Civilian casualties are irrelevant to the question of who won the war. Only a muddle-headed liberal thinker who doesn't understand that war is first and foremost about meeting a military objective, not a body count, would confuse the two. The insurgents succeeded in creating such a bad situation that the American people no longer supported it and wanted to pull out. Mission achieved, body account to achieve it irrelevant. To both sides, and that's what you miss, civilian casualties are just collateral damage.
You and I may not support such a pointless conflict on the grounds that the objective is not worth the cost in human life, but that doesn't mean anything from a cold analysis of whose goals prevailed.
You can't really argue that a rag-tag militia can compete with a trained army in these aspects.
You mean like the insurgents in Iraq who have killed about 5,000 US troops despite being out-gunned, out-numbered and not having the same training as our soldiers? You forget that many of the civilians in that "rag-tag militia" are also US military veterans and have the same training and even more combat exposure than many active duty soldiers. Many of our veterans have a hell of a lot more practical combat skills and experience than our police; the average infantry veteran is easily at the same level as a SWAT officer. In an open fighting, the police would get their asses kicked two ways to Sunday and back by armed veterans who meant business.
I have seen projects run like this and management literally does not understand that one set of skills may be absolutely meaningless compared to the older way of doing things if the experience delta is high enough. For example, you may have the freshest "hot skills," but the senior guy making 2.5x more can actually get the work done in a "fuddy duddy language" like Java or C# in substantially less time and under budget. When you do contract work, that's what matters. A typical customer doesn't give a rat's ass if you're some wunderkind with Ruby or PHP if they have to sacrifice either code quality or more money than by hiring a more seasoned developer with a very solid, but conservative skill set.
sure. unless they can force a theocracy onto the US.
You obviously didn't notice the distinct lack of concern over social conservative issues at most Tea Party rallies. The uniting issues across the Tea Party movement are fiscal policy, civil liberties, immigration control and strong national defense. In fact, some of the major Tea Party figures have openly said that the Tea Party as a movement is welcoming to social conservatives, but that it simply does not have a social issue stance as a movement.
Plantation slavery was not much different from the way these workers live in their dormitories. I would hazard a guess that slave owners actually generally cared about their slaves significantly more than Apple and FoxConn care about these workers. In fact, the very fact that workers aren't even allowed to socialize in their dormitories suggests to me that on balance, plantation slaves might have actually had more freedom since they were free to form families (who admittedly could be sold like slaves), socialize and often free to work for money once their field work was done.
I say this not to defend plantation slavery as anything objectively good, but to note the irony that someone who defends FoxConn's treatment of workers while holding views antagonistic toward actual plantation slavery is being very hypocritical because on balance, these workers have it even worse. I'm white and if I had to choose between being a field slave in the South vs working under the conditions the FoxConn workers do with the sort of future that awaits them, hands down I'd choose to be a slave. At least then the master's tyranny would end at sun down.
The man's top ten donors are all Wall Street blue blood institutions, he's the inspiration for Obamacare and more. The more conservatives get to know him, the more they start to think it doesn't matter if Obama wins because Romney not only shares the same core issue positions, but has the executive experience to quite possibly be even more "effective" in the ways they want to prevent. This race has become a case of the Republican primary voters and RNC once again snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. If they had drafted Rand Paul (not Ron Paul) or someone with similar values, Obama would get clubbed like a baby seal in the debates and polls.
The reason he was impeached wasn't sex. It was because:
1. He lied under oath. We call that perjury and it's a felony. 2. He lied under oath in a trial where he was having to account for unwanted sexual advances on a woman. 3. As a matter of law, we try to make at least a half-assed attempt to protect women from aggressive, unwanted sexual advances. 4. Felonies are actually named as a basis upon which a President can be impeached.
If he had just admitted the truth, there was nothing the system could have done to him because it was a civil trial and Presidents cannot be impeached for purely civil matters.
Google and others should threaten to go to the FCC, FTC and others with a proposal: how about we provide you with software that can allow for total censorship of music and movies which are offensive to community standards? They can say "two can play at the using-a-government-as-a-weapon game" by creating software which can analyze radio broadcasts, cable TV content, etc. and provide end-to-end censorship of any content that violates community standards.
Not that I am particularly fond of censorship, but it would stick a boot up these industries' asses and REALLY garner a lot of public support. There are a lot of people who want these industries to restrain themselves and are getting sick of their overall behavior (such as this issue and offending reasonable sensibilities for profit).
