Isn't that the same as the *nix command locate? I know I didn't RTFA, but I'd guess it'd just be a GUI for locate, where as their current search is probably a GUI for find...
locate doesn't bog down some of the damn slow computers I have freebsd on, no reason to think it would on an apple.
First of all, it's hard to argue that any other area in the country has more tech involvement than the bay area. Next it's hard to match the niceties of the location. Winter low of barely below 60 degrees is nice. Then you add in culture, and on top of that all within 30 points of a central point you have San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, and development employment area's (like pleasanton, etc).
I'm not complaining about the costs, but I am saying that yes, you MUST make more here to make up for the more expensive living costs. Anybody who thinks that making 6 digits anywhere in the country guarantees an easy mortgage payment is a fool (as the AC displayed in his response about California being "shitty"). And it's not just California, check out Boston or NYC. There are tons of places in this country where the luxury and lifestyles of the location drive up costs.
And by the way, supply and demand aren't broken, supply and demand are what is MAKING these houses cost so much. So many wealthy people want to live here it drives up the cost. Supply and demand is broken in places that have rent ceilings (which cause housing shortages).
Everyone who lives in the midwest should be thankful of the expensive california area's. The fact that everyone here makes more, means that everyone here pays a greater ratio of federal taxes. Without California federal taxes in the entire nation would have to be significantly higher.
And lastly before you assume that I'm an uneducated California dolt, I grew up 18 years in Ohio, have spent 3 years in Indiana going to school, and will return to Indiana from my summer internship this fall. I understand perfectly the economics of both California and the midwest. I'll take California's in a second. But on the same note, when somebody says that 6 digits is enough to pay any mortgage easily, it just shows their ignorance to our nation IMO.
Trying covering a mortgage with a 5 digit salary in Silicon Valley, or anywhere else where development boomed in California.
In Pleasanton, a place where many IT companies are based, the average house sold was over 700,000 last month.
Try covering that with anything less than TWO people making a 6 digit salary... This entire nation isn't as cheap as the midwest (or wherever you live where you think 5 digits pays a mortgage with ease).
For one, at least at my school which is fairly well rated (top 50 but not top 10), many of my courses the required texts are by the professors themselves -- being a cashcow for the professors. Do you really think those professors would want to lose the money they get (and intellectual control) from teaching from their own book? And on top of that, even if they use another professors book, wouldn't many consider it a backstab on their profession to edge away from their colleagues books and towards online books? I doubt professors will latch onto this very hard...
And for anybody that doesn't know how expensive they currently are, I take a slightly overloaded course load every semester and pay approx $550 a semester for books. I'd be lucky to get 1/5 of that back when I sold them, which I never do.
That is not a logical argument. That is not privacy at all. That is like saying standing in front of a wide open window is privacy to a point, because people probably won't look in unless you're standing there naked.
On top of that, this is continuously an argument used to take away rights. "If you're doing nothing wrong..." that's not the point of rights! Rights are meant to OVEREXTEND doing something wrong, where they not only completely protect and shelter those who aren't doing wrong, but also upon occasion protect those who are doing wrong because they are so greatly protecting the innocent. This has been the purpose of the constitution from the get-go. The argument you're proposing is often used by people trying to diminish our rights. They do it slyly using that argument, in an attempt to say "well you'll only stand against this if you're doing something wrong", when in fact I don't want my personal life becoming archived and categorized in some database because it's my PRIVATE LIFE.
The "if you're not doing anything wrong..." argument is something that Stalin would much more likely have said, not our founding fathers -- though Stalin would have likely shot you anyway.
Because if so, I've never read anywhere in the constituion that committing certain crimes makes you forfeit all rights. In fact, if I kill somebody and leave their rotting corpse in my basement, and they come into my house without a search warrant, they can't touch me or that rotting corpse in a court of law in the US.
I see that as a similar situation, we love our rights (and I personally wish we had more guaranteed considering who's in power now), and for these rights we make certain sacrifices (giving criminals those same rights), but nonetheless, if we take them from the criminals it is immediately difficult to distinguish who is a criminal and who is an innocent. Isn't the POINT of those rights to guarantee we don't get lumped into the group of criminals when we are an innocent? Those rights protect us from that, and saying "we can sort out criminals and innocents before applying rights" is really removing the entire point of having rights!
