Does that mean the US should adopt a Canadian-style approach to running elections?
Maybe not, but why do we have to always have elections on the first Tuesday in November (right after Halloween when I want to have fun and not worry about elections.....) And only durring business hours. We should at least have longer hours. Maybe, have the polls open for 24 hours. Yea, it would be hard for some of the polling places, because a lot of them are in people's homes but hey, democracy is important.
But here in Oregon we've done away with all that. Everyone votes via absentee ballot. I miss the voting booth. I'm not sure if it is more economical or not. Something I wonder about is, is my ballot really being counted? What happens if someone thinks there is something "fishy" with my ballot, that it wasn't really me voting. (Paranoia! Paranoia!) (Well, you never know!)
Another thing about Oregon is we seem to have a special election every 3 months or so. I sometimes wish that most of them would just roll over until the next regular election.
However it is possible to fix the US system by using common sense techniques to simplify ballot design, using a paper trail, certified public source code, or the dumb terminal approach.
I like the idea of filling out bubbles with number 2 pencils. It works great in the schools, and it is obvious if they have to go to a hand count.
"Frank, every time we have a phone meeting you just have to announce that you are not wearing any pants. Well, we are tired of it. It is not funny. You're Fired!!!"
As much as I'd enjoy working without pants, there might be some disadvantages to it.
Now Microsoft has a monopoly and the inertia will eventually kill them.
I think that it would be more of Trying to fight a war on too many fronts. They are trying to conquer everything, and my hope is they will become so fragmented they will break apart. (Rather than that they succeed on all fronts and take over the entire world.)
My only question is, can I pick the stock of the next contender to the throne?
That's tricky. I'm not sure how you could predict who that would be other than maybe, what is the up and comming company that everybody hates. Except that might point to SCO and I can't see them pulling it off. But you never know.
That my friend is the American way.
I'm not sure if it is the American way or what. I suppose it how America operates. I would call it speculation and a reason why our economy is so unstable now. People invest not because of what a company is actually doing, but in the hope that other people also invest and drive up the price. It is illusion over substance.
When I was in school a proffessor talked about how years ago Digital was starting to work on some cool new technology (something to do with parallel processing I think). He had immediately invested a lot of money in Digital, which did nothing for years, and now that the technology was a reality the stock had not gone up all that much. He mused that if he had invested in MS he would have been rich. The moral is that marketing beats cool technology most of the time.
Yep. I changed all my settings to "No" ("Hell No" wasn't an option) back when this was first announced, and when I checked after receiving this notice they were still set as I desired.
Well, I say that isn't good enough! I think we need to petition them to make "Hell No!" an option too.
Or your doctor insists you come in at 10.00 and then makes you sit around for 20 minutes, you are seen by a nurse for no reason, and then a doctor 20 minutes later.
Where are these doctors? I usually wait for an hour before even seeing the nurse. I need to find another doctor. (btw, my Grandfather was a doctor so I'm mostly being funny here.)
I think a lot of it comes down to the decline in customer service. It isn't just at the customer level. The executives just don't care anymore which is why phone systems have become the rule. A lot of people are starting to accept it as "normal."
I won't yell at a phone drone but I might offer suggestions (even if they can't do anything about it) or complain about the hold music (I hate lite jazz. Can you play real jazz or classical instead? Even people randomly screaming would be less annoying.). If I find I am on a really obnoxious phone system that will not let me talk to a human being when I need to, I start to seriously look for an alternative to that company.
Capitalist society as a whole is like a company that grows and grows but almost never pays dividends to the shareholders [mankind].
Well, you are assuming that our society is capitalist. A major problem with our economy is that it depends so much on speculation. Sooner or later the bubble will burst. Another problem is that it depends on lots of people buying lots of luxery items. Big executives issue layoffs to increase their bonuses, they then wonder why no one is buying their products. (Because other companies did the same thing.)
As to the "dividends to mankind", corporate charters are supposed to hold corporations accoutable to society at large. Corporations are supposed to serve society. These days corporate charters are not enforced and many corporations are treated as above the law.
I thought that the important point was that the terms "liberal" and "conservative" have become meaningless insults. I agree with this and find it scary how "both sides" will stick by their "side" no matter what happens. I almost never use the terms without quotes, in a political context, anymore.
