Considering that Bush Sr. has said that atheists are not real americans perhaps he has a problem with gathering human intelligence in muslim countries because his agents would have to pray to allah in order to fit in.
No but the domestic press is useless in this case. They have become a de facto public relations firm for the government. They are entirely too sycophantic to be a useful source of facts, news, or reporting.
For kicks once a day pull up the home pages of asia.cnn.com, news.bbc.co.uk and cnn.com and see what I mean. If you want real fun throw fox news in there too.
Thank god for the internet and thank god virtually every nation has an english newspaper with a web site. If you want real news go to other nations.
Is that really how you think? That the only measure of gain and loss is by examining each one of your interactions in isolation?
Anyway to answer your question...
Yes he won. I shopped there, his profits increased, my spendable income decreased, the money I could have earned in interest by saving that money decreased, the money I could have made by investing that money decreased.
He won, I lost. I lose everytime I pay interest, I win every time I make interest.
it all depends on what you have to sell and what you want to buy. There are countries where there is nothing to sell really so they sell their labor for cheap. There are countries where there are abundant natural resources so they sell those. There are countries where they buy stuff, add value (manufacturing) and sell the result.
Each country is different. Suffice it to say most countries will buy more then they sell (measured in dollars) because they all need gasoline at a minimum. If your country is not rich in minerals, water, trees, oil, or other natural resources all you have left to sell are "intelectual property" and labor. In other words your people.
"It seems obvious enough that an "enemy combatant" who is a US citizen would fall under the treason clause of the constitution, Article III, Section 3:"
Obvious to who? Not the president or the congress. Why? Because if you charged somebody with treason then you would have to try them in civillian courts where they would get full protection of the constitution.
"What we TRULY need to fear is the Supreme Court. Can the courts be relied upon to do the right thing? "
No. The court has proven itself to be an extension of the political parties. Currently the court is just another arm of the republican party and will not oppose the republicans.
"When there was 'no' globalization, united states did not have access to a market that consists of 1 BILLION people - china. Same goes for many other countries united states now does exports to. "
Right so it's all a matter of buy to sell ratios. If you sell more then you buy then you win. If you buy more then you sell then you lose.
China is a big winner because they sell more then they buy. Same with oil countries. Other countries the shoe is on the other foot.
". I just bug my congress critters to keep the 2nd Amendment (our government reset button) alive, "
Ask the palestenians how that whole armed resistance against an organized military and police going.
I don't mean to burst your buble but your shotgun or 9MM is no match for a missile launched from a drone while you are on your way to a wedding.
Anybody who thinks the 2nd amendment is a govt reset button is deluded. If you want a govt reset button you need to lobby to make biological and chemical weapons legal to manufacture, store and deploy along with shoulder fired missiles, grenade launchers, tanks, and airplanes.
Hezbollah was able to check the Israeli army using a combination of stealth, misslies, drones, and intelligence. I doubt they would have lasted another three months but they held one of the best militaries in the world in check for a month.
In order to hold the biggest, best trained, most technologically advanced army in the world in check you will need serious weapons of mass desctruction. You will need to be able to take out entire cities so that it will be painful for the govt.
You your claim is that vista is GENERALLY bug for bug compatible with MS-DOS 2.0 right?
So I am wrong because Vista is indeed GENERALLY bug for bug compatible with MS-DOS 2.0. Is that your assertion?
Is this one of those things where it's all going to depend on what definition of GENERALLY means? Kind of like how Bush redefines torture and then claims we don't torture people? I bet it will!. What is your definition of GENERALLY such that vista is GENERALLY BUG FOR BUG COMPATIBLE WITH IT?
"Rigging elections undermines everything this country stands for. It is, in a very real definition of the word, treason."
These guys just got rid of Hebeas Corpus for god's sake. They just ripped apart our entire legal system!!!!.
Apparently that's not enough to get anybody excited though. As long as you don'g get blown in the white house you can do whatever the fuck you want including shredding the constitution and torturing people.
So are we to just throw up our hands and do nothing then?
If the answer is yes, why? If the answer is no, what should we do?
I figure the minimum you can do is to make some noise. Talk about it with your friends, and even strangers. That's the least you could do to save your democracy.
So/. is the least we can do. The most would be to take to the streets like they do in other countries but I don't think most people in the US care about their votes like the people in mexico or ukraine do. We are just too fat dumb and happy.
"At Harvard it wasn't true either (of course, Harvard is not an engineering school)."
I would not expect a lot of minorities in any of the ivy league schools. They are by and large affirmitive action for rich people, movie stars, models and such. The main criterea for entrance is fame and fortune and the main crieterea for graduation is "went to some ofo my classes and didn't stay high the entire time".
I am not saying that there are no smart people at harvard or princeton clearly there are. It's just that they are also full of brainless dumbassess who manage to get accepted and graduate purely because they are rich or famous (see dubya).
