Sooner or later (hopefully later) a sufficiently lunatic instance of terrorist class will manage to surpass all logic and try what happens when a noticeable portion of city X is blasted...
I would venture to say that the Twin Towers were a noticeable portion of city X, where X=New-York...
Yes, it's the wine and the food that has spared France.....this time.
Bullshit. If the yankees weren't so excessively fond of eating shit, there would be McSoufflés, McChâteaubriands, McFrog Legs, "will there be a McVacherin with that?" and for breakfast, Mc Crêpes Suzettes, and they would taste perfect.
(Actually, the strawberry shortcake Mc-Flurry is the closest thing to the original, genuine strawberry shortcake - the one made with a biscuit-like cake rather than sponge cake - a truly excellent example of the very few american culinary masterpieces).
But now, the Pentagon report says, the nation faces new contingencies in which nuclear weapons might be employed, including "an Iraqi attack on Israel or its neighbors ...
But of course, nothing about a nuclear attack by the jews against the Arab nations, though.
This is to be expected; will ever the yankees wake up to the fact that their political system has been subverted by the sionists, mostly thanks to their control of the media and hollywood?
What need to be done is a systematical and methodical eradication of jewish media executives as well as total annihilation of jewish lobby groups, and a stern warning to politicians that they will be the first against the wall if ever they'd accept a single penny from jewish organizations.
This way, the people of the United States of America will have gone a long way into reclaiming back their democracy.
We should all be immensely grateful to the British social class system. It inspired some of the greatest fantasy and sci-fi writers in modern literature, from Mary Shelley and Jules Verne to H.G. Wells.
Good-Bye Columbus day! 16 possible explorations of America before Columbus
1. HSI and HO (c. 2640 B.C.), Chinese
Based on evidence derived from the geographical text Shan
Hai Ching T'sang-chu and the chronicle Shan Hai ling, it is argued
that the Chinese imperial astronomers Hsi and Ho were the first
explorers of America in the 27th century B.C. Ordered by Emperor
Huang Ti to make astronomical observations in the land of Fu Sang -
the territories to the east of China - the two men sailed north to the
Bering Strait and then south along the North American coastline.
They settled for a while with the "Yao people," ancestors of the
Pueblo Indians living near the Grand Canyon, but eventually journeyed on
to Mexico and Guatemala. Retuming to China, they reported
their astronomical studies and geographic discoveries to the emperor.
However, a short time later they were both executed for failing to
predict a solar eclipse accurately.
2-5. VOTAN, WIXEPECOCHA, SUME, and BOCHIA (c. 800-400 B.C.), Indian
According to Hindu legends and to Central American tribal
legends, seafaring Hindu missionaries reached the Americas more
than 2,000 years before Columbus. Sailing from India to Southeast
Asia, they voyaged to the Melanesian and Polynesian islands and
then across the Pacific to South and Central America. Votan was a
trader from India who lived among the Mayans as a historian and
chieftain, while his contemporary, Wixepecocha, was a Hindu priest
who settled with the Zapotecs of Mexico. Two more Hindu emigrants
were Sume, who reached Brazil and introduced agriculture to the
Cabocle Indians, and Bochia, who lived with the Muycas Indians
and became the codifier of their laws.
6. HUI SHUN (458 A.D.), Chinese
Using official Chinese imperial documents and maps from the
Liang dynasty, scholars have reconstructed the travels of the Chinese
explorer and Buddhist priest Hui Shun and proposed that he arrived
in North America in the 5th century. Sailing from China to Alaska
in 458, Hui-accompanied by four Afghan disciples-continued his
journey on foot down the North American Pacific coast. Reaching
Mexico, he taught and preached Buddhism to the Indians of central
Mexico and to the Mayans of the Yucatan. Allegedly he named
Guatemala in honor of Gautama Buddha. After more than 40 years
in America, he returned to China, where he reported his adventures
to Lord Yu Kie and Emperor Wu in 502.
