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Let them settle things with a duel!

How about this?

Don't know if it was granted; I wasn't able to find any updates from Googling. Note that story dates from 2000.

Obviously, this is bad news for the retailers.

The news wasn't too bad for Wal-Mart considering that they broke the record for a Single-Day Sale. Sales went from $1.25 billion last year to $1.45 billion this year. Your arguments as to why they would pursue this make sense, but you have to wonder if this actually increased their profits.

Patents last 17 years from the issuance of the patent or 20 years from the filing of the application, whichever is longer. Drug companies can get an extension if, for example, FDA approval process delayed the marketing of the product.

I think they have taken the easy way out and simply stall or "reinvent" the same drug with slight modifications when patents start expiring.

This is happening with Claritin right now. Claritin is one of the most popular allergy drugs in the US. However, the patent will be expiring soon, enabling other manufacturers to sell generic versions of it. Solution: create a new product called Clarinex. However, insurance companies aren't buying it . . . literally. Some insurance companies stated that they will refuse to pay for prescriptions for Clarinex unless the doctor can asserts that Claritin (or it's equivalent) will not work for the patient. See this ABC news article or this editorial.

three words:
deep sea exploration.

If the issue is that NASA generates billions of dollars towards research into novel technologies, and supporting scientists, just about any sort of field will do: the study of breakfast cereal, exploration of the insides of trees, dirt moving, anal spelunking.
After years of NASA launching various types of protoplasm into high orbit, I think that the benefits of the practice are yet to be seen. If anything, humans, and other sorts of animals, being shot into space has been proven to be a monumental waste of time, money, and imagination.
Why not focus on sending people to the bottom of the ocean? If anything, this sort of pointless exploration might actually yield some sort of useful benefits to humans traveling in the sea - an act which takes place millions of times daily. Plus, and I think this is the most fundamental reason that sea exploration is better than space exploration:

deep sea pr0n

I agree. Can't wait for the Movie though, although we shall see how everything translates to film after hollywood gets done with it all..

Niven is one of my personal favorites - you can't go wrong with the Ringworld books, or the Smoke Ring books(a world consisting of a gas torus around a white dwarf star, giant trees and humans evolved to live on them. Tech from when they first arrived is highly prized and guarded. Great stuff!) Pretty much all his books are good, I have noticed a battle of the haves and have-nots theme reappearing here and there.

Clarke is great and has put out alot of '2 hour' books, finish them on a long car ride - if you can stand your wife's/gf's driving ;)

Asimov is wonderful and has written something about everything. Clarke and Asimov I found while buying cheapy sci fi books at garage sales and thrift stores. I will *always* buy anthologies - they never fail to provide a story that amazes me, and authors that I've never heard of writing incredible stories. I'll post some when I find my books...

Funny, the same argument can be used against 'if Bush says he is a threat' that you used against my congress quote. Hm. Funny that.

Too bad for your arguement, Congress agrees with him.

Just because Saddam can shoot at us in the no fly zones despite his agreement not to does NOT imply that he's a clear and present danger of using weapons of mass destruction.

If they are breaking the cease fire agreement, What else are they doing. Gee, let's send in inspectors to see. If they won't allow the inspector's to do their job, the cease fire is off. Let's make _sure_ they don't posses such weapons.

They are not logically linked, idiot.

Ah, but yes they are. It's called credibility. You know, the thing your argument lost when it devolved into an ad hominem attack.

American government officials have sterilizated retarded people... Eugenics

American government officials have allowed entire communities to not have their VD treated without informed consent until 1972...
Tuskigee

American government officials have exposed retarded people to radiation...
1993: The Albuquerque Tribune publicizes 1940s experiments involving plutonium injection of human research subjects and secret radiation experiments. Indigent patients and mentally retarded children were deceived about the nature of their treatment.

American government officials have placed American millitary units into such a position that those units attacked wedding ceremonies with jet planes...
Wedding Attack

If you blindly trust your government, then you are a fool. Freedom requires eternal vigilance and the willingness to die for that freedom. Even to die to defend other peoples freedom. Because if you let someone else's rights be trampled for your own personal safety, then it is only a matter of time until it is your turn...

'First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist, so I said nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats, but I was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then came the trade unionists, but I was not a trade unionist. And then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew, so I did little. Then when they came for me, there was no one left to stand up for me.' - Niemöller

And the one thing that I really can't figure out... if there are no UFO's, why are the reports classifed? Why are documents released under the freedom of information act be blacked out so much? Some of the documents regarding Roswell have 75% of their content removed. Where there is smoke, there is fire... the governement is hiding something. Why not just tell us what it is and be done with it?

The drugs are illegal (without a tax stamp, which the government won't sell you, if I recall correctly). The guns are, generally, legal.

Owning the guns, since ( or maybe I should say if) they are suited for military use (see this abc news article for a layman's overview which mentions the US vs Miller case), is specifically protected by the US constitution.

Without the drugs (assuming that the guy wasn't a felon), there would be nothing newsworthy about the guns. With the drugs, they're good for some extra years in jail, but still nothing newsworthy.

..Spirited away is written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, which is the same person who made Nausacaa Valley of the wind, and more recently (1997) Princess Mononoke.

It seems to be even more captivating than Princess Mononoke, yet somewhat disney oriented as it focuses on the adventures of a ten year old named chihiro who gets "spirited away" to a magical land; separated from her parents, she struggles to find a way home.(trailer)

Whoah, that was a mouthful. But it seems to be a really good movie, if your looking for something more than Treasure Planet.

• Quicken or
• San Jose Mercury News or
• Salt Lake Tribune or
• Salon.com or
• ABC News or Time Warner's own
• Money magazine.

I just noticed that too.
But the important part is that some of the 12 related stories
have links to buying tickets.

Maybe large passenger aircraft manufacturers (like Boeing and Airbus) could redesign the structure of those aircrafts so that the whole row of passengers can be ejected and then dropped slowly to the ground using a parachute. Who cares about the cargo, fuel and everything else that's making the plain heavy?

Of course, you don't want to end up like this

I would recommend this link. The critical data:

The implant would release the hormone progestin to stop production of both sperm and the male hormone testosterone. Injections of a testosterone derivative would replace natural levels of the hormone, necessary for normal sexual functioning.

Um, you first.

"Jammers"? "Resistance"? "Just one day"? Doesn't that all seem a bit pompous and self-congratulatory for bravely not buying stuff you don't need for a single freaking day?

