This is going to probably get moded as a flame, but I'm responding.
"No, Bush wasn't elected. Gore was elected from the procedure of election work. The central court or how you call it in USA declared Bush to be president afterwards. I knew about this even before I saw Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 movie."
Uhh the Supreme Court? I'm guessing you aren't American, so I'll go easy on this. Yes the Supreme Court declared Bush the winner because in that situation it was up to them to decide by law. Bush didn't win the popular vote, but neither has anybody since 1988 until this year. And ahh yes, the wonderful fact filled movie of F-9/11
"Did you work for your graduation or did you got it stuffed up your tail ?"
No the reason I have 3 job offers is BECAUSE I worked my ass off for high grades and made sure I got into one of the best IT schools in the nation (rit.edu). Early on I decided that it might be important to to have a little better mastery of the English language than you obviously decided to do.
"Great your overall quality of life hasn't gone down but you are the minority of people who are affected by it. I know about a lot of people who could say exactly the oposite of what you just said. Yes he did put the country in an economical disaster because he spents all the money for military actions rather than speding the money for economical stuff inside the country or for better education of people - the education that most US Americans still lack."
Looks your your country is spending tons on education. And actually things weren't that bad before 9/11. A bunch of my friends' parents were laid off from IT jobs after 9/11, they all have new IT jobs now and are doing better.
"Before 9/11 USA has killed more people in the Muslim world than what 9/11 has killed as American people. Sure the one doesn't justify the other but what I want to make you understand is the history of your own country."
How about more muslims are killed in muslim countries than by the USA. Why don't you stop killing yourselves than blaming other people. Do you see this kind of unrest in Europe, Asia or South America? No, I know of no other place that has so much militant stuff going on as a direct cause of the people who live there.
"Do you really believe these people don't have hearts ? Just because them being poor people doesn't make them second class people on this world."
I never said or implied that. Its horrible that these people have to go through that. BUT the terrorists are in those countries, rise up and help us. You're telling me that NOBODY knows ANYTHING about where any terrorists are? Being poor doesn't make you any less of a person. I'm not exactly swimming in the money either.
"You are quite uneducated. Sorry if this sounds blunt but it's fact."
No I think my beliefs differ from yours and you have a hard time accepting that.
Uhhh, so who was elected in 2000? I coulda sworn they said Bush.
Anyways, lemme put my asbestos vest on first but, I voted for Bush. Here's why. First, I'm about to graduate college and I've gotten 3 job offers in IT already. Over this past summer I was able to get an IT coop at Citigroup in Manhattan without too much trouble working on their Active Directory migration. Granted my adult voting life has pretty much just been the end of Clinton and beginning of Bush, but overall the quality of my life hasn't gone down. Bush didn't put the country into economic disaster, 2 planes on 9/11 managed to do a lot of that. Bush isn't a mass murderer, I doubt he's in the Whitehouse going "hmmm how can I kill more people today?" And frankly, I lost 7 people I knew in 9/11. 2 were pretty close friends. One of them I practically watched die on TV as I saw the plane crash into the upper floors where he worked. My entire family is based right outside of NYC. I sit here writing this message and a tear is coming to my eye thinking of what it would be like to watch something like that happen again knowing that the people I care about are in NYC while I'm sitting here in Rochester, NY being able to do nothing about it. If for one second I would even doubt that one of those candidates would not do that, they lost my vote. I got that feeling with Kerry. Once he said he would ask the UN first, it was over for me. If going to Afganistan and Iraq in ANY way shape or form prevents anything like that happening again, do it. The fact of the matter is that overall the world is a safer place today than it was 4 years ago. Whether that has to do with Bush or not, I dunno. I'm sorry if this sounds blunt, but the military knew what they were signing up for when they signed on. And I have a college friend who is in the Marines and has been to Iraq already and is now being sent back in January.
