It's funny that you call me a fascist. My list of foes is shorter than yours (I have zero).:-)
I have a very short list of criteria for somebody being on my foe list in life. Number one on the list is whether they want to kill me or other innocent people.
I judge people first by the content of their character, not by their ethnicity or professed religion. Now, sometimes tenets of their religion cause them to want to kill me. It's not really that I'm against the religion per se (beyond the arena of ideas); I just don't want to be murdered. If you think I'm bad for opposing someone because he wants to kill me, then so be it.
Give it a rest, already! I'm tired of this bogus charge. No freedoms have been removed.
So what a great way to prevent a future terrorist attack. Remove those freedoms so they (theoretically) have no reason to hate us anymore.
Getting them to not hate us has never been an objective of the war on terrorism. You liberals have been contemplating strategy for a battle that is not being fought. Bush is not into the psychology of terrorists. He knew that there was NO justification for 9/11 that could possibly exist. All we have to do is stand up and say, "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!", and the terrorists will sit down and shut up no matter how they feel about us.
"They" hate us now more than ever.
They are dead now more than ever. The ones still alive respect us now more than ever. Syria is turning over terrorists. Palestinians are giving Arafat the boot.
Who cares if they hate us more than ever? Let them steam and fume and pout and kick the sides of their caves. As long as the world opposes terrorism, they will remain powerless. It is always a pity to see people mad all the time, but their anger is misdirected.
On the day THE statue fell, the myth of the "Arab street" was exposed. The reasons that the Arab street seems to be monolithicaly anti-American is because (1) their governments' state-controlled media wildly distort reality and (2) America (and its close allies) is the only thing that the dictatorships allow the people to criticize. Sure, they hate their own governments and other Arab institutions, but they're not allowed to say it. They end up funnelling ALL the hate and disgust they have for everybody else and focus it at America. The media's propaganda tells the people that America is the source of all their problems. America serves as the dictator-sanctioned shooting target for everything they're dissatisfied with.
What is the Arab street saying? No, not just any Arab street. The Arab street is meaningless except in the few places where they are free to say what's really in their hearts, mainly Iraq. And it's really no different than the American street. Or the street of any other free country. They're saying anything and everything! What a surprise that even in Iraq, when the fog of false propaganda is blown away and the real truth about the world becomes known, people have widely opposing individual opinions. Some are kissing U.S. soldiers and putting flowers in their hair. Others are yelling at them to leave. Maybe individualism is not just an American thing. Maybe freedom is a universal thing. It looks that way to me. Bush was right.
It's by demonizing things that you make them interested.
Right, and hormones have nothing to do with it. C'mon, I know that you know from personal experience (because we're all humans) why a person becomes interested in sex. It's called puberty. That's the natural sexual instigator, which normally kicks in in the pre-teen years. However, children are becoming interested in sex at earlier and earlier ages; not because of attempts to restrict access to sexual content, but because of attempts to flood them with sexual content in our schools, media, and culture, including the Internet and video games.
Your opposition to parental controls, which are optional and configurable, is simply anti-morality. Even user-defined morality. The mere possibility that a parent might block something from her children that you do not find objectionable has sent you into a tailspin. Among those of you who think that a woman has the "right" to control her kid's access to life, this debate over a parent's right to control her kid's access to the family computer should definitely be a non-issue.
Microsoft is offering choice for a certain market segment that strongly believes that some kinds of content skew a person's thinking from what is good and could have significant negative effects on relationships and life in general. If a parent doesn't want his child's mind to become polluted with images of or RPG experiences with wayward women, gang bangs, and bleeding goat anuses, this is a great thing.
If you teach your kid about it, they understand (on their own level) and fit it into their world.
You might teach your kid about sex by saying "anything goes as far as I'm concerned." Other parents educate their kids about sex by saying "that's just for a mommy and a daddy in the privacy of their bedroom." The parental controls are a tool for education in this case. Parents who don't care for this feature can choose to not use it. It seems that you are irritated that somebody else on Earth might use the feature to teach their kids any kind of morality that is more restrictive than your amoral, laissez faire policy.
You can already create this functionality in Unix with user accounts, file permissions, etc., albeit manually and with more effort. Now that I think about it, this is possible in Windows 2000/XP, too. It appears that Microsoft is just making it easier, and fulfilling a market demand. Profit.
After 4.5 years, the ink may be starting to dry out. I know that once you start using a cartridge, it can be hard to print if you print rarely. This happened to me with an Epson printer.
