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New Financing And Fewer Staff @ SuSE
jdfox writes: "According to this press release from SuSE, they have just received another 15 million Euros (about 14 million $US) venture capital, with some big names listed in the consortium's membership. They have also announced that a quarter of their 500 staff will be let go, following on from similar recent cuts. This excellent distro deserves to succeed: I hope this move will see them through the current slowdown." The upcoming release (needs babelfishing from German) of SuSE's version 7.3 promised for October 13th is loaded with a ton of goodies, too -- Kernel 2.4.10, KDE 2.2.1 and GNOME 1.4.1 beta2, among other things.
Yep, that's right. I win again.
w00t!
shoutout to mick!
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We're all busy trying to beg, steal, beg, or borrow the new StarOffice beta 6.0 ;-)
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Blame it on Hollywood. Blame it on Final Fantasy. I don't know WHO to blame, but somewhere down the line we got to believing that we're the 'good guys.' Not only that, we believe that the good guys always follow 'rules.' We don't lower ourselves to the level of the 'bad guys.' We can't kill innocent people, even by accident in self defense. We can't work in secret, or enlist the aid of shady characters who don't reflect our ethics. We have the most powerful military in the world, but we must use it carefully, keep it on a leash, so to speak, lest someone calls us 'mean.'
BULL FUCKING SHIT. Guess what? Afghanistan and most every other country in that region HAS NOT adopted our post-romantic-era self righteous heroic bullshit. They're still somewhere around Homer's Ulysses 'kill the men and children, rape the women and take them for the slave trade' mindset in that regard. And they're using our liberal, Hollywood-generated pussy attitude to their advantage, BIG TIME.
We ARE the most powerful country in the world. As I hinted at earlier, we have the best guns, bombs, lasers and God-knows-what-else up our sleeve. Why, then, does a government like the Taliban, whose airforce we could wipe out in a matter of seconds, even DARE let bin Laden and Al Qaeda have free reign in Afghanistan? Why does Mullah Omar scoff at US demands and threaten us AS IF he could stand a chance were this to become a military conflict?
I'll tell you why. Because Saddam Hussein is still in Iraq. Osama bin Laden was indicted for the bombings of the US Embassies in Tanzania, we dropped a few missiles nowhere in particular, and that was that. WE are the laughing stock of the world, because we are always trying to be a goodie-two-shoes nation that never finishes the job. Mullah Omar knows that, Osama bin Laden knows that, EVERYBODY KNOWS IT. They're like spoiled brat kids who can't get punished by the school because their parents think they need to be 'praised not penalized.' The kids aren't afraid anymore, hence the bolder attacks. I know it's not been a common practice with the past few generations, but it's time to start beating the kids again.
It's truly a sad fact that we actually give a rat's ass what the rest of the world thinks about our response to what happened on September 11th. There's no doubt in my mind that our leaders knew very quickly who was to blame, but they decided they needed to spend weeks gathering evidence to satisfy everybody else. We should have bombed the living holy shit out of Afghanistan within 24 hours of the attack, while it was still hot. Then we should have sent a mess of troops in to finish the job and make sure bin Laden isn't coming back like Freddy Kreuger in a Friday the 13th sequel. Nobody would have dared say a word. Not while the smell of innocent blood was still fresh in our nostrils, while the fires were still being put out in Manhattan. THEN we could have started the broader war on terrorism, after we put the bad guys in their place.
Remember Qadaffi? Remember what we did when he was sponsoring terrorism in the 80s? I'll refresh your memory. We bombed Libya to hell and back. We blew up Qadaffi's house, killed half his family, and nearly killed him. Scared the living shit out of him. And you know what? We haven't heard a peep out of the fucker since. He knew we meant business, because back then we DID mean business.
Nowadays, thanks to pussy presidents like Bill Clinton and the feel-good liberals with their heads in the clouds, we have both hands tied behind our back. We've been waiting for weeks. We've heard every world leader tell us how we have to be careful, how a 'measured' response is in order. One would think they're more concerned for the Taliban than for the people who died on September 11th. We've been effectively castrated, and that, my friends, is why the USA was attacked.
I know that right now there are a hundred hippie liberal university types just imploding at the callous nature of my views. They're going to tell me that I'm just as bad as the terrorists, that violence begets violence, that US foreign policy was to blame, bla bla FUCKING BLA. But honestly, are my views even remotely as ridiculous as the idea that peace marches are constructive at a time like this?
Actually, I'm a peaceful, loving individual. I love my family, my friends, my girlfriend. I damn near cried on September 11th, and I guess that means I love a whole bunch of people that I don't even know. I love order, and the security we enjoy in free, democratic societies. But I DON'T live in a dream world. Peace can't always be made by turning the other cheek, because some people will just smack that other cheek and then rip your fucking head off. With respect to our current enemy, peace is going to be made by killing a lot of people, and killing them so horribly that the ones who survive will be too impotent with fear to ever even THINK of fucking with the United States of America again.
Muslims are one step below pigs.