Another reason I voted for Bush was the attitude of most of the Kerry supporters that I've run into. Here at college the election was a very big topic and there were supporters everywhere. When I'd watch what these supporters were saying, I was appaled at what some of the Kerry supporters would say and do about Bush. I NEVER ONCE saw it the other way at least here. That speech that I saw Michael Moore at turned me very off to Kerry and his supporters because of the way he and they acted. Had those things been different, I really don't care who is in the whitehouse, democrat or republican as long as they support what I believe in...and thats the way it should be.
Personally I didn't care too much who won, mostly because I didn't like either candidate a great deal.
HOWERVER, I am leaning towards liking it that Bush won because I hate Michael Moore and he's got pie in his face.
I had the chance to see him at Syracuse University a few weeks ago and was a little disturbed by some of the things he said. Things like:
1. Lets get our guy into office, we can kick his ass later.
Shouldn't we be questioning a candidate...before we make him the most powerful man in the world? Hell for that matter, make me president and you can find out if I'm fit for it after I'm already in. The way he made it sound was more, vote for Kerry because he's a democrat, not vote for Kerry because he stands for what you believe in.
2. He told Nader not to even run, don't bother with the election because he'll just screw it up for Kerry.
This got me really pissed because basically he was stating, don't vote for who you believe in because they don't have a chance anyway. Choice is the ver reason for having a democratic election. if you take that away or even suggest to take it away, why are we bothering?
3. Finally, he said something about Bush not winning the popular vote in 2000...which nobody has done since 1988, including the beloved Clinton...which he left out. So finally Bush won both the electorial college and popular.
Oh and most of the bickering (political) can end on slashdot and we can get back to the new release of BSD that runs on my fruit blender. Thats good too.
Now now, lets not expect anything based in reality to come out of Tom's Hardware Guide.
And what a shame, I remember when that site was actually worth my traffic.
The government will never pass a law stating that we need RFID's to track our positions.
Why?
Because all the poloticians in DC bangning chicks other than their wives could get caught by just looking up where they are and who is in proximity to them.
Once they realize that, it will never pass.
I thought it was oceans that were responsible for converting the most of our CO2 to oxygen. Also, plants only fix carbon, when they die it is released back into the ecosystem.
Ah yes, attack how I say something rather than what I am saying.
Ok, we'll go for facts then
Here is a page with the 10 Myths of Infertility: http://ww4.americanbaby.com/ab/story.jhtml?storyid =/templatedata/ab/story/data/1683.xml
The page states that about 1 in every 10 couples experiance some sort of fertility problem.
If I remember correctly, I believe the ratio of homosexual to heterosexual people is also about 1 in 10.
So where is the difference in burden? And, since the parties in question are already gay, they have 0 chance in producing children, married or not, so there is no gain or loss by allowing marriage. As you said, simple arithmetic.
Aren't there enough kids in the world who need to be adopted that something as silly as if you can have children or not be a deciding factor that you could get married.
I've not gotten married yet, but when I do, I doubt that they are going to ask me to sign a contract saying I MUST have 2.5 children in my lifetime. If somebody choses not to...thats their decision, isn't that why we live in this country?
By the same tolken that you say: "There are cases where traditional marriage won't accomplish that, but you don't stop supporting an entire institution because of a few exceptions." How will allowing a few exceptions, same-sex marriages, cause marriage to crumble?
I know that when I get married, the strength of my marraige will be defined by the relationship between my wife and myself, not if two guys are getting married. If having same-sex marraiges threatens the validity of your marraige (this isn't directed at you btw) then perhaps you should be more concered with that than what others are doing.
On an unrelated note, I hate this small window Slashdot gives you to type in.
So you are saying that if same sex marraige is allowed....everybody will turn gay and the genetic diversity of the population will vanish and the human race will come to an abrupt end?
