Because of the immensly successful recycling of stories, why not recycle comments from past stories as well?
As we move closer to the world of Orwell's 1984, remember why this country is failing (and sadly the story is the same around the world). Japan is a rare example of a successful, non-violent, low-crime nation, but more on that later.
The US has one of the highest crime rates in the world (except for some African and South American countries.)
The reason for this is simple, but not exactly "politically correct". If you weigh the crime rate averages together for the population groups in the US, it makes perfect sense.
The low crime rate of the Asian/Japanese-Americans make up a small percent of the population.
The low European-American crime rate is about the same as that of the native people in most countries in Europe.
The African-American crime-rate(1) is orders of magnitude higher, consistent with the extreme crime rate the sub-Saharan African countries.
The same is true for the Hispanic crime rate, which mirrors that seen in Mexico and the other South American countries of origin.
Instead of facing these simple facts, the liberals go to great lengths trying to disarm honest citizens whose families have been law abiding for hundreds of years in this country. Since gun ownership is already illegal for criminals, there is no reason to expect felons will obey new laws if guns are outlawed for everybody.
Politicians continue promoting the flooding of America with 3rd world immigration that compound the problem further.
The final result of this is still years off, but the US will be no different from The Roman Empire, Egypt, India, Bosnia, South Africa, Israel, Zimbabwe, The English Empire, The Soviet Union or anywhere else where multi-cultural empires have existed. The end result is always the same: The empire's government disintegrates when the "ruling" class becomes too heavily outnumbered, and tribal warfare breaks out.
We're already seeing the beginnings of this in Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Seattle and Washington and other cities around the country.
Measures such as the government cameras (and electronic passports you must carry on your person, and other future protocols) are becoming increasingly necessary while politicians and police scramble to hold the scattering pieces of America together.
The constitution was intended to govern a country populated by the people who founded the nation. Jefferson and the others did not predict that America would turn into a multi-cultural empire (like the British one they has just left), where a legal system based on freedom and liberty cannot work.
So back to where i started, why is Japan so much more successful than us? Because they are not a multi-cultural empire. Japan is a homogeneous nation, made up of 99.8% native Japanese, basically an extended family, with a high average intelligence, and very similar to each other. They do not allow any significant immigration, and as a result, they will continue to prosper while America and Europe deteriorate into tribal civil wars sometime later in the 21st century.
(1) The rate at which Blacks commit murder is thirteen times that of Whites; Rape and assault, ten times. These figures, as given by the F.B.I. reports, vary somewhat from year to year but fairly represent the trend for the past decade. [Source: the FBI uniform crime statistics reports, and Harris, Marvin, Why Nothing Works. Simon & Schuster, New York, NY]
If you are going to flame me, do not use words such as "racist", "bigot" and "hater" that you have learned to repeat after the TV. Reply with your own opinions that you can back-up in a debate, not immature name-calling.
so what youre saying is that blacks commit violent crimes simply because theyre black? sorry buddy, but you are a bigot...if the glove fits wear it
Bigot is someone who holds opinions without having done the research to justify them. Such as yourself.
Ever watch the NBA? Are you saying that black skin makes you good at basketball? Of course not, but other genetic traits to, and evolution has happened to place those traits together in the same populations. You are confusing the Cause and Effect.
The fact that someone's skin is black, white or yellow is just one of millions of variations in the DNA, that control skin color along with every other aspect of human development, such as the inclination for criminal behavior, alcoholism, height, intelligence, eye color, physical build, hereditary illnesses and so on.
You say that guns cause crime? That's absolutely false. Criminals cause crimes. Criminals commit crimes with whataver weapons they can obtain. Be it knifes, guns or bricks. You reduce crime by reducing the number of criminals.
For example, the crime rate in the US has been steadily declining over the past 10 years. Coincidently, 30% of our young black males are now in prison.
Did you happen to notice my pledge for educated replies? Or did you just ignore it in favor of exactly the kind of unjustified TV blabber that you have been force-fed for so long?
