There are places in the EU with far lower unemployment rates but better wage rates than you'll get on the French dole. I'm not saying they should move to Poland.
Learn what you need to in order to be marketable there and move. Not everybody will but the problem of the banlieus is one of masses, not individuals. If some disperse, they not only improve their own individual lot but make the mass less explosive.
Try learning English and move to a booming Ireland, for example. If you're pissed off enough to go burn cars to stick it to the French establishment, adopt english as your language. It'll improve your marketable skills and piss off L'Ecole Nationale in the bargain. It's just not as easy as being hoodlums.
I live in Chicago. They still hyperventilate here over fires ever since so much of the city burned down all those decades ago. The US has had a legacy of riots in the '60s. This sort of thing is very familiar for people above a certain age and it freaks those people out. One thing you really want to watch out for. The first time, they'll riot in their own neighborhoods and discover how much the aftermath sucks. Subsequent riots will be planned for your neighborhood, instead. Actions on this wide a scale don't just happen once.
I reject the idea that people shouting "this is Baghdad, this is Palestine" are just rioting about the lack of entry level jobs open to them. I agree that there's a strong economic component but please don't be simplistic.
As for Murdoch, his news properties are consistent in ideologically placing their product in such a way that they get a nice built-in audience of people who are relieved that finally, somebody is on their side. In the US, that means that Murdoch properties will be on the right. In the PRC, a different political sensitivity applies.
Murdoch likes Blair, always has. That's not the mark of someone on the hard right.
Try this. They found at least one of the seven biowar trucks that Powell presented to the UN all nice and scrubbed to a level not seen elsewhere. Biological weapons programs were part of the pre-war indictment against Saddam.
Iraq has a constitution now and will have an elected government under that constitution in under two months. They've gotten it faster than Germany got theirs post WW II and certainly post WW II Japan would have wished for an Iraqi level of input (ie most of it) in writing their Constition. The Japanese Constitution was dictated in english and translated (somewhat badly) by the occupying army.
Has the US made mistakes? You bet, they have and we should and do regret every one. Human beings make mistakes. That doesn't mean that we're responsible when the other side straps explosives to a Down's syndrome kid and points him down the street, hopefully to explode with lots of other casualties.
The military has given up counting the war crimes these guys in Al Queda and the Sunni groups do. They think nobody cares. I care. You should to.
Actually, what would trip up our ninja banker in the most jurisdictions is the mask. Anything that hides your face from the security cams is going to get everybody very nervous at a minimum because it reduces the consequences for bad behavior.
I strongly suspect that this is the most common use case
Before ban 1. Girl doesn't want to wear hijab because it's uncomfortable and she doesn't want to wear her religion on her sleeve 2. Girl doesn't want to be called "filthy whore" or have acid splashed in her face either 3. Girl wears hijab
Post ban 1. Girl doesn't want to wear hijab because it's uncomfortable and she doesn't want to wear her religion on her sleeve 2. Girl is excused from wearing it to school because it's illegal and she gets to say "well of course I would wear it if I could..." 3. Girl doesn't wear hijab.
So whose freedom is being impinged and when?
Would it be better for the French government to arrest and throw in jail the girl's male relatives who tend to be the heavies in enforcing the hijab? You might as well get the poor girl a coffin while you're at it because there's an "honor killing" headed right her way.
I was thinking much more along the lines of Arthur Anderson. They got taken down under those same "wink, wink" Republicans, remember?
The ultimate fix is to have subdivisions have their own mini central offices built in at construction time. Once the "local loop" is on the right side of the demarc, the baby bells either go broke or reform into normal companies.
All that'll change is that people with large numbers of end users will buy up companies that have large numbers of content providers. If SBC buys rackspace, how does this improve things?
My last mile is fixed wireless. Why lease lines at all?