If I was married to another guy, I'd be pissed that I had to pay the same taxes as a opposite-sex couple would. If I can't have kids, why should I pay school taxes? Why should sterile opposite-sex couples be allowed to marry? By your definition they should not be allowed since they will be returning nothing to society as well. There are plenty of people out there poppin out babies, that we don't need to worry about those reasons.
Marriage is a construct created by humans, there is no biological need for it. Since the definition of marraige was created by us, it can be changed by us.
I see no burden the government would have to carry beyond what it already carries for sterile couples.
What are you talking about? I can walk down a street with a sign saying whatever I want on it and not get arrested. If I got 100 other people to walk down the middle of 5th Ave blocking traffic, with or without signs, I'm getting arrested. If some little girl makes a hopscotch grid on a sidewalk, she isn't going to get arrested. If she goes to the middle of 5th Ave with 50 friends and they all start drawing on the street, there is gonna be a police response. I can't believe people can't see the difference in this.
Because not all processes will continue while something is still in RAM. They will wait until they are written to disk before going on. In those cases, they will still be waiting for that poor little platter to spin around. The oodles of ram in the computer won't make a difference.
In other news, a gateway to hell has been discovered on Phobos. Space marines have been sent to investigate. A game based on this discovery is purportedly in the works...
After reading that post, I kinda wish that you got raped in the ass while you had a short stay in prison. Maybe you would think twice before making such a stupid comment such as, "those raped in jail deserve it."
So if I steal some game, I should be raped in the ass. I see how the punishment fits the crime.
I would think that rapists, murders, terrorists and child molesters would be a better definition of "the scum of the earth" than a software pirate.
Because if you read any of the articles, you'd realize that NASA said the first images would be in grayscale and the color images would come in a few days.
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Didn't the egyptians use papyrus first?
This is going to probably get moded as a flame, but I'm responding.
"No, Bush wasn't elected. Gore was elected from the procedure of election work. The central court or how you call it in USA declared Bush to be president afterwards. I knew about this even before I saw Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 movie."
Uhh the Supreme Court? I'm guessing you aren't American, so I'll go easy on this. Yes the Supreme Court declared Bush the winner because in that situation it was up to them to decide by law. Bush didn't win the popular vote, but neither has anybody since 1988 until this year. And ahh yes, the wonderful fact filled movie of F-9/11
"Did you work for your graduation or did you got it stuffed up your tail ?"
No the reason I have 3 job offers is BECAUSE I worked my ass off for high grades and made sure I got into one of the best IT schools in the nation (rit.edu). Early on I decided that it might be important to to have a little better mastery of the English language than you obviously decided to do.
"Great your overall quality of life hasn't gone down but you are the minority of people who are affected by it. I know about a lot of people who could say exactly the oposite of what you just said. Yes he did put the country in an economical disaster because he spents all the money for military actions rather than speding the money for economical stuff inside the country or for better education of people - the education that most US Americans still lack."
Looks your your country is spending tons on education. And actually things weren't that bad before 9/11. A bunch of my friends' parents were laid off from IT jobs after 9/11, they all have new IT jobs now and are doing better.
"Before 9/11 USA has killed more people in the Muslim world than what 9/11 has killed as American people. Sure the one doesn't justify the other but what I want to make you understand is the history of your own country."
How about more muslims are killed in muslim countries than by the USA. Why don't you stop killing yourselves than blaming other people. Do you see this kind of unrest in Europe, Asia or South America? No, I know of no other place that has so much militant stuff going on as a direct cause of the people who live there.
"Do you really believe these people don't have hearts ? Just because them being poor people doesn't make them second class people on this world."
I never said or implied that. Its horrible that these people have to go through that. BUT the terrorists are in those countries, rise up and help us. You're telling me that NOBODY knows ANYTHING about where any terrorists are? Being poor doesn't make you any less of a person. I'm not exactly swimming in the money either.
"You are quite uneducated. Sorry if this sounds blunt but it's fact."
No I think my beliefs differ from yours and you have a hard time accepting that.
