I'm not sure what you're saying but Chrome allows you to do that from the very first version. In fact, I'm not sure if it wasn't the first to come up with it. While I used Windowz, I instantly switched to Chrome from Firefox exactly because of the search shortcuts.
From your sig I infer you use OS X, so you might wanna try OmniWeb. It's a very good browser that has become freeware and recently updated with the new Webkit engine. It offers site preferences since god knows when... It's actually the most feature complete browser I've ever seen. You don't need a lot of the usual add-ons because there is similar built-in functionality. And it has that "wp rabbits" feature you like so much - as do I. Oh and vertical tabs which in my opinion rock. And the plugins to do that in Firefox suck.
Of course they're not. They like to think they are. Yet they don't realize that they're becoming more and more controlled and watched. They're being told what to think and how to think it. And they do all that happily thinking how smart they are. And then comes election time and the smart european runs to the ballots to choose the next dick up his/her ass or votes blank just to use their civic right that he/she loves so much. You don't fit in the way of thinking and you are not taken seriously or you're taken too seriously and run into trouble. Yet, in the end, they're a bunch of arrogant jerks that are only waiting for America to go way with it's grip to start killing each other again like in the last 2000 years of european history... Disclaimer: I was born in Europe and I live in Europe. Bite me my fellow con-continentals!
Perhaps you can then show when and where exacly did Iran threatened to bomb Israel? I have seen Israeli oficials saying they would bomb Iran and we all (those who wanted to) saw what they did to Lebanon and Gaza.
As for "destabilizing" Iraq, are you serious? I thought that one was already dropped from the Evil-Iran-Wants-Nukes-To-Destroy-World-And-Specially-Israel-We-Must-Destroy-Them rethoric for being so fucking ridiculous. But, just in case: Are you aware that Iraq has been invaded by the United States of America in 2003 and is still at war? Perhaps you could elaborate on how one would further destabilize a country at war?
But hey, let me tell you what's going to happen. US troops will leave Iraq. They will leave it in a state of virtual - if not real - civil war. Once the US troops are out then the real players can start to move effectively. And yes, Iran is one of the players. And yes it is probably the most influencial player. And yes, it's probably going to be the winner in the end. So, Americans gave Iraq to Iran. And guess what the newly Iran-backed Iraq is going to do with the new shiny toys it's going to get? That's right. It's going to turn it's attention to those beautifull oil-rich fields in Kuwait! Then what? USA to the rescue! Again... Way to go! Not to mention they also lost Afghanistan. That one is harder because no one wants it and if they leave, Talibans will have full control of the country just like before the 2001 invasion... If they stay, coalition troops are going to be downed by the thousands each year just like in Iraq... That's pretty much the definition of lose-lose. That's right, defeat.
So, if Iran is threatening and destabilizing anything then what do you call what the US are doing? Stabilizing and helping? But maybe you are right, maybe we should all listen to Israel and stabilize yet another middle-eastern country... Why not? There's still plenty of money left from the crisis to spend right? *sigh*
The president of the entire company demanded that verbal instructions to his German managers be the rule, to avoid a paper trail. IBM was the sole servicer of machines at all the concentration camp, for FSM's sake. Of course they knew exactly what they were selling. And they sold yet more equipment, customized punch cards and services to Nazi Germany after we were at war with them via their Geneva office which is, at the very least, treason.
Do you have any proof of this? Can you at the very least provide references other than wikipedia supporting these claims? It's fucking amazing that everything relating to Germany in the WW2 seems to have worked without paper... It's funny though that even today paper seems to be found when all efforts are made to destroy it... Those Germans sure were good in removing paper from their bureaucracy...
I suppose the people that sold the barbed wire, the pipes, the electric cables, the construction materials, the fences, the coal, and god knows what else are also to blame. And all this without a paper trail... how convenient... Oh and what about the calculations for the A-bombs? Oh yeah, right, thats not supposed to be mentioned...
hum... what about revisionists? As far as I know there's a few in jail and/or in court - at least Germany and France consider it illegal - just for questioning the current global accepted view on the H thing... If that isn't censorship then tell me what it is... And I'll bet that that isn't the only issue in which censorship is disguised as Moral .
You can be damn sure the the average European citizen condemns the US invading Iraq. Any reasonable person does (Oh, and lets not forget Afghanistan, which war you already lost, as has everybody who tried, and thanks for making it the top heroin producer in the world...). As for the teddy bear that you claim US to be, it is nevertheless the only teddy bear that has wiped two cities of the map with nukes. In fact, the more you accuse other countries the more we see the accusations actually fit yourselves (as a country) instead.
