Because it's interesting? Because you can? You can tie a woman's legs together while giving birth because you might think it's interesting to see what happens, but it's hardly what I want to see a scientist do.
The requirement for goals is probably one of the most serious limitations of research. The goal of research is to gather information. If you don't achieve that goal, you are not really doing research.
While I agree with the idea of removing politics from scientific research, I feel that ideology is quite necessary. Without some sort of noble goal, what's the point other than pure curiosity? Why research cancer or aids if not to save lives? Is that not ideology?
If I built a spy satellite and orbitted it over the united states I would be a terrorist and bombed in seconds. Why the difference for china?
What are you, a friggin moron?!!? Several countries other than the US have put up satellites that orbit the earth which, by definition, means the US too. We have yet to bomb any of those countries.
Besides, if YOU build a spy satellite and put it in orbit, you be on the front page of every newspaper in the world as the first man to send a craft into earth orbit from his mother's basement.
I've suggested that oil retrieved from ANWAR. If the gov't picks up the tab for getting the oil, the gov't should keep the profits. Mandate that 100% of the profit go toward renewable energy. That way, you appease the tree huggers and the industrialists at the same time!
This is true, but Google is not throwing 7950's in their servers. These systems run with on-board video at best. Google has no need for a video card that can do anything more than text, as with all non-windows based servers. For that matter, after the first boot, there is no need for a video card at all.
By the end of the decade, computers may also incorporate secondary, lower-resolution e-paper displays that can maintain an image even when a laptop or desktop computer is turned off.
We already have that with CRT monitors... it's called burn-in
I'd be happy to do my patriotic duty and end your cowardly treasonous life. It's a simple matter of self defense. You have acted to turn my country into a police state and you have given the government the power to lock me up and torture me to death with no cause and no oversight.
Why don't you take the high road for once in your cowardly pathetic life and just put the bullet in your own head?
Heck, I'd even consider you to have died with honor at that point. It's really the only way you wull ever have any integrity at this point.
I've been to a police state and trust me, this ain't it. First of all, if it was, you wouldn't be able to make the post you just did without being locked up and tortured to death. That should be enough, but I'll go further. There are no checkpoints on our freeways mounted with machine guns. Television, radio and newspapers are not government run. Reporters are not arrested and/or excecuted for printing things counter to the gov't's way of thinking. Since I'm sure you think the current administration if full of neocons, gays and minorities are not rounded up and executed or shipped to forced labor camps.
That said, I find it ironic that you feel it would be best to kill all those who think differently than you do, that's about 150 million Americans, because you think a police state is being created around you. Maybe you should look in the mirror, you fucking Nazi before you start calling anyone else names. In other words, when you use hyperbole, it makes you sound like... wait, scratch that... it PROVES that you are fucking idiot who has a serious case of diahrea of the mouth who is barely competent enough to regurgitate what you read in your local conspiracy theory rag or heard on Art Bell.
By the way, I served my country. I went to war defending it. I'll gladly do it again. So don't lecture me about rights, because I've done more to defend your rights than you have. What have you done to give you the right to call me coward?
McCain was kicked around a bit, realised his "error" and decided being a good little lapdog was better than being a patriot.
No, McCain still parts ways with the party quite often. He recently brought into question "interrogation techniques" used by the CIA. Trust me, McCain is still a Maverick, and has not been thrown out of the party where Lieberman effectively has.
I think a more appropriate question would have been: Do all of your computers in your office freeze up at the same time? Since there will be more than one machine at any given polling booth. I've never been to a polling place that had all booths open, electric or otherwise.
You mean how we respect other countries by overthrowing their government and installing dictator? I notice you left Iraq off your list. Is that because the US orginally put him into power? Wow, I had no idea we overthrew a democratically elected government in Iraq and Afghanistan and replaced them with a dictators. I thought it was the other way around. Was it US produced chemical weapons causing that disease that turned everyone's finger purple? Still, we're talking about terrorism here. I thought there were not terrorists in Iraq. I wish you guys would make up your mind! And yes, I did leave Iraq off the list, although we did help Iraq out in its war with Iran. That's really about it. We did not put Hussein in power as you seem to think we did. He was already in power before the 10 year war. We just helped him fight Iran, who we did show respect to but was overthrown when it was obvious that the American government would do nothing (read: Carter). My point was that we have been allies with all the countries I listed, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait and I could even throw in Egypt and Turkey. That didn't seem to make much difference on 9-10-01. We give millions yearly to the Palestinians and millions more to the Lebonese government. We fought in Bosnia to prevent a Muslem genocide. We went to Somalia to feed Muslems... and of this for nothing. Showing "respect" for foreign countries does do much to stop terrorism. Let's not dance around the issue here. Until we allow an Israeli genocide by Arab states, there will be terrorists from the middle east.
