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But I think that's the point a lot of people are trying to make. These people are not in Iraq "protecting" us.

They're part of the single most powerful fighting force that's ever existed on this planet and they're attacking what is essentially a third world country to eliminate a single person that they put in power in the first place.

How about simply hoping that our families and friends (whoever they are) get out alive and well. That's not about support. That's about hope.

Besides, it's always the bosses fault. Ask a Vietnam vet.

Tangent from another thread: you can't even begin to compare what current soldiers go through to Vietnam vets. Current soldiers volunteered; they all knew what they were signing up for. Vietnam vets were dragged out of their lives and thrown into hell.

No other soldiers in US history have ever gone through that shit. And Deity-of-your-choice willing, none ever will again.

IMHO, people around the world could probably get behind this coup d'etat if:

1. The US admits that Saddam is their fault in the first place.
2. The US is sorry.
3. The US listens to opinions on what to do from regional neighbors .
4. The UN summons Saddam to appear in a world court if he's in violation of UN.
5. He's picked up and brought in if need be
6. Penalty: money and hard time in a hard prison; no "exile with the pillaged money" crap.
7. Explain very clearly how this became an Iraq "thing" when the nutball who masterminded the only attack on US soil (since the British) is still at large almost 2 years later

Realize, of course, that a team of NYC laywers would shred Saddam worse than any army.

PS: I lost family in Vietnam, and I stand to lose more now.

And the reason the Nazi's needed to be defeated was the fact that they attacked and invaded other countries, just as the US is now doing.

So you're implying that the Americans and the VAST MAJORITY of the United Nations are "invading" Iraq? You should probably tune in to the reality that is the world around you.

Let me brief you:
a) Iraq has been found to be in BREACH of resolution 1441 which was passed UNANIMOUSLY a few months ago by ALL 15 UN permanent members.
b) France has disrupted the UN coalition because they have a multi-billion dollar stake in Iraqi oil.
c) They (the UN [with the exception of the few cowardly countries that France has "jaded" by their biased beligerence]) have decided to "remove a rapist/killler/torturer" dictator from power, and demonstrate that the UN is more than just a typical debate society which accomplishes nothing, but talks about "a lot".

If you're convinced that Saddam is a good guy, or that he should stay in power, or that the UN is in the wrong, perhaps you should move to Iraq.

Of course by doing so, you'd only end up being "liberated" by the majority of the UN nations as they free Iraq from it's tyranny.

Especially this war. Dictionary.com defines terrorism as "The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons."

unlawful - the USA does not have the UN's approval to use force or violence against Iraq. The intention is clear to everyone: to coerce Saddam to leave the country and/or relinquish control of the country, which is certainly a political reason.

We're waging a "war against terrorism" but we are committing terrorist acts ourselves.

blah, blah, blah, you not using a dictionary, blah, blah, blah, me making you look stupid (sorry, I suppose), blah, blah, blah.

America

1. The United States.

america

1: blah blah blah [syn: United States, United States of America, America, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.]

HTH!

blah, blah, blah, you not using a dictionary, blah, blah, blah, me making you look stupid (sorry, I suppose), blah, blah, blah.

America

1. The United States.

america

1: blah blah blah [syn: United States, United States of America, America, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.]

HTH!

A link for those folks imperiously wanting to know what the heck that word means.

This will not effect the military P code.

Please read the usage note on this page. It's not that difficult to get right, and it makes you look smarter. Thanks.

What's 'Aforethought'?

Planning ahead, same as prepense. Which admittedly doesn't characterise Microsoft products very well. (-:

What's 'Aforethought'?

Planning ahead, same as prepense. Which admittedly doesn't characterise Microsoft products very well. (-:

It's french. It means basically "there it is". When used as an interjection in English it is used to call attention to something. It is not walla. Though, I guess if you're part of the "freedom fries" crowd you need a new word... Hmm... maybe "Freedomla!"

Anyhow, back to that 30 second skip button. I use mine so often I'm surprised the decal on the button hasn't come off. The only annoyance is that most commercials aren't 4 minutes, some are 3, some are 2, some are even 3 1/2. Luckily when I go too far I just hit the 8-seconds-back button a few times and voila, no commercials!

Phoneme, a unit of sound in a word. From Dictionary.com: "The smallest phonetic unit in a language that is capable of conveying a distinction in meaning, as the m of mat and the b of bat in English. [... from Greek phnma, phnmat-, utterance, sound produced, from phnein, to produce a sound, from phn, sound, voice...]"