7. ST. BRENDAN (c. 550), Irish
Two medieval manuscripts, The Voyage of Saint Brendan the
Abbot and the Book of Lismore, tell of an Irish priest who, with 17
other monks, sailed west from Ireland and reached the "Land Promised
to the Saints." Employing a curragh-a leather-hulled boat still
in use in Ireland-Brendan and his companions made a sea pilgrimage
that lasted seven years during the 6th century A.D. They traveled
to Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland, and one authority asserts
that Brendan reached the Caribbean island of Grand Cayman, which
he called the Island of Strong Men. Brendan returned safely to his
Irish monastery and reported on his travels, but died soon after. In
1977 Timothy Severin, sailing a modern curragh, retraced Brendan's
voyage to America.
8. BJARNI HERJULFSON (986), Norse
According to two medieval Icelandic narratives, the Flateyjarbok
and Hauk's Book, a young Norse merchant named Bjarni Herjulfson
sailed from Iceland towards Greenland to visit his father, who
lived there, but was blown off course by a gale. When the storm
ended, Bjami sighted a hilly, forested land, which is now thought to
have been Cape Cod. Wanting to reach the Norse settlements on
Greenland before winter, he did not drop anchor and send men ashore
to explore. Instead, he sailed northeast along Nova Scotia and
Newfoundland and then headed north to Greenland. He was criticized
by the Greenlanders for not investigating the new land, and his
discoveries stimulated further exploration of North America.
9. LEIF ERICSON (1003), Norse
In 1003, Leu bought Bjarni Berjulfson's ship and, with a 35-man
crew, sailed for North America. While most scholars agree that
Ericson did land in North America, there is disagreement about
where he landed. The only Viking site ever found in the New World
is L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, which was discovered in
1960 and excavated for the next eight years by BeIge Ingstad, a
Norwegian explorer. According to Ingstad, Ericson's first landing
was at Baffin Island, which he named Belluland; his second was at
Labrador, which he called Markland; and finally he reached Newfoundland,
which he christened Vinland. To Leu and his companions,
Vinland was an abundant country, rich in game, wild wheat, and
timber, and its climate was mild compared to Iceland and Greenland.
The explorers spent the winter in Vinland, where they constructed
a village of "big houses." In 1004 Leu returned to Greenland, where
he was given the honorary name of Leu the Lucky.
Leif Ericson, one of the many discoverers of America.
10. THORVALD ERICSON (1004), Norse
The Icelandic sagas record that, soon after Leu Ericson returned
to Greenland, he gave his ship to his brother Thorvald. In the
autumn of 1004, Thorvald sailed to Leifs Vinland settlement and
wintered there. The next summer, while exploring the 8t. Lawrence
region, Thorvald and his crew attacked a band of Indians, killing
eight of them. In retaliation, the Indians ambushed the Norsemen,
and Thorvald was killed in the ensuing battle. In 1007 the expedition's
survivors returned to Greenland and took with them Thorvald's body,
which was delivered to Leu for burial.
11. THORFINN KARLSEFNI (1010), Norse
The Greenlanders' Saga and Karlsefni's Saga are the two
medieval sources that give accounts of the Icelander Thorfinn
Karlsefni's attempt to establish the first permanent European
settlement in America. In 1010, with 60 men and 5 women, Thorfinn -
who was LeifEricson's brother-in-law - sailed to Leifs Vinland camp,
where he planned to colonize. In Vinland, Thorfinn's wife gave birth
to a son-the first European child bom in America - who was named
Snorri. Thorfinn explored extensively, traveling as far south as Long
Island and the Hudson River and, possibly, Chesapeake Bay. Four
years later, Thorfinn and the Norse settlers retumed to Greenland
because of Indian attacks and because of violent intemal discord
caused by the shortage of women.
12-13. PRINCE MADOG AB OWAIN GWYNEDD (1170, 1190), Welsh
The Atlantic voyages of this Welsh prince were recorded by
the medieval historian Gymoric ap Grono Guntyn Owen and by the
17th-century chroniclers Thomas Herbert and Richard Hakluyt.