Don't forget all the counties in South America we've done that to as well. Yeah, those Chavez and Castro guys we installed are working out really well.
How about US companies paying slave wages to Chinese citizens to make cheap products? Is keeping China's government in power via economic trade showing respect? This is why I don't buy Nike. Still, the Chinese economy doesn't seem to be huring much these days.
What about all the lopsided trade deals? Is that why we have such a huge trade surplus?
Is THAT how you think we 'respect' other countries? Or is that how we screw them to our own advantage? What you call "slave wages" is a pay raise for many of these people. While I will not buy products if I know that something like child labor was used, I see nothing wrong with paying people for what they are willing to work for. No one is forcing these people to work, that would be slavery. But there has to be a start. If you studied history (and I can tell by the rest of your post that have not), you would know that Americans were paid "slave wages" during the industrial revolution. Still, this was more than what these workers would have made otherwise. They busted their asses and saved what they could to build a better life for themselves and their children. The taxes they and the companies paid build an infrastructure and educational system that allowed for a stonger economy. The tide rose and all boats rose with it. Again, while I don't agree with what companies are paying foreign workers, I've been to the areas around factories, like the Ford plant in Mexico, and trust me, these people are extremely happy to have the work. They would not be able to feed their children without it.
Powell is a poor example, I don't think he has ever held an elected office. Good point. Still, I didn't see Clinton nominating a whole lot of pro-lifers to cabinet positions. And I seriously doubt a Kerry or Dean administration would have any war-hawks serving on their cabinets.
As for McCain, I have no doubt he'd have a tough primary fight if he were up for re-election this year. He'll never win the Republican presidential primary precisely because he strays too much from the party line. I doubt McCain will have any problems getting re-elected on his next senatorial go around. You are correct about the presidential thing, but at least he will come close in the presidential primary in '08, much like he did in 2000. Lieberman was effectively thrown out of the party over a single issue, Other than the war, Lieberman is as big of bleeding heart as any liberal in Washington, and I think that includes this wiretapping thing.
Liberman's primary loss is not a good example of a successful protest vote in a general election. His primary loss simply shows that you stand a good chance of being voted out of your party if you're viewed as being more aligned with the opposing party's positions/leaders.
So if you are not a complete partisan and tote the party line, they will throw you out of the Democratic party? Much like McCain and Powell were thrown out of the Republican party?
There is no "silver bullet" to stop terrorism. Actually, I think they are copper and/or armor piercing... and it is going to take a bunch of them. Seriously, you are correct, there is no single solution to the terrorist problem. It will definitely take a comprehensive approach.
Our best bet to end terrorism is making it a world wide effort and treating other countries with respect -- the same way our country would like to be treated. I disagree. You don't have to look much past the latest muslem outrage to see that respect means nothing to these people. The Pope's speech was saying that the west should be more tolerant to all religions, including Islaam, and that Muslems should not spread their religion by the sword. It was taken out of context, twisted to increase the power of the imans and resulted in many protests and deaths. Looking further back, I didn't see us "disrespecting" Afghanistan before 9-11. I know the issues go further than Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, or even 1970's Iran, but it shows that simply respecting mid-east countries won't cut it. What we need to do is earn their respect, and you don't earn the respect of people that "live by the sword" by backing down.
One thing I do know is that this will allow my government to build a case against me with no warrant, probable cause or charges filed and documented against me The point of this bill is to make it easier to get warrants. Personally, I don't have a problem with any type of information gathering the gov't does, it's how they use it that matters. So while I support the gov't in their spying endevors, that support will abruptly end the day they use this information to prosecute a a common citizen for anything other than terrorism. I simply can't stand against a program because it has the potential to be abused. Everything has the potential to be abused, including the Bill or Rights, does that mean that is should be banned? Of course not. We need to fight the abuse, not the powers that permitted them.
