I was just stating the obvious: with Democrats in control of at least one house (or the Executive), no seriously flawed pro-telcom anti-consumer law would pass. *cough*1996 Telecommunications Bill*cough*
What other president's administration has called the Geneva Convention "Quaint" and "Obsolete"?
From the third Geneva Convention, (Article 72): "Prisoners of war shall be allowed to receive... books, devotional articles, scientific equipment, examination papers, musical instruments, sports outfits and materials allowing prisoners of war to pursue their studies or their cultural activities." Tell me, that isn't quaint.
Vista sacrifices backwards compatibility for real progress. While M$ failed to deliver the real progress, the sentiment shouldn't be made fun of. Riiiight, b/c sacrificing A to get B, but not delivering B either isn't something to make fun of. And why wouldn't I make fun of Vista again?
Do any of the countries you have citied have America in their name? Nope, ergo people from these places should not be called americans. Just like people from the Dominican Republic are called Dominicans not Hispaniolans. Though I do appreciate your sanctimonius tone, sheeple, how original.
but it is up to you (and the rest of the USian people) to change your country in such a way that excesses like BabyBush can not happen anymore. Ha, instead we should be spending millions of dollars per year reminding people that persons from the United States of America are referred to as Americans. I've never heard of this US country you speak of. Do you refer to people from the UK as Ukkers?
Not to be a troll, but, is there a hard physiological reason not to eat people? Well there's this as well as the fact that civilization is hard to have if you are busy thinking about what sauce to have your neighbor with.
Not to unseat you from that smug high horse you're currently on, but...because everyone wants a Prius.Toyota might disagree with you about this last point.
The nerds could give two shits about some starving kid in Africa when their precious 'digital music collection' must be tendered to Do you think this mysterious starving kid would like to trade some mp3? If you do please send me his contact information at you.need@bloodtransfusion.whineybleedingheartliber al.org
Or write in the history books that they won despite everyone outside the US kowing they got their asses kicked (viet nam) Please, we were just middle relief after the stupid french(the starters of the war) had gotten themselves deep into a hole.
what we are witnessing here is an example of the pendulum swinging back to more Legislative influence (I hope).
Why do you prefer 535 tyrants to one? Or someone who has to fool less than 300,000 people to retain power indefinitely vs. a term limited chief executive.
In fact, if it's true that online sales would explode if you could actually get lossless, no-DRM versions of music and media online, as so many staunch anti-DRM advocates argue, then it's true that Apple's business would significantly grow, as the existing market leader in this area.
That seems to be a false assumption, based on my own limited research very few people who don't buy Ipods b/c band X isn't available through the iTunes music store. They don't buy them b/c of better perceived price/value in another player or due to lack of FM tuner or anti-fashionista.
Ask yourself how much changed after a white domestic terrorist like "Timothy McVeigh" was found connected to the oklahoma city bombing? Nothing. Actually, the FBI started investigating "militias" and just try to order 2 tons of ammonium nitrate through the mail. But don't let facts diffuse your white liberal guilt. Shine on you crazy diamond.
This (like most things) is the media's fault. The media spent two or three years in the post-bubble and post-9/11 recession panicking about the shrinking IT sector and how all the CS grads were going jobless.
Sorry, as someone who graduated in '01 w/ a BS in Chemical Engineering it isn't the media's fault, to paraphrase Chris Rock,"Mike Wallace wasn't stopping companies from returning my phone calls." From Sept. 01 to March 02 the well was dry not even lame ass temporary lab tech jobs were available(the Chemistry/Engineering equivalent of help desk work).
The difference is that there's no auto manufacturer with sufficient monopoly that that they'd ever sell any cars with the hood welded shut.
Speaking of bad analogies, the YYC from volvo has no hood. So it isn't that far off. Btw, a better analogy would be when is the last time you changed your own oil vs. when is the last time you recompiled your kernal.
when the usa leads by example and disables all their nuclear weapons is the day I vote for a USA president. I, as a member of the US electorate, would like to thank you for making the wise choice of not bothering to remove your head from your ass and abstaining from voting for the US president. Should you ever realize that military strenght deincentivises wars of convience, feel free to join the US electorate and vote. Thanks.
Since when is a country where there is a "Patriotic Act" considred a free world? Since it's a country where you can deny the holocaust, and buy nazi helmets from WWII.
Not sure if you're trolling but, "Are second lifers people who simply don't accept anthropomorphic global warming is a reality? Are they simply fiddling while Rome burns?". That word, I don't think it means what you think it means. You might have meant anthropogenic global warming. To which I suggest you look at the comic rays slashdot article from a few days ago.
Could you provide some hot grits to old people using email in Korea? Or would it be more appropriate in Soviet Russia for the grits to provide you? I am new here and am not sure FTW!111111111111111111eleven!
last I heard we don't have a water shortage here on earth
Well, we don't have a water shortage per se, just a shortage of fresh drinking water. But just take a look here you'll see there is a shortage of fresh water.
In the US, taxes are unconstitutional for any reasonable interpretation of the constitution.
Prior to 1913 you would be correct; however, quoting the 16th amendment to the US Constituition, "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
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I was just stating the obvious: with Democrats in control of at least one house (or the Executive), no seriously flawed pro-telcom anti-consumer law would pass.
*cough*1996 Telecommunications Bill*cough*
What other president's administration has called the Geneva Convention "Quaint" and "Obsolete"?
