DOpus made using a vanilla A1200 bearable (WB3.1 was far too kludgy and slow - thus negating the reasons WB was remembered so fondly!)
To finally see the kind of program that made the Amiga legend on different formats would be a real testament to the work of those that have fought to keep the machine alive over recent years, while greedy corporations fought over the rights to Amiga, purely for the GUI technology, simply to give them more leverage with MS, so the machine could be killed even more stone dead!
What makes the Amiga special is that the fundamental design and ideas behind the machine were good. The design was based around having a good machine, not one that would render itself obsolete within a few years so the company could fleece more money from the public. No adding lots of features at the last minute, no bloatware, and no need to charge big $ for major updates, simply because the system tended to work out of the box, and in the rare cases it didn't, SetPatch was free.
Anyway, got a bit OT there. Please someone port it to whatever you can (I would, but a)I don't really have the brains yet, and b)I'm a student on my year out, with every day filled with something i usually don't want to do;>) )
I say this, because a port is the only way to keep the faith until these new owners come up with something tangible. I can't deny that the technology needs a serious rethink, but still, I'd love to see the machine's name and ethos resurrected, so here's hoping!
OK. Let's start by clearing the air a little. I will admit to having some pretty strong socialist convictions, but I can also see the benefits of the free-market system. What upsets me is the inequality engendered by the capitalist mindset, i.e. that those who are at the top of the heap take the ideas and innovations of those lower down (or buy those of people unconnected with the corporation), and swiftly take all the credit (and the remuneration) should the project become a success. To re-iterate, I firmly believe that this is, if not wrong, at the very least, extremely unjust.
However. what irks me are those who rant against the corporate system in general, but who harbour secret desires not to cease the inequalities, but to merely be at the head of the pile themselves.
Jon, is is my fear, and opinion at the moment, that you are one of these people. You post stories, usually quite lengthy, about how bad the system is, but when people respond, you do not partake in the discussion itself. I believe your e-mail sources are genuine, don't get me wrong. But when someone posts an alternative theory, or an addition to yours, I have never seen a response. An awful lot of Slashdot readers see you as someone who writes stories on high, secure in the knowledge that you have an army of readers who will disseminate your material, and who will heed your opinion.
I will always hold you in high esteem for providing an alternative outlet for the Colorado fallout, but until I see you start to post in response to criticism, that is all I will continue to respect you for.
I realise that Slashdot may not be your primary concern. I also appreciate that you are probably a busy man. However, by not responding to criticism, aren't you merely propagating the attitudes of the bosses who don't listen to their staff? Are you not, when it really gets down to it, one of those who you claim to despise?
Apologies to plunge for invading his thread, I just needed to air this.....
It gives people who slagged MS with little reason a chance to find out why MS gets slagged, and the attitudes that cause the company, and the former CEO, to be so maligned.
With information like this, it gives us weenies a chance to make up our own minds. The quotes are not edited, nor are they skewed. The way all factual reporting should be, but I forget! Honest factual reporting doesn't SELL, does it?
all the proof you need that software innovation and quality was NEVER Gates's watchword, being wholly dumped for the holy $. Not only does he come across as arrogant, but he seems to regard with distaste anything he's not making a profit out of. Jeez, Bill! In those days you NEEDED to share ideas just to build a computing community. His tone when he finds that a piece of code has been shared in hex is quite a nasty thing to hear. It would be deliciously ironic if one of his programmers today started with that little bunch of hex back at the turn of the '80s.
Sounds to me like he had his heart set on a monopoly from the very beginning.
That's why his sentence was harsh, IMHO. I seriously worry about this free-market economy in which we are all a part when crimes are measured by the amount of financial harm done, rather than measured by how much humanity or society was in danger. It seems that for murder, (unless the trash press get ahold of it) you can expect to do your time and be out in 20 years, but here, we're denying basic rights way after this poor sod's got out of jail, simply because of the amount of money he allegedly cost a corporation, trying to fix holes in their computer security that shouldn't have been there in the first place!
