It has been estimated that the US will spend $100 Billion in a year pursuing justice in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. That comes out to approximately $300 million per day! Or we will spend what is required to fix the SuperK in 12 hours. Kind of puts things in perspective.
Now that patriotism and American indentity is surging it seems like a right time for a political leader to stand up and proclaim energy independence is a paramount issue.
Addiction to cheap fossils fuels has colored our foriegn policy and caused us to turn a blind eye to the principles we hold dear, such as fairness, justice, and the trust in democratic idealogy.
The US bolsters, sells arms to, and keeps autocratic governments in place, such as Saudi Arabia, only so the we can get access to cheap energy. Even though these governments routinely violate basic human rights, disallow freedom of speech and rule by fear.
The parallel between a drug addict who abandons moral principles in order to obtain their next fix is almost too much to ignore.
We need someone in polical power who has the vision and the foresight to achieve energy independance and instill a yankee-can-do attitude, no unlike JFK's "go to the moon" proclaimation.
The current war will cost between $150 and $200 Billion not counting the increase in inefficiencies of trying to protect ourselves and our lost freedoms. How far down the road would $200 billion spent on research and development of an energy economy built on solar, wind, commercial fusion, spaced based technologies, conservation, etc. get us? How would this positively effect the economy and allow us to compete in the world?
Disallow MS from buying any tech companies or any technology product for the next 7 years.
This would foster competition. When MS buys a company or product such as Visio, Powerpoint, IE, SQL server, etc. they remove the competition and get ahead start against anyone else that might be in that market. They use their huge pile of cash that they have acquired by being a monopoly to squelch any upstart and recover from any bad decision (such as initially ignoring the rise of the internet) . The best an upstart can hope for is being bought out.
I can't see how MS would find this too disagreeable as they often like to think of themselves as Innovators, so innovate and compete.
My bet is that if MS had to develop IE from scratch Netscape would still be in the game. Look at the products they develop from scratch such as IIS! A buggy insecure product that will take another 4 years to mature. If Apache was a commercial product they would have bought it long ago and we would all be using MS Apache.
Finding a way to reconcile Israel with her Arab neighbors would be a good start in reducing radicalism in the Islamic world. Religious fundamentalism is something we should not worry about, hell, maybe they're right.
Only problem is that most arabs do not believe in "reconciliation" but "elimination". Sorta what the nazi's had in mind.
Religious fundamentalism is something we should not worry about, hell, maybe they're right.
The primary cause of the problems in Israel is the result of unyielding, inhumane and illogical positions of the fundamentalist Jews and the fundamentalist Muslims.
The cause of most wars and genocide thoughout history are almost always traced back to religious fundamentalism or, its substitution, nationalism.
It has been said that the difference between a Mechanical Engineer and Civil Engineer is that Mechanical Engineers build weapons and Civil Engineers build targets.
Well in this case it looks like the Civil Engineers get the last laugh.
I know where you are coming from but consider the other extreme
Do you feel the same about grenade launchers, fully automatic weapons (like an m60), etc. Should these be readly available after all plastic explosives do not kill people, people do, right.
Take the $100 Billion that we are going to spend and develop commercial fusion and other non-fossil fuel based energy source. Cut all aid, trade and dimplomatic ties to all non-democratic states in the region.
Bomb, missiles, tanks, Special Forces will only create another generation of suicide terrorist. Their religion is base on violence and they still reliving the dark ages. Someday, perhaps a century from now, they will experience the age of enlightenment and will join civilized society.
That was pure rhetoric, if not misguided propaganda. The terrorist did not attack us because we are a "beacon of freedom" but primarily because of our arrogance and self-interested foreign policy.
It is interesting that most of the folks who visit here understand this reaction first hand. It is the same distaste we all have toward the Microsoft and their arrogant business deals and anti-competive practices.
That fact the we do enjoy a great deal of freedom and are an open and multi-ethnic society just made us vunerable and an easy target.
Ya know the other day I was outraged to learn that Iran supports financially the Islamic Jihad in Lebonon. How could a legit country fund a terrorist group. Then I realize that we funded and trained good'l Osama, in the 80's. I then felt ashamed.
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"To remove a culture would be genocide"
I have been thinking about the implied assumption of goodness of presevation of indiginious cultures. Most primitve human cultures are dispicable at best. Things like: head hunting, human sacrifice, subjugation of women, slavery, amputations, burning atthe stake, the list goes on and on.
I know it is not PC but somethings just need to be left behind in order to move forward.
If you notice there is different content for the arabic and english area at Islamway.com. Look at the images all the way down. Wonder why they do that?
From what I understand this only works for previously filled out forms.
What is really needed is someone to release a standard for form field naming (i.e. name_first) then when confronted with a form you can select to fill all recognized form fields from an encrypted password protected database kept on your computer. Then it would nice if you could transfer this this database, encrypted and password protected, to sync up your other computers. This would make MS.net authentication less attractive.
What we are saying is they may have had legitimate greivances against the US, and maybe, just maybe we should sit up and take notice. There is a difference, it's not that subtle.
