It reminded me of a scene in Rambo 2 where that evil army guy says something like "We can reprogram his computer files" in a defensive remark about making Rambo disappear in vietnam.
Mind you, it was 1985 and most people thought pressing a button on a keyboard was programming.
The best scene was when he took that machine gun into the computer tent and fired like 5000 rounds, one handed, in a rage before going to make the bad guy poop his pants.
I'm having a great time reading this thread. The same people who say things like "I would never run IE" are coming out and acting thrilled about this. What about the requirement of having IE to run this? I guess it is okay when it has something to do with Gmail. Hmmmm.
Personally, I do not see much reason for the local library to have Internet connectivity for visitors. I always went to the library to get books and media, not sit there and type on some nasty public keyboard.
While I understand there are some unfortunate souls out there who can not afford a computer and 'net connect, I do not see why I am in charge of providing them both.
I might be missing something major here; Feel free to jump in and tell me if I did. The way I see it, I'd rather that money be spent on the library's inventory.
No, AC, that isn't what my views represent at all.
There is no "punishment" here. People both pro and against the war would serve under a draft. What isn't fair about that?
If you don't understand how different the perception of war is when it is you or your son being carted off to fight, as compared to just watching 15 second clips on CNN, then you should definitely seek your own enlightenment.
Yeah, the only way I could fully support it would be to do away with any and all college or income excemptions.
I would assume this would be done since most kids go on to college nowadays. I could see that number rise to nearly 100% if they could dodge the draft by going back to school, this being because it is very easy for anyone to finance a college education if they want it.
Even if we just drafted the bottom of society, the outcry would be so outrageous that our government would have no choice but to back off.
What about my post was a troll? I give my honest opinion on the draft, albeit not a well-written novel, and get modded as a troll.
How about instead of going through threads you are uninterested in and modding people down, you leave them alone so someone else can give their input on the subject?
Forgive me for contributing to the forums. I'll be sure to refrain in the future.
In my part of town, I often give the 911 people a ring several times a month. I've got a storage warehouse next door whose burglar alarm is always going off. Typically, the hold times during a peak time are around two to five minutes.
Once a major catastrophe strikes, the calls will fill up the 911 phone queues to the point you'll likely bleed to death before getting an operator. Your odds are a lot better if you just start yelling and get help from crews directly on the scene.
I have trouble debating the 1/100,000,000 chance of getting stuck under a beam and being assured a functional cellular network. It's simply not worth the costs to me on those odds. The american people need to feel more comfortable taking these gambles and start worrying about our economic situation. All this "what if" BS is a major factor in the state of our economy and our huge deficit.
Personally, I feel salvation will come in the next generation of hardware. Greater capacity, less costs, etc. I don't feel there is a need to rush something that will happen organically in a few years.
Personally, I wish the draft would go back into effect.
Every day, I come to work and listen to chickenhawks go on about how we should crush Iraq, Iran, N Korea, etc. Then I go to the bar and every other person seems to be talking about how brave GWB is for sending someone else's kids off to fight. Then, I go home and turn on the news and get a earful from political commentators about how great this whole war thing is.
Now, it is obvious this pro-war talk is coming from people who know for a fact they will face no personal danger to themselves. With a fair draft, we could start sending these people over who support this mess so much. Let them and their kids go breath some DU dust, smell burning/decomposing bodies, watch a few friends die horrible deaths, and be forced to live off a private's salary. I'd be willing to bet we'd get the hell out of Iraq and distance ourselves from most of the conflicts people make such a big stand on.
So, my hat is off to the 2 people in our government who actually understand why a draft is important. It is too bad the rest of the nation doesn't have the balls to put their money where their mouth is.
If you don't like reality, skip this post.
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Does this mean gmail will start charging for some features?
Ok. I blame the american school systems for people who think businesses are there to give them everything for free.
First off, can we all just agree that Google is now a business with shareholder money? The guys who own the stock are a bit more concerned with generating a short term gain than giving several million geeks free *@gmail.com addresses with many features.
Do you really see Google sustaining itself on banner ads and advertising partners alone? I know you would like to see that happen, but if you were coherent in 1999 you would find this is not the case in most publically held companies.
I will be sure to link back to all my ill-modded posts about Google being a business to generate cash once it becomes another Hotmail or MSN in a couple of months/years.
Open Source definately has it's place, and it's a very small place, in my opinion.
So what does your prefence of desktops have to do with whether they are open source or not? If Windows went open source, what OS would you run in its place??
What are the actual user benefits of closed source applications over open source once you eliminate the economic benefit to the person selling it?
I run Windows, but would be happier if it were open source.
well, if the see that an area has shitty lines, and they do some terror creating act there, the lack of communication can severly hinder the rescue workers.
This sounds quite unlikely. Considering FD, PD and other emergency services in metropolitan areas have dedicated trunked or digital radio networks.