Any time you see something in the Register, you have to take it with a grain of salt. I looked around for corroborating stories. I could not find a single other story about this on the entire Internet.
Then I looked closely at the Register article. The source of this "news" is one man: Greg Palast.
Who is Greg Palast? Here's a taste of what he's written.
In an interview Palast said, "This guy (Dictator Hugo Chavez) is the real voice of democracy in Venezuela.... Chavez is the Nelson Mandela of his country."
He accused Bush of "ethnic cleansing of the voter rolls" in the 2000 Election. Then he tried to one-up Baghdad Bob with this statement: "The 2004 race may already be decided - and the vote's just a formality." If he would've used just a little more Saeed-speak, he might have said: "My initial assessment is that the candidates will all lose. In fact, they are already committing concession of the race to Bush. There are no candidates within 1000 miles of the Washington. Never!"
Palast claimed that Saddam is "a Frankenstien created by Bush." Then he tried to discredit Bush by saying: "In the USA, Bush has successfully put a turban and beard on Saddam Hussein - most Americans have no idea that Osama and Saddam have no connection." This is quite funny, now that we have detailed documents on the meetings between Osama and Saddam going back to the 1980s. We've known about other evidence for a long time. IMO, the al-Qaeda training camp we found in northern Iraq should have at least make you think that the ties were more likely to exist than not
From what I've read of Palast, his perception about the motives of the Bush administration couldn't be more off-base. He is a virulent Bush hater and is blinded by his rage. His columns and interviews are full of exaggerated ad hominem and over-the-top crackpot conspiracy theories. This guy is a kook and a muckraker.
Screaming Dinosaur gets my second vote. Imagine the splash screen for that.:-) And imagine all the reasons technology pundits would come up with for why the dinosaur is screaming: It's about to crash. It feels sick because it's too bloated. It's laughing at IE.
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The word Easter comes from the Greek word Pascha, which occurs 29 times in the B'rit Hadashah. It is translated as "Easter" in Acts 12:4 in the King James Bible, but as "Passover" in all other occurences. In almost every other version, Pascha is always translated as "Passover". In case there is any doubt, notice that the previous verse says that King Herod arrested Peter during the days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Matzah).
Easter is basically Passover with a new focus. Instead of (or in addition to) celebrating the rescue of God's people from the slavery of Egypt, it celebrates the rescue of God's people from the bondage of sin.
Matthew 26:26 tells us that Messiah Jesus, at His last Passover feast, took a piece of matzah, made the b'rakhah, broke it, gave it to the talmidim and said, "Take, eat; this is My body." The Seder matzah represents the crucified and now-risen Messiah.
Just as you celebrate God's grace exhibited through the Passover lambs whose blood saved the believers in Egypt from certain death, believers today celebrate the Lamb whose redeeming blood saves them from a certain death. Just as God raised up the water of the Red Sea to part and provide the way to refuge for His people on the third day after the Passover lambs were slain, God raised up The Way to salvation for the world on the third day after His Passover Lamb was slain. The angel of death passed over the believers in Egypt, and death passes over believers today.
All Jews and Gentiles who trust in the blood of the Passover Lamb should celebrate on Easter. Death has passed over them! The One Who died for us said, "I AM the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever puts his trust in Me will live, even if he dies; and everyone living and trusting in Me will never die." (John 11:25-26) Then He asks the gravest, most substantial, eternally-consequential question a person will confront in his entire life, "Do you believe this?"
See Larry Burkett's site. His radio programs are broadcast on 700 stations from Guam to South Africa.
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Microsoft used to have a corporate Windows Update site where you could download all the patches as executable files. That site was retired last year in favor of something called Software Update Services. It requires running a SUS server and appears to distribute the updates only to systems running Windows 2000 or later.
In the meantime, you should be aware that all the major service packs for Microsoft products can be downloaded as stand-alone executables. Also, the IE download page includes some critical updates. Make your own "cache" on the network, and let everybody get their updates from there.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Minister of Information:
"I triple guarantee you, there are no American soldiers in Baghdad."
Mohsen Khalil, Iraqi Ambassador to the Arab League:
"Iraq will not be defeated. Iraq has now already achieved victory - apart from some technicalities."
Jean Paoli, Microsoft's XML architect:
"I'm out of the business of creating formats. Our focus on Office is on data exchange. There is no more difference between documents and data."
