You can take a HD out of a Linux system, and pop it into a machine with different specs, and it will just work.
Come on now. If you have a kernel with every single module built, then yes. If you have a stripped down custom kernel then you might need to add support for some new hardware and rebuild the kernel.
Of course that takes about 4 minutes on a current server (less if you use distcc), so you still can probably pull it off in under an hour;-)
Regulation and legislation usually stifles competition and innovation. No, it USUALLY doesn't.
I have to agree with the OP and disagree with you on this one. However, this has nothing to do with the nature of markets or of legislation in a vacuum. I agree that it usually stifles competition and innovation becasue it's usually written by companies with this goal and then the politicians are bribed to implement it as such.
I agree with what I think is the spirit of your point though: a free market is an abstract concept in reality and it's only with intelligently designed regulation of the market that anything approximating a free market is possible. Without this you end up with one company owning everything that everybody works for for room and board with a cabal at the top owning everything.
This is getting too funny. Luckily I was just teasing you in the first place. At first I couldn't figure out what your response was supposed to mean since it was exactly the same as what I quoted in my response, but I was pretty sure you were teasing me back. Then I noticed what's missing from what I quoted. *And* from what you quoted back again;-)
To avoid losing so many html tags that someone decides to set up a government ministry to go find them, I'll leave this with touche' and good game, Sir.
I voted Republican the last two elections. Knowing what I know now, I still would vote the same way.
So you're one on the..what 25% left? Wow. So you really think freedom is a dead concept and fascist theocracy is the only way to go?
Seriously though:
Bush really does suck as a president. However, I still believe that Kerry would have been worse.
Can you come up with a actual reasonable mechanism by which this would even have been possible? Kerry would have been under constant attack by the media with an extremely hostile congress that would have not allowed him to do anything.
Now compare that to the current situation where we have thrown out the constitution in order to institute a police state.
Seriously, come up with a possible way he could have been worse. the fact is that he couldn't possibly have been worse no matter how much he tried even if being worse was his sole goal to which he directed mammoth effort. He would have been checked *hard* by the congress. Bush has not been subject to any oversight whatsoever since the Republicans are loyal only to their party. They do whatever he tells them where they wouldn't have done shit that Kerry asked merely due to the fact that he's in a different party.
One other question, if you're game for it.
What is it that you can possibly see as positive about the Republican party. I'm talking actual real things that they stand for rather than ancient crap that they used to. This obviously rules out small government, personal responsibility, state's rights or anytihng dealing with morality integrity or repsonsibility.
Honestly, what is it about a fascist theocracy that you believe in? That's the one thing I can't figure out. Clearly the politicians and religious leaders are in it for the same old reasons as always: money and power. what makes you think that you'll benefit form this at all?
And I work at a 3D animation firm, nothing galmorous but everyone seems to have enough money/time (reguardless of the fact that half of them have kids) to invest in an HD-TV.
You don't think you might be in a special sort of group based on where you work which has nothing to do with how much you get paid? I'd (wildly assedly) guess that you're in a self selected group with a high likelyhood of being interested in having an HDTV.
I could afford one. I have no interest whatsoever in having one becasue I see no benefit in it. You most likely do see a benefit in it (or you're kind of silly to spend the cash). See the difference?
Most people in this country don't want legalized gay marriage. Most people don't wish to live in that kind of society. The "extremist fundamentalists" are the majority of adults in this country, their viewpoint is extreme only in relation to the that of the relatively small number of urban liberal elites who are attempting to re-engineer society to their liking. You may not like that fact, but it's the inconvenient truth. Good luck convincing such people that you're "setting them free" by corrupting and spitting on their fundamental moral values.
And you've fallen into the trap of thinking that the constitution is designed to *give* rights.
What you and your morally bankrupt ilk always fail to do is come up with one possible constitutional justification for allowing such a ban. I know your type doesn't want to live in that type of society. The real problem is that "that type of society" is one in which people are allowed to live their lives in their own way wthout extremist religious zealots sticking their noses in other people's business. This is known as a "free society" and I'm well aware of your hatred and contempt for it.
People like you, in fact, are the reason we are not a democracy and that we have a separation of Church and State.
