Re: Wood is expensive

On Jan 25, 1:26 pm, Jakofalltra...@xxxxxxxxx (J T) wrote:

Initially, the term "computer" was a job title.

Let me share my favorite basic (electronic) computer lsson:

A computer only "knows" two things. And does but three.

It "knows" "On" & "Off" and 1) accepts input 2) processes data (by
addition and subtraction only) and 3) produces output.

From the lowly ninety-nine cent keychain calculator to the world's
fastest CRAY, the story is the sam.

THe computer is based upon a Binary (Base Two) numbering system and
"There are no "twos" in the Binary numbering system.That list has
pretty much been abandoned,

As to the "10 Out Of 10 Terrorists Prefer Hillary For President "
comment:

Ossamma Bin Laden was quoted prior to 911 as saying that he would
"change America forever."

His recruiting tools are based upon U.S. presence in the Middle East
and our support for a state of Israel and the Zionist's that operate
as if the state's creation and existence are a right. Instead of
emigrating to the region and living in peace as had thousands of Jes
before them, they insisted upon taking control of the waterfront and
more - dispossessing the existing population by force of (U.S.
supplied) arms.

The Taliban we armed and fostered to keep pressure on the USSR
employed a similar rationale for recruiting and were not supporting or
aim of access to the Soviet gas and oil reserves, but to keep their
land free of the Russian, Pakistani and (now) U.S. forces and
influences.

Our invasion of Iraq, our establishing bases along the Conoco pipe
line route and our failure to achieve an Iraqi solution to the war we
started absent evidence of the stated rationale have served to
dissuade many of our claimed altruistic motivation(s) and to reinforce
Al Kaida's raison d'etre and recruiting rationale..

We constitute a Western invasion seeking control of the area for
strategic purposes we deny despite the decades of evidence to the
contrary. Our needs for Middle East Oil are served by BP, SHELL,
CONOCO, and ARAMCO/AMOCO (British Pertroleum, Dutch Petroleum, US
Petroleum and US Petroleum corporations - offering moot testimony as
to allegations that our intentions are anything but honorable. And an
abundance of fodder for those urging the natives to rise up and
reclaim their landed rights.

If anything, Bush has the secret support of the terrorists whose
existence depends not on a peaceful solution returning their lands and
resources t home control but o our continued intervention in order to
maintain the flow of the regions rsources to our refineries and
Toyotas.

But there are those in this country whose profits have never been
greater that realize the turmoil is an economic Godsend. THese members
of our community need to keep us an armed camp to insure the flow of
profits into (what that great Republican president Eisenhower called)
the Military Industrial Complex.

Our military adventures serve to remove dollars from the electorate
and funnel them away from restoring our nation's ailing infrastructure
or programs to educate and care for our population into the pockets of
wealthy, influential "investors" whose stocks depend upon the
destruction and replacement of military hardware and whose sons seldom
serve and die in the conflicts they urge this erstwhile woodworker
support.

He has a cute bumper sticker, but its not a rationale foreign policy
statement and belies any claim to a considered approach to dealing
with a world grossly different (see India and China as the latest
major players) in style and substance from that Ronald Reagan dealt
with.

George Bush is but a sneaky puppet of a neo-conservative movement born
in the Reagan years and so focused upon its initial formulation of an
ideology as to ignore the changes swiftly bearing down upon us and
trying desparetly to engage the current scenarios with the tools of
their fathers.

We have borrowed incessantly to pay the costs of this eight year
incursion into the quagmire of Middle East affairs stubbornly
believing that it will turn around in the next six months or so
despite eighty years of evidence to the contrary.

We are known less today for our stated ideals than for our actions
seen to maintain our position of power and influence regardless the
human and economic costs to those we label as our enemies and even to
our own people.

One has to wonder if other failed nations came to this point and
failed to realize it before their end.






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