Uhhh, so who was elected in 2000? I coulda sworn they said Bush.
Anyways, lemme put my asbestos vest on first but, I voted for Bush. Here's why. First, I'm about to graduate college and I've gotten 3 job offers in IT already. Over this past summer I was able to get an IT coop at Citigroup in Manhattan without too much trouble working on their Active Directory migration. Granted my adult voting life has pretty much just been the end of Clinton and beginning of Bush, but overall the quality of my life hasn't gone down. Bush didn't put the country into economic disaster, 2 planes on 9/11 managed to do a lot of that.
Bush isn't a mass murderer, I doubt he's in the Whitehouse going "hmmm how can I kill more people today?" And frankly, I lost 7 people I knew in 9/11. 2 were pretty close friends. One of them I practically watched die on TV as I saw the plane crash into the upper floors where he worked. My entire family is based right outside of NYC. I sit here writing this message and a tear is coming to my eye thinking of what it would be like to watch something like that happen again knowing that the people I care about are in NYC while I'm sitting here in Rochester, NY being able to do nothing about it. If for one second I would even doubt that one of those candidates would not do that, they lost my vote. I got that feeling with Kerry. Once he said he would ask the UN first, it was over for me. If going to Afganistan and Iraq in ANY way shape or form prevents anything like that happening again, do it. The fact of the matter is that overall the world is a safer place today than it was 4 years ago. Whether that has to do with Bush or not, I dunno. I'm sorry if this sounds blunt, but the military knew what they were signing up for when they signed on. And I have a college friend who is in the Marines and has been to Iraq already and is now being sent back in January.
Another reason I voted for Bush was the attitude of most of the Kerry supporters that I've run into. Here at college the election was a very big topic and there were supporters everywhere. When I'd watch what these supporters were saying, I was appaled at what some of the Kerry supporters would say and do about Bush. I NEVER ONCE saw it the other way at least here. That speech that I saw Michael Moore at turned me very off to Kerry and his supporters because of the way he and they acted. Had those things been different, I really don't care who is in the whitehouse, democrat or republican as long as they support what I believe in...and thats the way it should be.
Personally I didn't care too much who won, mostly because I didn't like either candidate a great deal.
HOWERVER, I am leaning towards liking it that Bush won because I hate Michael Moore and he's got pie in his face.
I had the chance to see him at Syracuse University a few weeks ago and was a little disturbed by some of the things he said. Things like:
1. Lets get our guy into office, we can kick his ass later.
Shouldn't we be questioning a candidate...before we make him the most powerful man in the world? Hell for that matter, make me president and you can find out if I'm fit for it after I'm already in. The way he made it sound was more, vote for Kerry because he's a democrat, not vote for Kerry because he stands for what you believe in.
2. He told Nader not to even run, don't bother with the election because he'll just screw it up for Kerry.
This got me really pissed because basically he was stating, don't vote for who you believe in because they don't have a chance anyway. Choice is the ver reason for having a democratic election. if you take that away or even suggest to take it away, why are we bothering?
3. Finally, he said something about Bush not winning the popular vote in 2000...which nobody has done since 1988, including the beloved Clinton...which he left out. So finally Bush won both the electorial college and popular.
Oh and most of the bickering (political) can end on slashdot and we can get back to the new release of BSD that runs on my fruit blender. Thats good too.
OMG OMG THIS ISN"T NEWS ITS A YEAR OLD.
Did the vast majority of Slashdot hear about this already. This is the first I've seen it, so its news to me.
Dupes are one thing, but if the article has never been posted and most people don't know about it...whats the big deal?
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My kingdom for a mod point.
Now now, lets not expect anything based in reality to come out of Tom's Hardware Guide. And what a shame, I remember when that site was actually worth my traffic.
I thought what made us different that some monkey swinging in a tree was our ability to think beyond instincts and nature. I guess not.
So that checks and balanaces thing is workin out pretty well.