Because of political conflicts with his brothers, Prince Madog sailed
from Abergwili, Wales, in 1170. He voyaged westward across the
Atlantic and landed somewhere in the Americas, where he built and
fortified a settlement. After several years Madog retumed to Wales,
leaving 120 men behind in the new colony. In 1190 he again crossed
the Atlantic to discover that most of his men had been annihilated,
presumably by Indians. Madog himself died in the New World a short
time later. The actual site of Madog's settlement is disputed. Possible
locations are the Florida peninsula, Mobile, Ala., and the West Indies.
14. KING ABUBAKARI n (1311), Malian
According to medieval Arab historical and geographical documents
and Malian oral epics, King Abubakari II of Mali, a black
Muslim, sailed from West Africa to northeastem South America.
After learning from Arab scholars that there was land on the west
side of the Atlantic, King Abubakari became obsessed with the idea
of extending his kingdom into these as yet unclaimed lands. He
mobilized the resources of his empire to hire Arab shipbuilders from
Lake Chad to build a fleet. (Their descendants were employed by
Thor Heyerdahl to construct his reed boat, Ha I.) In 1311 the king
and his crew sailed down the Senegal River and across the Atlantic.
It is believed that while he sighted the north coast of South America,
he made his first landfall in Panama. Then King Abubakari and his
entourage supposedly traveled south from Panama and settled in the
Inca Empire.
15. PAUL KNUTSON (1356), Norwegian
In a letter dated 1354, King Magnus of Norway and Sweden
ordered the Norwegian sea captain Paul Knutson to joumey to
Greenland to restore the Christian faith to the N orsemen still living
there. Knutson sailed to Greenland in 1355 and, the next year, to
Vinland, where he established a camp on the North American coast.
Knutson's camp was probably at Newport, R.I., where a tower
believed to have been constructed by his party still stands. One group
of Knutson's men, who explored Hudson Bay and the territory to the
south of it, are thought to be responsible for the Kensington Stone,
a rock with possible Norse runes carved on its surface, which was
found in central Minnesota. Most of the members of the expedition,
including Knutson, died in America. A few survivors returned to
Norway in 1364.
16. JOHANNES SCOLP and JOAO V AZ CORTE REAL (1476), Danish and Portuguese
In 1475 King Alfonso of Portugal and King Christian I of
Denmark arranged a joint expedition to North America to find a sea
route to China. Danish sea captain Johannes Scolp and a Portuguese
nobleman named Joao Vaz Corte Real were appointed as commanders
of the combined fleet. Sailing from Denmark across the N orth Atlantic
to the Labrador coast, they explored Hudson Bay, the Gulf of St.
Lawrence, and the St. Lawrence River. Failing to find a sea passage
to Asia, they returned to Denmark, where their discoveries were
largely ignored.
Compiled by Rodger J. Fadness
In "THE BOOK OF LISTS#2"
The people's Almanac(r)
William Morrow and Co. Inc., New-York, 1980
Gautama Buddha, for one, after some other chinese explorers went down the western American coast, and settled (in Guatemala) for a little while, at least 500 years before Christofo Colombari.
While I do not agree that blueprints and plans should be locked away, I feel there should be a check-in/out process for sensitive information. This way should something like this happen, law enforcement has a starting point to begin their investigation.
Canana got rid of their FAA -- one of the worst in the industry. They privatized it a few years ago, and now their flight safety and on-time arrivals are up 60% -- one of the best in the industry.
And one whose safety record is almost at par with third world countries.
Uh, yeah. Try telling the citizens of the United States of America that a small, weak state is the best guarantee that the little guy won't be trampled by croporate giants...
Since highways are not in the land of the US (they are used to move vehicles, so it's not possible to build things on them nor plant crops on them - things you normally do on land), it is therefore legal to arbitrarly commandeer vehicles and strip them of their content and/or kill/rape their occupants.
Sheeesh!
That stupid notion that the internet is not a place within countries is merely an entrepreneur wet dream; it is time for the Nation-States to really show who's the boss around here..., and have the entrepreneurs follow the law and pay the taxes that are due.
Here's yet another reason why increasing the size and power of Government will only deteriorate the rights of the common man.
Typical misconception carried over by big moguls or mogul wannabees.