Which brings me to an interesting thought (for which I'm sure my Karma will suffer):
How is the Prez, CIA, NSA or whoever supposed to get FISA warrants for every one of these phones? I mean, if I were a terrorist, I would never make a call from the same phone twice, and never for more than a few minutes per call. Sure, you spend a bit more money, but by the time the Prez gets a FISA warrant, you three or four phones past the one they are listening to.
Just a question I've pondered and would like answered.
Excellent point! These distro's are even easier than a stage3 and still give you the ablility to update everything as you wish by setting up your use flags and running emerge -uDav rebuild (or something like that).
What release of debian, what kernel? Did you file a bug?
It was quite a while ago and the first time I tried debian (yes, real debian), back when Mandrake was still Mandrake and Fedora was called RedHat. I was even more of a newbie then than I am today. I'm sure I could have booted off of a floppy and simply edited grub or lilo.conf, but I wasn't that advanced yet. I'm also sure that I had said yes to many "Are you sure you wanna screw your system up? (y/n)" messages, so any bug report I would have filed would have been printed out hung in a developers cubicle to remind him of the idiots are using his stuff.
Gentoo (or genkernel) doesn't seem to have the ability to edit grub.conf, or at least I haven't been able to get it to do so. However, since that debian thing, I've made it a point to edit my boot menus by hand anyway, so I actually prefer it that way.
if you aren't going to compile from source to get that extra level of customizability, what's the difference between Gentoo and say, Debian testing/unstable?
apt-get is spelled different that emerge.
Seriously, apt-get replaced my kernel... probably because I told it to, but I was expecting at least to have the option to go back. I was hosed (before live CD's). Gentoo is a bit harder to replace the kernel, but you have the option of installing multiple kernels. I know I could have done it with Debian too, but I didn't think it was going to replace my only good kernel with a bad one. Also, I really prefer the Gentoo forums over any help I tried to receive with Debian.
I didn't call him an idiot, I was agreeing with him that anyone that spends $600 do to F@H is an idiot. You can purchase/build at least three PC's (headless/driveless) to do that for that price.
To keep away from the topic.... (or at least make it our own)
My sig was in response to Cindy Shehan and the current leader of code pink (forgot her name) that went to Venesuela and Cuba and called them paradise... and then came back here! If I found paradise and was welcome to live there, I would have stayed. I certainly would not have come back to a place that had neither the government, healthcare system nor economy that I wanted. I would have stayed in Cuba, worked the job I was given and spent the rest of my time on the beach! Since I am a capitalist, I stay in the US. If I lived in Venesuela as a capitalist, I would move here rather than try to change the political system to something other than that of what the Venesuelan people have chosen. Why go to KFC when you want a burger? Why live in the largest capitalist economy in the world when you want communism? I'm not saying love it or leave it, but why stay and try to change it to something that so many of us don't want when you have other options?
You are correct on my knowledge of the world. It is limited to what I see and read and the people I talk to. Granted, the people I meet from the former DDR didn't like it much or they would have stayed. I have not traveled there to talk with those that enjoyed living behind the iron curtain.
Your analogy only holds if: 1) Wendy's were founded on the principle of being able to demand what you want. OK, lets say it was and the vast majority of customers wanted burgers and deplored chicken.
2) Wendy's made sure to burn down any place that sold buckets of chicken, and flings shit on the nearby KFC. The only communist countries the US has gone to war with was N. Korea and N. Vietnam. How are the people of those two countries doing anyway? Also, from what I've heard from my DDR (E. German) and Cuban friends, flung shit would be an upgrade when compared to what they had flung at them on a daily basis.
3) Wendy's didn't already sell chicken as well. but not in a bucket
You do have a valid point. KFC does not make it its mission to make every fast food joint sell buckets of chicken. Only Chick Filet tries to liberate cattle.
That said, the analogy still holds. If you want communism, you have other options. Go to Cuba, N. Korea, Venesuela or China. Unlike those countries, no one is forcing you to stay here. If you think you'll be happier in a communist country, I wish you the best of luck and please write to let me know how things are going for you. Go there are leave the US the way 99.999% of Americans like it. That way, everyone is happy. I just want what is best for everyone.
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Because it's interesting? Because you can?
You can tie a woman's legs together while giving birth because you might think it's interesting to see what happens, but it's hardly what I want to see a scientist do.
The requirement for goals is probably one of the most serious limitations of research.
The goal of research is to gather information. If you don't achieve that goal, you are not really doing research.
