I was talking about Kerry. Somebody kill Kerry so that the democrats can nominate somebody else. anybody else.
Although a cartridge full of bullets emptied into the heads of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, rowe, wolfowitz, perle et al surely would make the world a better place.
Holy crap!. Why if israel did not exist Intel would not be able make chips!. I never knew that!
We give israel tens of billions of dollars and then intel outsources to them too. Wow I feel great about that. I guess we didn't really need those high paying chip R&D jobs here in the US did we.
WTF? A liteny of products made in Israel? That's what Israel does for us sell us shit? The chinese sell us shit too don't they? Don't the japanese sell us shit too?
People invent and sell shit all over the world.
Listen to this. If instead of giving billions of dollars to israel we spend those dollars right here in the US maybe we would have invented those cool things. Maybe we would have manufactured those things. maybe American companies would be selling shit to israel providing jobs of Americans.
BTW I don't think it's any surprise that Israel has more arms and more money then the arabs. We give them those.
Well shit man it's primarily to protect them. Why don't they pay for all of it? Why do we give them 12 billion dollars a year if they don't spend it on developing weapons to defend themselves? What do they do with our money?
" Perhaps, but I sure as hell would not be targeting unarmed civilians."
I would. In a democracy all citizens are responsible for the actions of their govt. If the US was being occupied I would attack the enemy every way I could. I would do everything in my power to overthrow the occupation and regain my freedom. This would include killing civillians and destroying civillian infrastructure.
You may remember a phrase from our founding fathers. "Give me liberty of give me death" and "don't tread on me".
"And from what I've seen many of the Israeli people are very unhappy with that situation and are working to bring these people before a court of law to stand trial for their crimes."
From what I have seem many of the israeli people love it that civillians are being killed. Many have called for a genocide of palestenians. Even Members of the parliment have called for genocide and ethnic cleansing.
"The same UN that didn't have any problems with the Iraqi Oil for Palaces program?"
Yes the Un is irrelevant. Except of course when we get to invade countries enforcing it's resolutions.
Nations go to war. Nations win terratory in war. Civilized nations (and even some not so civilised ones like china) eventually make the conquered people their own citizens. The us did this with indians, the chinese did it with tibetians. Is rael has chosen not to do this with palestenians.
What do you call it when people living inside your borders don't have the right to vote in your elections? I call it apartheid.
Amazing. A couple of rag tag groups like HAMAS and hezbollah can make the US and israel spend tens of millions of dollars to defend against them.
We won the cold war by outspending the russians. I wonder if the terrorists will be able to make us spend ourselves into a collapse too. Osama spent less then 100K and we have spend over 200 billion in retaliation already with no end in sight. What if he spent another 100K and did something awful again? How long can we sustain this?
Aren't the Americans great. Spending tens of millions of dollars to defend Israel. I mean who else would spend so much money to defend israel. I am still waiting for israel to spend tens of millions of dollars doing something nice for us. I can't wait.
The govt will lend you money to go to collage. Besides which the chances of you going to collage after four years in the military are pretty slim. You'll probably have a family and your brain will already be turned into mush.
" Do you really think they could get away with that?"
Yes I do.
"Redmond would be stormed by the military as soon as someone figured this out, i doubt apaches (the helicopter) run on windows."
I don't think so. They would not shut off windows in the US just overseas. I don't think the german army stands a chance agains the US army do you?
Besides which they are unlikely to shut them off all at once. They will probably threaten copanies one at a time.
"Theres absolutly no reason for them to do this unles bill completly loses it and goes on some comic book style supervillan kick."
My observation is that he is indeed slipping into L. Ron Hubbard mode. Certainly his organizaion resembles the church of sceintology more and more every day.
Thank you for your representation of "true america". Most americans would agree with you 100%. If they were not afraid to speak their minds they too would call for the mass genocide of tens of millions of humans. If they only spoke their minds we would put the hitlers and pol-pots of the world to shame.
Hey can we get Fox News shut down for 60 days too? They are biased and liars too!. I admit that they don't call for murdering democrats but they do call them traitors and terrorists though so maybe that counts.
"Bush needs to get off the bullshit about "unlawful enemy combatants" and say that EVERY prisoner is covered under EITHER the Geneva Conventions OR the US's criminal justice system with all the rights and protections of one or the other."
