No, same war. Saddam agreed to all sorts of things as he got kicked back out of Kuwait.He followed through on essentially none of those things, and contined - without interruption - to shoot at allied aircraft patroling the no-fly zones (to which he agreed). He never stopped shooting in the war he started when he invaded and attempted to annex Kuwait. And that's just the tip of that iceberg.
We went to Iraq primarily to secure a source of oil for the US
Actually, we, and many other countries, went because Iraq invaded Kuwait and showed every inclination to also invade Saudi Arabia, and use the resulting power grab to run much of the middle east the same way that Saddam was running Iraq. You do remember that part, right?
what do wind turbines, solar power, and higher gas prices have to do with taxing productivity, redistribution of earnings, centralized control of all economic activity?
Wind turbines? Solar power? Neither are cost effective and rely on government involvement and subsidies (subsidies are dollars taken from someone else as taxes and given to someone else to pursue something that doesn't have its own sufficient, built-in incentives). Higher gas prices? Do you mean, higher because taxes have been added to the prices? That has everything to do with taxing productivity, be definition.
people's willingness to accept global warming seemed to hinge on whether or not they needed to change their lives as a resul
I've noticed a different variation on that, myself. I see that the people who strongly embrace the notion that any changes in the climate are entirely anthropogenic (and specifically WHA, "western hemisphere anthropogenesis"), are the people have been told that the cure happens to be a reording of global affairs in a way that happens to line up with their politics. Typically, taxing productivity, redistribution of earnings, centralized control of all economic activity, etc. In other words, I see a strong correlation between the All-AGW-All-The-Time crowd, and the Nanny-State/Statist demographic. They dismiss all non-anthropogenic factors as being meaningless because those tend to chip away at the Hopey Changey stuff that is their actual agenda.
currently, there are no repercussions for being a public enemy and harming millions.
To whom are you referring? I consider people who treacherously steal hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents, and those who help them do so while also making those documents available to the regimes in Iran and North Korea to be, indeed, public enemies. Certainly that betrays the trust of millions of people, and harms many, both directly and indirectly. Certainly being held in jail while facing trial for doing so counts as repercussion, wouldn't you say?
Or are you complaining that a person who deletes a bunch of stolen documents is the one who is the public enemy? Or is that person only a public enemy if the deleted documents are unrelated to people with whom you agree on one matter or another?
There are all sorts of repercussions for not meeting society's expectations. Everything from losing your publicly elected or appointed office to being killed by SEALs in your not-very-secret Pakistani compound or going to jail for running an investment Ponzi scheme.
noone stops them on their way home and holds them accountable
What are you waiting for? Go beat him up, since that's your notion of accountability. Or is it? What did you mean by that? Should he be killed? Should he be photographed, 'shopped, and circulated as head transplant donkey porn?
Right on, Brother! This is slashdot, where the groupthink prefers all-anti-business-comments-all-the-time. Vitriolic hatred for people is supposed to be pointed only at those few people who risk money and time to start companies, hire people, and pay the vast majority of the country's income taxes. Those bastards! Only politically connected, thug-enforced lefty labor unions can be counted on to safely counter-balance those obnoxious people who actually provide the jobs in the first place.
Better now? Just trying to re-align this web site with your expectations.
and yet it's trying to cut benefits to its workers.
No, it's trying to limit the enormous, unsustainable burden it will have dealing with retired union workers as they all live longer in retirement than they did on the job. You couldn't have missed what happened to GM for the very same reason, so you're obviously a fan of the same eventual "cure." Which is to say, the business must die, but be considered too large to fail, and thus get taxpayer money spent in bailing it out and semi-nationalizing it while giving fresh new equity to the unions while stripped away any equity owned by the people who actually bought and paid for shares of the company. Yes, we're on to you, anonymous parasite.
Right, it's always important to hate the investors. You know, like the people who have shares in that company as part of the mutual fund they've been slowly buying with a bit of the paycheck they earn as a bus driver or a janitor. Eeeevil investors! Nobody who can invest $10 per paycheck towards their retirement should be allowed to do so, because they are Eeeevil Investors who also probably blacklist people!
So what was his dispute with the management that made him do this?
