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Free & OpenSource Software Weekend
FOSDEM Team writes "This week-end, the fourth edition of the FOSDEM (Free and Opensource Software Developers' European Meeting) is taking place in Brussels, Belgium. Once more, famous speakers will be present for this 2 days event to talk in the different tracks presented (Linux Kernel, Accessibility, Desktop, Java, Scripting languages and Security); on Saturday evening, the FS Award ceremony will be conducted by Richard Stallman. This year, the introduction talk will be made by Tim O'Reilly and the end talk by Jon Maddog Hall. Don't miss the interviews made by the FOSDEM guys : Hans Reiser, Ian Formanek, Keith Packard, Tim O'Reilly, Robert Love and many others."
first fist is when you fist someone first in quake 3 arena
Him: That'll be thirty-seven cents.
Me: I don't have any money.
True story.
has weekend been hyphenated?
How many ways do I love thee? Let me count the ways...
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1, 2... plus you're shaved bare!
And you are from? Germany? :)
Part of the material that will be made available at the conference is available already, if anyone wants to get a head start.
I visited anti-slash.org a few weeks ago and found the usual crap. Links to /. articles, inane ramblings of a few no hopers and quite a few links to the latest porn findings (gay, bi and straight) and warez links.
I visited again a few minutes ago and I was surprised to see the site has been 'cleaned up'. Why is that? Would you care to explain this sudden change to the forum? Are the mods over there suddenly into heavy censorship?
WHY? WHAT'S GOING ON?
The Frum-Perle prescription would ensnare America in endless conflict.
... seeks to overthrow our civilization and remake the nations of the West into Islamic societies, imposing on the whole world its religion and laws."
.... is depicted as one great cauldron of hate, murder, obscurantism, and deceit. If our Muslim adversaries are not to destroy Western civilization, we must gird for more battles.
By Patrick J. Buchanan
On the dust jacket of his book, Richard Perle appends a Washington Post depiction of himself as the "intellectual guru of the hard-line neoconservative movement in foreign policy."
The guru's reputation, however, does not survive a reading. Indeed, on putting down Perle's new book the thought recurs: the neoconservative moment may be over. For they are not only losing their hold on power, they are losing their grip on reality.
An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror opens on a note of hysteria. In the War on Terror, writes Perle, "There is no middle way for Americans: It is victory or holocaust." "What is new since 9/11 is the chilling realization that the terrorist threat we thought we had contained" now menaces "our survival as a nation."
But how is our survival as a nation menaced when not one American has died in a terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11? Are we really in imminent peril of a holocaust like that visited upon the Jews of Poland?
"[A] radical strain within Islam," says Perle, "
Well, yes. Militant Islam has preached that since the 7th century. But what are the odds the Boys of Tora Bora are going to "overthrow our civilization" and coerce us all to start praying to Mecca five times a day?
In his own review of An End to Evil, Joshua Micah Marshall picks up this same scent of near-hysteria over the Islamic threat:
The book conveys a general sense that America is at war with Islam itself anywhere and everywhere: the contemporary Muslim world
To suggest Frum and Perle are over the top is not to imply we not take seriously the threat of terror attacks on airliners, in malls, from dirty bombs, or, God forbid, a crude atomic device smuggled in by Ryder truck or container ship. Yet even this will never "overthrow our civilization."
In the worst of terror attacks, we lost 3,000 people. Horrific. But at Antietam Creek, we lost 7,000 in a day's battle in a nation that was one-ninth as populous. Three thousand men and boys perished every week for 200 weeks of that Civil War. We Americans did not curl up and die. We did not come all this way because we are made of sugar candy.
Germany and Japan suffered 3,000 dead every day in the last two years of World War II, with every city flattened and two blackened by atom bombs. Both came back in a decade. Is al-Qaeda capable of this sort of devastation when they are recruiting such scrub stock as Jose Padilla and the shoe bomber?
In the war we are in, our enemies are weak. That is why they resort to the weapon of the weak--terror. And, as in the Cold War, time is on America's side. Perseverance and patience are called for, not this panic.
In 25 years, militant Islam has seized three countries: Iran, Sudan, and Afghanistan. We toppled the Taliban almost without losing a man. Sudan is a failed state. In Iran, a generation has grown up that knows nothing of Savak or the Great Satan but enough about the mullahs to have rejected them in back-to-back landslides. The Iranian Revolution has reached Thermidor. Wherever Islamism takes power, it fails. Like Marxism, it does not work.
Yet, assume it makes a comeback. So what? Taken together, all 22 Arab nations do not have the GDP of Spain. Without oil, their exports are the size of Finland's. Not one Arab nation can stand up to Israel, let alone the United States. The Islamic threat is not strategic, but demographic. If death comes to the West it will be because we embraced a culture of death--birth control, abortion, sterilization, euthanasia. Western man is
It's because they didn't want you to come back.
Then they failed it. I must get my fix of script kiddie crapflooders and ackbar's constantly morphing opinions. Wil Wheaton must ph34r teh mad 1337 5killz of anti-slash
I know its wrong but it amuses me so much.
You can get free beer at every brewery in Belgium! I have friends who go to Duvel every year to take the tour and "taste" the beer (a whole bunch of them, they rent a bus)! If you want to introduce foreigners to belgian beers, Stella is a bad start, IMHO. I recommend Leffe, Bush (bad name, great bear), Chimay, Queue de charue (give or take a spelling error),... Stella is just another pils!
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
Any thoughts?