Respectfully, "reeling in Israel" has been tried time and again by the US as well. All it seems to acomplish is to signal to Israel's enemies that they may continue to conduct themselves as they have. They know that if Israel gets too far "out of line", all they need to do is pressure the US to "reel in Israel", so they need never fear retaliation.
States must run into juristiction questions all the time on all kinds of things. How is it solved in other situations?
This may not be the point of the topic, but just for the sake of discussion, I'll bite. The situation is what it is, and so far, my future self has not come back to tell me the secret of time travel, so the past is set. COL Gene, what would you recomend that we do differently now to heal the situation? To be honest, I was against the war against Iraq before we went in. But we went in anyway. Crying about it won't help. So now, how to we t
Was anybody around for the talk of NT5.0? I was at a MS seminar that originally targeted it for summer '98 - or was it '97? Then they came out with the "we won't release it til it's right thing. Then they ripped half of the planned objectives out of it and renamed it as Windows 2000. Of course, they still needed a couple of SPs to get it stable. The point is, MS knows how to do a delayed release. The question is, with no major OS for 5 ye
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I like the idea that she will bring the series to an end. So many authors these days keep bringing the formula characters back long after the quality ideas for them have ended. How much pressure from fans and the publisher would come to bear on her if she left Harry around. Just one more book. What about Harry as an adult? What about Harry's kids? Harry takes over Hogwarts? The new Harry Potter kids! It would never end. Even if JKR managed to
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Nobody held a gun to the Saints to pick Bush. Texas proved that. And if they don't like the price tag, or can't find a smart way to come to terms with him and include performance and incentive clauses, I'm sure they could find a way to trade him to another team. While the problem exists, is it really the fault of the NFL and PA? Or does the problem have more to to with the irresponsibility of the management of the individual teams that ag
This is just like the politicians. The public is upset, so they won't stop us if we take someone else's money. Two words: Tobacco settlement. If a company is making "too much" money, it's supposed to encourage the market to find new ways of getting a share of that money. So where's the alternative fuels and energy? Where's the move to open up more off shore drilling? How about at least a new refinery? Still don't like it that the oil companies are making so much? Go buy some s
First, let me thank all of you for your comments! and then going on to pontificate about the backwardness of Arabs, why do you not ask a fundamental question that even most Arab radicals will find tolerable: Why does Israel not go back to its 1948 borders and then the problem of Jerusalem can be sorted out <
That's because the United States have been wrongfully elavated by some to the status of an Empire. The irony is, if the USA was truly interested in empire, we could probably muster enough force to supress the problems for a little while. Not solve them, mind you... <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="
This artical was inspired by comments on a couple of different forums I frequent. It seems that it is in vogue these days to simply blame Bush, Oil, and the USA in general whenever something goes wrong in the Middle East. While I agree that the US foreign policy has not been brilliant (to say the least), I felt it was time to point out that we were not the architechs of the events playiing out now.
I am very tired of the world laying all their troubles on the United States. In specific, the issue of all the problems in the Middle East. Sure, our hands aren’t any cleaner than anyone else’s. But to hear the rhetoric today, it sure sounds like most of the world, and many in our own country, are convinced that the USA single-handedly took the world to the brink o
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The reaction of Israel for the attack and capture of ONE Israeli Soldier was to attack Gaza and put a MILLION people, that had NOTHING to do with the capture of that ONE soldier, in the dark and with no way to make a living. All that did was to create another reaction from Hezbollah, who uses the disproportionate response from Is
I don't know if '64 counts for Boomers. I was born in '64. I feel like I have one foot in the Boomers and the other in Gen X - Kind of an X-Boomer. But for the generation that was the right age for it (my mother), Kennedy was THE defining event. The world turned on that day.
Hmmm, I can't say I've ever run across anyone complaining at me using a "Thank you, sir". But as for the Mr [lastname] part, I prefer to be on a first name basis with the world. I expect to be called Hank, and I expect to use the first name of the person I'm responding to. In general, I've never had a problem with this, from my bosses to my clients, to people I know casually. I prefer the first name in part because I think of myself as "H
I know exactly how you feel on this one. I had the same problem with TNG when it first aired. I don't remember seeing the originals as first runs, but grew up on the reruns in the 70's. I had trouble with the whole first season of TNG, but the one that stands out for me was "Wesley Crusher and the Disneyland Sex Planet" episode. Picard should have listened to the Prime Directive and left Wesley to die so he would be put out of our misery!
So, any room for an honorary?
I think PA has to be split in half as well
People who don't write software may not understand that software, just like writing a book or a poem is a creative endeavor. Software should be treated the same as other copyrighted material. Peroid. I've written code, and I've attempted writing something that I called poetry. I totally agree that
Well, I hadn't seen it yet. Thanks and a cookie for putting it up!
Now what about my example? Should a girl who published her poem on a small site or book once ten years ago lose all rights to that poem if she hasn't published it again since then and the book is no longer for sale or the site is no longer up? I don't know. Maybe this is an example of why software shou
The furnature analogy I'm afraid doesn't hold up. If you make a chair, and have the "copyright" on it, you are in effect making it illegal for me to own a chair - at least a chair that looks like yours. If I can't buy one from you, I still want to be able to sit! Let's try this another way. What if somebody (we'll use Bill Gates because he's rich and fun to pick on) decided to rid the world of Beatles music. He goes out and buys the rights
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