I have every reason to believe that Romney would have gathered the same group of advisers around him that had encouraged W to go too far and pushed their propagandizing of the Red states to new heights in hopes of dragging a few trillion more dollars out of the American public while turning the odometer over from IRAQ to IRAN, as a popular poster in US military sites so proudly proclaimed

He actually did this. Basically his foreign policy during his campaign was PNAC alumni and FPI members. It wasn't any kind of mistake or coincidence that he titled his foreign policy page "New American Century". This wasn't a dog-whistle. It was a shout with a bullhorn.

Marco Rubio has taken the same slogan. It's not a coincidence either.

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-...

Notice that this isn't MSNBC pointing this out.

What Breitbart doesn't do is fully explain what it means and who it is. They certainly do link to Sourcewatch, but people hardly click through.

American Enterprise Institute -> PNAC ->FPI

They're not going away and their modus is to find a stooge to manipulate. And they've found at least one.

BTW, I just discovered the Library of Congress has archived the PNAC site.

It's never going away or going to be scrubbed. How cool is that?

http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/...

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Interesting, but nonsense. There is little chance we would have had "boots on the ground" in Tehran

Dan Senor said on Meet The Press that we'd go to war at the behest of Israel if they bothered to ask.

It's one of Bibi's wet dreams. Of course he'd ask.

Did Romney walk it back? No. No he did not. At all. Don't even bother to try to dispute this, it's googleable.

"Perpetual war" driven by business is a load of bull.

Then explain the trillions we pissed away in Iraq and Afghanistan. They went somewhere. Certainly not in the pockets of the Iraquis or you or me. Maj Gen Smedley Butler is laughing at you from beyond the grave.

re: your implication that the rate of equipment replacement is the same in war as it is in peacetime because it will happen "one way or another"

Blatantly, laughably false.

Ok, you're just a loonie. I should have known better than attempt rational discussion with you.

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Romney was a tool of W's neocon backers that needed a new stooge.

As a candidate, he even had his web page for foreign policy titled New American Century and hired people like Dan Senor as the foreign policy brain trust.

We would have had boots on the ground in Tehran a month after his inauguration. Because perpetual war is good for (war) business, dontchaknow.

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deliberately understate it
he may be completely clueless

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Obama has absolutely refused to use the bully pulpit to stand up for principles and what is right.

Because I think he assumes that everyone is dealing in good faith and that somehow giving away the store at the beginning of a debate is good compromising. Or something. I don't know. I don't care anymore.

He's only slightly better than W and not the effin' disaster we would have had with Romney.

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Speaking of which, is there not a single Republican left with any principles at all that aren't straight out of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead and Anton LaVey's COS? Trump seems to have gotten his philosophy from the Three Stooges.

I'm not looking forward to a Hillary presidency but at this rate the Republicans are just going to hand it to her if she doesn't lose to Bernie in the primaries because she took her position for granted.

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Why would anybody, in their right mind, get a CS or IT degree if they knew how shitty the environment was?

Microsoft and every other tech company: We want talent, but we don't want to pay for it. Give us more H1-B workers to cut the average salary, please.

Game corps: We slave-drive our workers, because it's better to take young talent and burn them out so they leave before they get too expensive. Which is why we're always re-inventing wheels.

IT: Dealing with really ungrateful idiots every day, all week, all year. The higher-up the chain, the stupider (with tech) they are.

Why would anyone, male or female, bother to get into this?

Fuck it. Play soccer.

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Yup. There are some examples of good AI in tv shows. Data and the hubots in Real Humans stand out in my mind.

I remember the scene in The Offspring where Data's daughter Lal was complaining about not being able to feel emotions. While doing an awfully good imitation of anger and frustration...

...laura

"C&C"

I always read that as "coffee and cats."

Pawn Storm Group Makes Trend Micro IP Address a Coffee and Cats Server

YMMV.

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You do. Just as I, a Canadian citizen, have the right to enter Canada. I do not have the legal right to enter the United States, but can do so with official permission. Which usually amounts to the Customs agent at the border or airport telling me to have a nice day.

If the government want to be difficult, your citizenship must be verified. Then Customs can give you the once over: yes, you can enter the country, but they want to know what you're bringing with you.

...laura

It won't work. I don't think you can reasonably claim this will change the actions of the Iranians at all.

Brilliant logic. Then why try to do anything at all that's difficult?

What a dark miserable little world you live in.

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I would mod you down "stupid" but there isn't a choice for that, so I'll reply.

Saudi Arabia is preparing [telegraph.co.uk] to acquire nuclear weapons

The only reason why this is the case is because Iran was working on nuclear weapons. Because Sunni vs. Shia bullshit is so much fun, innit?

Now Iran has signed a treaty saying they won't. With inspections. Maybe this might cool things down or maybe it won't, but someone has to at least try.

Your attempt to make it look like you know anything about the region has failed. Completely.

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I ride the bus to work. It's a non-issue. It's the right thing to do. No parking required, let somebody else deal with the traffic. I have a car that I drive on weekends. One day a week I drive to work to remind myself why I take the bus the other four days. The bus takes a little longer than driving, but not enough that I worry about it much. I save up mid-week errands for the day I drive my car.

If I'm going to downtown Vancouver I take the bus. Parking is scarce and expensive. The traffic is impossible. UGH!

...laura

This isn't changing the rules. This is following the rules.

See my article in the ABA's Judges Journal about how judges had been bending the rules for the RIAA. "Large Recording Companies v. The Defenseless: Some Common Sense Solutions to the Challenges of the RIAA Litigation". The Judges' Journal, Judicial Division of American Bar Association. Summer 2008 edition, Part 1 of The Judges Journals' 2-part series, "Access to Justice".

I beg to differ.

Malibu Media can't choose the venue, or the judge.

If Judge Hellerstein's decision is followed by other judges, it will be the death knell of the present wave of Malibu Media litigation.

While your argument for discovery has some logic to it, it is based on a false assumption of fact : that Malibu Media, once it obtains the name and address of the internet account subscriber, will serve a subpoena on that person in an attempt to find out the name of the person who should be named as a defendant.

Malibu Media's uniform practice, once it gets the name and address, is to immediately amend the complaint to name the subscriber as the infringer/defendant and then serve a summons and amended complaint, not a subpoena, on the subscriber.

This is in every single case .