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You're right. Humans have no rights. We should feel free to commit war crimes against them (we can't be proscecuted because we took our ball home and refuse to play with the International Criminal Court, which we are... International Criminals that is), we can feel free to turn civilians into pink mist, after all, they were human and we all know that humans do bad things, we just pre-empted them.

You are right. Humans have no rights and when the U.S. Government comes for YOU, we'll remember that and act accordingly. You are human, aren't you??

Even by ./ standard this must be a record, hat rick of same post and twice by Taco....
Luckily there are more creative journalists in the world.

you mean stuff like:

this?

carried by the rest of the world's media?

I'm sorry, but that is one of the dumbest responses I have ever read. It's pretty obvious that you have no idea what you are talking about, but let me try to help.

if you have one apple, and you destroy that apple, how many apples do you have?

Once again, not even France is claiming to know where all of the weapons are. Hans Blix refers to large amounts of anthrax and Vx that are "unaccounted for." True, we know Saddam did use some against Iran (a number that was greatly inflated in the UN declaration, btw). He also used some chemical weapons against the Kurdish population in northern Iraq. He also destroyed some banned weapons in the presence of inspectors after the Gulf War. But there are a lot more that we just don't know what happened to them.

To put this in perspective, pre-Gulf War estimates were that Iraq had enough Anthrax to kill everybody on the planet 3 times. It is not trivial to destroy Anthrax, and so if it was destroyed, we should be able to easily verify it.

but they still haven't found any evidence to say that iraq still has any of their weapons

The burden of proof was on Saddam to account for the weapons we know he had. Are you suggesting that amid numerous UN resolutions, intense international scrutiny, and weapons inspections, Saddam decided to secretly destroy these weapons without documenting it?

watching the news last night, i didn't hear any reports of iraq firing any weapons at anyone, even though the air raid sirens went off 3 times in kuwait city.

Surprise, surprise. He still has banned missiles.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/page.cfm?objecti d=12760939&method=full&siteid=89488
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2870941.stm
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topN ews&storyID=2423930

According to this article in the Sydney Morning Herald, Iraqi defectors have reported that Saddam's son Uday "mercilessly beats girls as young as 12 on the soles of their feet if they refuse to sleep with him, Iraqi defectors said today."

Like father like son. This just underscores how corrupt and abusive Saddam's regime is, and it shouldn't be terribly surprising. It's a pretty stomach-turning article for a major newspaper, and not for the squimish.

According to this article in the Sydney Morning Herald, Iraqi defectors have reported that Saddam's son Uday "mercilessly beats girls as young as 12 on the soles of their feet if they refuse to sleep with him, Iraqi defectors said today."

Like father like son. This just underscores how corrupt and abusive Saddam's regime is, and it shouldn't be terribly surprising. It's a pretty stomach-turning article for a major newspaper, and not for the squimish.

SMH in Australia (which also has a small number of forces deployed) is running an article titled Dead Bodies are Everywhere. For now, that's probably the best a news outlet can do, since that's all that's known for certain.

Mod the parent down. Murdoch does not own the SMH. He does own just about every other newspaper in Australia though.

And we are involved in the war.

For a fairly neutral, balanced view, try the Sydney Morning Herald.

I am completely against the current war on Iraq. To my mind, by attacking Iraq without there being any hint of aggression against America, and without a shred of evidence to support it's claim that Saddam Hussein is constructing weapons of mass destruction, I think the US has violated any claim they may have had about this being a "just" war. see Jimmy Carter's opinion on what constitutes a just war.

I am not arguing against those who claim that Saddam Hussein is a "bad" man. But there are lots of despotic rulers in the world, and I think the current US policy of pre-emption is morally wrong, and sets a very dangerous precedent. The US is encouraging other despotic regimes to acquire nuclear capabilities in order to fend off a US preemptive strike, and guaranteeing that terrorism will be the only perceived way to fight superior US firepower.
The US has shown clear contempt for other countries in the world, by rejecting the Kyoto protocol accords, by subverting the International Criminal Court, and by acting unilaterally against Iraq. The US has vetoed UN resolutions against Israel 41 times (putting in doubt President Bush's claim that he wants to restore the land to the Iraqi people).
I don't believe this war is legal, although I doubt anyone will be prosecuted.
The world is extremely skeptical about this essentially unilateral war.

A president can not be "ousted" period. There are no recall procedures for federal offices.

A president, or any other official, can be ousted thru a revolt. It has happened all throughout history, and I suspect it will happen at some point in the USA's future...though I don't expect that that time is now.

The vast majority of people agree with President Bush. Period.

The vast majority (about 70%) of Americans agree that war is necessary to remove Hussein. Fewer than half of Americans are strongly convinced that Bush's policies are correct, however.

Of course, the flip side is that over half of Americans believe that this will increase terrorism in the short term, and almost half think that it will increase terrorism in the long term as well.