Here's a Slashback they just didn't think was important enough to post. Gee, you'd think a major follow-up to a person Katz posted an entire story on would make the cut...

Remember Jose Bove, the anti-globalist French terrorist Jon Katz offered up fulsome praise to a few July 4ths ago? Well, France's highest court just ordered him to "serve 14 months in prison for destroying two fields of genetically modified crops." Yep, Katz picks his "heroes" with the same insight and forethought he brings to his "writing"...

(Trying ... not ... to ... make ... joke ...)

All kidding a side there are some very nice trailers and trailor parks out there. Many suck but blame that on the greedy rich not wanting to share the wealth.

Please send it to my email address.
D'oh !!!!

"If the government was to let the free market allocate the spectrum, an entire new universe of wireless network services could become available"

And they'd all conflict with one another. Company A would blame it on company B's product interferring and vice versa. One thing companies are not very good at is agreeing with one another. Therefore, a free market with a small, but necessary regulation is what we have. As for the UHF stations, you simply blink them out of existence? Far be it from them to broadcast their signals (read: be in business) if it causes static in your call to Aunt Martha, so you'd basically have to wipe them out to bring on your new 'universe'.

Does the Federal government do a lot of messed up stuff? Absolutely. Is dividing up the spectrum in such a way as to ensure the quality of each signal one of those messed up things? Well, I don't think it is, but why don't you ask whales what happens when you let just anyone start tossing around any signal they like.

The worst was a case where this lawyer sued a mom and pop shop that makes wheelchairs. Both owners use wheelchairs and it's assumed that all of their customers use them, so they never thought of putting up a handicap parking sign. They would have been happy to comply if asked (about $50 for the placard) but instead this sleazeball lawyer extorted $1600 out of them! Fucking slimeballs are nothing but legal terrorists. Go bomb them along with Osama!

Finding and asking these guys for it.

[This article attempts to document a vile, ungodly practice that runs rampant through the homosexual geek and hacker community, a practice known as Taco-snotting, or simply snotting. Taco-snotting is something that few geeks dare talk about in free or open conversation, but it is nonetheless a widely-practiced and dangerous form of homosexuality. If you or anyone you know has ever engaged in Taco-snotting, please get professional help before it is too late. ed.]

Why do I keep receiving emails from an individual calling himself CmdrTaco?

You have been receiving unsolicited mailings from a certain Robert CmdrTaco Malda, owner of the popular technology website slashdot.org. Actually, its not a very popular site in the common sense of the word; the site is rife with pimply, antisocial geeks and hackers, zit-faced nerds, communists, dirty GNU hippies, and other societal rejects and outcasts. Its also home to one of the worlds largest suspected pdophile rings, the infamous Slashdot crew.

Whenever Mr. Malda gets bored (and who wouldnt, running a site like Slashdot all day), he roams through the user database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy engaging in homosexual activities with him. How he determines this is anyones guess; but if you have a homosexual-sounding nickname, or a nick with a letter of the English alphabet in it, youre a potential candidate.

This time, he found you. Lucky you.

Mr. Malda seems to be speaking in some sort of code. Do you know what it means?

CmdrTacos code language is relatively easy to decipher. This pervert prefers to speak in thinly-veiled sexual innuendo (yes, thats right: he wants you) to evade the watchful eye of Slashdots parent corporation, VA Software. Mr. Maldas Commander is, of course, his penis: a small, withered little thing that lives in his pants and only comes out in the presence of other male geeks or at the beck and call of Maldas own lubed-up right hand. His Taco bells are the shriveled testicles that droop beneath his Commander, and his Taco sauce is his thin, runny semen. It should be more than obvious to you now what he means if he asked you to ring his Taco bells or taste his gourmet Taco sauce.

I would also guess CmdrTaco asked you to engage in a practice known as Taco-snotting and, if he was in a particularly depraved mood at the time, a circle-snot.

Good Lord. And, yes, he did. What is Taco-snotting?

Taco-snotting is the term used by Robert Malda to refer to the depraved act of fellating another man (homo- or heterosexual; CmdrTaco is rumoured to prefer raping unwilling victims), then blowing the semen out his nose and back onto the face and body of his victim. Naturally, a long, bubbly stream of milky-white semen is left on CmdrTacos face, dribbling out of his nose and down his cheek: hence the term, Taco-snotting.

And if thats not bad enough

A circle-snot is a Taco-snotting circle-jerk, another practice common among the Slashdot crew. CmdrTaco, CowboiKneel, and Homos get together and snot each other with their gooey, sticky cum spooging their jizz-snot all over each others faces and pasty, white bodies, until theyre covered head to toe with their own and each others man juice. This vile, ungodly ritual can go on for hours. For the homosexual penetration that follows this lengthy foreplay, Roblowme is usually there to provide plenty of anal lubricant; he owns a limousine service and has ample supplies of motor oil and axle grease ready to go.

To complete this perverted orgy, fellow faggots Michael, Timothy, and Jamie will usually join in, dressed in tight leather mock-S.S. uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves. The homosexual shenanigans that follow are nearly beyond description. The whole group begins to snot each others spunk and whip each others pudgy asses with riding crops and chains until their pale, white geek bodies are exhausted and soaked in stinking sweat from the hours of passionate, homosexual revelry.

Ewwwwww. So, can I stop receiving these emails?

Hopefully, but I wouldnt count on it.

To begin with, you most likely forgot to uncheck the Willing to Snot checkbox in your account preferences. CmdrTaco has probably already got the hots for your wad (do you have a homosexual-sounding nick?), and hes probably already been lurking outside your bathroom window for weeks with a camera, some tissues and lube, just waiting to pounce and declare you his new bitch. Theres no escaping a geek in heat (trust me), so its probably too late for you, but you can possibly rectify this situation. To remove yourself from CmdrTacos sights, log into your Slashdot account, go to your user page, click on Messages, and uncheck the box next to Willing to Snot. Maybe hell ignore you. Probably not.

I cant stop receiving these emails from CmdrTaco!?

If you indulge him in a Taco-snot or two, he might leave you alone. You might also want to look into mail filtering, restraining orders, or purchasing a heavy, blunt object capable of warding off rampaging homosexual geeks in heat. Trust me, when they charge oh, the humanity. If he gets you, and you let him Taco-snot all over you, you will most likely end up tied up in his basement to be used as his sex slave for the rest of your life (or until he accidentally drowns you in spunk in a circle-snot).