Oh... I think they will get noticed now. Congress is just now approving 40 Billion dollars, half which will fund retaliation.
This is not a way to make your point. There is no justification for purposeful mass killing of innocent people. Any point they wanted to make is lost. In fact, I suspect the average American will begin to support in Israel more now that it is clear we have a common enemy.
But who to say taking a passive attitude will work. For example, where was the retaliation for USS Cole bombing? Since it appears the same organization is involved in the recent attacks a position of restraint only seemed to embold the terrorist.
It is ironic that the biggest losers in this affair, in the long term, is the Arab people.
Finally, and this is the most difficult part, force Israel to make peace. Israel has a right to exist, but that right cannot include the right to persecute Palestinians
Is not true that Israel is the only Democratic country in that god forsaken land? Arabs have rights within the Israeli system and even are representive in their gov't. While the Palastinian Authority is autocratic gov't that rules with an iron fist that kill and arrest moderates as 'conspirators'. Every single Arab country is ruled by either a strong man or a shiekdom and kept in check by terror.
You cannot cut a deal for peace with religious fundentalist, peace is not a goal on their mind, only extermination and war.
Please point out the news sources that are focusing (negatively) on Canada's involvement. Again the CBC has, so write to your PM.
Anti-American rants notwithdstanding (such as the I am Canadian beer commercial), most Americans have a very favorable view of Canadians. While some may have lots of misconceptions and sterotypes most consider Canada as the friend next door.
Look, journalist ask stupid questions, thats their job. If you take that as personal insult then that too bad your way to too sensitive and need to grow some skin.
Canadians alway seem pissed off if the US media pays too much or not enough attention to them.
I have been monitoring alot of online, TV and radio media in the last two days and have not heard Canada mention once except that International flights are being routed to Canadian airports. Thanks you. As one poster noted here it was the CBC (the state sponsored media that is making a big deal of this).
So cool your jets a little. The US media has not mentioned Canada's generous offers since they are little busy right now. BTW they have not much mentioned offers from either countries either.
Oh yeah, please ignore some of the other ignorant, immature responses to your post, stupidity of the character knows no bounds.
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It has been estimated that the US will spend $100 Billion in a year pursuing justice in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. That comes out to approximately $300 million per day! Or we will spend what is required to fix the SuperK in 12 hours. Kind of puts things in perspective.
Naa you need something will a little more zing - how about.
News for sheep, stuff that stinks
Now that patriotism and American indentity is surging it seems like a right time for a political leader to stand up and proclaim energy independence is a paramount issue.
Addiction to cheap fossils fuels has colored our foriegn policy and caused us to turn a blind eye to the principles we hold dear, such as fairness, justice, and the trust in democratic idealogy.
The US bolsters, sells arms to, and keeps autocratic governments in place, such as Saudi Arabia, only so the we can get access to cheap energy. Even though these governments routinely violate basic human rights, disallow freedom of speech and rule by fear.
The parallel between a drug addict who abandons moral principles in order to obtain their next fix is almost too much to ignore.
We need someone in polical power who has the vision and the foresight to achieve energy independance and instill a yankee-can-do attitude, no unlike JFK's "go to the moon" proclaimation.
The current war will cost between $150 and $200 Billion not counting the increase in inefficiencies of trying to protect ourselves and our lost freedoms. How far down the road would $200 billion spent on research and development of an energy economy built on solar, wind, commercial fusion, spaced based technologies, conservation, etc. get us? How would this positively effect the economy and allow us to compete in the world?
Disallow MS from buying any tech companies or any technology product for the next 7 years.
This would foster competition. When MS buys a company or product such as Visio, Powerpoint, IE, SQL server, etc. they remove the competition and get ahead start against anyone else that might be in that market. They use their huge pile of cash that they have acquired by being a monopoly to squelch any upstart and recover from any bad decision (such as initially ignoring the rise of the internet) . The best an upstart can hope for is being bought out.
I can't see how MS would find this too disagreeable as they often like to think of themselves as Innovators, so innovate and compete.
My bet is that if MS had to develop IE from scratch Netscape would still be in the game. Look at the products they develop from scratch such as IIS! A buggy insecure product that will take another 4 years to mature. If Apache was a commercial product they would have bought it long ago and we would all be using MS Apache.
With comments such as:
"this crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take awhile"
makes you wonder.
Finding a way to reconcile Israel with her Arab neighbors would be a good start in reducing radicalism in the Islamic world. Religious fundamentalism is something we should not worry about, hell, maybe they're right.
Only problem is that most arabs do not believe in "reconciliation" but "elimination". Sorta what the nazi's had in mind.
Religious fundamentalism is something we should not worry about, hell, maybe they're right.
The primary cause of the problems in Israel is the result of unyielding, inhumane and illogical positions of the fundamentalist Jews and the fundamentalist Muslims.
The cause of most wars and genocide thoughout history are almost always traced back to religious fundamentalism or, its substitution, nationalism.
Also, msnbc.com is the only page that I have found that mozilla cannot render properly.