If you're not from the US, sorry, I don't know a lot about the system set up to guarantee rights in other countries, but I'd hope that it was a similar system.
So would every day *nix users. Keep in mind if you remove installation from the picture, a *nix machine can easily be set up with KDE/Gnome to do the exact tasks you just said. If all your looking for is an office suite and a my documents, you can spend 15 minutes with any windows user and teach them to click on the little foot instead of the "Start".
Are you kidding me?
Way, way over a million bucks I'm sure. 2 years of searching? Hell my university spent 1.5 million for a month of searching to change their color from red to...dark red.
Many many millions were spent on making this name longer, and I hope they realize people will still refer to them as Palm. PalmOne reminds me of a bank.
Many states don't have sales tax on food -- some don't even have tax on clothing. A few examples I know for sure of states who don't apply sales tax to food are Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Montana, and New Jersey. Those are just states I know for absolute sure.
Here's an interesting fact, last summer I worked in the East Bay area of SF. This summer I work in Columbus Ohio. Making essentially the same amount, I pay 10% more tax on my paycheck in Ohio. Of course sales tax is 6% here and was something like 13% in SF, so that could be a big part of the difference.
And if you think that Rich people benefit from sales tax then you need to think again. If they don't spend the money it's likely in stocks, which get taxed HEAVILY if you're rich -- and that's just for them NOT spending their money. When they do spend it they spend significantly more and obviously pay significantly more in sales tax. Damned if you do damned if you don't.
He was referring to server-side applications to make the page dynamic?
Could be wrong, but I hope to God he's not implying that we should let programs be run from web pages client side. He honestly can't be, then the crashes wouldn't just crash IE, they'd crash the computer, and he might as well change his background to the BSOD with how much he'd be seeing it on '98.
8.8 million. The United States has 300 million. There is no way, no matter the cheapness of their bandwidth, they could support 35 leachers for every 1 of them sharing.
Also taxes must subsidize Swedish high bandwidth to get prices that low, because I know from a finish graphics artist I worked with just a couple years ago that they were paying the equivalent of $100 USD an hour for DSL. Can't say if the price has dropped, but at the time that shocked me as I was paying $35 an hour for a significantly faster cable modem.
And by the way, look up an Infrastructure diagram, the US by far has the largest internet infrastructure. It was all built here, all the pipelines were originally here, and as of last year when I took a business class and saw the most recent diagram, the rest of the world was still catching up.
Price of bandwidth is often completely unrelated to total bandwidth of the country, especially in highly socialist countries like Sweden that heavily subsidize.
Keep in mind though, that the majority of bandwidth worldwide is held in the United States. I'm not saying other countries don't have High Bandwidth, but do you really think that the Internet Providers of high bandwidth in other countries are prepared to pay the tab of the entire US population leeching off of them? If people stop sharing in the US, people in the US will probably have to quit downloading, because I bet Europeans will (rightfully so) figure out a way to keep US users off of their P2P programs.
This coming from a US user who can't blame them.
The flaw in your logic is that you pretend actions can only have a single motivation. Many things we do have more than one cause. Was world economics a consideration when liberating Iraq? YES. Was getting rid of a dictator who liked to declare his role model as Stalin -- the largest mass murderer of all times -- a motivation? YES. Was liberating an oppressed people who weren't allowed to even speak their voice a motivation? YES.
I ask you, who did more for the Iraqi people:
The Americans who liberated them from a dictator, or the French who tried to disarm the dictator and let him continue to torture his people for times to come. Sometimes results and actions speak louder than motivations, don't they? No matter what selfish goals, if any, there is no way that you can say that we put the Iraqi people in a worse place now than they were 12 months ago. Your complaining about our motivation is simply semantics. What we did was good for the people, as simple as that.
