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Is it sliming when I say the U.S. president lied about WMD

When did he lie about WMD?

This is a reasonably comprehensive recap of the statements made by Bush and his administration concerning WMD in Iraq.

When a credible organization in Iraq can present nuclear weapon quantities of uranium, or working uranium enrichment facilities, or chemical weapon stocks, I'll retract the accusation Bush lied about WMD.

responsible for all the civilians being slaughtered there

So Bush is responsible for loading people up with explosive and having them walking into restaurants and then blowing themselves up?

Given that the execution of the Iraq occupation was botched, and generated the conditions to allow the insurgency to operate so effectively in Iraq, yes, I think the coalition invaders are culpable for civilian casualties caused by the insurgents. If there were enough troops to counteract insurgent guerillas and interdict support from Iran, if there was a credible plan to withdraw from Iraq, if the Bush administration could stick to one administering one election to determine the civilian gov't, and let the elected sovereign nation determine its constitution, this site could not talk about the 27,000+ noncombatants estimated to have died in Iraq, so far. If one limits the accusations to what the US military has done to civilians, it drops to only 9,000 civilians. But that wouldn't count the Iraqis people who died of starvation, dehydration, heat stroke, or disease.

Or that Americans are no better than the Sunnis that ran Abu Graib?

well except for the US arrested thoses that did anything of that nature,

Ahh, but what about the military commanders that were responsible for supervising their subordinates? Please cite one commissioned officer who has been courtmartialed the way the enlistees have been convicted.

and even what they did was not close to standard practive when the sadam ran the place.

Well, people do seem to think child molesters aren't as bad as murderers. I can see your rationale. (Its amusing how the Dittoheads leap to support my arguments.)

I'll agree all ideas should be given fair weight.

Amen, brother!

Let's start with

• The earth is flat
• Aliens taught the ancients how to do stuff
• The sun orbits the earth
• The human body is made up of the four humours
  1. yellow bile
  2. black bile
  3. phlegm
  4. blood
• Lightning causes babies, and finally
• Reich's Orgone Box actually works!!!111

Disney is notorious for "erasing" Song of the South, and other movies.

Here is an interesting article on censored cartoons. Yes, it's Rotten.com, but I promise there's no gore or nudity, just some examples of racist images from the cartoons.

...by this guy. Snip, snip.

A better comparison would be an "Eternal flame" versus the clock. I base this comparison on two things: (1) An eternal flame is designed to last a long time. (2) People tend to not feel any particular attachment to an eternal flame. We all know how permanent those are.

I'm suprised he hasn't yet knitted the costumes of these guys

There's a good article on Kevin Mitnick in the Rotten Library that discusses this.

Come on, Mao's China and modern China are not anywhere comparable in terms of the scale of human rights violations.

Why would war prisoners be executed? I don't think that was common in WWII. The Allies did some pretty terrible things in WWII, but attacking Iraq and levelling Baghdad without provokation would be pretty unprecedented for a modern democracy.

The problem is that the "good guys" do some pretty bad things. Some of them can be justified and some cannot, but I am very skeptical about attributing "goodness" to the government of any major power.

It is also interesting to see the most popular web sites. Start by typing www. into google suggest. The top 10 are:

1. www.yahoo.com - Search/Directory
2. www.hotmail.com - Email
3. www.google.com - Search
4. www.ebay.com - Shopping
5. www.msn.com - Portal
6. www.aol.com - Portal
7. www.ebay.co.uk - Shopping
8. www.irs.gov - Government
9. www.mapquest.com - Maps
10. www.amazon.com - Shopping

Typing one more letter shows you the top sites for that letter. Here is the top for each letter:

• a is for www.aol.com - Portal
• b is for www.bbc.co.uk - News
• c is for www.cnn.com - News
• d is for www.dictionary.com - Reference
• e is for www.ebay.com - Shopping
• f is for www.food.gov.uk - Government
• g is for www.google.com - Search
• h is for www.hotmail.com - Email
• i is for www.irs.gov - Government
• j is for www.juno.com - Internet service provider
• k is for www.kbb.com - Consumer information
• l is for www.lyrics.com - Music
• m is for www.msn.com - Portal
• n is for www.nick.com - Kids
• o is for www.orbitz.com - Travel
• p is for www.pogo.com - Games
• q is for www.qvc.com - Shopping
• r is for www.rotten.com - Information
• s is for www.sears.com - Shopping (sorry slashdot)
• t is for www.target.com - Shopping
• u is for www.usps.com - Government
• v is for www.verizon.com - Telephone service
• w is for www.weather.com - Weather
• x is for www.xanga.com - Blogs
• y is for www.yahoo.com - Portal
• z is for www.zappos.com - Shopping