Flamebait? I'd rather consider it Uncomfortable Truth unfortunately... Iran might not be the best place to be on Earth but it sure beats the hell out of other countries like Pakistan and even India. Now all this mess with elections has the stench of American-Israeli interventionism... It has been regularly happening all over Middle-East since oil was found there. Why should I believe differently? And what exactly should I believe? That now that the US is deep in shit in Iraq and Afghanistan and can't even dream about war with Iran, the good people of Iran, aspiring to be free, are being oppressed by the manipulating evil regime of the fundamentalist Israel-haters and had their elections tampered with and need our help to overthrow that same regime? Or else there will be a nuclear war between Iran and the US?
Hum... now where did I see that before? Oh right, Afghanistan... or maybe it was Iraq?...
Americans: give us (and yourselves) a break. Stop fucking around with other peoples business around the fucking world. Aren't the problems in your own country enough for you? *sigh*
Oh and stop pretending the whole world wants a democracy like yours. It pisses people up.
bah... it's an aberration for CS addicts that can't play nothing else... If it has no rockets then it's not a proper deathmatch.
CS killed the deathmatch star!
Now it's too slow, boring, and full of kids with high-tech mice yelling at the microphone calling cheater to each other... Back in the day of the glorious deathmatch, the warrior had to be lightning fast, accurate and mart enough to change it's path so to avoid a - or 3 in UT - carefully placed rocket in an interception course with himself... Aaah, the Rocket Arena... *sigh*
Well, to be honest, I think software applications - like games -are a different thing. They're commercial products made with the intent of profiting from them.
Now music, films and books are supposed to be art. Now let me reply with another question: why is it that profiting from and creating art for profit is ethical?
I don't think it is. Furthermore, I think that it's well deserved for people that make art - if you can call it that - that people pirate their shit.
The way I see it, if you create art you would like for everyone to know it and be able to appreciate it. So, when it comes to artistic content, I think it's actually ethical to share and copy, as long as you give due credit.
Oh come on... I can't fucking believe this post... Oh well, here we go again. So pal, perhaps you can tell us all what exactly makes Islam a worse religion than the rest of it's monotheistic counterparts?
And don't yap about the x number of virgins. In Christianity they offer you a nice whole Paradise, which is probably full of whatever you want, since it's paradise. Fundamentalism or in other other words, radicalism? Might as well look in the US for that. All those nice little Christian sects claiming the apocalipse is coming and enacting the fucking Hell on stage with bloody abortions and crap like that to make sure little kids grow up fearing Hell, God and, of course, it's representatives on earth.
But let's keep going, Islam inspires terrorism? Perhaps, but no more than Judaism or Hinduism. Of course, you probably never heard of this in your little bubble but one of the worst terrorist attacks of the 20th century was carried out by terrorist Jews who thought it was ok to bomb King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946, killing 91 victims because their book had written on it that that was and still is their promised land for which they have the right do to whatever they want to (and can still win Nobel Prizes for peace. What a good example). You can also check Sri Lanka for a little belligerent Hinduism.
So now Islam is the scapegoat huh? So now every religion is nice and cool and respectable except Islam? Hum, nice. So you must think they use terrorism because their religion tells them so... It never occurred to you that they might just be pissed at the West, led by the US, for fucking around in their land ever since they found oil in it? Guess not. Well, they'll keep bombing the shit out of you until you get it. That's where their religion really excels. You see, christians get tired soon if not winning. Muslims, they don't get tired.
Finally, let me ask you: exactly how much crap can you people take down the throat before you realize you're eating crap?
What you say makes sense. It's just that I've just finished reading Al Gore's "The Assault on Reason".
you have to find some narrow circumstances, including where he directly and individually ordered the killing of civilians or others - it can't be incidental or collateral damage or you could show where he ordered actions be taken directly outside the context of conventional war and without any national security justification.