Next, let me point out that the french people did NOT come to our aid in the start of our revolution. You guys didn't actually give us troop aid until the END of the war. When you did give us aid, which was seldom until it looked as if we were going to win, it was in the same form that we helped you in the beginning of WW2 -- munitions. Do your research on this one, and you will find that my facts are accurate. How this is EASILY shown is how you say that you came to our help at the "start" of the war in 1778...ahem...our revolution started in 1775..but yes you did start helping in 1778.
For reference:
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle/timeline.html
And yes, the German army had SOME American parts in their war machines. They probably had some French parts. The majority of parts were probably BMW parts since they ORIGINATED creating war machines for the germans. You say that we never should have invested money in Germany's economy in an attempt to rebuild it. Then I ask you, after your country was torn apart by Germany after World War II, are you happy that we invested billions in YOUR economy to help you rebuild? Were we just trying to make money like always when we GAVE you billions to help make up for destroyed lands? Don't be so naive as to think that our help ended on the beaches of Normandy. At one point in the 50's if we had recalled the debt own to us from giving money to rebuild economy's, we could have bankrupted almost every country in western Europe. The money given to Germany was not unusual, what was unusual was the rise of an unexpected dictator, and the worlds attempt to ignore him until he rebuilt a super-power.
And I ask you as a people, do you dislike the money that our government gives yours every year to date in an attempt to help balance your economy? You probably don't read about that in your newspaper, but we read about it in ours, and I hope you do dislike receiving those funds, because our legislators are currently working on removing them.
I'm sure it's very popular in France to say that American's care about nothing but money. There you are 100% wrong. Above money we care about liberty. Do you realize that after the revolutionary war we ended up paying almost TWICE the taxes that the british were taxing us with? The war was not about taxes alone as is often thought, that war was about the right to representation.
Do you realize how much the Iraqi war COST us? Far, far, FAR more than we will ever see monitary profit from. Every single one of those smart bombs you saw costs literally millions of dollars, and we were shooting 100's an hour, do the math. We had a few jets go down, each jet costs us BILLIONS of dollars. Sometimes it's easier to say that we just "did it out of greed" than it is to actually prove. I'd be interested in seeing you prove that beyond anti-american sentiments. How exactly has America profited from an Iraq without Sadam so far? Aside from having one less anti-american terrorist supporter in the world.
We have come to an understanding then. I will say that I think the war in Iraq was needed, whether for the reasons Bush stated or not. For those who say that war causes death which should be avoided at all costs, I agree, but they must also realize SADAM causes death. He executed more people on average in a day than the war was killing on average in a day. That statistic alone makes the war worth while to me.
And keep in mind, the pacifism that is being so preeched by some french people is the same pacifism that you just were critical of the US for in the beginning of WW2. We were mistaken then, you can't appease and ignore war-mongering dictators, and I believe France is mistaken in the same way now -- just my political stance.
I'd be interested in hearing how we are irresonsibly using our power. Most complaints are concerning the war in Iraq, and I think it'd be a tough argument to say that what has occured in Iraq was not for the greater good in the long run. Sadam needed out, we got him out without many casualties (compare a SINGLE bombing attack in WW2 with the total casualties in the Iraq War and you'll gain my perspective). If you're of the opinion that Sadam didn't need out, I urge you to do some research of what he was doing to his people. Read their testimonials. Read the articles of where men were forced to watch their own brothers shot before they themselves were shot -- all because of political protest. I'm sure you saw the images of iraqi's welcoming US troops and tearing down Sadam's statues. That wasn't a population under assault, that was a population being liberated.
I'm sorry but if you think that your economy is not taking a huge hit for losing American business -- than I know more about your present economy than you do. Here's an article:
As easy as it is to claim I'm just being an over-confident American, you honestly cannot deny that we are the economic center. Our economy is bigger than the next 3 countries combined. California alone would have the #3 economy in the world. Whether the French like it or not, America is in many ways a center right now. I'm not saying that as a bash to any other country, we're all important, but we are far and away the economic leader of the world -- and in a capitalist world (for the most part) -- that makes you the center. We also are far and away the most powerful country militarily -- and in a militaristic society (the rest of the world that's not capitalist) that makes you the center. Again I do NOT mean that as a disrespect or to say that any American is any better than any other citizen. I am saying that as a matter of fact, we are the most economically and militarily powerful nation in the world -- by far.