A big, powerful State is the best guarantee that the rights of the little guy won't be trampled by big business. But at only one condition: that the little guys firmly keep the government in check through the democratic institutions, and prevent them from being corrupted by croporate largesse.
A good start would be outlawing political contributions by croporations, limiting individual contributions to $100, and probibiting political advertising by non-politicians/political parties.
This is actually the case of at least one jurisdiction in North-America, and over there, the government had not been subverted by croporations during the last 20 years.
If the SSSCA passes, all open source software (and open hardware for that matter) would have to accomodate the content-control requirements of the law. Any open source stuff that's inherently "free" (as in speech) or meant to support and encourage free use of media would also have to accomodate the law.
It need not. All you have to do is program in the necessary "hooks" to use an illegal module to make the software compliant, module that is, obviously, not written by you...
Secondly and most importantly, I don't think people realize just how big the SSSCA is. If it passes, all of these wonderful OSS initiatives will die off.
No, they won't die. They'll just move out of the USA (and likely become contraband within the US, where they'll need illegal modules to be able to run on the crippled hardware that'll be available).
The yankees will have killed it's only innovative industry at the whim of bullshit producers, thus proving the rest of the world that they are really as stupid as they are perceived to be...
Slashdot Mirror
Definitely yes, software, just like any endeavour should be taxed.
Why developping software be any different than building a house, drafting a set of plans or publishing technical books?
(Actually, the strawberry shortcake Mc-Flurry is the closest thing to the original, genuine strawberry shortcake - the one made with a biscuit-like cake rather than sponge cake - a truly excellent example of the very few american culinary masterpieces).
This is to be expected; will ever the yankees wake up to the fact that their political system has been subverted by the sionists, mostly thanks to their control of the media and hollywood?
What need to be done is a systematical and methodical eradication of jewish media executives as well as total annihilation of jewish lobby groups, and a stern warning to politicians that they will be the first against the wall if ever they'd accept a single penny from jewish organizations.
This way, the people of the United States of America will have gone a long way into reclaiming back their democracy.
Katz, check your data! Jules Verne was French!
Good-Bye Columbus day!
16 possible explorations of America before Columbus
- 1. HSI and HO (c. 2640 B.C.), Chinese
- 2-5. VOTAN, WIXEPECOCHA, SUME, and BOCHIA (c. 800-400 B.C.), Indian
- 6. HUI SHUN (458 A.D.), Chinese
- 7. ST. BRENDAN (c. 550), Irish
- 8. BJARNI HERJULFSON (986), Norse
- 9. LEIF ERICSON (1003), Norse
- 10. THORVALD ERICSON (1004), Norse
- 11. THORFINN KARLSEFNI (1010), Norse
- 12-13. PRINCE MADOG AB OWAIN GWYNEDD (1170, 1190), Welsh
- 14. KING ABUBAKARI n (1311), Malian
- 15. PAUL KNUTSON (1356), Norwegian
- 16. JOHANNES SCOLP and JOAO V AZ CORTE REAL (1476), Danish and Portuguese
Compiled by Rodger J. FadnessBased on evidence derived from the geographical text Shan Hai Ching T'sang-chu and the chronicle Shan Hai ling, it is argued that the Chinese imperial astronomers Hsi and Ho were the first explorers of America in the 27th century B.C. Ordered by Emperor Huang Ti to make astronomical observations in the land of Fu Sang - the territories to the east of China - the two men sailed north to the Bering Strait and then south along the North American coastline. They settled for a while with the "Yao people," ancestors of the Pueblo Indians living near the Grand Canyon, but eventually journeyed on to Mexico and Guatemala. Retuming to China, they reported their astronomical studies and geographic discoveries to the emperor.
However, a short time later they were both executed for failing to predict a solar eclipse accurately.
According to Hindu legends and to Central American tribal legends, seafaring Hindu missionaries reached the Americas more than 2,000 years before Columbus. Sailing from India to Southeast Asia, they voyaged to the Melanesian and Polynesian islands and then across the Pacific to South and Central America. Votan was a trader from India who lived among the Mayans as a historian and chieftain, while his contemporary, Wixepecocha, was a Hindu priest who settled with the Zapotecs of Mexico. Two more Hindu emigrants were Sume, who reached Brazil and introduced agriculture to the Cabocle Indians, and Bochia, who lived with the Muycas Indians and became the codifier of their laws.