Have you ever been Taco-snotted?

Unfortunately, yes. I first met Mr. Malda at an Open Source Convention. He invited me back to his room for a game of Quake and some gourmet Tacos, but when I got there, the perverted geek jumped me and handcuffed me to his bed, stripping me. After taking his Commander out of his pants, Mr. Taco made me suck the withered thing six times, virtually nonstop. He then performed his vile Taco-snotting ritual on me three times over the next two hours, bringing me to orgasm after orgasm after sweaty, mind-numbing orgasm then he snotted my own thick, gooey jizz back onto my face out of his nostrils! He snotted me two more times, first into my mouth, then again on my exposed belly.

CmdrTaco invited several of his Open Source (or rather, Open Sauce man sauce) buddies over to continue their ungodly snotfest. European hacker and known berfaggot Linux Torvalds raped my ass with his monolithic kernel; his partner-in-crime Anal Cox used their network stack in a multitude of unspeakable ways on and in every orifice of my defenseless, tender, young body. Michael Sims was there in his leather Nazi uniform, caning my previously-virginal ass with a bamboo pole and ranting about all those Censorware freaks out to get him.

That is so disgusting! How did you finally escape?

After about 16 hours of countless unholy, homosexual atrocities perpetrated against my restrained body, they all finally went to sleep on top of me, sweat-soaked and exhausted. I was left there, completely covered in bubbly, translucent jizz-snot, chained to the bed, with half a dozen fat, pasty-white fags lying around and on top of me. Fortunately the spooge coating my flesh worked wonderfully as a lubricant I was able to squirm my way out of the handcuffs and slip out the back door (of the apartment, not their back doors). Im just glad I survived the awful ordeal. These sexually-repressed hackers had a lot of built-up spunk in their wads I couldve easily been drowned!

Thats horrible. Does Taco-snotting have anything to do with CmdrTacos special taco?

No, thats a different disgusting perversion CmdrTaco indulges himself in. Mr. Malda is usually not satisfied with merely snotting your own jizz back onto your face, he most often enjoys involving his own bodily fluids in his twisted games. WeatherTroll has spent some time trying to educate the Slashdot readership about this vile practice (emphasis added):

You may be wondering what CmdrTacos special taco is. You will be wishing that you hadnt been wondering after you finish reading this post. To make his special taco, CmdrTaco takes a taco shell and shits on it. He then adds lettuce, takes out his tiny withered dick (otherwise known as his Commander), puts his special taco sauce on it which means he jacks off on the taco, and adds a compound to make the person who eats the taco unconscious. Of course, the compound does not make the person unconscious until the taco is fully eaten. Thus CmdrTaco force-feeds the taco to the unsuspecting victim. After all, who would knowingly eat shit and CmdrTacos jizz?

After the victim is unconscious, he is held against his will and used for CmdrTacos nefarious homosexual purposes. This includes shoving taco shells up the victims ass, Taco-snotting, and getting Jon Katz involved. Trust me, you do not want Jon Katz anywhere near your unconscious body. Also, rumor has it CmdrTaco is looking for a new goatse.cx guy. Dont let it be you!

Different ungodly perversion, yet no less revolting. It should be clear to you now that Robert CmdrTaco Malda is a very, very sick individual, as are most of the Slashdot editors.

Does Jon Katz get involved in any of this? I thought he was a pdophile, not a homosexual.

Actually, Jon Katz is a homosexual pdophile. Hes also a coprophiliac, and, many suspect, a zoophile.

Mr. Katz is somewhat of a loner and doesnt involve himself in the circle-snots, but that doest mean hes any less of a freak than the rest of the Slashdot crew. Katz often engages in a game called juicy-douching with a harem of little-boy slaves that he has collected over the years: yet another vile practice which involves administering an enema to himself of the little boys urine (forced out of them with a pair of pincers), spooging the vile muck from his ass back into the enema bag, then dribbling and slathering the goo all over himself and the boys chained, naked bodies. If hes in the mood, he will sometimes skip refilling the enema bag from his distended anus and just squirt it from his ass onto the crying, terrified boys. Unwilling boys are further tortured with the pincers until they comply and allow Mr. Katz to juicy-douche them at will. A boy will usually last about two years before Mr. Katz either accidentally drowns them in diarrhea or kills them once they get too old, usually around 13 or 14.

Not content with being a pdophilic coprophile, Mr. Katz is also quite the zoophile. As if the sexual escapades with the helpless little boys arent enough, Jon usually enjoys his juicy-douches best when his penis is firmly planted in a female goats anus. He is also rumoured to get off on watching his little boys eat the goats small, bean-like turds, and he often kills his older boys by letting his goats trample them.

Are you getting hard writing this?

Why, yes. :) Join me in a WIPO-snot?

No, thanks. Im already CmdrTacos boi toi.

Okay, after seeing the article, right about the time this came on the news.

For the patience-impaired, a local (err, Houston area) high school has had a rash of staph infections break out and the infections are apparentaly resistant to antibiotics. Now I understand that we over-medicate everyone but what's next when things such as this pop up in more than just an "isolated" area?

Does this look a lot like Captain Harlock or what? I could accept Kimba/Lion King and Atlantis/Nadia were coincidental, but this takes the cake.

He also had stories about a giant thing living in the earth.

Creative Uses for 9-11

"Today Americans would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow, they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there is an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being by their world government." Henry Kissinger, June 8, 1992, Evian, France,

"With roughly 100 new stories warning of terrorism in the mainstream media just today, the possibility cannot be ignored that the American people are being pre-conditioned to accept as real a terrorist event manufactured by our own government, a terrorist event no more real than those created by powerful leaders through the ages to sell an agenda to a populace which would otherwise not accept it." Dictatorship through Deception by Michael Rivero, First posted on New Republic Forum Xmas 'Eve 1999

Operation Garden Plot

Operation Garden Plot

ABC News: Operation Northwoods

Operation Northwoods

Operation Cable Splicer

The story you are referring to is this one. And an 16 gauss field can make a frog levitate! See here Magnets are really the next frontier of technology, we just spend too much money using them to throw particles around rather than using the actual natural properties of them. --ngoy

so it TOOK 4 years to break a 109 bit key. does this mean that it will take less than 2 years if we start now considering the increases in computer speed?

and should we be using 218 bit keys for data that should be secure for more than 4 years?