While I agree with the idea of removing politics from scientific research, I feel that ideology is quite necessary. Without some sort of noble goal, what's the point other than pure curiosity? Why research cancer or aids if not to save lives? Is that not ideology?
If I built a spy satellite and orbitted it over the united states I would be a terrorist and bombed in seconds. Why the difference for china?
What are you, a friggin moron?!!? Several countries other than the US have put up satellites that orbit the earth which, by definition, means the US too. We have yet to bomb any of those countries.
Besides, if YOU build a spy satellite and put it in orbit, you be on the front page of every newspaper in the world as the first man to send a craft into earth orbit from his mother's basement.
I used this back when it was called BugMeNot
I've suggested that oil retrieved from ANWAR. If the gov't picks up the tab for getting the oil, the gov't should keep the profits. Mandate that 100% of the profit go toward renewable energy. That way, you appease the tree huggers and the industrialists at the same time!
This is true, but Google is not throwing 7950's in their servers. These systems run with on-board video at best. Google has no need for a video card that can do anything more than text, as with all non-windows based servers. For that matter, after the first boot, there is no need for a video card at all.
We already have that with CRT monitors... it's called burn-in
I'd be happy to do my patriotic duty and end your cowardly treasonous life.
It's a simple matter of self defense.
You have acted to turn my country into a police state and you have given the government the power to lock me up and torture me to death with no cause and no oversight.
Why don't you take the high road for once in your cowardly pathetic life and just put the bullet in your own head?
Heck, I'd even consider you to have died with honor at that point. It's really the only way you wull ever have any integrity at this point.
I've been to a police state and trust me, this ain't it. First of all, if it was, you wouldn't be able to make the post you just did without being locked up and tortured to death. That should be enough, but I'll go further. There are no checkpoints on our freeways mounted with machine guns. Television, radio and newspapers are not government run. Reporters are not arrested and/or excecuted for printing things counter to the gov't's way of thinking. Since I'm sure you think the current administration if full of neocons, gays and minorities are not rounded up and executed or shipped to forced labor camps.
That said, I find it ironic that you feel it would be best to kill all those who think differently than you do, that's about 150 million Americans, because you think a police state is being created around you. Maybe you should look in the mirror, you fucking Nazi before you start calling anyone else names. In other words, when you use hyperbole, it makes you sound like... wait, scratch that... it PROVES that you are fucking idiot who has a serious case of diahrea of the mouth who is barely competent enough to regurgitate what you read in your local conspiracy theory rag or heard on Art Bell.
By the way, I served my country. I went to war defending it. I'll gladly do it again. So don't lecture me about rights, because I've done more to defend your rights than you have. What have you done to give you the right to call me coward?
McCain was kicked around a bit, realised his "error" and decided being a good little lapdog was better than being a patriot.
No, McCain still parts ways with the party quite often. He recently brought into question "interrogation techniques" used by the CIA. Trust me, McCain is still a Maverick, and has not been thrown out of the party where Lieberman effectively has.
And as far as your sig goes... I'm one, try it!
I think a more appropriate question would have been:
Do all of your computers in your office freeze up at the same time?
Since there will be more than one machine at any given polling booth. I've never been to a polling place that had all booths open, electric or otherwise.
You mean how we respect other countries by overthrowing their government and installing dictator? I notice you left Iraq off your list. Is that because the US orginally put him into power?
Wow, I had no idea we overthrew a democratically elected government in Iraq and Afghanistan and replaced them with a dictators. I thought it was the other way around. Was it US produced chemical weapons causing that disease that turned everyone's finger purple?
Still, we're talking about terrorism here. I thought there were not terrorists in Iraq. I wish you guys would make up your mind! And yes, I did leave Iraq off the list, although we did help Iraq out in its war with Iran. That's really about it. We did not put Hussein in power as you seem to think we did. He was already in power before the 10 year war. We just helped him fight Iran, who we did show respect to but was overthrown when it was obvious that the American government would do nothing (read: Carter).
My point was that we have been allies with all the countries I listed, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait and I could even throw in Egypt and Turkey. That didn't seem to make much difference on 9-10-01. We give millions yearly to the Palestinians and millions more to the Lebonese government. We fought in Bosnia to prevent a Muslem genocide. We went to Somalia to feed Muslems... and of this for nothing. Showing "respect" for foreign countries does do much to stop terrorism. Let's not dance around the issue here. Until we allow an Israeli genocide by Arab states, there will be terrorists from the middle east.
