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rhwalker22 writes "TechNews.com has an in-depth look at the 11 groups bidding to run dot-org when VeriSign gives it up later this year." I have a sneaking suspicion that my bid of $100 and a case of guinness has been outdone.
Sarah the checkout girl!!
hi ac..just wanted to dedicate this to u again. haha ok ok, u can all mark me down now.
FP!!! FP!!! um...er...now what?
That tech support that does not kill me...drives me crazier
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I claim this fp for me, not CLiT.
Thought I had first post
But some jerk beat me to it.
I am filled with shame.
Don't worry taco, VA LNUX will be bankrupt soon enough, and you won't need to worry about slahdot.org
I had this dream last night where I worked for Wendy's, but it was on a reality TV show, and they would dunk you in hot grease if you were a bad worker. That ever happen to anyone?
Liberate your mind in two clicks or less.
Thank you. I thought it was funny, but the /. moderators' sense of humor seems a bit on the anemic side. :/
Haven't various people been saying this for years now? I remember seeing these sorts of posts when I first started /.ing, and I'm still seeing them today.
What about TWO cases of Guinness?!
... the beer that eats like a meal.
That site is ok, but I still prefer slashdot.org. Your site is so unstable, it seems to revert back to mine.
Didn't they take that off the market after a bunch of hillbillies went blind?
"A plan fiendishly clever in its intricacies"- Homer Simpson
This is not informative.
Damn Celine Dion....
more like .GAG for off-topic posts :)
If good things come to those who wait...why work now? Procrastinate!
Two cases of Guinness!
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
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The IRA remains an anti-democratic militia which refuses to express the slightest humility over its murderous past
By Fergal Keane
18 May 2002
I used to spend a lot of time in Adare as a young reporter. There was a weekly district court sitting which required the attendance of the cub from The Limerick Leader. It was also a village of pleasant pubs. Adare is a pretty village with a beautiful old abbey, and one of the country's best hotels, the Dunraven Arms. I liked the town so much I got married there 16 years ago. It was also the place where men claiming to fight for Irish freedom murdered an Irish policeman six years ago. Garda Jerry McCabe was escorting a post office van travelling to Adare on the gloriously sunny morning of 7 June 1996. As the van pulled up outside the post office in Adare an IRA gang rammed the police escort vehicle.
The gunmen - who did not come from the village - fired into the police car, killing Jerry McCabe. Jerry was 52 years old and had five children. He was a good cop and a great father. Twenty thousand people queued up to sign a book of condolences, and the killers were widely denounced. The gunmen were members of the IRA, and the Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams would later call for their release from prison. He couldn't understand why murderers in the North could be released under the Good Friday Agreement, but the butchers down south had to stay in jail. There was an obvious contradiction. Irish politicians could endorse the release of men who had brought hell to the lives of RUC families, but in their own jurisdiction there were different moral standards.
But now it looks as if the people of several constituencies in the Republic, including North Kerry, which is next door to the village where Jerry McCabe was murdered, will vote for the IRA's political ally. The so-called "Castlerea Five" - the name given to the fascists who murdered Jerry McCabe - will still languish in prison, but in the spirit of forgiving and forgetting a substantial number of Irish people will vote Sinn Fein in this general election.
The polls suggest that Sinn Fein could win between three and seven seats. What is there to say, except that we seem to have very short memories. That and the fact that Sinn Fein have carefully targeted those who feel left out of the "Celtic Tiger" boom: the traditional support of the Irish Labour party in poor urban areas is being lured away. The new-look Sinn Fein focuses on issues such as health care and crime - no less of a public obsession in Ireland than in Britain or France. They are self-declared leftists, but benefit from the same disillusionment which has fed support for right-wing radicals across Europe. Critically, they are not seen as being "of the system".
Nowthe political party that supported the killers of Jerry McCabe is about to win a seat in North Kerry.
To get from Adare to the headquarters of the Sinn Fein campaign in the neighbouring constituency is a quick jaunt along one of the loveliest roads in Ireland. Not half as quick, though, as Sinn Fein's journey from being cheerleaders for the IRA to potential king-makers in a hung parliament.
The candidate in North Kerry is Martin Ferris, a close associate of Gerry Adams. Mr Ferris was named in two parliaments as a member of the IRA Army Council. It is also the constituency where my father was born, and where my family still lives. Mr Ferris's supporters would point out that many families in the area, including my own, had members who joined the Irish Republican Army and took up arms against British rule in 1919/22.
They would also say that IRA men opposed to the peace treaty with Britain turned their guns on other Irishmen, including soldiers and policemen, but after military defeat were allowed to enter constitutional politics. Indeed the Fianna Fail party of Bertie Ahern, now heading for victory in the elections, was born of men and women who fought against the forces of the Irish state. What is the difference between then and now, what makes Martin Ferris any different from Eamon De Valera? Mr Adams and his supporters would wish us to believe that there is no difference at all.
Except that there is a big difference really. Mr De Valera formed a political party that was not beholden to a secret military organisation. Forget the old joke about early Fianna Fail being a "slightly" constitutional party. There was no question of Mr De Valera keeping a private army on the go while he played politics in the Dail. But the Provisional IRA is very much intact. It may have started decommissioning but in all important respects it remains an anti-democratic, ultra-nationalist militia which arrogantly refuses to express the slightest humility over its murderous past.
Far from it. It is still a busy organisation. While there is mischief-making propaganda by elements of the British security establishment who have never liked the idea of a peace deal with Sinn Fein, only the blind or cynical could ignore the continued existence of a military movement.
As for saying sorry for the brutality it inflicted on the people of Ireland and Britain, you can forget it. Instead the IRA gives us the long whine, and the arrogance of men who know they are tougher and more ruthless than the constitutional politicians.
I have no trouble giving Gerry Adams credit for his bravery in negotiating an IRA ceasefire. I also accept that Sinn Fein must be part of the political process north and south of the border. When opponents of the peace process wanted Sinn Fein thrown out of talks because of IRA punishment beatings, I argued against them, and was condemned as "soft" by some commentators in the Republic.
But what I will not do is thank the IRA for being kind enough to stop murdering people. There can be no gratitude or respect for the killers of Jerry McCabe or Gillian Johnston. Gillian Johnston? That name is not mentioned on Irish doorsteps when the Sinn Fein boys come calling for votes. It is one of the forgotten names. Gillian was murdered by an IRA gang that was closer in spirit to Arkan's Tigers than to any idea of freedom fighters.
I remember her funeral in an old churchyard in the Fermanagh lake lands and the broken,bewildered country people filing out into the sunshine. Gillian was sitting in a car eating chips with her boyfriend when her killers apparently mistook her for an off-duty soldier. I long to hear the gunmen responsible for that butchery tell us what it was like to look down the sights and open fire.
Bertie Ahern has said there is no question of Sinn Fein joining any government. I couldn't agree more. There should be no Sinn Fein cabinet minister in the Republic until the IRA has disbanded. There is no justification for the IRA's continued existence, unless of course the whole peace business is merely part of a strategy in which armed rebellion has not been entirely discarded, something to be kept on the shelf in case circumstances demand a few bangs and blasts. If the republican movement is really sincere about peace, the IRA should disband now. I am too barnacled with scepticism to expect any apologies from the Provos, but a farewell to arms would suffice for now.
OMG, somebody did a whois! Mod it up to (Score 5: Informative)!