Double Bullshit. The author of the article attempted to make it sound like it would be a breach of a criminal law. You trying to invoke some obscure usage of the word is just a bad.
Anyone who read the article knows full well that the author intended to mislead readers.
Obscure usage? No, the terminology is common:
In chess, it is an illegal move to move the opponent's pieces.
In boxing, hitting below the belt is illegal.
If I were you, I'd be a bit more concerned about the state of your democracy than rabidly working conspiracies into an editor's choice of words.
Same with the peace problem. Iraq isn't nearly as bad as Vietnam, but it's not a bed of roses either.
Right now, I feel Iraq is artificially good. From what I have gathered, we have large camps of our troops outside Iraq's major cities. On a regular basis, they leave camps and do SWAT-like raids on individual homes and then get out quickly.
The casualties in this war will come after the elections. I believe, in November, we will start trying to take ground inside cities, then this war may become quite a bloody mess. No president in his right mind would start a ground invasion prior to an attempt at re-election.
You have to remember, Vietnam was supported for quite a while. It wasn't until a couple of years into the conflict that we started taking huge numbers of casualties and those came as a suprise. The average american thought the technological advantages of helicopters, lightweight rifles, and jet fighters would destroy the communist army.
But just as with Korea, they wanted us out more than we wanted to "fix" their government issues.
A very real change in Iraq policy would need to send some serious messages. It might even require some mass civilian casualties. Drop a BLU-82 or MOAB on Tikrit and Fallujah. Stop interrogating Iraqi detainees, but killing them and letting dogs and pigs eat at their rotting bodies. Let them know that these little kidnappings and chicken-shit roadside bombings will be punished 100-fold, 1000-fold.
You mean over 12,000 dead civillians are not enough to get our point across?
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Here is his "official" policy in PDF format from his website.
Lots of big, simple, promises. I don't like those. Mind you, I can not imagine anyone doing a worse job with our economy than GW has. So I don't know what to think.
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The people who want to die, are going to die. They have given up and want me to take care of them, I do not care about these people. I am worried about the people TRYING to find work.
Please do not be a tool. The "given up" remark is something getting said a lot in the media regarding some people who are married and have a spouse who gets laid off and can't find work. The household then learns to get by on a single income, then the pressure to find work is much less. This works and has been popular for the families who will sacrifice that Lexus and drive a Honda instead. This means nothing for the masses across middle america who's factory jobs are gone. So are all the Walmart and McDonalds jobs in many areas.
The men and women who are trying to support families who have had their unemployement benefits dry up do not just "give up" on getting a job. They do anything and everything they can to keep their kids and spouse fed. The only thing they don't do is count towards the damn numbers our government is trying to pass off on us as "getting better". If nobody noticed, more people matured to legal working age than jobs created this year.
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And the problems with these times are a carryover from the Clinton administration's disastrous policies. There is only so much recovery one president can do in one term, despite how good Bush is.
I can guarantee you if a Democrat gets in again you'll be sliding deeper and deeper.
You know, your post would be much more impressive if it showed a single policy of Clinton's which Bush changed in the name of fiscal responsibility. I have not heard about any, myself.
On that note, where were the Republican votes stopping Clinton's policies? Looking back, I remember the Republicans in congress being pretty quiet those 8 years, except when the whole Monica thing came out.
I'm not going to debate beliefs, just throwing in my 2 cents. I don't like either party. I especially don't like paying over $200 Billion dollars to invade Iraq and make everyone hate us at the same time.
Being hated globally is not condusive to future peace and prosperity at home.
Yeah, this bothers me. Just about every close election has forced a recount, and there has always been a large group of voters left with questions.
This time around, we get a Republican in office after a controversal election, then a company that contributes large amounts of money to the Republicans gets a bid to build closed-source voting systems in a big rush before the 2004 elections.
I say we phase them in, slowly, and look for patterns. Personally, I would like to see 4 different companies use the same open system distributed evenly across the country. It would be much easier to spot someone stealing an election with the three other results to compare your consistency with.
Sadly, it looks like America can't do anything effectively or intelligently anymore.
I wish we had the same "get shit done" attitude which gave us things like the SR-71 up in the air after only a few months developement. It seems to me, the only thing we are doing effectively, these days, is distracting the middle-class from corporations scrambling to overseas markets.
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It reminded me of a scene in Rambo 2 where that evil army guy says something like "We can reprogram his computer files" in a defensive remark about making Rambo disappear in vietnam.
Mind you, it was 1985 and most people thought pressing a button on a keyboard was programming.
The best scene was when he took that machine gun into the computer tent and fired like 5000 rounds, one handed, in a rage before going to make the bad guy poop his pants.