Don't forget all the counties in South America we've done that to as well.
Yeah, those Chavez and Castro guys we installed are working out really well.
How about US companies paying slave wages to Chinese citizens to make cheap products? Is keeping China's government in power via economic trade showing respect?
This is why I don't buy Nike. Still, the Chinese economy doesn't seem to be huring much these days.
What about all the lopsided trade deals?
Is that why we have such a huge trade surplus?
Is THAT how you think we 'respect' other countries? Or is that how we screw them to our own advantage?
What you call "slave wages" is a pay raise for many of these people. While I will not buy products if I know that something like child labor was used, I see nothing wrong with paying people for what they are willing to work for. No one is forcing these people to work, that would be slavery. But there has to be a start. If you studied history (and I can tell by the rest of your post that have not), you would know that Americans were paid "slave wages" during the industrial revolution. Still, this was more than what these workers would have made otherwise. They busted their asses and saved what they could to build a better life for themselves and their children. The taxes they and the companies paid build an infrastructure and educational system that allowed for a stonger economy. The tide rose and all boats rose with it. Again, while I don't agree with what companies are paying foreign workers, I've been to the areas around factories, like the Ford plant in Mexico, and trust me, these people are extremely happy to have the work. They would not be able to feed their children without it.
Powell is a poor example, I don't think he has ever held an elected office.
Good point. Still, I didn't see Clinton nominating a whole lot of pro-lifers to cabinet positions. And I seriously doubt a Kerry or Dean administration would have any war-hawks serving on their cabinets.
As for McCain, I have no doubt he'd have a tough primary fight if he were up for re-election this year. He'll never win the Republican presidential primary precisely because he strays too much from the party line.
I doubt McCain will have any problems getting re-elected on his next senatorial go around. You are correct about the presidential thing, but at least he will come close in the presidential primary in '08, much like he did in 2000. Lieberman was effectively thrown out of the party over a single issue, Other than the war, Lieberman is as big of bleeding heart as any liberal in Washington, and I think that includes this wiretapping thing.
Liberman's primary loss is not a good example of a successful protest vote in a general election. His primary loss simply shows that you stand a good chance of being voted out of your party if you're viewed as being more aligned with the opposing party's positions/leaders.
So if you are not a complete partisan and tote the party line, they will throw you out of the Democratic party? Much like McCain and Powell were thrown out of the Republican party?
Is it OT when replying to antoher post?
There is no "silver bullet" to stop terrorism.
Actually, I think they are copper and/or armor piercing... and it is going to take a bunch of them.
Seriously, you are correct, there is no single solution to the terrorist problem. It will definitely take a comprehensive approach.
Our best bet to end terrorism is making it a world wide effort and treating other countries with respect -- the same way our country would like to be treated.
I disagree. You don't have to look much past the latest muslem outrage to see that respect means nothing to these people. The Pope's speech was saying that the west should be more tolerant to all religions, including Islaam, and that Muslems should not spread their religion by the sword. It was taken out of context, twisted to increase the power of the imans and resulted in many protests and deaths. Looking further back, I didn't see us "disrespecting" Afghanistan before 9-11. I know the issues go further than Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, or even 1970's Iran, but it shows that simply respecting mid-east countries won't cut it. What we need to do is earn their respect, and you don't earn the respect of people that "live by the sword" by backing down.
One thing I do know is that this will allow my government to build a case against me with no warrant, probable cause or charges filed and documented against me
The point of this bill is to make it easier to get warrants. Personally, I don't have a problem with any type of information gathering the gov't does, it's how they use it that matters. So while I support the gov't in their spying endevors, that support will abruptly end the day they use this information to prosecute a a common citizen for anything other than terrorism. I simply can't stand against a program because it has the potential to be abused. Everything has the potential to be abused, including the Bill or Rights, does that mean that is should be banned? Of course not. We need to fight the abuse, not the powers that permitted them.
Which brings me to an interesting thought (for which I'm sure my Karma will suffer):
How is the Prez, CIA, NSA or whoever supposed to get FISA warrants for every one of these phones? I mean, if I were a terrorist, I would never make a call from the same phone twice, and never for more than a few minutes per call. Sure, you spend a bit more money, but by the time the Prez gets a FISA warrant, you three or four phones past the one they are listening to.
