Ask the palestenians how that's working out for them before you start an armed insurrection.
Guns are useless against an well armed, well funded, well managed army. You are going to have to resort to the same weapons used by the opressed people of palestine and iraq. Bombs, bombs, bombs. Guns are useless, roadside bombs kick ass.
Of course it would be better to go the chemical/biological route. even the roadside bombs have not been enough to lift the occupation of palestine or end the occupation of Iraq.
The courts have been stacked with handpicked judges by this administration. What makes you think they will do anything to undermine this administration or the republican party?
Look at how the republican judges in the supreme court betrayed all their principles of states rights in the florida election. They even wrote in the decision that this case can never be used for precedent because they don't want it thrown back in their face.
I have no faith in the court system anymore. It's just another partisan branch of the govt now. I can predict with greater then 99% accuracy how the supremes will vote on any issue. They all simply vote their party platform.
"While not perfect, the media is a crucial factor in the check and balances system."
In that case we are all in trouble. The media has long abandoned any sense of purpose or duty. It's now completely sycophantic to the politicians. Often it's just acting as a PR arm of a political party.
Radio led the way but now all media does very little besides amplifying whatever talking points come out of the politicians.
"they don't do that anymore because the United States (and other industrialized nations) made indentured servitude illegal, "
Right, now the corporations ship work to india, china, vietnam, and africa where it's not illegal.
"In other words, nothing really has changed other than the level of corporate influence in government."
I disagree a bit. In the olden days corporation usually ran a town (a company town they used to say). These days the corporations run the whole countries.
People with integrity can't run big businesses. If a person with integrity starts a business and runs it ethically it will never get past the small to medium business range. Untethical people will always outcompete you because there is so much profit in sleaze.
So really there are no people of integrity (in charge) in a company with more then a 100 employees.
In the olden days corporations would besically put people into indentured servitude. These days they don't do that anymore. They outsource to countries where there is indentured servitude and prison labor.
Actually it doesn't matter because California just adapted Diebold voting machines. The republicans can afford to give up a lot of states once they righ the california election. It's all over now except for the shouting for the democrats. Without California they don't stand a chance.
Before you worry about that you should worry about actually paying for your skype call out service. They won't accept multiple credit cards, they won't let you pay with a card unless your IP is coming from a country where the card is issued, they won't let you buy more then 10 euros woth of calls at a time.
It's clear they are trying to get you to use paypal (another ebay company) which rips you off every way they can and charges outragous rates.
Skype for business? Not till you can actually buy the damned thing with a credit card of your choice and in amounts you want.
It was a love story. Well actually it was a really well made love story. It had great cinemetography, great acting, and very good dialog.
The only reason more people didn't go see it was because it was GAY love story. People go to see crappy love stories like the endless stream of vomitous romantic comedies starring jennifer lopez or kate hudson. They won't go see a really well made love story like brokeback mountain though just because it's about gay people in love.
Having said that if it was about two hot lesbians in love the movie would have been a best seller. Mainstream america is disgusted by male homosexuality but LOOOOOOOVES female homosexuality.
Have you ever heard of FEMA? I would suggest you do a google or a wikipedia search on it. I will give you this hint though. The "F" in FEMA stands for federal.
Did you watch the video? Bush said he would help. He didn't. He was lying then, he was also lying when he said "nobody could have predicted this". Of course he wasn't lying about getting a blowjob so the freepers don't care so much about those lies. All they care about is to make sure damned fags don't marry.
I have told you there have been numerous studies that show the productivity gain from functional and dynamic languages. You simply have chosen to ignore those studies.
I am happy that after a decade of fiddling XML files while the rest of us were busy coding you have finally caught up. I predict in another decade you will no longer have to type everything three times as in Customer myCustomer = new Customer() and that's the shortcut. I have seen the same thing typed as much as five times depending on the complexity of the lookup and the injection.
The US Economy is big but it's also saddled with debt. It's basically being propped up by a handful of companies. We have IP (movies and music), Software (microsoft and basically nothing else), and arms. Of those the only one worth betting on for the future is war. I don't see anybody coming up to the plate to challenge us on making arms or waging war.
Saying that you injected 500 random cows during a trip from canada to mexico would cause more mayhem then blowing up any building. Americans are very easily scared and would stop eating beef. Other countries would ban the import of US beef. The economies of most the west and midwest would suffer a body blow from which they may not recover for years.
You remember those snipers? Look at how much mayhem and terror they caused? All they did was to shoot a few people with a rifle. If you can't top two losers in an oldsmobile then you are worthless.
