I always thought part of the problem with Google+ was the branding. Google is a search engine in peoples minds. It doesn't conjure up an image of a go to social site just because it adds a + to the name.
It is idiotic for San Diego to produce expensive and energy intensive desalinated water, when a short distance away in the Imperial Valley, farmers are receiving water for a hundredth the cost. Central planning has been a failure everywhere, and it is failing in California. The government should not be picking winners and losers, or segmenting the market into favored certain sectors. Instead they should just let the market set the price for water.
The core problem here isn't 'leftist' central planning by the government, it is wealthy right-wing farmers, businessmen and corporations corrupting the government to do their bidding. The rich farmers and corporations will fight for their water 'rights' with millions in campaign contributions and assorted bribes, both legal and illegal. If these were poor immigrant Mexican farmers their water would have been taken long ago.
Also don't forget that this war was to protect the disputed areas called Texas which had already declared it's independence and then joined the Union in 1845.
American settlers in Texas, with U.S. support, declared independence from Mexico to protect slavery, which was illegal in Mexico. Nothing noble about that.
Did we take territory from Mexico during a war? Of course, during the war we actually took ALL of Mexico, seems to me we gave a lot of it back
We let them keep half their country? Aren't we special! I guess if Russia took all of the Ukraine and gave half of it back, they'd be wonderful too.
I'd bet that the people who live there now wish we had kept it all
Mexico would be much wealthier country if we hadn't taken half of their territory. Not to mention the constant meddling of the United States in Mexican affairs.
As Mexican President Porfirio Diaz said: "Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!"
The New York Times isn't extreme left wing, in fact on many issues it's center right. It supported the war in Iraq, it overall supports the war on terror, it falls in line with the government propaganda 98% of the time. I guess you think their extreme left wing because they have a liberal columnist like Paul Krugman, but they also have right wing columnists like David Brooks. Or maybe its because they had an article exposing the labor abuse at the Foxcomm factory in China making Apple products, I guess stories like that really upset you right wingers, it might hurt the stock price. But for the most part, they supports the capitalist system, they just point out some of the more pernicious abuses. I guess if they stopped doing that you right wingers would like it more.
The New York Times also supports the bulk of American Foreign policy. I know you right wingers don't give a fuck about the millions of innocent people killed by the U.S. government over the years, and have never shed a tear over innocents killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Viet Nam, etc, so if anyone like the NYT voices the mildest criticism of the massive crimes committed by the U.S. government, they are extreme left wing in your view. In my view, they are center right for supporting the bulk of it.
Pretty much any that doesn't involve government-enforced monopolies. Just imagine how much worse buying gasoline would be if certain companies purchased rights to supply all gasoline to individual cities, locking out competition.
I agree with this, and I'd like that add the cause of this problem isn't just governments being corrupt, it's the businessmen and corporations corrupting governments.
This plane is delivery military aid. If you include military aid as part of war (which is a valid point of view), then the US is at war with half the world.
Brilliant comment. That's the core truth of what is really going on in the world. Not this BS about the U.S. saving the world. The U.S. kills more innocent people in the world then all of the terrorists in the world combined by an order of several magnitudes.
The examiner's biggest problem is probably time. The paperwork flows onto his desk at a breakneck pace, and he needs to get it off of his desk somehow. Skim it, rubber stamp it, and pass it on to the next person who rubber stamps it seems to be the most common method.
Well, there is also the problem that in most jobs the ones whom management considers the best workers are those who go through their work the fastest, not those who do the highest quality work.
This is compelling evidence that Steve Balmer is a Republican. Does he also believe the President was born in Kenya? You'd have to be Republican wacko to believe the failure of Windows 8 is due to the OEM manufacturers. The PC manufacturers are the ones who should be suing Microsoft for tanking their sales with the insanity of Windows 8 as a PC operating system.. But what Microsoft is doing is another Republican tactic. Accuse others of what you've actually caused.
Exactly. It's like looking at some random algae infested pond in the United States and speculating the algae were not native, but transported by air currents from the Antarctic coast. Ridiculous.
