Yes, perspective, perspective. I'm sure from someone's perspective any action can be justified.
The question you should ask is when did Yassir Arafat every do anything that resulted in a lasting peace? He certainly had opportunities, but he always ended up walking away from them. A lasting peace would have made him irrelevant.
...and it's even more infuriating that the lefties forced us to abandon practical forms of energy (like nuclear) some 30+ years ago using the same fear tactics that they are now using to get us to waste our time on windmills and solar farms. Speaking as a conservative, and for most of the conservatives that I know, I'd love to see us move in the same direction as China.
Just please, please don't try to scare me with stories of how the sky is falling. Talk to me about limited natural resources and the need to create reliable, abundant energy for a growing population and emerging societies, and I'm listening.
Ha! I remember the column "According to Webster" or something like that. I also remember the class I took on Computers and Society. I still have fond memories of the book "Hackers." Those were the days...
NOTHING from "Obamacare" has gone into effect yet.
Wrong! Two things went into effect in September. 1) no pre-existing conditions for children. 2) kids up to 26 must now be covered on their parent's plan, regardless of their marital status.
1) has caused many insurance companies to drop child only insurance packages.
2) has caused rate increases, because of the additional associated costs (like paying for a pregnant daughter, who is married).
Which produced a way better healthcare bill than what we got from the Democrats. Do you seriously think that the current bill is not going to cause an increase in premiums? Your "a)" and "b)" are going to happen at a much more accelerated rate with the current bill.
e.g., "Obamacare" looks an [i]awful[/i] lot like "Romneycare".
"Romneycare" is what will keep Romney from ever getting a Republican nomination. It is viewed as an expensive failure, that he just can't seem to explain away.
Parent:"...more Iraqi civilians will die from secretarian fights than civilians that were killed by US soldiers."
Yeah, those Sunni Elite Administrative Assistants are deadly!
Some of the results of leaving south Vietnam defenseless:
-North Vietnam took control of South Vietnam in less than a month.
-100's of thousands went to "re-education" camps. 10's of thousands of them died after their release
-Around a million boat people died at sea.
-Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge and 2 million died in the genocide that followed.
A lot of people died in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Many people feel that a militarily weak Iraq could yield similar results, because it would create a power vacuum in a historically unstable region.
Just wondering how you came up with that opinion, considering the fact that he has been running for president for most of the time that he has been a senator? Has he actually done something remarkable?
"I much prefer the Mormon position of people being denied adaquate legal healthcare in a commercial health establishment based on particular whims related to imagined magic."
How can you expect reasonable people to accept your opinion on anything when you spew such uninformed, bigoted nonsense. Apparently, you know absolutely nothing about Mormon attitudes on health care, but yet you feel the need to comment on it. I can hear the snickers of thousands and thousands of Mormon doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals. That comment is right up there with other gems such as "Mormons have horns" and "Mormons aren't allowed to dance." Come visit LDS Hospital, the University of Utah Medical Center, or the Huntsman Cancer Institute sometime. You'll see lots of Mormon doctors and patients. If you are referring to a certain high profile incident in the news a few years ago, just remember that the doctors on the other side of the argument were most likely Mormons (as a high percentage of doctors in Utah are Mormons).
Funny, I'm an oooold person, and I love the music my teenagers listen too. Maybe because it is not mainstream crap. Lots of Indie bands; even a lot of local bands. Good stuff. Original.
There is a lot to love about S60. I've had a 3230 for some time now, but I always find myself going back to the the Treo 650. Yeah, it crashes occassionally, but it reboots fast.:-) Bottom line, the Palm OS organizer apps are far superior, IMHO. Calendar, Contacts, and Tasks are clean, fast and very, very useful. Combine all that with ChatterEmail for Push Email (using IMAP IDLE) and you have an amazing device. Finally, I simply must have a qwerty keyboard For SMS and writing Emails. Also, I've tried to use the Windows Mobile based Treos, but I get physically ill just looking at the horrible interface. I'm afraid they'll have to rip my 650 from my cold dead hands.:-)
"Having said that, perhaps the 700w (and subsequent Windows versions) will help with the learning curve for execs."