The fact is that the constitution and bill of rights exist to tell you to fuck off or leave if you don't want to live in that sort of society.
If you'ree too cowardly to live in a free society then move to saudi Arabia where thay already live under your ideal system.
UK, france and many other countries have seperation of church and state.
You might want to look into this thing called "The French Revolution". Pay particular attention to the date. Similarly for changes in British law. The simple fact is that there is still a state religion in England. It's called....let's see now.... no don't tell me.... oh yeah.. The Church of England.
You're making a blanket generalization about tens of millions of people who you want murdered because in your opinion they picked the wrong political party to put on their voter registration card.
No, I'm not. Your failure to understand that simple fact is your own problem.
The fact is that where we are now is the culmination of plans the Republicans have been actively striving for sonce Reagan. Like I said, *your* failure to pay attention to either history or current events is a deep personal failure of *yours*.
Were it a simple case of making a mistake, then this administration would have been impeached prosecuted and imprisoned and/or executed years ago. The fact that Republicans are still supporting their party over their country demonstrates absolutely that your point is both misguided and deluded.
Again, we're talking about specific actions that have been taken and continue to be supported. Your cowardly belief that the problem will magically go away if you bury your head in the sand is part of the problem, not the solution.
Nice try. Come back when you;re actually able to make a reasonable point without making up ridiculous nonsense about voter registration which you know full well has nothing to do with the issue.
You are a murderer in every sense except for your cowardice.
Hardly. It's a simple matter of self defense. They are the ones attacking me, my family, my constitution, and the American way of life. Pretending that ain't the case is the act of cowardice.
I'm not a Republican, but I still find your signature fundamentally anti-liberal. See here.
OK, let's see here: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
I agree with this wholeheartedly. What you are completely failing to realise is that there is an actual difference between saying something and shipping people off to torture camps.
Nice try sparky, but if you can't even tell the difference between speech and action then how is anybody supposed to believe that you can make any sense at all?
Try learning from history. Appeasement of Fascists doesn't work. It's been tried it failed.
Immigration sticks out as the crossover from your list. Pretty clearly the Repubs were trying to pony up immigration reform as this year's Gay Marriage Amendment: the social wedge issue that would continue to let them play Nixon's "southern strategy" this time around. The "illegal immigration should be a felony" thing was all about that. The grenade went off in their hands a bit, and now they're back to the gay marriage thing as a fallback position.
That's certainly true enough, but it does ignore a few important things. Here's a nice story about how fucking broken the immigration system is while also being a cautionary tale of how using it as a political football (by both sides and not just this recent round) continues to fuck it up worse.
I'll have been married for 4 years in August. We actually met on an internet dating site so this is kind of on topic, but anyhow... She's from England. She was already living in San Diego at the time on an H1B visa. I'm from San Diego as well, so save the mail order bride jokes. I get to make those when we're talking about that with friends;-) We live in Chicago now which has far and away the slowest INS office in the country. Think: it takes 4 times as long as New Mexico to process applications.
Now, like I said we've been married for almost 4 years and she *still* doesn't have her green card.
So, we got married and she applied for a change of status (basically just like applying for a green card except she already had a visa. Part of the process is a medical examination. Fair enough. So she goes to the hospital (not our doctor, oh no, you can only go to certain ones.). They proceed to tell her she has to have a TB test. Well, she's from England. She's been vaccinated against TB, has the scar and the medical records to prove it. Apart from the fact that this means that she isn't a risk it also means that she *will* test positive for TB. Do you think any of this had any effect on the doctor. Hell no. She was forced to have a potentially very dangerous test that said...waith for it... that she was positive for TB. So they wanted to put her on a 6 month regimine of extremely powerful and harmful antibiotics. She had to agree to do it to get the magical stamp even though there is no good reason whatsoever to take them and many good reasons not to. short story she ain't taking them.
Moving on, during this process the INS revamped their system to improve efficiency and they had an arbitrary cut off date which just happened to be one month after out application date so now we're stuck in limbo while people who applied a years after us are getting their interviews. OK, fine, that's just bad luck rather than real incompetence.
The small scale idiocies we had to deal with go on and on and on, but let's get to the really fun bit.