It doesn't matter what his dispute was. There are no circumstances in which doing the equivalent of burning down your former place of employment is a legitmate move in a dispute.
I live in the DC area. We have the second worst/longest commute in the country, with only Los Angeles being worse. When traffic is moving, and could be moving faster, but is held back to half the speed limit by three cyclist using a lane (backing up cars for blocks behind them) while an empty, freshly paved, 10-foot-wide bicycle lane is running right next to the road they're blockading... that just makes rush hour all the worse. And of course, it's clearly a deliberate attempt to piss off people using cars in the vain hope that it will make more of them want to ride bikes - but they have the worst possible sense of PR on that front.
I have been pushed, and have watched others being pushed by cyclists on sidewalks (where they're not allowed), while crossing without right of way through pedestrian crosswalks, and in all sorts of other venues (parking lots, parks, etc). The "on your left!" type etiquette is essentially ignored, in exchange for reaching out with an arm and pushing off of people who seem too close. I had this happen to me three times in one week, in three completely different places.
I'm glad that these sorts of clowns are the minority in your area. They are rampant in my area.
If you haven't checked out the bags from Think Tank, then you're missing out on the good stuff. They do it right, and charge accordingly. Several flavors of bags/packs well suited to the sort of mix you're talking about. Their ShapeShifter is worth some study, as are some of the Urban Disguise models. I use lots of their products in one way or another, and swear by them.
what is the future of a civilisation whose most capitalised stock is gadget manufacturer?
They're not a gadget manufacturer (though they are also that). They are mostly an entertainment company. Just like the good old days of RCA, when they ran broadcasts, and sold televisions too... to make sure that people could get their broadcasts.
It's not at all surprising that a company that makes money delivering entertainment, services, and other IP-ish stuff (iTunes, the App Store, etc) is huge. Because the US has a huge hunger for that sort of stuff. And that stuff is hugely more marked up than are distilled oil products, for which the profits are very slim.
So, you're not describing the failure of scientists to react honestly and (reasonably) promptly to new evidence... you're describing the failure of some people in their attempts to be good scientists.
The problem is the motorists. Somehow I get the feeling this is the case in every city in America.
Not really. In my area, the bicyclists who deliberately ignore the expensively made cycle lanes, and then ride at half the speed limit, three across, in the main lanes... they're the nice ones. The ones that shove pedestrians out of the way, cause cars with the right of way to have to slam on brakes as they pedel across red lights, stop and yell at drivers who aren't giving way to a pack of them using the entire road on a weekend ride... I've never encountered a more continual parade of self-righteous, priggish snots in my life. I used to ride all around this area - commuting, exercising... but I don't, now, because other cyclists/em. (the ones that have to go at road-racing paces on bike lanes used by mere mortals, or mountain bikers who think they're not leveraging their $5k ride enough if they're not hopping curbs directly across your path) have now made it too dangerous, and are total jackasses. And because they are, in such great numbers, they've got the pedestrians and the drivers around them in a far less tolerant mood. Which I completely understand.
The difference is that scientists embrace the whole idea of proving themselves wrong, and are willing to walk away from obviously nonsensical explanations for things. Religious people instst on sticking with their obviously nonsensical explanations, and all of the hideous moral baggage that goes with doing so.
Why wouldn't you try it on the Virus that kills the most people and that you can make the most money off of?
Because, if you knew anything about the topic on which you're delivering a whiny, uninformed, Eeeeeevil Business hate people rant you'd know that: HIV is a different class of virus that doesn't work in the same way as those that are being discussed, here. Read up on the "D" in the "DRACO" acronym in the article. That is, if you can take some time away from bitching about fictional things.
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Wrong war.
No, same war. Saddam agreed to all sorts of things as he got kicked back out of Kuwait.He followed through on essentially none of those things, and contined - without interruption - to shoot at allied aircraft patroling the no-fly zones (to which he agreed). He never stopped shooting in the war he started when he invaded and attempted to annex Kuwait. And that's just the tip of that iceberg.