As we move closer to the world of Orwell's 1984, remember why this country is failing (and sadly the story is the same around the world). Japan is a rare example of a successful, non-violent, low-crime nation, but more on that later.
The US has one of the highest crime rates in the world (except for some African and South American countries.)
The reason for this is simple, but not exactly "politically correct". If you weigh the crime rate averages together for the population groups in the US, it makes perfect sense.
The low crime rate of the Asian/Japanese-Americans make up a small percent of the population.
The low European-American crime rate is about the same as that of the native people in most countries in Europe.
The African-American crime-rate(1) is orders of magnitude higher, consistent with the extreme crime rate the sub-Saharan African countries.
The same is true for the Hispanic crime rate, which mirrors that seen in Mexico and the other South American countries of origin.
Instead of facing these simple facts, the liberals go to great lengths trying to disarm honest citizens whose families have been law abiding for hundreds of years in this country. Since gun ownership is already illegal for criminals, there is no reason to expect felons will obey new laws if guns are outlawed for everybody.
Politicians continue promoting the flooding of America with 3rd world immigration that compound the problem further.
The final result of this is still years off, but the US will be no different from The Roman Empire, Egypt, India, Bosnia, South Africa, Israel, Zimbabwe, The English Empire, The Soviet Union or anywhere else where multi-cultural empires have existed. The end result is always the same: The empire's government disintegrates when the "ruling" class becomes too heavily outnumbered, and tribal warfare breaks out.
We're already seeing the beginnings of this in Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Seattle and Washington and other cities around the country.
Measures such as the government cameras (and electronic passports you must carry on your person, and other future protocols) are becoming increasingly necessary while politicians and police scramble to hold the scattering pieces of America together.
The constitution was intended to govern a country populated by the people who founded the nation. Jefferson and the others did not predict that America would turn into a multi-cultural empire (like the British one they has just left), where a legal system based on freedom and liberty cannot work.
So back to where i started, why is Japan so much more successful than us? Because they are not a multi-cultural empire. Japan is a homogeneous nation, made up of 99.8% native Japanese, basically an extended family, with a high average intelligence, and very similar to each other. They do not allow any significant immigration, and as a result, they will continue to prosper while America and Europe deteriorate into tribal civil wars sometime later in the 21st century.
(1) The rate at which Blacks commit murder is thirteen times that of Whites; Rape and assault, ten times. These figures, as given by the F.B.I. reports, vary somewhat from year to year but fairly represent the trend for the past decade. [Source: the FBI uniform crime statistics reports, and Harris, Marvin, Why Nothing Works. Simon & Schuster, New York, NY]
If you are going to flame me, do not use words such as "racist", "bigot" and "hater" that you have learned to repeat after the TV. Reply with your own opinions that you can back-up in a debate, not immature name-calling.
You'd rather have a government, backed by armed police and a court system you are forced to pay for go after you, than a single private company?
That's nonsensical. All you have to do now is to not rent from Acme. They will be out of business soon anyway. Or they'll change their policy to save themselves from losing customers.
With the government, they confiscate your money, and the IRS will send you to jail if you object.
Now which is worse?
Link to Dick's letter, and link to news story
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Carnivore To Die?
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Here's the letter (Dick Armey (R-Texas) sent to John Ashcroft.
Here's an actual ARTICLE about it. I submitted this story over 24 hours before the posting, but it was rejected because i mentioned that Dick Armey was a texas republican.
You sound very educated. I wish i knew which
university you attended.
And about communism: Since it's obiously unstable
and prone to deteriorate to fascism, perhaps you
should take that as a clue that the entire concept
is flawed.
The desire for individual survival and success is
much stronger than any political ideology. What
are the benefits of communism anyway?
I hope this new 'sgi' logo will be combined with the cube. I mean several companies have several different versions of their logo... sometime they have design logo w/ text logo. sometimes they have just the design logo. and then others they have just the text logo. All depending on the circumstance of course... Their metallic cube is just too powerful a corporate image to just drop.
my US$.o2
I'm sorry but none of these entries are worthy...