So at long last we get our interview. It took 5 minutes, she was approved and they stamped her passport which basically counts as a temporary green card. They then mail the actual card out to you. Stop. hold on a sec...Yes that's right. They drop it in the regular mail and you have no option to pay extra to get it sent fed ex, registered mail or anything else. Nope. regular US mail. I'm sure anybody who lives in the city of Chicago will back me up on the fact that Chicago has the worst fucking mail system in the country.
So, the months go by with no green card. We head back down to the INS office to find out what's going on and to get her passport restamped since the stamp had expired. Well, what do you know. They won't restamp her passport since the fact that they dropped in in the mailbox means with absolute 100% certainty that we already have it. Great, huh? So, we had to apply for a replacement green card. Oh, and pay $190. No passport stamp and their assurance that they would drop it in the mail. WTF?!?!?!?.
So, some of you might be beginning to see a pattern here. We are currently paying $190 every 90 days or so to have the INS give out a copy of my wife's gre
Our law is based on the Common Law of old England, which originally came from the church. A judge who respects judicial history and continuity will obviously rule that marriage is defined in the Common Law as the union of one man with one woman. Anything else is legislating from the bench.
And if you actually knew anything about the subject you're spouting insane nonsense about you wouldn't have wasted those electrons.
The fundamental difference that set America apart from England and all other countries is the separation of Church and State. England has a state church, we don't. Out laws are not based in any way whatsoever on any sort of religious beliefs. That's what made us so cool back in the day.
So now, we have these extremist fundamentalist nutjobs shoving this historical revisionism asshattery because they're too cowardly to deal with a free society.
If you want to live in a theocracy, move the Saudi Arabia. That's where they live under your desired system.
If you choose not to do so, think about why exactly that is and quit trying to bring that diseased type of system here.
Things obviously aren't as bad as they could be; things would be much worse if Brin were maintaining that what they did in China was the greatest thing ever. A company willing to question its politically controversial decisions publicly is probably not irretrievably evil. Whether it's moral is another question.
However, as long as there are companies who don't care (Microsoft, Yahoo etc.) it really doesn't matter all that much. In general morality is punished by the market. That's why Capitalism is an inherently amoral system. All it takes is one company to take a sleazy path and then that's the way they all go along with or go out of business. That's all assuming, of course, that there isn't some huge movement on the part of the American people leading to restrictive legislation.
Have you ever stopped to consider that getting verbally pissed off at folks who disagree with you isn't the best way to win people to your cause?
Sure, but have you ever stopped to consider that your actions have consequences and that when the results of your actions are as bad as these are that speaking about your "entitlements" when you weren't even willing to take 5 minutes to research a decision as important as who is going to be the President of the US tends to really piss off those of us who did actually care enough to pay attention?
Seriously, you're right, but consider the level of frustration generated after 6 years of blatantly treasonous actions by this administration and the Republican hate machine going full blown calling *me* a goddamned coward and traitor merely because I actually take my responsibilities seriously. That is the culture that you folks have actually worked very hard to cultivate. My diplomatic skills have always sucked ass, but at this point, it seems like it's the only thing your people respond to (or dare I say your former people).
I wish I had it in me to be more polite, but I really don't at this point. I'm so sick of pointing out blatantly obvious facts and being called a "traitor" a "moonbat" and various other Orwellian reversals. For that failing, I apologise.
It's FDR that started that ball rolling with the New Deal.
Now point me to where I said that the Republicans started it and you will have made a successful point. The Democrats certainly aren't innocent, but it is completely endemic among Republicans while at the same time they pretend to be against it which leads to the completely delusional, hypocritical, and frighteningly insane culture of hate that is the modern Republican party. For example, most Republican states are net tax leeches. This means that they do not actually pay one cent in federal income tax that isn't returned to their states with even more taken from the productive states. Their phones, electricity, cell phones farming and the like is subsidized (read they're on welfare). They are living under a socialist system with all the advantages but with the produvctive members of society paying for it. On top of that they think that they're gung ho capitalists. However Capitalism is inherently socially Liberalizing. In recent years as the results of capitalism are encroaching on them and they don't like it they sit there and blame the people who have been saying that for a hundred years. Then when they are faced with the results of their own actions their response is to vote in even more extremist fascists and the problems get even worse. Never do they demonstrate a scrap of integrity to actually take responsibility for their own actions.