Even better, why wouldn't construction companies make up a little mini local loop office for each development. You put down 200 condos and have one demarc at the entrance. The development can contract bandwidth from anybody they like and they have enough clout that they can get competitors to bring in competing fiber. If you have a 100-200 unit development (not uncommon) that's certainly an attractive proposition.
The legal action in response would be a corporate death penalty. Ma Bell might benefit but it would very likely have a different corporate board. Those who would decide to diddle with the network to that extent are likely headed to prison.
Intentionally spending money to degrade my traffic is detectible and probably has to be reported at some point to regulators. People will find out. People will complain. It's also a great way to lose free peering as people route around your network as much as they can to avoid the degraded service.
I simply don't think this will happen because it would be political suicide. The Bell lobbyists would put a stop to it as soon as the state legislators started turning the screws.
The bloodbath will be on the P&L statements of ISPs that hobble usage and create network imbalances. As soon as it becomes uncomfortable enough, people will move to another source of TCP/IP.
It's simple monopoly pricing 101, you can't exceed the price of your next most expensive competitor. A lot of places have excess fiber built out and dark. If they crank up the prices too much, they'll lose out to somebody else.
Try reading the 25th amendment. On a vacancy in the VP slot, the President appoints a new VP with the approval of both houses of Congress. Unless Hastert was selected and approved, he'd stay 3rd in line unless there was a simultaneous vacancy.
I think that the muslims are better at defining who is a muslim than who is a christian. You can't have a monotheistic God who has superior deities above him. Trinitarianism was just a shorthand way of saying it. Nice as many mormons may be, that doesn't make their theology sound, or christian. You're cheating, you know. You haven't provided any affirmative defense of Mormon membership in the christian category, only said that my reason wasn't passing muster. Do you have an argument?
You obviously have no clue whatsoever about Catholicism, or you just got the idiot's course from somebody who wasn't very qualified to give it. Catholicism does have a lot of obeying in it. It also has a lot of defiance of authority in it too. You use your brain to determine which course to take on any given issue.
During the 4th century, the church laity saved what became conventional christianity by defying the hierarchy of the day's near universal embrace of Arianism. All sorts of thoughtful defiance has led the Church to a better appreciation of God's plan for us.
In my own case, I'm simultaneously on the rebel and orthodox side on a number of issues. I make an uncomfortable Catholic for my priest and my bishop at times. I'm currently drafting in my head a letter that will eventually go to 6 bishops and the Pope on a relatively obscure but I think important issue on the filioque. This is the first time I've had to go to Rome on an issue but I doubt it will be the last.
My priest will hate the letter (he's on one side), my bishop will like it (as he's on the other), and I suspect that several dioceses in Transylvania will become very uncomfortable with the results as if I am successful they're going to have to change how they say their Sunday liturgy. The project is likely to take me another six months before I'm satisfied with it enough to send it off and 3-7 years before Rome takes notice (whether that's via this pontiff or the next). The end result, I pray, is to bring forward the day of reunification of Catholicism and Orthodoxy, a division that has caused way to many corpses to litter battlefields, most recently in Kosovo.
Those corpses are the exterior result of a deep spiritual wound a millennium ago. Both the symptom and the underlying cause have to be cured. At least, that's what I think.
In my church, we do not seek to withdraw from the world but be a light unto the world. Pulling all the Catholic kids blogs means that the Internet becomes a little bit darker, a little bit less wholesome of a place.
I would expect the school to educate students to defend themselves against predators. I would expect the school to bring somebody in skilled in information analysis and let the kids know exactly how vulnerable they have made themselves with imprudent use of a tool. I could even see a letter going home to parents alerting them to the dangers. What I don't see as proper is threatening these children's education (that's what suspensions and expulsions do) because the kids aren't doing what they haven't been taught to do, exercise appropriate information discipline.
You're quite deluded about what fiduciary responsibility actually is, much less what my fiduciary responsibility is. Please stop embarrassing yourself.