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Debian Logo Continues
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· Score: 3
The only logo that even comes close to being professional is Raul's. Even then, his logo is very similar looking to Lucent technologies. The process of coming up with a logo is a lot more complicated than just running a contest. Not every artist is going to hit 'the magic one' on the first try. In fact it would be quite rare for that to happen (especially in a dominant programmer user base).
What needs to happen is collaberation. Debian needs to let the artists know what kind of image they want to project. Then the artist will come up with several ideas and sketches. Debian should then look at what it likes out of the entries and thow out what it doesn't. The artist then goes back an comes up with more sketches that expand on the ideas that Debian has liked and maybe coming up with some ideas that Debian might like.
Once all the entries have been distilled down you should have a simple logo that can be printed in both color and b&w without compromising image. The logo should also be able to be printed at different sizes with out compromising quality. This logo needs to be unique so that when people look at it they automatically know 'Debian.'
One of the biggest thing in corporate America is image. I applaud Debian for realizing that they need to improve their image in order to become more mainstream. However I serious hope they turn all of these designs away because none of them are mature, simple, or unique enough to capture a good image of Debian.
At this point I would like to bring up Red Hat. Look at their logo. It is very simple. It can be printed very easily in b&w as well as color. It can be easily scalable. This logo also has the effect of distilling what Red Hat is down into a simple image. This is the type of thing that Debian needs to strive for.
As an artist I would also like to bring up my concern about the limited tool set that Debian was allowing to be used. While I think that The GIMP is a very useful tool, I think that it is not the right tool for this job. Like I said before, corporate logos need to be simple, clean, catchy and scalable. The GIMP is most useful at making complex effects and designs. And while yes it could be used to make simple designs it has one major flaw. It deals with raster based images. Raster based images are absolutely horrible when trying to scale to various different sizes. I believe that a vector based program at least needs to be allowed in to the mix...especially for corporate logo design.
I look forward to any comments people might have...
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Because of the immensly successful recycling of stories, why not recycle comments from past stories as well?
As we move closer to the world of Orwell's 1984, remember why this country is failing (and sadly the story is the same around the world). Japan is a rare example of a successful, non-violent, low-crime nation, but more on that later.
The US has one of the highest crime rates in the world (except for some African and South American countries.) The reason for this is simple, but not exactly "politically correct". If you weigh the crime rate averages together for the population groups in the US, it makes perfect sense.
- The low crime rate of the Asian/Japanese-Americans make up a small percent of the population.
- The low European-American crime rate is about the same as that of the native people in most countries in Europe.
- The African-American crime-rate(1) is orders of magnitude higher, consistent with the extreme crime rate the sub-Saharan African countries.
- The same is true for the Hispanic crime rate, which mirrors that seen in Mexico and the other South American countries of origin.
Instead of facing these simple facts, the liberals go to great lengths trying to disarm honest citizens whose families have been law abiding for hundreds of years in this country. Since gun ownership is already illegal for criminals, there is no reason to expect felons will obey new laws if guns are outlawed for everybody.Politicians continue promoting the flooding of America with 3rd world immigration that compound the problem further.
The final result of this is still years off, but the US will be no different from The Roman Empire, Egypt, India, Bosnia, South Africa, Israel, Zimbabwe, The English Empire, The Soviet Union or anywhere else where multi-cultural empires have existed. The end result is always the same: The empire's government disintegrates when the "ruling" class becomes too heavily outnumbered, and tribal warfare breaks out.
We're already seeing the beginnings of this in Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Seattle and Washington and other cities around the country.
Measures such as the government cameras (and electronic passports you must carry on your person, and other future protocols) are becoming increasingly necessary while politicians and police scramble to hold the scattering pieces of America together.
The constitution was intended to govern a country populated by the people who founded the nation. Jefferson and the others did not predict that America would turn into a multi-cultural empire (like the British one they has just left), where a legal system based on freedom and liberty cannot work.