I will sometimes use the terms Left and Right, but in the original context. It comes from some assembly durring or after the French Revolution, and it corresponded to where they physically sat. Those on the left believed in democracy, the idea that all citizens should have a say in their government. Those that sat on the right were aristocrats, those that believe that only the rich and affluent should be able to participate in government. (In this context I think both Democrats and Republicans are right wing.)
I remember a sunday Non Sequitur comic from a few years ago. A guy sits down at the bar and says "hi" or something to someone who then replies something to the effect of "I'm a conservative. Anyone that disagrees with me on anything I label a Liberal and am then against everything that they are for." The second man leaves and a third man sits down. The first man says "Hi" or whatever, and this person says the same thing vice versa.
As to the lies, I think that the lying about WMD was more important. I actually would have like Clinton to be impeached, and removed.... but not for that!!!!
I might write more about this but not right now. I might right a journal entry on it and post a link somewhere in this thread. Probably as a reply to ChaosDiscord's post. Whatever.
Talk shows have been doing this for years: "Boot Camp"
Well, I was being facetious when I suggested Mr. T beat these kids up. I hadn't thought of the "boot camp" thing. Actually, the "boot camp" thing disgusts me. I wonder why the kids in it don't just sit there or go limp or whatever. I suppose non-violent resistance doesn't occure to bullies.
I guess I was thinking of the Silver Spoons episode. Rather silly. Whatever.
Maybe I should at least have been more 90s and suggested Mr. Hat. Whatever.
This is additional proof that Microsoft will NEVER fix its bugs. The main reason for this is that Microsoft simply cannot do it. By attempting to take over every single area of the software industry, they have bitten off way more than they can chew. They simply have too many products that do too many things, and there are not enough programmers to handle the task of making that stuff work correctly, much less to make sure it is secure.
I mostly agree with what you say here, but what if they started over from scratch and reverse-engineered their own products?
The main reasons against it would be accountability and Joe-Jobs.
How do you know that the 800 # was actually sent with spam? It could be a prankster, or someone wanting revenge for a non-spam-related reason, or it could be spammers themselves trying to discredit the anti-spam community.
Five maybe six years ago there was this one really bad spam that listed an 800 number. Got at least one a day and it was for the 800 number. It didn't take long for the message on the voicemail for this number to state that they would take revenge on any anti-spammers leaving messages. It would say that they have recorded your number, and if you left any message other than one to do business with them that they would use your phone number as a complaint number on the next spam that they would send out.
To prove it the system would tell you what your number is. You would year "Your number is 999-555-1212" or whatever. Too bad they didn't block calls from payphones.:)
I do sometimes call 800 numbers. Not as often as I used to. It is good to make sure they were really using spam before doing anything that could be considered harassment. Actually, don't do anything that could be considered harassment, that would be illegal, immoral and wrong!:)
It might be interesting to ask the person if their company sends out email advertising. The person you are talking to might not have anything to do with the spamming, but it might be interesting to explain why it is bad. Then again, most people, at least in the states, have probably already heard of spam.....
Not only should they show the bully bullying the kid, they should then bring in Mr. T who will proceed to beat the crap out of the little $#*@#&#, or at least give him a wedgie.
This time around I just stopped watching/. a few days before the movie came out until I saw it.
Update: Actual SCO Headquarters will be blown up
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"Yes, Bruce Willis' character will have to blow up SCO. It should be quite the scene."
Especially considering that Hollywood[tm] will be buying out SCO so that in the filming they will actually be blowing up the real SCO offices, and if law enforcment agrees, it will still contain SCO executives when it is blown up.
A Hollywood[tm] producer was quoted as saying: "Some might say that it is too expensive to blow up the real SCO offices for a special effect, but we think we will make it up at the box office."
The rumor that Linus Torvalds will be making a cameo has not been confirmed.
I didn't cancel, I exceeded the download limit and got my account canceled for me. In the email they said that they would be refunding me the $9.99 for the month of October, but that I could keep all the songs I downloaded. (As if I would do otherwise.)
I was wondering if this was done by employees who were pissed off at getting taken over and the policy changes etc.
Well, I'll be curious as to what happens with my credit card bill. If they keep charging I will expect access to be restored at the least. Also, in the letter that we got a month ago I thought they explicitly stated that because of this change in policy we were no longer obligated to remained subscribed. The email even had a special link for those who wish to unsubscribe.
(Sorry for the corney subject line. It just struck me.)
