I love France. I hate Paris. I really, honestly, truely, hate Paris. It is filthy and crowded. The people are rude and the cops started a fight with me at Jim Morrison's gave (I assure you I did nothing to instigate it-- merely lit a candle). In 1975 my mother got free dental work in France because her father had fought in the war.
It doesn't surprise me that France stayed out of the war. I was in Paris in June of 2001. In front of that huge-ass train station on the left bank were a shit tonne of Arabs with Saddam Hussaine tshirts and flags, all with these smiely visages of that fucker, and they were having a pro-Saddam rally. Chirac and he used to be good buddies back in the 1970s. France sold Mirage 2000 fighter jets to Iraq which were summarily destroyed durring the first gulf war by the US Air Foce and Navy.
Still, France is lovely. And I admire Tocqueville and La Feyette. And Napoleon.
I'll make one more attempt to explain my possition: There is an old saying "My country - may she always be right, but right or wrong - my country!" I am willing to do my part for what I believe is right. Same as the German Wermacht soldiers in World War II fighting for their country, or the Viet Cong in the 60s. There is an honour and nobility in war which is lost in other businesses. They have no redeeming value. "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
As for what good as America done lately? We removed two oppressive dictatorships. Libya gave up its nuclear material. Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations seem to actually be getting somewhere now, and Lebanon is throwing Syria out and demanding elections. We didn't even have to smack anyone knew for that! Sure, some people died. In the long run, so what? People were going to be murdered under the Taliban and Saddam. Now we have gotten rid of them, created two new democracies (which you think is good. i honestly am not sure), concentrated the terrorists in one place and can fight them far away from home.
The enemy is not one that is going to sit down and sign an armastice. They will stop at nothing until they are all dead or all the world is under Islamic theocracy. Including Australia. Why you don't recognize that they need to be fought is beyond me. This is for the survival of the western way, more than it is about retirbution for september 11. By the way, I lost a cousin who was a firefighter in that. My mother lost 54 people from her Parish she grew up in, and a number of friends from when she worked on Wallstreet. My dad's an airline captain. he saw the plane crash into the Pentagon. He knew the pilot of the plane which crashed into Pennsylvania. So yes, it's more than just a little personal for me. Plus, everyone from my ancestor Dawes (a rider with paul revere) to my dad's dad at Pearl Harbour (navy officer/pilot) to my mom's dad in the battle of the bulge, has served. It is tradition. it is my duty. My dad tells some stupid story about allegedly trying to sign up for vietnam. I don't believe it and I think he's a pussy for it and don't respect him for not going. I will not NOT serve myself. If I do not, I cannot expect anyone to do it for me, even when we have a war in the future which will be more clear cut. It will probably be against China or DPRK. And when they come swooping down towards Australia like the Japanese did, don't then bitch that you need the Americans to come save your ass. Australia sure as hell can't stand up to China. So don't bitch about me fighting this war, 'cause you might need us to fight for you again.
no, the 10th amdendment says the states don't have to honour the first amendment in their own laws. "Congress shall make no law..." therfor, as it is prohibited to the governmen, not to the states, nor is it prohibited to the states, it is reserved for the states. Constitutionally, States could set up their own official churches. The federal government can not. The 14th amendment might foul that up a little, but not much. Realistically, it's a no-win idea anyway. Judges don't actually read anything which says they shouldn't do anything.
No, I have nothing to complain about. I really don't "care" about the war. I'll support any war for any reason, so long as we win it. My only issue is we are fighting like gimps instead of razing towns to the ground and salting the earth. I'm joining the army after I graduate college next year. I'll vote after then.
Nazi's aren't fascist. There are fascist eliments. But perhaps, it's clearer to say that fascism is not nazism. It's not a racial issue, it's a nationalism issue. And in America, it doesn't matter if your Irish, Italian, Mexican, or Japanese -- you're still American. For instance, just because everyone in China is Chinese doesn't mean I hate Chinese people for being anti-China. However, it is an easy mistake to make.
By Fascism I really just mean a regression to Roman Empire. Fasces were a symble of authority in Rome inherited from the Etruscans. Hell, there are fasces either side of the rostora in the House of Representatives. The goal of all politics is power. I just have no shame in saying so. But I am staying out of politics all together, so what I believe is of no concern.
by citizenship classes, I mean classrooms where people sit and learn. not castes.