<HUMOR>maybe we should have the cia encrypt and submit to public the domain all of thier classified information. said info would be encrypted with key lengths appropriate for the amount of time they wish the data to be hidden. that would ensure that we all get to know what really happened, safely after those who are at fault have retired and entered hiding somewhere us courts can not punish (like winona ryder's house.

Though the charges can carry a prison term of up to three years, it is unlikely that Ryder will be sentenced to jail time.)</HUMOR>

If I remember correctly the Chinese adopted LINUX because of the Open Source system which guarantees that there are no CIA,NSA... etc... back doors in the code, and even if there are backdoords a codereview will find them. One of the main motivations would thus have been that they did not trust Microsoft to stand up to the pressure to integrate backdoors for US security/intelligence services in their Windows dialects. Germany is following a similar trend. Although they keep ranting on about cost cutting, word has it, that a condsiderably larger part of the real reason than the German Govt. would like to admit in public is a desire for increased security. And Germany is not alone in this either, I suspect that more countries will take a second look at LINUX now that G. W. Bush Jr. is in the White House ensuring that the worlds trust in the USAs trustworthyness has reached a new low point. It would appear that the xerox spycam episode and how it was used to spy on enemies as well as allies has not been entirely forgotten after all. You can of course gripe about this being ancient history but there are more recent examples, such as the NSA abusing the ECHELON system for industrial espionage. Not that I as a European am pissed about this sort of thing, we do industrial espionage over here too. It is a grand old tradition as old as humanity and occasionally we over here in the old world even manage to sc*ew US companies in the b*tt just like the US Govt sc*ewed Airbus. I bet you are now tempted to write me off as an anti Microsoft NUTTER, but I fail to see why we should make it easy for the USA to sabotage our industry or read our private files off our hard disk. Lets face it, it is alot harder to keep the NSAs nose out of ones data with M$ Windows (notice I put the fashioable $ sign in the Microsoft ancronym) than it is to protect ones privacy under LINUX.

" Is it not reasonable that the FBI, if it gets a court order, can bug a computer or a telephone? Is ./ really against bugging in any situation?"

Of course we're not against law enforcement monitoring communications between individuals who are under investigation so long as they show just cause to a judge and receive the appropriate warrents. The main problem I have with this is that what you read is very close to what you think. I don't believe that our government has the right to tell us which books are ok, nor do I believe they have the right to judge what we read or think. It's absolutely impossible that reading something can lead to imminent danger for yourself or others. You might use knowledge gained from a book to do harm to yourself or others, but that's a decision not affected by what you've read. If you believe it's ok for the government to look into what you read, what do you think about the government surveilling your thoughts as well? Think that's silly? NASA doesn't seem to think so.

"If such power is misused then it is cause of great convern, but the article provides no evidence that this is the case."

Quite alright, I'll provide the much-anticipated evidence. The FBI began its campaign of illegal monitoring and other abuses back in the 1960's during the civil rights movements. Organizations such as SNCC were routinely infiltrated by FBI agents while many of the leaders were being bugged and had their phones tapped; most of it without even so much as a warrant. The abuses continued until the 1970's when major restrictions were put in place on the FBI's domestic spying capabilities. The culmination of these efforts was the 1974 Privacy Act. (back then, the names of laws weren't usually misleading like they are now). What's been going on lately? Well, just recently, the FISA court (secretive court created to deal with foreign intelligence gathering on US soil), in an unprecidented move, blasted the FBI publicly for abuse of the FISA act, lying to the FISA court about evidence and such, and a whole host of other things. They even barred one agent from ever again appearing before the court due to his consistantly inaccurate depositions and testimony before the court.

What's my point? The FBI has, for the last 40 some-odd years shown a constant disregard for laws and civil liberties, as well as the Constitutionally-protected rights of citizens; especially with regard to matters of free speech. The evidence against the FBI is very damning, and the FISA court's anger with the FBI clearly shows they have no intention of staying within the limits of the law, even now. Now, we're giving the FBI more powers of surveillance? The USA PATRIOT act basically removed all the restrictions placed upon the FBI in the 1970's, and gave them a whole host of new powers. Did you know they can now look through your financial and banking information without so much as a visit to a courthouse? The book-bugging escapade appears as though it'll require judges to get rubber stamps made up just for the occasion. The fact that the entire process is secretive is even more frightening. As was said in a recent court ruling, "democracies die behind closed doors." But like I said, I don't think they should be able to monitor what you or I read anyway, so this is all moot.

"Well, it is pretty obvious that if you are going to bug something you can't tell the world what you are doing."

While this is correct, we also assume that when law enforcement takes an action, especially one which has the potential for massive abuse, there's going to be some kind of oversight. The USA PATRIOT act removes virtually all oversight, granting the FBI unprecidented free reign to spy on Americans.

I don't know about you, but I really don't want my government spying on me.

If anyone's interested in a little honesty-in-politics, we should rename the "war on terrorism" to "The War on Freedom and the Average Citizen", and then we should rename the USA PATRIOT act to the "Dividing and Frightening America by Providing Inappropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Freedom Act". Hmm, DFAPITRIOFA - perhaps not the best acronym, but certainly more accurate. USA PATRIOT act... What's patriotic about shredding the US Constitution?

Men are, as a group, physically stronger and more often able to defend themselves.

Which women compensate for with the element of surprise and/or the use of weapons.

Your belief that men and women face the same threats, dangers, etc. just shows how little you know about women.

And your statements show how ignorant, sexist and bigoted you are towards men. If a man tried to kill his wife he'd get more than one day in jail. When a woman rips her boyfriends testicles off she gets three months in jail. And people like you will cheerfully rattle of statistics on how many women are abused while ignoring what happens to men.

A great many people have the (very) mistaken idea that stalking, domestic violence and murder is something that men do to women, like only whites can be racists to blacks or hispanic. Well guess what, a black man can be racist to a white man, and a women can rape, murder or assault a male just as easily as the other way around. The only difference is that when a women is the victim, society is in a rush to send the man to jail, but when the man is the victim he's the butt of jokes on the Tonight Show.

• More broadly, 69 percent of Americans in a new ABCNEWS/Washington Post poll approve of Bush's overall job performance. That peaked at a record 92 percent in an ABCNEWS poll last October and has inched down in 10 out of 12 polls since.
  
