"The world might be so complex as to not allow John Kerry to control other country's troups. "
I see now that your republitard brain is even smaller then I thought.
You might have heard of a place called Bosnia. In Bosnia the european solders were under the US command. Not just bosnia there have been many times in history when such a thing has happened. It's apparent that you know how to read a little bit so why not pick up a history book. I know it's harder then listening to AM radio but you'll actually get some knowledge out of books.
"Why would France and Germany sudden want to help John Kerry rather than George Bush?"
Because George Bush is an asshole. Not only that but he is a mean mother fucker. Finally he is a religious zealot. As a general rule people don't like to help asshole, idiot, mean religiius zealots. Kerry isn't going to go around talking about god speaking through him and calling the french names.
Would you help somebody who called you names and was a mean and vilent bully?
IBM has produced every version of AIX and Dynix. SCO wants stuff that's between versions (i.e every fucking iteration of every file). Does that sound reasonable to you? Oh and before you answer what does this have to with linux infringing on SYSV code? They have the code for linux, they have the code for SYSV tell us where the infringement is already for gods sake.
It is a severe indictiment of the sorry state of the American legal system when a company can demand payment for linux deployments, sue a company for a billion dollars and two years into the process not have to show exactly what was stolen and from where. The judges in this case can't even make decisions on minor matters of law even after reading hundreds of pages of motions and holding a hearing. They "take it under advicement". WTF people? Just how much argument do you need before you in order to make a simple ruling on the LAW of the case (this is not an argument on the FACTS of the case).
Actually IBM has produced every version of dynix and AIX. What SCO is asking for is remote access into the version control system so they can look at code that never made it into an official version.
It's pretty much heresy to critize israel, or the Us israeli relationship. You will immediately be called an anti semite. Of course if any politician dares to suggest that palestenians are human beings and should not be killed in such large numbers they money will dry up like tears falling in death valley.
Usually you get something like "israel has a right to defend itself".
Remember the Bush Road plan? I think the palestenians were supposed to have a country by now.
Yes but none of it was really necessary. We could have removed Saddam a hundred different ways.
BTW over 10,000 iraqi civillians have been killed. If the US hit ratio is 10 combatants for every innocent civillian then 110,000 human beings have died removing Saddam and installing Allawi (mini saddam). In actuality I am sure the US military is way more accurate then 90%, I would not be surprised if the total dead was two or three hundred thousand.
""Can you say that the world is better with Saddam in power?""
Objectively speaking you can definately say that the world was a better place with Saddam in power. Just in the last month there have been bombings in France, Egypt, indonesia, israel, palestine, and of course all over Iraq. That's just in one month. Since the start of the war (when saddam left power) there have been devestating bombings all over the world. remember Bali, Spain, and the hotel bombing in kenya.
The world is much worse off since Saddam has been removed from power no matter how you measure it.
It's probably got more to do with nationalism then religion. The vietnamese fought like hell too and they weren't muslims.
The problem is that there have been a lot of racist books written about arabs and muslims (I am not saying this is one I haven't read it). The problem gets multiplied when influential people read those books base foreign policy on them.
One of the major reasons this administration didn't forsee this insugency is that the neocons all based their opinions about how the iraqis would act by reading "The Arab Mind" which is racist book. It depicts Arabs as automatons who aonly understand force, shame and humiliation. It pretty much depicts Arabs as less then human insect like beings who have no nuance of emotion or intellect. Not surprisingly it was written by a Jew.
This is probably not going to fit in your tiny little republitard brain but I'll answer anyway.
It is a lot harder to fix a broken vase then to break an intact one. Bush broke Iraq shattering it to thousands of pieces. It's going to take a lot of work and patience to fix it again.
He is going to gradually pull out replacing the US troops with the troops of other countries. He is going to approach countries that have been reluctant to send troops so far and try to repair the relationships with them. I know you Republitards hate france and germany but they have been our long time allies and have helped us in the past when the president wasn't insulting them. He thinks he can be successful in negotiating with these countries where Bush failed and I think he is probably right. If he simply stops insulting them every chance he gets he will get further along then Bush will.