And by the way, the disrespect you just payed to our soldiers who died in your land is disgusting. My grandfather took a bullet to liberate you from the nazi's, and the attitude that we only did it because we "had to" is ridiculous. You don't think we could have chosen another vantage point to enter europe from? You don't think we could have let Hitler burn and scorch your land before choosing your HEAVILY guarded beaches to enter from?
Finally, you said: We have never desacralise anything, anyone, or any memory
No offense, but there are stupid laws in every country. You're the one being foolish if you think that the US is the leader of stupid laws.
US citizen (as it seems from france) are NOT educated.
Funny that one of our 50 states (california) alone has a larger economy than all you genius french citizens. Oh yeah, your economy is also shrinking drastically solely because we decided to stop visiting you after you desecrated the cemeteries that our grandfathers are buried in from liberating you from nazi's -- classy. Your post is pretty funny though, you accuse all American citizens of being uneducated solely because there's a law against drinking in public in New York. You probably don't understand our version of Federalism, since your government operates differently not because I'm calling you stupid, but just because a law is in New York doesn't mean it's everywhere. For instance, it is illegal period to drink OR be drunk in public in Ohio and Indiana. I'd be willing to bet, if you were intelligent enough to do your research, you'd find it IS illegal to be drunk on the streets in New York. Everywhere I've been in this country it is illegal to be drunk in the streets (Public Intoxication) IF you are making it obvious. I suspect that's the only way it's illegal in France too -- they don't go around breathalizing everybody do they?
And by the way, I'd never call an entire country of citizens ignorant -- especially if my own country's economy was largely dependant on the aforementioned country's tourism.
At where I'm working now for every employee that downloads/uses sametime our department is charged $6.95 a month from our IT department.
This is very fishy to me since the company I was with last year had sametime installed on every computer by default. I'm in a highly regulated industry now though, so perhaps the charge is actually from our IT department for the work required to make sure it's logged. Our AIM, yahoo, etc is already firewalled out.
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Isn't that the same as the *nix command locate? I know I didn't RTFA, but I'd guess it'd just be a GUI for locate, where as their current search is probably a GUI for find... locate doesn't bog down some of the damn slow computers I have freebsd on, no reason to think it would on an apple.
First of all, it's hard to argue that any other area in the country has more tech involvement than the bay area. Next it's hard to match the niceties of the location. Winter low of barely below 60 degrees is nice. Then you add in culture, and on top of that all within 30 points of a central point you have San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, and development employment area's (like pleasanton, etc).
I'm not complaining about the costs, but I am saying that yes, you MUST make more here to make up for the more expensive living costs. Anybody who thinks that making 6 digits anywhere in the country guarantees an easy mortgage payment is a fool (as the AC displayed in his response about California being "shitty"). And it's not just California, check out Boston or NYC. There are tons of places in this country where the luxury and lifestyles of the location drive up costs.
And by the way, supply and demand aren't broken, supply and demand are what is MAKING these houses cost so much. So many wealthy people want to live here it drives up the cost. Supply and demand is broken in places that have rent ceilings (which cause housing shortages).
Everyone who lives in the midwest should be thankful of the expensive california area's. The fact that everyone here makes more, means that everyone here pays a greater ratio of federal taxes. Without California federal taxes in the entire nation would have to be significantly higher.
And lastly before you assume that I'm an uneducated California dolt, I grew up 18 years in Ohio, have spent 3 years in Indiana going to school, and will return to Indiana from my summer internship this fall. I understand perfectly the economics of both California and the midwest. I'll take California's in a second. But on the same note, when somebody says that 6 digits is enough to pay any mortgage easily, it just shows their ignorance to our nation IMO.
Trying covering a mortgage with a 5 digit salary in Silicon Valley, or anywhere else where development boomed in California.
In Pleasanton, a place where many IT companies are based, the average house sold was over 700,000 last month.
