"Bush does not:-) Millions dislike him strongly, but no one accuses him of voting for something, he considers "horrible"."
He has signed humdreds of bills into law and I bet every single bill he signed had some rider that he disagrees with vehemently. Of course he didn't read them and doesn't even know whats in them (nobody does). The president does not have a line Item veto so he has to take the whole bill or leave it.
Bush is a jihadist zealot I'll give you that. He only listens to God. Him and Osama Bin Laden have a lot in common.
Knife hardness is measured by Rockwell rating. The higher the rating the harder the knife. Usually you make knives harder by having more carbon but there are other ways to do it like adding tungsten or other metals. Carbon is the cheapest though so most people add that.
Wusthofs and most other quality German knives have a Rockwell rating of 52-56, Globals are 58-60, high carbon japanese knives usually have 62-63.
Of course more the carbon more the blade will rust and be harder to sharpen. It's a trade off and a matter of preference.
I think the globals strike a nice balance. Rustproof but still very hard. And I said before I prefer thinner blades and lighter knives.
Yes I keep up on the news. That's why I know the president is a dumb fuck who is profoundly confused about what is going on in the world.
Secondly I did give a shit, I joined and gave money to amnesty international and voted against reagan-bush-rumsfeld unholy trilogy who were supporting the murderous regime of saddam hussein.
Finally the I am also happy about the newfound love of the iraqis by the president. Too bad he didn't give a shit when those babies were being killed. He was too busy shoveling coke up his nose while his daddy was giving money, technology and intelligence to saddam. Maybe if he gave a shit then he could have talked to his daddy a bit.
I have no idea what all that rambling is all about. You seem to be flailing around trying to hit some target but I don't think you know you are aiming at.
First of all all politicians regadless of party tax people and they all spend that tax money on stupid stuff. Is that what you mean by the "point of a gun". If so please point me in the direction of a republican who will not take my money and spend it on something.
Secondly you seem to be under some sort of an impression that racism does not exist or that nothing should should be done about it if it does exist. I disagree with you on that one. Racism does exist and if somebody is discriminated against because of their race they should have recourse.
The rest of your post is simply incoherent babbling. Maybe it would make more sense if I listened to talk radio and learned the buzzwords or something.
" I'll bet ol' W knows the difference between 'then' and 'than'. "
Why would you bet on that? He has confused abu nidal with abu abbas.
As for the iraiqs I am touched by your newfound love of them. Too bad you didn't give a shit in the 80s when those massacres were taking place. Back then we were helping him if I recall. Those dead babies are as much your fault as they are mine and saddams. Too bad back then you didn't give a shit about iraqis. Too bad for the last 20 years you didn't give a shit about iraqis either. Millions of them died while you sat back and watched TV and GW shoveled coke up his nose and fucked yale co-eds.
Better late then never though. I am very happy you love the iraqis now. That's just wonderful.
"don't want to fuss around with kernels, deciding between a distribution, and all that jazz. "
Futzing with kernels? Who does that anymore? How many times do you decide between distributions? I'll give you a hint, once.
"Sure, I could use apt and the others, but it just takes too much time, and you have to worry about various dependencies and what not."
Who the hell modded you up after saying something this collosally ignorant. Apt takes too much time? You have to worry about dependencies with apt? What the fuck? The parent does not know what they are talking about or is lying mod them down people.
"I'd like nothing better than to run a Unix variant, but until you bring me a monolithic distribution that just works,"
What you mean like debian or suse or something?
"I'll have to stay Microsoft for now."
Yes you do that. Clearly you have no idea what you are talking about.
"Why should I be forced by the government to help other countries and other people out because you want to?"
Why should I be forced to pay for an invasion of Iraq or to give no bid contracts to haliburton who does business with iran through an offshore shell?
That's the country we live in, we don't get to choose how our money is spent. I for one would prefer that my taxes go to help the hungry rather then kill people who don't like allawi. Allawi should kill people that don't like him himself don't you think?
Yes I believe jesus said something like that too. I don't think he ever preached that we should help the poor. Come to think of it all religions agree with you too. They all think the poor should be left to fend for themselves.
Charity is evil, generosity is futile, feeding the hungry is bad for them, war is peace, good is evil.
Less then 200 billion. Way less. A significant portion of the cost of that war was born by our allies. Remember that war did not involve a ground invasion and we pulled back pretty fast leaving only a skeleton command unit. Nato and UN helped with the rest.
