Letters to the Editor
rupert_c
Published Letters: 1479 Editor's Choice: 12
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About the typewriters...
[Read the article: Dan Rather stands by his story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are somewhat confused. Let me clear it up for you. When these memos are used by the administration to support the President, they are authentic. When these memos are used by the media to discredit the President, they are forgeries. Compairing them for similarities or differences would just be crazy. Why would anyone do that?
How many fingers am I holding up?
WRONG!
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arbg20
[Read the article: Dan Rather stands by his story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, everyone must stop digging. Thisis all in the past and no one cares about it and certainly no rwsponsible public official either cares about it or would dare to do something about it.
Let the past be buried and forgotten.
How many fingers am I holding up?
RIGHT!
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Groenhagen
[Read the article: Dan Rather stands by his story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is your problem with Clinton?
He was one of the finest Republican presidents in recent history and even undid some of those dangerous liberal programs that the rascally liberal Nixon put into place. I am certain that his wife is even more conservative than he is and will most assuredly kill even more arabs and moslems than both her husband and her husband's successor combined.
Maybe you are areally a liberal just trying to make us conservatives look like moonbats.
Moonbats are not real, they are imaginary. Wingnuts are real and without them, all hell will break loose if they are not tightened down securely.
Just try to tighten down a moonbat. I DARE YOU.
AU+H2O=1964
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Renters vs. owners
[Read the article: If you care about your rights, don't buy an iPhone]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The business model is simple. You buy the product and then every couple of years you buy the product again. I you don't, then you are out of date, not competitive and not hip. Companies that do not play this game go out of business.
You don't need to upgrade. The company needs you to upgrade. If you don't upgrade, then you will be made to pay the pirce for not upgrading.
The iPhone is not a phone. It is a hole you put in your pocket. The hole transfers money from your pocket to AT&T. Apple gets a cut. It is that simple.
I use a phone connected to a wire. It is not addictive. It does not irradiate and cook my brain.
IF these brain cooking cell phones do not damage the brain, then how do you explain why people will use a phone to type messages on a tiny keypad to "talk" to friends rather than just talk and why do people pay more for a service which uses far less bandwidth than voice?
In case you haven't noticed, people are getting stupider and slower ever day. If you haven't noticed, you are probably a user.
Just say no to brain cookers.
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How much for one Dyson Sphere?
[Read the article: Our rosy future, according to Freeman Dyson]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Visionaries and geniuses are often impractical and not connected with the real world in any but the most tenuous ways. Consequences are not on his agenda, fantastical play thinking is, and quite frankly, that world has already been developed by artist Roger Dean in the seventies.
Can anyone see a potential problem witha tree that grows tens times as fast and produces fuel which it sends down a secondary piping root system that will be conveniently hooked up to our automobile or furnace? How are the oil companies going to like that? Nevermind the practical problems, where is the money in that?
Never mind the trading of millions of years of natural genetic development ofor new improved patented forms that we create in the short term with only short term goals of profit and production. What happens to legacy code? Who owns like that is modified and why?
Conditioning and chemistry are already used to control people and much of that is not for any benefit and now we are to add the prospect of genetic manipulation and control and not expect it to be used for the detrement of the people? Look at the emphasis placed on youth and looks and how can this not be a primary area for genetic sales teams hawking retro viri promising customers the body of a 20 year old? People will want and will have designer people.
It shall be far more madness than we already have.
How many planets would it take to make a Dyson Sphere?
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You just don't understand.
[Read the article: Fox News' attack on the honor and integrity of our war generals]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When Liberals, Democrats and Move-On does this, it is clearly treason. When Fox News or a Republican does it, it is clearly patriotic.
I hope that clears it up for all of you.
How many fingers am I holding up?
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Honor and Integrity = Coup.
[Read the article: Fox News' attack on the honor and integrity of our war generals]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]On the way to work this morning I had a chat with a fellow from Africa who asked me seriously why our Generals had not initiated a coup against Bush and his gang. He said that when this happens in Africa, a coup happens and the gangsters are kicked out of power. He couldn't understand how we as a nation could tolerate this behavior.
We have been conditioned to accept it and a significant percentage of our population are heavily medicated and incapapble of grasping such abstract concepts such as honor, integrity, right and wrong.
Torture is acceptable, abroad and domestically. What happens when security guards and police use tasers, physical assault and summary executions on youngsters in this country? People just watch it and maybe a few brave souls will videotape it. No one stops it. Blaming the victim is a sure sign of psychopathy and that is what we are facing, psychopathic monsters that see others as prey and victim who know with certainty that their actions will go unpunished.
The country has gone nutz and the majority who are not psychopaths are not capable of dealing with the problem because dealing with human monsters is just too difficult and even thinking about it causes people to just freeze like prey that has noticed a predator eyeing them.
Predators understand and fear one thing. Becoming the prey. They have nothing to fear.