Haifa is a city in northern Israel on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. There is significant distance between it and the so-called West Bank or Gaza Strip.
israel is too dangerous for me, and over the next couple of weeks lets face it it's only gonna get worse.
That's a popular misconception perpetrated by the media. In spite of the ongoing Oslo War, most Israeli immigrants say they feel safer in Israel than in the places they came from, including America. Really, you probably have more chance of getting murdered in Brooklyn or Miami than in most of Israel. American and European tourists report that they feel safe there, too. Also, Israel's El-Al Airline is the safest airline in the world. Being among so many Arab countries, they have a lot of experience in dealing with terrorist threats. Its security is unmatched.
Right now is an especially safe time to visit Israel because the terrorists are on the run and cowering in their lairs. Yassir Arafat and the PA are scared to death of doing anything that might expand the war in Iraq into their region. They wouldn't dare attack during this war. They're keeping very quiet. Iraq hasn't attacked Israel either.
I would have absolutely no qualms about visiting Israel now. I just wish I had the money. Don't let fear be the factor that prevents you from going to the Perl conference.
History has shown that an inflexible man is the worst kind.
Inflexibility can be either really good or really bad.
To consider the good: Yeshua of Natzeret (see sig), Aurelius Augustinus (St. Augustine), William Wilberforce (ended slavery in the British empire), Isaac Newton, George Washington, Winston Churchill, Oscar Schindler, Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and many more. Of recent years, I'd add to the list of inflexible people of the best kind: George W. Bush, Tony Blair, the late Todd Beamer, Jessica Lynch, and one Mohammed of Iraq.
We defeated racism. Compared to Africa, Asia, and Europe, the amount of racism in modern America is negligible. Every ethnicity in the world is welcomed by Americans. We have all colors here.
There has never been religious oppression imposed within or without by the U.S. Watch out for the ACLU though.:)
We pragmatically supported the perceived lesser of evils in overcoming greater evils. Maybe the strategy is less than good, but the logic of it does make some kind of sense.
Making weapons more powerful and accurate leads to shorter wars and fewer deaths overall (as long as they're not in the hands of dictators or terrorists). We can use laser rifles and smart bombs or use nukes and carpet bomb entire cities like in WWII.
The first Gulf War lasted about half a year (IIRC). Afghanistan was even shorter. Compare to the long, drawn out affairs of the world wars, Vietnam, Revolutionary War, Civil War. Wars fought with muskets and swords have resulted in far more dead people than this war of Daisy Cutters and MOABS will.
Actually, times of "peace" are often more bloody than times of war. These last twenty or so years of "peace" in Saddam's Iraq (besides the invasions of Iran and Kuwait), the peaceful years of Nazi Germany before and between the wars, the peace of the Soviet Union under Stalin et al, the peace that exists in China now. (Can you hear the screams?) It takes two to have a war, but only one to take a beating.
Peace is not the absence of war, but the presence of just power.
The circumference equation works only with a perfect circle. Hand-made objects aren't necessarily geometrically perfect (symmetric).
As the other replier noted, there's also the issue of inner/outer measurements of the object. Don't be so quick to plug numbers into an equation before you understand whether the equation represents the real-world picture.
We aren't sure of the complete geometry of what was being measured.
The Scripture is giving measurements of real-world objects, not presenting a mathematical theorem. If the numbers seem wrong to us, we're not understanding what was being measured.
We don't know what kind of rounding, if any, was being used.
Twirlip, I found this from your journal. I'm surprised you didn't post it here.
Read this, folks. This is funny.
When antiwar demonstrators gathered outside the Fox News building in Manhattan, the network's outdoor news zipper replaced its headlines with taunts:
"War protester auditions here today. . . . Thanks for coming!" And: "How do you keep a war protester in suspense? Ignore them." And: "Attention protesters: The Michael Moore Fan Club meets Thursday at a phone booth at Sixth Avenue and 50th Street."
Unfair and unbalanced? "I thought I'd have some fun with it," says Fox zipper-writer Marvin Himelfarb, a former Hollywood screenwriter. "I couldn't resist."