International polls aren't nearly as favorable towards Bush or the USA.

All this FUD about most disagreeing with him is just that, FUD. He has enjoyed the highest approval ratings in history. Higher than FDR. (read your history).

His approval ratings were highest immediately after September 11. They've been declining since. Lately, they've dipped down to Clinton numbers. And approval of things other than the war on terrorism have been less than stellar.

Anwr? Yes, we should drill there. Look at the results of drilling in other areas of Alaska. So far, the most damage it has done is to create a population explosion of carabu [sic].

I suppose that depends on whether or not you think oil rigs and pipelines are a scenic addition. Oh, and don't forget the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

I still don't agree with [Bush] all the time, but I respect him and believe he is doing what he feels is the morally correct thing to do.

I believe Bush is doing what he feels is morally correct as well. Unfortunately, I'm not sure I share his morals or his view of world politics.

Here, here and here

It's not mentioned in this article, but I read another one recently where the government were talking about using a central proxy server(s) to filter all content coming into the country - sort of like what they do in China.

I'm glad I have the government protecting me from the evil Internet. If I see any more nude people, I might become a serial killer, or something. Worse yet, I might vote Liberal! Acckkk!

According to this you might be a planet soon.

It's a great play. I was involved in it in college, working tech at the time.
Lysistrata was read around the world Monday as a protest against the war. Sydney Morning Herald

Unless you have some sort of proof, I'm going to have to call you FULL OF SHIT (I work for Fairfax, BTW).

For example, he'll happily accept a freebie high end digital plasma screen TV for vital research.

Perhaps Saddam should also try chucking our Prime Minister a similar gift in return for more favourable consideration.

It reads like a gang of criminals (assuming charges are upheld) are in the process of buying their own Pacific nation. Imagine that... A cartel with the power to pass it's own laws, print it's own money, issue its own passports, get money fom the IMF, ...

The mind boggles.

It might piss people off to hear this, but my guess is because musicians have shitty union representation.

For example, most actors are desperate for exposure and most movies don't make profits, but when that kid that played Harry Potter agreed to star in the movies for a relatively small sum, the British actors union stepped in and said the studio had to pay him millions, link.

There's no such thing as a caucasian (or any other "race") anyway.

He-ey! I mean, has anyone asked what Perthites might actually -think- of this? Mobile phone towers are ugly enough, but you can't mask a 100,000km high tower as a palm tree without someone getting a little suspicious.

I, for one, will be the first in line to press all 100,000 buttons and watch the ensuing chaos.

-b

This ones even funnier

ENUM in the News

EFA expresses security concerns over ENUM, SMH, November 27, 2002.

Enum's potential applications aren't as widespread as promised, New Architect, July 2002.

Internet Telephone Numbering System (ENUM) offers promise of a single point of contact for all communication devices, ITU Press Release, May 31, 2002.

Listing Again, The Economist, April 11, 2002.

Phone number-to-e-mail service raises privacy concerns, Computerworld, October 5, 2001.

Your Rights Online: A Number For Everything, Slashdot, September 4, 2001.

One number & and no escape anywhere, The Times, September 3, 2001.

Or a "make it so it doesn't fry the user's testicles" feature.

Wouldn't it then make sense to use the money to increase the tube's capacity (make it run more often, drill more tunnels, ...)

Pretty hard to do, constructing more tunnels under London is a hard thing to do, as the recent land collapse while building the new Channel Tunnel link probably proves.

To put whole new underground lines in you'd more or less have to go under the existing system, and if you haven't been on the London underground, the deep stations are really a long way down, much deeper than most of the newer subway systems in the States, which are usually built by digging a big trench and then roofing it over.

hi anonymous coward. i'm sorry for what happened. i'm australian and it's hard to believe that some australians are actually buying into this anti-muslim propaganda spouted by the current US and australian governments. this is deliberate, right-wing propaganda designed to incite anger and resentment in the west against muslims in order to boslter support for an extremely unpopular war against iraq for oil.

please please please report your story, just as you've written above, to your local press, and to the the sydney morning herald or the australian. the truth here in australia is that most people are against the war, and against racism, big time. a couple of decades of having every culture and cuisine at our very doorstep have made most people realise what a great thing multiculturalism really is.

i'm sorry for your experience. most of us are really nice people.

sincerely
matt

That's right, gun control works. Australia is a very safe place to live, now that crimes like armed robbery are more common than before the 1996 ban/confiscation took effect. You sound brainwashed to me.

An opinon peice from Ross Gittens (a noteable economic commentator) titled Free-trade agreement is Howard's ticking bomb does not look kindly apon this agreement.

A choice quote: Contrary to appearances, bilateral FTAs don't rate as micro reform because, as any textbook will tell you, they're more likely to be "trade diverting" than "trade enhancing".