I remember one time watching the Howard Stern show where he as asking models questions. One of the models was asked "what is at the center of the solar system". She could not answer. Howard gave her all kinds of clues basically doing every but giving her the answer and she still couln't answer. Howard asked her if she has a degree and she said she did... from harvard!!!
Read the thread. One of the astro turfers said that. They said that the reason vista was the largest software development in himan history was because MS had to keep compatibility for everything from dos 2.0 to XP. That was a lie.
Go to any elite engineering school and take a survey of the top 10% of the students there. I would be shocked if at least 50% of those students are not chinese. I don't mean chinese americans, I mean chinese from china.
Some of the smartest people I know are chinese. What makes you think they can't do it? Is it because they are not white? Are chinese incabable of doing research? Are the chinese by nature liars?
"Most software just has one version, and that runs on basically any remotely modern version of Windows. "
Nonsense. At best software requires win98 or better. Most software I have seen requires XPSP2 or better. Like I said even MS software has different versions for different windows.
"Based on history, I would expect the vast majority of common-use software to work transparently out of the box,"
In that case we are living in a different universe. Where I work every version of windows disrupts our software some way or another. SP2 was especially painful. Migration from.NET 1.1 to 2.0 took over a month for one project alone.
I think you have proved once and for all that everybody who uses linux or any software that is released under the GPL is a stalinist. In fact I think since the word communist didn't seem the have the proper impact and zealot is losing it's effectiveness stalinist might be next word used by MS, astro turfers and the shills.
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Considering that Bush Sr. has said that atheists are not real americans perhaps he has a problem with gathering human intelligence in muslim countries because his agents would have to pray to allah in order to fit in.
Something to consider.
No but the domestic press is useless in this case. They have become a de facto public relations firm for the government. They are entirely too sycophantic to be a useful source of facts, news, or reporting.
For kicks once a day pull up the home pages of asia.cnn.com, news.bbc.co.uk and cnn.com and see what I mean. If you want real fun throw fox news in there too.
Thank god for the internet and thank god virtually every nation has an english newspaper with a web site. If you want real news go to other nations.
I should not reply to cowards but....
Is that really how you think? That the only measure of gain and loss is by examining each one of your interactions in isolation?
Anyway to answer your question...
Yes he won. I shopped there, his profits increased, my spendable income decreased, the money I could have earned in interest by saving that money decreased, the money I could have made by investing that money decreased.
He won, I lost. I lose everytime I pay interest, I win every time I make interest.
it all depends on what you have to sell and what you want to buy. There are countries where there is nothing to sell really so they sell their labor for cheap. There are countries where there are abundant natural resources so they sell those. There are countries where they buy stuff, add value (manufacturing) and sell the result.
Each country is different. Suffice it to say most countries will buy more then they sell (measured in dollars) because they all need gasoline at a minimum. If your country is not rich in minerals, water, trees, oil, or other natural resources all you have left to sell are "intelectual property" and labor. In other words your people.
Oracle and MS SQL server used to cost a lot of money. You can now get free versions and the expensive versions have come down in price.
Local best buy is full of software CDs that cost five bucks. A few years ago fifty dollars was cheap software.
Microsoft is selling windows + office in taiwan for $45.
Yes it's having an effect and the effect is just starting.
"It seems obvious enough that an "enemy combatant" who is a US citizen would fall under the treason clause of the constitution, Article III, Section 3:"
Obvious to who? Not the president or the congress. Why? Because if you charged somebody with treason then you would have to try them in civillian courts where they would get full protection of the constitution.
"What we TRULY need to fear is the Supreme Court. Can the courts be relied upon to do the right thing? "
No. The court has proven itself to be an extension of the political parties. Currently the court is just another arm of the republican party and will not oppose the republicans.
"When there was 'no' globalization, united states did not have access to a market that consists of 1 BILLION people - china. Same goes for many other countries united states now does exports to. "
Right so it's all a matter of buy to sell ratios. If you sell more then you buy then you win. If you buy more then you sell then you lose.
China is a big winner because they sell more then they buy. Same with oil countries. Other countries the shoe is on the other foot.
"And, if you were paying attention, the suspension of H.C. is ONLY in regards to ALIENS who are ENEMY COMBATANTS. "
It also applies to US citizens who are enemy combatants.
Enemy combatants are whoever the president says are enemy compbatants.
". I just bug my congress critters to keep the 2nd Amendment (our government reset button) alive, "
Ask the palestenians how that whole armed resistance against an organized military and police going.
I don't mean to burst your buble but your shotgun or 9MM is no match for a missile launched from a drone while you are on your way to a wedding.
Anybody who thinks the 2nd amendment is a govt reset button is deluded. If you want a govt reset button you need to lobby to make biological and chemical weapons legal to manufacture, store and deploy along with shoulder fired missiles, grenade launchers, tanks, and airplanes.
Hezbollah was able to check the Israeli army using a combination of stealth, misslies, drones, and intelligence. I doubt they would have lasted another three months but they held one of the best militaries in the world in check for a month.
In order to hold the biggest, best trained, most technologically advanced army in the world in check you will need serious weapons of mass desctruction. You will need to be able to take out entire cities so that it will be painful for the govt.
