That has to do with a union being granted legal control of a dictionary. That doesn't have anything to do with engineering.
Are you saying that, wherever you are, one is allowed to tell everyone he's a doctor and perform surgery even though he never finished high school? Gotta tell you I'm glad to live in a society where people aren't allowed to pretend they're of a profession when they aren't. Our doctors are real doctors, and our engineers are real engineers.
In essence, this degree is made to seperate the software engineer from the 2 bit coder.
Yes, oooh yes. I hate when people all over claim to be a whatever-engineering. If you got an engineering degree, you're an engineer, if you don't have the degree, you're anything but an engineer.
I don't know how it is everywhere else in the world (or even in the US), but up here in Quebec, it is actually illegal to claim being an engineer if you are not a member of the "Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec" (Engineering Order of Quebec). And the Order only allows people who have an engineering degree.
Microsoft even had some legal trouble in Quebec with their so-called Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers (MCSE).
All that being said, I am a junior software engineer, based on both what I do and what the law allows me to say I am.
This story said that IT managers have the U.K's third-worst job -- ranking just below phone sex operator (No. 1) and ferry cabin cleaner (No. 2).
Last I checked, UK was not in America... The best job in one place can be the worst in another place. I bet being a crocodile hunter in northern-Canada sucks...
Sorry, but no. If the creators are given the freedom to say "this work may be watched precisely once and once only", then the public is hindered in its use of this creation, because they can only watch it once.
Last time I went to the movies and bought a ticket to watch a movie, I was shown the movie precisely once and once only. When I tried to go back in to see it again, they told me I needed to buy another ticket even though I had paid to see the movie before... I was totally hindered in the use of someone else's creation... I guess I should sue the movie theater or something.
Tax payers get to pay for yet another government audit agency (or group within an agency FTC) that audits companies.
Tax payers pay for a lot more than that...
(speaking as a non-american looking at all those acts and bills)
CAN SPAM : Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing
DATA : Data Accountability and Trust Act
USA-PATRIOT : Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism ... and I bet you have a lot more...
Somebody really gets paid by your taxes to come up with ridiculously long names for acts and bills just so the acronym kinda-almost says something? I get a laugh everytime I hear about a new bill or act coming from the states...
If you want to write an app for windows you pretty much have to use.NET these days..NET is no faster then Java and in many ways slower then Java even on windows. So there is no degraded performance. You either program in Java or c#. The languages are pretty much identical so there is not even added effort.
C++ still lives... Over here we're using Qt for apps on Windows.
Really it's a no brainer. Use Java and gain 10% more potential customers.
Once again... C++ with Qt and you still have the 10% more potential customers. Hey, guess what? We got them too. The linux version is just a compile away.
Well, what's the point of developing a new drug if people don't know about it. Maybe it's the media's fault for charging such high prices for advertising.
The public doesn't have to know about the new drug, only doctors really need to know about it. Then, when a patient has the appropriate symptoms/illness, they can prescribe the new drug. Now... if advertizing for the doctors involves "meetings" in Tahiti or Hawaii, then you can really wonder why the costs of advertizing are so high, but it's really not the media's fault.
Three words, proper gun safety. When people are taught properly and know well enough to fear and respect the gun as a weapon then there aren't so many problems. When people get sloppy and forget their gun is loaded or let their eight year old play with a loaded, unlocked gun then you get trouble. If you can't observe proper gun safety you have no business owning a gun. There are many people who have no trouble whatsoever owning and maintaining their guns safely.
I think recent history has taught us that the user cannot be trained properly in anything. This might sound like an exageration, but you could take what you just said and replace references to guns with references to a lot of things and it would sound just as right...
Proper car safety. When people are taught properly and know well enough to fear and respect the massive amount of steel they are riding, then there wouldn't be as much speeding. When people get sloppy and drink and drive or drive recklessly in residential areas, then you get trouble. The so-called need for a driver's licence doesn't make cars safer because the people think they have a god-given right to drive a vehicle, and they keep driving it even when they lose their licence.
Proper computer safety. When people are taught properly and know well enough not to open email attachements and not to browse the web using Internet Explorer and without a decent firewall and antivirus, then there aren't so many problems. When people get sloppy and use IE to browse the web just because it was already there, and double click on every PamNude.exe file they get, then you get trouble.
And I could keep going...
