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Frezik
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Posted - 2008.05.20 03:32:00 -
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1wSZBTAXRs
I wish journalists these days would pin questions like this to people who mattered, rather than just AM radio hackjobs.
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Frezik
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Posted - 2008.05.20 03:32:00 -
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1wSZBTAXRs
I wish journalists these days would pin questions like this to people who mattered, rather than just AM radio hackjobs.
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Frezik
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Posted - 2008.05.20 06:00:00 -
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 Originally by: Sosus Red
chances are most of you use a computer, Which was invented by an AMERICAN, made by an AMERICAN company. You are on the internet, an AMERICAN invention and using an operating system again created by AMERCANS.
What has any company from where ever you are from contributed to the world?
The basis for the modern computer was done by Alan Turing (a Brit), expanding on work done by Kurt G÷del (an Austrian), and later refined by John Von Neumann (a Hungarian).
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Frezik
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Posted - 2008.05.20 06:09:00 -
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Originally by: Sosus Red
Intel. American. AMD. American. Kingston (RAM) American.
DELL. AMERICAN. HP. American. Apple. American. I could go on but no need.
. . . And all of them made in Taiwan.
Originally by: Imperator Jora'h
Oh yeah...the President of the US is a toothless figurehead. 
Good grief...you have GOT to be kidding!
No, he was quite right. The powers of the US President, as laid in the constitution, are quite limited. Collectively, congress has far more power. If they felt like it, congress could strip the executive branch down to the President, the Vice President, and a few cabinet positions surrounding diplomacy and the military. What power the President does have is mostly in foreign policy, and even that has limits (treaties need to be ratified by congress, for instance). Almost anything of domestic importance happens in congress or the courts.
Which makes complete sense, considering that the US constitution was based on the idea that no one person should have too much power.
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Frezik
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Posted - 2008.05.20 14:03:00 -
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Originally by: Imperator Jora'h
No, he is not right. The power of the Presidency is more subtle and more powerful than overt abilities.
He has the power of the veto which is huge most times. Want to get a bill of yours made into law? You'd better wheel-and-deal with the President (owe him one down the road).
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All that stuff goes through other people, though. He can appoint them and sometimes fire them, but he doesn't do the job himself. The President's most important job, therefore, is to inspire other people to action.
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And not least he is the Commander-in-Chief. If the President told the US military to go invade Canada tomorrow they are obliged to do so. Short of Congress impeaching and convicting the President and hoping his replacement stops them there is nothing they can do.
Congress can simply refuse the fund the effort. The Power of the Purse is a powerful one.
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Frezik
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Posted - 2008.05.20 15:39:00 -
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Originally by: Haakon Jarl
America have some of the brightest people on the face of the planet (if not the brightest)
This is true. The American average is very low, but the high point is very, very high.
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