US Marines turn fire on civilians at the bridge of death
It's hard to blame them. Iraqi units have forced civilians to run in front of their advancing allied units in attacks against allied troops. They have faked surrenders and then ambushed troops who came to accept the surrender. Hospitals and schools are being used to store military equipment. Iraqi soldiers have abandoned their uniforms and are fighting in civilian clothing. American and British soldiers are risking their own lives to protect Iraqi civilians despite the best efforts of Iraqi soldiers and militia fighters (and anti-America media) to pin civilian deaths as the fault of coalition forces.
people dressed up in civilian clothes with AK-47s... that's when I was shot in the hand," the 21-year-old corporal explained.
Menard pointed out that local Iraqi civilians had at first seemed happy to see the Marines. That changed, he noted, when the civilians "turned on us and started firing on us."
And, some of the enemy's fire came from a nearby hospital, the Marine remarked.
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The Army sergeant pointed out that neither he nor his fellow troops want to kill civilians or innocent people in Iraq. However, Horgan noted, the circumstance of Iraqi fighters dressing up as civilians is "going to make it really difficult for us to discern who is 'good' or 'bad.' That's a shame."
Four U.S. soldiers were blown up by a suicide bomber posing as a taxi driver Saturday.
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Iraqi soldiers have disguised themselves as civilians. They have faked surrendering to get the jump on coalition troops. They have used civilians as human shields.
And now they are sending out suicide bombers. An Iraqi official warned Saturday that suicide attacks would be "routine military policy."
The soldiers said they were stranded when their truck's clutch failed on the way to tow an officer's Humvee that had broken down as the division was traveling toward Baghdad. They said a staff sergeant had ordered them to wait, and said they would be picked up.
No one did. So the two dug trenches to defend their position, and took turns on watch.
They gave most of their food to hungry Iraqi civilians, and watched nervously as white vehicles - a trademark of Saddam Hussein's paramilitary Fedayeen - passed by. Koppi had become a father 10 days before he was deployed, and he wrote poems to his wife.
"It has been weeks since we have spoken, I know her heart is close to broken," went one couplet.
You know the famous picture of a U.S. Army medic carrying an Iraqi boy?
The child in his photo was hit in the leg by shrapnel after
he and his family were used as a human shields by Iraqi irregulars.
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Mr. Zinn said the story began early on Tuesday morning, after the Third Squadron of the Seventh Cavalry spent a night of non-stop ambushes as it worked its way north along the Euphrates River towards Baghdad.
"We'd spent about 24 hours being ambushed left and right.... I was sleeping in the back of
Report on the seven year old girl lying in a pool of her own blood, her intestines laying beside her.
And everybody knows it was an accident. But okay, let's have it your way. Oh no, blood and gore! Let's end the war! Would ending the war end the suffering? Saddam would like us to pack up and go home so he could resume power and get back to the tyrant's regular business of inflicting suffering of a brutal and excruciating nature on his subjects; this kind of suffering as opposed to the comparatively few, inadvertent casualties due to the war.
Having no war in Iraq allows persecution. Having this just war is causing suffering for a time, but will end most of the suffering in the long run.
Horrible suffering like what you mentioned is imposed affliction du jour in Saddam's regime. Its torture methods include:
Medical experimentation
Beatings
Crucifixion
Hammering nails into the fingers and hands
Amputating the penis or breasts with an electric carving knife
Spraying insecticides into a victim's eyes
Branding with a hot iron
Committing rape while the victim's spouse is forced to watch
Pouring boiling water into a rectum
Nailing the tongue to a wooden board
Extracting teeth with pliers
Using bees and scorpions to sting naked children in front of their parents
Report on the fact that the people of Iraq don't want to be "liberated."
With a smug smile they say, "We will liberate you from your God, your money, and your dignity."
"You just arrived. You're late. What took you so long? God help you become victorious. I want to say hello to Bush, to shake his hand.We came out of the grave." - liberated Iraqi
The human shields appealed to my anti-war stance, but by the time I had left Baghdad five weeks later my views had changed drastically.
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I was shocked when I first met a pro-war Iraqi in Baghdad - a taxi driver taking me back to my hotel late at night. I explained that I was American and said, as we shields always did, "Bush bad, war bad, Iraq good". He looked at me with an expression of incredulity.
As he realised I was serious, he slowed down and started to speak in broken English about the evils of Saddam's regime.... It scared the hell out of me.
Why did they start the body count at 0 when the war began? Oh right, no Iraqi civilians were killed before the war. Our war has disrupted the peace that Iraqis were enjoying. Seriously, the only kind of "peace" the people of Iraq had was RIPping with the worms and maggots in the ground.