I could try to find - and think I would- them for you but I'm not American and I think Al pretty much wrapped it up in his book. I know G.W. didn't do it by himself - there's the rest of the Administration - but I don't quite agree on the Congress argument. If Al Gore's book is due any credit I think the real crime the Bush-Cheney administration commited was actually weakening the power of both Congress/Senate and the courts like I posted down in the discussion. From Al's book it's pretty clear that the Bush-Cheney administration ignored most warnings of 9/11 including a daily intelligence report with the headline "Al-Qaeda determined to strike inside the US". And it's also clear that they made clear they wanted 9/11 linked to Saddam and Iraq even after several intelligence officials repeatedly reached the conclusion that there was no link. So, in other words, they fabricated an artificial casus belli which, the way I see it, is pretty much the same than directly and individually order[ing] the killing of civilians or others.
I'm quite suspicious of irreversible actions so I wouldn't support hanging of anyone but I sure think - and so does Al - that Bush and his Administration should be held accountable for a) undermining American democracy by effectively weakening the legislative and justice branches of the Republic; and b) ordering a clearly unjustified aggression on a sovereign country and people; and c) deceiving the Nation with false allegations to support them in that aggression, not to mention all kinds of obscure appointments and nominations of self-evident interests to regulatory boards and commissions that should be policing those same interests - ExxonMobil chairman / Federal Energy Regulatory Commission anyone?
Nevertheless I think you Americans should read the book. If half of it is true you're in deep shit - and so is the rest of the world - for the years to come if this and subsequent administrations don't right those wrongs.
True. And let me tell you that your reputation as Americans has seen better days. Way better.
You are know considered fat, dumb, christian fundamentalist (oh the irony!), gun-loving rednecks that dig invading other countries and think they can do whatever they want.
Of course most of you are not like this but stereotypes reflect mentality. You need to get a hold of your country. I know this is old talk but they're feeding you shit through tv everyday while stripping your rights and, worse, your legislative and justice branches rights. Do you realize, for example, that Al Jazeera English is not available in the US? And that they have a site in order to mobilize people to ask cable operators to make it available? I mean, most of you get your information from biased sources. Worse than that is that most don't even have a way to know that the sources are biased. See it like this: A thin opaque bubble has been weaved around you. But you can easily stick your finger out and hence you can get rid of the bubble. It's really up to you guys. Because on this side of the Ocean we're busy trying to stop the bubbles too.:)
Because ExxonMobil, Shell and BP are the ones that have it. Don't worry! I'm sure they'll sell it to you in the form of refined products for a nice artificially inflated price!
Well then, if no one culture is better than any other why does every one in the West thinks everyone else in the world must be "free and democratic" as we supposedly are?
Yeah. That's what most of you people have been doing for the last years. Then you get terribly surprised that someone drives a couple of planes against a couple of buildings in your country. Then you go and set Abu Ghraib up. Nice PR move... So you don't behead them - you attach dog leashes to them while... I'm sure you get the point.
But I wouldn't blame the G.I. only. In fact, I would blame the Administration instead. I'm sure they hardly tell you this in your country but, terrorists are not evil. They're just pissed at you. Go figure why when all your soldiers do is rebuild hospitals and infrastructures. With Tomahawk missiles...
Indeed. I'd like to add that the Internet might just well be the best tool to help us discuss and debate those very questions. Incidentally, I think profit also plays a very big role in these discussions, more often than not disguised as apparently ethical problems. Maybe intellectual property is a concept that makes no sense once we're all part of a big something. Or maybe it does. Though I would be extra careful these days for profit disguised as ethics. And that's pretty much what this whole copyright issue looks to me. I think that if there is any genuine effort and will to protect the interest of the people who create, I wouldn't be surprised that it'd lie mostly with the so-called pirates than with giant corporative institutions that seem to be guided by their corporative profits of which only a very small percentage goes to ones they're supposed to protect. I'd give the benefit of the doubt to the pirates.
Besides, it seems to me that the Internet has the potential to make the *AAs as we know them today obsolete. And that's probably what they are realizing. Because we see everywhere that their profits aren't dropping that much, if not actually increasing. I think they find themselves in the position of biblical Herodes feeling threatened by "dear Baby Jesus!"
Be it as it may, the fact remains that the Internet connects everyone. And this is what I think is important. It's really not that important how the Internet was created. It's really important that now that it was we don't let no one take it away. In the way you see it we are in the phase where we may well need to start battling with the governments - both elected and de facto - for freedom to be connected to everyone. And I think it is an important and just battle.
Fire - Any half-brained evolved equivalent to a monkey in the universe should be able to manage that. We don't even remember collectively how we got it.
The Wheel - Granted. Hell of a thing. But come to think about it and one of the things it allows best is greater connectivity.