Actually you missed the really significant part because he rendered it in beltway speak. He talked about cutting mandatory spending. This is the elephant in the room, the one that nobody wants to touch. Mandatory spending is all spending that automatically increases except if there is a special bill pushed through the Congress to cut it. Very popular programs get put in the mandatory spending category and it's the biggest part of the budget out there, dwarfing defense, for example.
If there's anything that he needs help with it's setting up a glossary and having links for technical terms of art for legislation so that outsiders can understand the stuff.
I'm not going to get into a detailed discussion of how theologically icky Mormonism is from a conventional christian standpoint. I just picked trinitarianism because I didn't want to get into the strange stuff on marriage and baptism among other areas. Essentially Mormons are not monotheists which gets you right out of the christian club by any sane definition I've heard of.
I don't know of any christian sect that permits baptism of the dead unless you count Mormons. The assignment of wives to new husbands by church elders in "covenant marriages" is also theologically out there enough for most christians to say that this isn't christianity.
Actually, it's like not being let into the theater because you've rented a DVD from Blockbuster.
Thinking more about it, the suit that would likely have the best result would be in the ecclesial courts as the bishop holding the purse strings for the school would not be amused at anything that smacked of repressing evangelization. If the bishop lets it go through, the nuncio probably wouldn't like it and the Pope would like it even less. They all have email and they're all in one Catholic directory or another.
Free association hasn't been this absolutist for an awful long time, if ever. There are two court systems in play. First there is the Code of Canons which governs all Catholic institutions usually through the local diocesan bishop. But there is also secular law, specifically contract law. Just like you can't legally contract to have someone killed, a religious school has certain real limits imposed by the secular law.
Frankly, I think you'd have better luck in the canonical courts. Start up a blog with a St. Isadore theme to it and challenge the ban inside the Church.
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There are places in the EU with far lower unemployment rates but better wage rates than you'll get on the French dole. I'm not saying they should move to Poland.
Learn what you need to in order to be marketable there and move. Not everybody will but the problem of the banlieus is one of masses, not individuals. If some disperse, they not only improve their own individual lot but make the mass less explosive.
Try learning English and move to a booming Ireland, for example. If you're pissed off enough to go burn cars to stick it to the French establishment, adopt english as your language. It'll improve your marketable skills and piss off L'Ecole Nationale in the bargain. It's just not as easy as being hoodlums.
I live in Chicago. They still hyperventilate here over fires ever since so much of the city burned down all those decades ago. The US has had a legacy of riots in the '60s. This sort of thing is very familiar for people above a certain age and it freaks those people out. One thing you really want to watch out for. The first time, they'll riot in their own neighborhoods and discover how much the aftermath sucks. Subsequent riots will be planned for your neighborhood, instead. Actions on this wide a scale don't just happen once.
I reject the idea that people shouting "this is Baghdad, this is Palestine" are just rioting about the lack of entry level jobs open to them. I agree that there's a strong economic component but please don't be simplistic.
As for Murdoch, his news properties are consistent in ideologically placing their product in such a way that they get a nice built-in audience of people who are relieved that finally, somebody is on their side. In the US, that means that Murdoch properties will be on the right. In the PRC, a different political sensitivity applies.
Murdoch likes Blair, always has. That's not the mark of someone on the hard right.
Try applying that to minors, the mentally incompetent, and the very intoxicated. Not everyone can judge.
Try this. They found at least one of the seven biowar trucks that Powell presented to the UN all nice and scrubbed to a level not seen elsewhere. Biological weapons programs were part of the pre-war indictment against Saddam.
Iraq has a constitution now and will have an elected government under that constitution in under two months. They've gotten it faster than Germany got theirs post WW II and certainly post WW II Japan would have wished for an Iraqi level of input (ie most of it) in writing their Constition. The Japanese Constitution was dictated in english and translated (somewhat badly) by the occupying army.