That, my friend, is a culture of entitlement.
So when they are that far out of touch with reality, a simple realization that voting for Bush was a mistake means nothing, and will change nothing. It was *obvious* that it was a mistake back in 2000 if you spent 5 minutes researching the subject. It was obvious that we were going to war with Iraq. It was obvious that *if* we were attacked that that attack would be used as a justification to start that war regardless of who attacked us.
If these things are not obvious to you at this point, perhaps you should spend a little time looking into who these people actually are. Every one of those things is obvious because they were publically stated by the administration themselves as far back as 1999 ( as in long before the election). See their website specifically this pdf where they state flat out that they know that America will not back their ploy unless a Pearl harbor level event happens to allow them to use it as justification.
Please note that I am not making any claims that the administration was involved in 9/11. I have no need to because their own words are damning enough.
Ah. I was hoping the patches had tweaked the gameplay, not just fixed bugs. Had any luck with mods?
The gameplay was tweaked a bit, but it was almost totally unplayable on my system until after the second patch so I don't really know what the differences are. As far as mods, I haven't really tried them. I run it under Linux using Cedega, and it sometimes has problems because once you load a mod the program restarts itself and it doesn't work cleanly a lot of the time.
Really? I can honestly say that I do not know ANYONE (this includes my co-workers and friends as well as family members) that do not have at least one HD-TV in their home.
Really? where do you live? I have one friend who has an HDTV and I don't know a single other person who has any interest in one whatsoever.
Ruining the joke, if you think about it, humans are equivalent to a torus, so the hole would have to have a singular exit for the topologist to be unable to differentiate the two.
Taking the joke way too far (and using a bunch of irrelevant big words to try and sound cool and failing;-), what if you embedded just the ass in a locally convex topological vector space? Then there wouldn't be another exit.
Anyway if Charles ever becomes King I think I will move.
Isn't that about as likely as pigs flying? I'm no expert on British politics, but I thought that what with the divorce and general asshattery that they were skipping straight to William? Or is that just some people's wishful thinking that I picked that up from?
I really hope this is alarmist, but being a pissed off fiscal conservative (who actually voted for Bush), I feel entitled.:-)
No, this doesn't "entitle" you to shit. What this does do, however, is compell you to beg the forgiveness of your fellow countrymen for you absolute failure to take any of your responsibilities as a citizen seriously. Had you put any effort whatsoever into informing yourself before casting your vote then you would have known full well that you were voting for making up any excuse necessary in order to invade Iraq. You would have known that fiscal conservatism was entirely dead in the Republican party since Reagan.
So, no, you absolutely do not have an entitlement to anything until you have demonstrated a scrap of integrity and personal responsibility by addressing your horrendous dereliction of duty and dealing with it honestly as the grave *personal* failure that it is.
Sorry, but until you can be a man and own up to your mistakes which include a complete reckless disregard for your responsibilities as a citizen you are entitled to nothing but contempt for your cowardly treasonous action.
Sorry, Jackson, but by your failure to put any thought whatsoever into your vote you have helped establish a police state in this country.
The sheer audacity of your Republican belief in a culture of entitlement at this point in the game is truly deeply sickening.
Get some balls, get some integrity and start begging forgiveness for your cowardly actions.
That is the only way you will ever have any integrity or honor ever again. Pretending that you do not owe that to those of us you *betrayed* is just another demonstration of the complete lack of integrity and personal responsibility that is a defining characteristic of Republicans.
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You can take a HD out of a Linux system, and pop it into a machine with different specs, and it will just work.
;-)
Come on now. If you have a kernel with every single module built, then yes. If you have a stripped down custom kernel then you might need to add support for some new hardware and rebuild the kernel.
Of course that takes about 4 minutes on a current server (less if you use distcc), so you still can probably pull it off in under an hour
Natch. No simple answers, more than two sides: Exactly the sort of "nuance" that ain't going to get you elected.