My wife found these lego candies that are actually stackable like real legos. She loves legos like any geek and realized that they'd be great as little favors to put on the tables. Not only did they have a little geekiness in an otherwise normal wedding, but they kept the guests' kids entertained.
The advice has resonance with the arrest this week of Kim 'Dotcom' on alleged copyright violations in the U.S."
MegaUpload maintained a large nexus in the US, which is what exposed them to prosecution. We can disagree about the extradition (not particularly in favor of it myself, but it is probably legal under treaty), but if an American citizen set up a business with a nexus in NZ or Germany that severely broke their copyright laws, they would be fair game the moment they set foot on their territory or of a sympathetic state's territory. Let's not conflate these issues. They're bad enough on their own.
Like this is going to actually do much to raise the bar in NYC, a school system notorious for having "teachers" who are shut up in a room doing nothing, pulling down six figure salaries because union rules don't let the government fire them. You want to fix things? How about a combination of privatization and allowing public (government!) schools to actually fire teachers and much more easily release "problem kids." By problem kids I mean:
1. Disruptive behavior. 2. Unwillingness to do work. 3. Mommy and daddy have a habit of terrorizing the the teachers and administration when they don't get their way.
When I went to the IIPA, Web of Trust went berserk and said the site has a poor reputation for "trustworthiness," "vendor reliability" and "privacy." It also scored a low score on "child safety."
California's problems are first and foremost political. There is no political will to actually clean up your state's problems with spending too much money. You have a prison guard union that has managed to make generous six figure salaries the norm, not the exception, for its employees and California has the largest prison population in the US--even compared to states like Texas and Florida which rival it in population size. You spend more on average for public schools than most of the union, but have little to show for it compared to many other states with equivalent wealth production capacity.
Why? Because your state is a microcosm of the mentality that is crushing the federal government. The complete and utter inability to say "no, you've already gotten enough and aren't getting anymore."
This law will make it a lot harder for the FBI to fight online white collar crime and the FBI actually has a lot of its own lobbyists on capitol hill. I can't believe that they are going along with this.
Blockades are defined by international law as an act of war. The moment you try to enforce this blockade, you'll have effectively declared war on every Persian Gulf state and anyone trading with them.
Peaceful protesters in Occupy movements all over the world have been labelled as terrorists by the authorities.
Meanwhile, Tea Party groups have been labeled with every epithet the left and mainstream media could throw at them and are actually more peaceful and law-abiding than the average Occupy *** protest. Welcome to the club. You're not special.
Unless they halve the prices, why bother? Blu-Ray on a 46" modern TV is most of the experience for cheaper per movie and you can't put a price on the freedom it provides in terms of food, not putting up with jerks and being able to not miss anything if you have to go to the bathroom. Best Buy and Walmart charge prices for new releases that are less than the cost of two tickets to see them in the theaters around here (metro DC).
Punish it for what it is: an attempted coup. Maybe this shouldn't count as "real voter fraud," but in general, democratic societies ought to punish organized voter fraud as a form of "attempting to overthrow the government." If the federal government were to hang a few people for attempting to systematically defraud the electorate, I think you'd see a lot fewer people willing to engage in the practice.
They should just do what my company does, which is acknowledge that while we are salaried, it's unethical to lean on that to squeeze out a lot of unpaid work. It's this revolutionary idea that "can" doesn't mean "should" which in this day and age of minimalist ethics which are bound to the razor edge of what the letter of the law or contract allows is too radical for many managers.
And Gingrich should retaliate by buying barrackhusseinobama.com which appears to be for sale and posting licensed copies of all of the trashy tabloids that accuse Michelle of cheating with a Secret Service agent and Obama of being a homosexual coke fiend.
At ~7m lines of legal language, the federal tax code is as large as many operating systems in complexity. Writing code that can correctly handle its business rules is probably as complex as many of the systems that Wall Street puts into place for real-time trading and risk analysis.
As a conservative, I hate to say Clinton was right, but Bill Clinton knocked it out of the park when he said we need to just lower rates and then wipe out most of the exemptions and credits. His only fault was not advocating the complete abolition of those things so the tax code would be predictable.
Gee, I don't know... could it be the fact that most people would find this an absolutely frivolous waste of money that would be better spent on a family vacation or basic expenses in a tight economy?
Thanks Malaysia. You've just made for better job security in India and the US. We Americans won't have to compete directly against you because only a minority of your people will be able to afford to comply with this (thus making them a highly paid minority) and Indians will have fewer competitors, making it easier for their wages to increase (which again, makes it easier for Americans to compete).
If I didn't know better, I'd wonder how much a US Trade Representative paid someone to make this happen!