We went to Iraq primarily to secure a source of oil for the US
Actually, we, and many other countries, went because Iraq invaded Kuwait and showed every inclination to also invade Saudi Arabia, and use the resulting power grab to run much of the middle east the same way that Saddam was running Iraq. You do remember that part, right?
what do wind turbines, solar power, and higher gas prices have to do with taxing productivity, redistribution of earnings, centralized control of all economic activity?
Wind turbines? Solar power? Neither are cost effective and rely on government involvement and subsidies (subsidies are dollars taken from someone else as taxes and given to someone else to pursue something that doesn't have its own sufficient, built-in incentives). Higher gas prices? Do you mean, higher because taxes have been added to the prices? That has everything to do with taxing productivity, be definition.
people's willingness to accept global warming seemed to hinge on whether or not they needed to change their lives as a resul
I've noticed a different variation on that, myself. I see that the people who strongly embrace the notion that any changes in the climate are entirely anthropogenic (and specifically WHA, "western hemisphere anthropogenesis"), are the people have been told that the cure happens to be a reording of global affairs in a way that happens to line up with their politics. Typically, taxing productivity, redistribution of earnings, centralized control of all economic activity, etc. In other words, I see a strong correlation between the All-AGW-All-The-Time crowd, and the Nanny-State/Statist demographic. They dismiss all non-anthropogenic factors as being meaningless because those tend to chip away at the Hopey Changey stuff that is their actual agenda.
You don't believe the 6000 year thing, but 10,000 - 50,000 years seems plausible to you?
Not to mention the insidious trend of outsourcing the process of deciding when and where to use apostrophes.
currently, there are no repercussions for being a public enemy and harming millions.
To whom are you referring? I consider people who treacherously steal hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents, and those who help them do so while also making those documents available to the regimes in Iran and North Korea to be, indeed, public enemies. Certainly that betrays the trust of millions of people, and harms many, both directly and indirectly. Certainly being held in jail while facing trial for doing so counts as repercussion, wouldn't you say?
Or are you complaining that a person who deletes a bunch of stolen documents is the one who is the public enemy? Or is that person only a public enemy if the deleted documents are unrelated to people with whom you agree on one matter or another?
There are all sorts of repercussions for not meeting society's expectations. Everything from losing your publicly elected or appointed office to being killed by SEALs in your not-very-secret Pakistani compound or going to jail for running an investment Ponzi scheme.
noone stops them on their way home and holds them accountable
What are you waiting for? Go beat him up, since that's your notion of accountability. Or is it? What did you mean by that? Should he be killed? Should he be photographed, 'shopped, and circulated as head transplant donkey porn?
This. Likewise, myself. It's the behavior/circumstances that inspire a closer look, not skin color or name per se.
it doesn't have to read like some anti-union blog
Right on, Brother! This is slashdot, where the groupthink prefers all-anti-business-comments-all-the-time. Vitriolic hatred for people is supposed to be pointed only at those few people who risk money and time to start companies, hire people, and pay the vast majority of the country's income taxes. Those bastards! Only politically connected, thug-enforced lefty labor unions can be counted on to safely counter-balance those obnoxious people who actually provide the jobs in the first place.
Better now? Just trying to re-align this web site with your expectations.
and yet it's trying to cut benefits to its workers.
No, it's trying to limit the enormous, unsustainable burden it will have dealing with retired union workers as they all live longer in retirement than they did on the job. You couldn't have missed what happened to GM for the very same reason, so you're obviously a fan of the same eventual "cure." Which is to say, the business must die, but be considered too large to fail, and thus get taxpayer money spent in bailing it out and semi-nationalizing it while giving fresh new equity to the unions while stripped away any equity owned by the people who actually bought and paid for shares of the company. Yes, we're on to you, anonymous parasite.
There's quite a bit of editorializing in the OP...
There's quite a bit of correct editorializing in the OP.
That isn't a union thing, that's a leftist thing. Unions are a subset.
It is free to make and distribute, how can the digital version be the same price?
You must be one of those people who doesn't value the time they spend making something. That's fine for you, give your own work away.