Powered Flight - This one I think you are overrating. But then again it's about connectivity. We could do it with cars and boats.
Electricity - This one gets my vote too. To manage to control and distribute energy efficiently it's gotta be important. Though I think it's unfinished. We still need to know how to create it and improve overall efficiency.
Landing on the moon - I would call this a very significant event and achievement. But they haven't particularly built anything really new. I'd at least change this for the MIR or the ISS.
I think Writing is missing. But I'd put it with fire. I guess they would make part of the intelligent species starter kit together with the wheel.
As for the Internet I don't really have a better argument than that it connects everyone. I could describe all the consequences of it but I think everyone gets the point. I just think people just consider it from an personal quotidian point of view: mail, couple of blogs, torrents, etc. But my money is in that it changed the World and it's going to change a LOT more. But maybe I'm wrong and the censorship fools ruin it before that happens...
Well, the way I see it, they didn't have to know it... I mean if it was just for power what's the point of having an Empire with places and people you simply can't go or talk or whatever... That's why the Caesars built roads. To connect. And if you have any doubt why'd you think TV's so powerful? Because it connects. Unfortunately it's centralized therefore much more vulnerable to control. Do think that if the Caesars had TV they'd build roads? I don't know... But it seems to me that the tendency along mankind's history is to connect. And now we've finally come up with a real, scalable, cheap, full-duplex solution to connect everyone. Granted that it lacks the glamour of a thousand year old roman via but it's probably a thousandfold more powerful. The sheer complexity of the whole thing including all the information everywhere at any time defies our mind. It's probably even the more complex thing we've ever built. I'm guessing that it won't be long before it rivals the brain in terms of complexity. Of course complexity for itself is of no use.
Of course if you're an adept of emergence theories...
Hum, I might be missing something but where exactly says that he downloaded it? It says in TFA that it took seconds to start playing. I mean, someone might have emailed it to the man... Nevertheless and jokes aside, this craziness/paranoia about copyright is becoming worse every day... What really bothers me is that though it can be illegal to download or upload or whatever copyrighted material, or child pr0n or terrorist videos or god knows what they're going to come up with next, it all seems to me that these people - most of them worthless people that never did anything useful for the world - are committed to destroy one of the most significant invention - if not THE most significant invention - of all times.
Because when you come to think about it, the Internet is exactly what a lot of people have tried to accomplish throughout the millennia. Nations and empires were forged and razed, people killed and died by the millions to ultimately reach this simple goal: connect everyone.
These people, intentionally or not, want to destroy this. I think we need to raise people's awareness to this issue. The Internet is not just a network. It is the network. It allows for every single person on this planet and eventually beyond to be connected to everyone else simultaneously! I think it is of the upmost importance we fight to stop this censoring and mutilation of the Internet and preserve the recent ability our species has to global and total communication. I mean, toxic dumping is also illegal and much more dangerous collectively than downloading copyrighted material... where's the fuss about that? We need to stop taking bullshit...
Indeed my friend. Indeed. As for heat in debates, I'm no blacksmith but I've never heard of any tool being fabricated by sheer banging on it. It always needs a bit of heat.:)
Perhaps we will one day have the opportunity to work together in what we love most now that we've drawn arguments on the decisions of the bunch of fools that keep pestering us with their foolish endeavors.
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I'm not sure what you're saying but Chrome allows you to do that from the very first version. In fact, I'm not sure if it wasn't the first to come up with it. While I used Windowz, I instantly switched to Chrome from Firefox exactly because of the search shortcuts.
From your sig I infer you use OS X, so you might wanna try OmniWeb. It's a very good browser that has become freeware and recently updated with the new Webkit engine. It offers site preferences since god knows when... It's actually the most feature complete browser I've ever seen. You don't need a lot of the usual add-ons because there is similar built-in functionality. And it has that "wp rabbits" feature you like so much - as do I. Oh and vertical tabs which in my opinion rock. And the plugins to do that in Firefox suck.
Of course they're not. They like to think they are. Yet they don't realize that they're becoming more and more controlled and watched. They're being told what to think and how to think it. And they do all that happily thinking how smart they are. And then comes election time and the smart european runs to the ballots to choose the next dick up his/her ass or votes blank just to use their civic right that he/she loves so much. You don't fit in the way of thinking and you are not taken seriously or you're taken too seriously and run into trouble. Yet, in the end, they're a bunch of arrogant jerks that are only waiting for America to go way with it's grip to start killing each other again like in the last 2000 years of european history... Disclaimer: I was born in Europe and I live in Europe. Bite me my fellow con-continentals!