As for Starship Troopers... well, I will openly admit to being a fascist. I do not believe in Democracy. I don't think people who are unwilling to put in their service on front have a right to decide when we go there. I think there are certain levels of decorum which ought to be required of citizens. I believe cultural unity fosters cooperation. I believe economics are a zero-sum game and capitalism is stupid (mercantilism seems more right to me). I believe there was absoultly nothing wrong with the world under Augustus and it should be emulated as the highest point in history.
Nearly all the founding fathers made statements like Patrick Henery's "it is the desired goal that all citizens on a gun and know how to use it." Washington remarked about the delights of sitting on his porch at Mt Vernon smoking "cannibus cigarettes." Even the ones people like to quote against religion were really just against state-forced religion, and actually thought that society couldn't survive if people weren't to act within the traditional constraints of morality.
However, lefties like to harp on this "freedom of speech" thing as if it were some sort of cart blanche to say whatever the fuck they want to, but it doesn't apply to those "ignorant redneck racists." Then the righties go on about the "freedom to keep and bear arms," ignoring the fact that the purpose was that we are all supposed to be armed because we are not supposed to have a standing army. World War II changed the way we do business in the world. However, I absolutly believe a citizen's militia is the best way to maintain order. It certainly gives disciplin and everyone one knows everyone else is packing at home, so there is less insentive to burgalarize.
Then, lefties pick on the "freedom of religion" and try and say we are supposed to be a secular society with freedom FROM religion. The writings of the founding fathers don't say that AT ALL. But the fundimentalist christian right gets it wrong too, because they don't say people should be forced into a religion. Just that we have certain moral values which need to be upheld.
The moral of the story is, the founding fathers were about personal responsibility. There is enough rope to hang yourself from either end, you just have to know how not to. That's why the vote was restricted and we are not a direct democracy. Not everyone is capeable of the same things as eveyone else, and that includes that task of picking leaders. Here both sides will say "yes, just look at (Clinton, Bush) as evidence of that!"
I've read the Constitution, Declaration, amendments, et cetera, hundreds of times. I've read the fouding father's other works (several of them, anyway). Honestly, I believe other people should do the same. Really, I think we need to have citizenship classes like we used to, to teach people WHY it is we do the things we do as a society and why they are important. Then people can be trusted to vote and shit -- once they know why, not because poltician x said y and it sounds dandy to them.
I'm 20. I could have voted in the last 2 elections (president and a congressional midterm election). However, I have not put in my military service and don't believe i have earned citizenship. Naturalized citizens know more than most native-born types.
Also, I am currently a card-carrying mail-recieving member of the USA Socialist Party and the Constitution Party. I'm fairly active with College Republicans and hang out with amnesty international hippies. I don't really have politics except that I love America, I am proud of it, and that's that. Quite frankly, party-fighting is about as stupid as sectarian violence. If people looked at the intentions, as written, of the founding fathers, they would see that neither party is actually good for this country. And neither the liberals or conservatives have a handle on reality.
I remember before 1.0, on 256MB of RAM with Enlightenment and the goodies like the ripple effect and stuff going on...first on a 400Mhz AMDk6II, which was hot shit at the time, then on dual Celeron 366Mhz. the lastest GNOME on this 1.2Ghz Duron with 1GB of RAM is nothing to be pleased with. Windows 2000 Pro does a snappy job, however.
So scientists would have spent the next 10 years developing their theories of martian geology based on incorrect data if either one of those rovers hadn't deployed and you call this a minor issue?!
Yes, honestly. So what? Not to be flippant or anything, but seriously, why does it even matter about martian geology? I for one can say my life is no better or worse because we put these two stupid robots with fruity names on a planet millions of miles away. Even if "we" ever get to Mars, it's just another dead rock like the moon. The moon is more relevent. Its gravity affects the tides on earth. Mars is far away and only bothersome if one believes in astrology.
That phrase probably came from the old hand-cramed gramaphone (why the music awards are called "grammys"), and is actually probably the old meaning which was lost after electric powered turn tables and hi-fi stereos became the order of the day.
Honestly, when I use Linux or BSD, I spend so god damned much time tinkering with my almost limitless options that I don't actually get anything done. In high school my computers spent more time taken apart or recompiling than they did running and working on papers or anything. The fact that I don't expect Windows to be able to do anything, coupled with the fact that I couldn't even if I want to, change much, I actually use it to do stuff. Of course, now i'm a junior in college and that is mostly papers, im, mp3s, and pr0n. But my computer spends more time in operation than in varying states of broken crap.
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a lot of it these days seems to be 6-4. But I am an english major. I can play blues and jazz on the guitar, but I am not a musician.