Um.... Anyway..... I have a lot of vinyl. At least 500 LP records. Yea, I purchased most of them in the late 80s early 90s when the quality of vinyl was crap but I still like them, except when I move. I found out the hard way that vinyl is heavy. A big motivation for joining emusic.com and looking on p2p networks for me is to find the stuff that I own on vinyl. As of yet I haven't found a whole lot.
However, when I started looking around on emusic.com I did find a lot of interesting stuff. As someone else mentioned they have a great collection of Jazz. I have lots of interests in music. My main interests lie in the relm of Experimental/Industrial. A lot of what I found on emusic.com was stuff that I already owned, and owned on CD (Invisible Records stuff).
There are lots of other musics that I enjoy, and some that I have an interest in but don't know much about and would like to explore. I have an interest in Modern Classical as well as more traditional Classical music. I have an interest in Trip-Hop, Downbeat and Ambient music, and was very interested in what they had beyond the Ambient-Industrial music that I'm already into.
Towards the end lots of people were creating personal lists of associated music or whatever. It was really fun looking at something of interest and just following links and reading descriptions for music I've never heard of. I like learning about new artists/projects and emusic.com really lended itself to just browse around and discover new stuff.
Well, for me it is over now but I'm probably going to spend the next year listening to all the stuff I downloaded. In some respects 40 downloads for $9.99 is an OK deal. When I get re-employed 300 downloads for $50 sounds interesting too. For now I hope that they reconsider and either provide more downloads for the $9.99 or find a way to reconcile the fact that some albums have a lot of very sort tracks.
Since a lot of the music I'm interested in is classical whose tracks are sometimes 2 minutes long. If they did something like no album will "cost" you more than 10 tracks that would make it a lot more fair to those who like such music. Some of the music I like has tracks that are 30-60 minutes so maybe it would even itself out. In the meantime I'm going to hold out a little to see what happens.
What I also find interesting is that maybe the reason they are limiting the tracks is so that some record companies are wary of signing up with unlimited downloads. Maybe in the near future they will be providing the old Wax Tracks! catalog of which contains much of my older vinyl. Maybe they will sign up Tzadic Records of which I would drool over getting 300 downloads for $50 to tantalize my New Musik lust. Again, I will wait and see.
What wasn't reported widely in the media was that Saddam Hussein had the possesion of 2 of the 3 Egyptian God Cars! If he was able to get ahold of the third remaining card and the Millinium Puzzle he would have been able to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!!!
On a more serious note, as much as I hear people joke about "We kept the receipts" that actually is how the UN Weapons Inspectors were able to find the weapons that they did.
(btw, what percentage of the country think that it was Saddam Hussein that kicked out the inspectors in 1997?)
Anyway, according to Scott Ritter, by the time that Clinton kicked the inspectors out of Iraq they had accounted for 95% of the WMD, and the main reason they were not able to complete the job was more because of the Clinton administration than the Iraqis. (Not to say that there were not a bunch of problems from the Iraqis.)
Scott Ritter has been very outspoken about these issues and as a Marine Corps Captain durring Desert Storm and a Chief UN Weapons Inspector he is a very qualified authority. He risked his life searching for weapons and I think more people need to listen to him.
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These words have nothing even remotely to do with the nature of the advertised "product" or "service".
Makes you wonder what kind of idiot buys from an advertisement that has, or is even mostly, random garbage.
I wonder if it will hurt their sales at all?
But one should never underestimate the power of stupidity.
Does that mean the US should adopt a Canadian-style approach to running elections?
Maybe not, but why do we have to always have elections on the first Tuesday in November (right after Halloween when I want to have fun and not worry about elections.....) And only durring business hours. We should at least have longer hours. Maybe, have the polls open for 24 hours. Yea, it would be hard for some of the polling places, because a lot of them are in people's homes but hey, democracy is important.
But here in Oregon we've done away with all that. Everyone votes via absentee ballot. I miss the voting booth. I'm not sure if it is more economical or not. Something I wonder about is, is my ballot really being counted? What happens if someone thinks there is something "fishy" with my ballot, that it wasn't really me voting. (Paranoia! Paranoia!) (Well, you never know!)
Another thing about Oregon is we seem to have a special election every 3 months or so. I sometimes wish that most of them would just roll over until the next regular election.
However it is possible to fix the US system by using common sense techniques to simplify ballot design, using a paper trail, certified public source code, or the dumb terminal approach.