I'm having a great time reading this thread. The same people who say things like "I would never run IE" are coming out and acting thrilled about this. What about the requirement of having IE to run this? I guess it is okay when it has something to do with Gmail. Hmmmm.
Selective zealotry at its worse.
Personally, I do not see much reason for the local library to have Internet connectivity for visitors. I always went to the library to get books and media, not sit there and type on some nasty public keyboard.
While I understand there are some unfortunate souls out there who can not afford a computer and 'net connect, I do not see why I am in charge of providing them both.
I might be missing something major here; Feel free to jump in and tell me if I did. The way I see it, I'd rather that money be spent on the library's inventory.
Actually, it is more a matter of taking responsibility than anything to do with being a political point.
No, AC, that isn't what my views represent at all.
There is no "punishment" here. People both pro and against the war would serve under a draft. What isn't fair about that?
If you don't understand how different the perception of war is when it is you or your son being carted off to fight, as compared to just watching 15 second clips on CNN, then you should definitely seek your own enlightenment.
Yeah, the only way I could fully support it would be to do away with any and all college or income excemptions.
I would assume this would be done since most kids go on to college nowadays. I could see that number rise to nearly 100% if they could dodge the draft by going back to school, this being because it is very easy for anyone to finance a college education if they want it.
Even if we just drafted the bottom of society, the outcry would be so outrageous that our government would have no choice but to back off.
What about my post was a troll? I give my honest opinion on the draft, albeit not a well-written novel, and get modded as a troll.
How about instead of going through threads you are uninterested in and modding people down, you leave them alone so someone else can give their input on the subject?
Forgive me for contributing to the forums. I'll be sure to refrain in the future.
I doubt she will be able to get through anyway.
In my part of town, I often give the 911 people a ring several times a month. I've got a storage warehouse next door whose burglar alarm is always going off. Typically, the hold times during a peak time are around two to five minutes.
Once a major catastrophe strikes, the calls will fill up the 911 phone queues to the point you'll likely bleed to death before getting an operator. Your odds are a lot better if you just start yelling and get help from crews directly on the scene.
I have trouble debating the 1/100,000,000 chance of getting stuck under a beam and being assured a functional cellular network. It's simply not worth the costs to me on those odds. The american people need to feel more comfortable taking these gambles and start worrying about our economic situation. All this "what if" BS is a major factor in the state of our economy and our huge deficit.
Personally, I feel salvation will come in the next generation of hardware. Greater capacity, less costs, etc. I don't feel there is a need to rush something that will happen organically in a few years.
Personally, I wish the draft would go back into effect.
Every day, I come to work and listen to chickenhawks go on about how we should crush Iraq, Iran, N Korea, etc. Then I go to the bar and every other person seems to be talking about how brave GWB is for sending someone else's kids off to fight. Then, I go home and turn on the news and get a earful from political commentators about how great this whole war thing is.
Now, it is obvious this pro-war talk is coming from people who know for a fact they will face no personal danger to themselves. With a fair draft, we could start sending these people over who support this mess so much. Let them and their kids go breath some DU dust, smell burning/decomposing bodies, watch a few friends die horrible deaths, and be forced to live off a private's salary. I'd be willing to bet we'd get the hell out of Iraq and distance ourselves from most of the conflicts people make such a big stand on.
So, my hat is off to the 2 people in our government who actually understand why a draft is important. It is too bad the rest of the nation doesn't have the balls to put their money where their mouth is.
Does this mean gmail will start charging for some features?
Ok. I blame the american school systems for people who think businesses are there to give them everything for free.
First off, can we all just agree that Google is now a business with shareholder money? The guys who own the stock are a bit more concerned with generating a short term gain than giving several million geeks free *@gmail.com addresses with many features.
Do you really see Google sustaining itself on banner ads and advertising partners alone? I know you would like to see that happen, but if you were coherent in 1999 you would find this is not the case in most publically held companies.
I will be sure to link back to all my ill-modded posts about Google being a business to generate cash once it becomes another Hotmail or MSN in a couple of months/years.
Just speaking from the gut.
Open Source definately has it's place, and it's a very small place, in my opinion.
So what does your prefence of desktops have to do with whether they are open source or not? If Windows went open source, what OS would you run in its place??
What are the actual user benefits of closed source applications over open source once you eliminate the economic benefit to the person selling it?
I run Windows, but would be happier if it were open source.
well, if the see that an area has shitty lines, and they do some terror creating act there, the lack of communication can severly hinder the rescue workers.
This sounds quite unlikely. Considering FD, PD and other emergency services in metropolitan areas have dedicated trunked or digital radio networks.
Double Bullshit. The author of the article attempted to make it sound like it would be a breach of a criminal law. You trying to invoke some obscure usage of the word is just a bad.
Anyone who read the article knows full well that the author intended to mislead readers.