If ease of use is the issue, I don't see how the Windows versions will help anything. Compared to the 650 interface, Windows Mobile is a mess. Truly, the biggest problem with the 650 is stability. Windows Mobile addresses that, but ease of use? I don't think so.
Why would the practices of online retail be any different than the practices of traditional retail stores? When I sold auto parts for a living, there were at least 5 prices for any particular item, depending on who it was buying it. There was the "white" (list) price for the customer you did care for, then there was the "pink" price that you used for the average Joe, then the "yellow" price that you used for your good repeat customer, then the "green" price for the mechanics, and finally the "golden rod" price for the mechanics that you had to steal from your competitor. Nothing new here.
Way back when I worked at Novell, they spent millions trying to change their image as they struggled in the market playce. At first they had a really cool shark's tooth trademark. Then the decided to change it to a bunch of balls connected by lines in the shape of an N (it was extremely ugly). Then they changed it to Novell(R). Our motto back then was "No teeth, no balls, just plain Novell."
I was at Novell also and worked in the same department as the guy who was tasked to figure out why Win 3.1 wouldn't load on DR-DOS. They didn't use a very sophisticated method to determine if MS-DOS or DR-DOS was running. The fix was simple. Just lie. Perhaps the WINE folk can do the same.
Oh, and by the way. At least the US has called what is happening in the Sudan "Genocide." The UN has yet to do that. The mistake the US is making is that it is trying to deal with this problem through the UN. From the Miami Herald: "Mr. Danforth suffered a serious diplomatic setback last week when the U.N. General Assembly thwarted a resolution that would have denounced the killings and other rights abuses in Darfur. The inaction amounted to moral and political cowardice, particularly among African countries. Once again, they followed their pattern of refusing to criticize human rights abuses by another African nation."
I can't see how Oil-for-Food caused the fall of any regime. It protected Sadam's regime. It bought votes in the security council. It funded the aquisition of arms. It funded terrorism. Billions of dollars never made it into the mouths of the people for whom it was intended. Saddam's take alone was $10.1 Billion. FNC may be the only channel covering this (no surprise, really), but investigations have just begun. Lot's of folks are going to come out of this one dirty.
Nothing really. Just a knee-jerk reaction to the "US international homicide" remark. I think folks SHOULD be held responsible for both their negligence and for the their corruption.
I was certainly off-topic, and I agree that the US should not be protecting anyone who may be culpable in this matter. My point was only that there is a lot of crap that goes on in the World, and the US is NOT the only country in the world responsible.
How about the victims of corruption in the UN, the EU, and other countries around the world. Seems very few people talk about or even know about things such as the growing "Oil for Food" scandal involving many countries working in conjuction with the most corrupt organization in the world (the UN). A lot of countries have helped fund a regime responsible for the murder, toruture, and rape of hundreds of thousands of people. This same useless organization turns a blind eye to the genocide that has been going on for a long time in African countries. There is a lot of blame to go around the world. If people could stop pointing fingers at the US long enough to look in their own back yard, they would find that the dog has been crapping all over the place.
And I suppose that by you suggesting that I do this, the FBI is now going to hunt you down and arrest you for inciting a crime. Hmmm. Somehow, I'm still not feeling oppressed. But using Germany as an example of an advanced government is really funny. Thanks for the belly laugh.
Agreed. Which is why a lot of people (like myself) want a smaller government. Less regulation. Less intrusion into our lives. We don't get that from either party. Democrats are on a constant march toward socialism and Republicans, while espousing smaller government, never quite seem to get there. However, having been born and raised in the USA, I have to say that I have never once fealt oppressed. Ever. I don't fear the government. I don't fear the police. I don't panic when my candidate loses. I'm still a believer in those ideals of freedom and believe that they are still possible, even in the USA.
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Yes, perspective, perspective. I'm sure from someone's perspective any action can be justified.
