"Thanks to Indian media who has over the period of time swiped out intellectual taste from mass Indian population." - Chetan Parekh
Originally posted by stara szkapa:
America is done, finito. It was superpower 50 years ago. Today it is just bunch of people living on speculation and producing nothing.
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- Robert Bresson
Homeland security is the biggest B.S. non-issue of all time. Its entire value is propagandistic.
Spot false dilemmas now, ask me how!
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Originally posted by Michael Ernest:
Homeland security is the biggest B.S. non-issue of all time. Its entire value is propagandistic.
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
- Robert Bresson
It was an American that produced JavaRanch. Got a problem with that? If you do I'll meet you at sundown at the OK Corral!Originally posted by stara szkapa:
Today it is just bunch of people living on speculation and producing nothing.
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How many Americans would need to die in terrorist incidents before you considered it an issue?Originally posted by Bert Bates:
It is that and much more. It's also a technique the administration uses to try to keep our eyes off of the real issues.
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Originally posted by Joe Pluta:
(for example, Medicare came into being in the 60s, not during this administration)
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Originally posted by Bert Bates:
Understanding the roots of terrorism, on the other hand, would be a civilized step towards understanding what terrorism is really a symptom of.
So, do we really know why 9/11 happened?
Originally posted by Jason Menard:
I'm sure the widows, widowers, and the parents and children of a few thousand of our countrymen might disagree.
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Originally posted by Joe Pluta:
It's fun to watch.
"Thanks to Indian media who has over the period of time swiped out intellectual taste from mass Indian population." - Chetan Parekh
1 - The economy sucks.
Interesting. I work for a bank and we had record profits last year (according to the all employee meeting we had the other day).
If the bank profited in the millions, I would assume that meant people are spending and making money. Enough so to put in the bank for us to invest.
I don't think the economy is in as bad a shape as some might think...![]()
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1. The budget deficit has got to be something that the US govt look at sometime soon.... there's only so much money that can be borrowed before a crash becomes likely
2. Pollution. OK, not such a trendy (or likely to be discussed issue), but in the long term is every bit as important as homeland security
3. Improving international relations. Probably the hardest one of the lot, but could definatly help in the war on terrorism if more countries are likely to want to help out.
4. Resolve the (silly?) trade disputes with the EU and Japan. This would give a large boost to all three economies.
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Originally posted by Richard Hawkes:
Obesity?
According to some alarming studies, if the US population continues to gain weight at the current rate, by 2008 the southern half of the North American continent will sink so far that it will be forever severed from South America (by snapping Mexico in two) and catapult all of Canada towards the sun.
Solution 1: Federally enforced Atkins diets and Calanetics.
Solution 2: "Fatten up Canada" campaign, thereby bringing (literal) balance to the continent.
The SS an Medicare issues are the same. The solution is always to raise taxes or raise the requirement age.
Originally posted by Jeroen Wenting:
The trade disputes with the EU have been going on for decades and are mostly due to EU trade subsidies which are against international treaties.
Originally posted by Jason Menard:
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The enemy's gate is down.
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I had some Java certs, but they're too old now...
Originally posted by Mark Fletcher:
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Sorry if Im being off topic, but is that quote a reference to "Enders Game"? I just finished reading that book. It was rather good... I wouldnt mind reading the other books in the series, but I dont know if they would be as good.
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Originally posted by Bert Bates:
Understanding the roots of terrorism, on the other hand, would be a civilized step towards understanding what terrorism is really a symptom of.
So, do we really know why 9/11 happened?
Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
This is a war between a small sect of moslems and the western world.
"Thanks to Indian media who has over the period of time swiped out intellectual taste from mass Indian population." - Chetan Parekh
Of course not! Every Moslem I have met wants to live peacefully and appreciates the freedoms of the West. The terrorists are a sick cult that needs to be destroyed.Originally posted by R K Singh:
thanks God, its not claimed to be a war between muslims and christians.
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Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
The terrorists are a sick cult that needs to be destroyed.
"Thanks to Indian media who has over the period of time swiped out intellectual taste from mass Indian population." - Chetan Parekh
Originally posted by R K Singh:
thanks God, its not claimed to be a war between muslims and christians.
[ February 06, 2004: Message edited by: R K Singh ]
Originally posted by Phil Chuang:
It also aggravates me to no end when it is said that homeland security is BS. The funny thing is, you'll never know the value of homeland security unless it fails. How many times has a disaster been foiled? How many bombers have we discouraged? How many 9-11s have we prevented? It is impossible to tell.
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- Robert Bresson
Originally posted by Phil Chuang:
No, it's claimed to be a war between a large portion of muslims and christians, jews, hindus, mormons, atheists, pantheists, deists, wiccans, etc ad nauseum. Considering that a majority of the Middle East muslim population support the position of righteous genocide and jihad, I find it hard to believe it when people say it is the work of a "small sect" of muslims. Listen to what the leaders of Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Libya, Indonesia are saying! It is not the calm voice of reasoned logic - it is the voice that speaks to the baser instincts of the masses that calls for the blood of any non-believer. People insist that the first question we must ask ourselves is, "why do they hate us?" The answer to that is relatively simple: because we are not muslims. Anybody with a third-grade education and above can see that. The question should be, "how can we change this?" To me, the answer to that would be to remove those in power who incite the masses to violence - it seems that the imams and muftis of the ME hold the majority of the power over their people - stop their rhetoric and perhaps, in a few decades, things will have calmed down over there.
It also aggravates me to no end when it is said that homeland security is BS. The funny thing is, you'll never know the value of homeland security unless it fails. How many times has a disaster been foiled? How many bombers have we discouraged? How many 9-11s have we prevented? It is impossible to tell. In this case, it is much like trying to collect deterrence statistics for a gun control study. You only get statistics for when things go wrong - and usually never when things go right. How can you measure success? In cases of deterrence and security, the only available measure by an absence of failure - but the law of averages states it's only a matter of time. So it's a bit of a catch-22, really. No matter how good homeland security is, no one knows if it's successful, but everybody knows if it fails. I say we should all be thankful that there has been no imported violence in the last 2 years. <knocks on wood>