Good. The email ID created especially for this purpose is freedomindia.slashdot AT gmail.com
Doctors without borders is a nice charity.
I don't have issues letting the winner pick a charity. Personally i recommend doctors without borders because i have donated to them in the past, and a cold economic calculation shows they spend the highest ratio/percentage of their donations on medical issues rather than administrative causes (much more than salvation army or even Red Cross).
Great. Nice to have more people take up the challenge. Unfortunately slashdot spam armour is too hard for me to decipher. You can mail me at freedomindia.slashdot AT gmail.com (created especially for this purpose).
Georgia, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia, Yemen, and Eritrea all major wars the US is currently engaged in. OK. Fine by me. Although why you included Kenya is a puzzle to me.
Size of troops: 1/2 of a divion of Infantry (6000 Light or heavy infantry) and/or more than two squadrons of aircract which MUST include bombers currently in USAF.
Nope. $1 billion is pocket change kept in the drawer by the government.
Taking money out of the defense budget is "unacceptable" because: 1. The country is liable to be attacked by terrorists. 2. The terrorists in Irack will make it to Homeland. 3. The illegal immigrants will start committing more crimes. 4. The Economy will fail because the trickle-down policy will fail. 5. Congress will Raise the taxes !
So now you know why defense budget can't spare even 10 cents ?
Good, now go and report to your nearest recruiting / draft office.
CO2 will dissolve in the water Wow ! So i get free carbonated soda ! imagine if FutureGen had signed a deal with Coca-cola for supplying free carbonated mineral water. Am sure with coca-cola's clout the government would have pumped more money into it.
Good. Very Good. By Major i meant: any two arms of the military engaged in a military action that involves specific appropriations by congress AND, is classified as a war / battle by the Supreme commander of Armed Forces of US, OR congress declares military action against a country[ies] OR US calls for NATO and demands action as per NATO act stating that US is under military attack.
If you agree to these definitions, then get a slashdot account and respond. I will add you as a Friend in slashdot.
By 31st December 2008, if any of the above conditions are met, you agree to pay EUR100 to doctors without borders legal entity. If none of said condition[s] come to fruition, i agree to pay EUR100 to doctors without borders legal entity on 1st january 2009.
That's it. No More Bud or corona or Flying Dog Pale Ale for me....
You have a better command of English than me (am NOT sarcastic this time).
Damn these public schools system for dumbing my English. And to think my dad could recite from King Lear and Macbeth... Am truly ashamed of my failing, dumbed down English.
My library membership card has been sleeping for a long time. Time to take it out and borrow Charles Dickens or Shakespeare or Churchill. No more watching LOST, or American Pie[s] for that matter.
And this time i mean it when i say Thank you. Time to hit the books seriously.
They are a group of ultra-right extremists who have hijacked the Republican Party as a suitable vehicle to advance their cause. Why do i keep remembering William Shirer's "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" book? Somehow i have a Deja Vu sense...
I bet EUR 100 (to be donated to Doctors without borders) that before this year runs out, we will have another major war with another country.
cutting cables seems like something some people in the U.S. government Nope. I would think it of something like a false-flag operation against iran.
The Industry knows that whoever comes to power in 2008 would pullout troops from Iraq. This essentially leaves Iran as a free power. Secondly, with the Housing crisis unfolding, the economy is going to tailspin. To prevent 1929-1933 depression, the only way is to fund a new war.
To fund it requires support of an increasingly reluctant US citizens who are loathe to fund a war.
So, what to do? I would not be surprised if an enemy-agent is caught in act of cutting and that agent speaks arabic, especially Persian. That would give US a convenient way to say Iran is delibrately disrupting communications, because it is testing nukes.
Strenous protests by Iran would be of no use.
And who gets to benefit when Iran is wiped out, removing 2 out of 2 major military powers of the middle-east?
By september '08, war is certain.
The hastily signed laws that republicans voted for will come to bite the citizens, when liberties are suspended, and people forced to vote for Cheney (who will reluctantly stand for election).
You can't point to Bush's Republican heists during his regime's total control of the government, capping his Party's control of Congress for a decade and a half.
So Iraq is no argument against this kind of public investment. What are you talking about? No, am serious. I can't understand what you are saying. I was being sarcastic about the expenses made by Bush & Republican Co. on iraq while spending nothing on national infrastructure. Are you saying the same thing:
Unless you're talking about letting Republicans have control again, in which case it's the perfect argument. i had too much Bud i guess.
$100B spent on improving US broadband infrastructure would have instant payback in the US economy. WRONG !