Related to "telephone," "phonics," etc.

Even though the rest of the open source world doesn't care about GNU/Linux vs Linux anymore everytime RMS is mentioned on /. there is a dozen posts which are variations of "GNU/[story]" and "HURD is so late that xxxx will happen first".

And then, this is unbelivable, they all get moderated UP because they are "funny"!

damnit guys, move on! How many years can the exact same GNU/jokes and HURD isn't as good as Linux jokes be funny to people?

>"Downloading communism" is factually accurate?

Definition time (please don't hate me because I do this):

[handpicking the best definition, of course, but they all apply]:

communism

n 1: a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership 2: a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society

[emphasis mine]

'cause if everyone pirated everything, nobody would have true private ownership of anything pirateable.

I despise anything associated with copying music; like keyboards, forged metals, and the combined efforts of eardrums and vocal cords.

I'm not the average wo-man. I'm a tree hugging woman than just loves the clean sent of a Fusanus straddled between my fleshy thighs. So many people see me straddling the Fusanus often ask me if I am a- Fukkien . Everyone that asks me that is always too nip to open their eyes and figure me out, but hey; I'm an equal-opertunity kind of wo-man: I'll hump anything Fusanus, Fukien, or not.

Find me, on Yahoo! Personals. I love you all and to all a dildo-good-night!

I despise anything associated with copying music; like keyboards, forged metals, and the combined efforts of eardrums and vocal cords.

I'm not the average wo-man. I'm a tree hugging woman than just loves the clean sent of a Fusanus straddled between my fleshy thighs. So many people see me straddling the Fusanus often ask me if I am a- Fukkien . Everyone that asks me that is always too nip to open their eyes and figure me out, but hey; I'm an equal-opertunity kind of wo-man: I'll hump anything Fusanus, Fukien, or not.

Find me, on Yahoo! Personals. I love you all and to all a dildo-good-night!

A lot of things are psychosomatic in origin. Psychosomatic does not mean purely in one's head (people generally don't know the real definition, go look in a dictionary), it means that there is a mind-body relationship. To put it in easy to understand terms: your brain has been programmed so that it causes your body to react to certain chemicals. This why there is techniques such as NAET which can remove allergies (I can't vouch for NAET's effectiveness or methods). The mind and body have a very tight relationship with each other, and modern science has only touched the surface of this.

Do a little research, you may not have to live with your allergies. I personally had some minor allergies (typical cold symptom stuff), and suffered for many years. It was not until later, when I dealt with a lot of other problems of psychosomatic origin, that I realized that the allergies were psychosomatic as well. I'm not saying this is the same for your case, but you never know.

And remember, almost everyone has psychosomatic problems, it is nothing out of the ordinary. It's not easy figuring out all this stuff, but once you do, you can live a better life.

I'm not saying it's legal, but it's not theft. Don't use the RIAA's vocabulary and doublespeak. Copyright infringement is not "theft" and those who commit it are not "thieves."

One take on an all powerful God is that he is the purveyor of all power.

Hippopotamus's plural can be either hippopotami or hippopotamuses.

Hippopotamus's plural can be either hippopotami or hippopotamuses.

I don't know what a Merkan is

Maybe he means merkin, which I would take to be a incredibly obscure insult.

Dictionary.com suggests it as a form of "deltaic" pertaining to a Greek letter or an alluvial deposit.

I think you mean Cricket.

Or may be Croquette

But this is about something called Croquet.

fyi

That word you keep using... I don't think it means what you think it means.

Ok, I'll bite. See definition 3a here. It reads:

Uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices: an objective critic

These people have picked a standard. In this case, it is "Viewing pornography is not moral." They are now holding themselves to that standard regardless of the emotions or desires they may have from time to time.

I think my usage of the word works just fine.

If they are, all you hackers out there better put down your keyboards, because this is a wakeup call. Practically everything written out there in software-land could be used for nefarious purposes -- whether open source, closed source, or you name it. Remember the Marine training program using Doom?

According to Dictionary.com the definition for nefarious reads:

Wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously villainous; execrable; detestably vile.

Can someone explain to me why the Marine's using Doom for training could even be closed to being called "nefarious"? Why are so many of the examples on Slashdot when describing the "evil" ways technology can be used usually include only the U.S. government or the U.S. military? What about terrorists? What about evil dictators? What about cults?