That's the way you take care of problems. You go in, you get a worldwide effort, you solve the problem, you get out. Nobody hates you and you don't spend yourself into bankrupcy.
I think it's a wonderful comparison to make. How Clinton took care of the Bosnian problem vs how bush has totally fucked up the iraq problem.
I recall a knife test they made once and IIRC they liked the wusthof best. I think they liked the way they felt. Wusthofs have a thick and heavy blade so it feel very substantial. I prefer thinner, harder blades (more carbon) blades so I like globals.
Americas test kitchen tends to review things you are likely to be able to pickup at your local dept store. I don't think they have renviewed japanese or brazillian knives (except for global of course).
I prefer high carbon knives because they hold an edge longer but in the end the best knife is the one feels good in your hands.
Wusthof knives are OK but I have given up on henckels. If you really want great knives I would go for the japanese brands myself. Global (forged only) or masahiro are fantastic.
If you want German knives the messermeisters are a great value and are as good as wusthofs IMHO.
If you want the best bang for the buck I'd go with forschner or Tramontina Professional Series. Tramontina are made in Brazil and are an exceptional value for being forged.
If I was buying something for my mother I'd by the tramontina, for myself I am saving up for a nenox.
The tax system is the way it is because business wants it that way. They lobby congress to provide loopholes to benefit them and harm the competition. Decades of opening up loopholes for one corporation or another has made out tax code a mess.
Make it flat and the lobbyists will swarm washington to skew it again.
If you ask me we need more radical reform. Get rid of the income tax and replace it with a VAT of sorts. Stop taxing income and start taxing consumption. Don't tax interest earned or capital gains because you want to encourage people to save and invest.
You can give a credit back every year for the poor like the earned income tax credit we have now, this would make it more progressive. Only the poor would file income taxes to get some of ther taxes back. Just simple act of not having to file taxes would save business billions of dollars per year.
Clinton didn't spend 200 billion dollars occupying a country.
Kerry is smarter then my dog. *
Right there you have two reasons not to vote for bush.
* I bought two toys for my dog. I named one "abu abbas" and the other one "abu nidal". My dog was able to differentiate between the two in less then ten tries something Bush was not able to accomplish.
"I don't understand how that is ideologically consistent."
That's because you don't understand the ideology. You have simply reduced it to the simplest form possible presumably because you are not capable of understanding more complex thought patterns.
"Because you are born in America, you are worthy of help, but if you are born in India, you are not?"
Once again your inability to think beyond black and white has painted yourself into a corner.
I am not really going to go into it but here are the salient points.
1) We should help people all over the world if they need it to the best of our ability.
2) It's impossible to help everybody in the world because there is so much poverty and we really don't have enough money or willpower. Even if we really wanted to give a 100% effort to help the destitute of the world we would be fought tooth and nail by the republicans.
3) Charity begins at home. We really ought to tace care of our own problems first. We should devote MOST of our resources to making sure our own citizens are taken care of first.
You see, it's not that hard. Just compassion mixed with a little bit of realism. We still favor giving money to poor countries and helping them as much as we can but not at the expense of denying our own citizens.
BTW I noticed that you said "A tenet of the democrats is to help the disadvantaged.". Doesn't it bother you that republicans don't even have that tenant. That they don't believe in helping the disadvantaged?
Apparently you are delusional. Or maybe just ignorant. All politicians do that. Every bill has riders. That's the way washington works.
You are under some sort of a delusion that republicans don't vote for bills that have riders they disagree with. It's only right that you should be moderated flamebait and I insightful.
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"Bush does not :-) Millions dislike him strongly, but no one accuses him of voting for something, he considers "horrible"."
He has signed humdreds of bills into law and I bet every single bill he signed had some rider that he disagrees with vehemently. Of course he didn't read them and doesn't even know whats in them (nobody does). The president does not have a line Item veto so he has to take the whole bill or leave it.
Bush is a jihadist zealot I'll give you that. He only listens to God. Him and Osama Bin Laden have a lot in common.
Just FYI.
Knife hardness is measured by Rockwell rating. The higher the rating the harder the knife. Usually you make knives harder by having more carbon but there are other ways to do it like adding tungsten or other metals. Carbon is the cheapest though so most people add that.
