Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : BuSab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (662)	5/20/2009 9:29:22 AM
From: Patrick Slevin	Respond to of 23934

So baseball been berra, berra good to you. Marvelous.

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (662)	5/20/2009 2:10:27 PM
From: SmoothSail	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23934

An economics professor had a class that insisted that Socialism worked, so he decided to conduct a little experiment. The professor invited them to try it for themselves. From that point on, all grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade, so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a C+. The students who studied hard were upset, and the students who studied little were happy. But, as the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less. The ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too; so they studied little. The second test average was a D. No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around the average was an F. The scores never increased, but the bickering and creative assignment of blame sure did. No one would study because no one saw any likelihood of it paying off for them. Everyone failed, to their great surprise.

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (662)	5/20/2009 2:12:17 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	5 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 23934

If you have read the intro for this thread, you know that Jorj X McKie is the main character in a book called "Dosadi Experiment". JXM is an agent in the Bureau of Sabotage. JXM is put on the planet Dosadi to subvert a threat to the sentient world. The inhabitants of Dosadi have been subjected to extreme survival of the fittest circumstances for many generations. And they have the potential to take over the existing power structure if let loose on the universe. To succeed, JXM becomes more Dosadi than the native Dosadi. so why did I bring this up? I believe that the muslims that pretty much want to take over the world know how to adapt to our system in a way that allows them to insert themselves in our society at the same time keeping their core values. In war, they use our values against us. The best example being the uproar about the abuses of prisoners, including waterboarding and those that happened at abu gharib. But who would you want to be? An american prisoner of al qaida? or A muslim prisoner in guantanamo bay? I'd actually prefer to go through waterboarding rather than having my head hacked off with a big knife. To win the war against the muslim extremists, we are going to need to become MORE extreme, while still holding on to our core values. Right now, to me it looks like the attack on 9/11 was hugely successful. The world has adopted an approach to the muslim world as if they were the victim and that the big bad U.S. was the aggressor. We have to stop worrying about what the rest of the world thinks about us. We have to stop worrying about being perceived as the good guys.