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Actually, I do, which is why I suggest they try to end the situation without war. You want to talk about a people that will reject freedom, the people of N Korea won't know what to do with it, and it'll take them 30+ years to catch up to speed with the rest of the world, at least. Which makes it too big of a task for us to carry it around by ourselves like a crack monkey on our back like we're doing with Iraq. That, plus also any nuke fired by either side will blow into S Korea or Japan, unless all the nuclear war is restricted to a week when the wind is dead.

So, to quote a previous post of yours, you want to go to war with a country that we know virtually nothing about? Really, what do you see happening here?

I don't even trust them to tell me the truth. Here's the thing, though. Blogs don't have power. Blogs are just some blowhard running a web site. Blogs don't even have credibility, though you can keep dreaming the impossible wet-dream where the assorted networks, papers, and wires all crumble and everyone goes to a blog to find out the news. You don't seem to understand. Moore was able to get asses in seats. If Moore was an embarassment, people wouldn't have gone to the theaters to see his movie and talk about him. If Falwell came out with some flaming rant in movie or book form, and it made many millions and put asses in theaters for a good couple months, and created such a huge national debate, and people were going around and telling their friends that they've got to check out this Falwell movie and it was suddently THE political movie of the year, that the Republicans would still shun him? You contradict yourself. If everyone hates the fucker, he wouldn't have made so much money.

No. Policing the internet is stupid and impossible. Which is my point, originally it didn't involve the internet until this judge overturned that. She is either to blame or to thank, as she may either cause the whole bill to crumble under being impossible to enforce, or may make the government go into total John Ashcroft surveillance mode.

I think you and I sorta agree but don't agree at the same time. I agree that God as a vague all-inclusive term is fine, but there are examples in American society where God is used to specifically preach the values of the Christian God. Vague terms include that reference to men being given rights to "their creator" in the Declaration of Independence, and the reference to God on money, which is based on the national anthem, and who knows what the author was thinking at the time when he wrote that. However, there have been very real attempts at using God in government for that "our God is an awesome God and we are a Christian nation and this will symbolize that." The commandments in Texas originates as a tie-in to the movie "The Ten Commandments" and even says that on the monument itself. I don't have a problem with that. The other case (Tenn.?) the Commandments are used to promote religious values and are thus not okay. Roy Moore first said his big hunk of rock was to reflect on the origins of laws in our culture (fine), but then when put under oath about it said that it was a symbol of us being a Christian nation. Whoops, not okay, and the court rightly said so in it's statement. Lastly, the pledge, which was forced in as a statement of religious belief, as idiots were superstitious enough to think that making kids say "under God" would turn them away from the godless Reds. There was nothing vague about the decision to add that to the pledge.

Someone want to tell me what's so hard about this? Step 1: Step 2: Step 3: Step 4: Yes, if you don't have an account with them, you have to sign up, but that part is no harder than signing up for any other online store like Amazon.com or eBay.

It tilts back and forth. There was a long period of time where the Republicans couldn't win a damn thing either. I blame reactionary personalities. Although it may not shift as easily in the future, the explosion of media in recent decades has preyed on people's gullibility and stupidity, and created a way too large percentage of people who believe in think MoveOn ran Hilter commercials during the finale of Friends or some other stupid shit. Come back when a Jerry Fallwell book stays on the bestseller list for 3 months while raking in millions.

Having lived in San Fran, I will say that while it does have wackjobs, they're not as numerous as you choose to believe. There's plenty of people who don't have any strong political opinions on "the big issues" and a lot who think all politicians from all side are corrupt idiots who tell you what you want to hear, so why bother participating. The people who really are set out to make a difference, though, are majorily the "Come on, people, let's close every gun store so that shooting deaths drop to 0%!" types.

Two forces that have never worked. So you don't believe Bush is doing the right thing with unilateral talks?= That's their whole bargaining chip. They're trying to extort everything they can out of people over the threat of a nuke. If they actually use a nuke, the threat is gone.

Al Franken is PJ O'Rourke for the left, so I don't know what the hell you're talking about.

In 2002, the FEC exempted the Internet by a 4-2 vote, but U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly last fall overturned that decision. "The commission's exclusion of Internet communications from the coordinated communications regulation severely undermines" the campaign finance law's purposes, Kollar-Kotelly wrote. Isn't this the real enemy here? Either that or hero, since that idea pretty much fucks over the whole bill.

You guys are acting like Michael Moore was a prime time speaker at the DNC convention or something.

But do we see such media about the PNAC? No? Because everybody who wants to know knows, and people who don't want to know don't care.