"It's a little black book! you put women's phone numbers in it!" "a little black book! briliant!" *slap* "it also works as a coaster!" "a coaster?! BRILLIANT!!"
(typical slashdotter night at the pub, as put in a Guinness commercial).
It's called the Constitution. It prohibits americans from accepting it. It's not that it can't be confered, but he can't take it the title. I don't suppose there would be anything wrong with him being 'Sir Bill' anywhere else.
Come to think of it, your right, I did have to open the door. I mean unlock it. It was my first job out of high school as a student intern, programming in C on Linux this sort of machine vision spot size detection stuff for the cameras in the beam viewers of the Free Electron Laser.
I'm putting in my OCS application next fall (I can apply as a senior) for cavalry scouts. When I get my ID, i'll hack it and look for you then. If I can remember how to do computer shit by then. I'm an English major these days.
If you're really worried about what's on your military ID, why did you join the military? it's sort of like that story a while back about uniform govt id cards for employees. you work there, it makes sense. don't work there, don't get one. Hell, my DOE card had RFID in 2002. the thing would read it out of my wallet in my pocket to let me into the buildings if i was standing right sometimes. But I got a lanyard instead because it was easier.
Drivers licenses on the other hand, that's a whole other story.
Well, SunOS was just a commercial BSD, our beloved Dr Bill Joy, author of Vi, creator of BSD, Java, Jini, and the UltraSPARC processors among other things, brought it to them. Solaris is SunOS with SysV init, near as I can tell. I don't really like it because it's purple, however. And not that good Imperial purple which is really red, but more lavender. i don't like to look at it for long periods of time. or short periods of time. But the Ultra5 was a pretty sweet computer. I'd have liked to have owned one myself. I'd probably have put NetBSD on it, however.
yeah, but that's with a crew of 5 in a B-52 (with at least 2 flight-qualified individuals), or 2 in a B2 stealth bomber, both pilots. The military never would have built a one-man plane to fly 23-hour missions around the world and back.
But this probably involves jolt cola or something.
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I love France. I hate Paris. I really, honestly, truely, hate Paris. It is filthy and crowded. The people are rude and the cops started a fight with me at Jim Morrison's gave (I assure you I did nothing to instigate it-- merely lit a candle). In 1975 my mother got free dental work in France because her father had fought in the war.
It doesn't surprise me that France stayed out of the war. I was in Paris in June of 2001. In front of that huge-ass train station on the left bank were a shit tonne of Arabs with Saddam Hussaine tshirts and flags, all with these smiely visages of that fucker, and they were having a pro-Saddam rally. Chirac and he used to be good buddies back in the 1970s. France sold Mirage 2000 fighter jets to Iraq which were summarily destroyed durring the first gulf war by the US Air Foce and Navy.
Still, France is lovely. And I admire Tocqueville and La Feyette. And Napoleon.
I'll make one more attempt to explain my possition: There is an old saying "My country - may she always be right, but right or wrong - my country!" I am willing to do my part for what I believe is right. Same as the German Wermacht soldiers in World War II fighting for their country, or the Viet Cong in the 60s. There is an honour and nobility in war which is lost in other businesses. They have no redeeming value. "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
As for what good as America done lately? We removed two oppressive dictatorships. Libya gave up its nuclear material. Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations seem to actually be getting somewhere now, and Lebanon is throwing Syria out and demanding elections. We didn't even have to smack anyone knew for that! Sure, some people died. In the long run, so what? People were going to be murdered under the Taliban and Saddam. Now we have gotten rid of them, created two new democracies (which you think is good. i honestly am not sure), concentrated the terrorists in one place and can fight them far away from home.
The enemy is not one that is going to sit down and sign an armastice. They will stop at nothing until they are all dead or all the world is under Islamic theocracy. Including Australia. Why you don't recognize that they need to be fought is beyond me. This is for the survival of the western way, more than it is about retirbution for september 11. By the way, I lost a cousin who was a firefighter in that. My mother lost 54 people from her Parish she grew up in, and a number of friends from when she worked on Wallstreet. My dad's an airline captain. he saw the plane crash into the Pentagon. He knew the pilot of the plane which crashed into Pennsylvania. So yes, it's more than just a little personal for me. Plus, everyone from my ancestor Dawes (a rider with paul revere) to my dad's dad at Pearl Harbour (navy officer/pilot) to my mom's dad in the battle of the bulge, has served. It is tradition. it is my duty. My dad tells some stupid story about allegedly trying to sign up for vietnam. I don't believe it and I think he's a pussy for it and don't respect him for not going. I will not NOT serve myself. If I do not, I cannot expect anyone to do it for me, even when we have a war in the future which will be more clear cut. It will probably be against China or DPRK. And when they come swooping down towards Australia like the Japanese did, don't then bitch that you need the Americans to come save your ass. Australia sure as hell can't stand up to China. So don't bitch about me fighting this war, 'cause you might need us to fight for you again.