Regardless, this sounds more like a step taken to avoid raising the price.
with there millions
Right, it's always important to hate the investors. You know, like the people who have shares in that company as part of the mutual fund they've been slowly buying with a bit of the paycheck they earn as a bus driver or a janitor. Eeeevil investors! Nobody who can invest $10 per paycheck towards their retirement should be allowed to do so, because they are Eeeevil Investors who also probably blacklist people!
Nice boo-hoo troll, though. What a crock.
What if they took your stapler and moved your desk in to the basement?
Acts that heinous only occur in the movies.
So what was his dispute with the management that made him do this?
It doesn't matter what his dispute was. There are no circumstances in which doing the equivalent of burning down your former place of employment is a legitmate move in a dispute.
I live in the DC area. We have the second worst/longest commute in the country, with only Los Angeles being worse. When traffic is moving, and could be moving faster, but is held back to half the speed limit by three cyclist using a lane (backing up cars for blocks behind them) while an empty, freshly paved, 10-foot-wide bicycle lane is running right next to the road they're blockading ... that just makes rush hour all the worse. And of course, it's clearly a deliberate attempt to piss off people using cars in the vain hope that it will make more of them want to ride bikes - but they have the worst possible sense of PR on that front.
I have been pushed, and have watched others being pushed by cyclists on sidewalks (where they're not allowed), while crossing without right of way through pedestrian crosswalks, and in all sorts of other venues (parking lots, parks, etc). The "on your left!" type etiquette is essentially ignored, in exchange for reaching out with an arm and pushing off of people who seem too close. I had this happen to me three times in one week, in three completely different places.
I'm glad that these sorts of clowns are the minority in your area. They are rampant in my area.
If you haven't checked out the bags from Think Tank , then you're missing out on the good stuff. They do it right, and charge accordingly. Several flavors of bags/packs well suited to the sort of mix you're talking about. Their ShapeShifter is worth some study, as are some of the Urban Disguise models. I use lots of their products in one way or another, and swear by them.
what is the future of a civilisation whose most capitalised stock is gadget manufacturer?
They're not a gadget manufacturer (though they are also that). They are mostly an entertainment company. Just like the good old days of RCA, when they ran broadcasts, and sold televisions too ... to make sure that people could get their broadcasts.
It's not at all surprising that a company that makes money delivering entertainment, services, and other IP-ish stuff (iTunes, the App Store, etc) is huge. Because the US has a huge hunger for that sort of stuff. And that stuff is hugely more marked up than are distilled oil products, for which the profits are very slim.
So, you're not describing the failure of scientists to react honestly and (reasonably) promptly to new evidence ... you're describing the failure of some people in their attempts to be good scientists.
The problem is the motorists. Somehow I get the feeling this is the case in every city in America.
Not really. In my area, the bicyclists who deliberately ignore the expensively made cycle lanes, and then ride at half the speed limit, three across, in the main lanes ... they're the nice ones. The ones that shove pedestrians out of the way, cause cars with the right of way to have to slam on brakes as they pedel across red lights, stop and yell at drivers who aren't giving way to a pack of them using the entire road on a weekend ride ... I've never encountered a more continual parade of self-righteous, priggish snots in my life. I used to ride all around this area - commuting, exercising ... but I don't, now, because other cyclists/em. (the ones that have to go at road-racing paces on bike lanes used by mere mortals, or mountain bikers who think they're not leveraging their $5k ride enough if they're not hopping curbs directly across your path) have now made it too dangerous, and are total jackasses. And because they are, in such great numbers, they've got the pedestrians and the drivers around them in a far less tolerant mood. Which I completely understand.
The difference is that scientists embrace the whole idea of proving themselves wrong, and are willing to walk away from obviously nonsensical explanations for things. Religious people instst on sticking with their obviously nonsensical explanations, and all of the hideous moral baggage that goes with doing so.
Why wouldn't you try it on the Virus that kills the most people and that you can make the most money off of?
Because, if you knew anything about the topic on which you're delivering a whiny, uninformed, Eeeeeevil Business hate people rant you'd know that: HIV is a different class of virus that doesn't work in the same way as those that are being discussed, here. Read up on the "D" in the "DRACO" acronym in the article. That is, if you can take some time away from bitching about fictional things.
Linux has superior hardware support than does Vista and Win 7.
Now that is funny.