I am still waiting for you to prove me wrong. All you have to do is to prove that vista is generally bug for bug compatible with MS DOS 2.0.
You up to it?
You your claim is that vista is GENERALLY bug for bug compatible with MS-DOS 2.0 right?
So I am wrong because Vista is indeed GENERALLY bug for bug compatible with MS-DOS 2.0. Is that your assertion?
Is this one of those things where it's all going to depend on what definition of GENERALLY means? Kind of like how Bush redefines torture and then claims we don't torture people? I bet it will!. What is your definition of GENERALLY such that vista is GENERALLY BUG FOR BUG COMPATIBLE WITH IT?
I am dying to know.
I am not saying it's not. In this case the guy was hired to commit treason so that's a murky call.
"Rigging elections undermines everything this country stands for. It is, in a very real definition of the word, treason."
These guys just got rid of Hebeas Corpus for god's sake. They just ripped apart our entire legal system!!!!.
Apparently that's not enough to get anybody excited though. As long as you don'g get blown in the white house you can do whatever the fuck you want including shredding the constitution and torturing people.
Aahhh. A perfect example of the blind, idiot, freeper zealot.
Yes folks they actually think this way. And you thought it was only a caricature.
"The demographics come in because the districts where the polls are held are not selected randomly. "
Really? Why would any self respecting pollin company commit such an aggregeious and obvious error? Do you have any documentation in this regard?
You forgot the sworn testimony of a person who was hired to rig the election under oath and in a court of law.
So are we to just throw up our hands and do nothing then?
/. is the least we can do. The most would be to take to the streets like they do in other countries but I don't think most people in the US care about their votes like the people in mexico or ukraine do. We are just too fat dumb and happy.
If the answer is yes, why?
If the answer is no, what should we do?
I figure the minimum you can do is to make some noise. Talk about it with your friends, and even strangers. That's the least you could do to save your democracy.
So
It will most like taste like chicken (being the precursor to birds and all). Mostly dark meat, probably gamey.
I think I will pass.
"At Harvard it wasn't true either (of course, Harvard is not an engineering school)."
I would not expect a lot of minorities in any of the ivy league schools. They are by and large affirmitive action for rich people, movie stars, models and such. The main criterea for entrance is fame and fortune and the main crieterea for graduation is "went to some ofo my classes and didn't stay high the entire time".
I am not saying that there are no smart people at harvard or princeton clearly there are. It's just that they are also full of brainless dumbassess who manage to get accepted and graduate purely because they are rich or famous (see dubya).
I remember one time watching the Howard Stern show where he as asking models questions. One of the models was asked "what is at the center of the solar system". She could not answer. Howard gave her all kinds of clues basically doing every but giving her the answer and she still couln't answer. Howard asked her if she has a degree and she said she did... from harvard!!!
"No-one said it was 100% bug compatible."
Read the thread. One of the astro turfers said that. They said that the reason vista was the largest software development in himan history was because MS had to keep compatibility for everything from dos 2.0 to XP. That was a lie.
"Uh, yeah, my point exactly. See that "remotely modern" part ? >8 year old PCs don't really fall into that category."
Were you the one that claimed that windows vista had to keep compatiblity for everything between dos 2.0 and windows xp? If so then you were lying.
"For example ?"
IE for one.
"In-house or third party software ?"
Both.
"The list of software SP2 broke wasn't particularly big, relatively speaking."
Even if it broke one application that proves that it's not 100% bug for bug compatible. So once again you have been proven wrong.
"The list of software it broke that wasn't already broken by virtue of being badly written, vanishingly small."
Even if just one application broke that proves that it wasn't 100% bug for bug compatible and you have been proven wrong.
So you admit that SP2 was not bug for bug compatible. That's a service pack update to the same version of the operating system.
Go to any elite engineering school and take a survey of the top 10% of the students there. I would be shocked if at least 50% of those students are not chinese. I don't mean chinese americans, I mean chinese from china.
Some of the smartest people I know are chinese. What makes you think they can't do it? Is it because they are not white? Are chinese incabable of doing research? Are the chinese by nature liars?
"Most software just has one version, and that runs on basically any remotely modern version of Windows. "
.NET 1.1 to 2.0 took over a month for one project alone.
Nonsense. At best software requires win98 or better. Most software I have seen requires XPSP2 or better. Like I said even MS software has different versions for different windows.
"Based on history, I would expect the vast majority of common-use software to work transparently out of the box,"
In that case we are living in a different universe. Where I work every version of windows disrupts our software some way or another. SP2 was especially painful. Migration from
"Apache isn't GPLed and last I heard it was kind of popular."
That's a good data point. The idea is to take all the data points and see if they form a trend.
I think you have proved once and for all that everybody who uses linux or any software that is released under the GPL is a stalinist. In fact I think since the word communist didn't seem the have the proper impact and zealot is losing it's effectiveness stalinist might be next word used by MS, astro turfers and the shills.
Good going.