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Dang, and I thought my overabundance of diplomatic skills would overcome that
Regulation and legislation usually stifles competition and innovation.
No, it USUALLY doesn't.
I have to agree with the OP and disagree with you on this one. However, this has nothing to do with the nature of markets or of legislation in a vacuum. I agree that it usually stifles competition and innovation becasue it's usually written by companies with this goal and then the politicians are bribed to implement it as such.
I agree with what I think is the spirit of your point though:
a free market is an abstract concept in reality and it's only with intelligently designed regulation of the market that anything approximating a free market is possible. Without this you end up with one company owning everything that everybody works for for room and board with a cabal at the top owning everything.
This is getting too funny. Luckily I was just teasing you in the first place. ;-)
At first I couldn't figure out what your response was supposed to mean since it was exactly the same as what I quoted in my response, but I was pretty sure you were teasing me back. Then I noticed what's missing from what I quoted. *And* from what you quoted back again
To avoid losing so many html tags that someone decides to set up a government ministry to go find them, I'll leave this with touche' and good game, Sir.
I voted Republican the last two elections. Knowing what I know now, I still would vote the same way.
So you're one on the..what 25% left?
Wow. So you really think freedom is a dead concept and fascist theocracy is the only way to go?
Seriously though:
Bush really does suck as a president. However, I still believe that Kerry would have been worse.
Can you come up with a actual reasonable mechanism by which this would even have been possible?
Kerry would have been under constant attack by the media with an extremely hostile congress that would have not allowed him to do anything.
Now compare that to the current situation where we have thrown out the constitution in order to institute a police state.
Seriously, come up with a possible way he could have been worse.
the fact is that he couldn't possibly have been worse no matter how much he tried even if being worse was his sole goal to which he directed mammoth effort. He would have been checked *hard* by the congress.
Bush has not been subject to any oversight whatsoever since the Republicans are loyal only to their party. They do whatever he tells them where they wouldn't have done shit that Kerry asked merely due to the fact that he's in a different party.
One other question, if you're game for it.
What is it that you can possibly see as positive about the Republican party. I'm talking actual real things that they stand for rather than ancient crap that they used to. This obviously rules out small government, personal responsibility, state's rights or anytihng dealing with morality integrity or repsonsibility.
Honestly, what is it about a fascist theocracy that you believe in? That's the one thing I can't figure out. Clearly the politicians and religious leaders are in it for the same old reasons as always: money and power.
what makes you think that you'll benefit form this at all?
"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
But once they find out you're a dog they can track down every fire hydrant that you've ever pissed on.
And I work at a 3D animation firm, nothing galmorous but everyone seems to have enough money/time (reguardless of the fact that half of them have kids) to invest in an HD-TV.
You don't think you might be in a special sort of group based on where you work which has nothing to do with how much you get paid? I'd (wildly assedly) guess that you're in a self selected group with a high likelyhood of being interested in having an HDTV.
I could afford one. I have no interest whatsoever in having one becasue I see no benefit in it. You most likely do see a benefit in it (or you're kind of silly to spend the cash). See the difference?
Most people in this country don't want legalized gay marriage. Most people don't wish to live in that kind of society. The "extremist fundamentalists" are the majority of adults in this country, their viewpoint is extreme only in relation to the that of the relatively small number of urban liberal elites who are attempting to re-engineer society to their liking. You may not like that fact, but it's the inconvenient truth. Good luck convincing such people that you're "setting them free" by corrupting and spitting on their fundamental moral values.
And you've fallen into the trap of thinking that the constitution is designed to *give* rights.
What you and your morally bankrupt ilk always fail to do is come up with one possible constitutional justification for allowing such a ban.
I know your type doesn't want to live in that type of society. The real problem is that "that type of society" is one in which people are allowed to live their lives in their own way wthout extremist religious zealots sticking their noses in other people's business. This is known as a "free society" and I'm well aware of your hatred and contempt for it.
People like you, in fact, are the reason we are not a democracy and that we have a separation of Church and State.
The fact is that the constitution and bill of rights exist to tell you to fuck off or leave if you don't want to live in that sort of society.
If you'ree too cowardly to live in a free society then move to saudi Arabia where thay already live under your ideal system.