no, the 10th amdendment says the states don't have to honour the first amendment in their own laws. "Congress shall make no law..." therfor, as it is prohibited to the governmen, not to the states, nor is it prohibited to the states, it is reserved for the states. Constitutionally, States could set up their own official churches. The federal government can not. The 14th amendment might foul that up a little, but not much. Realistically, it's a no-win idea anyway. Judges don't actually read anything which says they shouldn't do anything.
No, I have nothing to complain about. I really don't "care" about the war. I'll support any war for any reason, so long as we win it. My only issue is we are fighting like gimps instead of razing towns to the ground and salting the earth. I'm joining the army after I graduate college next year. I'll vote after then.
Nazi's aren't fascist. There are fascist eliments. But perhaps, it's clearer to say that fascism is not nazism. It's not a racial issue, it's a nationalism issue. And in America, it doesn't matter if your Irish, Italian, Mexican, or Japanese -- you're still American. For instance, just because everyone in China is Chinese doesn't mean I hate Chinese people for being anti-China. However, it is an easy mistake to make. By Fascism I really just mean a regression to Roman Empire. Fasces were a symble of authority in Rome inherited from the Etruscans. Hell, there are fasces either side of the rostora in the House of Representatives. The goal of all politics is power. I just have no shame in saying so. But I am staying out of politics all together, so what I believe is of no concern.
by citizenship classes, I mean classrooms where people sit and learn. not castes.
As for Starship Troopers... well, I will openly admit to being a fascist. I do not believe in Democracy. I don't think people who are unwilling to put in their service on front have a right to decide when we go there. I think there are certain levels of decorum which ought to be required of citizens. I believe cultural unity fosters cooperation. I believe economics are a zero-sum game and capitalism is stupid (mercantilism seems more right to me). I believe there was absoultly nothing wrong with the world under Augustus and it should be emulated as the highest point in history.
Nearly all the founding fathers made statements like Patrick Henery's "it is the desired goal that all citizens on a gun and know how to use it." Washington remarked about the delights of sitting on his porch at Mt Vernon smoking "cannibus cigarettes." Even the ones people like to quote against religion were really just against state-forced religion, and actually thought that society couldn't survive if people weren't to act within the traditional constraints of morality.
However, lefties like to harp on this "freedom of speech" thing as if it were some sort of cart blanche to say whatever the fuck they want to, but it doesn't apply to those "ignorant redneck racists." Then the righties go on about the "freedom to keep and bear arms," ignoring the fact that the purpose was that we are all supposed to be armed because we are not supposed to have a standing army. World War II changed the way we do business in the world. However, I absolutly believe a citizen's militia is the best way to maintain order. It certainly gives disciplin and everyone one knows everyone else is packing at home, so there is less insentive to burgalarize.
Then, lefties pick on the "freedom of religion" and try and say we are supposed to be a secular society with freedom FROM religion. The writings of the founding fathers don't say that AT ALL. But the fundimentalist christian right gets it wrong too, because they don't say people should be forced into a religion. Just that we have certain moral values which need to be upheld.
The moral of the story is, the founding fathers were about personal responsibility. There is enough rope to hang yourself from either end, you just have to know how not to. That's why the vote was restricted and we are not a direct democracy. Not everyone is capeable of the same things as eveyone else, and that includes that task of picking leaders. Here both sides will say "yes, just look at (Clinton, Bush) as evidence of that!"
I've read the Constitution, Declaration, amendments, et cetera, hundreds of times. I've read the fouding father's other works (several of them, anyway). Honestly, I believe other people should do the same. Really, I think we need to have citizenship classes like we used to, to teach people WHY it is we do the things we do as a society and why they are important. Then people can be trusted to vote and shit -- once they know why, not because poltician x said y and it sounds dandy to them.
I'm 20. I could have voted in the last 2 elections (president and a congressional midterm election). However, I have not put in my military service and don't believe i have earned citizenship. Naturalized citizens know more than most native-born types.