This is some random commentary to make sure that my post has enough characters per line on average to get by the lameness filter. Just a few more words should do it. Then I will be over the limit. Maybe you would like to hear a bit about my projects: Attesoro - A internationalization editor for Java programs. Coinmill - A currency conversion website with many currencies, and features such as abilty to parse English sentences asking for currency conversion. Java Utilities - Utilities for common task in the Java programming language such as parsing CSV files and string manipulation.

I also can't imagine that any of the clicks the advertisers get are legit. It's probably mostly accidental clicks as people are navigating around.

Of course, the best thing would be to encourage people to make their sites a little more user-friendly with more than a few words of text on each page. But barring that, some form of ad blocker that finds and kills these things would be a good idea. Maybe someone can write one for Firefox and Internet Explorer?

respect for steve jobs? what are you talking about? ever heard of steve wozniak? http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/hackers/steve-wo zniak/ how jobs "used" him ...

Well, knowing the proclivities of the designers of the Java "language", I really don't want to hear about your wet dreams!

My experience running programs written in Java is poor, which leads me to believe either the language is fatally flawed, the implementations are, or the people who churn out Java code are...

The corporate Disney that we know today should not diminish the work of one of the 20th century's greatest imaginative minds.

I agree, Walt was much more evil than corporate Disney. Credit where it's due.

You're completely right, rational = dead. Why didn't he write logically about his ideas? Because people don't learn that way. = Socrates + Shakespear.

"Everyone else doesn't know anything, but pretend they do. But I know I know nothing"

Oh, mr Unabomber. The rotten/library page says he needed to get laid. Except that I don't know anything about him, Charles Manson though said a lot of wise things,

"No sense makes sense"

For one, goes well with Einstein's

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen"

(He never figured out eternity though, so not one of my favorite philosphers)

I really need to save my links better, there was a topic about Google stealing all minds of the world, and one guy said grades don't count for anything, since you only get good ones because you can remember things = intellectual, which isn't related to coming up with things = genious.

As for "random politician/preacher", Pat Robertson has *influence*. Both over those who listen, and then some over the current administration (religious right, remeber). This guy has followers. He even run for precidency in -87, so calling him "random" is ... maybe underestimating him a little?

please read more about pat from http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/televan gelists/pat-robertson/. (the facts can also be checked up at more trustworthy sources. Exercise left to the reader...)

Ok, hope this won't be marked up as flamebait.
I'm trying to be insightful here, scrutinizing this actual event that marks a point in history were a former presidential candidate with close ties to the administration calls for assasination of another country's head of state, in public, on TV.

Here's one of many sources which describe how mercenaries are giving orders to US soldiers. Here are even more sources, referring to the mercenaries by the Pentagon euphamism "contractors". Ask your professor about where mercenaries fit in the chain of command in a prison like Abu Ghraib, and how they're accountable under military, US-civilian, or Iraqi law. You very well might be having to question their orders sometime soon yourself, and you should be prepared to do the right thing - quickly, and with confidence.

Yes, we should imagine that much of the "donation" will be software and hardware valued at retail. That's typical of Microsoft.

What's more disturbing is having police departments business run by Microsoft. One of the first things Bill G did was to make sure the class scheduling program he sold his high school put him with all the "pretty girls". The rest of his career and Microsoft practices have been a series of broken trust, from breaking other people's programs to spying on every thing you do. Do we really want that kind of equipment in police stations? At any price?

The subjugation of public institutions by private interests is called fascism. When your city government clicks, "I agree" to the average M$ EULA, you are very screwed. Say no to backdoored public computing.

Of course Republitards such as yourself like to advocate racial profiling as a weapon in Dubya's GWOT. But if we look at the history of terrorism in the United States you find that most of it was done by whites against jews and blacks by the KKK.

Republitards are not bound by any intellectual consistency on this though. Even though 15 of the 19 terrorists who attacked the United States on September 11th were from Saudi Arabia and Osama Bin Laden is a Saudi national and the leadership of Al Qaeda is mostly Saudi Arabian the Republitards all cheered when their Boy President announced that we were attacking Iraq in response to 9/11. Sure, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 but hey, it was a chance to beat up on sand niggers, and beating the shit out of niggers, spics, gooks, chinks and japs is what the Republitard party is all about, which is why they have such a hard-on for racial profiling.

