It's all a scam anyway. I remember reading a car mag about speeding tickets and they talked to local judges (obviously not naming names), and it was basically repeated by every judge. Folks come in mad they got a ticket. Mad at themselves, the officer, the system, etc. So the judge will lower the fine and eliminate points. The speeder feels like he/she got a deal and the court system gets their money. And finally, the speeder is out there thinking they can do the same thing next time so they keep speeding. These so called 'safety' laws, speeding, red-light/speed cameras, traps, etc. are only about generating cash for the city/county/state. If it were truly a safety issue, they would force automakers to put limiters on cars which slow the car to 65MPH. They obviously think that air bags, anitlock breaks, bumpers, etc are safety devices, why isn't a limiter at 65MPH (or 70MPH depending on the state).
I have to say that at the price for my Speakeasy VOIP and quality/features I receive from them, I wouldn't care if they told me that 911 doesn't work at all. I hope POTS isn't having 911 be their main selling point. There were days when you wrote emergency numbers by your phone, it's not that tough.
Wait a minute...I thought eye candy was the cuties at the booths of a tech conference? What did I miss?
Wouldn't it be better to call these what they really are: "Vegas Options."
Yeah, I'm sure governments always put out memos about _all_ of their ongoings.
As for mediamatter.org's founder:
"It was launched in 2004 with David Brock as its CEO and founder. Brock is the author of four political books, including The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy. His preceding book, Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative, was a 2002 New York Times best-selling political memoir in which he chronicled his years as a conservative media insider. Brock serves on the advisory board of Democracy Radio Inc. and is the recipient of the New Democrat Network's first award for political entrepreneurship. He is the President and CEO of Media Matters for America."
Yeah, there's not a chance that he's biased. Besides, I can http://slate.msn.com/id/2100712/quote along with you. Personally, I like the part where he admites to making stuff up. Classic.
It's not what you typed, but what you implied. When you place blame on one group/person, i.e. Bush/US, you absolve the other. I suppose I could have been using transference though.
While you are throwing out "facts" BigDogCH, don't forget that Clinton had a wonderful opportunity to kill or capture bin Laden and passed on it out of fear of what it would do to his reputation.
There's plenty of blame to go around. Please stop asking for my sympathy and understanding for the individuals who are committing these acts.
With the USSR gone (for now at least), the US became an easy target for 'your the next evil empire' folks.
Will the US fall? If history is any indicator, then it will. Probably due to an economic war with China though, not through physical war. The new war front has moved into the stock markets. But then again, you never know what the future holds.
I love it when people paint the US as the bad guys in this whole thing. It's easy to arm-chair/monday morning quarterback a war long after it's over.
Try asking a person who was alive during WWII and they will tell you that it was the right thing to do based upon the stituation at that time. Japan was knocking it out all over the place. They were good at what they did. They were brutal and in times of war, it does pay to be brutal. (check the Romans, Egypians, Ottoman Empire, Germans, Mongols etc...).
Was dropping those bombs on Japan the right thing to do. I don't know I wasn't alive. It did end the war and potentially saved more lives then if the war had been allowed to go on. Yes it killed many innocent folks, but those cities were centers for military production of equipment (just like any city in the US with a large material support is a target, ask the Russians).
Do you think that if hitler would have developed the Atomic Bomb he would have hesitated to use it?
This of course is worthless to argue, since folks who think it was wrong will never accept any justification, and those who think it wasn't the wrong action for the time, will look like 'war-happy' goofballs.
Just think, you'd get paid to view all that pr0n that folks have been surfing to ensure it doesn't violate some law. Of course, not all of it would be good pr0n.
However, based on volume of traffic, I don't think this is a very realistic task for anyone to do keeping fiscal responsiblity in mind. (yeah, I know it's the government)
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It's all a scam anyway. I remember reading a car mag about speeding tickets and they talked to local judges (obviously not naming names), and it was basically repeated by every judge. Folks come in mad they got a ticket. Mad at themselves, the officer, the system, etc. So the judge will lower the fine and eliminate points. The speeder feels like he/she got a deal and the court system gets their money. And finally, the speeder is out there thinking they can do the same thing next time so they keep speeding. These so called 'safety' laws, speeding, red-light/speed cameras, traps, etc. are only about generating cash for the city/county/state. If it were truly a safety issue, they would force automakers to put limiters on cars which slow the car to 65MPH. They obviously think that air bags, anitlock breaks, bumpers, etc are safety devices, why isn't a limiter at 65MPH (or 70MPH depending on the state).