A group of American anti-war demonstrators who came to Iraq with Japanese human shield volunteers made it across the border today with 14 hours of uncensored video, all shot without Iraqi government minders present. Kenneth Joseph, a young American pastor with the Assyrian Church of the East, told UPI the trip "had shocked me back to reality." Some of the Iraqis he interviewed on camera "told me
they would commit suicide if American bombing didn't start. They were willing to see their homes demolished to gain their freedom from Saddam's bloody tyranny. They convinced me that Saddam was a monster the likes of which the world had not seen since Stalin and Hitler. He and his sons are sick sadists. Their tales of slow torture and killing made me ill, such as people put in a huge shredder for plastic products, feet first so they could hear their screams as bodies got chewed up from foot to head."
We all knew that there would be civilian deaths in Iraq, but you should compare the ongoing war body count and post-war body count to the pre-war body count. Saddam Hussein is responsible for the deaths of several hundred thousand people, or over a million by some estimates. He was killing hundreds of people every week. If only 200-300 were killed in a week of war, that's probably approximately maintaining the status quo -- the pre-war body count -- minus the torture. The post-war body count will be close to zero per week.
You start off by saying "If I here this "right/wrong" bullshit anymore I'm going to scream."
That statement itself implies that it's wrong (ahem) to say that something is right or wrong. Then you proceed with a long-winded rant on what's right and wrong. I think this is what they call in psychology "cognitive dissonance."
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Even if all that were true (which it isn't), it doesn't change the fact that the war will save children. In fact, it already is. I've seen the beaming smiles on Iraqi children's faces as the Marines give them drinkable water. They now have hope for the future.
You've shown your stripes. Children killed in the war is not your real concern. You're just anti-Bush.
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no where can I find the justification for killing children.
Then why are you against taking out the man who kills more children than anyone else? Saddam Hussein kills more children before lunchtime in a single day than will be killed in this whole war. If your heart cries out for the murdered innocent children, you need to be for this war! Saddam has used bees and scorpions to sting naked children in front of their parents.
Your way of "peace" only allows the merciless persecution and impoverishment of Iraqis to continue. Why is the justification for this war so hard to understand? Saddam has killed over 100,000 people. This is a rescue mission. It is a war of compassion to end a holocaust.
You wanted to give diplomacy more time?
"You just arrived. You're late. What took you so long? God help you become victorious. I want to say hello to Bush, to shake his hand. We came out of the grave." - liberated Iraqi
A group of American anti-war demonstrators who came to Iraq with Japanese human shield volunteers made it across the border today with 14 hours of uncensored video, all shot without Iraqi government minders present. Kenneth Joseph, a young American pastor with the Assyrian Church of the East, told UPI the trip "had shocked me back to reality." Some of the Iraqis he interviewed on camera "told me
they would commit suicide if American bombing didn't start. They were willing to see their homes demolished to gain their freedom from Saddam's bloody tyranny. They convinced me that Saddam was a monster the likes of which the world had not seen since Stalin and Hitler. He and his sons are sick sadists. Their tales of slow torture and killing made me ill, such as people put in a huge shredder for plastic products, feet first so they could hear their screams as bodies got chewed up from foot to head."
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I have a very short list of criteria for somebody being on my foe list in life. Number one on the list is whether they want to kill me or other innocent people.
I judge people first by the content of their character, not by their ethnicity or professed religion. Now, sometimes tenets of their religion cause them to want to kill me. It's not really that I'm against the religion per se (beyond the arena of ideas); I just don't want to be murdered. If you think I'm bad for opposing someone because he wants to kill me, then so be it.
So what a great way to prevent a future terrorist attack. Remove those freedoms so they (theoretically) have no reason to hate us anymore.
Getting them to not hate us has never been an objective of the war on terrorism. You liberals have been contemplating strategy for a battle that is not being fought. Bush is not into the psychology of terrorists. He knew that there was NO justification for 9/11 that could possibly exist. All we have to do is stand up and say, "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!", and the terrorists will sit down and shut up no matter how they feel about us.
"They" hate us now more than ever.
They are dead now more than ever. The ones still alive respect us now more than ever. Syria is turning over terrorists. Palestinians are giving Arafat the boot.
Who cares if they hate us more than ever? Let them steam and fume and pout and kick the sides of their caves. As long as the world opposes terrorism, they will remain powerless. It is always a pity to see people mad all the time, but their anger is misdirected.