Send them an e-mail pointing out the incompatibility. Try to be nice.
It has been said that the difference between a Mechanical Engineer and Civil Engineer is that Mechanical Engineers build weapons and Civil Engineers build targets.
Well in this case it looks like the Civil Engineers get the last laugh.
No, I think what he is saying is that US civilians population tend to become complacent over time and this issue requires focus and determination.
Keep in mind that you or someone you love may become the next victim of radical blind irrational terror.
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Actually Fusion and AI were the over-hyped over-promised technologies of the last century.
The question is which will we have first ommercial fusion or the sub $500 19in flat screen monitor?
I know where you are coming from but consider the other extreme
Do you feel the same about grenade launchers, fully automatic weapons (like an m60), etc. Should these be readly available after all plastic explosives do not kill people, people do, right.
and let the little piece of the world rot.
Take the $100 Billion that we are going to spend and develop commercial fusion and other non-fossil fuel based energy source. Cut all aid, trade and dimplomatic ties to all non-democratic states in the region.
Bomb, missiles, tanks, Special Forces will only create another generation of suicide terrorist. Their religion is base on violence and they still reliving the dark ages. Someday, perhaps a century from now, they will experience the age of enlightenment and will join civilized society.
"Freedom itself was attacked today..."
That was pure rhetoric, if not misguided propaganda. The terrorist did not attack us because we are a "beacon of freedom" but primarily because of our arrogance and self-interested foreign policy.
It is interesting that most of the folks who visit here understand this reaction first hand. It is the same distaste we all have toward the Microsoft and their arrogant business deals and anti-competive practices.
That fact the we do enjoy a great deal of freedom and are an open and multi-ethnic society just made us vunerable and an easy target.
Ya know the other day I was outraged to learn that Iran supports financially the Islamic Jihad in Lebonon. How could a legit country fund a terrorist group. Then I realize that we funded and trained good'l Osama, in the 80's. I then felt ashamed.
"To remove a culture would be genocide"
I have been thinking about the implied assumption of goodness of presevation of indiginious cultures. Most primitve human cultures are dispicable at best. Things like: head hunting, human sacrifice, subjugation of women, slavery, amputations, burning atthe stake, the list goes on and on.
I know it is not PC but somethings just need to be left behind in order to move forward.
If you notice there is different content for the arabic and english area at Islamway.com. Look at the images all the way down. Wonder why they do that?
From what I understand this only works for previously filled out forms.
.net authentication less attractive.
What is really needed is someone to release a standard for form field naming (i.e. name_first) then when confronted with a form you can select to fill all recognized form fields from an encrypted password protected database kept on your computer. Then it would nice if you could transfer this this database, encrypted and password protected, to sync up your other computers. This would make MS
Outlook makes virus propagation so easy all you have to do is come up with a catchy subject line and the rest is a CS101 project.
What we are saying is they may have had legitimate greivances against the US, and maybe, just maybe we should sit up and take notice. There is a difference, it's not that subtle.
Oh... I think they will get noticed now. Congress is just now approving 40 Billion dollars, half which will fund retaliation.
This is not a way to make your point. There is no justification for purposeful mass killing of innocent people. Any point they wanted to make is lost. In fact, I suspect the average American will begin to support in Israel more now that it is clear we have a common enemy.
But who to say taking a passive attitude will work. For example, where was the retaliation for USS Cole bombing? Since it appears the same organization is involved in the recent attacks a position of restraint only seemed to embold the terrorist.
It is ironic that the biggest losers in this affair, in the long term, is the Arab people.
Finally, and this is the most difficult part, force Israel to make peace. Israel has a right to exist, but that right cannot include the right to persecute Palestinians
Is not true that Israel is the only Democratic country in that god forsaken land? Arabs have rights within the Israeli system and even are representive in their gov't. While the Palastinian Authority is autocratic gov't that rules with an iron fist that kill and arrest moderates as 'conspirators'. Every single Arab country is ruled by either a strong man or a shiekdom and kept in check by terror.
You cannot cut a deal for peace with religious fundentalist, peace is not a goal on their mind, only extermination and war.
Please point out the news sources that are focusing (negatively) on Canada's involvement. Again the CBC has, so write to your PM.
Anti-American rants notwithdstanding (such as the I am Canadian beer commercial), most Americans have a very favorable view of Canadians. While some may have lots of misconceptions and sterotypes most consider Canada as the friend next door.
Look, journalist ask stupid questions, thats their job. If you take that as personal insult then that too bad your way to too sensitive and need to grow some skin.
Canadians alway seem pissed off if the US media pays too much or not enough attention to them.
I have been monitoring alot of online, TV and radio media in the last two days and have not heard Canada mention once except that International flights are being routed to Canadian airports. Thanks you. As one poster noted here it was the CBC (the state sponsored media that is making a big deal of this).
So cool your jets a little. The US media has not mentioned Canada's generous offers since they are little busy right now. BTW they have not much mentioned offers from either countries either.
Oh yeah, please ignore some of the other ignorant, immature responses to your post, stupidity of the character knows no bounds.
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