Don't tell me the computer revolution is slowing down when Microsoft has just released Windows 8. Krugman obviously is out of touch with the computer industry and must be living in a cave, to be unaware of this life changing, revolutionary breakthrough. Windows 8 alone will throw the computer industry back into the dark ages, allowing the growth cycle to start all over again, reigniting the industry.
I'm replying to this because when moderating I I thought I had clicked on Insightful, but Redundant come up instead, thus I'm canceling out the negative vote.
these are countries hypermilitarizing and issuing bellicose language for decades
Thank God the U.S. hasn't hyper-militarized or used bellicose language for decades (rolls eyes). The problem you don't see is the U.S. has done far more evil in the world than North Korea or Iran combined. Of course, when the U.S. kills millions of people, its only for the most saintly reasons.
is that there is an outside chance that it may finally see the end of Ballmer.
Yea, I've been wondering that as well, How many screw ups and years of mediocrity before the board of directors and Gates come to their senses and realizes Ballmer isn't a very good CEO? A monkey throwing darts would make better decisions than him.
A lack of planet on a nearby star does not mean there is nothing around the star
There might still be fragments of ice / rocks / whatever that humankind can use to construct an artificial planet of some kind
Plus, the lack of existing planet means we get to create one, with our own design
Yea, make our own planet. Simple! This got modded 5 Insightful? Why not make another Earth in our own solar system? It would be way easier to do it here where all the resources are, instead of in a distant solar system. Or even easier, crash asteroids from the asteroid belt into Mars to create an Earth size planet. Why don't we do it? Because it would be freakin' impossible for any beings without near God-like technological powers.
NASA once again makes Mars her bitch. Way to go! Seriously, this landing was so complicated, I was expecting the worse. I join millions of others around the world in breathing a huge sigh of relief.
"more than war, slavery, government brutality: drugs have destroyed more human lives in the history of homo sapiens. understand that, or understand nothing about the subject"
You made some good points, but with this BS, you sound just like any other anti drug zealots. For wars and political conflicts, various estimates for the 20th century are around 200 million or more.
And for every war dead there several who were seriously injured, lost limbs, lost an organ, or crippled, etc. And there are many times as many refugees as dead, people whose home were destroyed, etc. Your probably looking at a billion people or more whose lives were destroyed by war. And you think drug use is worse? You need to put down the crack pipe, or maybe do a few drugs to get over your anti drug paranoia.
Another factor is PV is getting cheaper and better all the time. So buy the cheap stuff now, and upgrade in a few years to PV that's significantly better and cheaper than the high end PV was when you did the original installation.
No, my definition of murderers is rulers who kill millions of people in foreign countries who never attacked or threatened their own country. Your the one saying Presidents who kill millions of innocent people aren't murderers. You're the one parroting the 1984 doublespeak from the government and media. I'm the one cutting through the lies and bullshit.
I didn't blame the U.S. for Stalin, Hitler or Mao. Typical right winger, making up stuff.
You do realize the Viet Cong were South Vietnamese? Do you know Ho Chi Minh tried to get the U.S. to help him fight the French colonialists for liberation, but the U.S. instead took over the battle. Do you realize in 1956 the U.S. and Diem refused to hold elections prescribed by the Geneva Convention because they knew Ho Chi Minh would win? So much for fighting for democracy. Do you know Johnson lied about the Gulf of Tonkin incident to use it as an excuse to expand the war? Do you know why the U.S. lost the Vietnam war? Because most of the people in South Vietnam opposed to the U.S. I guess carpet bombing and spreading agent orange over your fields would make one feel that way.
What makes you think the U.S. has the right to kill people all over the world in defensive of Capitalism? This democracy facade the U.S. is supposedly fighting for is bullshit, as shown by the numerous dictatorships the U.S. has backed around the world over the decades, and the democracies it has overthrown to put in a U.S. friendly government, see Iran - 1953, Guatemala- 1954, , Brazil- 1964, Chili - 1971, etc.