Further, it isn't like guns are the only things that cause accidents or injury. In third grade one of my better friends took a baseball bat to the head after accidentally walking up behind somebody taking practice swings.
Hey... guess what? Accidents happen. Thing is, the primary purpose of a baseball bat is to hit a baseball during a game in order to have fun. The primary purpose of a gun is to kill. I don't have the numbers and I won't pull them out of my ass, but I'm pretty sure there are way fewer deaths-by-baseball-bat than death by shooting in the US, both accidental and willful.
What, that was four kids, premeditated intent to kill, right? You don't think they could have come up with a plan to get that many using live blades? It might involve a little more cunning than walking in and starting to shoot, but we're talking about cutting down unarmed people. Please enlighten me to what action a teacher is going to take to step in and prevent that.
First off, depending on the size of the blade, you might have a better chance of survival from a knife stab than from a gun shot, unless of course the blade is more like a sword, but then swords shouldn't be allowed either. And it's much harder to massively kill people with a knife than with a gun, I never heard of a semi-automatic knife. And although some might get hurt in the process, a bunch of people can jump on the knife wielder and pin him to the ground. While he has a gun, he can shoot them all before they can even reach him. It's easier to kill people with a gun than with a knife.
Instead of the physically strong abusing the meek or even the average, anybody has the capability to inflict lethal damage.
Yet, in a whole school where there were what, some hundreds, maybe thousands of people (I really have no idea of the size of the school), nobody had what they needed to inflict lethal damage to the shooters in order to protect themselves.
Why? Then we'd just kill each other with bows, swords, knifes, clubs, and pretty much any instrument that can be fashioned into a weapon. Clearly history is full of killing before guns were created. Our murderousness is by no means the fault of a gun or any other inanimate object.
Even though all those pre-firearms weapons can be used for killing people, they are all much safer to "use", as one can hardly accidentally kill someone with them.
- That's how it happened officer... I was cleaning my bow, and I didn't know there was an arrow on the string, and then the bow fired by itself...
- That's how it happened officer... I was carrying my sword while I thought the safety was on, but then when I dropped it on the floor, it bounced all the way across the room to go hit the man who was standing there...
- Thats' how it happened officer... My son was playing in the basement and found this club that I keep in a drawer. He wanted to show it to his friend, but being only 8, he didn't know how to properly handle a club, and then he accidentally clubbed his friend to death...
Even if we could remove all potential weapons we'd still just resort to using fists.
It happens. Some kid gets ridiculed, other kids laugh at him, call him names, etc. The kid gets mad, uses his fists and beats up the other kids. Teachers come in, they stop the fight, results in a couple of kids with bruises. Or, if that kid has access to a gun (because, I don't know... he lives in a country where people feel they have a god-given right to own a gun), he takes the gun to school and then fires at kids. Results in 14 dead and 24 wounded, welcome to Columbine.
Guns are not the only factor involved in the killing of people, but they are a facilitator. Face it, guns help kill people.
Dang, I don't know what part of the game you or I missed, but last I checked, I was 96% good, and I did rip out hundreds of trees... Ripping out a tree is evil indeed, but using it to build or to put in the store is good, so it balances it all. Uprooting trees is only evil if you do it just for fun.
And even though building an army is somewhat evil, using it to attack is much worse. If you just build an army of archers to put up your city walls and defend, the little bit of evil you got from having an army is easily counterbalanced by watering a couple of fields... nothing to grow horns with...
I'm not much of a MS fan myself, but can you really say "paraphrased without bias" and not be trolling?
From your link:
"I want to be clear that our intent is to build a platform that fully complies with the appropriate web standards, in particular CSS 2 ( 2.1, once it's been Recommended)."
Its not really paraphrasing when you make up ideas. That's called "reading between the lines", and you didn't even do that.
However, if you read the rest of the page, you'll notice that they have no intent to ever try and pass Acid2:
In that vein, I've seen a lot of comments asking if we will pass the Acid2 browser test published by the Web Standards Project when IE7 ships. I'll go ahead and relieve the suspense by saying we will not pass this test when IE7 ships. The original Acid Test tested only the CSS 1 box model, and actually became part of the W3C CSS1 Test Suite since it was a fairly narrow test - but the Acid 2 Test covers a wide set of functionality and standards, not just from CSS2.1 and HTML 4.01, selected by the authors as a "wish list" of features they'd like to have. It's pointedly not a compliance test (from the Test Guide: "Acid2 does not guarantee conformance with any specification"). As a wish list, it is really important and useful to my team, but it isn't even intended, in my understanding, as our priority list for IE7.