  Bush's rating is closer to his pre-Sept. 11 level (14 points higher) than to his post-Sept. 11 high (23 points lower). But 69 percent approval isn't chopped liver: It matches Bill Clinton's career high, and falls just four points short of Ronald Reagan's.

Linux rules!

Who cares what Bork and Starr have to say?

Bork is one who opposed voting rights for Blacks in Arizona, and carried out Nixon's request to fire those investigating Watergate. Do a Google search on "Saturday Night Massacre". In fact, I'll provide you with a link right here: Saturday Night Massacre
"Nixon then named Solicitor General Robert Bork the new attorney general, and it was he who carried out Nixon's order to fire Cox."

As for Starr, he is one who believes in impeaching officials for lying about getting blow jobs.

Neither one has an ounce of credibility.

I hope you watched it before the price went up: amazon.com

vote here to get Disney to re-release it... :)

This guy will get to make a pumpkin pc in POUND ME IN THE ASS federal prison.

PETA provides direct financial support the ELF, which is a domestic terrorist group.

http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/terror/domgrp.htm

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/ecoter ror_support020226.html

...is politics in general. As many people,so tritely, observe... people who want power are usually very self-centered and have no concern for the betterment of their fellow man. This is, sadly, completely out of alignment with what politics were originally intended to be. Let's take a look at the official definition of politics and break it down:

The science of government; that part of ethics which has to do with the regulation and government of a nation or state, the preservation of its safety, peace, and prosperity, the defense of its existence and rights against foreign control or conquest, the augmentation of its strength and resources, and the protection of its citizens in their rights, with the preservation and improvement of their morals.

Let's also consider that politics is considered a science, where "science" is taken to mean:

Any branch or department of systematized knowledge considered as a distinct field of investigation or object of study.

By this definition, a politician should have a great body of knowledge regarding ethics, citizens and their rights and proper morals. If you apply that branch of logic to the politicians of the last few decades, we find that there is something that has slowly gone seriously wrong. Our politicians tend to be anything but knowledgable, ethical, moral or have any concern for citizen's rights!

We will start with our current administration. The polls say that G.W. Bush has had anywhere from a 49% approval rating at lowest and as high as his post Sept. 11th rating of 93%. While this speaks well of him, it completely obscures many well known facts regarding his knowledge (quite lacking), ethics, morality and feelings on citizen's rights. If we delve deeper, we find that he, in fact, has very little knowledge about the system. Further evidenced by the fact that he is a poor speaker and his father's former cabinet appears to be running the entire show. He is just a mouthpiece.

Regarding ethics, I would question any politician's ethics who would have other men in thir cabinet involved in scandal. Especially in a position so close to the power seat as vice-president Cheney. Mr. Cheney's desire to conceal the connections between Enron and the current administration are very disheartening. Even the staunchest conservative must admit that this was not one of the finer moments in conservative history. (The liberal-controlled media argument doesn't wash here either as the news sources that reported negatively on this story tend to be just as far right as you can get.)

While Mr. Bush professes to being a good christian. He hasn't always been that way. His morals are not exactly what one would call "good". It's very well known the George W. Bush, was quite the party down, rich kid. As he grew away from his "youthful errors", he became quite the shady businessman. I would have to say that his morals are questionable at best.

Citizen's rights and the current administration are at odds with each other. This has been an ever increasing problem since Sept. 11th. As most Americans blindly wave their flags, their ability to do much of anything else to affect their own well being is being erroded by things like "The Patriot Act". In the name of security, the man in the white house and his staff are trying to convince us that it's good to lose your freedoms sometimes. This is quite damning evidence that he does not understand or care about the citizen's of this country's rights.

Seeing that all of this is true, it appears that George W. Bush fails to live up to the definition of what a politician should be, as do many of his cabinet.

The last administration has it's blemishes on many counts as well. Analyzing Mr. Clinton in the same way, we find that his knowledge of the governmental system was stronger than Mr. Bush's. (If anyone can provide links that prove otherwise please do so, I couldn't find any.)

Where ethics are concerned, Bill Clinton had his share of gaffes. Not to mention the more serious allegations regarding his time as Governor of Arkansas. No... Sadly, we can't say that Mr. Clinton has shiny repution either.

Everyone knows about his moral problems since they've been beaten to death. Like him or not, Bill Clinton was not a man of morals by strict definition.

As geeks, we all know that it was his administration that passed the DMCA which has potential to seriously impinge on citizen's rights. Not just your ability to "swap songs", but you ability to write code freely!

So, by the same analysis, Bill Clinton fails the test of what a good politician is. As do most other politicians. Why is this? Because we are humans. We have imperfections that prevent us from being able to truly hold to the ideals of what how politics should work. Some do better than others, but in general the lot of them are corrupt.

Most politicians are only interested in politics due to their hunger for power. Just that alone is damning as it points to a deep seated greed and selfishness that is almost required to be a politician. So how is it that our system even works? In reality, it doesn't.

Most of what the operations of the government and the way they affect us are almost 100% happily incidental. Ocassionally one person somewhere deep in the system does one thing right. Another one somewhere else in the system does something else right. And so on... There are the few people here or there who intentionally or unintentionally (They're human, remember?) do something wrong. But the aggregate result is something that more or les resembles a system that works. This illusion trickles upward toward the leaders (Senators, congressmen, governors, and ultimately the president) and makes them look good. (It works this way in any large organization) So... for now we are stuck with a system that appears to work, but is solely based on chance. Or looking at it another way, real politics (as opposed to the ideal defined above) is just another form of gambling.

In closing, I'll offer you this joke about politics:

Son: Dad, I have a special report for school. Can I ask you a question?

Dad: Sure son, what's the question?

Son: What is politics?

Dad: Well son, let's take our home for example. I am the wage earner, so let's call me the management. Your mother is the administrator of the money, so let's call her the government. We take care of you and your needs, so let's call you the people. We'll call the maid the working class and your baby brother the future. Understand?

Son: I'm not really sure dad, I'll have to think about it.

That night, the boy is awakened by his baby brother's crying, so he went to see what was wrong. Discovering that the baby had a heavily soiled nappy, the boy went to his parent's room and found his mother fast asleep. He than went to the maid's room, where, peeking through the keyhole, he saw his father in bed with the maid. The boy's knocking went totally unheard. The boy went back to his room and went to sleep.

The next morning...

Son: Dad, I think I understand politics.