Dream on Buddy. He wants to set up a precedent here. Eventually he will be going after other people (critical press and other democrats) with the same laws.
And the sad fact is that he will keep his job and Bush will be re-elected again. Why? Because kerry is a inept shithead who can't even get a fucking point across. At least Dean spoke his mind for gods sake.
Four more years of this shit. Count on it. Please god somebody but a bullet in this fuckers head, PLEASE.
If you are ashamed to be an american because of those pictures you are in the minority. If I held a "torture a suspected iraqi terrorist" contest a full 30% of the country would sign up over night. If I offered 10 grand to do it 70% of the country would volunteer.
It's in our blood. We love death. We love to watch it on TV. We love to see on the movies. We love to kill each other. We love to kill others. Hell we can't seem to go five years without declaring war on somebody or another.
" Microsoft is the largest and most profitable software company in the world, though."
I would argue that this fact alone makes them the most powerful comapny in the world. Ms will very soon have the power to remotely stop every copy of windows or office from working on demand. If that's not power I don't know what is.
" You're assuming that government spending is the end all, be all, of the economy. "
Right now it is. The govt is pumping hundreds of billions of dollars of borrowed money into the economy to prop it up. This spending is unsustainable and will stop. Once that happens expect a massive crash.
"Microsoft has by and large been about backwards compatibility."
No really. W2K was incompatible with a whole slew of win98 software and more importantly drivers. XP is incompatible with a whole slew of W2K software too. Longhorn will be even more incompatible because it will drop the win32 API to being a second class citizen.
They may not be biggest but they are probably the most profitable. They certainly have more ready cash then just about anybody else.
Most importantly they are the most influential. When they talk the president snaps to. If you have the most powerful man in the world on a short leash I'd say you were the biggest company in the world.
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I was talking about Kerry. Somebody kill Kerry so that the democrats can nominate somebody else. anybody else.
Although a cartridge full of bullets emptied into the heads of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, rowe, wolfowitz, perle et al surely would make the world a better place.
Holy crap!. Why if israel did not exist Intel would not be able make chips!. I never knew that!
We give israel tens of billions of dollars and then intel outsources to them too. Wow I feel great about that. I guess we didn't really need those high paying chip R&D jobs here in the US did we.
WTF? A liteny of products made in Israel? That's what Israel does for us sell us shit? The chinese sell us shit too don't they? Don't the japanese sell us shit too?
People invent and sell shit all over the world.
Listen to this. If instead of giving billions of dollars to israel we spend those dollars right here in the US maybe we would have invented those cool things. Maybe we would have manufactured those things. maybe American companies would be selling shit to israel providing jobs of Americans.
BTW I don't think it's any surprise that Israel has more arms and more money then the arabs. We give them those.
Well shit man it's primarily to protect them. Why don't they pay for all of it? Why do we give them 12 billion dollars a year if they don't spend it on developing weapons to defend themselves? What do they do with our money?
"
Perhaps, but I sure as hell would not be targeting unarmed civilians."
I would. In a democracy all citizens are responsible for the actions of their govt. If the US was being occupied I would attack the enemy every way I could. I would do everything in my power to overthrow the occupation and regain my freedom. This would include killing civillians and destroying civillian infrastructure.
You may remember a phrase from our founding fathers. "Give me liberty of give me death" and "don't tread on me".
"And from what I've seen many of the Israeli people are very unhappy with that situation and are working to bring these people before a court of law to stand trial for their crimes."
From what I have seem many of the israeli people love it that civillians are being killed. Many have called for a genocide of palestenians. Even Members of the parliment have called for genocide and ethnic cleansing.
"The same UN that didn't have any problems with the Iraqi Oil for Palaces program?"
Yes the Un is irrelevant. Except of course when we get to invade countries enforcing it's resolutions.
Nations go to war. Nations win terratory in war. Civilized nations (and even some not so civilised ones like china) eventually make the conquered people their own citizens. The us did this with indians, the chinese did it with tibetians. Is rael has chosen not to do this with palestenians.
What do you call it when people living inside your borders don't have the right to vote in your elections? I call it apartheid.
Amazing. A couple of rag tag groups like HAMAS and hezbollah can make the US and israel spend tens of millions of dollars to defend against them.
