be on the road anyway. It would also reduce traffic and pollution. Anyways, how would you like to drive to the 100 year old swaying back and forth in their Cadilac in the lane next to you because they cant see over the steering wheel?
Is it my fault I believe I am a better driver then the 100 year old who cant see above the steering wheel driving either 20 miles over or 20 miles under the speed limit(but never anywhere near it) that went through a stop sign and destroyed my Dad's car?
Youre right. But we need to catch that damn pedophile in the act. We could put him on trial at the same time as Michael Jackson.
Im at college and we would be happy to take that computer. I go to UIC. We are using the old 75Mhz up to like 160 to run honeypot stuff.
Free enough that if I walk down the steet, I won't be shot/beaten/stabbed as an infidel or enemy of society. Sure, people can call me what ever they want and say what they want to say, but that's their right in a free country.
.02(imagine that). Or .76 in Canada right above us. You keep walking down that street.
Watch Bowling for Columbine. It blurrs the facts a bit. The truth is that out of 100,000 3.76 die every year in America due to some kind of murder. This is higher than just about every country in the world. For example in Japan its
Speaking of satisfied customers, Im an unsatisfied customer after being ass raped by the RIAA.
To stop this from being flamebait: Does anyone agree that the only way to get the RIAA prices under control would be at the consumer base? If the artists stopped signing with them, it would not help. Their contracts are forced for life. And the copyright periods are way too long. This may suggest we should start pushing shorter copyright periods. I dont know much about politics, but since the republicans are currently pretty strong this would be even harder. So the only answer seems a total boycott.
Damn, you beat me to the obvious. I was gonna say he should have added a review of Kazaa.
Because most people dont go to the concerts of all the bands they like.
Well Apple did steal it first, they were quite ahead the hole time. And how do you know they used their own graphics software. As far as I know they dont have any graphics software at all(no, paint is not graphics software). Please dont talk out of your ass, have some real facts.
How is microsoft a ruling power? Microsoft stole ideas from other companies to make money. Name one original thing that came out of microsoft. Even the original graphics for Win 95 were done on Macs(learned from a former employee who actually drew all the stuff). Microsoft has so much influence only because they have a good business model: make people need you until they cant go anywhere else. Their products are sucky. Most other operating systems are much more stable. And also faster, except when microsoft forces hardware companies to make windows specific hardware. Or when hardware companies dont provide specifications to anyone except microsoft. cant really beat that level of a monopoly.
An interesting topic would be whether someone could associate windows(or any other software) piracy with sales. If this could be confirmed, your ideas that it was a specific marketing ploy that rose these sales would be out the window.