Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft Patents The Task List
theodp writes "'Better not get too fancy with your grocery list, now that Microsoft has patented a glorified form of the to-do list.' Issued Tuesday, the patent covers the use of a 'task list' generated from 'TODO' comments in source code."
I received my gmail account from a kind Slashdotter who offered up the invite just because he was a cool guy. So now that I have a extra invite, I'll do the same - first person to reply with a valid e-mail address gets a gmail invitation.
And......go!
I'm to lazy too google, but give me the death tools here.
American lives lost in wars the since WW2 vs "Eastern lives" lost in America-related wars since WW2?
Arab lives lost due to American foreign-intervention vs. American lives lost.
You get those number for Afghanistan alone, and you'll see that the World trade center thingy is a pretty small incident in comparison.
Mod me troll. Mod me flamebait. But these are facts, and as long as fail to see them, you can never win the so called (and dommed btw) "War on terror".
9.11 happened for a reason: namely US foreign-politics. As long as you totally disregard that fact, your war is so lost, I'm actually lost for words to describe it.
Not Buzzword 2.0 compliant. Please speak english.
Umm, no. The whole "Jews are teh debhil" thing in Nazi Germany was based on WW1. The German Army was quite nicely winning that particular war up till 1918. Then they made a couple of assinine mistakes (attacking when they should have been defending), and the German High Command told the Kaisar that the war could not be won. Long story short, the Kaisar abdicated, the Germans surrendered. But the common people couldn't see the underlying causes - what they saw is that their still victorious army surrendered. So it had to be the Bankers and Industrialists (the Germans had as many "war-profiteering" myths as everyone else). And those Bankers and Industrialists were largely Jewish (due to a medeival peculiarity, the really rich people in Germany were largely Jewish), or appeared to be.
Hence, "we lost the Great War because the Jews betrayed us!" It was a widely held belief before the Nazis got going. Hitler, of course, had personal issues with the Jews. And Himmler had even bigger personal issues with the Jews. Hence the Concentration Camps. (If you're ever feeling really comfortable about civilization, visit one....)
Also, most Germans didn't believe that their newspapers/radio/other news were "independent". Especially since, historically, they had never been entirely independent. And many Germans thought Hitler was slime (quietly, of course). I once read that the Berliners referred to Hitler by an acronym that translated as "The Greatest General of All Time", but which sounded rather rude in German....;)
Poland, of course, is a whole other issue. Poland was attacked (really) because the Treaty of Versailles gave a good-sized chunk of Germany to Poland, and the Germans wanted it back. Ostensibly, Poland was attacked because of repeated border violations in preparation for attack on Germany. These border incidents were manufactured by the Germans, but most Germans didn't know that. Also, Poland was not "weak" then. Its army was smaller than Germany's, but not much smaller. It was considerably larger than the USArmy of 1939, and probably comparable in size (if not quality, which wasn't as bad as legend would have it) to the combined British/American Armies of 1939.
As to the "War on Terror". Do you actually know someone who believes that torturing prisoners is "fair revenge"? I don't. Even the bigots I know think that the people doing the torturing should be taken outside and shot.
And it probably would offend you no end to know that most German and Japanese POW's were kept in "prison camps outside the borders". And we didn't let them talk to lawyers either. By the way, the Concentration Camps were mostly in Poland because Poland had the biggest Jewish population. More efficient to not have to ship them so far....
And you forgot to mention gun control. American gun control laws are remarkably similar to the laws used to disarm the Jews in Germany (not that there were all that many armed Jews in Germany) before the war....
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
So what? I don't see you complaining about Guantanamo.
Yeah because a prison camp for terrorists has so much in common with the Nazi death camps of WW2. In fact I bet Halliburton got the contract to build the contract to build the gas chambers there.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
No, they were all conditioned and believed firmly they are being attacked and threatened by the Jewish minority....And so many people believe it is the Arabs who started a kind of war with the US
Yeah, but in Nazi Germany there was not a network of evil idealogical religious nuts blowing up buildings. The things they said about the Jews were made up. In present day, Al-Qaeda is not a ficticious organization.
I agree with you about breaking the rules on torture, and I agree that we must not pin any blame on the Arabs as a people and it disturbs me that some people do this. I just cannot agree that we are being duped to the same level as pre-WWII Germany.
Another thing that disturbs me is so many Arab friends of mine believe that it was the Jews who blew up the World Trade Center. Kinda' ironic.
9.11 happened for a reason
Yep. And I get seriously tired of the mentally weak people that just think "it just happened" for no reason at all.
Of course there was a reason.
No conflict has ever been resolved without understanding the other sides point of view.
Even god couldn't make all the people he hated go away... he tried with that whole flood thing... but did it work? Fsck no. Still plenty of people to hate afterwards...
--Phillip
Can you say BIRTH TAX