I am telling you these so called terrorists are a bunch of know nothing dumbfucks. If they had any brains at all we would all be in deep shit.
monery values are based on supply and demand. Right now the main strength of the dollar is from the demand generated by the fact that all oil is sold in dollars. If OPEC demanded any other currency then the value of the dollar would drop drastically.
I don't know about him but I think it's an oxymoron. If a scientist believes in God without any proof, experimentation, mathematical model or anything what else are they likely to believe in without proof?
I think they are just stupid. YOu don't even have to blow stuff up.
How hard is it to call in a bomb threat to a skyscraper? How hard is it to claim that you injected 500 random cows with mad cows disease (or whatever). How hard is it to mail talcum powder to a hundred people.
All those acts would cause panic and fear. If you scare the public enough not to eat beef you will collapse the economy of the west.
What these dumb fucks don't realize is that you don't have to DO anything. You just have to talk a good game. This is a lesson our politicians know very well. They just need to pull a Rumsfeld once in a while that's all.
I just don't see why they bother. If Saudi Arabia wanted to hurt the US all they would have to do is to only accept euros for their oil. The collapse of the dollar after that would hurt the US way more then Osama ever dreamed of.
"(I see this line of reasoning all the time, exempli gratia, at the pharmacy at which I work, when people don't understand why the federal government won't somehow make their drug copayments go away.)"
I think you misunderstand their complaint. Their complaint is basically "what the fuck happened to all those taxes I paid, how come people in Turkey and Greece get free drugs and I can't. Why doesn't a person in Australia or New Zealand have to worry about going bankrupt because they broke a hip and I do?".
They are right of course. Other much poorer countries manage to provide basic health care for their citizens (even if it's not ideal) and we still don't.
As for the hurricane NO was a special case. The levies broke (like they were predicted to). If Bush was awake during the meeting when he was told they could break better plans could have been made. Of course if he hadn't lied afterwards and told people "nobody could have predicted this" people wouldn't blame him so much.
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I think it's someplace north of the border, or perhaps in europe someplace.
Ask the palestenians how that's working out for them before you start an armed insurrection.
Guns are useless against an well armed, well funded, well managed army. You are going to have to resort to the same weapons used by the opressed people of palestine and iraq. Bombs, bombs, bombs. Guns are useless, roadside bombs kick ass.
Of course it would be better to go the chemical/biological route. even the roadside bombs have not been enough to lift the occupation of palestine or end the occupation of Iraq.
The courts have been stacked with handpicked judges by this administration. What makes you think they will do anything to undermine this administration or the republican party?
Look at how the republican judges in the supreme court betrayed all their principles of states rights in the florida election. They even wrote in the decision that this case can never be used for precedent because they don't want it thrown back in their face.
I have no faith in the court system anymore. It's just another partisan branch of the govt now. I can predict with greater then 99% accuracy how the supremes will vote on any issue. They all simply vote their party platform.
"While not perfect, the media is a crucial factor in the check and balances system."
In that case we are all in trouble. The media has long abandoned any sense of purpose or duty. It's now completely sycophantic to the politicians. Often it's just acting as a PR arm of a political party.
Radio led the way but now all media does very little besides amplifying whatever talking points come out of the politicians.
It's all over but the shouting now.
Which guys? Why are we a joke? How come this is annoying to you?
"they don't do that anymore because the United States (and other industrialized nations) made indentured servitude illegal, "
Right, now the corporations ship work to india, china, vietnam, and africa where it's not illegal.
"In other words, nothing really has changed other than the level of corporate influence in government."
I disagree a bit. In the olden days corporation usually ran a town (a company town they used to say). These days the corporations run the whole countries.
People with integrity can't run big businesses. If a person with integrity starts a business and runs it ethically it will never get past the small to medium business range. Untethical people will always outcompete you because there is so much profit in sleaze.
So really there are no people of integrity (in charge) in a company with more then a 100 employees.
In the olden days corporations would besically put people into indentured servitude. These days they don't do that anymore. They outsource to countries where there is indentured servitude and prison labor.
"LOL. The association between unions and organized crime is well-known."
100% of the organized crime ofganizations in the world have at least one corporate face to them.
The association between corporations and organized crime is well known.
After what the republicans did to the country I am not surprised he is running as a democrat. Another lieberman or zeller looks like.
Actually it doesn't matter because California just adapted Diebold voting machines. The republicans can afford to give up a lot of states once they righ the california election. It's all over now except for the shouting for the democrats. Without California they don't stand a chance.