I suspect the first thing he will do is to revert the air force one menu so it no longer says "freedom toast" and "freedom fries", just as gesture. I know it was really important to George Bush to remove the word "french" from the menus on air force one, you can't be a war president when the word french appears on your menu.
I hope I didn't confuse you with complex thoughts. Not every answer can fit on a bumper sticker, the world is a pretty complex place. I have tried to keep it as simple as possible though.
What war? Kicked whose ass? You walked in and nobody stood in your way. One of the five larges armies in the world my ass. I bet 99% of the army consisted of conscripted 16 year olds. Yes you kicked their asses alright. Whoo Hoo.
It may be overconfidence more then anything else. These guys went to war thinking they were going to fight a conventional war and the citizens would throw roses on them. It never occured to them they were invading a country and that the populace might object.
Think of it. We have soldiers fighting iraqis so we can make them obey Allawi instead of somebody else. That does not seem right to me. If the people of sadr city don't want to be ruled by Allawi and instead want to follow Muqtada why should we care? Better yet why should we kill them just to make them obey allawi?
Finally everything I have read about Allawi seems to indicate that he a pretty brutal guy. Maybe not as bad as Saddam but definately has the makings of a mini Saddam.
"WHile they should be held accountable for their actions, this accountability should not become a barrier for treatment. "
The solution is simple. Instead of suing the doctor for millions of dollars because the cut off the wrong leg just suspend him for a while. Make a minor mistake you get your license taken away for a month, make a major one six months or a year. Make Multiple mistakes and get it pulled permanently.
Until we stop demanding social security, medicare, veterans benefits, clean streets, safe neigborhoods, wars against adjectives and nouns it does belong to the govt.
"If you define it as "actually being able to get treatment in a timely fashion", then that is a different story."
There are consequences to that too. First of all if it's non emeergency you only get speedy treatment if you could afford it in the first place. For millions of Americans that's not the case. For them they don't get it at all.
If it is an emergency then you get treated and then are encouraged to file for bankrupcy so that hospital can write off the cost.
So if you got the money it's great. If you don't your life is pretty much ruined after you get out of the hospital.
Marijuana was illegal for a long time, despite this fact until reagan got into office nobody ever got arrested for smoking a joint.
There are so many laws that you are a criminal every day. Every day you probably break 100 laws. Law enforcement decides which laws it will go after and which ones it will ignore. Ashcroft has decided to go after people who break the laws of his god and offend his own personal morality more then going after corporate criminals. One presumes the next AG will have different priorities.
It happened. I remember engineers at boeing or one of the other defense contractors walking out once. It was a while ago but it happened.
My guess is that companies don't fuck with unionized engineers. Imagine if there was a sysadmins union. you think companies would try to fuck with their sysadmins?
Most people don't choose a car for practical reasons. It's always some subjective thing or a fashion choice. People feel more manly or safe driving an SUV even though the crash tests don't agree. People buy sports cars with no trunks and 400HP engines even though they live in a state where 90% of your time is spent idling in traffic jams. Why? Cos they want to show the world how rich they are and because they can pick up chicks with it.
Cars are emotional things for americans. I don't know why this is but it's true. People feel that they are what they drive.
An automotive engineer (or any other professional engineer) needs to be degreed and has to pass a very hard test in order to get a PE certificate. He also has to spend many years in the field before even taking the test.
A snot nosed kid out of high school can call himself a software engineeer though.
BTW almost all professional occupations are unionized. They usually call themselves associations or something but they are a union no matter what you call it. ABA, AMA, and IEEE are unions. The only reason the software people don't want unions is because they don't like structure.
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Just what are you objecting to? The the age of the conscripts or are you actually suggesting that the iraqi army was a voluntary one.
Next time don't put crack in that cocoa.
"The world might be so complex as to not allow John Kerry to control other country's troups. "
I see now that your republitard brain is even smaller then I thought.
You might have heard of a place called Bosnia. In Bosnia the european solders were under the US command. Not just bosnia there have been many times in history when such a thing has happened. It's apparent that you know how to read a little bit so why not pick up a history book. I know it's harder then listening to AM radio but you'll actually get some knowledge out of books.
