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The Ruby Ranch Internet Cooperative (RRIC) is one of the best-known member-owned ISPs around. It provides DSL service to the Ruby Ranch neighborhood in Summit County, Colorado. Carl Oppedahl, the RRIC "main man," has agreed to answer Slashdot questions about the possibilities and pitfalls of setting up something similar in other areas. Please read the RRIC FAQs before posting a question so that you don't ask something Carl has already answered a million times. Otherwise, the usual Slashdot interview rules apply: One question per post, we'll email Carl 10 of the highest-moderated questions, and post his answers as soon as he gets them back to us.

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Re:Count yourself lucky !

[elmegil]

God knows, Christians and Christian countries have never done anything bad to foreigners.

Here's my favorite relevant quote, from William S. Burroughs: If you're doing business with a religious son of a bitch get it in writing. His word isn't worth shit; not with the good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.

Applies to every kind of religious you might imagine.

Well ...

[Taco Cowboy]

You sez:

"Perhaps there's a special "Pat Robertson" edition of the Bible for sale?"

For the Moslems, they don't need "special edition" of their Quran, because EACH AND EVERY Quran CLEARLY STATED that the DEVIL they are worshiping, the so-called "Allah", has prepared for them 49 VIRGINS in their "heaven" to be "enjoyed" (you use your own imagination on how to "enjoy the virgins") so long as that individual sacrifies him/herself in the name of Allah.

In other words, the DEVIL is spreading his power over the world, by promising to its followers, the Moslems, that doing ANYTHING in the name of "Allah", including killing babies, WILL BE WELCOMED AND ENCOURAGED, and as a reward, the DEVIL will prepare 49 virgins for that fella to enjoy.

Moslems are EVIL WORSHIPPERS. They worship the DEVIL, the so-called "Allah".

No matter how those Moslems want to deny it, the "Allah" they worship is THE DEVIL.

No matter what terrible things the Christians have done, at least, Jesus Christ did NOT kill anyone in his lifetime. Instead, Jesus spread the message of love.

Not so for the Moslems. Their "prophet" spread the message of BLOOD, HATREDS, MURDER.

The first anniversary of September 11 is just 3 weeks away. We MUST NOT forget what the Moslems have done to us.

We must be vigilant ! We must know that the Moslems' "Allah" is THE DEVIL, and DEVIL will not stop at just bringing down the WTC. The final aim of THE DEVIL is to bring down the WHOLE WORLD, and that is what we are witnessing - the Moslems are creating HAVOC in the whole world.

From India to Sudan to USA to Indonesia to USA to Italy, Moslems everywhere are plotting violence against all the non-Moslems.

Pope John Paul II was nearly assassinated years ago, by a Moslem. Now, another Moslem has gone online, in Poland, claiming that he is going to kill the Pope.

One day if we don't get rid of these menace of human kind, our world will never get any peace.

Yes, true. Jesus Christ asked us to love our enemies, but if our enemies listen to THE DEVIL, and they will NOT STOP until they kill us all, please tell me how can I "love" that kind of enemy if all they want is to kill me ?

Re:Count yourself lucky !

[Taco Cowboy]

You sez:

"No, our Christians find it much more effective to use the planes to drop bombs from
high above. You get to destroy as many buildings as you like, and you get to keep the
plane & its crew, too!"

That above practice isn't solely the "priviledge" of the Christians.

The Japs have done it to Pearl Harbor, among other places, during WW II.

The Chinese (atheists and Buddhists) have done that to each others when they fought their civil war.

The Moslems in Sudan have done that to the minority Christians in the south.

And Moslems elsewhere have done similar thing to other Moslems, and also non-Moslems in their own countries.

So don't blame only the Christians.

On the other hand, the Moslems are the ONLY ONE who have slammed 2 passenger jets into WTC, killing over 3,000 innocent people.

No Christians, nor Buddhists, nor Hindu, nor Jews, nor Atheists have done such a thing.

Not yet anyway.