Whether or not Cambodia was being used as a haven by the South Vietnamese Viet Cong doesn't affect whether or not the U.S. backed war and bombing led to the rise of Pol Pot. Pol Pot would have never risen to power without the U.S. destruction of Cambodia. And the U.S. had no right to be killing those people in the first place. Did the Viet Cong attack the U.S.? Show me the bombed out cities in the U.S. caused by the Viet Cong.
Stop buying in to the Government propaganda. The U.S. actions in the world are just as criminal as the Soviet Union's or any other imperialist power in history.
Can you point out the specific quotes in question? All I see him is questioning what is the accurate account of deaths in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot was a mass murderer, but the U.S. bought him to power. They overthrew the Cambodian Monarchy, installed a puppet government, and carpet bombed the country. This led to Pol Pot's rise to power. If the Soviet Union had overthrown the U.S. Government, and carpet bombed the U.S., and the aftermath was warring bands of killers that murdered and raped and starved people by stealing their food, the Soviet Union would bear responsibility, even if they had abandoned the U.S. before this occurred. Similar to the U.S. and Cambodia. Pol Pot committed the crimes directly, but the U.S. bombing etc., led to it.
Enlighten people such as myself me realize that both sides in the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United States, were murderous. In fact, all Colonial powers in history are murderers, Britain, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Japan, etc. We are ruled by murderers, and always have been.
People stupid enough to buy into his shit frighten me. In the context of the 20th century his political writings are jaw dropping.
I know, your another American fascist that doesn't care about the millions of innocent people the United States has killed around the world, not a tear shed for the innocent Iraqis, Vietnamese, Cambodians, El Salvadorians, Guatemalans, etc, etc killed by the U.S. And because Chomsky does, he's full of shit. People who think like you are murderers, along with Bush, Cheney, Obama, Reagan, Nixon, Johnson, etc.
Maybe its just me, but I rarely read the bloggers on Huffington Post anyway. I scan the news stories for my daily supply of pap and tittie stories and move on. It does have occasional serious stories that interest me also, but their bloggers bore me.
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I always thought part of the problem with Google+ was the branding. Google is a search engine in peoples minds. It doesn't conjure up an image of a go to social site just because it adds a + to the name.
It is idiotic for San Diego to produce expensive and energy intensive desalinated water, when a short distance away in the Imperial Valley, farmers are receiving water for a hundredth the cost. Central planning has been a failure everywhere, and it is failing in California. The government should not be picking winners and losers, or segmenting the market into favored certain sectors. Instead they should just let the market set the price for water.
The core problem here isn't 'leftist' central planning by the government, it is wealthy right-wing farmers, businessmen and corporations corrupting the government to do their bidding. The rich farmers and corporations will fight for their water 'rights' with millions in campaign contributions and assorted bribes, both legal and illegal. If these were poor immigrant Mexican farmers their water would have been taken long ago.
Also don't forget that this war was to protect the disputed areas called Texas which had already declared it's independence and then joined the Union in 1845.
American settlers in Texas, with U.S. support, declared independence from Mexico to protect slavery, which was illegal in Mexico. Nothing noble about that.
Did we take territory from Mexico during a war? Of course, during the war we actually took ALL of Mexico, seems to me we gave a lot of it back
We let them keep half their country? Aren't we special! I guess if Russia took all of the Ukraine and gave half of it back, they'd be wonderful too.
I'd bet that the people who live there now wish we had kept it all
Mexico would be much wealthier country if we hadn't taken half of their territory. Not to mention the constant meddling of the United States in Mexican affairs. As Mexican President Porfirio Diaz said: "Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!"
The New York Times isn't extreme left wing, in fact on many issues it's center right. It supported the war in Iraq, it overall supports the war on terror, it falls in line with the government propaganda 98% of the time. I guess you think their extreme left wing because they have a liberal columnist like Paul Krugman, but they also have right wing columnists like David Brooks. Or maybe its because they had an article exposing the labor abuse at the Foxcomm factory in China making Apple products, I guess stories like that really upset you right wingers, it might hurt the stock price. But for the most part, they supports the capitalist system, they just point out some of the more pernicious abuses. I guess if they stopped doing that you right wingers would like it more.