"Why would France and Germany sudden want to help John Kerry rather than George Bush?"
Because George Bush is an asshole. Not only that but he is a mean mother fucker. Finally he is a religious zealot. As a general rule people don't like to help asshole, idiot, mean religiius zealots. Kerry isn't going to go around talking about god speaking through him and calling the french names.
Would you help somebody who called you names and was a mean and vilent bully?
IBM has produced every version of AIX and Dynix. SCO wants stuff that's between versions (i.e every fucking iteration of every file). Does that sound reasonable to you? Oh and before you answer what does this have to with linux infringing on SYSV code? They have the code for linux, they have the code for SYSV tell us where the infringement is already for gods sake.
It is a severe indictiment of the sorry state of the American legal system when a company can demand payment for linux deployments, sue a company for a billion dollars and two years into the process not have to show exactly what was stolen and from where. The judges in this case can't even make decisions on minor matters of law even after reading hundreds of pages of motions and holding a hearing. They "take it under advicement". WTF people? Just how much argument do you need before you in order to make a simple ruling on the LAW of the case (this is not an argument on the FACTS of the case).
Actually IBM has produced every version of dynix and AIX. What SCO is asking for is remote access into the version control system so they can look at code that never made it into an official version.
It's pretty much heresy to critize israel, or the Us israeli relationship. You will immediately be called an anti semite. Of course if any politician dares to suggest that palestenians are human beings and should not be killed in such large numbers they money will dry up like tears falling in death valley.
Usually you get something like "israel has a right to defend itself".
Remember the Bush Road plan? I think the palestenians were supposed to have a country by now.
Yes but none of it was really necessary. We could have removed Saddam a hundred different ways.
BTW over 10,000 iraqi civillians have been killed. If the US hit ratio is 10 combatants for every innocent civillian then 110,000 human beings have died removing Saddam and installing Allawi (mini saddam). In actuality I am sure the US military is way more accurate then 90%, I would not be surprised if the total dead was two or three hundred thousand.
""Can you say that the world is better with Saddam in power?""
Objectively speaking you can definately say that the world was a better place with Saddam in power. Just in the last month there have been bombings in France, Egypt, indonesia, israel, palestine, and of course all over Iraq. That's just in one month. Since the start of the war (when saddam left power) there have been devestating bombings all over the world. remember Bali, Spain, and the hotel bombing in kenya.
The world is much worse off since Saddam has been removed from power no matter how you measure it.
It's probably got more to do with nationalism then religion. The vietnamese fought like hell too and they weren't muslims.
The problem is that there have been a lot of racist books written about arabs and muslims (I am not saying this is one I haven't read it). The problem gets multiplied when influential people read those books base foreign policy on them.
One of the major reasons this administration didn't forsee this insugency is that the neocons all based their opinions about how the iraqis would act by reading "The Arab Mind" which is racist book. It depicts Arabs as automatons who aonly understand force, shame and humiliation. It pretty much depicts Arabs as less then human insect like beings who have no nuance of emotion or intellect. Not surprisingly it was written by a Jew.
"Will we stay in Iraq? Or not?"
This is probably not going to fit in your tiny little republitard brain but I'll answer anyway.
It is a lot harder to fix a broken vase then to break an intact one. Bush broke Iraq shattering it to thousands of pieces. It's going to take a lot of work and patience to fix it again.
He is going to gradually pull out replacing the US troops with the troops of other countries. He is going to approach countries that have been reluctant to send troops so far and try to repair the relationships with them. I know you Republitards hate france and germany but they have been our long time allies and have helped us in the past when the president wasn't insulting them. He thinks he can be successful in negotiating with these countries where Bush failed and I think he is probably right. If he simply stops insulting them every chance he gets he will get further along then Bush will.
I suspect the first thing he will do is to revert the air force one menu so it no longer says "freedom toast" and "freedom fries", just as gesture. I know it was really important to George Bush to remove the word "french" from the menus on air force one, you can't be a war president when the word french appears on your menu.
