Comment Re:Bush Vetoed this, apparently (Score 4, Insightful) 632
The Senate and the House both were Democrat at the time. But I want to see the list of Republicans who voted for it too, because primaries are coming up.
The Senate and the House both were Democrat at the time. But I want to see the list of Republicans who voted for it too, because primaries are coming up.
I just checked Wikipedia, according to which Bush vetoed the linked "Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008" on May 21, 2008, and had the veto overridden the same day, by a Congress run by Nancy Pelosi and whoever was Senate leader then. (checking... oh, Harry Reid). While I am anxious to find out which Republicans did vote for that bill, it looks like Bush didn't.
If that's the wrong bill I'd like to know about it, since they seem to be linking to it in every story I see on this issue.
BTW, before you knock it as a strategy... it worked for getting the United States to abandon Vietnam to serfdom to the Russian Mob (whether it's pretending to be 'communist' or not this week). Not to mention many other conflicts around the globe, up until the present day.
Well, this is what I see forwarded to me from a Russian friend here in the West:
http://maidantranslations.com/...
If this is true, the takeovers are being done in such a manner that a) it generates a lot of bad publicity for the Ukranians if they resist ("They're shooting civilians!") and giving Russia a pretext to take away the Eastern part of the country, which is mixed Ukranian and Russian.
"The flight in question had GPS tracking for flight arrival information.
It went dead the same time as everything else. (EMP pulse?)"
Based on the reports I read yesterday, the pilot turned off the location transponder and took a right angle turn on a course that's roughly headed towards Bandar Aceh. (I think that's how it's spelled). The initial post's idea would work well if the plane only had mechanical difficulties and crashed. This does not seem to be the case; it was on the other side of the Malay Peninsula from where it was supposed to be when the military radar lost it; that wasn't something it did because of mechanical difficulties or engine failure.
Texas is named for Tiles, because one of the earliest parts settled had red soil suitable for making roofing tiles from. Spanish has shifted its spelling/prononciation a bit between then and now.
Yup, them and the Kulaks. I hear they've got lots of grain.
Uh, last I checked, the people who actually wrote this law lost control of the House (but not the Senate) three years ago.
You look as if you're trying to blame the current Congress for a law they didn't write and furthermore oppose.
"What would have them spinning at 5000 rpm in their graves is Guantanamo Bay, not this trial and public reaction."
Well, except for Benjamin Franklin, who argued against trading his Loyalist POW son William Franklin to the British during the war. Washington overruled him on that, btw. (Seriously: look it up on Wikipedia, it's interesting).
Unified Korea and scores of dead North Koreans.
But the people in North Korea have created this mess, so it's only right they take the heaviest losses.
I must have missed the part where the government of North Korea was truly democratic instead of a bunch of despotic thugs installed by Russia and China back in the Cold War.
Over the last two years we gave the Moslem Brotherhood two countries (Libya and Egypt) with very substantial military arsenals, including a large stockpile of shoulder-fired missiles of Russian origin that are arguably better than 1980's-era Stingers. Two months ago these people _we put in power_ apparently killed our ambassador to Libya on the 11th anniversary of 9/11. It's too late to apply any technical fixes to the problem of whether-or-not we can trust them.
Chickety-china, the chinese chicken.
I'm fairly certain that people in the computer/IT world eventually go insane once they hit a critical age. Every once in a while you see bat-shit crazy posts. They usually come from ACs or users with really low UIDs. Someone should do a study on this; with government funding of course.
This all goes to show how the universe is all ronzelle between.
Dudes! Stop arguing about how y'all don't like all the nice 'innovations' we're making to the desktop with the new Gnome Interface/Unity, or the Linux Desktop Quest gets it! I'm not fooling around!
We've exported most of the industry to foreign governments where only state-owned corporations are allowed to drill for oil but "the price is determined by the free market?"
After having a front-row seat to the slow bleeding inflicted upon the industry over the past two and a half decades, I was curious about how the people the rest of y'all handed the power to felt about y'all. This morning I found out:
Have a day, guys.
It's not the Senate, House, and Courts.
It's the Congress, the Executive, and the Courts, or more precisely the Judiciary.
Congress is split between the House and the Senate.
For Civics Teachers, Slashdot's posters make very good perl hackers.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