The New York Times also supports the bulk of American Foreign policy. I know you right wingers don't give a fuck about the millions of innocent people killed by the U.S. government over the years, and have never shed a tear over innocents killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Viet Nam, etc, so if anyone like the NYT voices the mildest criticism of the massive crimes committed by the U.S. government, they are extreme left wing in your view. In my view, they are center right for supporting the bulk of it.
Pretty much any that doesn't involve government-enforced monopolies. Just imagine how much worse buying gasoline would be if certain companies purchased rights to supply all gasoline to individual cities, locking out competition.
I agree with this, and I'd like that add the cause of this problem isn't just governments being corrupt, it's the businessmen and corporations corrupting governments.
This plane is delivery military aid. If you include military aid as part of war (which is a valid point of view), then the US is at war with half the world.
Brilliant comment. That's the core truth of what is really going on in the world. Not this BS about the U.S. saving the world. The U.S. kills more innocent people in the world then all of the terrorists in the world combined by an order of several magnitudes.
The examiner's biggest problem is probably time. The paperwork flows onto his desk at a breakneck pace, and he needs to get it off of his desk somehow. Skim it, rubber stamp it, and pass it on to the next person who rubber stamps it seems to be the most common method.
Well, there is also the problem that in most jobs the ones whom management considers the best workers are those who go through their work the fastest, not those who do the highest quality work.
This is compelling evidence that Steve Balmer is a Republican. Does he also believe the President was born in Kenya? You'd have to be Republican wacko to believe the failure of Windows 8 is due to the OEM manufacturers. The PC manufacturers are the ones who should be suing Microsoft for tanking their sales with the insanity of Windows 8 as a PC operating system.. But what Microsoft is doing is another Republican tactic. Accuse others of what you've actually caused.
Exactly. It's like looking at some random algae infested pond in the United States and speculating the algae were not native, but transported by air currents from the Antarctic coast. Ridiculous.
Those who say there are no Martians have never been to Mars.
Don't tell me the computer revolution is slowing down when Microsoft has just released Windows 8. Krugman obviously is out of touch with the computer industry and must be living in a cave, to be unaware of this life changing, revolutionary breakthrough. Windows 8 alone will throw the computer industry back into the dark ages, allowing the growth cycle to start all over again, reigniting the industry.
I'm replying to this because when moderating I I thought I had clicked on Insightful, but Redundant come up instead, thus I'm canceling out the negative vote.
Thank God the U.S. hasn't hyper-militarized or used bellicose language for decades (rolls eyes). The problem you don't see is the U.S. has done far more evil in the world than North Korea or Iran combined. Of course, when the U.S. kills millions of people, its only for the most saintly reasons.
is that there is an outside chance that it may finally see the end of Ballmer.
Yea, I've been wondering that as well, How many screw ups and years of mediocrity before the board of directors and Gates come to their senses and realizes Ballmer isn't a very good CEO? A monkey throwing darts would make better decisions than him.
A lack of planet on a nearby star does not mean there is nothing around the star
There might still be fragments of ice / rocks / whatever that humankind can use to construct an artificial planet of some kind
Plus, the lack of existing planet means we get to create one, with our own design
Yea, make our own planet. Simple! This got modded 5 Insightful? Why not make another Earth in our own solar system? It would be way easier to do it here where all the resources are, instead of in a distant solar system. Or even easier, crash asteroids from the asteroid belt into Mars to create an Earth size planet. Why don't we do it? Because it would be freakin' impossible for any beings without near God-like technological powers.
NASA once again makes Mars her bitch. Way to go! Seriously, this landing was so complicated, I was expecting the worse. I join millions of others around the world in breathing a huge sigh of relief.
"more than war, slavery, government brutality: drugs have destroyed more human lives in the history of homo sapiens. understand that, or understand nothing about the subject"
You made some good points, but with this BS, you sound just like any other anti drug zealots. For wars and political conflicts, various estimates for the 20th century are around 200 million or more.
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat8.htm.
And for every war dead there several who were seriously injured, lost limbs, lost an organ, or crippled, etc. And there are many times as many refugees as dead, people whose home were destroyed, etc. Your probably looking at a billion people or more whose lives were destroyed by war. And you think drug use is worse? You need to put down the crack pipe, or maybe do a few drugs to get over your anti drug paranoia.