Disclaimer : My experience with VB stops at VB6. I have steered away from all that.NET stuff since then.
I may sound old-school, and then maybe I am, but "programming" and "writing a program" seem like two different things to me. If all you want to do is write programs, then I think about any high-level language could be appropriate because programs can be written in any language and high-level ones hide all the ugly computer part from the programmer.
However, if you want to learn to program, then you need some serious commitment, and you need to learn (or at least understand) assembly language, and then work with C or C++ or a language that actually lets you play with bits and bytes.
One of the lead computer people at one of the major oil companies told me once that all that their Visual Basic programmers do is to write meaningless little programs that noone ever uses.
VB is a quite high-level language, and is easy to learn (or at least fiddle with). That lead to a whole bunch of VB coders who pretends they are programmers because they can write programs. However, all they do is write lines after lines of VB code (and most of it is *click* *click* *click* through the UI), with no understanding whatsoever of what is really going on when the program runs. It is really nice when, with little effort, a program can be made and performs the desired operation. However, when a bug arises, those coders that don't understand the low-level stuff might not understand the source of the bug (and then sometimes blame it on someone else), and therefore can't debug their own application.
Every programming language is a tool, and when a job needs be done, one should use the best tool for the job. I suppose there are some jobs for which VB is the best tool. However, when someone claims to be a programmer and only knows VB, chances are he doesn't program, he just knows where to click to create a dialog with some buttons. If he knows VB and C++, Java, PHP, Perl, Python, etc., he's more likely to understand what he does, and will probably write a good VB program if he needs to.
Know your needs and know your wants. If you want to learn how to program, don't choose a language that will hide all the ugly stuff from you, because you need to know about the ugly stuff.
Portable hard drives are the solution for your storage problem, and unlike desktop hard drives, they are portable.
And again usually cost from 30-40% more than the comparable internal drive, and are slower.
You also forgot to mention that portable hard drives also work for desktops, so the GP's point is moot.
the only "problem" with the entire system was a single small block of the LCD that was unreadable. (Which had been like that since we got the thing back in '95; that's what you get when you close over the screen with one of those BallPoint mice still attached...)
With a desktop, you simply could have changed the monitor and keep the rest of the system, instead of suffering a broken display for 10 years. I call that an advantage of the desktop over the laptop.
Well since it's orbiting, it should keep returning past the spot it started at negating the yardage, so basically the farthest it can go is the diameter of the circle crerated by it's orbit.
And you can't really measure the yardage until the ball lands and comes to a stop... and since this ball will never land (it will disintegrate before landing), it'll never count.
Plus, if you count distance from where it was launched, and keep in mind that the space station keeps on moving after the ball stops, it'll eventually catch up and then negate the actual drive distance, and then making it negative afterwards. In real golf, when I drive, it doesn't matter if the balls travels a whole lot, if it lands behind where I was when I hit, I ain't happy.
I don't personally feel comfortable making forecasts of orbital mechanics based on the acceleration vector of a human golf swing. It's not a particularly predictable energy input, and one good slice might put the golf ball into an slightly eccentric permanent orbit.
I doubt a golf ball can slice in a vacuum. Slicing is all about aerodynamics, and without air, there ain't much slice. And when the ball gets low enough that there is a little air to let it slice, it will just slow it down even more and make it fall faster, not get into permanent orbit.
Ubuntu alone has links all over the place pointing to their unofficial FAQ. Following it, you can be playing mp3s in less than 60 seconds.
Why does it always have to be unofficial-this or beta-that? Don't the Ubuntu people know that users may want to play mp3s on their computers? Why don't they have an OFFICIAL FAQ for that?
About 50% of the USA population still uses dial-up, and you can't count on linux to work with a win-modems. Sorry to say, win-modems are the stardard.
It is also a myth that winmodems are totally non-functional under Linux, just because there is the prefix "win", and people think only Windows can deal with win-stuff. A winmodem is simply a modem that has almost no hardware and relies on the driver/CPU to do most of the work. Such a driver can be made for Linux.
I switched my sister to Linux last month, and she is on dial-up, with a Conexant winmodem. I found a Linux driver for the modem, and she can now happily dial her way to the net.