So back to where i started, why is Japan so much more successful than us? Because they are not a multi-cultural empire. Japan is a homogeneous nation, made up of 99.8% native Japanese, basically an extended family, with a high average intelligence, and very similar to each other. They do not allow any significant immigration, and as a result, they will continue to prosper while America and Europe deteriorate into tribal civil wars sometime later in the 21st century.
(1) The rate at which Blacks commit murder is thirteen times that of Whites; Rape and assault, ten times. These figures, as given by the F.B.I. reports, vary somewhat from year to year but fairly represent the trend for the past decade. [Source: the FBI uniform crime statistics reports, and Harris, Marvin, Why Nothing Works. Simon & Schuster, New York, NY]
If you are going to flame me, do not use words such as "racist", "bigot" and "hater" that you have learned to repeat after the TV. Reply with your own opinions that you can back-up in a debate, not immature name-calling.
so what youre saying is that blacks commit violent crimes simply because theyre black? sorry buddy, but you are a bigot...if the glove fits wear it
Bigot is someone who holds opinions without having done the research to justify them. Such as yourself.
Ever watch the NBA? Are you saying that black skin makes you good at basketball? Of course not, but other genetic traits to, and evolution has happened to place those traits together in the same populations. You are confusing the Cause and Effect.
The fact that someone's skin is black, white or yellow is just one of millions of variations in the DNA, that control skin color along with every other aspect of human development, such as the inclination for criminal behavior, alcoholism, height, intelligence, eye color, physical build, hereditary illnesses and so on.
You say that guns cause crime? That's absolutely false. Criminals cause crimes. Criminals commit crimes with whataver weapons they can obtain. Be it knifes, guns or bricks. You reduce crime by reducing the number of criminals. For example, the crime rate in the US has been steadily declining over the past 10 years. Coincidently, 30% of our young black males are now in prison.
Did you happen to notice my pledge for educated replies? Or did you just ignore it in favor of exactly the kind of unjustified TV blabber that you have been force-fed for so long?
As we move closer to the world of Orwell's 1984, remember why this country is failing (and sadly the story is the same around the world). Japan is a rare example of a successful, non-violent, low-crime nation, but more on that later.
The US has one of the highest crime rates in the world (except for some African and South American countries.) The reason for this is simple, but not exactly "politically correct". If you weigh the crime rate averages together for the population groups in the US, it makes perfect sense.
- The low crime rate of the Asian/Japanese-Americans make up a small percent of the population.
- The low European-American crime rate is about the same as that of the native people in most countries in Europe.
- The African-American crime-rate(1) is orders of magnitude higher, consistent with the extreme crime rate the sub-Saharan African countries.
- The same is true for the Hispanic crime rate, which mirrors that seen in Mexico and the other South American countries of origin.
Instead of facing these simple facts, the liberals go to great lengths trying to disarm honest citizens whose families have been law abiding for hundreds of years in this country. Since gun ownership is already illegal for criminals, there is no reason to expect felons will obey new laws if guns are outlawed for everybody.Politicians continue promoting the flooding of America with 3rd world immigration that compound the problem further.
The final result of this is still years off, but the US will be no different from The Roman Empire, Egypt, India, Bosnia, South Africa, Israel, Zimbabwe, The English Empire, The Soviet Union or anywhere else where multi-cultural empires have existed. The end result is always the same: The empire's government disintegrates when the "ruling" class becomes too heavily outnumbered, and tribal warfare breaks out.
We're already seeing the beginnings of this in Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Seattle and Washington and other cities around the country.
Measures such as the government cameras (and electronic passports you must carry on your person, and other future protocols) are becoming increasingly necessary while politicians and police scramble to hold the scattering pieces of America together.
The constitution was intended to govern a country populated by the people who founded the nation. Jefferson and the others did not predict that America would turn into a multi-cultural empire (like the British one they has just left), where a legal system based on freedom and liberty cannot work.