Check out this article from the Sydney Morning Herald, Piracy not the burning issue in CD sales slide: ARIA

I amazes me the lengths the Howard government will go to in order to suck up to the US.

I couldn't find the original document on the Internet either.
It is quoted on quite a number of news pages, e.g.
commondreams.org
shm.com.au

Today's SMH online has a story about the first fall in CD sales for a while, the story blames piracy and DVD sales. For once the writer does not seem to lay the blame with downloaders, but rather with people ripping multiple copies of a CD ("backyard piracy").

is here

Fires destroy Stromlo observatory

Irreplaceable equipment worth millions of dollars was destroyed when the Canberra bushfires ravaged the historic Mount Stromlo Observatory.

You can check the rest of the article out here or here via AAP

Lots of detail at the Sydney Morning Herald but here's a specific story.

Lots of detail at the Sydney Morning Herald but here's a specific story.

Mount Stromlo news

Computer-related death is non-zero, so the gun to computer related death is not infinite.

DownUnder we are looking at a diffrent technology wind and solar,
if it ever gets built... Read about it here

Yeah, except for the fact that the world's biggest business is Wal-Mart, and MS doesn't even rank on the top ten.

I posted a similar comment to yesterdays RIAA story

Of course their declining record sales have nothing to do with the public is now fed up of mass marketed pop music where record contracts are won not by original musical talent and song writing , but by nieve and desperate individuals in f***ing competitions while real talent falls into the gutter, leaving a trail of destruction in its path while the instigators get rich.

The only thing killing music is not kids downloading mp3's or pirating dvds at market stalls but by the industry killing itself, kids are simply getting ripped off by these marketing/record companies and have just started to realise globally they are being taken for idiots

why is it that so many companies in the industry (or others for that matter), have so much contempt for their customers and choose short term monetary gains instead of actually concentrating on producing superior products ?

of course their declining record sales have nothing to do with the public is now fed up of mass marketed pop music where record contracts are won not by original musical talent and song writing , but by nieve and desperate individuals in f***ing competitions while real talent falls into the gutter, leaving a trail of destruction in its path while the instigators get rich.

The only thing killing music is not kids downloading mp3's or pirating dvds at market stalls ,but by the industry itself, kids are simply getting ripped off by these marketing/record companies and have just started to realise globally they are being taken for idiots

why is it that so many companies have so much contempt for their customers and choose to be greedy instead of actually concentrating on superior products ?

Holy shit, this is apparently true. Mod me down if you must, but be careful with your laptop!
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November 22 2002

Doctors are warning that laptop computers may inflict a burn even through clothed skin, after the bizarre case of a Swedish scientist who scorched his penis and testicles while writing a report in his armchair.

The unnamed 50-year-old father of two had balanced the computer on his lap while he wrote the report at home, taking about an hour to do it, according to a letter published in the next issue of the British medical weekly The Lancet.

The following day, he started to develop painful blisters on his foreskin and scrotum, which became infected but eventually cleared up without the need for antibiotics.

Laptop manuals usually advise users not to use the computer while its base is resting directly on exposed skin, as heat can build up if the device is left on for a long time.

In this case, however, the patient had been wearing trousers and underpants.

The tale "should be taken as a serious warning against use of a laptop computer, in a literal sense," said the letter's author, Claes-Goran Ostenson of the department of molecular medicine at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute.

I don't, but I'm willing to bet that Crazy Eric does.

Just as funny I thought, from the SMH news site. Porn fans trigger terror alert.

I did some searching and apparently the Australian Broadcasting Company is also running the same story. Its not exactly the same, but there are direct quotes between the two.

Does anyone know if SMH is a partner company? Same company?

Does anyone know who had the story first?

-- AcquaCow

Not only is this not the first time, but antibiotic-resistant strains are already resisting brand new classes of antibiotics designed to beat them when all others fail.

All I'm sayin' is that I'm funneling down the vitamin C like Pez. :-|

I'm ashamed of my country.

Such as just last month, when they gagged the press from reporting allegations that the UK govenment contracted Al Qaeda to assassinate Gaddafi.

Not only did they gag reporting the story, they also demanded that the media can't even report (or protest) the fact that they have been gagged!

Welcome to the free world. Leave your brains and integrity at the door please...

I've actually found Mozilla to work on more sites than Chimera does at the moment...

I like the look and idea of Chimera, but I read the Sydney Morning Herald online a fair bit, and it regularly crashes if you go to an article and then go back to the main page. Something to do with their annoying flash ads..

plus I get to use the GoogleBar....

Of course, all that said, any easy good/evil binarism here is ridiculous too. We have to keep in mind that the US, with the extensive help of W's dad throughout the 80s, helped make Saddam as powerful and brutal as he is. And the upcoming war is just an excuse for a blatant resource grab in the middle east. I would much prefer to see W and Saddam duke it out with pistols than make their citizens suffer and die for them.