Its just a newer version of the divine right of kings
And what did the people do when they got sick of that divine right of kings? They cut the king's head off. It would be time for the people to wake up and revolt somehow. You've done it in the past, you can do it again.
Anti-Bush is not anti-America. In absolute fact, anti-Bush *is* pro-America.
I would have agreed with you a couple of years ago. The first time you Americans elected Bush, it was out of good faith, he probably promised you things, and then he screwed you all after the election. During that time, lots of people told me that being anti-Bush is not the same as being anti-American, because most Americans also disagreed with Bush and hated him too. However, When he was re-elected in 2004, anti-Bush and anti-American became the same thing, because the election proved that the American people wanted Bush as president, knowing how he was and what he would do, knowing all he had already done.
Maybe you are one American citizen who doesn't agree with Bush, but a democratic election showed that the American people liked Bush enough that they want their whole country to be represented by him. Being anti-Bush might not mean being anti-you, but it sure means being anti-America to me (and it pretty much sucks in my opinion that a whole continent has to be flagged with that because a single country couldn't find a name).
But to be honest the real reason sales are down, is no one wants to spend tons of money for games on a system that is going to be obsolete in a couple of months.
Weren't you listening when the fat cats were talking? By now, we all know that if sales are down, it's because of piracy! Game companies need to add some anti-copying measures that piss the hell off their customers in their games now......... oh wait...
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Are you saying that, wherever you are, one is allowed to tell everyone he's a doctor and perform surgery even though he never finished high school? Gotta tell you I'm glad to live in a society where people aren't allowed to pretend they're of a profession when they aren't. Our doctors are real doctors, and our engineers are real engineers.
Yes, oooh yes. I hate when people all over claim to be a whatever-engineering. If you got an engineering degree, you're an engineer, if you don't have the degree, you're anything but an engineer.
I don't know how it is everywhere else in the world (or even in the US), but up here in Quebec, it is actually illegal to claim being an engineer if you are not a member of the "Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec" (Engineering Order of Quebec). And the Order only allows people who have an engineering degree.
Microsoft even had some legal trouble in Quebec with their so-called Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers (MCSE).
All that being said, I am a junior software engineer, based on both what I do and what the law allows me to say I am.
Last I checked, UK was not in America... The best job in one place can be the worst in another place. I bet being a crocodile hunter in northern-Canada sucks...
Last time I went to the movies and bought a ticket to watch a movie, I was shown the movie precisely once and once only. When I tried to go back in to see it again, they told me I needed to buy another ticket even though I had paid to see the movie before... I was totally hindered in the use of someone else's creation... I guess I should sue the movie theater or something.
Tax payers pay for a lot more than that...
(speaking as a non-american looking at all those acts and bills)
CAN SPAM : Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing
... and I bet you have a lot more ...
DATA : Data Accountability and Trust Act
USA-PATRIOT : Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
Somebody really gets paid by your taxes to come up with ridiculously long names for acts and bills just so the acronym kinda-almost says something? I get a laugh everytime I hear about a new bill or act coming from the states...
I would... if only they would have a Linux version... and somehow, I can't get them to work through Wine :-( Anyone had any success with that?
C++ still lives... Over here we're using Qt for apps on Windows.
Really it's a no brainer. Use Java and gain 10% more potential customers.
Once again... C++ with Qt and you still have the 10% more potential customers. Hey, guess what? We got them too. The linux version is just a compile away.
The public doesn't have to know about the new drug, only doctors really need to know about it. Then, when a patient has the appropriate symptoms/illness, they can prescribe the new drug. Now... if advertizing for the doctors involves "meetings" in Tahiti or Hawaii, then you can really wonder why the costs of advertizing are so high, but it's really not the media's fault.
I think recent history has taught us that the user cannot be trained properly in anything. This might sound like an exageration, but you could take what you just said and replace references to guns with references to a lot of things and it would sound just as right...
Proper car safety. When people are taught properly and know well enough to fear and respect the massive amount of steel they are riding, then there wouldn't be as much speeding. When people get sloppy and drink and drive or drive recklessly in residential areas, then you get trouble. The so-called need for a driver's licence doesn't make cars safer because the people think they have a god-given right to drive a vehicle, and they keep driving it even when they lose their licence.