Try covering that with anything less than TWO people making a 6 digit salary... This entire nation isn't as cheap as the midwest (or wherever you live where you think 5 digits pays a mortgage with ease).
For one, at least at my school which is fairly well rated (top 50 but not top 10), many of my courses the required texts are by the professors themselves -- being a cashcow for the professors. Do you really think those professors would want to lose the money they get (and intellectual control) from teaching from their own book? And on top of that, even if they use another professors book, wouldn't many consider it a backstab on their profession to edge away from their colleagues books and towards online books? I doubt professors will latch onto this very hard... And for anybody that doesn't know how expensive they currently are, I take a slightly overloaded course load every semester and pay approx $550 a semester for books. I'd be lucky to get 1/5 of that back when I sold them, which I never do.
That is not a logical argument. That is not privacy at all. That is like saying standing in front of a wide open window is privacy to a point, because people probably won't look in unless you're standing there naked. On top of that, this is continuously an argument used to take away rights. "If you're doing nothing wrong..." that's not the point of rights! Rights are meant to OVEREXTEND doing something wrong, where they not only completely protect and shelter those who aren't doing wrong, but also upon occasion protect those who are doing wrong because they are so greatly protecting the innocent. This has been the purpose of the constitution from the get-go. The argument you're proposing is often used by people trying to diminish our rights. They do it slyly using that argument, in an attempt to say "well you'll only stand against this if you're doing something wrong", when in fact I don't want my personal life becoming archived and categorized in some database because it's my PRIVATE LIFE. The "if you're not doing anything wrong..." argument is something that Stalin would much more likely have said, not our founding fathers -- though Stalin would have likely shot you anyway.
Because if so, I've never read anywhere in the constituion that committing certain crimes makes you forfeit all rights. In fact, if I kill somebody and leave their rotting corpse in my basement, and they come into my house without a search warrant, they can't touch me or that rotting corpse in a court of law in the US.
I see that as a similar situation, we love our rights (and I personally wish we had more guaranteed considering who's in power now), and for these rights we make certain sacrifices (giving criminals those same rights), but nonetheless, if we take them from the criminals it is immediately difficult to distinguish who is a criminal and who is an innocent. Isn't the POINT of those rights to guarantee we don't get lumped into the group of criminals when we are an innocent? Those rights protect us from that, and saying "we can sort out criminals and innocents before applying rights" is really removing the entire point of having rights!
If you're not from the US, sorry, I don't know a lot about the system set up to guarantee rights in other countries, but I'd hope that it was a similar system.
So would every day *nix users. Keep in mind if you remove installation from the picture, a *nix machine can easily be set up with KDE/Gnome to do the exact tasks you just said. If all your looking for is an office suite and a my documents, you can spend 15 minutes with any windows user and teach them to click on the little foot instead of the "Start".
Are you kidding me? Way, way over a million bucks I'm sure. 2 years of searching? Hell my university spent 1.5 million for a month of searching to change their color from red to...dark red. Many many millions were spent on making this name longer, and I hope they realize people will still refer to them as Palm. PalmOne reminds me of a bank.
Many states don't have sales tax on food -- some don't even have tax on clothing. A few examples I know for sure of states who don't apply sales tax to food are Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Montana, and New Jersey. Those are just states I know for absolute sure. Here's an interesting fact, last summer I worked in the East Bay area of SF. This summer I work in Columbus Ohio. Making essentially the same amount, I pay 10% more tax on my paycheck in Ohio. Of course sales tax is 6% here and was something like 13% in SF, so that could be a big part of the difference. And if you think that Rich people benefit from sales tax then you need to think again. If they don't spend the money it's likely in stocks, which get taxed HEAVILY if you're rich -- and that's just for them NOT spending their money. When they do spend it they spend significantly more and obviously pay significantly more in sales tax. Damned if you do damned if you don't.
called the law hehe.. In most cases (not all, but most) being a part of a corporation shields you from being held liable.
He was referring to server-side applications to make the page dynamic? Could be wrong, but I hope to God he's not implying that we should let programs be run from web pages client side. He honestly can't be, then the crashes wouldn't just crash IE, they'd crash the computer, and he might as well change his background to the BSOD with how much he'd be seeing it on '98.