My hangover's clearing now.... I needed that rant.
......IIRC, the original Lara model WAS designed to cater for both genders. If you look *closely* at the model in the ORIGINAL release of TR1, you'll find her features quite tame. Any graphic artist/game designer worth his salt would know that a pair of balloon-sized mammaries would impede movement and make the game unrealistic. The original Lara model was designed by one man at Core, and the marketing department ordered the ad-men to enlarge her figure. REAL (male and female) gamers couldn't give a stuff about the physical stats of the character they play with (unless playing an RPG). The only arseholes in this particular case are the computer mag journalists who wish they were writing for FHM, and the maketing/ad company who directed the Tomb Raider ads straight at the FHM market, when the game itself was much more wide-ranging.
It seems very much like Intel are performing a few MS-like maneouvers of their own here. Obviously if a licensing agreement was made, then that should be enforceable, but to me it seems that they're just using that legal excuse (and corporate weight) to prevent competition.
Isn't that more or less what MS stand accused of doing??!
I mean, it would make sense if VIA, AMD and the like were producing inferior copies that harmed the reputation of the computer industry, holding back performance, or if they were using Intel's trademark, but they're not. They actually seem to be able to produce better product, faster and cheaper. Consumers and users aren't being harmed here, just Intel's profit margin. Why is it that when big companies are outdone in the innovation field, they always resort to bring legal powers to bear on the smaller firms, thus harming the very innovation they're trying to promote. If Intel took this attitude 6 years ago, we'd probably be using 486's still!
If I were them, I'd stop spending all this money and lawsuits and spend SERIOUS amounts of money on R&D. They're just going to get left behind otherwise.
>If the movie is going to be half as good as the diskworld cartoons (they are great)
Wyrd Sisters was a bit of a bad choice in my opinion, because the book is so reliant on dialogue. A lot of DW purists hated it though, because it tried to replace the dialogue with action. Soul Music fared a lot better though, simply because there were more set pieces. The animation got better around episode 4, too (about when the money for Wyrd Sisters came in, prolly:) )
I'd just like to see Cosgrove-Hall attempt Guards! Guards! sometime soon......
.....I've always felt that GO has a lot of internationally recognisable humour (without going into too much detail, i'm pretty sure we'd all laugh at the smiting of the telesales reps, the sigil shaped ring road, the company paintball trip with REAL GUNS.... I could go on forever.)
It will probably lose something in the translation, because it is a densely written book (for densely written, file under: a hidden joke on pretty much every other paragraph), however the trick, surely, will be to lose as little as possible, while getting it to clock in at around 2 hrs
It CAN'T be transplanted to the US for the simple reason that the location is central to the plot of the book (The Antichrist is supposed to be supplanted for the son of the US Ambassador to the UK, IIRC, but it goes pear-shaped).
The one thing that terrifies me is the thought that they'll go overboard on the CGI (necessary in Fear & Loathing, not so with GO). If they do a "Mummy" with Death and CG him, then I will be really pissed off, as a good actor could bring so much to that part.
Anyway, I'm going to bore you to tears and list my ideal cast now (or at least some, I cant think of all just yet):
Aziraphale/Crowley - Rupert Everett, Gary Oldman (as both are fine character actors, they could play either) Aziraphale - Alan Cumming Anathema - Kate Beckinsale... maybe Julia Sawalha... Honeysuckle Weeks? Newt Pulsifier -..this is a hard one... any suggestions? The Metatron - Alan Rickman (well, you gotta have consistency)
That's a few ideas. It's be cool to hear more.....
*What defines a "military" person? Active-duty? Retired? Veteran?* Any of the above that still believes that military -style thinking (regimentation, need-to-know, obeying orders blindly) has any place whatsoever outside of the military.
