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nk497 writes "Conficker seems to finally be doing something, a week after hype around the worm peaked on April Fool's Day. It has now downloaded components from the Waledac botnet, which could contain rootkit capabilities. Trend Micro security expert Rik Ferguson said: 'These components have so far been missing, but could this finally be the "other boot dropping" that we have all been been waiting for?' Ferguson also suggested that people behind Conficker could be the very same who are running Waledac and created the Storm botnet. 'It tallies with some of the assumptions people have made about Conficker — that the first variant was actively trying to avoid the Ukraine because Waledac was Eastern European,' Ferguson added."
Your response is largely flamebait and somewhat simplistic. A quick review of Google provides a more comprehensive overview of the causes of the Irish potato famine. Yes, it was British policies but it wasn't trading policies as much as it was land ownership rules. And it wasn't as deliberate as you make it out to be.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/irish_potato_famine.cfm
Your version reminds me of the stories that are told here in the U.S. about how evil the British were, and it gets embellished every time. No wonder the IRA had such an easy time funding their terrorist activities with U.S. dollars. About the only good thing to come out of 9/11 was the discontinuation of funding for the IRA now that American's finally saw what it was like to live under the threat of terrorism.
Not something, someone. It is America.
You're confusing etymology with definition. Anglophobia means "the hatred or fear of English people or culture", and most people take it to mean hatred more than fear since it's a much more useful definition. Bandying around sophistry to pick apart the language of an argument rather than its logic is weak, and never more so than when you're wrong.
As for stating history: what the hell does that have to do with using, as a metaphor, the material fact of the blight's impact on a homogeneous crop? Did you even understand what the discussion was about, or did you just see "potato famine" and go off on a personal rant about historical socio-political oppression?
Please, stay on-topic or be quiet.
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