I have to say that at the price for my Speakeasy VOIP and quality/features I receive from them, I wouldn't care if they told me that 911 doesn't work at all. I hope POTS isn't having 911 be their main selling point. There were days when you wrote emergency numbers by your phone, it's not that tough.
I know I'm late to the game today, but the yahoo site linked above has a photo of Megatron with the quote below it saying it's Optimus Prime.
They sure were not successful in the Yugoslavia. This is just another thing that the UN can recieve kickbacks on.
Wait a minute...I thought eye candy was the cuties at the booths of a tech conference? What did I miss? Wouldn't it be better to call these what they really are: "Vegas Options."
Sigh....The 9/11 commission isn't wrong, they can only repeat information that got from the administration.
So you expect an administration to admit to letting the person responsible for the 9/11 attacks go?
Yeah, I'm sure governments always put out memos about _all_ of their ongoings.
As for mediamatter.org's founder:
"It was launched in 2004 with David Brock as its CEO and founder. Brock is the author of four political books, including The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy. His preceding book, Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative, was a 2002 New York Times best-selling political memoir in which he chronicled his years as a conservative media insider. Brock serves on the advisory board of Democracy Radio Inc. and is the recipient of the New Democrat Network's first award for political entrepreneurship. He is the President and CEO of Media Matters for America."
Yeah, there's not a chance that he's biased. Besides, I can http://slate.msn.com/id/2100712/quote along with you. Personally, I like the part where he admites to making stuff up. Classic.
It's not what you typed, but what you implied. When you place blame on one group/person, i.e. Bush/US, you absolve the other. I suppose I could have been using transference though.
While you are throwing out "facts" BigDogCH, don't forget that Clinton had a wonderful opportunity to kill or capture bin Laden and passed on it out of fear of what it would do to his reputation. There's plenty of blame to go around. Please stop asking for my sympathy and understanding for the individuals who are committing these acts.
I wonder who's going to go way out on a limb and purchase Princess Lea's gold slave outfit.
On how much you drink I am sure.
OK. Run that direction. Oh...wait....you said 'amazing.' Sorry.
I think they both(all) suck. so what does that mean?
The Democrats need to get there propaganda out there too.
They are still trying to harvest email addresses.
I think I'll outsource my blog to India.
'I find it funny that intelligent, well-argued debates are now called "leftist".' You give it too much credit.
Why is this 3+ interesting?
With the USSR gone (for now at least), the US became an easy target for 'your the next evil empire' folks.
Will the US fall? If history is any indicator, then it will. Probably due to an economic war with China though, not through physical war. The new war front has moved into the stock markets. But then again, you never know what the future holds.
I love it when people paint the US as the bad guys in this whole thing. It's easy to arm-chair/monday morning quarterback a war long after it's over.
Try asking a person who was alive during WWII and they will tell you that it was the right thing to do based upon the stituation at that time. Japan was knocking it out all over the place. They were good at what they did. They were brutal and in times of war, it does pay to be brutal. (check the Romans, Egypians, Ottoman Empire, Germans, Mongols etc...).
Was dropping those bombs on Japan the right thing to do. I don't know I wasn't alive. It did end the war and potentially saved more lives then if the war had been allowed to go on. Yes it killed many innocent folks, but those cities were centers for military production of equipment (just like any city in the US with a large material support is a target, ask the Russians).
Do you think that if hitler would have developed the Atomic Bomb he would have hesitated to use it?
This of course is worthless to argue, since folks who think it was wrong will never accept any justification, and those who think it wasn't the wrong action for the time, will look like 'war-happy' goofballs.
You mean like when the Japanese dropped the Bubonic Plague on the shores of China killing millions?
"That is a feature, not a bug" Acutally, "That is an unsupported feature."
Just think, you'd get paid to view all that pr0n that folks have been surfing to ensure it doesn't violate some law. Of course, not all of it would be good pr0n.
However, based on volume of traffic, I don't think this is a very realistic task for anyone to do keeping fiscal responsiblity in mind. (yeah, I know it's the government)
Ahhhh, I remember when 'beta' meant VC dollars.
It's not 'hiding behind' mistakes, it's saying, 'We know there are bugs, but this is what we have so far.'