Perhaps you can then show when and where exacly did Iran threatened to bomb Israel? I have seen Israeli oficials saying they would bomb Iran and we all (those who wanted to) saw what they did to Lebanon and Gaza. As for "destabilizing" Iraq, are you serious? I thought that one was already dropped from the Evil-Iran-Wants-Nukes-To-Destroy-World-And-Specially-Israel-We-Must-Destroy-Them rethoric for being so fucking ridiculous. But, just in case: Are you aware that Iraq has been invaded by the United States of America in 2003 and is still at war? Perhaps you could elaborate on how one would further destabilize a country at war?
But hey, let me tell you what's going to happen. US troops will leave Iraq. They will leave it in a state of virtual - if not real - civil war. Once the US troops are out then the real players can start to move effectively. And yes, Iran is one of the players. And yes it is probably the most influencial player. And yes, it's probably going to be the winner in the end. So, Americans gave Iraq to Iran. And guess what the newly Iran-backed Iraq is going to do with the new shiny toys it's going to get? That's right. It's going to turn it's attention to those beautifull oil-rich fields in Kuwait! Then what? USA to the rescue! Again... Way to go! Not to mention they also lost Afghanistan. That one is harder because no one wants it and if they leave, Talibans will have full control of the country just like before the 2001 invasion... If they stay, coalition troops are going to be downed by the thousands each year just like in Iraq... That's pretty much the definition of lose-lose. That's right, defeat.
So, if Iran is threatening and destabilizing anything then what do you call what the US are doing? Stabilizing and helping? But maybe you are right, maybe we should all listen to Israel and stabilize yet another middle-eastern country... Why not? There's still plenty of money left from the crisis to spend right? *sigh*
The president of the entire company demanded that verbal instructions to his German managers be the rule, to avoid a paper trail. IBM was the sole servicer of machines at all the concentration camp, for FSM's sake. Of course they knew exactly what they were selling. And they sold yet more equipment, customized punch cards and services to Nazi Germany after we were at war with them via their Geneva office which is, at the very least, treason.
Do you have any proof of this? Can you at the very least provide references other than wikipedia supporting these claims? It's fucking amazing that everything relating to Germany in the WW2 seems to have worked without paper... It's funny though that even today paper seems to be found when all efforts are made to destroy it... Those Germans sure were good in removing paper from their bureaucracy...
I suppose the people that sold the barbed wire, the pipes, the electric cables, the construction materials, the fences, the coal, and god knows what else are also to blame. And all this without a paper trail... how convenient... Oh and what about the calculations for the A-bombs? Oh yeah, right, thats not supposed to be mentioned...
hum... what about revisionists? As far as I know there's a few in jail and/or in court - at least Germany and France consider it illegal - just for questioning the current global accepted view on the H thing... If that isn't censorship then tell me what it is... And I'll bet that that isn't the only issue in which censorship is disguised as Moral .
You can be damn sure the the average European citizen condemns the US invading Iraq. Any reasonable person does (Oh, and lets not forget Afghanistan, which war you already lost, as has everybody who tried, and thanks for making it the top heroin producer in the world...). As for the teddy bear that you claim US to be, it is nevertheless the only teddy bear that has wiped two cities of the map with nukes. In fact, the more you accuse other countries the more we see the accusations actually fit yourselves (as a country) instead.
Flamebait? I'd rather consider it Uncomfortable Truth unfortunately... Iran might not be the best place to be on Earth but it sure beats the hell out of other countries like Pakistan and even India. Now all this mess with elections has the stench of American-Israeli interventionism... It has been regularly happening all over Middle-East since oil was found there. Why should I believe differently? And what exactly should I believe? That now that the US is deep in shit in Iraq and Afghanistan and can't even dream about war with Iran, the good people of Iran, aspiring to be free, are being oppressed by the manipulating evil regime of the fundamentalist Israel-haters and had their elections tampered with and need our help to overthrow that same regime? Or else there will be a nuclear war between Iran and the US?
Hum... now where did I see that before? Oh right, Afghanistan... or maybe it was Iraq?...
Americans: give us (and yourselves) a break. Stop fucking around with other peoples business around the fucking world. Aren't the problems in your own country enough for you? *sigh*
Oh and stop pretending the whole world wants a democracy like yours. It pisses people up.
bah... it's an aberration for CS addicts that can't play nothing else... If it has no rockets then it's not a proper deathmatch.
