I wasn't praising Bush -- I was pointing out that Clinton and Bush both suck. And I didn't say that reducing Mercury levels is impractical; I said that most (not all) last-minute bills are impractical, and are passed in the knowledge that will be scrapped by the next government. Clinton's mercury bill was only proposed to make himself and the Democratic party look like champions of the environment without having to actually help the environment.
I'm not American either. My local government spent four years scrapping social programs and reducing taxes for the rich. Now that an election is only a few months away, they're suddenly putting lots of money back into social programs (creating an enormous deficit in the process). The government that replaces them will have to take that money back out of the social programs to balance the budget, which will automatically vilify them in most people's eyes. You see how this works?
That's a standard government trick. You pass a whole bunch of bills right before you leave power, so that you look good; usually these bills involve dumping enormous amounts of money into social programs. The next administration has to repeal them all (usually because they're completely impractical), and has to look like jerks for it.
The point is, if Clinton wanted to lower mercury levels in American drinking water, he'd have done it earlier in his presidency. Instead he did it at the last minute, knowing that Bush or Gore would veto it.
So a particular policy was poorly implemented, and this is somehow a strike against all of liberalism? What are you, some kind of retard?
Let me try:
"Some people used their $100 from George Bush to buy drugs. This has forever marred capitalism; the Republican party will forever be politically shunned."
"Red staters" are automatically morons for buying into the Republican party philosophy of industry-at-any-cost -- a philosophy rivalled in stupidity only by the Democratic party philosophy of industry-at-any-cost-while-paying-lip-service-to-t he-environment.
If they were intelligent, they would have develop intelligent, rational philosophies. Two intelligent people can have an honest disagreement over politics, but not when they simply subscribe to a prepackaged ideology based on being a corporate puppet. And no, I don't hate capitalism or corporations; I just think our politicians shouldn't be beholden to corporations.
Yeah, the same George Bush who allowed a bill to pass that lowered the allowable levels of mercury in drinking water -- a bill the Clinton repeatedly vetoed?
If anything, Clinton was a better raper of the environment that Bush will ever be. That's why Clinton is often referred to as the greatest Republican president of all time.
You are hereby penalized 4 points for assuming that any criticism directed towards the current administration is automatically a condemnation of the Republican party and its values.
This administration is completely and totally shitty. Deal with it. Acknowledging the utter and absolute shittiness of the previous administration doesn't detract from the current administration's shittiness one iota.
The Democrats and the Republicans are indistinguishable as far as their actual policies are concerned. They're both corporate puppets who only follow the money.
This is not about "your side is evil, my side is pure" -- unless you actually consider yourself to be on the side of falsifying science. We're on the same side, the side that believes in freedom, science, privacy rights, and all that. The government is on the opposite side, the side of tyranny, ignorance, and the police state.
You lose. Your post automatically receives zero points, because you stupidly assumed that this has something to do with Democrats and Republicans. You think Clinton didn't pull this same shit? The man who consistently vetoed reducing the amount of mercury in American drinking water? Grow up.
The Republicans and the Democrats are exactly the same. They are both corrupt corporate puppets. They just present different lies about what they stand for.
You still don't get it, do you? All you see is your retarded red-vs-blue idiocy.
Bush sucks -- he sucks really hard. Just because Clinton was every bit as big an asshole, doesn't make Bush any less an asshole.
Face it -- America has become a fascist state, where science is censored in favour of business interests. All that matters anymore is that the trains run on time. The Democrats and the Republicans are both equally culpable, because they are exactly the same party. There's no difference between them anymore, nor has there been any difference for several decades. Clinton may have talked the liberal talk, and Bush may talk the conservative talk, but their policies are virtually indistinguishable.
You're preaching to the choir, man. Real environmentalists totally favour nuclear power; it doesn't flood valleys and destroy river ecosystems, and it doesn't kill endangered birds.
Solar power may one day provide a lot of people's personal energy requirements, but Nuclear is probably the only way to provide the massive amounts of power necessary to keep industry up and humming.
Technically speaking, there are different formulations of the pill. Most use a cocktail of several different hormones, one of which prevents eggs from implanting into the uterus, while another prevents ovulation completely. The cocktails are best, because even if one hormone fails, there's a backup.
I looked into this because my GF was on a pill that did not prevent ovulation. A lot of women are more comfortable with this formulation, because it does not cause their period to end. Personally, I'd think women would be happy to rid themselves of their period, but there it is.
Yeah, because an encrypted connection on port 22 is totally going to fool them.
Seriously, senõr retardo, nothing's going to make your network activity stand out more than encrypting it. Do you really think that if the Chinese government is intent on securing internet access, that they'll just ignore non-HTTP traffic? What this situation call for is steganography .