Go to Wikipedia. Read about Common Law. Learn.
Yes, and English common law sprang full fledged out of the ground on the 8th day.
Idiot.
How about you read and learn
UK, france and many other countries have seperation of church and state.
You might want to look into this thing called "The French Revolution". Pay particular attention to the date.
Similarly for changes in British law. The simple fact is that there is still a state religion in England. It's called....let's see now.... no don't tell me.... oh yeah.. The Church of England.
You're making a blanket generalization about tens of millions of people who you want murdered because in your opinion they picked the wrong political party to put on their voter registration card.
No, I'm not. Your failure to understand that simple fact is your own problem.
The fact is that where we are now is the culmination of plans the Republicans have been actively striving for sonce Reagan. Like I said, *your* failure to pay attention to either history or current events is a deep personal failure of *yours*.
Were it a simple case of making a mistake, then this administration would have been impeached prosecuted and imprisoned and/or executed years ago. The fact that Republicans are still supporting their party over their country demonstrates absolutely that your point is both misguided and deluded.
Again, we're talking about specific actions that have been taken and continue to be supported. Your cowardly belief that the problem will magically go away if you bury your head in the sand is part of the problem, not the solution.
Nice try. Come back when you;re actually able to make a reasonable point without making up ridiculous nonsense about voter registration which you know full well has nothing to do with the issue.
You are a murderer in every sense except for your cowardice.
Hardly. It's a simple matter of self defense. They are the ones attacking me, my family, my constitution, and the American way of life. Pretending that ain't the case is the act of cowardice.
I'm not a Republican, but I still find your signature fundamentally anti-liberal. See here.
OK, let's see here:
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
I agree with this wholeheartedly.
What you are completely failing to realise is that there is an actual difference between saying something and shipping people off to torture camps.
Nice try sparky, but if you can't even tell the difference between speech and action then how is anybody supposed to believe that you can make any sense at all?
Try learning from history. Appeasement of Fascists doesn't work. It's been tried it failed.
Immigration sticks out as the crossover from your list. Pretty clearly the Repubs were trying to pony up immigration reform as this year's Gay Marriage Amendment: the social wedge issue that would continue to let them play Nixon's "southern strategy" this time around. The "illegal immigration should be a felony" thing was all about that. The grenade went off in their hands a bit, and now they're back to the gay marriage thing as a fallback position.
;-)
That's certainly true enough, but it does ignore a few important things. Here's a nice story about how fucking broken the immigration system is while also being a cautionary tale of how using it as a political football (by both sides and not just this recent round) continues to fuck it up worse.
I'll have been married for 4 years in August. We actually met on an internet dating site so this is kind of on topic, but anyhow... She's from England. She was already living in San Diego at the time on an H1B visa. I'm from San Diego as well, so save the mail order bride jokes. I get to make those when we're talking about that with friends
We live in Chicago now which has far and away the slowest INS office in the country. Think: it takes 4 times as long as New Mexico to process applications.
Now, like I said we've been married for almost 4 years and she *still* doesn't have her green card.
So, we got married and she applied for a change of status (basically just like applying for a green card except she already had a visa. Part of the process is a medical examination. Fair enough. So she goes to the hospital (not our doctor, oh no, you can only go to certain ones.). They proceed to tell her she has to have a TB test. Well, she's from England. She's been vaccinated against TB, has the scar and the medical records to prove it. Apart from the fact that this means that she isn't a risk it also means that she *will* test positive for TB. Do you think any of this had any effect on the doctor. Hell no. She was forced to have a potentially very dangerous test that said...waith for it... that she was positive for TB. So they wanted to put her on a 6 month regimine of extremely powerful and harmful antibiotics. She had to agree to do it to get the magical stamp even though there is no good reason whatsoever to take them and many good reasons not to. short story she ain't taking them.
Moving on, during this process the INS revamped their system to improve efficiency and they had an arbitrary cut off date which just happened to be one month after out application date so now we're stuck in limbo while people who applied a years after us are getting their interviews. OK, fine, that's just bad luck rather than real incompetence.
The small scale idiocies we had to deal with go on and on and on, but let's get to the really fun bit.