Whoops I didn't mean $100USD an hour, just used to talking about money in terms of hour at the moment. $100 USD a month.
Have you seen the population of Sweden?
8.8 million. The United States has 300 million. There is no way, no matter the cheapness of their bandwidth, they could support 35 leachers for every 1 of them sharing.
Also taxes must subsidize Swedish high bandwidth to get prices that low, because I know from a finish graphics artist I worked with just a couple years ago that they were paying the equivalent of $100 USD an hour for DSL. Can't say if the price has dropped, but at the time that shocked me as I was paying $35 an hour for a significantly faster cable modem.
And by the way, look up an Infrastructure diagram, the US by far has the largest internet infrastructure. It was all built here, all the pipelines were originally here, and as of last year when I took a business class and saw the most recent diagram, the rest of the world was still catching up.
Price of bandwidth is often completely unrelated to total bandwidth of the country, especially in highly socialist countries like Sweden that heavily subsidize.
Keep in mind though, that the majority of bandwidth worldwide is held in the United States. I'm not saying other countries don't have High Bandwidth, but do you really think that the Internet Providers of high bandwidth in other countries are prepared to pay the tab of the entire US population leeching off of them? If people stop sharing in the US, people in the US will probably have to quit downloading, because I bet Europeans will (rightfully so) figure out a way to keep US users off of their P2P programs. This coming from a US user who can't blame them.
I ask you, who did more for the Iraqi people:
The Americans who liberated them from a dictator, or the French who tried to disarm the dictator and let him continue to torture his people for times to come. Sometimes results and actions speak louder than motivations, don't they? No matter what selfish goals, if any, there is no way that you can say that we put the Iraqi people in a worse place now than they were 12 months ago. Your complaining about our motivation is simply semantics. What we did was good for the people, as simple as that.
Next, let me point out that the french people did NOT come to our aid in the start of our revolution. You guys didn't actually give us troop aid until the END of the war. When you did give us aid, which was seldom until it looked as if we were going to win, it was in the same form that we helped you in the beginning of WW2 -- munitions. Do your research on this one, and you will find that my facts are accurate. How this is EASILY shown is how you say that you came to our help at the "start" of the war in 1778...ahem...our revolution started in 1775..but yes you did start helping in 1778.
For reference:e .html
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle/timelin
And yes, the German army had SOME American parts in their war machines. They probably had some French parts. The majority of parts were probably BMW parts since they ORIGINATED creating war machines for the germans. You say that we never should have invested money in Germany's economy in an attempt to rebuild it. Then I ask you, after your country was torn apart by Germany after World War II, are you happy that we invested billions in YOUR economy to help you rebuild? Were we just trying to make money like always when we GAVE you billions to help make up for destroyed lands? Don't be so naive as to think that our help ended on the beaches of Normandy. At one point in the 50's if we had recalled the debt own to us from giving money to rebuild economy's, we could have bankrupted almost every country in western Europe. The money given to Germany was not unusual, what was unusual was the rise of an unexpected dictator, and the worlds attempt to ignore him until he rebuilt a super-power.
And I ask you as a people, do you dislike the money that our government gives yours every year to date in an attempt to help balance your economy? You probably don't read about that in your newspaper, but we read about it in ours, and I hope you do dislike receiving those funds, because our legislators are currently working on removing them.
I'm sure it's very popular in France to say that American's care about nothing but money. There you are 100% wrong. Above money we care about liberty. Do you realize that after the revolutionary war we ended up paying almost TWICE the taxes that the british were taxing us with? The war was not about taxes alone as is often thought, that war was about the right to representation.
Do you realize how much the Iraqi war COST us? Far, far, FAR more than we will ever see monitary profit from. Every single one of those smart bombs you saw costs literally millions of dollars, and we were shooting 100's an hour, do the math. We had a few jets go down, each jet costs us BILLIONS of dollars. Sometimes it's easier to say that we just "did it out of greed" than it is to actually prove. I'd be interested in seeing you prove that beyond anti-american sentiments. How exactly has America profited from an Iraq without Sadam so far? Aside from having one less anti-american terrorist supporter in the world.