The US has a different problem, due to the fact that Vietnam was a war fought on shaky ground, for little good reason. (The military had some new hardware they wanted to test, and McCartyist beliefs were still rife in the Pentagon in the '60s)
The last large-scale war fought by our country (UK)was WWII, and as a result many of our older veterans have re-shaped their memory to the tune of "National Service is a good thing", "Bloody Germans will never change (this view is actually proliferated by the brain-dead press)", and perhaps the most arse-achingly dumb, "War did me good" WAR NEVER DID ANYONE ANY GOOD! It kills people! That's all it does!
What I consider a 'military thinker' would say all of the above, and more worryingly, mean it.
"Where do you want to die today" - Slogan for the Microsoft Military
*he actually DID HARD TIME for what he believed in.* But what he believe(s/d) in (The American Dream) was a lie! How many more people do you want to see go fight and die for something that was little more than McCarthyism redux? At least Clinton put a stop to at least some of the macho BS propagated in the Reagan years (Kosovo was mismanaged though, I'll admit that)
The Library thing with US tax dollars i am sorry about, but not being a US citizen, you can't blame me for getting my wires crossed.
What scares me is that the remaining superpower, (and the former Soviet Union for that matter) seem to want to elect two aggressive, former military heads of state. I don't like that, but I'm a pacifist, so I wouldn't, I guess.
I just find that if a kid wants to see something, they will of their own accord. I found out about porn quietly and on my own, but decided I could live without it, at the age of 13. Don't you think that if a kid is brighth enough, they should have at least *some* say?
A site set up to deal with the issue of preventing certain types of 'net access to young people.
'Blocked Page Of The Day' has an interesting take on the situation I mentioned where a site dealing rationally and sensibly with the issue of sexuality (in this case, lesbianism) was blocked due to some seeing it as 'promoting' homosexuality..... oh dear.....
It just brings to my mind the image Of Stan, Cartman, Kyle and Kenny licking the carpet in their Birkenstocks, listening to the Indigo Girls because adults skirted the issue or resorted to stereotypes to explain the issue to them.....
...That what we have here is a country of free speech, as long as the speech is 100% ratified and deemed pure first.
I suppose it would be a good idea to block porn in libraries, but where would it stop? It would just move on to internet cafes, and so on, until it started affecting home users. and would the block stop with porn? Sooner or later more subjects would be blocked, some of which genuinely help people with sexuality difficulties.
I'm a bit wary of McCain, simply because I am wary of all who display a military past with too much pride. "I obeyed orders, and killed people, and I didn't even know why!" seems to be a fine thing to these people. Military people rarely get out of the military way of thinking, and thinking that the public should learn things on a 'need-to-know' basis is insane.
Having said that, with all the cover-ups perpetrated by most governments, perhaps he is just being straight-talking about these things...:>)
They go after the wrong people, were forced to admit to being institutionally racist, and generally couldn't police a picnic. I'm sorry to the few good coppers out there, but the vast majority of UK police (especially the Met) simply take the easy arrests to meet their quota. Think Chief Wiggum with a really sadistic streak and you've got em.
Sorry.. ranted again
Do we really need to chase it that far?
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Only problem is, the police in this country tend to have a dim view of releasing too many details to the press, especially if they are in contact with all parties involved. I think it would be best to let it lie, because wherever Desmond is, he's liable to be having a good time, and what good will finger-pointing do now. Surely he should be allowed to leave this world as gently as he behaved in it.
> More importantly - why is this "News for Nerds"? > > Since it most certainly is not "Stuff that Matters"...
Adopts 'Dr. Evil' voice -
While I was frozen, I developed a method for relieving stress that I like to call 'hu - mour'. Using this 'hu - mour' we can burn a hole in the techie obsessiveness surrounding Slashdot, and make it a fun site to visit - unless they pay us - a hefty ransom?
I like Linux and tech-talk as much as the next geek, but jeez, do we have to talk about it all the time?