Right. The root problem isn't the Government, the root problem is the corporations, the wealthy, and the special interests corrupting the Government.
Another factor is PV is getting cheaper and better all the time. So buy the cheap stuff now, and upgrade in a few years to PV that's significantly better and cheaper than the high end PV was when you did the original installation.
Of course, if it were up to me, we'd have nuked North Korea flat decades ago, so maybe it's good that I'm not actually running the country.
So you'd kill millions of innocent people who have done nothing to you because they are ruled by an egomaniacal dictator?
No, my definition of murderers is rulers who kill millions of people in foreign countries who never attacked or threatened their own country. Your the one saying Presidents who kill millions of innocent people aren't murderers. You're the one parroting the 1984 doublespeak from the government and media. I'm the one cutting through the lies and bullshit.
I didn't blame the U.S. for Stalin, Hitler or Mao. Typical right winger, making up stuff. You do realize the Viet Cong were South Vietnamese? Do you know Ho Chi Minh tried to get the U.S. to help him fight the French colonialists for liberation, but the U.S. instead took over the battle. Do you realize in 1956 the U.S. and Diem refused to hold elections prescribed by the Geneva Convention because they knew Ho Chi Minh would win? So much for fighting for democracy. Do you know Johnson lied about the Gulf of Tonkin incident to use it as an excuse to expand the war? Do you know why the U.S. lost the Vietnam war? Because most of the people in South Vietnam opposed to the U.S. I guess carpet bombing and spreading agent orange over your fields would make one feel that way.
What makes you think the U.S. has the right to kill people all over the world in defensive of Capitalism? This democracy facade the U.S. is supposedly fighting for is bullshit, as shown by the numerous dictatorships the U.S. has backed around the world over the decades, and the democracies it has overthrown to put in a U.S. friendly government, see Iran - 1953, Guatemala- 1954, , Brazil- 1964, Chili - 1971, etc.
Whether or not Cambodia was being used as a haven by the South Vietnamese Viet Cong doesn't affect whether or not the U.S. backed war and bombing led to the rise of Pol Pot. Pol Pot would have never risen to power without the U.S. destruction of Cambodia. And the U.S. had no right to be killing those people in the first place. Did the Viet Cong attack the U.S.? Show me the bombed out cities in the U.S. caused by the Viet Cong.
Stop buying in to the Government propaganda. The U.S. actions in the world are just as criminal as the Soviet Union's or any other imperialist power in history.
Can you point out the specific quotes in question? All I see him is questioning what is the accurate account of deaths in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot was a mass murderer, but the U.S. bought him to power. They overthrew the Cambodian Monarchy, installed a puppet government, and carpet bombed the country. This led to Pol Pot's rise to power. If the Soviet Union had overthrown the U.S. Government, and carpet bombed the U.S., and the aftermath was warring bands of killers that murdered and raped and starved people by stealing their food, the Soviet Union would bear responsibility, even if they had abandoned the U.S. before this occurred. Similar to the U.S. and Cambodia. Pol Pot committed the crimes directly, but the U.S. bombing etc., led to it.
Enlighten people such as myself me realize that both sides in the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United States, were murderous. In fact, all Colonial powers in history are murderers, Britain, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Japan, etc. We are ruled by murderers, and always have been.
People stupid enough to buy into his shit frighten me. In the context of the 20th century his political writings are jaw dropping.
I know, your another American fascist that doesn't care about the millions of innocent people the United States has killed around the world, not a tear shed for the innocent Iraqis, Vietnamese, Cambodians, El Salvadorians, Guatemalans, etc, etc killed by the U.S. And because Chomsky does, he's full of shit. People who think like you are murderers, along with Bush, Cheney, Obama, Reagan, Nixon, Johnson, etc.
Maybe its just me, but I rarely read the bloggers on Huffington Post anyway. I scan the news stories for my daily supply of pap and tittie stories and move on. It does have occasional serious stories that interest me also, but their bloggers bore me.