We won the cold war by outspending the russians. I wonder if the terrorists will be able to make us spend ourselves into a collapse too. Osama spent less then 100K and we have spend over 200 billion in retaliation already with no end in sight. What if he spent another 100K and did something awful again? How long can we sustain this?
People tie bombs to their chests because they don't have helicopters and tanks.
The ugly fact is that the palestenians are occupied and are fighting to gain their country back. If they had better weapons they would be using them.
I don't know about you but if the US was invaded I'd be fighting back too. I'd even tie a bomb to my chest if I had to. Wouldn't you?
Aren't the Americans great. Spending tens of millions of dollars to defend Israel. I mean who else would spend so much money to defend israel. I am still waiting for israel to spend tens of millions of dollars doing something nice for us. I can't wait.
The govt will lend you money to go to collage. Besides which the chances of you going to collage after four years in the military are pretty slim. You'll probably have a family and your brain will already be turned into mush.
" Do you really think they could get away with that?"
Yes I do.
"Redmond would be stormed by the military as soon as someone figured this out, i doubt apaches (the helicopter) run on windows."
I don't think so. They would not shut off windows in the US just overseas. I don't think the german army stands a chance agains the US army do you?
Besides which they are unlikely to shut them off all at once. They will probably threaten copanies one at a time.
"Theres absolutly no reason for them to do this unles bill completly loses it and goes on some comic book style supervillan kick."
My observation is that he is indeed slipping into L. Ron Hubbard mode. Certainly his organizaion resembles the church of sceintology more and more every day.
Thank you for your representation of "true america". Most americans would agree with you 100%. If they were not afraid to speak their minds they too would call for the mass genocide of tens of millions of humans. If they only spoke their minds we would put the hitlers and pol-pots of the world to shame.
Hey can we get Fox News shut down for 60 days too? They are biased and liars too!. I admit that they don't call for murdering democrats but they do call them traitors and terrorists though so maybe that counts.
"Bush needs to get off the bullshit about "unlawful enemy combatants" and say that EVERY prisoner is covered under EITHER the Geneva Conventions OR the US's criminal justice system with all the rights and protections of one or the other."
Dream on Buddy. He wants to set up a precedent here. Eventually he will be going after other people (critical press and other democrats) with the same laws.
And the sad fact is that he will keep his job and Bush will be re-elected again. Why? Because kerry is a inept shithead who can't even get a fucking point across. At least Dean spoke his mind for gods sake.
Four more years of this shit. Count on it. Please god somebody but a bullet in this fuckers head, PLEASE.
If you are ashamed to be an american because of those pictures you are in the minority. If I held a "torture a suspected iraqi terrorist" contest a full 30% of the country would sign up over night. If I offered 10 grand to do it 70% of the country would volunteer.
It's in our blood. We love death. We love to watch it on TV. We love to see on the movies. We love to kill each other. We love to kill others. Hell we can't seem to go five years without declaring war on somebody or another.
I wonder what kind of crazy shit goes on in his head. Does he believe in God? How does he feel about his eventual trip to hell?
Even though it's a rant it's all too true. Nobody wants to face it though.
Why would somebody choose a job killing people as opposed to doing just about anything else? Great question.
" Who told you that Windows 2000 was a suitable upgrade from Windows 98? "
Microsoft did.
" Microsoft is the largest and most profitable software company in the world, though."
I would argue that this fact alone makes them the most powerful comapny in the world. Ms will very soon have the power to remotely stop every copy of windows or office from working on demand. If that's not power I don't know what is.
" You're assuming that government spending is the end all, be all, of the economy. "
Right now it is. The govt is pumping hundreds of billions of dollars of borrowed money into the economy to prop it up. This spending is unsustainable and will stop. Once that happens expect a massive crash.
"Microsoft has by and large been about backwards compatibility."
No really. W2K was incompatible with a whole slew of win98 software and more importantly drivers. XP is incompatible with a whole slew of W2K software too. Longhorn will be even more incompatible because it will drop the win32 API to being a second class citizen.
"What more do you want on a file system"
Two words. Open Source.
Thank you for listening.
They may not be biggest but they are probably the most profitable. They certainly have more ready cash then just about anybody else.
Most importantly they are the most influential. When they talk the president snaps to. If you have the most powerful man in the world on a short leash I'd say you were the biggest company in the world.