Chicago Boyz has an article that outlines the continuing problems between the French and the UK. The French perspective seems to be "How can you Brits side with the Americans?" the British view tends to be "How can you not?" British Foreign Minister Jack Straw thinks the problem comes from differing experiences from the second world war. IT was a watershed moment for the French.
New feature needed: quoting. Re rhetorical devices: Chornsky says things like "No reasonable person can deny...". I, on the other hand, did not say that. I said, in MY opinion, no reasonable person. The difference is signfiicant because one is unqualified, the other is. The former implies that his opinion is already excepted fact. The other leaves open for others to disagree. I didn't write the extra words "in my opinion" for no reason. I considered it an important qualification.
Brab: In what way did bush "lie" about WMD? Bush's position was the same as the Clinton position. In addition, what "sold" the war was Saddam's non-compliance with UN resolutions. If the police think you have drugs in your home and you refuse to let them in your house despite a warrant and they break in and it turns out you don't have any drugs, does that mean the police are in the wrong? No. They had a warrant. Saddam had agreed to abide by UN resolutions as part of the 1991 cease fire. <
Re O'reilly: Being in favor of gay marriage is not moderate. That's the problem with some people on the left. They consider their views so "civilized" that something like support of gay marriage is just a "moderate" view. Same for gun control. Re Fox News: I have already posted on that topic -- I have said that they lean to the right about as much as CNN leans to the left. I think FNC leans to the right because its people are conservatives which is why I suspect most other media center
Sweet!
See a video of this desktop in action Why? What's wrong with the default Windows look? That's the question I sometimes get from friends and family. For the life of them, they don't understand why anyone would spend the time, let alone money, to customize Windows.
If you think CNN is biased, you should try listening to the BBC. The BBC's partianship is so extreme at times that it just comes across as sloppy journalism. A mere symptom of a disease known as "lack of competition operating on a level playing field." The BBC lacks significant domestic competition and has slowly drifted into being completely out of touch with reality. For example, this morning the news report (i.e. allegedly hard news) talked about the "draconian" changes to American la
First off, you are counting in combat deaths. I never claimed that civilian life is safer than actual combat. The question is how many people have died since the cessation of hostilities. The number is roughly 90. Therefore, the occupation of Iraq is about as dangerous for US soldiers as the fatality rate mentioned in your statistics. In addition, your statistics are for all people aged 15-24. What about MALES aged 15-24. The number is probably closer to 120 or higher per 100,000 annua
How would you define progress? Iraq is in allied hands. Its resources in allied hands. Its cities controlled by the allies. Progress comes in the form of getting services back up and running and building a new Iraqi government, security force, etc. All of these things are happening.
For the past year I have been blogging about the various things that interest me. If you click on the JoeUser classic link near the top you can see the kinds of things I've talked about over the past year. It's been really fun. But I was distressed by a few things during my blogging: It sometimes felt like blogging is already a clique. A handful of blog sites got all the "glory". Part of my job at Stardock is to analyze the popularity of various websites. So
Ooh that is cool. I think the lighting on the ships may still need some work, they're kind of dark. More polygons definitely helps! Very exciting!
That is true. At a certain level though people do have to promote their stuff. That said, I still have the ablity to feature blogs on the main page which of course gives the blog a particular boost.
Looks good. Can't wait to see the high polygon colony ship in with the high res texture map.
I'm wearing my Register shirt as I type this so given I'm already apparently a tool of The Register I might as well go all the way and point you to an article John Lettice there has written about Microsoft's seeming obsession with Linux. Personally I think Linux is crap. At least from a desktop point of view for getting general office productivity done. But as a server, Microsoft needs to worry. I think they
since you're the #1 ranked Metaverse player you could post about your GalCiv strategies or things you'd like to see. I'd love to hear your htoughts on what GalCiv needs to have next.
Good point. All of the media have agendas IMO. I don't think that any of the news networks are tools for any political party. I think in reality they simply have their own point of view that is the collection of opinions of those who happen to work there and journalists tend to be left of center. It's not a conspiracy or anything. That's why Al Franken's idiotic book's charges that FNC is somehow a Republican tool while everyone else is just pursuing their own agenda is so absurd.
Oh I don't agree with you at all there. Basketball, as a "industry", generates billions of dollars. Teams generate their money from audiences (TV and live). That money is dependent on the quality of their team -- i.e. their winning a lot. There are something like 30 pro basetball players competing for those dollars. The quality of their team is based on the players. Therefore those 30 teams compete for those top players which drive up their salaries. In contrast, the
A lot of people claim Fox is a tool of the Republican party. But one has to wonder where that comes from. Being a regular FNC viewer, I decided to take a look at the line up and disect its "conservativeness". In a nutshell, FNC is simply a mirror of the other major news organizations. Instead of liberals picking and reading the news, it's conservatives. But unlike the other news organizations, FNC seems more inclined to present both points of view. Take a look and judge
People on the right tend to have an almost blind faith in market capitalism. But people on the left tend to have a blind faith in the government's ability to distribute "Fairness". Nothing shows the perils of fairness more than when you talk about how much different professions pay. After all, what kind of world is it where a basketball player can make $10 million a year while a teacher only makes $30,000 a year? That, on the surface, strikes many people as a re
I don't think I'm over simplifying. I am trying to counter the long standing assumptiong that corporations don't pay taxes. Corpos are still paying $136 billion dollars in taxes. While not the $308 billion that one might expect, the issue is currently two fold: Big companies with the resources to play accounting games are let off the hook entirely while smaller companies are paying far too high in taxes.
Sounds like your university needs better health care. Where I work, and we don't have anything special, you can get your family covered as part of your plan very inexpensively and it includes prescription drugs.
The internet has definitely taken a beating this week. <img height="180" src="http://www.internettrafficreport.com/graphs/tr
If you want to link to a particular article, just click on the title of the article.
It must be something in the water. As Right Wing News points out, Johnny Depp, just before the opening of his new movie, "Once Upon a time in Mexico" was in France slamming the United States Would he have us emulate France? Possibly the most cynical self serving country on Earth? These are the guys who wouldn't let their "ally" even fly over their air space during a strike on Libya after Libya's terrorist bombing of a disco frequented by American troops As RWN points out,
That's a good point. I'm not sure how one fixes this kind of problem though. Each time you plug one hole some geekling finds another.
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