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An anonymous reader writes "The plethora of Free Software applications available today, none working perfectly, is a problem which stands in the way of major adoption of Linux on the desktop. In order to conquer the desktop, we have to stand united. Read the article on Freshmeat."
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This is not the first post so you may continue reading.
FIRST POST! ...or it would've been, at least. If not for those meddling kids and that dog!!!
It is official; Allah confirms: Islam is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Islam community when IDC confirmed that Islam 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 God survey which plainly states that Islam has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Islam 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 Nostradamus to predict Islam's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Islam faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Islam because Islam is dying. Things are looking very bad for Islam. As many of us are already aware, Islam continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Iraq is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Iraq developers Saddam Hussein and Chemical Ali only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Iraq is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Afghanistan leader Osama bin Laden states that there are 7000 users of Afghanistan. How many users of Iran are there? Let's see. The number of Afghanistan versus Iran posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Iran users. Syria posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Iran posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Syria. A recent article put Iraq at about 80 percent of the Islam market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Iraq users. This is consistent with the number of Iraq Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Republican National Guard, abysmal sales and so on, Iraq went out of business and was taken over by the fedayeen who sell another troubled OS. Now the fedayeen is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Islam has steadily declined in market share. Islam is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Islam is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Islam continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Islam is dead.
Fact: Islam is dying
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By Neil Mackay of the Atlanta Journal Constitution:
... combat likely will take place in new dimensions, in space, cyberspace, and perhaps the world of microbes ... advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool';
Bush planned Iraq 'regime change' before becoming President by Neil Mackay
A secret blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001.
The blueprint, uncovered by the Sunday Herald, for the creation of a 'global Pax Americana' was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice- president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), George W Bush's younger brother Jeb and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The document, entitled Rebuilding America's Defences: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century, was written in September 2000 by the neo-conservative think-tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC).
The plan shows Bush's cabinet intended to take military control of the Gulf region whether or not Saddam Hussein was in power. It says: 'The United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.'
The PNAC document supports a 'blueprint for maintaining global US pre-eminence, precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests'.
This 'American grand strategy' must be advanced for 'as far into the future as possible', the report says. It also calls for the US to 'fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars' as a 'core mission'.
The report describes American armed forces abroad as 'the cavalry on the new American frontier'. The PNAC blueprint supports an earlier document written by Wolfowitz and Libby that said the US must 'discourage advanced industrial nations from challenging our leadership or even aspiring to a larger regional or global role'.
The PNAC report also:
refers to key allies such as the UK as 'the most effective and efficient means of exercising American global leadership';
describes peace-keeping missions as 'demanding American political leadership rather than that of the United Nations';
reveals worries in the administration that Europe could rival the USA;
says 'even should Saddam pass from the scene' bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait will remain permanently -- despite domestic opposition in the Gulf regimes to the stationing of US troops -- as 'Iran may well prove as large a threat to US interests as Iraq has';
spotlights China for 'regime change' saying 'it is time to increase the presence of American forces in southeast Asia'. This, it says, may lead to 'American and allied power providing the spur to the process of democratisation in China';
calls for the creation of 'US Space Forces', to dominate space, and the total control of cyberspace to prevent 'enemies' using the internet against the US;
hints that, despite threatening war against Iraq for developing weapons of mass destruction, the US may consider developing biological weapons -- which the nation has banned -- in decades to come. It says: 'New methods of attack -- electronic, 'non-lethal', biological -- will be more widely available
and pinpoints North Korea, Libya, Syria and Iran as dangerous regimes and says their existence justifies the creation of a 'world-wide command-and-control system'.
Tam Dalyell, the Labour MP, father of the House of Commons and one of the leading rebel voices against war with Iraq, said: 'This is garbage from right-wing think-tanks stuffed with chicken-hawks -- men who
On your previous post of the same subject, I notice that it is moded %100 flamebait. Oh the irony!
1. 51% of gen1 can vote to kill the other 49%, then 51% of gen2 can vote to kill the other 49% et ceterrra ad infinitum until two are left, one of which will invariably not be registered to vote.
2. 50% could vote to kill the other 50%, and the supreme court could opt to kill everyone as a tie-breaker.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.