CS killed the deathmatch star!
Now it's too slow, boring, and full of kids with high-tech mice yelling at the microphone calling cheater to each other... Back in the day of the glorious deathmatch, the warrior had to be lightning fast, accurate and mart enough to change it's path so to avoid a - or 3 in UT - carefully placed rocket in an interception course with himself... Aaah, the Rocket Arena... *sigh*
Well, to be honest, I think software applications - like games -are a different thing. They're commercial products made with the intent of profiting from them.
Now music, films and books are supposed to be art. Now let me reply with another question: why is it that profiting from and creating art for profit is ethical?
I don't think it is. Furthermore, I think that it's well deserved for people that make art - if you can call it that - that people pirate their shit.
The way I see it, if you create art you would like for everyone to know it and be able to appreciate it. So, when it comes to artistic content, I think it's actually ethical to share and copy, as long as you give due credit.
Oh come on... I can't fucking believe this post... Oh well, here we go again. So pal, perhaps you can tell us all what exactly makes Islam a worse religion than the rest of it's monotheistic counterparts?
And don't yap about the x number of virgins. In Christianity they offer you a nice whole Paradise, which is probably full of whatever you want, since it's paradise. Fundamentalism or in other other words, radicalism? Might as well look in the US for that. All those nice little Christian sects claiming the apocalipse is coming and enacting the fucking Hell on stage with bloody abortions and crap like that to make sure little kids grow up fearing Hell, God and, of course, it's representatives on earth.
But let's keep going, Islam inspires terrorism? Perhaps, but no more than Judaism or Hinduism. Of course, you probably never heard of this in your little bubble but one of the worst terrorist attacks of the 20th century was carried out by terrorist Jews who thought it was ok to bomb King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946, killing 91 victims because their book had written on it that that was and still is their promised land for which they have the right do to whatever they want to (and can still win Nobel Prizes for peace. What a good example). You can also check Sri Lanka for a little belligerent Hinduism.
So now Islam is the scapegoat huh? So now every religion is nice and cool and respectable except Islam? Hum, nice. So you must think they use terrorism because their religion tells them so... It never occurred to you that they might just be pissed at the West, led by the US, for fucking around in their land ever since they found oil in it? Guess not. Well, they'll keep bombing the shit out of you until you get it. That's where their religion really excels. You see, christians get tired soon if not winning. Muslims, they don't get tired.
Finally, let me ask you: exactly how much crap can you people take down the throat before you realize you're eating crap?
you have to find some narrow circumstances, including where he directly and individually ordered the killing of civilians or others - it can't be incidental or collateral damage or you could show where he ordered actions be taken directly outside the context of conventional war and without any national security justification.
I could try to find - and think I would- them for you but I'm not American and I think Al pretty much wrapped it up in his book. I know G.W. didn't do it by himself - there's the rest of the Administration - but I don't quite agree on the Congress argument. If Al Gore's book is due any credit I think the real crime the Bush-Cheney administration commited was actually weakening the power of both Congress/Senate and the courts like I posted down in the discussion. From Al's book it's pretty clear that the Bush-Cheney administration ignored most warnings of 9/11 including a daily intelligence report with the headline "Al-Qaeda determined to strike inside the US". And it's also clear that they made clear they wanted 9/11 linked to Saddam and Iraq even after several intelligence officials repeatedly reached the conclusion that there was no link. So, in other words, they fabricated an artificial casus belli which, the way I see it, is pretty much the same than directly and individually order[ing] the killing of civilians or others.
I'm quite suspicious of irreversible actions so I wouldn't support hanging of anyone but I sure think - and so does Al - that Bush and his Administration should be held accountable for a) undermining American democracy by effectively weakening the legislative and justice branches of the Republic; and b) ordering a clearly unjustified aggression on a sovereign country and people; and c) deceiving the Nation with false allegations to support them in that aggression, not to mention all kinds of obscure appointments and nominations of self-evident interests to regulatory boards and commissions that should be policing those same interests - ExxonMobil chairman / Federal Energy Regulatory Commission anyone?
Nevertheless I think you Americans should read the book. If half of it is true you're in deep shit - and so is the rest of the world - for the years to come if this and subsequent administrations don't right those wrongs.
True. And let me tell you that your reputation as Americans has seen better days. Way better.