I like the idea of filling out bubbles with number 2 pencils. It works great in the schools, and it is obvious if they have to go to a hand count.
Bonus: work without pants!
"Frank, every time we have a phone meeting you just have to announce that you are not wearing any pants. Well, we are tired of it. It is not funny. You're Fired!!!"
As much as I'd enjoy working without pants, there might be some disadvantages to it.
Now Microsoft has a monopoly and the inertia will eventually kill them.
I think that it would be more of Trying to fight a war on too many fronts. They are trying to conquer everything, and my hope is they will become so fragmented they will break apart. (Rather than that they succeed on all fronts and take over the entire world.)
My only question is, can I pick the stock of the next contender to the throne?
That's tricky. I'm not sure how you could predict who that would be other than maybe, what is the up and comming company that everybody hates. Except that might point to SCO and I can't see them pulling it off. But you never know.
That my friend is the American way.
I'm not sure if it is the American way or what. I suppose it how America operates. I would call it speculation and a reason why our economy is so unstable now. People invest not because of what a company is actually doing, but in the hope that other people also invest and drive up the price. It is illusion over substance.
When I was in school a proffessor talked about how years ago Digital was starting to work on some cool new technology (something to do with parallel processing I think). He had immediately invested a lot of money in Digital, which did nothing for years, and now that the technology was a reality the stock had not gone up all that much. He mused that if he had invested in MS he would have been rich. The moral is that marketing beats cool technology most of the time.
Marketers are at best second on the list of people up against the wall when the revolution comes.
What about the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation?
Yep. I changed all my settings to "No" ("Hell No" wasn't an option) back when this was first announced, and when I checked after receiving this notice they were still set as I desired.
Well, I say that isn't good enough!
I think we need to petition them to make "Hell No!" an option too.
Maybe a better analogy would be:
Someone offers to clean your house for free, and while cleaning your house robs you of all your valuables.
That isn't exactly related to spam either. Both are pointing out that free services does not give you license to abuse.
Slandering John Ashcroft by calling him "Asscroft", or "Asscrotch", is now a federal offense.
What about calling him Ashcrack?
Oops, I clicked submit too soon.
I forgot to mention, this post is brought to you by:
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Well, I wouldn't post a followup just for that.
I also found this interesting link about corporate charters that I wanted to post.
Or your doctor insists you come in at 10.00 and then makes you sit around for 20 minutes, you are seen by a nurse for no reason, and then a doctor 20 minutes later.
Where are these doctors?
I usually wait for an hour before even seeing the nurse. I need to find another doctor. (btw, my Grandfather was a doctor so I'm mostly being funny here.)
I think a lot of it comes down to the decline in customer service. It isn't just at the customer level. The executives just don't care anymore which is why phone systems have become the rule. A lot of people are starting to accept it as "normal."
I won't yell at a phone drone but I might offer suggestions (even if they can't do anything about it) or complain about the hold music (I hate lite jazz. Can you play real jazz or classical instead? Even people randomly screaming would be less annoying.). If I find I am on a really obnoxious phone system that will not let me talk to a human being when I need to, I start to seriously look for an alternative to that company.
Capitalist society as a whole is like a company that grows and grows but almost never pays dividends to the shareholders [mankind].
Well, you are assuming that our society is capitalist. A major problem with our economy is that it depends so much on speculation. Sooner or later the bubble will burst. Another problem is that it depends on lots of people buying lots of luxery items. Big executives issue layoffs to increase their bonuses, they then wonder why no one is buying their products. (Because other companies did the same thing.)
As to the "dividends to mankind", corporate charters are supposed to hold corporations accoutable to society at large. Corporations are supposed to serve society. These days corporate charters are not enforced and many corporations are treated as above the law.
I thought that the important point was that the terms "liberal" and "conservative" have become meaningless insults. I agree with this and find it scary how "both sides" will stick by their "side" no matter what happens. I almost never use the terms without quotes, in a political context, anymore.
I will sometimes use the terms Left and Right, but in the original context. It comes from some assembly durring or after the French Revolution, and it corresponded to where they physically sat. Those on the left believed in democracy, the idea that all citizens should have a say in their government. Those that sat on the right were aristocrats, those that believe that only the rich and affluent should be able to participate in government. (In this context I think both Democrats and Republicans are right wing.)