100 billion spent on iraq for all these years gave the economy nothing, except more business for coffin makers and funeral dress rental shops.
Out of 100 Bill, 88 goes to the CEOs, board members, chairmans, etc., who stash their money in Euros, Yen or even RM.
The rest money goes to politicians.
And a tax-deductible expense of $2 bil is spent on broadband. So the IRS also loses.
Prove me wrong. Look at all the approporiations all these years, corporate profits, CEO salaries, and amount spent on long term investment in company balance sheets.
whatever drug Cheney is smoking that let's him say with a straight face Nope. Politicians don't need drugs to keep a straight face when they are lying.
In fact, if you watch closely, the more a politician keeps a bland face, the more he is lying. OTOH, if he's excited at something, doesn't mean he is speaking the truth.
Politicians are a separate species from all of us. If they say and do the same thing, it essentially means he is a rookie, OR he is acting like a politician.
Take for instance all statements by Cheney over the years and compare them with his face reactions, you can easily discern which are lies.
I'll see you in court for misleading advertising Telco: Good luck with that ! Why do you think we paid off enough senators for not passing a net-neutrality law?
Seriously i think this would expand to many other telcos like comcast, verizon, etc. This enables them to double-dip both the consumer and the company (google). Screw the tax-payer funded expansions they got, that money long went to buy yachts, etc.
So, as a home user am screwed. As a business user, i can get some tax deductions. As a corporate, i don't care.
Deploying high technology infrastructure is problematic because it changes to rapidly. You mean the government has not yet started subsidizing the telcos to ugrade their technology, throw more tax payers money at it, and then when it comes for telcos to start providing services to us, they turn around and start blocking torrents, filtering stolen music, look at mail headers, abort net neutrality, and make sure the last mile problem never really goes away.
Considering, that Bush Republicans have always favored pouring our money to corporate coffers, it would seem another effort to make more money for them. I would prefer the democrats sneak in a clause like Sarbanes-Oxley into the proposed budget which would hold Bush personally responsible for making sure all money spent on broadband benefits customers directly. This way once he is out of power, Obama can sue him and convict him.
You lucky Punk ! We still have the god-speaks-through-him conservative and chances are the next one in the seat will be a senile old man old enough to be a soldier in First World War.
Look, if i were Comcast, Verizon, or AT&T, i would be shouting at the congress critters, excuse me, congressmen, that i bought. How come Blackwater, Shell, etc., can earn so much profits and their CEOs get platinum parachutes, while i (poor Verizon CEO) get a puny Yacht?
When would i start earning the same profits these guys earn?
The i would ask my lawyers to draft a new law that channels tax payer subsidies to me as funds for building broadband. $100 billion !!! Think about the tickets for 100 mile-high club i can buy from Virgin!!!
It is time for tax payers to start funding my Virgin SpaceShip two tickets....
Al-Qaeda did not exist until after the American government declared it did; in reality Osama has and has a small ineffective group of Islamic fundamentalist followers. I don't know whether you are sarcastic or you are serious.
Did you hatch from an addled egg?
The phenomenal amount of ignorance you show is staggering, even to a comrade.
Please read the report by http://www.9-11commission.gov/ detailing the history, growth, attempts to stifle, and finally dispersing of osama's terror network.
This is exactly why you should cultivate the habit of reading once in a while rather than sitting and watching Sopranos.
Isn't it a paradox? The country with 16 amendments, oldest republic, has the judiciary and the executive hell bent on supressing the hard won Habeus Corpus and Innocent-until-proven-guilty concepts?
While a continent which is still under the rule of a queen, does not have constitutionally guaranteed rights against seizure, privacy, etc., the judiciary is hell bent on making sure the congress[parliment] and the Executive do NOT trample upon individual rights and privacy?
I have always found it a paradox.
A country with so many laws on privacy, freedom, etc., holds its own citizens in jail without a trial, while, A country with no laws or even a constitution guaranteeing such rights provides so much freedom of thought and action...
Doesn't Australia have FoxTel which is a subsidiary of Fox News?
Fox can "assist" the police and the state in spreading Fear, Terror, and a terrifying amount of stupidity in its news. Fox can also run a yellow sticker at the bottom of your TV stating the Terror Alert is Yellow, thus keeping the citizens constantly on alert.
Maybe 'Oreilly can be transferred to Australia to assist the government there in setting up its Free News Network. Instead of the annoying news networks which ask awkward questions about suspects, Fox News would ask the correct questions, like, "Is Aussie homeland safe from the terrorist? How many more terror attacks were foiled?". Damn these stupid Nine MSN, Optus, etc., which seem to think bringing truth to the ignorant public is worth more.