Also, I am currently a card-carrying mail-recieving member of the USA Socialist Party and the Constitution Party. I'm fairly active with College Republicans and hang out with amnesty international hippies. I don't really have politics except that I love America, I am proud of it, and that's that. Quite frankly, party-fighting is about as stupid as sectarian violence. If people looked at the intentions, as written, of the founding fathers, they would see that neither party is actually good for this country. And neither the liberals or conservatives have a handle on reality.
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I remember before 1.0, on 256MB of RAM with Enlightenment and the goodies like the ripple effect and stuff going on...first on a 400Mhz AMDk6II, which was hot shit at the time, then on dual Celeron 366Mhz. the lastest GNOME on this 1.2Ghz Duron with 1GB of RAM is nothing to be pleased with. Windows 2000 Pro does a snappy job, however.
'cause a bloated gnome is just a hobbit... which is actually cooler.
So scientists would have spent the next 10 years developing their theories of martian geology based on incorrect data if either one of those rovers hadn't deployed and you call this a minor issue?!
Yes, honestly. So what? Not to be flippant or anything, but seriously, why does it even matter about martian geology? I for one can say my life is no better or worse because we put these two stupid robots with fruity names on a planet millions of miles away. Even if "we" ever get to Mars, it's just another dead rock like the moon. The moon is more relevent. Its gravity affects the tides on earth. Mars is far away and only bothersome if one believes in astrology.
That phrase probably came from the old hand-cramed gramaphone (why the music awards are called "grammys"), and is actually probably the old meaning which was lost after electric powered turn tables and hi-fi stereos became the order of the day.
Magic: The Gathering. Type I, maybe I.5... Type II is totally gay. It's a geek classic. And it sort of takes place on a table top.
I hear the next version of Java is going to have a genative case. Perhaps they'll learn it then?
burger king has fish. mcdonalds has chicken.
print out the source code and throw paint on it Jackson Pollock style?
Honestly, when I use Linux or BSD, I spend so god damned much time tinkering with my almost limitless options that I don't actually get anything done. In high school my computers spent more time taken apart or recompiling than they did running and working on papers or anything. The fact that I don't expect Windows to be able to do anything, coupled with the fact that I couldn't even if I want to, change much, I actually use it to do stuff. Of course, now i'm a junior in college and that is mostly papers, im, mp3s, and pr0n. But my computer spends more time in operation than in varying states of broken crap.
a lot of it these days seems to be 6-4. But I am an english major. I can play blues and jazz on the guitar, but I am not a musician.
That's just what THEY want you to think!!
I believe the official definition of rock and roll includes a 4-4 beat. Buddy Holly is rock and roll. Dead Kennedys are not.
"It's a little black book! you put women's phone numbers in it!"
"a little black book! briliant!"
*slap*
"it also works as a coaster!"
"a coaster?! BRILLIANT!!"
(typical slashdotter night at the pub, as put in a Guinness commercial).
It's called the Constitution. It prohibits americans from accepting it. It's not that it can't be confered, but he can't take it the title. I don't suppose there would be anything wrong with him being 'Sir Bill' anywhere else.
Come to think of it, your right, I did have to open the door. I mean unlock it. It was my first job out of high school as a student intern, programming in C on Linux this sort of machine vision spot size detection stuff for the cameras in the beam viewers of the Free Electron Laser.
I'm putting in my OCS application next fall (I can apply as a senior) for cavalry scouts. When I get my ID, i'll hack it and look for you then. If I can remember how to do computer shit by then. I'm an English major these days.
If you're really worried about what's on your military ID, why did you join the military? it's sort of like that story a while back about uniform govt id cards for employees. you work there, it makes sense. don't work there, don't get one. Hell, my DOE card had RFID in 2002. the thing would read it out of my wallet in my pocket to let me into the buildings if i was standing right sometimes. But I got a lanyard instead because it was easier.
Drivers licenses on the other hand, that's a whole other story.
Well, SunOS was just a commercial BSD, our beloved Dr Bill Joy, author of Vi, creator of BSD, Java, Jini, and the UltraSPARC processors among other things, brought it to them. Solaris is SunOS with SysV init, near as I can tell. I don't really like it because it's purple, however. And not that good Imperial purple which is really red, but more lavender. i don't like to look at it for long periods of time. or short periods of time. But the Ultra5 was a pretty sweet computer. I'd have liked to have owned one myself. I'd probably have put NetBSD on it, however.
yeah, but that's with a crew of 5 in a B-52 (with at least 2 flight-qualified individuals), or 2 in a B2 stealth bomber, both pilots. The military never would have built a one-man plane to fly 23-hour missions around the world and back.
But this probably involves jolt cola or something.