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Civilian casualties are irrelevant to the question of who won the war. Only a muddle-headed liberal thinker who doesn't understand that war is first and foremost about meeting a military objective, not a body count, would confuse the two. The insurgents succeeded in creating such a bad situation that the American people no longer supported it and wanted to pull out. Mission achieved, body account to achieve it irrelevant. To both sides, and that's what you miss, civilian casualties are just collateral damage.
You and I may not support such a pointless conflict on the grounds that the objective is not worth the cost in human life, but that doesn't mean anything from a cold analysis of whose goals prevailed.
You mean like the insurgents in Iraq who have killed about 5,000 US troops despite being out-gunned, out-numbered and not having the same training as our soldiers? You forget that many of the civilians in that "rag-tag militia" are also US military veterans and have the same training and even more combat exposure than many active duty soldiers. Many of our veterans have a hell of a lot more practical combat skills and experience than our police; the average infantry veteran is easily at the same level as a SWAT officer. In an open fighting, the police would get their asses kicked two ways to Sunday and back by armed veterans who meant business.
I have seen projects run like this and management literally does not understand that one set of skills may be absolutely meaningless compared to the older way of doing things if the experience delta is high enough. For example, you may have the freshest "hot skills," but the senior guy making 2.5x more can actually get the work done in a "fuddy duddy language" like Java or C# in substantially less time and under budget. When you do contract work, that's what matters. A typical customer doesn't give a rat's ass if you're some wunderkind with Ruby or PHP if they have to sacrifice either code quality or more money than by hiring a more seasoned developer with a very solid, but conservative skill set.
You obviously didn't notice the distinct lack of concern over social conservative issues at most Tea Party rallies. The uniting issues across the Tea Party movement are fiscal policy, civil liberties, immigration control and strong national defense. In fact, some of the major Tea Party figures have openly said that the Tea Party as a movement is welcoming to social conservatives, but that it simply does not have a social issue stance as a movement.
Plantation slavery was not much different from the way these workers live in their dormitories. I would hazard a guess that slave owners actually generally cared about their slaves significantly more than Apple and FoxConn care about these workers. In fact, the very fact that workers aren't even allowed to socialize in their dormitories suggests to me that on balance, plantation slaves might have actually had more freedom since they were free to form families (who admittedly could be sold like slaves), socialize and often free to work for money once their field work was done.
I say this not to defend plantation slavery as anything objectively good, but to note the irony that someone who defends FoxConn's treatment of workers while holding views antagonistic toward actual plantation slavery is being very hypocritical because on balance, these workers have it even worse. I'm white and if I had to choose between being a field slave in the South vs working under the conditions the FoxConn workers do with the sort of future that awaits them, hands down I'd choose to be a slave. At least then the master's tyranny would end at sun down.
Umm, yeah we do:
Google is your friend.
The man's top ten donors are all Wall Street blue blood institutions, he's the inspiration for Obamacare and more. The more conservatives get to know him, the more they start to think it doesn't matter if Obama wins because Romney not only shares the same core issue positions, but has the executive experience to quite possibly be even more "effective" in the ways they want to prevent. This race has become a case of the Republican primary voters and RNC once again snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. If they had drafted Rand Paul (not Ron Paul) or someone with similar values, Obama would get clubbed like a baby seal in the debates and polls.
The reason he was impeached wasn't sex. It was because:
1. He lied under oath. We call that perjury and it's a felony.
2. He lied under oath in a trial where he was having to account for unwanted sexual advances on a woman.
3. As a matter of law, we try to make at least a half-assed attempt to protect women from aggressive, unwanted sexual advances.
4. Felonies are actually named as a basis upon which a President can be impeached.
If he had just admitted the truth, there was nothing the system could have done to him because it was a civil trial and Presidents cannot be impeached for purely civil matters.
Google and others should threaten to go to the FCC, FTC and others with a proposal: how about we provide you with software that can allow for total censorship of music and movies which are offensive to community standards? They can say "two can play at the using-a-government-as-a-weapon game" by creating software which can analyze radio broadcasts, cable TV content, etc. and provide end-to-end censorship of any content that violates community standards.
Not that I am particularly fond of censorship, but it would stick a boot up these industries' asses and REALLY garner a lot of public support. There are a lot of people who want these industries to restrain themselves and are getting sick of their overall behavior (such as this issue and offending reasonable sensibilities for profit).
My wife found these lego candies that are actually stackable like real legos. She loves legos like any geek and realized that they'd be great as little favors to put on the tables. Not only did they have a little geekiness in an otherwise normal wedding, but they kept the guests' kids entertained.