Protesting against that in the name of free speech is plain absurd, it's like complaining that the British government did not allow Nazi propaganda in the newspapers during WW II.

Wow, you were serious? Wow, I have other links you'll probably believe.

PS: Learn what "troll" means.

http://www.rotten.com/
http://www.mullet.com/

[...]Here's a fun fact: Very little was known about what the actual effect of an atomic explosion would be prior to its actual detonation. There was one theory, for instance, which suggested the detonation might spark a chain reaction that would burn up the entire atmosphere of the planet Earth, instantly and horrifically killing the entire human race in one fell stroke (and just about every other living thing as well). [...]

[...]But the biggest son of a bitch of all would be Harry Truman. Within a month of the successful test, Truman trotted out his new toy against the Japanese. As early as spring of 1945, Truman had ordered up a list of possible targets for the atom bomb, which included Hiroshima, Nagasaki and two other Japanese cities.[...]

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[...]Here's a fun fact: Very little was known about what the actual effect of an atomic explosion would be prior to its actual detonation. There was one theory, for instance, which suggested the detonation might spark a chain reaction that would burn up the entire atmosphere of the planet Earth, instantly and horrifically killing the entire human race in one fell stroke (and just about every other living thing as well). [...]

[...]But the biggest son of a bitch of all would be Harry Truman. Within a month of the successful test, Truman trotted out his new toy against the Japanese. As early as spring of 1945, Truman had ordered up a list of possible targets for the atom bomb, which included Hiroshima, Nagasaki and two other Japanese cities.[...]

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From the article...

Addressed to an assortment of developers and publishers ranging from Electronic Arts to id Software, the latter of which Thompson partly blames for the Columbine massacre, ~. [emphasis mine]

Okay, we're through--nothing more to see here. Thompson 'partly' blames id for Columbine. Jee-zus

Thompson is a friggin idiot and his opinions are worth as much as a pinch of owl-shite. id was not responsible for Columbine in any way: Eric Harris and Klebold Dylan's parents were responsible, if you consider that they were both minors (if you believe that they were adult 'enough', then they alone had the responsibility).

The fact that Thompson can't even get that right, leads little to his credibility on anything else.

Ronald Reagan's administration subverted the law, and the only people that were ever held accountable for it were low-level nobodies. You might even remember one of them, who was never punished.

It was autoerotic-asphyxiation. Very sad and tragic.

That's not exactly what I expected from a site called "chick.com". :-)

Then you have a negative emotional attachment.

"The murderous wolves killed these innocent lamb!"

Wood grain is the new Apple White!

...a video game simulation is nothing compared to how convincing real events illustrating the true nature of gruesome human behavior, and we're basically fed with this daily through television. People call watching it educating.

I don't think we're educated at all. I've never heard anything but oblique sanitized-for-prime-time references to what's really happening in Iraq, Chechnya, Burundi, and on and on. Hundreds of thousands of people killed. Terrible life-debilitating casualities. Children slaughtered. No, we live a million miles away, where we don't have to look at the world as it is.

Ironic, isn't it, that many of those who squeal the loudest about virtual violence support our foriegn imperialism 100%, while simultaneously ignoring international pleas for help where it's really needed. But hey, who gives a fuck about people getting blown up overseas anyway? So far away, so unimportant, so unsavory, so unfit for television.

You know why that stuff isn't on TV. Or in the newspaper? Or anywhere else? Because no one will sponsor it. TV news isn't about education at all, it's about trying to sell a Chevy. Even PBS has been bought. So I guess I have to disagree with the premise that we're fed this stuff on television to educate us. Quite the opposite. We live in blissful ignorance. An education is exactly what people need.

...a video game simulation is nothing compared to how convincing real events illustrating the true nature of gruesome human behavior, and we're basically fed with this daily through television. People call watching it educating.

I don't think we're educated at all. I've never heard anything but oblique sanitized-for-prime-time references to what's really happening in Iraq, Chechnya, Burundi, and on and on. Hundreds of thousands of people killed. Terrible life-debilitating casualities. Children slaughtered. No, we live a million miles away, where we don't have to look at the world as it is.

Ironic, isn't it, that many of those who squeal the loudest about virtual violence support our foriegn imperialism 100%, while simultaneously ignoring international pleas for help where it's really needed. But hey, who gives a fuck about people getting blown up overseas anyway? So far away, so unimportant, so unsavory, so unfit for television.