Just a question I've pondered and would like answered.
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When?
Now.
Now-Now?
Comb the desert...
It's gone from suck to blow...
Mog...Half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend.
merchandising! merchandising!
I believe the proper spelling is MOICHENDIZING!
And Sayonora and Kororaa and Emission, etc.
VidaLinux, lxnay, Sabayon....
Excellent point! These distro's are even easier than a stage3 and still give you the ablility to update everything as you wish by setting up your use flags and running
emerge -uDav rebuild
(or something like that).
What release of debian, what kernel? Did you file a bug?
It was quite a while ago and the first time I tried debian (yes, real debian), back when Mandrake was still Mandrake and Fedora was called RedHat. I was even more of a newbie then than I am today. I'm sure I could have booted off of a floppy and simply edited grub or lilo.conf, but I wasn't that advanced yet. I'm also sure that I had said yes to many "Are you sure you wanna screw your system up? (y/n)" messages, so any bug report I would have filed would have been printed out hung in a developers cubicle to remind him of the idiots are using his stuff.
Gentoo (or genkernel) doesn't seem to have the ability to edit grub.conf, or at least I haven't been able to get it to do so. However, since that debian thing, I've made it a point to edit my boot menus by hand anyway, so I actually prefer it that way.
if you aren't going to compile from source to get that extra level of customizability, what's the difference between Gentoo and say, Debian testing/unstable?
apt-get is spelled different that emerge.
Seriously, apt-get replaced my kernel... probably because I told it to, but I was expecting at least to have the option to go back. I was hosed (before live CD's). Gentoo is a bit harder to replace the kernel, but you have the option of installing multiple kernels. I know I could have done it with Debian too, but I didn't think it was going to replace my only good kernel with a bad one. Also, I really prefer the Gentoo forums over any help I tried to receive with Debian.
Whether or not making gentoo installable without spending endless painful hours of your time on it is a good thing?
That's already been done. It's called STAGE3
I didn't call him an idiot, I was agreeing with him that anyone that spends $600 do to F@H is an idiot. You can purchase/build at least three PC's (headless/driveless) to do that for that price.
To keep away from the topic.... (or at least make it our own)
My sig was in response to Cindy Shehan and the current leader of code pink (forgot her name) that went to Venesuela and Cuba and called them paradise... and then came back here! If I found paradise and was welcome to live there, I would have stayed. I certainly would not have come back to a place that had neither the government, healthcare system nor economy that I wanted. I would have stayed in Cuba, worked the job I was given and spent the rest of my time on the beach! Since I am a capitalist, I stay in the US. If I lived in Venesuela as a capitalist, I would move here rather than try to change the political system to something other than that of what the Venesuelan people have chosen. Why go to KFC when you want a burger? Why live in the largest capitalist economy in the world when you want communism? I'm not saying love it or leave it, but why stay and try to change it to something that so many of us don't want when you have other options?
You are correct on my knowledge of the world. It is limited to what I see and read and the people I talk to. Granted, the people I meet from the former DDR didn't like it much or they would have stayed. I have not traveled there to talk with those that enjoyed living behind the iron curtain.
Thanx for the tip. Maybe I will read that book.
Your analogy only holds if:
1) Wendy's were founded on the principle of being able to demand what you want.
OK, lets say it was and the vast majority of customers wanted burgers and deplored chicken.
2) Wendy's made sure to burn down any place that sold buckets of chicken, and flings shit on the nearby KFC.
The only communist countries the US has gone to war with was N. Korea and N. Vietnam. How are the people of those two countries doing anyway? Also, from what I've heard from my DDR (E. German) and Cuban friends, flung shit would be an upgrade when compared to what they had flung at them on a daily basis.
3) Wendy's didn't already sell chicken as well.
but not in a bucket
You do have a valid point. KFC does not make it its mission to make every fast food joint sell buckets of chicken. Only Chick Filet tries to liberate cattle.
That said, the analogy still holds. If you want communism, you have other options. Go to Cuba, N. Korea, Venesuela or China. Unlike those countries, no one is forcing you to stay here. If you think you'll be happier in a communist country, I wish you the best of luck and please write to let me know how things are going for you. Go there are leave the US the way 99.999% of Americans like it. That way, everyone is happy. I just want what is best for everyone.
I think I'd rather open the mini-bar!