Hi! Pakistani here, here to explain why we hate the West.
1-You support every freaking military dictator general that pops up. Can't you be honest and NOT support them (for once!) and show that you actually support democracy?
2-You ate the F-16 money, and didn't even give us the F-16, and then gave a few long after they were the top stuff
3-You were bound to help us, you signed a freaking treaty with us(many in fact, SEATO, CENTO, Baghdad pact etc), its not that we put a gun on your head and told you to...
4-The whole Afghan war thing...you poured a lot of money in to Afghanistan without accountability, and left us with filthy rich Taliban and opium warlords, and now we have whole bunch of crazy AK-47 wielding drug-pushers loose all over the country, burning schools and blowing up innocent people.
5-Oh yeah, and the whole colonization thing, 60 years is too little to forget that...
6-Many other tiny things, like unfair tariff on our exports, too many high intesert loans, and not enough aid, weird sanctions, stuff like that.
These are some of the "non-religion" based grievances we have with the west. Not all of them are totally your fault, however, you majorly facilitated them, or stayed silent despite the need for you input. And we hate you all the more, because we don't have a say in our govt, but you do, and yet your policies are strange!
Add the religious factor, and then yes, there many people who wish you to burn in hell. But there wouldn't be so many people, if those non-religious factors weren't there to begin with.
PS. can some teach me how to put line breaks in my comments? the rant above was supposed to be a numbered list, but now is more of a crazy disorganized drivel.
Okey, back up...
1-Are we both talking about the same thing? (I was referring to an oft-repeated quote from Dragon-Ball-Z)
2-If yes, then there is a Hebrew version? Cool! Go multi-culturalism!
3-This is the first time I ever heard that The "9000" figure was disputed, thanks for enlightening me.
4-we are so off-topic, the mods are gonna kill us!
---As always, 2008 proved to be an interesting year--- ??? WTH?
Its like as if this is the Groundhog day, and 2008 keeps repeating it self...
The n+1th iteration is always more interesting than last time...
I can't believe it! This an article on LINUX, and all people are talking about are cars! Oh the irony...
On topic, There is a Vietnamese Linux Distro, Hacao linux http://hacao.com/
But the Palestinians actually selected the Hamas, on (get this) LOCAL ISSUES! Yes, hard as it may seem to believe, but they selected them on the basis of their various welfare plans (like free Hospitals and stuff), and because Arafat's Party (Al-Fatah) was corrupt. The fact that the Hamas is a Jihadist oragination is of secondary importance to the Palestinians.(heck, even the Fatah party are Jihadist! You folks know that very well...)
The people selected them because of their agendas, that suited the people, and because the other folk were corrupt and wasting their tax-money. Isn't that what people in Democracies do? Do you want them to vote for a Party that had grown fat on the people's hard earned money? Because the Hamas would still have been fighting the Israelis, no matter whether they were in power or not.
So don't blame (and punish) them for voting in a party that suited them, that would best serve them, that was the lesser of the two evils. You wouldn't like to be told who to vote for, would you?
WHAT THE ****?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_pakistan
Get your head out of your *** and realise this stinking fact, terrorist care for NOTHING and I mean nothing for silly things like PR. They have killed thousands in my country, heck in my own city Rawalpindi even, and they care ZILCH who their victim is, infact they are dead-sure the persons will most likely will be an innocent muslim.
Dear God, its, like, the answer to life, the universe and everything, man!!! Way to go MS, you are the second coming of Deep thought!
(sorry, couldn't resist...)
Seriously, the parent poster make a very good suggestion, with all the gadget churning industries sprouting up all over the east, learning their language is a very good idea, and being an engineer and all, would broaden your demand. Plus, knowing an extra language is always a great attention catcher in a CV, (except in the case of, say Spanish, which is know by just too many people in the US to still carry a charm)
I would strongly recommend Korean, because it has, unlike Chinese or Japanese, a proper set of alphabets (28 i think) and is therefore (relatively) easier to learn for english speakers...Chinese and Japanese are difficult and much more demanding... and Hindi, well since the Indians themselve are quite fluent in english, the need of learning the local won't be necessary (and no, don't waste your braincells on klingon;-) )
Also, culture wise, The Koreans (South-Koreans, that is) are quite receptive to foreigners, or so I have heard
I remember reading Harry Potter, where the goblin claim that all the items are the actually the property of the creator, that the wizards only rent for a lifetime, not buy it, and that wizards were actually stealing the items by not returning to the goblins after death, i read about it and thought "what a stupid idea, JK! in no world would THAT ever happen!"