I remember a sunday Non Sequitur comic from a few years ago. A guy sits down at the bar and says "hi" or something to someone who then replies something to the effect of "I'm a conservative. Anyone that disagrees with me on anything I label a Liberal and am then against everything that they are for." The second man leaves and a third man sits down. The first man says "Hi" or whatever, and this person says the same thing vice versa.
As to the lies, I think that the lying about WMD was more important. I actually would have like Clinton to be impeached, and removed.... but not for that!!!!
I might write more about this but not right now. I might right a journal entry on it and post a link somewhere in this thread. Probably as a reply to ChaosDiscord's post. Whatever.
Talk shows have been doing this for years: "Boot Camp"
Well, I was being facetious when I suggested Mr. T beat these kids up. I hadn't thought of the "boot camp" thing. Actually, the "boot camp" thing disgusts me. I wonder why the kids in it don't just sit there or go limp or whatever. I suppose non-violent resistance doesn't occure to bullies.
I guess I was thinking of the Silver Spoons episode. Rather silly. Whatever.
Maybe I should at least have been more 90s and suggested Mr. Hat. Whatever.
This is additional proof that Microsoft will NEVER fix its bugs. The main reason for this is that Microsoft simply cannot do it. By attempting to take over every single area of the software industry, they have bitten off way more than they can chew. They simply have too many products that do too many things, and there are not enough programmers to handle the task of making that stuff work correctly, much less to make sure it is secure.
I mostly agree with what you say here, but what if they started over from scratch and reverse-engineered their own products?
I used to believe if i told people about this, they would choose against Walmart.
I was mistaken.
This is getting off-topic, and I'm also agreeing with you but this is a relatively old discussion anyway.....
How many people would drink Cocacola (or other soda) rather than fresh clean water? (Maybe not pure water, because distilled water does taste funny.)
Anyway, just something that crossed my mind.
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The main reasons against it would be accountability and Joe-Jobs.
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How do you know that the 800 # was actually sent with spam? It could be a prankster, or someone wanting revenge for a non-spam-related reason, or it could be spammers themselves trying to discredit the anti-spam community.
Five maybe six years ago there was this one really bad spam that listed an 800 number. Got at least one a day and it was for the 800 number. It didn't take long for the message on the voicemail for this number to state that they would take revenge on any anti-spammers leaving messages. It would say that they have recorded your number, and if you left any message other than one to do business with them that they would use your phone number as a complaint number on the next spam that they would send out.
To prove it the system would tell you what your number is. You would year "Your number is 999-555-1212" or whatever. Too bad they didn't block calls from payphones.
I do sometimes call 800 numbers. Not as often as I used to. It is good to make sure they were really using spam before doing anything that could be considered harassment. Actually, don't do anything that could be considered harassment, that would be illegal, immoral and wrong!
It might be interesting to ask the person if their company sends out email advertising. The person you are talking to might not have anything to do with the spamming, but it might be interesting to explain why it is bad. Then again, most people, at least in the states, have probably already heard of spam.....
Bully get's publically humiliated on national TV.
Not only should they show the bully bullying the kid, they should then bring in Mr. T who will proceed to beat the crap out of the little $#*@#&#, or at least give him a wedgie.
If the alternative to listening to Britney Spears is to be called a snob then..... Call me a snob!
No that's not the argument you are making.
OK, I will say that Beethoven's music, or Bach or Chopin or John Cage's music is better than Britney Spears. Go ahead! Call me a snob!
I'm a goth, being a snob just goes with the territory. At least I have a sense of humor about it.
For Reloaded I got a spoiler meta-moderating.
/. a few days before the movie came out until I saw it.
This time around I just stopped watching
"Yes, Bruce Willis' character will have to blow up SCO. It should be quite the scene."
Especially considering that Hollywood[tm] will be buying out SCO so that in the filming they will actually be blowing up the real SCO offices, and if law enforcment agrees, it will still contain SCO executives when it is blown up.
A Hollywood[tm] producer was quoted as saying: "Some might say that it is too expensive to blow up the real SCO offices for a special effect, but we think we will make it up at the box office."
The rumor that Linus Torvalds will be making a cameo has not been confirmed.
I didn't cancel, I exceeded the download limit and got my account canceled for me. In the email they said that they would be refunding me the $9.99 for the month of October, but that I could keep all the songs I downloaded. (As if I would do otherwise.)