So at long last we get our interview. It took 5 minutes, she was approved and they stamped her passport which basically counts as a temporary green card. They then mail the actual card out to you. Stop. hold on a sec...Yes that's right. They drop it in the regular mail and you have no option to pay extra to get it sent fed ex, registered mail or anything else. Nope. regular US mail.
I'm sure anybody who lives in the city of Chicago will back me up on the fact that Chicago has the worst fucking mail system in the country.
So, the months go by with no green card. We head back down to the INS office to find out what's going on and to get her passport restamped since the stamp had expired.
Well, what do you know. They won't restamp her passport since the fact that they dropped in in the mailbox means with absolute 100% certainty that we already have it. Great, huh?
So, we had to apply for a replacement green card. Oh, and pay $190. No passport stamp and their assurance that they would drop it in the mail. WTF?!?!?!?.
So, some of you might be beginning to see a pattern here.
We are currently paying $190 every 90 days or so to have the INS give out a copy of my wife's gre
Our law is based on the Common Law of old England, which originally came from the church. A judge who respects judicial history and continuity will obviously rule that marriage is defined in the Common Law as the union of one man with one woman. Anything else is legislating from the bench.
And if you actually knew anything about the subject you're spouting insane nonsense about you wouldn't have wasted those electrons.
The fundamental difference that set America apart from England and all other countries is the separation of Church and State. England has a state church, we don't. Out laws are not based in any way whatsoever on any sort of religious beliefs. That's what made us so cool back in the day.
So now, we have these extremist fundamentalist nutjobs shoving this historical revisionism asshattery because they're too cowardly to deal with a free society.
If you want to live in a theocracy, move the Saudi Arabia. That's where they live under your desired system.
If you choose not to do so, think about why exactly that is and quit trying to bring that diseased type of system here.
But since when is obeying the law evil?
Since the first evil law was passed? That would be thousands of years ago.
Things obviously aren't as bad as they could be; things would be much worse if Brin were maintaining that what they did in China was the greatest thing ever. A company willing to question its politically controversial decisions publicly is probably not irretrievably evil. Whether it's moral is another question.
However, as long as there are companies who don't care (Microsoft, Yahoo etc.) it really doesn't matter all that much. In general morality is punished by the market. That's why Capitalism is an inherently amoral system. All it takes is one company to take a sleazy path and then that's the way they all go along with or go out of business. That's all assuming, of course, that there isn't some huge movement on the part of the American people leading to restrictive legislation.
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then it ignores paragraph breaks as whitespace and condenses everything into one paragraph.
You mean if it gets set to html it acts like html?
You're right. That *is* a problem.
Have you ever stopped to consider that getting verbally pissed off at folks who disagree with you isn't the best way to win people to your cause?
Sure, but have you ever stopped to consider that your actions have consequences and that when the results of your actions are as bad as these are that speaking about your "entitlements" when you weren't even willing to take 5 minutes to research a decision as important as who is going to be the President of the US tends to really piss off those of us who did actually care enough to pay attention?
Seriously, you're right, but consider the level of frustration generated after 6 years of blatantly treasonous actions by this administration and the Republican hate machine going full blown calling *me* a goddamned coward and traitor merely because I actually take my responsibilities seriously. That is the culture that you folks have actually worked very hard to cultivate.
My diplomatic skills have always sucked ass, but at this point, it seems like it's the only thing your people respond to (or dare I say your former people).
I wish I had it in me to be more polite, but I really don't at this point. I'm so sick of pointing out blatantly obvious facts and being called a "traitor" a "moonbat" and various other Orwellian reversals.
For that failing, I apologise.
It's FDR that started that ball rolling with the New Deal.
Now point me to where I said that the Republicans started it and you will have made a successful point.
The Democrats certainly aren't innocent, but it is completely endemic among Republicans while at the same time they pretend to be against it which leads to the completely delusional, hypocritical, and frighteningly insane culture of hate that is the modern Republican party.