I hope I didn't confuse you with complex thoughts. Not every answer can fit on a bumper sticker, the world is a pretty complex place. I have tried to keep it as simple as possible though.
What war? Kicked whose ass? You walked in and nobody stood in your way. One of the five larges armies in the world my ass. I bet 99% of the army consisted of conscripted 16 year olds. Yes you kicked their asses alright. Whoo Hoo.
It may be overconfidence more then anything else. These guys went to war thinking they were going to fight a conventional war and the citizens would throw roses on them. It never occured to them they were invading a country and that the populace might object.
Think of it. We have soldiers fighting iraqis so we can make them obey Allawi instead of somebody else. That does not seem right to me. If the people of sadr city don't want to be ruled by Allawi and instead want to follow Muqtada why should we care? Better yet why should we kill them just to make them obey allawi?
Finally everything I have read about Allawi seems to indicate that he a pretty brutal guy. Maybe not as bad as Saddam but definately has the makings of a mini Saddam.
"WHile they should be held accountable for their actions, this accountability should not become a barrier for treatment. "
The solution is simple. Instead of suing the doctor for millions of dollars because the cut off the wrong leg just suspend him for a while. Make a minor mistake you get your license taken away for a month, make a major one six months or a year. Make Multiple mistakes and get it pulled permanently.
Voila, accountibility and no insurance claims.
Until we stop demanding social security, medicare, veterans benefits, clean streets, safe neigborhoods, wars against adjectives and nouns it does belong to the govt.
"If you define it as "actually being able to get treatment in a timely fashion", then that is a different story."
There are consequences to that too. First of all if it's non emeergency you only get speedy treatment if you could afford it in the first place. For millions of Americans that's not the case. For them they don't get it at all.
If it is an emergency then you get treated and then are encouraged to file for bankrupcy so that hospital can write off the cost.
So if you got the money it's great. If you don't your life is pretty much ruined after you get out of the hospital.
He is a republitard, he is simply repeating what Rush told him.
Yea but you don't get to invade iraq and ...
Oh wait a minute, never mind.
Marijuana was illegal for a long time, despite this fact until reagan got into office nobody ever got arrested for smoking a joint.
There are so many laws that you are a criminal every day. Every day you probably break 100 laws. Law enforcement decides which laws it will go after and which ones it will ignore. Ashcroft has decided to go after people who break the laws of his god and offend his own personal morality more then going after corporate criminals. One presumes the next AG will have different priorities.
I don't think any court in the land is going to buy that a pen or a mouse constitutes a PC. Anybody who tells you otherwise is delusional.
I wonder how they decide who wins? I wonder how they decide if the game should be played in the first place.
I mean is it really THAT important that the people of faluhja obey Allawi rather then somebody of their own choosing?
Either way the civillians lose.
Maybe that's the case for wordstar in the days of yore but you really think MS lawyers didn't think of that?
That would be awsome. I looked at OS requirements for kylix and it said redhat 7.2. That's ancient.
It happened. I remember engineers at boeing or one of the other defense contractors walking out once. It was a while ago but it happened.
My guess is that companies don't fuck with unionized engineers. Imagine if there was a sysadmins union. you think companies would try to fuck with their sysadmins?
Most people don't choose a car for practical reasons. It's always some subjective thing or a fashion choice. People feel more manly or safe driving an SUV even though the crash tests don't agree. People buy sports cars with no trunks and 400HP engines even though they live in a state where 90% of your time is spent idling in traffic jams. Why? Cos they want to show the world how rich they are and because they can pick up chicks with it.
Cars are emotional things for americans. I don't know why this is but it's true. People feel that they are what they drive.
An automotive engineer (or any other professional engineer) needs to be degreed and has to pass a very hard test in order to get a PE certificate. He also has to spend many years in the field before even taking the test.
A snot nosed kid out of high school can call himself a software engineeer though.
BTW almost all professional occupations are unionized. They usually call themselves associations or something but they are a union no matter what you call it. ABA, AMA, and IEEE are unions. The only reason the software people don't want unions is because they don't like structure.
Wow I thought kylix was dead!. Is it still under active development at Borland?