Now however, I have to chew my words, cause this is happening in my own world
(BTW, does that make the software developers goblins;-)
personally, i think copyright should be for ten years, after that, it should become open to all, i mean, surely the companies will earn their "dues" in ten years?
plz give your own inshight on this too;-)
um, i live in a third world country, and despite the frequent load-sheddinh and power fluctuation, i still have to pay the bill..coz i have no choice
similarly, if the isps, all band together, we again will have no choice...so we could,theoratically, be forced to do anything they say...
i worship an idol? what, i never so one! man, why didn't anybody show me?
seriously, if people go to levels of actually believing such stupidity..
HELLO! we worship one God and repect jesus as much as you do!
Plz, think of us as terrorist as much as you like, but at least be knowledge-able about it...
oh for heaven's sake, one "i-wont-sign-up" coward says something against hindus, and u think thats a paki? geez! maybe it could be someone of another nationality? u ever ponder how big slashdot's readership really is? and "towelhead"? i don't think any paki can even comprehend such a word, let alone use...
and to the american un-initiated, cricket is an extremely cool game, and it beats baseball on all counts...
*devilishly giggles as a cricket-baseball flamewar erupts*
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ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY!!!111! or something like that :)
I think a "WHOOSH" is in order :)
Hi! Pakistani here, here to explain why we hate the West. 1-You support every freaking military dictator general that pops up. Can't you be honest and NOT support them (for once!) and show that you actually support democracy? 2-You ate the F-16 money, and didn't even give us the F-16, and then gave a few long after they were the top stuff 3-You were bound to help us, you signed a freaking treaty with us(many in fact, SEATO, CENTO, Baghdad pact etc), its not that we put a gun on your head and told you to... 4-The whole Afghan war thing...you poured a lot of money in to Afghanistan without accountability, and left us with filthy rich Taliban and opium warlords, and now we have whole bunch of crazy AK-47 wielding drug-pushers loose all over the country, burning schools and blowing up innocent people. 5-Oh yeah, and the whole colonization thing, 60 years is too little to forget that... 6-Many other tiny things, like unfair tariff on our exports, too many high intesert loans, and not enough aid, weird sanctions, stuff like that. These are some of the "non-religion" based grievances we have with the west. Not all of them are totally your fault, however, you majorly facilitated them, or stayed silent despite the need for you input. And we hate you all the more, because we don't have a say in our govt, but you do, and yet your policies are strange! Add the religious factor, and then yes, there many people who wish you to burn in hell. But there wouldn't be so many people, if those non-religious factors weren't there to begin with.
PS. can some teach me how to put line breaks in my comments? the rant above was supposed to be a numbered list, but now is more of a crazy disorganized drivel.
Okey, back up... 1-Are we both talking about the same thing? (I was referring to an oft-repeated quote from Dragon-Ball-Z) 2-If yes, then there is a Hebrew version? Cool! Go multi-culturalism! 3-This is the first time I ever heard that The "9000" figure was disputed, thanks for enlightening me. 4-we are so off-topic, the mods are gonna kill us!
"ITS OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!11" (Sorry, couldn't resist putting such an appropriate DBZ quote)
---As always, 2008 proved to be an interesting year--- ??? WTH? Its like as if this is the Groundhog day, and 2008 keeps repeating it self... The n+1th iteration is always more interesting than last time...