For example, most Republican states are net tax leeches. This means that they do not actually pay one cent in federal income tax that isn't returned to their states with even more taken from the productive states. Their phones, electricity, cell phones farming and the like is subsidized (read they're on welfare). They are living under a socialist system with all the advantages but with the produvctive members of society paying for it. On top of that they think that they're gung ho capitalists. However Capitalism is inherently socially Liberalizing. In recent years as the results of capitalism are encroaching on them and they don't like it they sit there and blame the people who have been saying that for a hundred years. Then when they are faced with the results of their own actions their response is to vote in even more extremist fascists and the problems get even worse. Never do they demonstrate a scrap of integrity to actually take responsibility for their own actions.
That, my friend, is a culture of entitlement.
So when they are that far out of touch with reality, a simple realization that voting for Bush was a mistake means nothing, and will change nothing. It was *obvious* that it was a mistake back in 2000 if you spent 5 minutes researching the subject. It was obvious that we were going to war with Iraq. It was obvious that *if* we were attacked that that attack would be used as a justification to start that war regardless of who attacked us.
If these things are not obvious to you at this point, perhaps you should spend a little time looking into who these people actually are. Every one of those things is obvious because they were publically stated by the administration themselves as far back as 1999 ( as in long before the election). See their website specifically this pdf where they state flat out that they know that America will not back their ploy unless a Pearl harbor level event happens to allow them to use it as justification.
Please note that I am not making any claims that the administration was involved in 9/11. I have no need to because their own words are damning enough.
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Ah. I was hoping the patches had tweaked the gameplay, not just fixed bugs. Had any luck with mods?
The gameplay was tweaked a bit, but it was almost totally unplayable on my system until after the second patch so I don't really know what the differences are. As far as mods, I haven't really tried them. I run it under Linux using Cedega, and it sometimes has problems because once you load a mod the program restarts itself and it doesn't work cleanly a lot of the time.
Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
Really? I can honestly say that I do not know ANYONE (this includes my co-workers and friends as well as family members) that do not have at least one HD-TV in their home.
Really? where do you live?
I have one friend who has an HDTV and I don't know a single other person who has any interest in one whatsoever.
Not sure exactly what happens then...
;-)
Ummmm.... "Who Wants To Be a King" on BBC4
Ruining the joke, if you think about it, humans are equivalent to a torus, so the hole would have to have a singular exit for the topologist to be unable to differentiate the two.
Taking the joke way too far (and using a bunch of irrelevant big words to try and sound cool and failing
Oh come on people. This is 5th grade grammar. The proper spelling is lackeys. There is no apostrophe on a non possessive plural.
What do po's'se's'sive's and/or plural's have to do with apo'strophe's?
The apo'strophe i's intended to 'say, "Look out, here come's an 's'."
Anyway if Charles ever becomes King I think I will move.
Isn't that about as likely as pigs flying? I'm no expert on British politics, but I thought that what with the divorce and general asshattery that they were skipping straight to William? Or is that just some people's wishful thinking that I picked that up from?
I really hope this is alarmist, but being a pissed off fiscal conservative (who actually voted for Bush), I feel entitled. :-)
No, this doesn't "entitle" you to shit. What this does do, however, is compell you to beg the forgiveness of your fellow countrymen for you absolute failure to take any of your responsibilities as a citizen seriously. Had you put any effort whatsoever into informing yourself before casting your vote then you would have known full well that you were voting for making up any excuse necessary in order to invade Iraq. You would have known that fiscal conservatism was entirely dead in the Republican party since Reagan.
So, no, you absolutely do not have an entitlement to anything until you have demonstrated a scrap of integrity and personal responsibility by addressing your horrendous dereliction of duty and dealing with it honestly as the grave *personal* failure that it is.
Sorry, but until you can be a man and own up to your mistakes which include a complete reckless disregard for your responsibilities as a citizen you are entitled to nothing but contempt for your cowardly treasonous action.
Sorry, Jackson, but by your failure to put any thought whatsoever into your vote you have helped establish a police state in this country.
The sheer audacity of your Republican belief in a culture of entitlement at this point in the game is truly deeply sickening.
Get some balls, get some integrity and start begging forgiveness for your cowardly actions.
That is the only way you will ever have any integrity or honor ever again.
Pretending that you do not owe that to those of us you *betrayed* is just another demonstration of the complete lack of integrity and personal responsibility that is a defining characteristic of Republicans.