Has the US made mistakes? You bet, they have and we should and do regret every one. Human beings make mistakes. That doesn't mean that we're responsible when the other side straps explosives to a Down's syndrome kid and points him down the street, hopefully to explode with lots of other casualties.
The military has given up counting the war crimes these guys in Al Queda and the Sunni groups do. They think nobody cares. I care. You should to.
Most of these kids have French passports. Why don't they migrate to a part of the EU with low unemployment?
Actually, what would trip up our ninja banker in the most jurisdictions is the mask. Anything that hides your face from the security cams is going to get everybody very nervous at a minimum because it reduces the consequences for bad behavior.
I strongly suspect that this is the most common use case
Before ban
1. Girl doesn't want to wear hijab because it's uncomfortable and she doesn't want to wear her religion on her sleeve
2. Girl doesn't want to be called "filthy whore" or have acid splashed in her face either
3. Girl wears hijab
Post ban
1. Girl doesn't want to wear hijab because it's uncomfortable and she doesn't want to wear her religion on her sleeve
2. Girl is excused from wearing it to school because it's illegal and she gets to say "well of course I would wear it if I could..."
3. Girl doesn't wear hijab.
So whose freedom is being impinged and when?
Would it be better for the French government to arrest and throw in jail the girl's male relatives who tend to be the heavies in enforcing the hijab? You might as well get the poor girl a coffin while you're at it because there's an "honor killing" headed right her way.
In short, it's not an easy problem.
I was thinking much more along the lines of Arthur Anderson. They got taken down under those same "wink, wink" Republicans, remember?
The ultimate fix is to have subdivisions have their own mini central offices built in at construction time. Once the "local loop" is on the right side of the demarc, the baby bells either go broke or reform into normal companies.
All that'll change is that people with large numbers of end users will buy up companies that have large numbers of content providers. If SBC buys rackspace, how does this improve things?
My last mile is fixed wireless. Why lease lines at all?
Even better, why wouldn't construction companies make up a little mini local loop office for each development. You put down 200 condos and have one demarc at the entrance. The development can contract bandwidth from anybody they like and they have enough clout that they can get competitors to bring in competing fiber. If you have a 100-200 unit development (not uncommon) that's certainly an attractive proposition.
The legal action in response would be a corporate death penalty. Ma Bell might benefit but it would very likely have a different corporate board. Those who would decide to diddle with the network to that extent are likely headed to prison.
Intentionally spending money to degrade my traffic is detectible and probably has to be reported at some point to regulators. People will find out. People will complain. It's also a great way to lose free peering as people route around your network as much as they can to avoid the degraded service.
I simply don't think this will happen because it would be political suicide. The Bell lobbyists would put a stop to it as soon as the state legislators started turning the screws.
The bloodbath will be on the P&L statements of ISPs that hobble usage and create network imbalances. As soon as it becomes uncomfortable enough, people will move to another source of TCP/IP.
It's simple monopoly pricing 101, you can't exceed the price of your next most expensive competitor. A lot of places have excess fiber built out and dark. If they crank up the prices too much, they'll lose out to somebody else.
Try reading the 25th amendment. On a vacancy in the VP slot, the President appoints a new VP with the approval of both houses of Congress. Unless Hastert was selected and approved, he'd stay 3rd in line unless there was a simultaneous vacancy.
I think that the muslims are better at defining who is a muslim than who is a christian. You can't have a monotheistic God who has superior deities above him. Trinitarianism was just a shorthand way of saying it. Nice as many mormons may be, that doesn't make their theology sound, or christian. You're cheating, you know. You haven't provided any affirmative defense of Mormon membership in the christian category, only said that my reason wasn't passing muster. Do you have an argument?
You obviously have no clue whatsoever about Catholicism, or you just got the idiot's course from somebody who wasn't very qualified to give it. Catholicism does have a lot of obeying in it. It also has a lot of defiance of authority in it too. You use your brain to determine which course to take on any given issue.