Dad: That's great son, explain it to me in your own words.

Son: While the management is screwing the working class, the government is fast asleep, the people are being completely ignored and the future is full of shit.

---Whew! All that work just to post this---

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-I am also a f4g0rt

-All Windows users are f4g0rtz

-Bill Gates loves men

-Linux is the sux0rz

-BSD is dying

-Stephen King loved goatse.cx before he died

-75% of people in the US make up 3/4 of the US population

-Adolph Hitroll is my bitch

-RecipeTroll loves the cock too

-Natalie Portman is naked and petrified

-I poured hot gritz down my pants and all I got was this lousy T-shirt

-R.M.S. is a commie

-Linus Torvalds is keeping his brotha down. Free him!

-Looser = Loser and vice-versa. Stop complaining and learn New English

-Imagine a Beowulf cluster of trolls

-The CowboyNeal jokes are old

-X is unstable, let's get rid of it

-KDE is the sux0rz, GNOME rules

-Real men use TWM

-vi is better then emacs (no it's not, emacs is better than vi)=Tastes great/Less Filling

-Ford sucks

-Chevy sucks

-Capitalism is dying

-Linux on the desktop is dead

-IE won the browser war, give it up Mozilla. (No. The war's not over yet M$)

-MySQL is robust and scalable

-PostgreSQL is better than MySQL. Nyah!

-So you like your pages W I D E N E D?

-I 4m 1337. giv3 m3 w4r3z d00dz.

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-In other news...

-1. Steal concept from open sores 2. ??? 3. Profit!!!

-RMS is a dirty hippie

-Moderation sucks

-UNIX will never be as secure as VMS

-GayPee is not a hacker, he's a dork

-General strike!! Now!!!!!!

-ESR is a homo

-Grok THIS you GIMP!

-Corporations are evil

-Corporations are good

-Quake is the sux0rz, give me Unreal Tourney! (You Canadian f4g0rt, UT sucks, Quake 0wnz j00)

-Canadians are gay

-Americans are stupid

-Brits are assholes

-For hot gulrz see: http://www.bakla.net

-~the fux0rz has spoken~-

Then again, 18% of the public probably believes in Santa Clause, including G. W. Bush, the Lesser.

I believe in Santa Clause too! (horrible pun deviously intended)

If you're talking about Santa Claus, the old guy that lives up in the North Pole, then nah, I don't believe in him ;)

I don't know about you, but we've already made effective use of the dual-hemisphere brain (remember, right-side is for creativity, left-side is for logic).

I seriously doubt that you would you be willing to get a hemispherectomy to prove your above premise. See what happens to 1 person of out 1000 cases.

...is politics in general. As many people,so tritely, observe... people who want power are usually very self-centered and have no concern for the betterment of their fellow man. This is, sadly, completely out of alignment with what politics were originally intended to be. Let's take a look at the official definition of politics and break it down:

The science of government; that part of ethics which has to do with the regulation and government of a nation or state, the preservation of its safety, peace, and prosperity, the defense of its existence and rights against foreign control or conquest, the augmentation of its strength and resources, and the protection of its citizens in their rights, with the preservation and improvement of their morals.

First, let's start with the fact the politics is considered a science, where "science" is taken to mean:

Any branch or department of systematized knowledge considered as a distinct field of investigation or object of study.

By this definition, a politician should have a great body of knowledge regarding ethics, citizens and their rights and proper morals. If you apply that branch of logic to the politicians of the last few decades, we find that there is something that has slowly gone seriously wrong. Our politicians tend to be anything but knowledgable, ethical, moral or have any concern for citizen's rights!

We will start with our current administration. While the polls say that G.W. Bush has had anywhere from a 49% approval rating at lowest and as high as his post Sept. 11th rating of 93%. While this speaks well of him, it completely obscures many well known facts regarding his knowledge (quite lacking), ethics, morality and feelings on citizen's rights. If we delve deeper, we find that he, in fact, has very little knowledge about the system. Further evidenced by the fact that he is a poor speaker and his father's former cabinet appears to be running the entire show. He is just a mouthpiece.

Regarding ethics, I would question any politician's ethics who would have other men in thir cabinet involved in scandal. Especially in a position so close to the power seat as vice-president Cheney. Mr. Cheney's desire to conceal the connections between Enron and the current administration are very disheartening. Even the staunchest conservative must admit that this was not one of the finer moments in conservative history. (The liberal-controlled media argument doesn't wash here either as the news sources that reported negatively on this story tend to be just as far right as you can get.)

While Mr. Bush professes to being a good christian. He hasn't always been that way. His morals are not exactly what one would call "good". It's very well known the George W. Bush, was quite the party down, rich kid. As he grew away from his "youthful errors", he became quite the shady businessman. I would have to say that his morals are questionable at best.

Civil rights and the current administration are at odds with each other. This has been an ever increasing problem since Sept. 11th. As most Americans blindly wave their flags, their ability to do much of anything else to affect their own well being is being erroded by things like "The Patriot Act". In the name of security, the man in the white house and his staff are trying to convince us that it's good to lose your freedoms sometimes. This is quite damning evidence that he does not understand or care about the citizen's of this country's rights.

Seeing that all of this is true, it appears that George W. Bush fails to live up to the definition of what a politician should be, as do many of his cabinet.

The last administration has it's blemishes on many counts as well. Analyzing Mr. Clinton in the same way, we find that his knowledge of the governmental system was stronger than Mr. Bush's. (If anyone can provide links to examples please do so, I couldn't find any.)

Where ethics are concerned, Bill Clinton had his share of gaffes. Not to mention the more serious allegations regarding his time as Governor of Arkansas. No... Sadly, we can't say that Mr. Clinton has shiny repution either.

Everyone knows about his moral problems since they've been beaten to death. Like him or not, Bill Clinton was not a man of morals by strict definition.

As geeks, we all know that it was his administration that passed the DMCA which has potential to seriously impinge on citizen's rights. Not just your ability to "swap songs", but you ability to write code freely!

So, by the same analysis, Bill Clinton fails the test of what a good politician is. As do most other politicians. Why is this? Because we are humans. We have imperfections that prevent us from being able to truly hold to the ideals of what how politics should work. Some do better than others, but in general the lot of them are corrupt.

Most politicians are only interested in politics due to their hunger for power. Just that alone is damning as it points to a deep seated greed and selfishness that is almost required to be a politician. So how is it that our system even works? In reality, it doesn't.