You are know considered fat, dumb, christian fundamentalist (oh the irony!), gun-loving rednecks that dig invading other countries and think they can do whatever they want.
Of course most of you are not like this but stereotypes reflect mentality. You need to get a hold of your country. I know this is old talk but they're feeding you shit through tv everyday while stripping your rights and, worse, your legislative and justice branches rights. Do you realize, for example, that Al Jazeera English is not available in the US? And that they have a site in order to mobilize people to ask cable operators to make it available? I mean, most of you get your information from biased sources. Worse than that is that most don't even have a way to know that the sources are biased. See it like this: A thin opaque bubble has been weaved around you. But you can easily stick your finger out and hence you can get rid of the bubble. It's really up to you guys. Because on this side of the Ocean we're busy trying to stop the bubbles too. :)
We still don't have the oil
Because ExxonMobil, Shell and BP are the ones that have it. Don't worry! I'm sure they'll sell it to you in the form of refined products for a nice artificially inflated price!
Well then, if no one culture is better than any other why does every one in the West thinks everyone else in the world must be "free and democratic" as we supposedly are?
How long will it take Americans to hang their former president then? I know, I know...
Yeah. That's what most of you people have been doing for the last years. Then you get terribly surprised that someone drives a couple of planes against a couple of buildings in your country. Then you go and set Abu Ghraib up. Nice PR move... So you don't behead them - you attach dog leashes to them while... I'm sure you get the point.
But I wouldn't blame the G.I. only. In fact, I would blame the Administration instead. I'm sure they hardly tell you this in your country but, terrorists are not evil. They're just pissed at you. Go figure why when all your soldiers do is rebuild hospitals and infrastructures. With Tomahawk missiles...
Seems to of me all the half-brained monkeys out there, we were the only ones to harness fire.
The only ones we know... :)
Besides, it seems to me that the Internet has the potential to make the *AAs as we know them today obsolete. And that's probably what they are realizing. Because we see everywhere that their profits aren't dropping that much, if not actually increasing. I think they find themselves in the position of biblical Herodes feeling threatened by "dear Baby Jesus!"
Be it as it may, the fact remains that the Internet connects everyone. And this is what I think is important. It's really not that important how the Internet was created. It's really important that now that it was we don't let no one take it away. In the way you see it we are in the phase where we may well need to start battling with the governments - both elected and de facto - for freedom to be connected to everyone. And I think it is an important and just battle.
Fire - Any half-brained evolved equivalent to a monkey in the universe should be able to manage that. We don't even remember collectively how we got it.
The Wheel - Granted. Hell of a thing. But come to think about it and one of the things it allows best is greater connectivity.
Powered Flight - This one I think you are overrating. But then again it's about connectivity. We could do it with cars and boats.
Electricity - This one gets my vote too. To manage to control and distribute energy efficiently it's gotta be important. Though I think it's unfinished. We still need to know how to create it and improve overall efficiency.
Landing on the moon - I would call this a very significant event and achievement. But they haven't particularly built anything really new. I'd at least change this for the MIR or the ISS.
I think Writing is missing. But I'd put it with fire. I guess they would make part of the intelligent species starter kit together with the wheel. As for the Internet I don't really have a better argument than that it connects everyone. I could describe all the consequences of it but I think everyone gets the point. I just think people just consider it from an personal quotidian point of view: mail, couple of blogs, torrents, etc. But my money is in that it changed the World and it's going to change a LOT more. But maybe I'm wrong and the censorship fools ruin it before that happens...
Of course if you're an adept of emergence theories...
Didn't New Orleans had a port?
Because when you come to think about it, the Internet is exactly what a lot of people have tried to accomplish throughout the millennia. Nations and empires were forged and razed, people killed and died by the millions to ultimately reach this simple goal: connect everyone.
These people, intentionally or not, want to destroy this. I think we need to raise people's awareness to this issue. The Internet is not just a network. It is the network. It allows for every single person on this planet and eventually beyond to be connected to everyone else simultaneously! I think it is of the upmost importance we fight to stop this censoring and mutilation of the Internet and preserve the recent ability our species has to global and total communication. I mean, toxic dumping is also illegal and much more dangerous collectively than downloading copyrighted material... where's the fuss about that? We need to stop taking bullshit...
Perhaps we will one day have the opportunity to work together in what we love most now that we've drawn arguments on the decisions of the bunch of fools that keep pestering us with their foolish endeavors.
Hope we can.