During the 4th century, the church laity saved what became conventional christianity by defying the hierarchy of the day's near universal embrace of Arianism. All sorts of thoughtful defiance has led the Church to a better appreciation of God's plan for us.
In my own case, I'm simultaneously on the rebel and orthodox side on a number of issues. I make an uncomfortable Catholic for my priest and my bishop at times. I'm currently drafting in my head a letter that will eventually go to 6 bishops and the Pope on a relatively obscure but I think important issue on the filioque. This is the first time I've had to go to Rome on an issue but I doubt it will be the last.
My priest will hate the letter (he's on one side), my bishop will like it (as he's on the other), and I suspect that several dioceses in Transylvania will become very uncomfortable with the results as if I am successful they're going to have to change how they say their Sunday liturgy. The project is likely to take me another six months before I'm satisfied with it enough to send it off and 3-7 years before Rome takes notice (whether that's via this pontiff or the next). The end result, I pray, is to bring forward the day of reunification of Catholicism and Orthodoxy, a division that has caused way to many corpses to litter battlefields, most recently in Kosovo.
Those corpses are the exterior result of a deep spiritual wound a millennium ago. Both the symptom and the underlying cause have to be cured. At least, that's what I think.
In my church, we do not seek to withdraw from the world but be a light unto the world. Pulling all the Catholic kids blogs means that the Internet becomes a little bit darker, a little bit less wholesome of a place.
I would expect the school to educate students to defend themselves against predators. I would expect the school to bring somebody in skilled in information analysis and let the kids know exactly how vulnerable they have made themselves with imprudent use of a tool. I could even see a letter going home to parents alerting them to the dangers. What I don't see as proper is threatening these children's education (that's what suspensions and expulsions do) because the kids aren't doing what they haven't been taught to do, exercise appropriate information discipline.
You're quite deluded about what fiduciary responsibility actually is, much less what my fiduciary responsibility is. Please stop embarrassing yourself.
Actually you missed the really significant part because he rendered it in beltway speak. He talked about cutting mandatory spending. This is the elephant in the room, the one that nobody wants to touch. Mandatory spending is all spending that automatically increases except if there is a special bill pushed through the Congress to cut it. Very popular programs get put in the mandatory spending category and it's the biggest part of the budget out there, dwarfing defense, for example.
If there's anything that he needs help with it's setting up a glossary and having links for technical terms of art for legislation so that outsiders can understand the stuff.
You can email him, like you can email most representatives.
I'm not going to get into a detailed discussion of how theologically icky Mormonism is from a conventional christian standpoint. I just picked trinitarianism because I didn't want to get into the strange stuff on marriage and baptism among other areas. Essentially Mormons are not monotheists which gets you right out of the christian club by any sane definition I've heard of.
I don't know of any christian sect that permits baptism of the dead unless you count Mormons. The assignment of wives to new husbands by church elders in "covenant marriages" is also theologically out there enough for most christians to say that this isn't christianity.
Here's a debate that might prove instructive.
Actually, Apache's share is up. The article is wrong. Last month it was 69.15% of the market and this month it's 69.89% of the market.
Actually, it's like not being let into the theater because you've rented a DVD from Blockbuster.
Thinking more about it, the suit that would likely have the best result would be in the ecclesial courts as the bishop holding the purse strings for the school would not be amused at anything that smacked of repressing evangelization. If the bishop lets it go through, the nuncio probably wouldn't like it and the Pope would like it even less. They all have email and they're all in one Catholic directory or another.
Free association hasn't been this absolutist for an awful long time, if ever. There are two court systems in play. First there is the Code of Canons which governs all Catholic institutions usually through the local diocesan bishop. But there is also secular law, specifically contract law. Just like you can't legally contract to have someone killed, a religious school has certain real limits imposed by the secular law.
Frankly, I think you'd have better luck in the canonical courts. Start up a blog with a St. Isadore theme to it and challenge the ban inside the Church.