Since when is training the armed forces considered a "nefarious" use of software?

You're not from here are you. It was humor

This link may help you. (near the bottom.. hmm.. or is saying "bottom" sexual harassment? near the footer, then)

...the steaming remains of what's left over from a volcano that's already shot its wad and is now spent?

You meant incite the grammar nazis?

And here's one for the spelling Nazis.

I believe the word you're looking for is morality. From what I hear, morale is consistently pretty high at Microsoft.

A charge of murder requires premeditation of the act of murder.

I think you, and several other posters, are confused about the charge (and degrees) of "Murder".

The dictionary definition of murder indicates "The unlawful killing of one human by another, especially with premeditated malice." (emphasis added). Note that premeditation is not a mutually inclusive condition.

Some definitions, according to state statutes that I could find handily, but are essentially portable to most states in America, and quite similar to Canada's laws (if I can find them, I'll follow-up with them)

1. Murder in the First Degree
2. Murder in the Second Degree
3. Murder in the Third Degree

Additionally, there are manslaughter charges, which tend to be lesser. I believe you'll find that the minimum charge applicable to this case is Murder in the Third Degree, with Second Degree a definite possibility depending on the prosecutor and judge/jury.

You are correct, however, that drunk driving does not equate to premeditation, in that the driver does not, by virtue of consuming alcohol in and of itself, predetermine the taking of a specific human life. I'm sure there have been first degree murders committed while intoxicated, likely some comitted with a motor vehicle, but that's a whole nother kettle of fish.

Premeditation could be anything from I planned for three weeks that I was going to kill someone to I decided 5 seconds before I pulled the trigger.

Not quite. Premeditation, by nature, requires that you commit an act with the specific intention of carrying out a particular objective. If you've already got the gun in the store and kill someone as a side-effect of the armed robbery, the murder was not premeditated. You'd have to plan to kill a patron or the clerk and carry out the robbery with that intention in mind to be considered for premeditation. Of course, the prosecutor has to prove, beyond reasonable doubt, that you did, in fact, premeditate the murder, otherwise the charge would be lesser.

Of course, you can take all of this with a suitable quantity of NaCL, due to the IANAL factor.

You're mistaken. It's Small Computer System Interface. See dictionary.com

If you look up the word professionl in the dictionary, people here are referring to your utter inabilities to "conform to the standards of a profession", not your "great skill". All the spelling errors, bad links, and unclosed tags shows you guys can't even bother to use a spell checker or goto the linked site. That isn't high school newspaper quality, let alone CNN quality.

If you guys can't show some effort into making the stories halfway readable, then most people, including the parent poster, see a site just not worth paying money to people who won't put the effort into working for it.

Sutil slogan changes...

So I'm a "Jackass" and "loser", huh? I guess I'll take my shots and call you "humorless" and "whiney."

Okay, you've got a favorite professor at your school. That's great. Guess what? That doesn't make them an authority. There's also a professor at almost every school in the U.S. who thinks Jews are evil, and that everyone who's not a (insert crackpot religion here) will go to hell. That doesn't necessarily make it so. Even if they are a professor of Asian studies. (cymbal crash) Thank you folks, I'll be here all week. Please tip your server, and the lamb chops are delicious.

Second, jokingly refering to Maxim magazine should make it pretty clear that I wouldn't necessarily appreciate and honor the views and opinions expressed at a liberal arts college for women. I do, actually, for the record. I was taking a cheap shot at the school, and in return I took a cheap-shot at myself. I don't need you calling me a loser. I already did it by saying I don't read Maxim for the articles.

Third, I followed up by citing two references to definitions, which I would say are both more informative and more accurate, and probably more reliable than your "my teacher said" reference. I mean this in the serious, analytical, "my reference is better than your reference" sense, not "you suck." I don't think that. Especially since you're right, some anime is obviously targeted directly at women.

I was just making the point that the super majority of anime does not. (Replace "anime" with "science fiction", and I think we're in the same ballpark, by the way.) But I do think you gave a semi-lousy reference, and I know you're way too defensive about it.

A lot of anime has humor that appeals AT LEAST as well to women as men. Smile some, and think of sailor moon. Don't think of the idiot who picked on your school. Think of the laughing goodness that is sailor moon. It's going to be okay.

And by the way, "bi-weekly" can mean both "twice a week" and "once every two weeks." For clarity's sake, you might want to pick a new way to describe what you meant.