Wait ! Peter Costello and John Howard, the two dingoes, are not in power anymore. And the new PM has already started pulling out of Iraq, signed the Kyoto accord, publicly apologised to the Lost Generation, etc., all things "unacceptable" to Fox which grew up on a steady diet War, illegal spying, etc.
NHS collapsing in Britain??? Whatever gave you the idea. If you read the latest UN reports, the US occupies the bottom-most rung in medical care in developed countries with highest number of deaths in cases that could have been avoided. NHS is doing fine. The private-funded medical care and MediCare is growing and minting money for all, but patients...
Old news. Was reported and solved yesterday. And this provided the finest example of the sole purpose TCP/IP was created. Yes, the 'net access was down for an hour, but after that it came back up as before. Guess TCP was able route the packets through alternate gateways after detecting the problem.
Goes on to prove that technology conceived of in 1960s still works magnificiently, and yet what's conceived yesterday (Patriot missiles, DRM, etc) fail miserably.
Well, in those days people actually spent good money on deep research, schools taught Real Maths and Science, and students wanted to pursue science careers rather than becoming a rockstar or a lawyer. More so, they were very very thorough with their research and thought of all possible implications in future rather than the next quarterly results.
Yes, today's pace is higher and more innovations are crawling out of woodwork, but how many of them stand the test of time? Most fail and even products like vaigra have liabilities.
If only the next president goes back to funding research in basic science, space exploration, mathematics, rather than giving the money to Blackwater and LTCM-clones... But then this president has effectively demolished and destroyed whatever remaining last vestiges of advances we had in science and other research. Now china and even korea [with its old people] are proving to be better at science and maths and more innovative.
While in the US, candidates bicker about evolution and creationism , the people gawk at Britney's antics, SAG awards to watch 'em sagging, and where even a mention of higher grade mathematics leads to a lawsuit by parents.
Heck, even cutting up a real frog in labs is out of question because the animal rights activists camp at my door, while DHS and FBI come thundering to my house/school if i order testubes or chemicals like H2SO4....
In 20 years, USA would be the mightiest military power with no brains.
There was really someone named like that in 1960s. He was arrested and forced to appear in court by cops because it matched his SSN card. It took him a lot of effort to clear his name, but i don't think it deterred the judiciary from continuing to use John Doe's everywhere. Seems judiciary preaching is for others only. Not for itself. "Do as i say, not as i do." (Read this incident in an old LIFE magazine my grandpa was having...was too bored on one those nights when just sleeping and doing nothing in bed with a wife is painful.)
Slashdot Mirror
Good.
The email ID created especially for this purpose is freedomindia.slashdot AT gmail.com
Doctors without borders is a nice charity.
I don't have issues letting the winner pick a charity. Personally i recommend doctors without borders because i have donated to them in the past, and a cold economic calculation shows they spend the highest ratio/percentage of their donations on medical issues rather than administrative causes (much more than salvation army or even Red Cross).
Great.
Nice to have more people take up the challenge.
Unfortunately slashdot spam armour is too hard for me to decipher.
You can mail me at freedomindia.slashdot AT gmail.com (created especially for this purpose).
Thanks.
The definitions for the AC has been spelt out.
If its agreeable to you, then indicate your acceptance.
If its not, we can mutually consider changes to the definitons.
Sounds fine?
Size of troops: 1/2 of a divion of Infantry (6000 Light or heavy infantry) and/or more than two squadrons of aircract which MUST include bombers currently in USAF.
OK?
Nope.
$1 billion is pocket change kept in the drawer by the government.
Taking money out of the defense budget is "unacceptable" because:
1. The country is liable to be attacked by terrorists.
2. The terrorists in Irack will make it to Homeland.
3. The illegal immigrants will start committing more crimes.
4. The Economy will fail because the trickle-down policy will fail.
5. Congress will Raise the taxes !
So now you know why defense budget can't spare even 10 cents ?
Good, now go and report to your nearest recruiting / draft office.
Am sure with coca-cola's clout the government would have pumped more money into it.
Good. Very Good.
By Major i meant:
any two arms of the military engaged in a military action that involves specific appropriations by congress
AND, is classified as a war / battle by the Supreme commander of Armed Forces of US,
OR congress declares military action against a country[ies]
OR US calls for NATO and demands action as per NATO act stating that US is under military attack.