So back to where i started, why is Japan so much more successful than us? Because they are not a multi-cultural empire. Japan is a homogeneous nation, made up of 99.8% native Japanese, basically an extended family, with a high average intelligence, and very similar to each other. They do not allow any significant immigration, and as a result, they will continue to prosper while America and Europe deteriorate into tribal civil wars sometime later in the 21st century.
(1) The rate at which Blacks commit murder is thirteen times that of Whites; Rape and assault, ten times. These figures, as given by the F.B.I. reports, vary somewhat from year to year but fairly represent the trend for the past decade. [Source: the FBI uniform crime statistics reports, and Harris, Marvin, Why Nothing Works. Simon & Schuster, New York, NY]
If you are going to flame me, do not use words such as "racist", "bigot" and "hater" that you have learned to repeat after the TV. Reply with your own opinions that you can back-up in a debate, not immature name-calling.
You'd rather have a government, backed by armed police and a court system you are forced to pay for go after you, than a single private company?
That's nonsensical. All you have to do now is to not rent from Acme. They will be out of business soon anyway. Or they'll change their policy to save themselves from losing customers.
With the government, they confiscate your money, and the IRS will send you to jail if you object.
Now which is worse?
Here's the letter (Dick Armey (R-Texas) sent to John Ashcroft.
Here's an actual ARTICLE about it. I submitted this story over 24 hours before the posting, but it was rejected because i mentioned that Dick Armey was a texas republican.
You sound very educated. I wish i knew which
university you attended.
And about communism: Since it's obiously unstable
and prone to deteriorate to fascism, perhaps you
should take that as a clue that the entire concept
is flawed.
The desire for individual survival and success is
much stronger than any political ideology. What
are the benefits of communism anyway?
I hope this new 'sgi' logo will be combined with the cube. I mean several companies have several different versions of their logo... sometime they have design logo w/ text logo. sometimes they have just the design logo. and then others they have just the text logo. All depending on the circumstance of course... Their metallic cube is just too powerful a corporate image to just drop.
my US$.o2
The only logo that even comes close to being professional is Raul's. Even then, his logo is very similar looking to Lucent technologies. The process of coming up with a logo is a lot more complicated than just running a contest. Not every artist is going to hit 'the magic one' on the first try. In fact it would be quite rare for that to happen (especially in a dominant programmer user base).
What needs to happen is collaberation. Debian needs to let the artists know what kind of image they want to project. Then the artist will come up with several ideas and sketches. Debian should then look at what it likes out of the entries and thow out what it doesn't. The artist then goes back an comes up with more sketches that expand on the ideas that Debian has liked and maybe coming up with some ideas that Debian might like.
Once all the entries have been distilled down you should have a simple logo that can be printed in both color and b&w without compromising image. The logo should also be able to be printed at different sizes with out compromising quality. This logo needs to be unique so that when people look at it they automatically know 'Debian.'
One of the biggest thing in corporate America is image. I applaud Debian for realizing that they need to improve their image in order to become more mainstream. However I serious hope they turn all of these designs away because none of them are mature, simple, or unique enough to capture a good image of Debian.
At this point I would like to bring up Red Hat. Look at their logo. It is very simple. It can be printed very easily in b&w as well as color. It can be easily scalable. This logo also has the effect of distilling what Red Hat is down into a simple image. This is the type of thing that Debian needs to strive for.
As an artist I would also like to bring up my concern about the limited tool set that Debian was allowing to be used. While I think that The GIMP is a very useful tool, I think that it is not the right tool for this job. Like I said before, corporate logos need to be simple, clean, catchy and scalable. The GIMP is most useful at making complex effects and designs. And while yes it could be used to make simple designs it has one major flaw. It deals with raster based images. Raster based images are absolutely horrible when trying to scale to various different sizes. I believe that a vector based program at least needs to be allowed in to the mix...especially for corporate logo design.
I look forward to any comments people might have...