Proper computer safety. When people are taught properly and know well enough not to open email attachements and not to browse the web using Internet Explorer and without a decent firewall and antivirus, then there aren't so many problems. When people get sloppy and use IE to browse the web just because it was already there, and double click on every PamNude.exe file they get, then you get trouble.
And I could keep going...
Further, it isn't like guns are the only things that cause accidents or injury. In third grade one of my better friends took a baseball bat to the head after accidentally walking up behind somebody taking practice swings.
Hey... guess what? Accidents happen. Thing is, the primary purpose of a baseball bat is to hit a baseball during a game in order to have fun. The primary purpose of a gun is to kill. I don't have the numbers and I won't pull them out of my ass, but I'm pretty sure there are way fewer deaths-by-baseball-bat than death by shooting in the US, both accidental and willful.
What, that was four kids, premeditated intent to kill, right? You don't think they could have come up with a plan to get that many using live blades? It might involve a little more cunning than walking in and starting to shoot, but we're talking about cutting down unarmed people. Please enlighten me to what action a teacher is going to take to step in and prevent that.
First off, depending on the size of the blade, you might have a better chance of survival from a knife stab than from a gun shot, unless of course the blade is more like a sword, but then swords shouldn't be allowed either. And it's much harder to massively kill people with a knife than with a gun, I never heard of a semi-automatic knife. And although some might get hurt in the process, a bunch of people can jump on the knife wielder and pin him to the ground. While he has a gun, he can shoot them all before they can even reach him. It's easier to kill people with a gun than with a knife.
Instead of the physically strong abusing the meek or even the average, anybody has the capability to inflict lethal damage.
Yet, in a whole school where there were what, some hundreds, maybe thousands of people (I really have no idea of the size of the school), nobody had what they needed to inflict lethal damage to the shooters in order to protect themselves.
Even though all those pre-firearms weapons can be used for killing people, they are all much safer to "use", as one can hardly accidentally kill someone with them.
- That's how it happened officer... I was cleaning my bow, and I didn't know there was an arrow on the string, and then the bow fired by itself...
- That's how it happened officer... I was carrying my sword while I thought the safety was on, but then when I dropped it on the floor, it bounced all the way across the room to go hit the man who was standing there...
- Thats' how it happened officer... My son was playing in the basement and found this club that I keep in a drawer. He wanted to show it to his friend, but being only 8, he didn't know how to properly handle a club, and then he accidentally clubbed his friend to death...
Even if we could remove all potential weapons we'd still just resort to using fists.
It happens. Some kid gets ridiculed, other kids laugh at him, call him names, etc. The kid gets mad, uses his fists and beats up the other kids. Teachers come in, they stop the fight, results in a couple of kids with bruises. Or, if that kid has access to a gun (because, I don't know... he lives in a country where people feel they have a god-given right to own a gun), he takes the gun to school and then fires at kids. Results in 14 dead and 24 wounded, welcome to Columbine.
Guns are not the only factor involved in the killing of people, but they are a facilitator. Face it, guns help kill people.
And even though building an army is somewhat evil, using it to attack is much worse. If you just build an army of archers to put up your city walls and defend, the little bit of evil you got from having an army is easily counterbalanced by watering a couple of fields... nothing to grow horns with...
Dude... You just made my day. I love seeing people use my CountdownClock :-D
Always nice meeting a user.
From your link: "I want to be clear that our intent is to build a platform that fully complies with the appropriate web standards, in particular CSS 2 ( 2.1, once it's been Recommended)."
Its not really paraphrasing when you make up ideas. That's called "reading between the lines", and you didn't even do that.
However, if you read the rest of the page, you'll notice that they have no intent to ever try and pass Acid2:
In that vein, I've seen a lot of comments asking if we will pass the Acid2 browser test published by the Web Standards Project when IE7 ships. I'll go ahead and relieve the suspense by saying we will not pass this test when IE7 ships. The original Acid Test tested only the CSS 1 box model, and actually became part of the W3C CSS1 Test Suite since it was a fairly narrow test - but the Acid 2 Test covers a wide set of functionality and standards, not just from CSS2.1 and HTML 4.01, selected by the authors as a "wish list" of features they'd like to have. It's pointedly not a compliance test (from the Test Guide: "Acid2 does not guarantee conformance with any specification"). As a wish list, it is really important and useful to my team, but it isn't even intended, in my understanding, as our priority list for IE7.