If you agree to these definitions, then get a slashdot account and respond. I will add you as a Friend in slashdot.
By 31st December 2008, if any of the above conditions are met, you agree to pay EUR100 to doctors without borders legal entity.
If none of said condition[s] come to fruition, i agree to pay EUR100 to doctors without borders legal entity on 1st january 2009.
Agreed?
The moral of the story: If you owe the bank $100 it owns you. If you owe the bank $1 billion, you own it.
Big Dig is like borrowing $1 billion.
Arrrggghhhhh....
That's it. No More Bud or corona or Flying Dog Pale Ale for me....
You have a better command of English than me (am NOT sarcastic this time).
Damn these public schools system for dumbing my English. And to think my dad could recite from King Lear and Macbeth...
Am truly ashamed of my failing, dumbed down English.
My library membership card has been sleeping for a long time. Time to take it out and borrow Charles Dickens or Shakespeare or Churchill.
No more watching LOST, or American Pie[s] for that matter.
And this time i mean it when i say Thank you. Time to hit the books seriously.
Somehow i have a Deja Vu sense...
I bet EUR 100 (to be donated to Doctors without borders) that before this year runs out, we will have another major war with another country.
Anybody willing to dare?
I would think it of something like a false-flag operation against iran.
The Industry knows that whoever comes to power in 2008 would pullout troops from Iraq. This essentially leaves Iran as a free power.
Secondly, with the Housing crisis unfolding, the economy is going to tailspin.
To prevent 1929-1933 depression, the only way is to fund a new war.
To fund it requires support of an increasingly reluctant US citizens who are loathe to fund a war.
So, what to do?
I would not be surprised if an enemy-agent is caught in act of cutting and that agent speaks arabic, especially Persian.
That would give US a convenient way to say Iran is delibrately disrupting communications, because it is testing nukes.
Strenous protests by Iran would be of no use.
And who gets to benefit when Iran is wiped out, removing 2 out of 2 major military powers of the middle-east?
By september '08, war is certain.
The hastily signed laws that republicans voted for will come to bite the citizens, when liberties are suspended, and people forced to vote for Cheney (who will reluctantly stand for election).
No, am serious. I can't understand what you are saying.
I was being sarcastic about the expenses made by Bush & Republican Co. on iraq while spending nothing on national infrastructure.
Are you saying the same thing: Unless you're talking about letting Republicans have control again, in which case it's the perfect argument. i had too much Bud i guess.
100 billion spent on iraq for all these years gave the economy nothing, except more business for coffin makers and funeral dress rental shops.
Out of 100 Bill, 88 goes to the CEOs, board members, chairmans, etc., who stash their money in Euros, Yen or even RM.
The rest money goes to politicians.
And a tax-deductible expense of $2 bil is spent on broadband. So the IRS also loses.
Prove me wrong.
Look at all the approporiations all these years, corporate profits, CEO salaries, and amount spent on long term investment in company balance sheets.
In fact, if you watch closely, the more a politician keeps a bland face, the more he is lying.
OTOH, if he's excited at something, doesn't mean he is speaking the truth.
Politicians are a separate species from all of us.
If they say and do the same thing, it essentially means he is a rookie, OR he is acting like a politician.
Take for instance all statements by Cheney over the years and compare them with his face reactions, you can easily discern which are lies.
Good luck with that !
Why do you think we paid off enough senators for not passing a net-neutrality law?
Seriously i think this would expand to many other telcos like comcast, verizon, etc.
This enables them to double-dip both the consumer and the company (google).
Screw the tax-payer funded expansions they got, that money long went to buy yachts, etc.
So, as a home user am screwed. As a business user, i can get some tax deductions.
As a corporate, i don't care.
Considering, that Bush Republicans have always favored pouring our money to corporate coffers, it would seem another effort to make more money for them.
I would prefer the democrats sneak in a clause like Sarbanes-Oxley into the proposed budget which would hold Bush personally responsible for making sure all money spent on broadband benefits customers directly.
This way once he is out of power, Obama can sue him and convict him.
You lucky Punk !
We still have the god-speaks-through-him conservative and chances are the next one in the seat will be a senile old man old enough to be a soldier in First World War.
Are you crazy?
Look, if i were Comcast, Verizon, or AT&T, i would be shouting at the congress critters, excuse me, congressmen, that i bought. How come Blackwater, Shell, etc., can earn so much profits and their CEOs get platinum parachutes, while i (poor Verizon CEO) get a puny Yacht?
When would i start earning the same profits these guys earn?