Before you worry about that you should worry about actually paying for your skype call out service. They won't accept multiple credit cards, they won't let you pay with a card unless your IP is coming from a country where the card is issued, they won't let you buy more then 10 euros woth of calls at a time.
It's clear they are trying to get you to use paypal (another ebay company) which rips you off every way they can and charges outragous rates.
Skype for business? Not till you can actually buy the damned thing with a credit card of your choice and in amounts you want.
JMZ? You mean JWZ right?
Anyway if JWZ is talking I think I have to go and pluck my nose hairs or something equally more interesting then listening to his drivel.
It was a love story. Well actually it was a really well made love story. It had great cinemetography, great acting, and very good dialog.
The only reason more people didn't go see it was because it was GAY love story. People go to see crappy love stories like the endless stream of vomitous romantic comedies starring jennifer lopez or kate hudson. They won't go see a really well made love story like brokeback mountain though just because it's about gay people in love.
Having said that if it was about two hot lesbians in love the movie would have been a best seller. Mainstream america is disgusted by male homosexuality but LOOOOOOOVES female homosexuality.
Lieberman is barely a republican.
Have you ever heard of FEMA? I would suggest you do a google or a wikipedia search on it. I will give you this hint though. The "F" in FEMA stands for federal.
Did you watch the video? Bush said he would help. He didn't. He was lying then, he was also lying when he said "nobody could have predicted this". Of course he wasn't lying about getting a blowjob so the freepers don't care so much about those lies. All they care about is to make sure damned fags don't marry.
I have told you there have been numerous studies that show the productivity gain from functional and dynamic languages. You simply have chosen to ignore those studies.
I am happy that after a decade of fiddling XML files while the rest of us were busy coding you have finally caught up. I predict in another decade you will no longer have to type everything three times as in Customer myCustomer = new Customer() and that's the shortcut. I have seen the same thing typed as much as five times depending on the complexity of the lookup and the injection.
The US Economy is big but it's also saddled with debt. It's basically being propped up by a handful of companies. We have IP (movies and music), Software (microsoft and basically nothing else), and arms. Of those the only one worth betting on for the future is war. I don't see anybody coming up to the plate to challenge us on making arms or waging war.
Saying that you injected 500 random cows during a trip from canada to mexico would cause more mayhem then blowing up any building. Americans are very easily scared and would stop eating beef. Other countries would ban the import of US beef. The economies of most the west and midwest would suffer a body blow from which they may not recover for years.
You remember those snipers? Look at how much mayhem and terror they caused? All they did was to shoot a few people with a rifle. If you can't top two losers in an oldsmobile then you are worthless.
I am telling you these so called terrorists are a bunch of know nothing dumbfucks. If they had any brains at all we would all be in deep shit.
monery values are based on supply and demand. Right now the main strength of the dollar is from the demand generated by the fact that all oil is sold in dollars. If OPEC demanded any other currency then the value of the dollar would drop drastically.
I don't know about him but I think it's an oxymoron. If a scientist believes in God without any proof, experimentation, mathematical model or anything what else are they likely to believe in without proof?
I think they are just stupid. YOu don't even have to blow stuff up.
How hard is it to call in a bomb threat to a skyscraper?
How hard is it to claim that you injected 500 random cows with mad cows disease (or whatever).
How hard is it to mail talcum powder to a hundred people.
All those acts would cause panic and fear. If you scare the public enough not to eat beef you will collapse the economy of the west.
What these dumb fucks don't realize is that you don't have to DO anything. You just have to talk a good game. This is a lesson our politicians know very well. They just need to pull a Rumsfeld once in a while that's all.
I just don't see why they bother. If Saudi Arabia wanted to hurt the US all they would have to do is to only accept euros for their oil. The collapse of the dollar after that would hurt the US way more then Osama ever dreamed of.
"(I see this line of reasoning all the time, exempli gratia, at the pharmacy at which I work, when people don't understand why the federal government won't somehow make their drug copayments go away.)"
I think you misunderstand their complaint. Their complaint is basically "what the fuck happened to all those taxes I paid, how come people in Turkey and Greece get free drugs and I can't. Why doesn't a person in Australia or New Zealand have to worry about going bankrupt because they broke a hip and I do?".
They are right of course. Other much poorer countries manage to provide basic health care for their citizens (even if it's not ideal) and we still don't.
As for the hurricane NO was a special case. The levies broke (like they were predicted to). If Bush was awake during the meeting when he was told they could break better plans could have been made. Of course if he hadn't lied afterwards and told people "nobody could have predicted this" people wouldn't blame him so much.