Most of what the operations of the government and the way they affect us are almost 100% happily incidental. Ocassionally one person somewhere deep in the system does one thing right. Another one somewhere else in the system does something else right. And so on... There are the few people here or there who intentionally or unintentionally (They're human, remember?) do something wrong. But the aggregate result is something that more or les resembles a system that works. This illusion trickles upward toward the leaders (Senators, congressmen, governors, and ultimately the president) and makes them look good. (It works this way in any large organization) So... for now we are stuck with a system that appears to work, but is solely based on chance. Or looking at it another way, real politics (as opposed to the ideal defined above) is just another form of gambling.

In closing, I'll offer you this joke about politics:

Son: Dad, I have a special report for school. Can I ask you a question?

Dad: Sure son, what's the question?

Son: What is politics?

Dad: Well son, let's take our home for example. I am the wage earner, so let's call me the management. Your mother is the administrator of the money, so let's call her the government. We take care of you and your needs, so let's call you the people. We'll call the maid the working class and your baby brother the future. Understand?

Son: I'm not really sure dad, I'll have to think about it.

That night, the boy is awakened by his baby brother's crying, so he went to see what was wrong. Discovering that the baby had a heavily soiled nappy, the boy went to his parent's room and found his mother fast asleep. He than went to the maid's room, where, peeking through the keyhole, he saw his father in bed with the maid. The boy's knocking went totally unheard. The boy went back to his room and went to sleep.

The next morning...

Son: Dad, I think I understand politics.

Dad: That's great son, explain it to me in your own words.

Son: While the management is screwing the working class, the government is fast asleep, the people are being completely ignored and the future is full of shit.

---Whew! All that work just to post this---


-I am a Windows user
-I am also a f4g0rt
-All Windows users are f4g0rtz
-Bill Gates loves men
-Linux is the sux0rz
-BSD is dying
-Stephen King loved goatse.cx before he died
-75% of people in the US make up 3/4 of the US population
-Adolph Hitroll is my bitch
-RecipeTroll loves the cock too
-Natalie Portman is naked and petrified
-I poured hot gritz down my pants and all I got was this lousy T-shirt
-R.M.S. is a commie
-Linus Torvalds is keeping his brotha down. Free him!
-Looser = Loser and vice-versa. Stop complaining and learn New English
-Imagine a Beowulf cluster of trolls
-The CowboyNeal jokes are old
-X is unstable, let's get rid of it
-KDE is the sux0rz, GNOME rules
-Real men use TWM
-vi is better then emacs (no it's not, emacs is better than vi)=Tastes great/Less Filling
-Ford sucks
-Chevy sucks
-Capitalism is dying
-Linux on the desktop is dead
-IE won the browser war, give it up Mozilla. (No. The war's not over yet M$)
-MySQL is robust and scalable
-PostgreSQL is better than MySQL. Nyah!
-So you like your pages W I D E N E D?
-I 4m 1337. giv3 m3 w4r3z d00dz.
-w00t!
-In other news...
-1. Steal concept from open sores 2. ??? 3. Profit!!!
-RMS is a dirty hippie
-Moderation sucks
-UNIX will never be as secure as VMS
-GayPee is not a hacker, he's a dork
-General strike!! Now!!!!!!
-ESR is a homo
-Grok THIS you GIMP!
-Corporations are evil
-Corporations are good
-Quake is the sux0rz, give me Unreal Tourney! (You Canadian f4g0rt, UT sucks, Quake 0wnz j00)
-Canadians are gay
-Americans are stupid
-Brits are assholes
-For hot gulrz see: http://www.bakla.net

-~the fux0rz has spoken~-

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You misremember this. In fact, McVeigh is commonly called a 'terrorist' to this day. (Though he's a caught terrorist, and thus not really that important in this day of supposedly uncaught terrorists.) Possibly you don't live in the US, though, it may differ elsewhere.

And I certainly don't recall a outcry to profile these groups. Round them up and arrest them., etc.

I don't see any outcry to round up Muslims, either.

And your statement makes no sense at all. You can't round up or even security check all white people, you'd put half the country in jail. Whereas you can certainly round up all visiting people from a few countries. Which no one has suggested doing anyway.

Or the shootings, assults and arsons linked to these white power Christian fundamentalist groups. Why aren't they called Christian terrorists?!?

Because they call themselves 'white power' groups and not 'Christian' groups. In fact, they really aren't Christian groups, and I don't mean in the 'anyone who acts like that isn't a Christian' sense, I mean that they really aren't associated with Christianity in any way. They may personally be Christians, but that doesn't have anything to do with it, the 'white power' movement is the white power movement, it isn't an offshoot of Christianity.

And, yes, I'm sure there are exceptions that test the rule, but that's not the point. They don't 'recruit' in churches, they don't have anything to do with Christianity except some weird historical artifacts like burning crosses. (Which would be the KKK, not the 'white power' movement, anyway. The KKK at least has some historical precedent with claiming to be Christian.)

In fact, I'm a little confused at why people think the 'white power' movement has anything to do with Christianity at all. That claim might make sense for the KKK in the forties, but that's not even the same KK as the current one, which isn't the 'white power' movement anyway.

A number of which are members of the same Christian church sect!

Which, amazingly, you didn't even manage to mention, so I'll just completely ignore this. I suspect you made it up. (And, BTW, correlation doesn't equal casuality.)

Don't even get me started about the killings, bombings, assults, arsons and anthrax scares linked to anti-abortion groups. How come they aren't called terrorists?!?

Are you talking about that guy back in January? The one who called himself a terrorist? Yeah, the media didn't want to call him one, that's what he wanted them to do.

Anyway, you should read, more ABCNews, apparently. Or maybe the miltary's list of domestice terror groups, many of which are anti-abortion terrorists. (Now, if you want to call these people 'Christian fundementalists', go right ahead. But that's rather vague, 'Christian anti-abortion fundamentalists' is more specific, and at that point you might as well leave off 'Christian', there are basically no other anti-abortion terrorists in the US.)

You can bet, that if a group talked of a need to eliminate bankers. Posted assassination lists online of key bankers, some of which were later killed. Had bombed a number of banks, set fires to others, harassed customers, sent in anthrax scares to banks...You bet the FBI would be rounding them up fast!