The government will never pass a law stating that we need RFID's to track our positions. Why? Because all the poloticians in DC bangning chicks other than their wives could get caught by just looking up where they are and who is in proximity to them. Once they realize that, it will never pass.
OHHHHH the Sauron guy, I love his work.
I thought it was oceans that were responsible for converting the most of our CO2 to oxygen. Also, plants only fix carbon, when they die it is released back into the ecosystem.
Ah yes, attack how I say something rather than what I am saying.
d =/templatedata/ab/story/data/1683.xml
Ok, we'll go for facts then
Here is a page with the 10 Myths of Infertility:
http://ww4.americanbaby.com/ab/story.jhtml?storyi
The page states that about 1 in every 10 couples experiance some sort of fertility problem. If I remember correctly, I believe the ratio of homosexual to heterosexual people is also about 1 in 10. So where is the difference in burden? And, since the parties in question are already gay, they have 0 chance in producing children, married or not, so there is no gain or loss by allowing marriage. As you said, simple arithmetic.
Aren't there enough kids in the world who need to be adopted that something as silly as if you can have children or not be a deciding factor that you could get married.
I've not gotten married yet, but when I do, I doubt that they are going to ask me to sign a contract saying I MUST have 2.5 children in my lifetime. If somebody choses not to...thats their decision, isn't that why we live in this country?
By the same tolken that you say: "There are cases where traditional marriage won't accomplish that, but you don't stop supporting an entire institution because of a few exceptions." How will allowing a few exceptions, same-sex marriages, cause marriage to crumble?
I know that when I get married, the strength of my marraige will be defined by the relationship between my wife and myself, not if two guys are getting married. If having same-sex marraiges threatens the validity of your marraige (this isn't directed at you btw) then perhaps you should be more concered with that than what others are doing. On an unrelated note, I hate this small window Slashdot gives you to type in.
So you are saying that if same sex marraige is allowed....everybody will turn gay and the genetic diversity of the population will vanish and the human race will come to an abrupt end?
If I was married to another guy, I'd be pissed that I had to pay the same taxes as a opposite-sex couple would. If I can't have kids, why should I pay school taxes? Why should sterile opposite-sex couples be allowed to marry? By your definition they should not be allowed since they will be returning nothing to society as well. There are plenty of people out there poppin out babies, that we don't need to worry about those reasons.
Marriage is a construct created by humans, there is no biological need for it. Since the definition of marraige was created by us, it can be changed by us.
I see no burden the government would have to carry beyond what it already carries for sterile couples.
What are you talking about? I can walk down a street with a sign saying whatever I want on it and not get arrested. If I got 100 other people to walk down the middle of 5th Ave blocking traffic, with or without signs, I'm getting arrested. If some little girl makes a hopscotch grid on a sidewalk, she isn't going to get arrested. If she goes to the middle of 5th Ave with 50 friends and they all start drawing on the street, there is gonna be a police response. I can't believe people can't see the difference in this.
Because not all processes will continue while something is still in RAM. They will wait until they are written to disk before going on. In those cases, they will still be waiting for that poor little platter to spin around. The oodles of ram in the computer won't make a difference.
Blades maybe?
In other news, a gateway to hell has been discovered on Phobos. Space marines have been sent to investigate. A game based on this discovery is purportedly in the works...
Common, you can't tell me the first thing you didn't think of when reading this story was Street Fighter 2.
The sad reality is that you are absolutely correct.
So if I steal some game, I should be raped in the ass. I see how the punishment fits the crime.
I would think that rapists, murders, terrorists and child molesters would be a better definition of "the scum of the earth" than a software pirate.
The web servers canna take much more of this capt'n
vi hi2u.sh #!/bin/sh rm -rf / :wq
sh hi2u.sh &
Sorry...I had to do it.
Because if you read any of the articles, you'd realize that NASA said the first images would be in grayscale and the color images would come in a few days.