... books, devotional articles, scientific equipment, examination papers, musical instruments, sports outfits and materials allowing prisoners of war to pursue their studies or their cultural activities." Tell me, that isn't quaint.
From the third Geneva Convention, (Article 72): "Prisoners of war shall be allowed to receive
Vista sacrifices backwards compatibility for real progress. While M$ failed to deliver the real progress, the sentiment shouldn't be made fun of.
Riiiight, b/c sacrificing A to get B, but not delivering B either isn't something to make fun of. And why wouldn't I make fun of Vista again?
Do any of the countries you have citied have America in their name? Nope, ergo people from these places should not be called americans. Just like people from the Dominican Republic are called Dominicans not Hispaniolans. Though I do appreciate your sanctimonius tone, sheeple, how original.
but it is up to you (and the rest of the USian people) to change your country in such a way that excesses like BabyBush can not happen anymore.
Ha, instead we should be spending millions of dollars per year reminding people that persons from the United States of America are referred to as Americans. I've never heard of this US country you speak of. Do you refer to people from the UK as Ukkers?
Yes, that you live in a fantasy land where nonsensical political ideologies somehow work.
Well spoken tovarish.
Not to be a troll, but, is there a hard physiological reason not to eat people?
Well there's this as well as the fact that civilization is hard to have if you are busy thinking about what sauce to have your neighbor with.
Not to unseat you from that smug high horse you're currently on, but ...because everyone wants a Prius. Toyota might disagree with you about this last point.
The nerds could give two shits about some starving kid in Africa when their precious 'digital music collection' must be tendered tor al.org
Do you think this mysterious starving kid would like to trade some mp3? If you do please send me his contact information at you.need@bloodtransfusion.whineybleedingheartlibe
Or write in the history books that they won despite everyone outside the US kowing they got their asses kicked (viet nam)
Please, we were just middle relief after the stupid french(the starters of the war) had gotten themselves deep into a hole.
...browse YouTube et aliis to see what you missed.
Not to be pedantic, but the proper declination of the plural form of et al. would be et alii,(masculine), et aliae(feminine), or et alia(neuter).
what we are witnessing here is an example of the pendulum swinging back to more Legislative influence (I hope).
Why do you prefer 535 tyrants to one? Or someone who has to fool less than 300,000 people to retain power indefinitely vs. a term limited chief executive.
In fact, if it's true that online sales would explode if you could actually get lossless, no-DRM versions of music and media online, as so many staunch anti-DRM advocates argue, then it's true that Apple's business would significantly grow, as the existing market leader in this area.
That seems to be a false assumption, based on my own limited research very few people who don't buy Ipods b/c band X isn't available through the iTunes music store. They don't buy them b/c of better perceived price/value in another player or due to lack of FM tuner or anti-fashionista.
RMS figured it out in 1883,...
RMS is a highlander? Crazy!
Ask yourself how much changed after a white domestic terrorist like "Timothy McVeigh" was found connected to the oklahoma city bombing? Nothing.
Actually, the FBI started investigating "militias" and just try to order 2 tons of ammonium nitrate through the mail. But don't let facts diffuse your white liberal guilt. Shine on you crazy diamond.
This (like most things) is the media's fault. The media spent two or three years in the post-bubble and post-9/11 recession panicking about the shrinking IT sector and how all the CS grads were going jobless.
Sorry, as someone who graduated in '01 w/ a BS in Chemical Engineering it isn't the media's fault, to paraphrase Chris Rock,"Mike Wallace wasn't stopping companies from returning my phone calls." From Sept. 01 to March 02 the well was dry not even lame ass temporary lab tech jobs were available(the Chemistry/Engineering equivalent of help desk work).
The difference is that there's no auto manufacturer with sufficient monopoly that that they'd ever sell any cars with the hood welded shut.
Speaking of bad analogies, the YYC from volvo has no hood. So it isn't that far off. Btw, a better analogy would be when is the last time you changed your own oil vs. when is the last time you recompiled your kernal.
when the usa leads by example and disables all their nuclear weapons is the day I vote for a USA president.
I, as a member of the US electorate, would like to thank you for making the wise choice of not bothering to remove your head from your ass and abstaining from voting for the US president. Should you ever realize that military strenght deincentivises wars of convience, feel free to join the US electorate and vote. Thanks.
Since when is a country where there is a "Patriotic Act" considred a free world?
Since it's a country where you can deny the holocaust, and buy nazi helmets from WWII.
Revoultion is not anarchy.
It is revolution. Out with the old, in with the new.
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
-The Who Won't Get Fooled Again.
Not sure if you're trolling but, "Are second lifers people who simply don't accept anthropomorphic global warming is a reality? Are they simply fiddling while Rome burns?". That word, I don't think it means what you think it means. You might have meant anthropogenic global warming. To which I suggest you look at the comic rays slashdot article from a few days ago.
Could you provide some hot grits to old people using email in Korea? Or would it be more appropriate in Soviet Russia for the grits to provide you? I am new here and am not sure FTW!111111111111111111eleven!
Honey bees arent native to North America either.
last I heard we don't have a water shortage here on earth
Well, we don't have a water shortage per se, just a shortage of fresh drinking water. But just take a look here you'll see there is a shortage of fresh water.
In the US, taxes are unconstitutional for any reasonable interpretation of the constitution.
Prior to 1913 you would be correct; however, quoting the 16th amendment to the US Constituition, "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."