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Tuesday, Nov 28, 2006
American Psycho
RIGA, Latvia — (AP) President Bush, under pressure to change direction in Iraq, said Tuesday he will not be persuaded by any calls to withdraw American troops before the country is stabilized.
"There's one thing I'm not going to do, I'm not going to pull our troops off the battlefield before the mission is complete," he said in a speech setting the stage for high-stakes meetings with the Iraqi prime minister later this week. "We can accept nothing less than victory for our children and our grandchildren."
"There's one thing I'm not going to do, I'm not going to pull our troops off the battlefield before the mission is complete," he said in a speech setting the stage for high-stakes meetings with the Iraqi prime minister later this week. "We can accept nothing less than victory for our children and our grandchildren."
A) There has not been a "battlefield" since April 2003.
B) There is not now nor has there ever been a coherent "mission".
C) The only thing that resembles a "victory" that will come out of this invasion was achieved in April 2003. We won! Woo hoo! Time to go home!
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D) Why do you want to give Jenna, not-Jenna and their future spawn a pile of dead people?
Monday, Nov 27, 2006
"Land Rush" for a "Series of Tubes"
Adding to the lexicon of bad analogies for the internet is this poorly reasoned opinion piece by the head of LULAC. Yes, LULAC.
The global Internet infrastructure is commonly referred to as the ``information superhighway.'' And for good reason.
Like any highway needing to accommodate growth in traffic by building more lanes, Internet service providers in the past decade have invested hundreds of billions of dollars to build ever-faster lanes on the Internet. Today, we can enjoy downloads of the richest and most robust content in a matter of seconds. Never has a communications revolution occurred on such a grand scale.
For Hispanic Americans and others, this is a significant development. With the rapid deployment of new broadband networks last year, English-speaking Hispanics increased their subscription to broadband services by 46 percent.
As we move into an era in which Internet speeds will approach a gigabyte per second, everyone seems to be laying some claim to the real estate. But, in the Internet land rush, the coup de grace is a proposal known as "network neutrality.''
The crux of the argument in this piece is the "free bandwidth" canard. If I pay to access the internet, and Google pays to access the internet, and then I download data from Google, how is anyone getting free bandwidth? It's already paid for! Rtard.Like any highway needing to accommodate growth in traffic by building more lanes, Internet service providers in the past decade have invested hundreds of billions of dollars to build ever-faster lanes on the Internet. Today, we can enjoy downloads of the richest and most robust content in a matter of seconds. Never has a communications revolution occurred on such a grand scale.
For Hispanic Americans and others, this is a significant development. With the rapid deployment of new broadband networks last year, English-speaking Hispanics increased their subscription to broadband services by 46 percent.
As we move into an era in which Internet speeds will approach a gigabyte per second, everyone seems to be laying some claim to the real estate. But, in the Internet land rush, the coup de grace is a proposal known as "network neutrality.''
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