Not really. NewsBin is easy enough to set up. You plug in the addresses of the news servers of your provider and how much you can download from each every day/week/month/whatever, and tell it what group to go to. It visits every server to get a listing of articles from every server and puts them together into one unified listing. Viewing by subject line, I just select a large block of messages that all start with the same (ie. WWE_WrestleMania_20-VCD or whatever) and click download. It downloads files from whatever available server it can. I walk away. You can easily max out your modem on downloading, don't need to upload anything. It requires a bit more setup the very first time, and it's certainly more expensive, but I don't care if I have to pay a newsfeeds company a few dollars every month if it means McMahon doesn't send me a letter demanding thousands.

See, this is why BitTorrent is BAD, and newsgroups is GOOD. Much less paper trail, and BitTorrent makes your fucking IP ADDRESS public while you're connect. Buy a decent newsgroups provider, kids. alt.binaries.pro-wrestling has the same files, with a faster download, without any "upload to download" crap, and a lot less fear.

Of course you could. That's not exactly cheap. And for "internet, a couple games, and copying things to a GBA flash cart" you don't need a machine that can run Half-Life 2 at full textures and 4X FSAA.

If you do this, get Ad-Aware or SpyBot too. Just using the Microsoft tool is really bad in the long term. Why? Because pretty soon EVERYONE will have the Microsoft tool, because they'll either package it in Windows or include it with a Service Pack or something. Already, word is flying about it and all kinds of people are downloading it. And people who make spyware are going to want to get around it and make backdoors and fixes to circumvent detection. And Microsoft, predictably, will not be able to keep up. Spyware authors aren't that concerned with Ad-Aware and Spybot. The people who use them are generally computer savvy and the authors constantly update the programs. They also probably know when something is installing spyware and not to install it. The spyware people do not want to lose the soccer moms and the blue-haired grannies who don't know PC security though. These people don't know much about computers, and they'll install whatever they're asked to. So, I predict in 18 months or so, that MS Spyware program will be useless.

Burn them onto CDs in iTunes' CD interface (insert a blank CD, it'll show up in the panel with your Library and playlists, drag tracks to the CD, click burn) and then rip them back as MP3s. It will experience quality loss so if you're a big sound quality person, keep that in mind.

N. Korea isn't going to use a nuke. They're going to sell a nuke, and that's a different problem that can only really be fought by anti-proliferation and international pressure. At this point, the question for N. Korea is not whether they should fire a nuke, but whether they'll get more for it from foreign countries or from rogue extremists.

While I agree that using a Vermont town hall meeting as a measuring stick for the success of the war is hilariously idiotic, saying stuff like "utter whackjobs who inhabit that state" is just tearing apart this stupid red/blue state divide even further.

You mean that... Liberals... Are congregating... In groups? FUCKIN' A!!! Why the hell am I always being kept in the dark about all this important shit!? What is the point of this article? Or at least, what is the point in posting it here? Is there people who visit this forum who don't know that MoveOn is a far-left PAC? I thought that was about as given as knowing that bears shit in the woods.

But enough is enough. You might spend some money on charity and hope you'll make things better, but if the charity starts maxing out your credit card you'll want them to stop. The only self-interest Americans had in this war was to prevent WMD from being used against them, that Saddam might sell them to terrorists. Since then we did not only find no WMDs, but then found out that N. Korea has WMDs and is desperate and crazy enough to want to sell them for best offer, no background check necessary, terrorist groups feel free to apply. The whole "saving Iraqis and spreading freedom" thing was really really really secondary or even teritary to the security issues of the war. Since the embarassment of No WMD + N.Korea, the government has tried to save face by emphasizing this blooming democracy stuff as much as possible. You are such a willing sucker for the Bush Revisionist History, that you honestly believe we went to war so women can vote and all that other good stuff. I'm floored.

MAD has stabilized things between nations, even rival nations. What MAD doesn't stabilize is radical factions without a representative country from buying black market arms. The only way to do that is for everyone to work together and drop their nuke supply so that there's less stock for those factions to work with. Unfortunately, that event is akin to two men pointing a gun at each other and promising to drop their weapons on the count of three.

Sort of depends on the context of the piece, as we saw with Roy Moore. Anyway, I'm honestly suprised the state government doesn't just try to sell a small piece of property containing the commandments to various local churches just to get it out of their hands without a huge mess. Then again, maybe that could be scary because if the wrong church buys it, they may take advantage of that property to put other, more embarassing messages like "STEERS NOT QUEERS" and nothing could be done about it.