Using official Chinese imperial documents and maps from the Liang dynasty, scholars have reconstructed the travels of the Chinese explorer and Buddhist priest Hui Shun and proposed that he arrived in North America in the 5th century. Sailing from China to Alaska in 458, Hui-accompanied by four Afghan disciples-continued his journey on foot down the North American Pacific coast. Reaching Mexico, he taught and preached Buddhism to the Indians of central Mexico and to the Mayans of the Yucatan. Allegedly he named Guatemala in honor of Gautama Buddha. After more than 40 years in America, he returned to China, where he reported his adventures to Lord Yu Kie and Emperor Wu in 502.
Two medieval manuscripts, The Voyage of Saint Brendan the Abbot and the Book of Lismore, tell of an Irish priest who, with 17 other monks, sailed west from Ireland and reached the "Land Promised to the Saints." Employing a curragh-a leather-hulled boat still in use in Ireland-Brendan and his companions made a sea pilgrimage that lasted seven years during the 6th century A.D. They traveled to Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland, and one authority asserts that Brendan reached the Caribbean island of Grand Cayman, which he called the Island of Strong Men. Brendan returned safely to his Irish monastery and reported on his travels, but died soon after. In 1977 Timothy Severin, sailing a modern curragh, retraced Brendan's voyage to America.
According to two medieval Icelandic narratives, the Flateyjarbok and Hauk's Book, a young Norse merchant named Bjarni Herjulfson sailed from Iceland towards Greenland to visit his father, who lived there, but was blown off course by a gale. When the storm ended, Bjami sighted a hilly, forested land, which is now thought to have been Cape Cod. Wanting to reach the Norse settlements on Greenland before winter, he did not drop anchor and send men ashore to explore. Instead, he sailed northeast along Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and then headed north to Greenland. He was criticized by the Greenlanders for not investigating the new land, and his discoveries stimulated further exploration of North America.
In 1003, Leu bought Bjarni Berjulfson's ship and, with a 35-man crew, sailed for North America. While most scholars agree that Ericson did land in North America, there is disagreement about where he landed. The only Viking site ever found in the New World is L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, which was discovered in 1960 and excavated for the next eight years by BeIge Ingstad, a Norwegian explorer. According to Ingstad, Ericson's first landing was at Baffin Island, which he named Belluland; his second was at Labrador, which he called Markland; and finally he reached Newfoundland, which he christened Vinland. To Leu and his companions, Vinland was an abundant country, rich in game, wild wheat, and timber, and its climate was mild compared to Iceland and Greenland. The explorers spent the winter in Vinland, where they constructed a village of "big houses." In 1004 Leu returned to Greenland, where he was given the honorary name of Leu the Lucky. Leif Ericson, one of the many discoverers of America.
The Icelandic sagas record that, soon after Leu Ericson returned to Greenland, he gave his ship to his brother Thorvald. In the autumn of 1004, Thorvald sailed to Leifs Vinland settlement and wintered there. The next summer, while exploring the 8t. Lawrence region, Thorvald and his crew attacked a band of Indians, killing eight of them. In retaliation, the Indians ambushed the Norsemen, and Thorvald was killed in the ensuing battle. In 1007 the expedition's survivors returned to Greenland and took with them Thorvald's body, which was delivered to Leu for burial.
The Greenlanders' Saga and Karlsefni's Saga are the two medieval sources that give accounts of the Icelander Thorfinn Karlsefni's attempt to establish the first permanent European settlement in America. In 1010, with 60 men and 5 women, Thorfinn - who was LeifEricson's brother-in-law - sailed to Leifs Vinland camp, where he planned to colonize. In Vinland, Thorfinn's wife gave birth to a son-the first European child bom in America - who was named Snorri. Thorfinn explored extensively, traveling as far south as Long Island and the Hudson River and, possibly, Chesapeake Bay. Four years later, Thorfinn and the Norse settlers retumed to Greenland because of Indian attacks and because of violent intemal discord caused by the shortage of women.