You know why that stuff isn't on TV. Or in the newspaper? Or anywhere else? Because no one will sponsor it. TV news isn't about education at all, it's about trying to sell a Chevy. Even PBS has been bought. So I guess I have to disagree with the premise that we're fed this stuff on television to educate us. Quite the opposite. We live in blissful ignorance. An education is exactly what people need.

...a video game simulation is nothing compared to how convincing real events illustrating the true nature of gruesome human behavior, and we're basically fed with this daily through television. People call watching it educating.

I don't think we're educated at all. I've never heard anything but oblique sanitized-for-prime-time references to what's really happening in Iraq, Chechnya, Burundi, and on and on. Hundreds of thousands of people killed. Terrible life-debilitating casualities. Children slaughtered. No, we live a million miles away, where we don't have to look at the world as it is.

Ironic, isn't it, that many of those who squeal the loudest about virtual violence support our foriegn imperialism 100%, while simultaneously ignoring international pleas for help where it's really needed. But hey, who gives a fuck about people getting blown up overseas anyway? So far away, so unimportant, so unsavory, so unfit for television.

You know why that stuff isn't on TV. Or in the newspaper? Or anywhere else? Because no one will sponsor it. TV news isn't about education at all, it's about trying to sell a Chevy. Even PBS has been bought. So I guess I have to disagree with the premise that we're fed this stuff on television to educate us. Quite the opposite. We live in blissful ignorance. An education is exactly what people need.

Actually his name was Lafayette Ronald Hubbard

You can find an unofficial biografi here http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/cult/l- ron-hubbard/

If you're dealing with petabytes, you'll have "petafiles". Why constrain yourself to "legal age?"

I'd stay far, far way from those Starwave folks.

If the pedophiles at Sun didn't want people to confuse the two, the wouldn't have changed the name of "LiveWire" to JavaScript.

They *wanted* this confusion, and /. is more than happy to give it to them!

This blatant protectionism and bribery brought the man to my attention.

I love the image text to make sure scripts no longer post. Eat me trolls, you are fucked!

I assumed CowyboyNeal referred to Neal Cassady, the driver of Ken Kesey's bus Further as chronicled in "An Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test", and the real life Dean Moriarty from Kerouac's "On the Road". Linky: Neal Cassady

read http://daily.rotten.com and you'll soon see that *your* life is a paradise, provided you're not featured of course.

For an early introduction into what you *could* become, take a look at the poor fuckers on the mother site

read http://daily.rotten.com and you'll soon see that *your* life is a paradise, provided you're not featured of course.

For an early introduction into what you *could* become, take a look at the poor fuckers on the mother site

You're really naive.

I suggest reading a history book or two. Look up Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Panama, Nicaragua, Chile, East Timor. Read about the lives of Henry Kissinger, Alexander Haig, Richard Nixon, George G.W. Bush, Robert McNamara.

Kind of like Jerry Lewis

Pic

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/cult/ay n-rand/

But can they control the weather or blow up the earth with it?

/HAARP

Rather have a wet spot than a Santorum-spot. Then you really have to change the sheets.

I am posting to inform you that you are now officially gay. You're so queer that queer guys walk by and they're like "damn, what a fag." You, sir, are the gayest person I have ever had the displeasure of outing.

I suggest you exchange your current vehicle for a Miata (license plate suggestion: 'HOMOGAY') and find yourself a directory of cruisy restrooms.

Thank you for your time.

Fag.

Long black hair, pasty white skin and interchangeable noses!

here already

... Now killing people is Open Source?

OK, so I know, the price of freedom is that bad stuff happens as well as good. But isn't anyone else uncomfortable with the US Ministry of Violent Death using your code to, essentially, kill people?

for a good time, go to http://smoke.rotten.com/bird/

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One US schoolteacher wrote us a very angry email that complained some of her students had bookmarked images on this site, that our site shouldn't be on the net, and other claptrap.

This is our response. The net is not a babysitter! Children should not be roaming the Internet unsupervised any more than they should be roaming the streets of New York City unsupervised.

We cannot dumb the Internet down to the level of playground. Rotten dot com serves as a beacon to demonstrate that censorship of the Internet is impractical, unethical, and wrong. To censor this site, it is necessary to censor medical texts, history texts, evidence rooms, courtrooms, art museums, libraries, and other sources of information vital to functioning of free society.

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