On the day THE statue fell, the myth of the "Arab street" was exposed. The reasons that the Arab street seems to be monolithicaly anti-American is because (1) their governments' state-controlled media wildly distort reality and (2) America (and its close allies) is the only thing that the dictatorships allow the people to criticize. Sure, they hate their own governments and other Arab institutions, but they're not allowed to say it. They end up funnelling ALL the hate and disgust they have for everybody else and focus it at America. The media's propaganda tells the people that America is the source of all their problems. America serves as the dictator-sanctioned shooting target for everything they're dissatisfied with.
What is the Arab street saying? No, not just any Arab street. The Arab street is meaningless except in the few places where they are free to say what's really in their hearts, mainly Iraq. And it's really no different than the American street. Or the street of any other free country. They're saying anything and everything! What a surprise that even in Iraq, when the fog of false propaganda is blown away and the real truth about the world becomes known, people have widely opposing individual opinions. Some are kissing U.S. soldiers and putting flowers in their hair. Others are yelling at them to leave. Maybe individualism is not just an American thing. Maybe freedom is a universal thing. It looks that way to me. Bush was right.
Right, and hormones have nothing to do with it. C'mon, I know that you know from personal experience (because we're all humans) why a person becomes interested in sex. It's called puberty. That's the natural sexual instigator, which normally kicks in in the pre-teen years. However, children are becoming interested in sex at earlier and earlier ages; not because of attempts to restrict access to sexual content, but because of attempts to flood them with sexual content in our schools, media, and culture, including the Internet and video games.
Your opposition to parental controls, which are optional and configurable, is simply anti-morality. Even user-defined morality. The mere possibility that a parent might block something from her children that you do not find objectionable has sent you into a tailspin. Among those of you who think that a woman has the "right" to control her kid's access to life, this debate over a parent's right to control her kid's access to the family computer should definitely be a non-issue.
Microsoft is offering choice for a certain market segment that strongly believes that some kinds of content skew a person's thinking from what is good and could have significant negative effects on relationships and life in general. If a parent doesn't want his child's mind to become polluted with images of or RPG experiences with wayward women, gang bangs, and bleeding goat anuses, this is a great thing.
If you teach your kid about it, they understand (on their own level) and fit it into their world.
You might teach your kid about sex by saying "anything goes as far as I'm concerned." Other parents educate their kids about sex by saying "that's just for a mommy and a daddy in the privacy of their bedroom." The parental controls are a tool for education in this case. Parents who don't care for this feature can choose to not use it. It seems that you are irritated that somebody else on Earth might use the feature to teach their kids any kind of morality that is more restrictive than your amoral, laissez faire policy.
You can already create this functionality in Unix with user accounts, file permissions, etc., albeit manually and with more effort. Now that I think about it, this is possible in Windows 2000/XP, too. It appears that Microsoft is just making it easier, and fulfilling a market demand. Profit.
After 4.5 years, the ink may be starting to dry out. I know that once you start using a cartridge, it can be hard to print if you print rarely. This happened to me with an Epson printer.
Then I looked closely at the Register article. The source of this "news" is one man: Greg Palast.
Who is Greg Palast? Here's a taste of what he's written.
In an interview Palast said, "This guy (Dictator Hugo Chavez) is the real voice of democracy in Venezuela. ... Chavez is the Nelson Mandela of his country."
He accused Bush of "ethnic cleansing of the voter rolls" in the 2000 Election. Then he tried to one-up Baghdad Bob with this statement: "The 2004 race may already be decided - and the vote's just a formality." If he would've used just a little more Saeed-speak, he might have said: "My initial assessment is that the candidates will all lose. In fact, they are already committing concession of the race to Bush. There are no candidates within 1000 miles of the Washington. Never!"
Palast claimed that Saddam is "a Frankenstien created by Bush." Then he tried to discredit Bush by saying: "In the USA, Bush has successfully put a turban and beard on Saddam Hussein - most Americans have no idea that Osama and Saddam have no connection." This is quite funny, now that we have detailed documents on the meetings between Osama and Saddam going back to the 1980s. We've known about other evidence for a long time. IMO, the al-Qaeda training camp we found in northern Iraq should have at least make you think that the ties were more likely to exist than not
From what I've read of Palast, his perception about the motives of the Bush administration couldn't be more off-base. He is a virulent Bush hater and is blinded by his rage. His columns and interviews are full of exaggerated ad hominem and over-the-top crackpot conspiracy theories. This guy is a kook and a muckraker.