Hitler started off by annexing Austria, which to all intents and purposes was supported by the Austrian public. He then annexed the Sudetenland in the Czech Republic, again generally supported by the populace. After losing a generation of young men in 1914-18, the other major European countries weren't exactly too enamoured of the idea of going to fight again. Note that persecution was all he was doing to the Jews then, a common practice in many countries other than Germany, so fighting really wasn't an option until he overstepped the boundary by invading Poland.
The whole point is that rampant nationalism and aggression starts wars, and what took the real guts was going in with so much to lose, and with every possibility that we would lose.
The Serbians I know are very nice people who can't stand what Karadic and Milosevic have done for their national image.
OK, I kinda feel responsible, and bad about this, so I'm gonna post now, and hopefully put an end to it. I was *seriously* upset at the open flamefare between the US/.ers and their European counterparts in recent article posts, and put the thread up as a joke, so we wouldn't start up again. This seems to have been taken the wrong way, and the flames began afresh. I hate nationalism in general, and that's wh y politicians like Pat Buchanan in the US, and Derek Beackon, Michael Portillo and the xenophobes in the UK, and the proliferation of far-Right (and in some cases, far-Left) parties in the world *really* scare me. For those who haven't read their history closely enough, nationalism on a global scale leads to war eventually, and war leads to heavy casualties and lets face it, death in most cases. Politicians who fear global missile exchange will still settle most disputes with conventional weapons, and in a large campaign, this means that people of our age will be taken away from our computers, families and friends, and made to sit in the cold with a gun, waiting for other cold and frightened people with guns to attack us. The alternative (nuclear exchange) doesn't even bear thinking about. And it's people in the/. demographic that will be forced to do these things. Computer expertise matters not a jot in the military, unless you have the right connections. Those sent to die fifty or so years ago could have been US if something dreadful happened nowadays. We're all human, we all enjoy the same things. Yes, we might not agree with opinions based on each other's way of life, but it's not worth letting these things escalate, because the only people who will really lose are ourselves.
So when you flame, remember that a lot of these people across the pond are probably closer to you in spirit than many of our respective countrymen. Countries simply *aren't* worth dying for.
Respect to all those in Europe, the US, Howondaland, Klatch, wherever..... as long as they don't want to fight.
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To finally see the kind of program that made the Amiga legend on different formats would be a real testament to the work of those that have fought to keep the machine alive over recent years, while greedy corporations fought over the rights to Amiga, purely for the GUI technology, simply to give them more leverage with MS, so the machine could be killed even more stone dead!
What makes the Amiga special is that the fundamental design and ideas behind the machine were good. The design was based around having a good machine, not one that would render itself obsolete within a few years so the company could fleece more money from the public. No adding lots of features at the last minute, no bloatware, and no need to charge big $ for major updates, simply because the system tended to work out of the box, and in the rare cases it didn't, SetPatch was free.
Anyway, got a bit OT there. Please someone port it to whatever you can (I would, but a)I don't really have the brains yet, and b)I'm a student on my year out, with every day filled with something i usually don't want to do ;>) )
I say this, because a port is the only way to keep the faith until these new owners come up with something tangible. I can't deny that the technology needs a serious rethink, but still, I'd love to see the machine's name and ethos resurrected, so here's hoping!
However. what irks me are those who rant against the corporate system in general, but who harbour secret desires not to cease the inequalities, but to merely be at the head of the pile themselves.
Jon, is is my fear, and opinion at the moment, that you are one of these people. You post stories, usually quite lengthy, about how bad the system is, but when people respond, you do not partake in the discussion itself. I believe your e-mail sources are genuine, don't get me wrong. But when someone posts an alternative theory, or an addition to yours, I have never seen a response. An awful lot of Slashdot readers see you as someone who writes stories on high, secure in the knowledge that you have an army of readers who will disseminate your material, and who will heed your opinion.
I will always hold you in high esteem for providing an alternative outlet for the Colorado fallout, but until I see you start to post in response to criticism, that is all I will continue to respect you for.