What retarded bullshit. All the people who told me that school is useless are making $15-$20 an hour at menial jobs, whereas I can't even GET a job. A BSc in Computer Science is worthless now (unless you count the student loans I needed to pay for it, in which case the degree is $40000 disaster).
I wish I'd listened to those people, and just dropped out of grade 11 and gone to work at a mill.
Well, the GPG thing is already happening. Evolution, KMail, Mozilla Mail, and Mozilla Thunderbird all either support GPG directly, or have a widely available plugin for using GPG.
What a retarded thing to say. What on earth can a normal American do to change the law? We're not talking about Walt Eisner or Bill Gates. Most people have absolutely ZERO power over the law, other than to engage in civil disobience -- which is exactly what you're saying they shouldn't do.
Just out of curiosity, what kind of applications are enterprises running with the multiprocessor monstrosities? What applications benefit from this kind of thing?
I was under the impression that enterprise applications were normally limited by the speed of the hard-drive and RAM, applications like webserving and database management.
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I'm not American either. My local government spent four years scrapping social programs and reducing taxes for the rich. Now that an election is only a few months away, they're suddenly putting lots of money back into social programs (creating an enormous deficit in the process). The government that replaces them will have to take that money back out of the social programs to balance the budget, which will automatically vilify them in most people's eyes. You see how this works?
The point is, if Clinton wanted to lower mercury levels in American drinking water, he'd have done it earlier in his presidency. Instead he did it at the last minute, knowing that Bush or Gore would veto it.
Let me try: "Some people used their $100 from George Bush to buy drugs. This has forever marred capitalism; the Republican party will forever be politically shunned."
Does that sound stupid to you?
If they were intelligent, they would have develop intelligent, rational philosophies. Two intelligent people can have an honest disagreement over politics, but not when they simply subscribe to a prepackaged ideology based on being a corporate puppet. And no, I don't hate capitalism or corporations; I just think our politicians shouldn't be beholden to corporations.
If anything, Clinton was a better raper of the environment that Bush will ever be. That's why Clinton is often referred to as the greatest Republican president of all time.
This administration is completely and totally shitty. Deal with it. Acknowledging the utter and absolute shittiness of the previous administration doesn't detract from the current administration's shittiness one iota.
The Democrats and the Republicans are indistinguishable as far as their actual policies are concerned. They're both corporate puppets who only follow the money.
This is not about "your side is evil, my side is pure" -- unless you actually consider yourself to be on the side of falsifying science. We're on the same side, the side that believes in freedom, science, privacy rights, and all that. The government is on the opposite side, the side of tyranny, ignorance, and the police state.
I bow down before your masterful cynicism.
The Republicans and the Democrats are exactly the same. They are both corrupt corporate puppets. They just present different lies about what they stand for.
Bush sucks -- he sucks really hard. Just because Clinton was every bit as big an asshole, doesn't make Bush any less an asshole.
Face it -- America has become a fascist state, where science is censored in favour of business interests. All that matters anymore is that the trains run on time. The Democrats and the Republicans are both equally culpable, because they are exactly the same party. There's no difference between them anymore, nor has there been any difference for several decades. Clinton may have talked the liberal talk, and Bush may talk the conservative talk, but their policies are virtually indistinguishable.
Wow! You just generalized from a single example -- yourself. And you actually believe that you're intelligent? Well done.
Solar power may one day provide a lot of people's personal energy requirements, but Nuclear is probably the only way to provide the massive amounts of power necessary to keep industry up and humming.
I looked into this because my GF was on a pill that did not prevent ovulation. A lot of women are more comfortable with this formulation, because it does not cause their period to end. Personally, I'd think women would be happy to rid themselves of their period, but there it is.
Seriously, senõr retardo, nothing's going to make your network activity stand out more than encrypting it. Do you really think that if the Chinese government is intent on securing internet access, that they'll just ignore non-HTTP traffic? What this situation call for is steganography .
Just playing the maps that were made for the contest, I'm already impressed. Playing Deathmatch on an abandoned farm or a museum is awesome!
What retarded bullshit. All the people who told me that school is useless are making $15-$20 an hour at menial jobs, whereas I can't even GET a job. A BSc in Computer Science is worthless now (unless you count the student loans I needed to pay for it, in which case the degree is $40000 disaster). I wish I'd listened to those people, and just dropped out of grade 11 and gone to work at a mill.
Still, your point is well made.
Cool -- it's like the old idea of the Sneakernet, except that it's a trade network rather than a data network.
What a retarded thing to say. What on earth can a normal American do to change the law? We're not talking about Walt Eisner or Bill Gates. Most people have absolutely ZERO power over the law, other than to engage in civil disobience -- which is exactly what you're saying they shouldn't do.
There are seriously disk arrays so fast that it takes 64 processors or more to handle the data? I take it that ain't no ATA bus we're taking about.
I was under the impression that enterprise applications were normally limited by the speed of the hard-drive and RAM, applications like webserving and database management.