I can't believe it! This an article on LINUX, and all people are talking about are cars! Oh the irony... On topic, There is a Vietnamese Linux Distro, Hacao linux http://hacao.com/
But the Palestinians actually selected the Hamas, on (get this) LOCAL ISSUES! Yes, hard as it may seem to believe, but they selected them on the basis of their various welfare plans (like free Hospitals and stuff), and because Arafat's Party (Al-Fatah) was corrupt. The fact that the Hamas is a Jihadist oragination is of secondary importance to the Palestinians.(heck, even the Fatah party are Jihadist! You folks know that very well...) The people selected them because of their agendas, that suited the people, and because the other folk were corrupt and wasting their tax-money. Isn't that what people in Democracies do? Do you want them to vote for a Party that had grown fat on the people's hard earned money? Because the Hamas would still have been fighting the Israelis, no matter whether they were in power or not. So don't blame (and punish) them for voting in a party that suited them, that would best serve them, that was the lesser of the two evils. You wouldn't like to be told who to vote for, would you?
I typed [i]nothing[i] (forgot the slash, then again, I am not a programmer, I am doing CA)
WHAT THE ****? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_pakistan Get your head out of your *** and realise this stinking fact, terrorist care for NOTHING and I mean nothing for silly things like PR. They have killed thousands in my country, heck in my own city Rawalpindi even, and they care ZILCH who their victim is, infact they are dead-sure the persons will most likely will be an innocent muslim.
Dear God, its, like, the answer to life, the universe and everything, man!!! Way to go MS, you are the second coming of Deep thought! (sorry, couldn't resist...)
I obviously didn't RT*A(duh!), but i think folks at RIAA may be making calls to get in link with however is blocking these sites for "tips".
...to readapt Debian's... hehe! "re-adapt", get it? ;-)
Seriously, the parent poster make a very good suggestion, with all the gadget churning industries sprouting up all over the east, learning their language is a very good idea, and being an engineer and all, would broaden your demand. Plus, knowing an extra language is always a great attention catcher in a CV, (except in the case of, say Spanish, which is know by just too many people in the US to still carry a charm) I would strongly recommend Korean, because it has, unlike Chinese or Japanese, a proper set of alphabets (28 i think) and is therefore (relatively) easier to learn for english speakers...Chinese and Japanese are difficult and much more demanding... and Hindi, well since the Indians themselve are quite fluent in english, the need of learning the local won't be necessary (and no, don't waste your braincells on klingon ;-) )
Also, culture wise, The Koreans (South-Koreans, that is) are quite receptive to foreigners, or so I have heard
I have achieved actual liftoff, just gulp down Red Bull and it gives you WIIIIINGSSSSS................
I remember reading Harry Potter, where the goblin claim that all the items are the actually the property of the creator, that the wizards only rent for a lifetime, not buy it, and that wizards were actually stealing the items by not returning to the goblins after death, i read about it and thought "what a stupid idea, JK! in no world would THAT ever happen!" Now however, I have to chew my words, cause this is happening in my own world (BTW, does that make the software developers goblins ;-)
A flower, by any name, would smell just as sweet, but it would effect its distance!
personally, i think copyright should be for ten years, after that, it should become open to all, i mean, surely the companies will earn their "dues" in ten years? plz give your own inshight on this too ;-)
um, i live in a third world country, and despite the frequent load-sheddinh and power fluctuation, i still have to pay the bill..coz i have no choice similarly, if the isps, all band together, we again will have no choice...so we could,theoratically, be forced to do anything they say...
i worship an idol? what, i never so one! man, why didn't anybody show me? seriously, if people go to levels of actually believing such stupidity.. HELLO! we worship one God and repect jesus as much as you do! Plz, think of us as terrorist as much as you like, but at least be knowledge-able about it...
oh for heaven's sake, one "i-wont-sign-up" coward says something against hindus, and u think thats a paki? geez! maybe it could be someone of another nationality? u ever ponder how big slashdot's readership really is? and "towelhead"? i don't think any paki can even comprehend such a word, let alone use... and to the american un-initiated, cricket is an extremely cool game, and it beats baseball on all counts... *devilishly giggles as a cricket-baseball flamewar erupts*