I realise that Slashdot may not be your primary concern. I also appreciate that you are probably a busy man. However, by not responding to criticism, aren't you merely propagating the attitudes of the bosses who don't listen to their staff? Are you not, when it really gets down to it, one of those who you claim to despise?
Apologies to plunge for invading his thread, I just needed to air this.....
It gives people who slagged MS with little reason a chance to find out why MS gets slagged, and the attitudes that cause the company, and the former CEO, to be so maligned.
With information like this, it gives us weenies a chance to make up our own minds. The quotes are not edited, nor are they skewed. The way all factual reporting should be, but I forget! Honest factual reporting doesn't SELL, does it?
all the proof you need that software innovation and quality was NEVER Gates's watchword, being wholly dumped for the holy $. Not only does he come across as arrogant, but he seems to regard with distaste anything he's not making a profit out of. Jeez, Bill! In those days you NEEDED to share ideas just to build a computing community. His tone when he finds that a piece of code has been shared in hex is quite a nasty thing to hear. It would be deliciously ironic if one of his programmers today started with that little bunch of hex back at the turn of the '80s.
Sounds to me like he had his heart set on a monopoly from the very beginning.
That's why his sentence was harsh, IMHO. I seriously worry about this free-market economy in which we are all a part when crimes are measured by the amount of financial harm done, rather than measured by how much humanity or society was in danger. It seems that for murder, (unless the trash press get ahold of it) you can expect to do your time and be out in 20 years, but here, we're denying basic rights way after this poor sod's got out of jail, simply because of the amount of money he allegedly cost a corporation, trying to fix holes in their computer security that shouldn't have been there in the first place!
My hangover's clearing now.... I needed that rant.
......IIRC, the original Lara model WAS designed to cater for both genders. If you look *closely* at the model in the ORIGINAL release of TR1, you'll find her features quite tame. Any graphic artist/game designer worth his salt would know that a pair of balloon-sized mammaries would impede movement and make the game unrealistic. The original Lara model was designed by one man at Core, and the marketing department ordered the ad-men to enlarge her figure. REAL (male and female) gamers couldn't give a stuff about the physical stats of the character they play with (unless playing an RPG). The only arseholes in this particular case are the computer mag journalists who wish they were writing for FHM, and the maketing/ad company who directed the Tomb Raider ads straight at the FHM market, when the game itself was much more wide-ranging.
*RANT MODE OFF*
It seems very much like Intel are performing a few MS-like maneouvers of their own here. Obviously if a licensing agreement was made, then that should be enforceable, but to me it seems that they're just using that legal excuse (and corporate weight) to prevent competition.
Isn't that more or less what MS stand accused of doing??!
I mean, it would make sense if VIA, AMD and the like were producing inferior copies that harmed the reputation of the computer industry, holding back performance, or if they were using Intel's trademark, but they're not. They actually seem to be able to produce better product, faster and cheaper. Consumers and users aren't being harmed here, just Intel's profit margin.
Why is it that when big companies are outdone in the innovation field, they always resort to bring legal powers to bear on the smaller firms, thus harming the very innovation they're trying to promote. If Intel took this attitude 6 years ago, we'd probably be using 486's still!
If I were them, I'd stop spending all this money and lawsuits and spend SERIOUS amounts of money on R&D. They're just going to get left behind otherwise.
Just my opinion.......
>If the movie is going to be half as good as the diskworld cartoons (they are great)
:) )
Wyrd Sisters was a bit of a bad choice in my opinion, because the book is so reliant on dialogue. A lot of DW purists hated it though, because it tried to replace the dialogue with action. Soul Music fared a lot better though, simply because there were more set pieces. The animation got better around episode 4, too (about when the money for Wyrd Sisters came in, prolly
I'd just like to see Cosgrove-Hall attempt Guards! Guards! sometime soon......
Would that make Nicholas Lyndhurst Newton Pulsifier?
I can see it now..... "Newton, you PLONKER!"