The question you should ask is when did Yassir Arafat every do anything that resulted in a lasting peace? He certainly had opportunities, but he always ended up walking away from them. A lasting peace would have made him irrelevant.
...and it's even more infuriating that the lefties forced us to abandon practical forms of energy (like nuclear) some 30+ years ago using the same fear tactics that they are now using to get us to waste our time on windmills and solar farms. Speaking as a conservative, and for most of the conservatives that I know, I'd love to see us move in the same direction as China. Just please, please don't try to scare me with stories of how the sky is falling. Talk to me about limited natural resources and the need to create reliable, abundant energy for a growing population and emerging societies, and I'm listening.
Ha! I remember the column "According to Webster" or something like that. I also remember the class I took on Computers and Society. I still have fond memories of the book "Hackers." Those were the days...
Stop that.
NOTHING from "Obamacare" has gone into effect yet.
Wrong! Two things went into effect in September. 1) no pre-existing conditions for children. 2) kids up to 26 must now be covered on their parent's plan, regardless of their marital status.
1) has caused many insurance companies to drop child only insurance packages. 2) has caused rate increases, because of the additional associated costs (like paying for a pregnant daughter, who is married).
They did shit .
Which produced a way better healthcare bill than what we got from the Democrats. Do you seriously think that the current bill is not going to cause an increase in premiums? Your "a)" and "b)" are going to happen at a much more accelerated rate with the current bill.
e.g., "Obamacare" looks an [i]awful[/i] lot like "Romneycare".
"Romneycare" is what will keep Romney from ever getting a Republican nomination. It is viewed as an expensive failure, that he just can't seem to explain away.
And yet you have no fear of making those statements in a public forum...
Perhaps you meant NCP?
Parent:"...more Iraqi civilians will die from secretarian fights than civilians that were killed by US soldiers."
Yeah, those Sunni Elite Administrative Assistants are deadly!
Some of the results of leaving south Vietnam defenseless:
-North Vietnam took control of South Vietnam in less than a month.
-100's of thousands went to "re-education" camps. 10's of thousands of them died after their release
-Around a million boat people died at sea.
-Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge and 2 million died in the genocide that followed.
A lot of people died in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Many people feel that a militarily weak Iraq could yield similar results, because it would create a power vacuum in a historically unstable region.
-- he's a talented Senator
Just wondering how you came up with that opinion, considering the fact that he has been running for president for most of the time that he has been a senator? Has he actually done something remarkable?
Must be 6502 Assembly. Sounds like he hasn't used a real language in a while!
"I much prefer the Mormon position of people being denied adaquate legal healthcare in a commercial health establishment based on particular whims related to imagined magic."
How can you expect reasonable people to accept your opinion on anything when you spew such uninformed, bigoted nonsense. Apparently, you know absolutely nothing about Mormon attitudes on health care, but yet you feel the need to comment on it. I can hear the snickers of thousands and thousands of Mormon doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals. That comment is right up there with other gems such as "Mormons have horns" and "Mormons aren't allowed to dance." Come visit LDS Hospital, the University of Utah Medical Center, or the Huntsman Cancer Institute sometime. You'll see lots of Mormon doctors and patients. If you are referring to a certain high profile incident in the news a few years ago, just remember that the doctors on the other side of the argument were most likely Mormons (as a high percentage of doctors in Utah are Mormons).
Funny, I'm an oooold person, and I love the music my teenagers listen too. Maybe because it is not mainstream crap. Lots of Indie bands; even a lot of local bands. Good stuff. Original.