The i would ask my lawyers to draft a new law that channels tax payer subsidies to me as funds for building broadband.
$100 billion !!! Think about the tickets for 100 mile-high club i can buy from Virgin!!!
It is time for tax payers to start funding my Virgin SpaceShip two tickets....
Did you hatch from an addled egg?
The phenomenal amount of ignorance you show is staggering, even to a comrade.
Please read the report by http://www.9-11commission.gov/ detailing the history, growth, attempts to stifle, and finally dispersing of osama's terror network.
This is exactly why you should cultivate the habit of reading once in a while rather than sitting and watching Sopranos.
Isn't it a paradox?
The country with 16 amendments, oldest republic, has the judiciary and the executive hell bent on supressing the hard won Habeus Corpus and Innocent-until-proven-guilty concepts?
While a continent which is still under the rule of a queen, does not have constitutionally guaranteed rights against seizure, privacy, etc., the judiciary is hell bent on making sure the congress[parliment] and the Executive do NOT trample upon individual rights and privacy?
I have always found it a paradox.
A country with so many laws on privacy, freedom, etc., holds its own citizens in jail without a trial, while,
A country with no laws or even a constitution guaranteeing such rights provides so much freedom of thought and action...
Doesn't Australia have FoxTel which is a subsidiary of Fox News?
Fox can "assist" the police and the state in spreading Fear, Terror, and a terrifying amount of stupidity in its news.
Fox can also run a yellow sticker at the bottom of your TV stating the Terror Alert is Yellow, thus keeping the citizens constantly on alert.
Maybe 'Oreilly can be transferred to Australia to assist the government there in setting up its Free News Network.
Instead of the annoying news networks which ask awkward questions about suspects, Fox News would ask the correct questions, like, "Is Aussie homeland safe from the terrorist? How many more terror attacks were foiled?". Damn these stupid Nine MSN, Optus, etc., which seem to think bringing truth to the ignorant public is worth more.
Wait ! Peter Costello and John Howard, the two dingoes, are not in power anymore.
And the new PM has already started pulling out of Iraq, signed the Kyoto accord, publicly apologised to the Lost Generation, etc., all things "unacceptable" to Fox which grew up on a steady diet War, illegal spying, etc.
Damn...
I pity Fox.
NHS collapsing in Britain??? Whatever gave you the idea. If you read the latest UN reports, the US occupies the bottom-most rung in medical care in developed countries with highest number of deaths in cases that could have been avoided.
NHS is doing fine.
The private-funded medical care and MediCare is growing and minting money for all, but patients...
Old news. Was reported and solved yesterday.
And this provided the finest example of the sole purpose TCP/IP was created.
Yes, the 'net access was down for an hour, but after that it came back up as before.
Guess TCP was able route the packets through alternate gateways after detecting the problem.
Goes on to prove that technology conceived of in 1960s still works magnificiently, and yet what's conceived yesterday (Patriot missiles, DRM, etc) fail miserably.
Well, in those days people actually spent good money on deep research, schools taught Real Maths and Science, and students wanted to pursue science careers rather than becoming a rockstar or a lawyer. More so, they were very very thorough with their research and thought of all possible implications in future rather than the next quarterly results.
Yes, today's pace is higher and more innovations are crawling out of woodwork, but how many of them stand the test of time? Most fail and even products like vaigra have liabilities.
If only the next president goes back to funding research in basic science, space exploration, mathematics, rather than giving the money to Blackwater and LTCM-clones...
But then this president has effectively demolished and destroyed whatever remaining last vestiges of advances we had in science and other research.
Now china and even korea [with its old people] are proving to be better at science and maths and more innovative.
While in the US, candidates bicker about evolution and creationism , the people gawk at Britney's antics, SAG awards to watch 'em sagging,
and where even a mention of higher grade mathematics leads to a lawsuit by parents.
Heck, even cutting up a real frog in labs is out of question because the animal rights activists camp at my door, while DHS and FBI come thundering to my house/school if i order testubes or chemicals like H2SO4....
In 20 years, USA would be the mightiest military power with no brains.
There was really someone named like that in 1960s. He was arrested and forced to appear in court by cops because it matched his SSN card.
It took him a lot of effort to clear his name, but i don't think it deterred the judiciary from continuing to use John Doe's everywhere.
Seems judiciary preaching is for others only. Not for itself. "Do as i say, not as i do."
(Read this incident in an old LIFE magazine my grandpa was having...was too bored on one those nights when just sleeping and doing nothing in bed with a wife is painful.)