The Atlantic voyages of this Welsh prince were recorded by the medieval historian Gymoric ap Grono Guntyn Owen and by the 17th-century chroniclers Thomas Herbert and Richard Hakluyt. Because of political conflicts with his brothers, Prince Madog sailed from Abergwili, Wales, in 1170. He voyaged westward across the Atlantic and landed somewhere in the Americas, where he built and fortified a settlement. After several years Madog retumed to Wales, leaving 120 men behind in the new colony. In 1190 he again crossed the Atlantic to discover that most of his men had been annihilated, presumably by Indians. Madog himself died in the New World a short time later. The actual site of Madog's settlement is disputed. Possible locations are the Florida peninsula, Mobile, Ala., and the West Indies.
According to medieval Arab historical and geographical documents and Malian oral epics, King Abubakari II of Mali, a black Muslim, sailed from West Africa to northeastem South America. After learning from Arab scholars that there was land on the west side of the Atlantic, King Abubakari became obsessed with the idea of extending his kingdom into these as yet unclaimed lands. He mobilized the resources of his empire to hire Arab shipbuilders from Lake Chad to build a fleet. (Their descendants were employed by Thor Heyerdahl to construct his reed boat, Ha I.) In 1311 the king and his crew sailed down the Senegal River and across the Atlantic. It is believed that while he sighted the north coast of South America, he made his first landfall in Panama. Then King Abubakari and his entourage supposedly traveled south from Panama and settled in the Inca Empire.
In a letter dated 1354, King Magnus of Norway and Sweden ordered the Norwegian sea captain Paul Knutson to joumey to Greenland to restore the Christian faith to the N orsemen still living there. Knutson sailed to Greenland in 1355 and, the next year, to Vinland, where he established a camp on the North American coast. Knutson's camp was probably at Newport, R.I., where a tower believed to have been constructed by his party still stands. One group of Knutson's men, who explored Hudson Bay and the territory to the south of it, are thought to be responsible for the Kensington Stone, a rock with possible Norse runes carved on its surface, which was found in central Minnesota. Most of the members of the expedition, including Knutson, died in America. A few survivors returned to Norway in 1364.
In 1475 King Alfonso of Portugal and King Christian I of Denmark arranged a joint expedition to North America to find a sea route to China. Danish sea captain Johannes Scolp and a Portuguese nobleman named Joao Vaz Corte Real were appointed as commanders of the combined fleet. Sailing from Denmark across the N orth Atlantic to the Labrador coast, they explored Hudson Bay, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the St. Lawrence River. Failing to find a sea passage to Asia, they returned to Denmark, where their discoveries were largely ignored.
In "THE BOOK OF LISTS#2"
The people's Almanac(r)
William Morrow and Co. Inc., New-York, 1980
pp. 136-140
Gautama Buddha, for one, after some other chinese explorers went down the western American coast, and settled (in Guatemala) for a little while, at least 500 years before Christofo Colombari.
It never works.
At least one crash can be directly attributed to the closure of a control tower "to save costs". This is one crash too many.
Beats the crap out of the beauty and the beast. Reserve your tickets now!
Uh, yeah. Try telling the citizens of the United States of America that a small, weak state is the best guarantee that the little guy won't be trampled by croporate giants...
Sheeesh!
That stupid notion that the internet is not a place within countries is merely an entrepreneur wet dream; it is time for the Nation-States to really show who's the boss around here..., and have the entrepreneurs follow the law and pay the taxes that are due.
A big, powerful State is the best guarantee that the rights of the little guy won't be trampled by big business. But at only one condition: that the little guys firmly keep the government in check through the democratic institutions, and prevent them from being corrupted by croporate largesse.
A good start would be outlawing political contributions by croporations, limiting individual contributions to $100, and probibiting political advertising by non-politicians/political parties.
This is actually the case of at least one jurisdiction in North-America, and over there, the government had not been subverted by croporations during the last 20 years.
The yankees will have killed it's only innovative industry at the whim of bullshit producers, thus proving the rest of the world that they are really as stupid as they are perceived to be...
... does it comes with bells and a whistle?????