MegaUpload maintained a large nexus in the US, which is what exposed them to prosecution. We can disagree about the extradition (not particularly in favor of it myself, but it is probably legal under treaty), but if an American citizen set up a business with a nexus in NZ or Germany that severely broke their copyright laws, they would be fair game the moment they set foot on their territory or of a sympathetic state's territory. Let's not conflate these issues. They're bad enough on their own.
Like this is going to actually do much to raise the bar in NYC, a school system notorious for having "teachers" who are shut up in a room doing nothing, pulling down six figure salaries because union rules don't let the government fire them. You want to fix things? How about a combination of privatization and allowing public (government!) schools to actually fire teachers and much more easily release "problem kids." By problem kids I mean:
1. Disruptive behavior.
2. Unwillingness to do work.
3. Mommy and daddy have a habit of terrorizing the the teachers and administration when they don't get their way.
When I went to the IIPA, Web of Trust went berserk and said the site has a poor reputation for "trustworthiness," "vendor reliability" and "privacy." It also scored a low score on "child safety."
California's problems are first and foremost political. There is no political will to actually clean up your state's problems with spending too much money. You have a prison guard union that has managed to make generous six figure salaries the norm, not the exception, for its employees and California has the largest prison population in the US--even compared to states like Texas and Florida which rival it in population size. You spend more on average for public schools than most of the union, but have little to show for it compared to many other states with equivalent wealth production capacity.
Why? Because your state is a microcosm of the mentality that is crushing the federal government. The complete and utter inability to say "no, you've already gotten enough and aren't getting anymore."
This law will make it a lot harder for the FBI to fight online white collar crime and the FBI actually has a lot of its own lobbyists on capitol hill. I can't believe that they are going along with this.
1. Getting contacted by an executive at another company for a joint venture.
2. Getting a new degree.
3. Getting contacted by an investor.
This is as ridiculous as firing someone for racism because they put "enjoys participating Civil War reenactments" on their Facebook page.
Blockades are defined by international law as an act of war. The moment you try to enforce this blockade, you'll have effectively declared war on every Persian Gulf state and anyone trading with them.
Meanwhile, Tea Party groups have been labeled with every epithet the left and mainstream media could throw at them and are actually more peaceful and law-abiding than the average Occupy *** protest. Welcome to the club. You're not special.
Unless they halve the prices, why bother? Blu-Ray on a 46" modern TV is most of the experience for cheaper per movie and you can't put a price on the freedom it provides in terms of food, not putting up with jerks and being able to not miss anything if you have to go to the bathroom. Best Buy and Walmart charge prices for new releases that are less than the cost of two tickets to see them in the theaters around here (metro DC).
Punish it for what it is: an attempted coup. Maybe this shouldn't count as "real voter fraud," but in general, democratic societies ought to punish organized voter fraud as a form of "attempting to overthrow the government." If the federal government were to hang a few people for attempting to systematically defraud the electorate, I think you'd see a lot fewer people willing to engage in the practice.
They should just do what my company does, which is acknowledge that while we are salaried, it's unethical to lean on that to squeeze out a lot of unpaid work. It's this revolutionary idea that "can" doesn't mean "should" which in this day and age of minimalist ethics which are bound to the razor edge of what the letter of the law or contract allows is too radical for many managers.
And Gingrich should retaliate by buying barrackhusseinobama.com which appears to be for sale and posting licensed copies of all of the trashy tabloids that accuse Michelle of cheating with a Secret Service agent and Obama of being a homosexual coke fiend.
At ~7m lines of legal language, the federal tax code is as large as many operating systems in complexity. Writing code that can correctly handle its business rules is probably as complex as many of the systems that Wall Street puts into place for real-time trading and risk analysis.
As a conservative, I hate to say Clinton was right, but Bill Clinton knocked it out of the park when he said we need to just lower rates and then wipe out most of the exemptions and credits. His only fault was not advocating the complete abolition of those things so the tax code would be predictable.
Gee, I don't know... could it be the fact that most people would find this an absolutely frivolous waste of money that would be better spent on a family vacation or basic expenses in a tight economy?
Thanks Malaysia. You've just made for better job security in India and the US. We Americans won't have to compete directly against you because only a minority of your people will be able to afford to comply with this (thus making them a highly paid minority) and Indians will have fewer competitors, making it easier for their wages to increase (which again, makes it easier for Americans to compete).
If I didn't know better, I'd wonder how much a US Trade Representative paid someone to make this happen!