I may sound old-school, and then maybe I am, but "programming" and "writing a program" seem like two different things to me. If all you want to do is write programs, then I think about any high-level language could be appropriate because programs can be written in any language and high-level ones hide all the ugly computer part from the programmer.
However, if you want to learn to program, then you need some serious commitment, and you need to learn (or at least understand) assembly language, and then work with C or C++ or a language that actually lets you play with bits and bytes.
One of the lead computer people at one of the major oil companies told me once that all that their Visual Basic programmers do is to write meaningless little programs that noone ever uses.
VB is a quite high-level language, and is easy to learn (or at least fiddle with). That lead to a whole bunch of VB coders who pretends they are programmers because they can write programs. However, all they do is write lines after lines of VB code (and most of it is *click* *click* *click* through the UI), with no understanding whatsoever of what is really going on when the program runs. It is really nice when, with little effort, a program can be made and performs the desired operation. However, when a bug arises, those coders that don't understand the low-level stuff might not understand the source of the bug (and then sometimes blame it on someone else), and therefore can't debug their own application.
Every programming language is a tool, and when a job needs be done, one should use the best tool for the job. I suppose there are some jobs for which VB is the best tool. However, when someone claims to be a programmer and only knows VB, chances are he doesn't program, he just knows where to click to create a dialog with some buttons. If he knows VB and C++, Java, PHP, Perl, Python, etc., he's more likely to understand what he does, and will probably write a good VB program if he needs to.
Know your needs and know your wants. If you want to learn how to program, don't choose a language that will hide all the ugly stuff from you, because you need to know about the ugly stuff.
And again usually cost from 30-40% more than the comparable internal drive, and are slower.
You also forgot to mention that portable hard drives also work for desktops, so the GP's point is moot.
With a desktop, you simply could have changed the monitor and keep the rest of the system, instead of suffering a broken display for 10 years. I call that an advantage of the desktop over the laptop.
And you can't really measure the yardage until the ball lands and comes to a stop... and since this ball will never land (it will disintegrate before landing), it'll never count.
Plus, if you count distance from where it was launched, and keep in mind that the space station keeps on moving after the ball stops, it'll eventually catch up and then negate the actual drive distance, and then making it negative afterwards. In real golf, when I drive, it doesn't matter if the balls travels a whole lot, if it lands behind where I was when I hit, I ain't happy.
I doubt a golf ball can slice in a vacuum. Slicing is all about aerodynamics, and without air, there ain't much slice. And when the ball gets low enough that there is a little air to let it slice, it will just slow it down even more and make it fall faster, not get into permanent orbit.
17,500 mi/h is not even two thens of thousands... dunno about you, but my definition of "several" starts at more than 2 or 3... ;-)
Why does it always have to be unofficial-this or beta-that? Don't the Ubuntu people know that users may want to play mp3s on their computers? Why don't they have an OFFICIAL FAQ for that?
It is also a myth that winmodems are totally non-functional under Linux, just because there is the prefix "win", and people think only Windows can deal with win-stuff. A winmodem is simply a modem that has almost no hardware and relies on the driver/CPU to do most of the work. Such a driver can be made for Linux.
I switched my sister to Linux last month, and she is on dial-up, with a Conexant winmodem. I found a Linux driver for the modem, and she can now happily dial her way to the net.
And what did the people do when they got sick of that divine right of kings? They cut the king's head off. It would be time for the people to wake up and revolt somehow. You've done it in the past, you can do it again.
I would have agreed with you a couple of years ago. The first time you Americans elected Bush, it was out of good faith, he probably promised you things, and then he screwed you all after the election. During that time, lots of people told me that being anti-Bush is not the same as being anti-American, because most Americans also disagreed with Bush and hated him too. However, When he was re-elected in 2004, anti-Bush and anti-American became the same thing, because the election proved that the American people wanted Bush as president, knowing how he was and what he would do, knowing all he had already done.
Maybe you are one American citizen who doesn't agree with Bush, but a democratic election showed that the American people liked Bush enough that they want their whole country to be represented by him. Being anti-Bush might not mean being anti-you, but it sure means being anti-America to me (and it pretty much sucks in my opinion that a whole continent has to be flagged with that because a single country couldn't find a name).
Weren't you listening when the fat cats were talking? By now, we all know that if sales are down, it's because of piracy! Game companies need to add some anti-copying measures that piss the hell off their customers in their games now... ... ... oh wait...
Such a link would be called Google.