Wusthofs and most other quality German knives have a Rockwell rating of 52-56, Globals are 58-60, high carbon japanese knives usually have 62-63.
Of course more the carbon more the blade will rust and be harder to sharpen. It's a trade off and a matter of preference.
I think the globals strike a nice balance. Rustproof but still very hard. And I said before I prefer thinner blades and lighter knives.
Ads are one indication. Anti linud fud articles are another.
Yes I keep up on the news. That's why I know the president is a dumb fuck who is profoundly confused about what is going on in the world.
Secondly I did give a shit, I joined and gave money to amnesty international and voted against reagan-bush-rumsfeld unholy trilogy who were supporting the murderous regime of saddam hussein.
Finally the I am also happy about the newfound love of the iraqis by the president. Too bad he didn't give a shit when those babies were being killed. He was too busy shoveling coke up his nose while his daddy was giving money, technology and intelligence to saddam. Maybe if he gave a shit then he could have talked to his daddy a bit.
Why don't you go to the countryside and convince the miners and farmers they should stop taking govt subsidies.
Start there and let's see how far you get.
I have no idea what all that rambling is all about. You seem to be flailing around trying to hit some target but I don't think you know you are aiming at.
First of all all politicians regadless of party tax people and they all spend that tax money on stupid stuff. Is that what you mean by the "point of a gun". If so please point me in the direction of a republican who will not take my money and spend it on something.
Secondly you seem to be under some sort of an impression that racism does not exist or that nothing should should be done about it if it does exist. I disagree with you on that one. Racism does exist and if somebody is discriminated against because of their race they should have recourse.
The rest of your post is simply incoherent babbling. Maybe it would make more sense if I listened to talk radio and learned the buzzwords or something.
Every single one.
" I'll bet ol' W knows the difference between 'then' and 'than'. "
Why would you bet on that? He has confused abu nidal with abu abbas.
As for the iraiqs I am touched by your newfound love of them. Too bad you didn't give a shit in the 80s when those massacres were taking place. Back then we were helping him if I recall. Those dead babies are as much your fault as they are mine and saddams. Too bad back then you didn't give a shit about iraqis. Too bad for the last 20 years you didn't give a shit about iraqis either. Millions of them died while you sat back and watched TV and GW shoveled coke up his nose and fucked yale co-eds.
Better late then never though. I am very happy you love the iraqis now. That's just wonderful.
" Are you saying that killing people is bad?"
No that was jesus.
"What if a guy is trying to kill your children?"
What if he wasn't? What if he was no threat to you whatsoever?
" Dish networks PVR is restriction free. "
For now. Tivo was restriction free for a while too.
Spoken like a man who has never used linux.
"don't want to fuss around with kernels, deciding between a distribution, and all that jazz. "
Futzing with kernels? Who does that anymore? How many times do you decide between distributions? I'll give you a hint, once.
"Sure, I could use apt and the others, but it just takes too much time, and you have to worry about various dependencies and what not."
Who the hell modded you up after saying something this collosally ignorant. Apt takes too much time? You have to worry about dependencies with apt? What the fuck? The parent does not know what they are talking about or is lying mod them down people.
"I'd like nothing better than to run a Unix variant, but until you bring me a monolithic distribution that just works,"
What you mean like debian or suse or something?
"I'll have to stay Microsoft for now."
Yes you do that. Clearly you have no idea what you are talking about.
Linuxworld is an anti linux site. That should be obvious to anybody who has been there more then once. Just look at the ads for god's sake.
"Why should I be forced by the government to help other countries and other people out because you want to?"
Why should I be forced to pay for an invasion of Iraq or to give no bid contracts to haliburton who does business with iran through an offshore shell?
That's the country we live in, we don't get to choose how our money is spent. I for one would prefer that my taxes go to help the hungry rather then kill people who don't like allawi. Allawi should kill people that don't like him himself don't you think?
Yes I believe jesus said something like that too. I don't think he ever preached that we should help the poor. Come to think of it all religions agree with you too. They all think the poor should be left to fend for themselves.
Charity is evil, generosity is futile, feeding the hungry is bad for them, war is peace, good is evil.
Less then 200 billion. Way less. A significant portion of the cost of that war was born by our allies. Remember that war did not involve a ground invasion and we pulled back pretty fast leaving only a skeleton command unit. Nato and UN helped with the rest.
