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Strike on Iraq
According to CNN and various other news sources, Iraq is now under attack by
the US. Here is a link to the current story running at CNN right now, but there's really not much except that it has started. CT Cruise missiles launched against "Target of Opportunity". The full assault has not begun. CT The attack was specifically intended to take out Saddam. CT Saddam appeared on iraqi TV to condemn the US, and Iraqi missiles have been fired at Kuwait.
hmm....You listen to rush limbaugh. What a surprise you disagree with michael moore.
Had Vera Lynn playing in my headphones most of the day.
For those of you who don't get it, try to watch less CNN next time around...
I think I'll try to set up a tape of Dr Strangelove playing in a continuous loop at work tomorrow.
We'll meet again
Vera Lynn
We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when,
But I know we'll meet again, some sunny day.
Keep smiling through, just like you always do,
'Til the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away.
So will you please say hello to the folks that I know,
Tell them I won't be long.
They'll be happy to know that as you saw me go,
I was singing this song.
We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when,
But I know we'll meet again, some sunny day.
So will you please say hello to the folks that I know,
Tell them I won't be long.
They'll be happy to know that as you saw me go,
I was singing this song.
Keep smiling through, just like you always do,
'Til the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away.
Basically OT, but you've been warned.
Is there any system on the slashdot site that tracks the speed in which posts get added? It's been about 35 minutes from the original post and there are about 395 comments (problably another 100 more when I'm done typing).
It seems that in the future, every world event will get commented on in real-time.
The flower of France
at Waterloo withered
and cheese chomping
surrender savoring
gregarious gorillas
remain remorseful
of manhood misplaced.
People, It's really rather offensive to see so many people using their moderation points to stifle the views of so many people. This is abuse of the system. The Mod point system is there so that relevant and helpful comments are given the most prominence.
As soon as you start using them to mod opinions different from yours into oblivion, you're effectively destroying someone's right to free speech. Yes, Free speech is about the right to express your own opinion, but in doing so, you must also respect the opinions of others. You certainly don't have to agree, but dumping 5 mod points on someone just becuase they said "Bush is Awesome" or alternatively "War Sucks" is just childish. If you agree with a comment, by all means, give it a few points.
Don't mod someone down just because you disagree. Mod someone down for saying "In Mother russia, IRAQ attacks YOU!"
"p2p stabbing is such a vast, untapped market"
Yeah, I'll wait for the trial to show up on CourtTV you dipshit. Ain't gonna happen, try as you might you aren't winning me over with any facts to back your theory on how we are breaking any laws.
Your name is Egg Troll. YOu think I'm going to take you seriously? fuck off.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
Pretty much says it all.
First, nothing begins if not opening
Proof, please? uraj
Really a smart thing to say!! You idiot these countries have done everything in their power to stop a war that would cause more terrorism! Arguments like yours just go to show that you probably never left the States and have no idea how the world really world. Travel a bit will you!! Get some education and please stop thinking that everything is either black or white. Some people can disagree with you and still be your friend!
The quality of discussion makes Slashdot look like a meeting of Nobel laureates, but you would be hard pressed to find such images or video elsewhere. (And that might not be a bad thing.)
Build stuff. Stuff that walks, stuff that rolls, whatever.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
You aren't American, perchance? I'm pretty sure Hitler had similar feelings.