Obscure usage? No, the terminology is common:
In chess, it is an illegal move to move the opponent's pieces.
In boxing, hitting below the belt is illegal.
If I were you, I'd be a bit more concerned about the state of your democracy than rabidly working conspiracies into an editor's choice of words.
I wish Snort had intrusion prevention capability. = wink wink=
Using your logic: AOL is the best ISP in the world!
Memo to the OSCE:
Re: International observers for US elections
Fuck off.
Making America look more like a hellish pit of arrogance and ignorance, one forum post at a time. eh?
Wow, how much Shawn Hannity do you listen to?
Same with the peace problem. Iraq isn't nearly as bad as Vietnam, but it's not a bed of roses either.
Right now, I feel Iraq is artificially good. From what I have gathered, we have large camps of our troops outside Iraq's major cities. On a regular basis, they leave camps and do SWAT-like raids on individual homes and then get out quickly.
The casualties in this war will come after the elections. I believe, in November, we will start trying to take ground inside cities, then this war may become quite a bloody mess. No president in his right mind would start a ground invasion prior to an attempt at re-election.
You have to remember, Vietnam was supported for quite a while. It wasn't until a couple of years into the conflict that we started taking huge numbers of casualties and those came as a suprise. The average american thought the technological advantages of helicopters, lightweight rifles, and jet fighters would destroy the communist army.
But just as with Korea, they wanted us out more than we wanted to "fix" their government issues.
It is unfortunate that people say these things, then disregard the fact that GWB has done nothing to reverse it.
My case remains, if Clinton screwed up, then why do we not see a reversal of any of his policies?
$400-$500 is an obscene lot for a small USB MP3 player, but the coolness factor is way up there.
I guess if your idea of cool includes fanny packs and pocket protectors, then yeah, this is a great way for you to make your fashion statement.
Personally, I will stick to my iPod mini.
A very real change in Iraq policy would need to send some serious messages. It might even require some mass civilian casualties. Drop a BLU-82 or MOAB on Tikrit and Fallujah. Stop interrogating Iraqi detainees, but killing them and letting dogs and pigs eat at their rotting bodies. Let them know that these little kidnappings and chicken-shit roadside bombings will be punished 100-fold, 1000-fold.
You mean over 12,000 dead civillians are not enough to get our point across?
Here is his "official" policy in PDF format from his website.
Lots of big, simple, promises. I don't like those. Mind you, I can not imagine anyone doing a worse job with our economy than GW has. So I don't know what to think.
The people who want to die, are going to die. They have given up and want me to take care of them, I do not care about these people. I am worried about the people TRYING to find work.
Please do not be a tool. The "given up" remark is something getting said a lot in the media regarding some people who are married and have a spouse who gets laid off and can't find work. The household then learns to get by on a single income, then the pressure to find work is much less. This works and has been popular for the families who will sacrifice that Lexus and drive a Honda instead. This means nothing for the masses across middle america who's factory jobs are gone. So are all the Walmart and McDonalds jobs in many areas.
The men and women who are trying to support families who have had their unemployement benefits dry up do not just "give up" on getting a job. They do anything and everything they can to keep their kids and spouse fed. The only thing they don't do is count towards the damn numbers our government is trying to pass off on us as "getting better". If nobody noticed, more people matured to legal working age than jobs created this year.
And the problems with these times are a carryover from the Clinton administration's disastrous policies. There is only so much recovery one president can do in one term, despite how good Bush is.
I can guarantee you if a Democrat gets in again you'll be sliding deeper and deeper.
You know, your post would be much more impressive if it showed a single policy of Clinton's which Bush changed in the name of fiscal responsibility. I have not heard about any, myself.
On that note, where were the Republican votes stopping Clinton's policies? Looking back, I remember the Republicans in congress being pretty quiet those 8 years, except when the whole Monica thing came out.
I'm not going to debate beliefs, just throwing in my 2 cents. I don't like either party. I especially don't like paying over $200 Billion dollars to invade Iraq and make everyone hate us at the same time.
Being hated globally is not condusive to future peace and prosperity at home.
Yeah, this bothers me. Just about every close election has forced a recount, and there has always been a large group of voters left with questions.
This time around, we get a Republican in office after a controversal election, then a company that contributes large amounts of money to the Republicans gets a bid to build closed-source voting systems in a big rush before the 2004 elections.
I say we phase them in, slowly, and look for patterns. Personally, I would like to see 4 different companies use the same open system distributed evenly across the country. It would be much easier to spot someone stealing an election with the three other results to compare your consistency with.
Sadly, it looks like America can't do anything effectively or intelligently anymore.
I wish we had the same "get shit done" attitude which gave us things like the SR-71 up in the air after only a few months developement. It seems to me, the only thing we are doing effectively, these days, is distracting the middle-class from corporations scrambling to overseas markets.