That's the way you take care of problems. You go in, you get a worldwide effort, you solve the problem, you get out. Nobody hates you and you don't spend yourself into bankrupcy.
I think it's a wonderful comparison to make. How Clinton took care of the Bosnian problem vs how bush has totally fucked up the iraq problem.
I recall a knife test they made once and IIRC they liked the wusthof best. I think they liked the way they felt. Wusthofs have a thick and heavy blade so it feel very substantial. I prefer thinner, harder blades (more carbon) blades so I like globals.
Americas test kitchen tends to review things you are likely to be able to pickup at your local dept store. I don't think they have renviewed japanese or brazillian knives (except for global of course).
I prefer high carbon knives because they hold an edge longer but in the end the best knife is the one feels good in your hands.
Are you saying democrats don't pay taxes? Or are you saying that other peoples money is better used to kill people.
Wusthof knives are OK but I have given up on henckels. If you really want great knives I would go for the japanese brands myself. Global (forged only) or masahiro are fantastic.
If you want German knives the messermeisters are a great value and are as good as wusthofs IMHO.
If you want the best bang for the buck I'd go with forschner or Tramontina Professional Series. Tramontina are made in Brazil and are an exceptional value for being forged.
If I was buying something for my mother I'd by the tramontina, for myself I am saving up for a nenox.
The tax system is the way it is because business wants it that way. They lobby congress to provide loopholes to benefit them and harm the competition. Decades of opening up loopholes for one corporation or another has made out tax code a mess.
Make it flat and the lobbyists will swarm washington to skew it again.
If you ask me we need more radical reform. Get rid of the income tax and replace it with a VAT of sorts. Stop taxing income and start taxing consumption. Don't tax interest earned or capital gains because you want to encourage people to save and invest.
You can give a credit back every year for the poor like the earned income tax credit we have now, this would make it more progressive. Only the poor would file income taxes to get some of ther taxes back. Just simple act of not having to file taxes would save business billions of dollars per year.
It would work, it would be simple.
Clinton didn't spend 200 billion dollars occupying a country.
Kerry is smarter then my dog. *
Right there you have two reasons not to vote for bush.
* I bought two toys for my dog. I named one "abu abbas" and the other one "abu nidal". My dog was able to differentiate between the two in less then ten tries something Bush was not able to accomplish.
"I don't understand how that is ideologically consistent."
That's because you don't understand the ideology. You have simply reduced it to the simplest form possible presumably because you are not capable of understanding more complex thought patterns.
"Because you are born in America, you are worthy of help, but if you are born in India, you are not?"
Once again your inability to think beyond black and white has painted yourself into a corner.
I am not really going to go into it but here are the salient points.
1) We should help people all over the world if they need it to the best of our ability.
2) It's impossible to help everybody in the world because there is so much poverty and we really don't have enough money or willpower. Even if we really wanted to give a 100% effort to help the destitute of the world we would be fought tooth and nail by the republicans.
3) Charity begins at home. We really ought to tace care of our own problems first. We should devote MOST of our resources to making sure our own citizens are taken care of first.
You see, it's not that hard. Just compassion mixed with a little bit of realism. We still favor giving money to poor countries and helping them as much as we can but not at the expense of denying our own citizens.
BTW I noticed that you said "A tenet of the democrats is to help the disadvantaged.". Doesn't it bother you that republicans don't even have that tenant. That they don't believe in helping the disadvantaged?
Look it up, I am not your library or internet conection.
You keep getting stuck on that. I will say it once more. ALL POLITICIANS DO THAT, EVERY SINGLE ONE.
If kerry is a flip flopper and a whore then so is every republican who has every been in congress or in the presidency.
Your problem is not with kerry, it's with the process itself.
I am beginning to think you are one of those republitards.
Apparently you are delusional. Or maybe just ignorant. All politicians do that. Every bill has riders. That's the way washington works.
You are under some sort of a delusion that republicans don't vote for bills that have riders they disagree with. It's only right that you should be moderated flamebait and I insightful.
In exchange for the fine clearchannel got immunity for FUTURE ACTS. Viacom has no such immunity, this clearly give clearchannel an edge.
As I said before bush will go after oprah after the election. Too risky to do it now.
BTW 15 seconds of nipple never hurt anybody except maybe the fundamentalist taliban christians.