- Sexual activity is reserved for marriage.
- Marriage is one man and one woman bound in a divine covenant.
- Marriage is for life.
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Screaming Dinosaur gets my second vote. Imagine the splash screen for that. :-) And imagine all the reasons technology pundits would come up with for why the dinosaur is screaming: It's about to crash. It feels sick because it's too bloated. It's laughing at IE.
Easter is basically Passover with a new focus. Instead of (or in addition to) celebrating the rescue of God's people from the slavery of Egypt, it celebrates the rescue of God's people from the bondage of sin.
Matthew 26:26 tells us that Messiah Jesus, at His last Passover feast, took a piece of matzah, made the b'rakhah, broke it, gave it to the talmidim and said, "Take, eat; this is My body." The Seder matzah represents the crucified and now-risen Messiah.
Just as you celebrate God's grace exhibited through the Passover lambs whose blood saved the believers in Egypt from certain death, believers today celebrate the Lamb whose redeeming blood saves them from a certain death. Just as God raised up the water of the Red Sea to part and provide the way to refuge for His people on the third day after the Passover lambs were slain, God raised up The Way to salvation for the world on the third day after His Passover Lamb was slain. The angel of death passed over the believers in Egypt, and death passes over believers today.
All Jews and Gentiles who trust in the blood of the Passover Lamb should celebrate on Easter. Death has passed over them! The One Who died for us said, "I AM the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever puts his trust in Me will live, even if he dies; and everyone living and trusting in Me will never die." (John 11:25-26) Then He asks the gravest, most substantial, eternally-consequential question a person will confront in his entire life, "Do you believe this?"
Some of his books are: Debt-Free Living, How to Save Money Every Day, Money Management for College Students, and Money Matters for Newlyweds.
Then there are the pocket guides. The World's Easiest Pocket Guide to ... Buying Your First Car, Renting Your First Apartment, Starting Your First Savings Plan, Creating Your First Financial Plan, Buying Your First House, and many more.
In the meantime, you should be aware that all the major service packs for Microsoft products can be downloaded as stand-alone executables. Also, the IE download page includes some critical updates. Make your own "cache" on the network, and let everybody get their updates from there.
"I triple guarantee you, there are no American soldiers in Baghdad."
Mohsen Khalil, Iraqi Ambassador to the Arab League:
"Iraq will not be defeated. Iraq has now already achieved victory - apart from some technicalities."
Jean Paoli, Microsoft's XML architect:
"I'm out of the business of creating formats. Our focus on Office is on data exchange. There is no more difference between documents and data."
I think Haifa would be a great place to visit. See the Haifa Tourism Guide .
I've never been there, but it looks stunningly beautiful and fun judging by these pictures (check Haifa and click Go for 101 pictures)
israel is too dangerous for me, and over the next couple of weeks lets face it it's only gonna get worse.
That's a popular misconception perpetrated by the media. In spite of the ongoing Oslo War, most Israeli immigrants say they feel safer in Israel than in the places they came from, including America. Really, you probably have more chance of getting murdered in Brooklyn or Miami than in most of Israel. American and European tourists report that they feel safe there, too. Also, Israel's El-Al Airline is the safest airline in the world. Being among so many Arab countries, they have a lot of experience in dealing with terrorist threats. Its security is unmatched.
Right now is an especially safe time to visit Israel because the terrorists are on the run and cowering in their lairs. Yassir Arafat and the PA are scared to death of doing anything that might expand the war in Iraq into their region. They wouldn't dare attack during this war. They're keeping very quiet. Iraq hasn't attacked Israel either.
I would have absolutely no qualms about visiting Israel now. I just wish I had the money. Don't let fear be the factor that prevents you from going to the Perl conference.
Inflexibility can be either really good or really bad.
To consider the good: Yeshua of Natzeret (see sig), Aurelius Augustinus (St. Augustine), William Wilberforce (ended slavery in the British empire), Isaac Newton, George Washington, Winston Churchill, Oscar Schindler, Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and many more. Of recent years, I'd add to the list of inflexible people of the best kind: George W. Bush, Tony Blair, the late Todd Beamer, Jessica Lynch, and one Mohammed of Iraq.
There has never been religious oppression imposed within or without by the U.S. Watch out for the ACLU though. :)
We pragmatically supported the perceived lesser of evils in overcoming greater evils. Maybe the strategy is less than good, but the logic of it does make some kind of sense.