.....I've always felt that GO has a lot of internationally recognisable humour (without going into too much detail, i'm pretty sure we'd all laugh at the smiting of the telesales reps, the sigil shaped ring road, the company paintball trip with REAL GUNS.... I could go on forever.)
..this is a hard one... any suggestions?
It will probably lose something in the translation, because it is a densely written book (for densely written, file under: a hidden joke on pretty much every other paragraph), however the trick, surely, will be to lose as little as possible, while getting it to clock in at around 2 hrs
It CAN'T be transplanted to the US for the simple reason that the location is central to the plot of the book (The Antichrist is supposed to be supplanted for the son of the US Ambassador to the UK, IIRC, but it goes pear-shaped).
The one thing that terrifies me is the thought that they'll go overboard on the CGI (necessary in Fear & Loathing, not so with GO). If they do a "Mummy" with Death and CG him, then I will be really pissed off, as a good actor could bring so much to that part.
Anyway, I'm going to bore you to tears and list my ideal cast now (or at least some, I cant think of all just yet):
Aziraphale/Crowley - Rupert Everett, Gary Oldman (as both are fine character actors, they could play either)
Aziraphale - Alan Cumming
Anathema - Kate Beckinsale... maybe Julia Sawalha... Honeysuckle Weeks?
Newt Pulsifier -
The Metatron - Alan Rickman (well, you gotta have consistency)
That's a few ideas. It's be cool to hear more.....
*What defines a "military" person? Active-duty? Retired? Veteran?* Any of the above that still believes that military -style thinking (regimentation, need-to-know, obeying orders blindly) has any place whatsoever outside of the military.
The US has a different problem, due to the fact that Vietnam was a war fought on shaky ground, for little good reason. (The military had some new hardware they wanted to test, and McCartyist beliefs were still rife in the Pentagon in the '60s)
The last large-scale war fought by our country (UK)was WWII, and as a result many of our older veterans have re-shaped their memory to the tune of "National Service is a good thing", "Bloody Germans will never change (this view is actually proliferated by the brain-dead press)", and perhaps the most arse-achingly dumb, "War did me good" WAR NEVER DID ANYONE ANY GOOD! It kills people! That's all it does!
What I consider a 'military thinker' would say all of the above, and more worryingly, mean it.
"Where do you want to die today" - Slogan for the Microsoft Military
*he actually DID HARD TIME for what he believed in.* But what he believe(s/d) in (The American Dream) was a lie! How many more people do you want to see go fight and die for something that was little more than McCarthyism redux? At least Clinton put a stop to at least some of the macho BS propagated in the Reagan years (Kosovo was mismanaged though, I'll admit that)
The Library thing with US tax dollars i am sorry about, but not being a US citizen, you can't blame me for getting my wires crossed.
What scares me is that the remaining superpower, (and the former Soviet Union for that matter) seem to want to elect two aggressive, former military heads of state. I don't like that, but I'm a pacifist, so I wouldn't, I guess.
I just find that if a kid wants to see something, they will of their own accord. I found out about porn quietly and on my own, but decided I could live without it, at the age of 13. Don't you think that if a kid is brighth enough, they should have at least *some* say?
A site set up to deal with the issue of preventing certain types of 'net access to young people.
'Blocked Page Of The Day' has an interesting take on the situation I mentioned where a site dealing rationally and sensibly with the issue of sexuality (in this case, lesbianism) was blocked due to some seeing it as 'promoting' homosexuality..... oh dear.....
It just brings to my mind the image Of Stan, Cartman, Kyle and Kenny licking the carpet in their Birkenstocks, listening to the Indigo Girls because adults skirted the issue or resorted to stereotypes to explain the issue to them.....
...That what we have here is a country of free speech, as long as the speech is 100% ratified and deemed pure first.
:>)
I suppose it would be a good idea to block porn in libraries, but where would it stop? It would just move on to internet cafes, and so on, until it started affecting home users. and would the block stop with porn? Sooner or later more subjects would be blocked, some of which genuinely help people with sexuality difficulties.