We have come to an understanding then. I will say that I think the war in Iraq was needed, whether for the reasons Bush stated or not. For those who say that war causes death which should be avoided at all costs, I agree, but they must also realize SADAM causes death. He executed more people on average in a day than the war was killing on average in a day. That statistic alone makes the war worth while to me. And keep in mind, the pacifism that is being so preeched by some french people is the same pacifism that you just were critical of the US for in the beginning of WW2. We were mistaken then, you can't appease and ignore war-mongering dictators, and I believe France is mistaken in the same way now -- just my political stance. I'd be interested in hearing how we are irresonsibly using our power. Most complaints are concerning the war in Iraq, and I think it'd be a tough argument to say that what has occured in Iraq was not for the greater good in the long run. Sadam needed out, we got him out without many casualties (compare a SINGLE bombing attack in WW2 with the total casualties in the Iraq War and you'll gain my perspective). If you're of the opinion that Sadam didn't need out, I urge you to do some research of what he was doing to his people. Read their testimonials. Read the articles of where men were forced to watch their own brothers shot before they themselves were shot -- all because of political protest. I'm sure you saw the images of iraqi's welcoming US troops and tearing down Sadam's statues. That wasn't a population under assault, that was a population being liberated.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename= article&node=&contentId=A33986-2003Apr15¬Found= true
As easy as it is to claim I'm just being an over-confident American, you honestly cannot deny that we are the economic center. Our economy is bigger than the next 3 countries combined. California alone would have the #3 economy in the world. Whether the French like it or not, America is in many ways a center right now. I'm not saying that as a bash to any other country, we're all important, but we are far and away the economic leader of the world -- and in a capitalist world (for the most part) -- that makes you the center. We also are far and away the most powerful country militarily -- and in a militaristic society (the rest of the world that's not capitalist) that makes you the center. Again I do NOT mean that as a disrespect or to say that any American is any better than any other citizen. I am saying that as a matter of fact, we are the most economically and militarily powerful nation in the world -- by far.
And by the way, the disrespect you just payed to our soldiers who died in your land is disgusting. My grandfather took a bullet to liberate you from the nazi's, and the attitude that we only did it because we "had to" is ridiculous. You don't think we could have chosen another vantage point to enter europe from? You don't think we could have let Hitler burn and scorch your land before choosing your HEAVILY guarded beaches to enter from?
Finally, you said:
We have never desacralise anything, anyone, or any memory
That is simply untrue:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2907701.stm
No offense, but there are stupid laws in every country. You're the one being foolish if you think that the US is the leader of stupid laws. US citizen (as it seems from france) are NOT educated. Funny that one of our 50 states (california) alone has a larger economy than all you genius french citizens. Oh yeah, your economy is also shrinking drastically solely because we decided to stop visiting you after you desecrated the cemeteries that our grandfathers are buried in from liberating you from nazi's -- classy. Your post is pretty funny though, you accuse all American citizens of being uneducated solely because there's a law against drinking in public in New York. You probably don't understand our version of Federalism, since your government operates differently not because I'm calling you stupid, but just because a law is in New York doesn't mean it's everywhere. For instance, it is illegal period to drink OR be drunk in public in Ohio and Indiana. I'd be willing to bet, if you were intelligent enough to do your research, you'd find it IS illegal to be drunk on the streets in New York. Everywhere I've been in this country it is illegal to be drunk in the streets (Public Intoxication) IF you are making it obvious. I suspect that's the only way it's illegal in France too -- they don't go around breathalizing everybody do they? And by the way, I'd never call an entire country of citizens ignorant -- especially if my own country's economy was largely dependant on the aforementioned country's tourism.
At where I'm working now for every employee that downloads/uses sametime our department is charged $6.95 a month from our IT department. This is very fishy to me since the company I was with last year had sametime installed on every computer by default. I'm in a highly regulated industry now though, so perhaps the charge is actually from our IT department for the work required to make sure it's logged. Our AIM, yahoo, etc is already firewalled out.