Making weapons more powerful and accurate leads to shorter wars and fewer deaths overall (as long as they're not in the hands of dictators or terrorists). We can use laser rifles and smart bombs or use nukes and carpet bomb entire cities like in WWII.
The first Gulf War lasted about half a year (IIRC). Afghanistan was even shorter. Compare to the long, drawn out affairs of the world wars, Vietnam, Revolutionary War, Civil War. Wars fought with muskets and swords have resulted in far more dead people than this war of Daisy Cutters and MOABS will.
Actually, times of "peace" are often more bloody than times of war. These last twenty or so years of "peace" in Saddam's Iraq (besides the invasions of Iran and Kuwait), the peaceful years of Nazi Germany before and between the wars, the peace of the Soviet Union under Stalin et al, the peace that exists in China now. (Can you hear the screams?) It takes two to have a war, but only one to take a beating.
Peace is not the absence of war, but the presence of just power.
As the other replier noted, there's also the issue of inner/outer measurements of the object. Don't be so quick to plug numbers into an equation before you understand whether the equation represents the real-world picture.
The hoaxers fell for an urban legend. The Bible doesn't say that pi is 3.0.
PI in the Bible
"The Bible says pi = 3."
Does the Bible say pi equals 3.0?
Does the Bible Give a Wrong Value for Pi?
I see four major issues in the relevant Scripture:
Read this, folks. This is funny.
It's hard to blame them. Iraqi units have forced civilians to run in front of their advancing allied units in attacks against allied troops. They have faked surrenders and then ambushed troops who came to accept the surrender. Hospitals and schools are being used to store military equipment. Iraqi soldiers have abandoned their uniforms and are fighting in civilian clothing. American and British soldiers are risking their own lives to protect Iraqi civilians despite the best efforts of Iraqi soldiers and militia fighters (and anti-America media) to pin civilian deaths as the fault of coalition forces.
Iraqi Combatants Dressed as Civilians
Iraqi Civilians Blow up U.S. Troops in Suicide Attacks
In spite of the enemies' treacherous tactics...
Two U.S. Soldiers Survive Week in Desert... and nearly starve after giving away most of their food to needy Iraqis.
You know the famous picture of a U.S. Army medic carrying an Iraqi boy?
And everybody knows it was an accident. But okay, let's have it your way. Oh no, blood and gore! Let's end the war! Would ending the war end the suffering? Saddam would like us to pack up and go home so he could resume power and get back to the tyrant's regular business of inflicting suffering of a brutal and excruciating nature on his subjects; this kind of suffering as opposed to the comparatively few, inadvertent casualties due to the war.
Having no war in Iraq allows persecution. Having this just war is causing suffering for a time, but will end most of the suffering in the long run.
Horrible suffering like what you mentioned is imposed affliction du jour in Saddam's regime. Its torture methods include:
Report on the fact that the people of Iraq don't want to be "liberated."
Nine in 10 Iraqis welcome US invasion
With a smug smile they say, "We will liberate you from your God, your money, and your dignity."
"You just arrived. You're late. What took you so long? God help you become victorious. I want to say hello to Bush, to shake his hand. We came out of the grave." - liberated Iraqi
Listen to the experience of a former human shield in Iraq:
That statement itself implies that it's wrong (ahem) to say that something is right or wrong. Then you proceed with a long-winded rant on what's right and wrong. I think this is what they call in psychology "cognitive dissonance."
You've shown your stripes. Children killed in the war is not your real concern. You're just anti-Bush.
Then why are you against taking out the man who kills more children than anyone else? Saddam Hussein kills more children before lunchtime in a single day than will be killed in this whole war. If your heart cries out for the murdered innocent children, you need to be for this war! Saddam has used bees and scorpions to sting naked children in front of their parents.
Your way of "peace" only allows the merciless persecution and impoverishment of Iraqis to continue. Why is the justification for this war so hard to understand? Saddam has killed over 100,000 people. This is a rescue mission. It is a war of compassion to end a holocaust.
You wanted to give diplomacy more time?
"You just arrived. You're late. What took you so long? God help you become victorious. I want to say hello to Bush, to shake his hand. We came out of the grave." - liberated Iraqi
Listen to the account of a reformed anti-war protester who went to Iraq:
Right, I doubt that we would've bombed Qatar. Our military forward headquarters is in Qatar during this war.