Um...you're an idiot. The police DID force the people who ran the 'hit lists' to take them down, and charged them with criminal activities, though I don't think they could get accessory to murder to stick in court. (Which means you need to blame the jury, not the police.)

Or how with all the school shootings, the media avoids talking about the pattern of them being middle-class white teen males? It's all kept vague and they refer how it's hard to find a pattern!

Okay, now you're simply being stupid. The reason there was a focus on 'all' the school shootings (all five of them or so) was because they were middle-class white kids. Inner-city kids shoot themselves all the time.

And one attribute shared among the shootings doesn't make a pattern when that attribute is the only reason they're linked together in the first place.

If group A has a low rate of X, then suddenly the rate of X increases (Which it didn't really, it just got more high profile), then assuming it's because they are group A is idiotic...they were group A before the rate went up. The media is smart enough to realize this.

You misremember this. In fact, McVeigh is commonly called a 'terrorist' to this day. (Though he's a caught terrorist, and thus not really that important in this day of supposedly uncaught terrorists.) Possibly you don't live in the US, though, it may differ elsewhere.

And I certainly don't recall a outcry to profile these groups. Round them up and arrest them., etc.

I don't see any outcry to round up Muslims, either.

And your statement makes no sense at all. You can't round up or even security check all white people, you'd put half the country in jail. Whereas you can certainly round up all visiting people from a few countries. Which no one has suggested doing anyway.

Or the shootings, assults and arsons linked to these white power Christian fundamentalist groups. Why aren't they called Christian terrorists?!?

Because they call themselves 'white power' groups and not 'Christian' groups. In fact, they really aren't Christian groups, and I don't mean in the 'anyone who acts like that isn't a Christian' sense, I mean that they really aren't associated with Christianity in any way. They may personally be Christians, but that doesn't have anything to do with it, the 'white power' movement is the white power movement, it isn't an offshoot of Christianity.

And, yes, I'm sure there are exceptions that test the rule, but that's not the point. They don't 'recruit' in churches, they don't have anything to do with Christianity except some weird historical artifacts like burning crosses. (Which would be the KKK, not the 'white power' movement, anyway. The KKK at least has some historical precedent with claiming to be Christian.)

In fact, I'm a little confused at why people think the 'white power' movement has anything to do with Christianity at all. That claim might make sense for the KKK in the forties, but that's not even the same KK as the current one, which isn't the 'white power' movement anyway.

A number of which are members of the same Christian church sect!

Which, amazingly, you didn't even manage to mention, so I'll just completely ignore this. I suspect you made it up. (And, BTW, correlation doesn't equal casuality.)

Don't even get me started about the killings, bombings, assults, arsons and anthrax scares linked to anti-abortion groups. How come they aren't called terrorists?!?

Are you talking about that guy back in January? The one who called himself a terrorist? Yeah, the media didn't want to call him one, that's what he wanted them to do.

Anyway, you should read, more ABCNews, apparently. Or maybe the miltary's list of domestice terror groups, many of which are anti-abortion terrorists. (Now, if you want to call these people 'Christian fundementalists', go right ahead. But that's rather vague, 'Christian anti-abortion fundamentalists' is more specific, and at that point you might as well leave off 'Christian', there are basically no other anti-abortion terrorists in the US.)

You can bet, that if a group talked of a need to eliminate bankers. Posted assassination lists online of key bankers, some of which were later killed. Had bombed a number of banks, set fires to others, harassed customers, sent in anthrax scares to banks...You bet the FBI would be rounding them up fast!

Um...you're an idiot. The police DID force the people who ran the 'hit lists' to take them down, and charged them with criminal activities, though I don't think they could get accessory to murder to stick in court. (Which means you need to blame the jury, not the police.)

Or how with all the school shootings, the media avoids talking about the pattern of them being middle-class white teen males? It's all kept vague and they refer how it's hard to find a pattern!

Okay, now you're simply being stupid. The reason there was a focus on 'all' the school shootings (all five of them or so) was because they were middle-class white kids. Inner-city kids shoot themselves all the time.

And one attribute shared among the shootings doesn't make a pattern when that attribute is the only reason they're linked together in the first place.

If group A has a low rate of X, then suddenly the rate of X increases (Which it didn't really, it just got more high profile), then assuming it's because they are group A is idiotic...they were group A before the rate went up. The media is smart enough to realize this.

From another of my posts in this topic:

Go to Playhouse Disney. Imagine a 3-year-old clicking away and laughing like crazy.

Yes, "information" was transmitted - in this case, that cartoon animals are fun to play with. Still, I don't think you'd find anyone other than a language purist who would agree that it is an information site. I mean, "Jerry Springer" and "Crossfire" are both television shows, and as such, involve the transmission of data. However, I really don't think that anyone would classify the former as "sharing of information".

While most /. visitors probably use the web as an information medium, we may be in the minority. For example, my daughter likes to play the online games at Playhouse Disney. Tell me, how would you make a screenreader-friendly, low-bandwidth, or Lynx-viewable version of a website that's designed strictly for interactive entertainment without any real information content?

Yes, it's sad that a visually-impaired person can't get the full enjoyment from that site. However, I don't think they should be able to sue to force ADA compliance, any more than they should be able to sue Sony for not making Gran Turismo accessible.

Remember, just because you primarily use the web as an information resource does not mean that everyone else does.

California is the last place I think of when I think of liberty.

Doesn't the state steal money from the citizens for it's social programs, to run money losing subway systems (which if I am not mistaken cost $35,000 per year per rider), and to regulate 'so called' unregulated power.

Taxation = slavery = socialist state.

Californians, when you leave take New York with you!

Ambition. It takes a lot of ambition to first off step up to the plate, then die so that you can receive the Martyr's reward.

Follow through... How many people do you know that'd plan to die for their religion? Their ideas? Then do it? Albeit you are dead, you did follow through with your plan.

But yes education may help, but is unlikely, if they are raised that way... Look at the various supremacy groups. By and large people think they are wrong, but they were raised that they were right, and everyone else is.

As for acquiring more lethal means to kill us, a report isn't going to help them get the means. Money is. And with enough people, you can easily raise enough money.

Then in the case of what happened over a year ago, it just took -ONE- millionaire (Bin Laden)

"Bin Laden... (has) an inherited fortune estimated to be as much as $300 million."

Who says one person can't change the world?

they almost look identical, but bird of prey has added cockpit and little wing thingies at the ends.

Boeing promo photo of UCAV