Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 617 Editor's Choice: 9
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26 is the new 18
[Read the article: My son is almost 30 and won't leave home]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Granted 30 is a little old but 26 is the new 18. Get used to it. I sometimes think my two oldest are semi-retarded with their utter inability to care for themselves. I can see a blue Walmart vest in my future. Retire? I'll be lucky if a get a week off at age 80 to die in my bed.
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For the people who want to see the administration hanged for warcrimes
[Read the article: The president's surprise trip to Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please remember that came at a cost of having that guilty country occupied by foreign armies for a number of years. Germany didn't hold elections for 4 years after the end of the war and wasn't an independent nation in the traditional sense until around 1960. If that's what you'd like to see for us here, give me a heads up so I can emigrate. Thanks. I mean if it's a terrible thing for us to do to them I imagine it would not be so great to require them to do that to us either.
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That's absurd
[Read the article: Dick Cheney's top aide: "We're one bomb away" from our goal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The US would not change one iota if busloads of bottle blond soccermoms exploded in the streets of downtown Kansas City. There's no need to. What is possibly holding them back now whether it's legal or not?
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I think you can assume
[Read the article: The ballad of Ramos and Compean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That a Mexican near the border running from the cops is probably guilty of something.
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Port scanning can flatten the ports
[Read the article: U.S. military routinely hacks into Chinese networks]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A simple vulnerability scan aka port scanner can bring down a network switch or similar device if one is sufficiently careless. It's not rocket science. Any so called 'hack' that gets past that is generally exploiting a vulnerability one should have fixed a long long time ago. That they don't indicates the DoD is pathetically bad at their job vis a vis this.
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You use whatever hammer is in the drawer
[Read the article: In defense of Larry Craig]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It matters little the real or perceived rationale, fair or not, we use to bludgeon the GOP in the head, unto death. As long as it gets done. If they cry "Unfair" just laugh at them and call them weak and kick them in the teeth and in the balls.
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Bush's goal was to render the SC utterly irrelevant
[Read the article: Neither was ours]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]On that score they were a smashing success. At best there are now 1.5 branches of government including a near-neutered Congress and an Executive branch that runs like the captain of the Titanic on crack.
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"..Geopolitics is the key - Islamic extremism"
[Read the article: Dick Cheney's top aide: "We're one bomb away" from our goal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you're debunking it then why do you call it 'extremism'? It's either the one or the other.
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It is either one thing or it is not
[Read the article: Microsoft loses bid to make Office an official standard]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Any standard adopted by ISO is by definition an open standard. It might not be such a bad thing to piggyback on Redmond's investment if the results are truly open. So where OOXML becomes an ISO standard then the standard is published and all the other tools like OpenOffice can adopt it too. Rather that in some ways than trying to reverse engineer Redmond's formats for the sake of compatibility. IT still wouldn't stop Redmond from adopting their own extensions to OOXML just the way they extended RTF into their own DOC standard.
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Why not
[Read the article: Want a baby? Get a massage]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In communities under food stress the members are less fertile too.
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As a former ISO contributor and technical editor
[Read the article: Microsoft loses bid to make Office an official standard]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It sounds a lot easier to wrest the standard you'd like than it actually is in practice. In effect NO ONE winds up with the standard they want. And the EU is even worse. They have an 80 page specification for the steering wheel on a bus.
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14 months is not enough
[Read the article: Dick Cheney's top aide: "We're one bomb away" from our goal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Were we to flee today - 14 months till the next election would barely be enough and that would incur some fairly unpleasant losses while getting shot at on exit. So long story short we will be in Iraq till 2009 the earliest regardless of who is President. You really need to reconcile yourselves to that.
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Yes
[Read the article: Dick Cheney's top aide: "We're one bomb away" from our goal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unless you're willing to suffer a few hundred needless casualties and abandon several hundred billion dollars of equipment. Flee as in bug out. Even the Russians leaving Afghanistan lost 5000 (thousand) casualties and their evacuation of fewer troops across the border to their own country took nearly a year. That's just reality, if you don't like it, invent a teleporter. So, long story short we're in Iraq until 2009 the earliest.
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Put down the paintcan please
[Read the article: How Bush betrays Reagan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even David Stockman said is was all a gigantic fraud. Remember him? The architect of supply side Reaganomics? (Psst: he was indicted in a 1.6 billion dollar fraud this year)
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Again, you have two distinct choices
[Read the article: How to win in Iraq: Arm everybody!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anarchy or totalitarianism. Carter flushed the only regional quasi democratic Islamic based regime in west Asia-mideast (hint: Iran) and since 1979 there have been, let's check......oh yes ZERO stable countries that also have even the window dressing of western facing democratic institutions. So clearly you can choose civil war or you can choose ruthless dictatorship. Or, if you prefer, tiny tiny emirates which are genetic monarchies run more like social welfare states and luxury resorts than real countries.
There is no evidence that any other choice exists. Nor is simply waving your t-shirt over your head and shouting "It's all America's fault" because in the end all that does is reinforce the idea that mideast states are our retarded children culturally, socially, biologically inept for roughly forever.
Feel free to review the somewhat painful history of political bloodshed in Mideast, North African and West Asian states and if you like, you can ignore the Hebrew text, it's not relevant to the article.
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART1/483/521.html
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I don't understand
[Read the article: The rise of the mompreneur]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Isn't this what we've called part time employment for about the last 150 years? My greatgrandmother I'm sure made and sold something out of her home.
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Why do you vacuum behind the toilet?
[Read the article: The new Roomba sucks. Really well]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Problem for me is stairs. So if you have an Asimo that can wield a vac or carpet steamer, that would be great.
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So what
[Read the article: Larry Craig's downfall]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We'll just create new prejudices or resurrect some of the old ones again.
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As long as the cops get off scott-free
[Read the article: The killing of Jamie Dean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because well, where I live, shooting unarmed people to death through the front door on a no-knock warrant for a bullshit robbery charge is somewhat routine. Amazingly though and thank the fat baby Jesus, cops are rarely even investigated let alone prosecuted.
Two paramilitary swat teams for one guy? Why the hell didn't they just call in an airstrike? Wait let me guess, it's called 'terrorism' by the Sheriff's department isn't it? A domestic dispute and I'm sure they have a 'process' that involves an urban tank, 5 snipers and 60 guys who just came back from Iraq itching to kick ass and blow some motherfuckers away.