"Chances" as in a count noun is not the same as probability.

According to the Dictionary, specifically definition 2: "The likelihood of something happening; possibility or probability. Often used in the plural.".

Keep an open mind and don't assume superiority so readily.

The crazy thing about libraries is that if they didn't exist and someone tried to invent them today, the publishers would have a conniption fit, and it would never happen. Give away knowledge for free? What are you, crazy? We'd go broke! Only a pinko/commie/liberal would come up with such a whacked out idea.

Perhaps what you are missing is the dictionary definition of unsolicited. There's a fine line between agreeing to receive email and asking for it to be sent, but it's a line none-the-less.

...the word entered English (around 1598), means "to blow oneself up with one's own bomb, be undone by one's own devices." The French noun pet, "fart," developed regularly from the Latin noun pditum, from the Indo-European root *pezd-, "fart."

Puerto Rico! :-)

According to this dictionary, it's mainly the Brits who are different.

Word History: The French used pétard, "a loud discharge of intestinal gas,"...

Not being an English speaker nativelly, I needed to look at what exactly was the meaning of Entanglement.
Well, I've made a quick lookup in the dictionary and I think, after having read the article, that the second
definition must be the most accurate one.

1. To twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; snarl.
2. To complicate; confuse.
3. To involve in or as if in a tangle. See Synonyms at catch.

"Timely" does not mean "time-consuming".

This answer which you cited last week seems pretty clear to me.

Unfortunately, that answer solves nothing. It is the contents of a FAQ on GNU's webpage, and it doesn't matter, legally. The only things which really matter are the text of the GPL, and the laws of the jurisdiction.

"Distribution" has a meaning in the English language. "To pass out". Giving the software to other members of a company means "passing it out". And before it can be passed out, someone's got to make some copies. "Reproduce it".

"Reproducing" or "distributing" a copyrighted work (which all GPLed programs are), is illegal. Unless the copyright holder has given you permission. It is one of the actions that are "prohibited by law if you do not accept this License." (GPLv2 section 5)

So, if one employee gives the program to another, he must do so under the GPL. Which means granting the reciever full permission to give further copies to whoever he wants.

A comparison:
Can an employee of a company make a copy of Adobe Photoshop for another member of the company? Then why could he make a copy of Gimp, without special permission from the author.

Now, if the FSF had intended to permit corporations to alter GPL code, and give it to all their employees, but under the threat of termination and lawsuit if they passed it out to anyone else, then they should've stated this in the license.

The vague FAQ entry might amount to a promise from the FSF that they won't procescute a corporation for doing that, but other users of the GPL (like Linus Torvalds) will not necessarily agree with that interpretation.

CV stands for "curriculum vitae", and Dictionary.com says it's pretty much the same as a résumé, but CV can be typed with fewer keystrokes (Caps C V Caps vs. R Alt 0 2 3 3 S U M Alt 0 2 3 3).

I copied+pasted the definitions that may have applied more correctly to the premise of law, of which dictionary.com has initially disagreed with me upon in their general premise, but looking further through Dictionary.com's pages I submitted will provide references to certain dictionaries of laws that discriminate on subscription to services by contract that may or may not questionably apply to properly *research* my authority of participation in law as to suggest their definitions by my sustained knowledge.

To begin with, I emphasize the applicability of a certification, as one provided formaly by oath provided by a consistently honerable institution. Beheld a license is simply a legal obligation that does not provide evidence of qualification, yet is in modern day being misused as utility(ies) of instrumentality in enforcing laws upon duress review of an Admiralty jurisdiction. Yes, a license is used to subjugate or abridge unalienable rights as granting a privilige or benefit (beneficiary) while a Certification is divinly of respect to authority esteemed by AN OATH OF WRITTEN TESTIMONY BEFORE A CONSISTENTLY HONERABLE INSTITUTION, THAT ESTABLISHES FACTS THAT MAY BE EXERCISED IN PROXIMITY OF EXERCISING QUALIFICATION FOR STATUS APPEALING TO A FOREIN PARTY WITHOUT PRE-JUDICE.

If you realy want to discover the frauds being perpetuated by the various organizations being defined in the pattern of "state of ______", then simply issue a "WRIT OF QUO WARRANTO *" and you may discover that no legal mechanism establishes their implied grant of regulation of a subjective premise.

I must call it a night. Good luck and thanks.