I'm a bit wary of McCain, simply because I am wary of all who display a military past with too much pride. "I obeyed orders, and killed people, and I didn't even know why!" seems to be a fine thing to these people. Military people rarely get out of the military way of thinking, and thinking that the public should learn things on a 'need-to-know' basis is insane.
Having said that, with all the cover-ups perpetrated by most governments, perhaps he is just being straight-talking about these things...
They go after the wrong people, were forced to admit to being institutionally racist, and generally couldn't police a picnic. I'm sorry to the few good coppers out there, but the vast majority of UK police (especially the Met) simply take the easy arrests to meet their quota. Think Chief Wiggum with a really sadistic streak and you've got em.
Sorry.. ranted again
Happy Generic Winter Festival, all!
I barely got out of there alive.... ;>)
Looks like your future might not be that good looking ;>)
Now forgive me for being a little picky, but does she sound like a no-brainer Britney-alike or what?
>
> Since it most certainly is not "Stuff that Matters"...
Adopts 'Dr. Evil' voice -
While I was frozen, I developed a method for relieving stress that I like to call 'hu - mour'. Using this 'hu - mour' we can burn a hole in the techie obsessiveness surrounding Slashdot, and make it a fun site to visit - unless they pay us - a hefty ransom?
I like Linux and tech-talk as much as the next geek, but jeez, do we have to talk about it all the time?
But imagine the descendants..... Personally, I'd rather be nuked!
Hitler started off by annexing Austria, which to all intents and purposes was supported by the Austrian public. He then annexed the Sudetenland in the Czech Republic, again generally supported by the populace. After losing a generation of young men in 1914-18, the other major European countries weren't exactly too enamoured of the idea of going to fight again. Note that persecution was all he was doing to the Jews then, a common practice in many countries other than Germany, so fighting really wasn't an option until he overstepped the boundary by invading Poland.
The whole point is that rampant nationalism and aggression starts wars, and what took the real guts was going in with so much to lose, and with every possibility that we would lose.
The Serbians I know are very nice people who can't stand what Karadic and Milosevic have done for their national image.
It takes guts to NOT use a gun until you have to.
read that this morning... See? I *do* take an interest.....
OK, I kinda feel responsible, and bad about this, so I'm gonna post now, and hopefully put an end to it. /.ers and their European counterparts in recent article posts, and put the thread up as a joke, so we wouldn't start up again. This seems to have been taken the wrong way, and the flames began afresh. /. demographic that will be forced to do these things. Computer expertise matters not a jot in the military, unless you have the right connections. Those sent to die fifty or so years ago could have been US if something dreadful happened nowadays.
I was *seriously* upset at the open flamefare between the US
I hate nationalism in general, and that's wh y politicians like Pat Buchanan in the US, and Derek Beackon, Michael Portillo and the xenophobes in the UK, and the proliferation of far-Right (and in some cases, far-Left) parties in the world *really* scare me.
For those who haven't read their history closely enough, nationalism on a global scale leads to war eventually, and war leads to heavy casualties and lets face it, death in most cases.
Politicians who fear global missile exchange will still settle most disputes with conventional weapons, and in a large campaign, this means that people of our age will be taken away from our computers, families and friends, and made to sit in the cold with a gun, waiting for other cold and frightened people with guns to attack us. The alternative (nuclear exchange) doesn't even bear thinking about.
And it's people in the
We're all human, we all enjoy the same things. Yes, we might not agree with opinions based on each other's way of life, but it's not worth letting these things escalate, because the only people who will really lose are ourselves.
So when you flame, remember that a lot of these people across the pond are probably closer to you in spirit than many of our respective countrymen. Countries simply *aren't* worth dying for.
Respect to all those in Europe, the US, Howondaland, Klatch, wherever..... as long as they don't want to fight.
but it seemed to get out of hand (see: Re -ME TURRICANED)
Sorry, folks