Guess you are right. Even more validation for my decision to get a (CS/Physics/Math) Degree after I decided I didn't want to be a English teacher. Too bad I got all the way to advanced poetry before I figured that out. UGHHHHHH......
After thinking it through, I realized I can also start out a sentence with a preposition since I made the switch...
True, Iraqis are dying... but consider these VERY ROUGH estimates
(500,000 roughly dead/20 years roughly president)
That seems to be about 25,000 people a year
Last Iraqi war estimates I saw were 30,000.
(30,000/3 years)
That is roughly 10,000 a year.
Every one of them is a tragedy (and I am not just paying lip service here) but according to my math the death toll since we invaded has plummeted!!!
So here are the choices:
(a)Let Saddam stay president and have 25,000 people a year die. Watch one of his crazy ass sons take over and keep the family business running.
(b)Invade, set up a democracy and have 10,000 people a year die until it is established. Celebrate another tyrant destroyed
(c)Invade, fail at setting up a democracy and have 10,000 people a year until a radical Islamist country is formed. Deal with that when a new administration takes over.
By the way (d) Sanctions and Amnesty International letter writing campaigns would not have worked (Although they have in the past). They depend on the leaders of the targeted country having a shred of human decency. That scumbag and his two rapist sons who are at this moment burning in hell have/had none.
I am not a blanket GWB supporter. I particularly HATE his stance on abortion and abstinence only education.
Ok. Let's look at your statements.
Having a panel present false evidence to support his need to go to war with Iraq
Most pre-war intelligence was believed to be true even by opponents of the war. Intelligence by definition relies on SPYING which is at best guessing
Creating a program like 'No Child Left Behind' railing it through the senate, and then under cutting it's funds
Of course Democrats NEVER use unfunded mandates
Sending kids off to a war on foreign soil to die under false pretenses
The battle cry of all pacifists. WMDs was simply one of the reasons for the war. How do you feel about all the mass graves (approximately 500,000 men, women, and KIDS) we are finding there? Oh yeah you forgot to mention those...
refusing to meet with the mother of a child who died in a war he started
Another boldfaced lie. He met with her once. I believe he has made the Herculean effort to meet with the families of EVERY SINGLE casualty (not sure on this one)
History doesn't remember all the intelligence fuck ups that happened in WWII and in 60 years if Iraq becomes a democracy (like Germany and Japan) you will be remembered by history as a nut case...
Remember all the nut jobs who said buy 20,000 body bags? More people were killed in Ohio traffic accidents each year of this war than were killed in Iraq. And in case you didn't notice the casualty rate is way way down...
Oh yeah they almost have a government now and women are allowed to go to school...
P.S. On a separate note why is it that GWB is 'intolerant' yet gets more grief then radical Islamists who shoot you if you don't bow to Mecca a certain number of times a day?
To all the nuts that think the US is the root of all evil...
Please direct me to the story where China is having a hard time dealing with illegal immigration because people are so desperate to move there.
Please show me the URL where France, Russia, and China have agreed to send @ 150,000 troops to Darfur to stop the genocide. I know they can't wait to use their moral superiority points.
In many (not all) instances where the United States did something 'wrong' it was because it was the lesser of two evils. Example: Horrible things were done by proxy when fighting communism but Stalin killed approximately 30-50 million. Sure glad we didn't lose that one.
In the instances where the United States did wrong many of the times we put the perpetrators in jail ourselves, ala Abu Ghraib.
Are we perfect? No. But please tell me where I should move when I renounce my U.S. citizenship North Korea, Libya, China, or Syria?
The last time I tried to venture into the *nix world (years ago) the documentation left something to be desired to say the least (for someone with absolutely no prior exposure).
When I tried to ask questions around campus the attitude of the *nix gurus stunk so I just stuck with what worked. It didn't matter to me what system/compiler my professor used to grade my work, I was just concerned with turning in bug free source code.
'BIOS doesn't need documentation...if you need documentation, stay the hell outta the BIOS' - pretty much mirrors the attitude I ran into and that set me off.
Of course things change over time. That is why I wrote Perhaps this has changed... at the end of my post. I didn't mean to offend any nice *nix people...
Documentation is the least respected and perhaps most important part of software. One of the very few things I liked about being a Nuke in the Navy was that EVERYTHING had a manual/procedure to review.
Do you honestly think that the ability to manage your BIOS is an inborn trait that some have and others are doomed to never achieve?
Lack of documentation is the single biggest reason I have not yet invested the time to learn *nix...Perhaps that has changed...
I thought that shorter wires would reduce inductance, since an inductor is simply wire. Capacitance is created using a dielectric (insulator) between two electrode plates. Then again I am going off what I remember from power school from 1993...
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Guess you are right. Even more validation for my decision to get a (CS/Physics/Math) Degree after I decided I didn't want to be a English teacher. Too bad I got all the way to advanced poetry before I figured that out. UGHHHHHH......
After thinking it through, I realized I can also start out a sentence with a preposition since I made the switch...