There is a lot to love about S60. I've had a 3230 for some time now, but I always find myself going back to the the Treo 650. Yeah, it crashes occassionally, but it reboots fast. :-) Bottom line, the Palm OS organizer apps are far superior, IMHO. Calendar, Contacts, and Tasks are clean, fast and very, very useful. Combine all that with ChatterEmail for Push Email (using IMAP IDLE) and you have an amazing device. Finally, I simply must have a qwerty keyboard For SMS and writing Emails. Also, I've tried to use the Windows Mobile based Treos, but I get physically ill just looking at the horrible interface. I'm afraid they'll have to rip my 650 from my cold dead hands. :-)
If ease of use is the issue, I don't see how the Windows versions will help anything. Compared to the 650 interface, Windows Mobile is a mess. Truly, the biggest problem with the 650 is stability. Windows Mobile addresses that, but ease of use? I don't think so.
Why would the practices of online retail be any different than the practices of traditional retail stores? When I sold auto parts for a living, there were at least 5 prices for any particular item, depending on who it was buying it. There was the "white" (list) price for the customer you did care for, then there was the "pink" price that you used for the average Joe, then the "yellow" price that you used for your good repeat customer, then the "green" price for the mechanics, and finally the "golden rod" price for the mechanics that you had to steal from your competitor. Nothing new here.
Way back when I worked at Novell, they spent millions trying to change their image as they struggled in the market playce. At first they had a really cool shark's tooth trademark. Then the decided to change it to a bunch of balls connected by lines in the shape of an N (it was extremely ugly). Then they changed it to Novell(R). Our motto back then was "No teeth, no balls, just plain Novell."
I was at Novell also and worked in the same department as the guy who was tasked to figure out why Win 3.1 wouldn't load on DR-DOS. They didn't use a very sophisticated method to determine if MS-DOS or DR-DOS was running. The fix was simple. Just lie. Perhaps the WINE folk can do the same.
Oh, and by the way. At least the US has called what is happening in the Sudan "Genocide." The UN has yet to do that. The mistake the US is making is that it is trying to deal with this problem through the UN. From the Miami Herald: "Mr. Danforth suffered a serious diplomatic setback last week when the U.N. General Assembly thwarted a resolution that would have denounced the killings and other rights abuses in Darfur. The inaction amounted to moral and political cowardice, particularly among African countries. Once again, they followed their pattern of refusing to criticize human rights abuses by another African nation."
I can't see how Oil-for-Food caused the fall of any regime. It protected Sadam's regime. It bought votes in the security council. It funded the aquisition of arms. It funded terrorism. Billions of dollars never made it into the mouths of the people for whom it was intended. Saddam's take alone was $10.1 Billion. FNC may be the only channel covering this (no surprise, really), but investigations have just begun. Lot's of folks are going to come out of this one dirty.
Nothing really. Just a knee-jerk reaction to the "US international homicide" remark. I think folks SHOULD be held responsible for both their negligence and for the their corruption.
I was certainly off-topic, and I agree that the US should not be protecting anyone who may be culpable in this matter. My point was only that there is a lot of crap that goes on in the World, and the US is NOT the only country in the world responsible.
How about the victims of corruption in the UN, the EU, and other countries around the world. Seems very few people talk about or even know about things such as the growing "Oil for Food" scandal involving many countries working in conjuction with the most corrupt organization in the world (the UN). A lot of countries have helped fund a regime responsible for the murder, toruture, and rape of hundreds of thousands of people. This same useless organization turns a blind eye to the genocide that has been going on for a long time in African countries. There is a lot of blame to go around the world. If people could stop pointing fingers at the US long enough to look in their own back yard, they would find that the dog has been crapping all over the place.
And I suppose that by you suggesting that I do this, the FBI is now going to hunt you down and arrest you for inciting a crime. Hmmm. Somehow, I'm still not feeling oppressed. But using Germany as an example of an advanced government is really funny. Thanks for the belly laugh.
Agreed. Which is why a lot of people (like myself) want a smaller government. Less regulation. Less intrusion into our lives. We don't get that from either party. Democrats are on a constant march toward socialism and Republicans, while espousing smaller government, never quite seem to get there. However, having been born and raised in the USA, I have to say that I have never once fealt oppressed. Ever. I don't fear the government. I don't fear the police. I don't panic when my candidate loses. I'm still a believer in those ideals of freedom and believe that they are still possible, even in the USA.