I copied+pasted the definitions that may have applied more correctly to the premise of law, of which dictionary.com has initially disagreed with me upon in their general premise, but looking further through Dictionary.com's pages I submitted will provide references to certain dictionaries of laws that discriminate on subscription to services by contract that may or may not questionably apply to properly *research* my authority of participation in law as to suggest their definitions by my sustained knowledge.

To begin with, I emphasize the applicability of a certification, as one provided formaly by oath provided by a consistently honerable institution. Beheld a license is simply a legal obligation that does not provide evidence of qualification, yet is in modern day being misused as utility(ies) of instrumentality in enforcing laws upon duress review of an Admiralty jurisdiction. Yes, a license is used to subjugate or abridge unalienable rights as granting a privilige or benefit (beneficiary) while a Certification is divinly of respect to authority esteemed by AN OATH OF WRITTEN TESTIMONY BEFORE A CONSISTENTLY HONERABLE INSTITUTION, THAT ESTABLISHES FACTS THAT MAY BE EXERCISED IN PROXIMITY OF EXERCISING QUALIFICATION FOR STATUS APPEALING TO A FOREIN PARTY WITHOUT PRE-JUDICE.

If you realy want to discover the frauds being perpetuated by the various organizations being defined in the pattern of "state of ______", then simply issue a "WRIT OF QUO WARRANTO *" and you may discover that no legal mechanism establishes their implied grant of regulation of a subjective premise.

I must call it a night. Good luck and thanks.

I copied+pasted the definitions that may have applied more correctly to the premise of law, of which dictionary.com has initially disagreed with me upon in their general premise, but looking further through Dictionary.com's pages I submitted will provide references to certain dictionaries of laws that discriminate on subscription to services by contract that may or may not questionably apply to properly *research* my authority of participation in law as to suggest their definitions by my sustained knowledge.

To begin with, I emphasize the applicability of a certification, as one provided formaly by oath provided by a consistently honerable institution. Beheld a license is simply a legal obligation that does not provide evidence of qualification, yet is in modern day being misused as utility(ies) of instrumentality in enforcing laws upon duress review of an Admiralty jurisdiction. Yes, a license is used to subjugate or abridge unalienable rights as granting a privilige or benefit (beneficiary) while a Certification is divinly of respect to authority esteemed by AN OATH OF WRITTEN TESTIMONY BEFORE A CONSISTENTLY HONERABLE INSTITUTION, THAT ESTABLISHES FACTS THAT MAY BE EXERCISED IN PROXIMITY OF EXERCISING QUALIFICATION FOR STATUS APPEALING TO A FOREIN PARTY WITHOUT PRE-JUDICE.

If you realy want to discover the frauds being perpetuated by the various organizations being defined in the pattern of "state of ______", then simply issue a "WRIT OF QUO WARRANTO *" and you may discover that no legal mechanism establishes their implied grant of regulation of a subjective premise.

I must call it a night. Good luck and thanks.

I copied+pasted the definitions that may have applied more correctly to the premise of law, of which dictionary.com has initially disagreed with me upon in their general premise, but looking further through Dictionary.com's pages I submitted will provide references to certain dictionaries of laws that discriminate on subscription to services by contract that may or may not questionably apply to properly *research* my authority of participation in law as to suggest their definitions by my sustained knowledge.

To begin with, I emphasize the applicability of a certification, as one provided formaly by oath provided by a consistently honerable institution. Beheld a license is simply a legal obligation that does not provide evidence of qualification, yet is in modern day being misused as utility(ies) of instrumentality in enforcing laws upon duress review of an Admiralty jurisdiction. Yes, a license is used to subjugate or abridge unalienable rights as granting a privilige or benefit (beneficiary) while a Certification is divinly of respect to authority esteemed by AN OATH OF WRITTEN TESTIMONY BEFORE A CONSISTENTLY HONERABLE INSTITUTION, THAT ESTABLISHES FACTS THAT MAY BE EXERCISED IN PROXIMITY OF EXERCISING QUALIFICATION FOR STATUS APPEALING TO A FOREIN PARTY WITHOUT PRE-JUDICE.

If you realy want to discover the frauds being perpetuated by the various organizations being defined in the pattern of "state of ______", then simply issue a "WRIT OF QUO WARRANTO *" and you may discover that no legal mechanism establishes their implied grant of regulation of a subjective premise.

I must call it a night. Good luck and thanks.