True, Iraqis are dying... but consider these VERY ROUGH estimates
(500,000 roughly dead/20 years roughly president)
That seems to be about 25,000 people a year
Last Iraqi war estimates I saw were 30,000.
(30,000/3 years)
That is roughly 10,000 a year.
Every one of them is a tragedy (and I am not just paying lip service here) but according to my math the death toll since we invaded has plummeted!!!
So here are the choices:
(a)Let Saddam stay president and have 25,000 people a year die. Watch one of his crazy ass sons take over and keep the family business running.
(b)Invade, set up a democracy and have 10,000 people a year die until it is established. Celebrate another tyrant destroyed
(c)Invade, fail at setting up a democracy and have 10,000 people a year until a radical Islamist country is formed. Deal with that when a new administration takes over.
By the way (d) Sanctions and Amnesty International letter writing campaigns would not have worked (Although they have in the past). They depend on the leaders of the targeted country having a shred of human decency. That scumbag and his two rapist sons who are at this moment burning in hell have/had none.
I am not a blanket GWB supporter. I particularly HATE his stance on abortion and abstinence only education.
Ok. Let's look at your statements.
Having a panel present false evidence to support his need to go to war with Iraq
Most pre-war intelligence was believed to be true even by opponents of the war. Intelligence by definition relies on SPYING which is at best guessing
Creating a program like 'No Child Left Behind' railing it through the senate, and then under cutting it's funds
Of course Democrats NEVER use unfunded mandates
Sending kids off to a war on foreign soil to die under false pretenses
The battle cry of all pacifists. WMDs was simply one of the reasons for the war. How do you feel about all the mass graves (approximately 500,000 men, women, and KIDS) we are finding there? Oh yeah you forgot to mention those...
refusing to meet with the mother of a child who died in a war he started
Another boldfaced lie. He met with her once. I believe he has made the Herculean effort to meet with the families of EVERY SINGLE casualty (not sure on this one)
History doesn't remember all the intelligence fuck ups that happened in WWII and in 60 years if Iraq becomes a democracy (like Germany and Japan) you will be remembered by history as a nut case...
Remember all the nut jobs who said buy 20,000 body bags? More people were killed in Ohio traffic accidents each year of this war than were killed in Iraq. And in case you didn't notice the casualty rate is way way down...
Oh yeah they almost have a government now and women are allowed to go to school...
P.S. On a separate note why is it that GWB is 'intolerant' yet gets more grief then radical Islamists who shoot you if you don't bow to Mecca a certain number of times a day?
I wonder if Microsoft will offer a $2.50 rebate on the box of 10 floppies that was $10, but free after the mail in rebate on THOSE...
I hate rebates, the only one who is sure to win is the tax man...
Ford Pinto? Are you nuts? Try the primer grey Vega that I drove to work at Kings Dominion in 1984 when I was 15 3/4... (first job)
I hit a deer and screwed something up. The car would run fine but every time I needed to start I had to beg someone for a jump.
Did I mention that it had red plastic seats. My butt would burn off in the summer.
Mod Parent Up!!!
To all the nuts that think the US is the root of all evil...
Please direct me to the story where China is having a hard time dealing with illegal immigration because people are so desperate to move there.
Please show me the URL where France, Russia, and China have agreed to send @ 150,000 troops to Darfur to stop the genocide. I know they can't wait to use their moral superiority points.
In many (not all) instances where the United States did something 'wrong' it was because it was the lesser of two evils. Example: Horrible things were done by proxy when fighting communism but Stalin killed approximately 30-50 million. Sure glad we didn't lose that one.
In the instances where the United States did wrong many of the times we put the perpetrators in jail ourselves, ala Abu Ghraib.
Are we perfect? No. But please tell me where I should move when I renounce my U.S. citizenship North Korea, Libya, China, or Syria?
Sorry I was not clear enough...
...if you need documentation, stay the hell outta the BIOS' - pretty much mirrors the attitude I ran into and that set me off.
The last time I tried to venture into the *nix world (years ago) the documentation left something to be desired to say the least (for someone with absolutely no prior exposure).
When I tried to ask questions around campus the attitude of the *nix gurus stunk so I just stuck with what worked. It didn't matter to me what system/compiler my professor used to grade my work, I was just concerned with turning in bug free source code.
'BIOS doesn't need documentation
Of course things change over time. That is why I wrote Perhaps this has changed... at the end of my post. I didn't mean to offend any nice *nix people...
Documentation is the least respected and perhaps most important part of software. One of the very few things I liked about being a Nuke in the Navy was that EVERYTHING had a manual/procedure to review. Do you honestly think that the ability to manage your BIOS is an inborn trait that some have and others are doomed to never achieve? Lack of documentation is the single biggest reason I have not yet invested the time to learn *nix...Perhaps that has changed...
I thought that shorter wires would reduce inductance, since an inductor is simply wire. Capacitance is created using a dielectric (insulator) between two electrode plates. Then again I am going off what I remember from power school from 1993...