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Comment Re:Well ... what do you expect (Score 2) 479

Actually the US had every right to invade Iraq. After the first Gulf War the cease fire conditions called for UN inspection of Iraq for chemical weapons. Saddam impeded the inspectors at every turn. He continuously sent fighters into the no flight zone also. Violations of the cease fire agreement were so numerous as to make it a joke. Look at it as simply a continuance of the original conflict.

Excuse me? If some big ass country was bullying me, I'd make what they were doing harder. Our invasion of Iraq was not only wrong, it destabilized the region into a big ass terrorist training area, something Saddam kept from happening.

And how many WMD's did we find? I know Bush said there were there, but how many did we find? Oh ya, None.

The biggest outrage of all of this is all the art and artifacts that got destroyed during this time, all that history lost.

 

Comment Father should sue now. (Score 2, Interesting) 387

Since the original agreement was not to sue and not to say something, and that got broken, nothing to keep him from taking them to court and suing over the original thing. Might even work to their favor. "Well your honor, they were going to pay us off, but then didn't when word of it got leaked out via facebook."

As for the daughter, she's 19, time for her to leave the nest and earn her own living.

Comment Re:Teenagers will do stupid things? (Score 4, Insightful) 387

Then they screwed up already by signing the agreement. I don't think it's realistic to have this kind of stuff happening in your family and then not telling you teenage kid the end result. I mean, after a year of mom and dad being nervous and stressed about the thing you will - not say a word to your kid? WTF kind of parenting is that? So they should not have taken an agreement that had that kind of a clause in the first place.

Telling her wasn't the problem. Her telling everyone via Facebook is the problem.

Comment I Want A New Drug (Score 1) 294

I want a new drug
One that won't make me sick
One that won't make me crash my car
Or make me feel three feet thick

I want a new drug
One that won't hurt my head
One that won't make my mouth too dry
Or make my eyes too red

One that won't make me nervous
Wonderin' what to do
One that makes me feel like I feel when I'm with you
When I'm alone with you

I want a new drug
One that won't spill
One that don't cost too much
Or come in a pill

I want a new drug
One that won't go away
One that won't keep me up all night
One that won't make me sleep all day

One that won't make me nervous
Wonderin' what to do
One that makes me feel like I feel when I'm with you
When I'm alone with you
I'm alone with you baby

I want a new drug
One that does what it should
One that won't make me feel too bad
One that won't make me feel too good

I want a new drug
One with no doubt
One that won't make me talk too much
Or make my face break out

One that won't make me nervous
Wonderin' what to do
One that makes me feel like I feel when I'm with you
When I'm alone with you
All alone with you
All alone with you, yea, yea

Comment Re:Why SHOULD there be acceptance? (Score 0) 921

Seriously. We're already living in a panopticon society, being recorded by the government and private business almost 24x7.
Now we have a bunch of people OPENLY wearing cameras on their heads, recording our every moment in public too, whether we want it or not.
I can understand a certain modicum of hostility. Granted, nobody should EVER be PHYSICALLY attacked. But the people behind Google Glass, as well as the users of the product need to understand that this product is going to be pushing people's buttons.

Do you own any electronic devices? Can you record all day on any of them with their batteries being how batteries are? Okay, take something as small as Google Glasses, who has a really fucking small battery, how fucking long do you think it can record? 1 hour, 2 tops? If you are lucky.

When I go outside, I expect that I am being recorded by something all the fucking time. It can be a store's security camera, it can be someone tourist with a camera/cell phone. Whatever, that is how it is now.

People want an excuse to be stupid and act like dicks, and currently Google Glasses is that excuse.

Comment Re:what will it take for general acceptance (Score 0) 921

Wearing a short skirt isn't an invasion of other people's privacy. Pointing a camera at them is. If people make it clear they don't want a recording device pointing at them, and you persist, then you do indeed bear some responsibility if it results in a bad outcome for you.

So if you are wearing a short skirt and someone points a camera up it (upskirts, very popular on the web), who's fault is it? And if you don't wear underwear, then weren't you asking for it?

Comment Re: And in other news... (Score 0) 506

To extend this, I've known plenty of people who have lived in Asian countries (for at least a few years) but never really picked up the language. It's one of the advantages of being a native English speaker... you can go almost anywhere on Earth and find people that know enough English for you to live day-to-day life. The only things you really need to pick up are words and phrases with no direct translation.

On the other hand, I've met many many foreign types in America who don't bother to learn English, even though they live here now.

Comment Re:Cost/benefit analysis please (Score 1) 347

...I can understand that this might be a trade off that is worth paying - paid by the innocent people. I am far from convinced that this trade off is right or moral; but for the sake of this argument - I will accept it.

...: can anyone come up with a cost/benefit analysis, please ?

Yes, the cost to those innocents was way more then it was worth.

Bad guys are supposed to hurt the innocent, not the protectors.

Comment Seattle is a great example (Score 1) 606

Seattle/Pacific Northwest, Western Washington is has a lot of tech companies. Guess where you do not find them? Correct, in downtown Seattle. In fact, you rarely find them in downtown any other cities around us, they are out in the suburbs. Microsoft, Nintend Amazon while it's headquarters are just off of downtown (in fact, just a few blocks away from me), it's warehouses are not in the city.

Also, the cost of buildings downtown are expensive. Rent is horrible. If i had a big company I needed workers for, I'd go to the outskirts and pay way less, be even able to buy the land instead of renting. And lets see, Nintendo did that, built it's place way out in Redmond, decades ago before there was the big population explosion we got in Seattle in the late 80's to 90's. Microsoft has it's campus in Redmond also, way the fuck away from everyone. Amazon doesn't have it's warehouses in Seattle, but does have it's corporate office, which I imagine has way less employees that any of their other buildings. Plus it's about 5 blocks from me. =)

Plus there is no room to park in Seattle, and I doubt that is any different then most major cities.

I'm going to point out any big ass company that decides to rent in a city for more $$$ then the outskirts of a city/suburbs is stupid.

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