I was wondering if this was done by employees who were pissed off at getting taken over and the policy changes etc.
Well, I'll be curious as to what happens with my credit card bill. If they keep charging I will expect access to be restored at the least. Also, in the letter that we got a month ago I thought they explicitly stated that because of this change in policy we were no longer obligated to remained subscribed. The email even had a special link for those who wish to unsubscribe.
Again, we will just have to wait and see.
After you find out you really like iTunes you will be OK. OK that is until you find out all 10,000 songs on your iPod Suck!
I on the other hand will be just fine. Just fine that is until the RIAA deploy their Anti-Vinyl Mobile.
Just be glad I didn't figure out a way to segway into the Evil Toilet vs. Evil Toilet Plunger in this post.
Does iTunes allow you to browse what they have in their catalog before signing up? That was another of the kewl things about emusic.com.
(Sorry for the corney subject line. It just struck me.)
Um.... Anyway..... I have a lot of vinyl. At least 500 LP records. Yea, I purchased most of them in the late 80s early 90s when the quality of vinyl was crap but I still like them, except when I move. I found out the hard way that vinyl is heavy. A big motivation for joining emusic.com and looking on p2p networks for me is to find the stuff that I own on vinyl. As of yet I haven't found a whole lot.
However, when I started looking around on emusic.com I did find a lot of interesting stuff. As someone else mentioned they have a great collection of Jazz. I have lots of interests in music. My main interests lie in the relm of Experimental/Industrial. A lot of what I found on emusic.com was stuff that I already owned, and owned on CD (Invisible Records stuff).
There are lots of other musics that I enjoy, and some that I have an interest in but don't know much about and would like to explore. I have an interest in Modern Classical as well as more traditional Classical music. I have an interest in Trip-Hop, Downbeat and Ambient music, and was very interested in what they had beyond the Ambient-Industrial music that I'm already into.
Towards the end lots of people were creating personal lists of associated music or whatever. It was really fun looking at something of interest and just following links and reading descriptions for music I've never heard of. I like learning about new artists/projects and emusic.com really lended itself to just browse around and discover new stuff.
Well, for me it is over now but I'm probably going to spend the next year listening to all the stuff I downloaded. In some respects 40 downloads for $9.99 is an OK deal. When I get re-employed 300 downloads for $50 sounds interesting too. For now I hope that they reconsider and either provide more downloads for the $9.99 or find a way to reconcile the fact that some albums have a lot of very sort tracks.
Since a lot of the music I'm interested in is classical whose tracks are sometimes 2 minutes long. If they did something like no album will "cost" you more than 10 tracks that would make it a lot more fair to those who like such music. Some of the music I like has tracks that are 30-60 minutes so maybe it would even itself out. In the meantime I'm going to hold out a little to see what happens.
What I also find interesting is that maybe the reason they are limiting the tracks is so that some record companies are wary of signing up with unlimited downloads. Maybe in the near future they will be providing the old Wax Tracks! catalog of which contains much of my older vinyl. Maybe they will sign up Tzadic Records of which I would drool over getting 300 downloads for $50 to tantalize my New Musik lust. Again, I will wait and see.
This Modern World comic for 10.28.03
How do you like my Halloween Costume?
No, that will be in the next version, Palladium Xtreme.
In that version your music will be interrupted every 10 seconds by someone screaming "This Music is XTREME!"
It will be a little distracting when trying to listen to JS Bach or Chopin, but I'm sure you'll get used to it.
What wasn't reported widely in the media was that Saddam Hussein had the possesion of 2 of the 3 Egyptian God Cars! If he was able to get ahold of the third remaining card and the Millinium Puzzle he would have been able to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!!!
On a more serious note, as much as I hear people joke about "We kept the receipts" that actually is how the UN Weapons Inspectors were able to find the weapons that they did.
(btw, what percentage of the country think that it was Saddam Hussein that kicked out the inspectors in 1997?)
Anyway, according to Scott Ritter, by the time that Clinton kicked the inspectors out of Iraq they had accounted for 95% of the WMD, and the main reason they were not able to complete the job was more because of the Clinton administration than the Iraqis. (Not to say that there were not a bunch of problems from the Iraqis.)
Scott Ritter has been very outspoken about these issues and as a Marine Corps Captain durring Desert Storm and a Chief UN Weapons Inspector he is a very qualified authority. He risked his life searching for weapons and I think more people need to listen to him.