"My only problem with mozilla is how long it takes to create a new window."
Really? It takes about 1 second on my system (750mhz Duron/256mb, Debian 2.2r3). What kind of hardware do you have?
It takes at most 1/10th second on Opera, for comparison, IOW, effectively instant which is how I want it.
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Mozilla is more corrent, more stable, and faster than Konqueror and Opera.
More stable that Opera maybe but not as fast. I use both Mozilla and Opera on my laptop, mostly Opera because of the speed. I go to Mozilla when some page doesn't work. Mozilla is pretty fast at rendering (Gecko) but still, Opera is faster in many case. There's no question that Mozilla's UI is slow, though much faster than it used to be.
On my 2x1 GHz/2 GB machine I only use Mozilla.
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Unfortunately, it is. Flamebait as it might be, very few people are actually *using* Netscape/Mozilla anymore.
Err, sorry, you're living on another planet. Pretty well everybody running Linux is using either Netscape or Mozilla, increasingly Mozilla. Mozilla usage is obviously increasing rapidly.
There are two ways you can look at it: that everything is "greed", and we're living in a "corporate state" (as Katz would probably say), or that oil is the fuel of the economy, and it's damn important for it to flow freely.
So you're saying that in the case, the desire to build a pipeline across Afghanistan justified supporting two groups (Gullbuddin Hekmatyar and Taleban) that everybody knew were a gang of bloodthirty murderers (the first) and delusional fundamentalists (the second)? I'm really curious, are you going to plead ignorance or "National Interest"?
"lets not have any more of those stupid "hindsight" platitudes, lets get it right this time."
And here's another guarantee: We will make mistakes this time, also. You don't seem to have come to grips with the fact that foreign policy -- particularly in the middle east -- is an inexact science. I think it's somewhat naive to think that government has some sort of crystal ball that tells you the best course of action.
You don't seem to have come to grip with the fact that supporting the Taliban was just a cynical money grab, since some U.S. Oil company wanted to build a pipeline through the country and wanted somebody strong and central to negotiate with. So it was nothing but greed, and those chickens came home to roost.
Like I said, this is a common theme in U.S. foreign policy. Look at the history of South America. It's time for you to stop denying that this happens and start recognizing that the only way to have a safe, secure world is to stop this shit.
"You armed the mujahedeen against the former USSR (The CIA did it), and now you have Laden and the Taliban sticking it up your arses."
It's an imperfect world, and hindsite is 20/20.
That's a complete copout. It was known at the time that the people who were getting the money (e.g., Gulbuddin Hekmatyar) were the most bloodthirsty fanatics in the country, and not even the best fighters (Massoud was).
The stupidity was compounded by supporting the Taliban, which seemed liked a good idea to who? Not to me. We're talking at the time, this was obvious. U.S. foreign policy seems to be to support whoever looks like the biggest strongman with the fewest moral inhibitions. It's a theme that's been played out over and over again. Please, lets not have any more of those stupid "hindsight" platitudes, lets get it right this time. The only people worth supporting are those whose aims are a free, democratic society.
Sometimes you have to take the lessor of the evils of the time (See Iran/Iraq war) and do the best you can. And it's hard to imagine a bigger evil than the former Soviet Union.
So why exactly was it necessary to support the Taliban? The soviet union was already out of the picture by that time. Whose bright idea was it. Sorry, this "lessor evil" thing is just used to justify policies that are nothing less than evil. I give you Saddam. Why is he there? To counter Iran. Never mind that Iran is slowly coming to its senses by itself, but Saddam isn't.
So, VA axed the two DRI developer (read all about it at linuxgames.com), and now the Mesa developer! We are all screwed.
Err, no, you don't get it. There was Mesa before there was VA and if there were no VA or Precision Insight there would still be Mesa. It's called Open Source, it doesn't die when companies go down. Sometimes it gets stronger.
If VA fires unique people like Mesa's leader, is it also the beginning of the end of Sourceforge?
No, 3D graphics development has nothing to do with Sourceforge maintainance or consulting expertise.
This is a matter of consolodation. Its the right thing to do in the current climate. VA has to trim all fat to the point where it can get by on the rather small revenue from its web portals and Sourceforge businesses. Or at least conserve its cash through the high-tech winter. I support VA in that, I'd rather that they be small than nonexistent.
You don't want Brian to drop Mesa and start maintaining Sourceforge do you?
Cool!! I look forward to the Linux Port (and to being able to try out the game). I will NOT be using a windoze machine to test it..
I couldn't if I wanted to, I don't have a Windows box. I wonder how many belong to the Linux-only club now? Maybe not too many games so far. I notice a lot more can dual boot but refuse to though.
linux users use the linux box for many of the un-sexy things like operating a database or serving web pages, something which your average windows user, who is looking for Minesweeper or a DVD player, would consider "nothing to do."
Maybe those Windows users would be interested to know that dvi's now play more smoothly and look better on Linux than on Windows? Heh, I was surprised too. My friend who set it up did admittedly put a lot of hours into getting everything assembled and working. No, he didn't have to write code, just sort out a lot of compile and config details. But you know - today's hack is tomorrow's apt-get.
Along the same lines, it's said Unreal plays more smoothly on Linux than Windows. So I guess we're talking language that even nongeeks can appreciate.
I can't believe it... not _yet another_ debian based distribution! Look around! The only debian based distribution that has even the faintest hope of turning a profit is Progeny.
With its heavy emphasis on KDE and Wine, I've always seen Corel's distribution as a migration path for Windows users more than anything else. As such Xandros and Progeny are not playing in the same space.
Nice try, but it's the real Bruce, note the low ID number. E-mail me if you want to verify.
Bruce, I'm sure it's you, but I am not sure that the level of venom in your original post is seemly for a person in your position. You could have just presented what you perceive as the facts and let people draw their own conclusions.
Although I verbaly agreed to advise them more than a year ago, nothing exists on paper...
A verbal agreement is no less an agreement than a paper agreement. Paper and signatures are simply evidence of an agreement, not the agreement itself. That was one of the points you made, another had to do with term sheets. Are you sure that the term sheets had no provision for adverse market conditions? It is typical that they do.
Finally, you suggested that Xandro's investor, LGP, entered into negotiations with Genome simply to discover their business plan. I find that something of a stretch, really I do.
I am completely impartial in this, though I admit I want to believe in Xandros. My impression of their intent is that they want to put out a "Corel but done right" distribution, correcting Corel's mistake where some parts of the distribution were closed source.
Personally , I believe there is room for a Debian-based KDE-oriented commercially supported distribution and I am relieved to see someone stepping in to fill the market position so recently vacated by Storm Linux. I do not believe that Xandros simply imitating of Genome.
I you can't sell the idea to your current employer then dust off your resume and shop it around. Specifically indicate that you would consider the opportunity to telecommute an attractive sweetener. Don't insist on it, you'll sound radical, also don't state the obvious - that if telecommuting isn't a option you'll reject their offer.
When you're changing jobs is when you have the most leverage.
basically they say that RTLinux is violating the GPL by not releasing the source to their Linux kernel mods
The violation has nothing to do with source code, which is freely available, it has everything to do with restrictions on use of the software - it is free only for non-commercial use. If you want to sell your program you have to buy a license. Interestingly, this is a case where GPL fanatics are sticking up for the rights of commercial users.
Next post could you please consider checking both your facts and your spelling?;-)
the idea that we could possibly hit them so hard that no one would ever again DARE to do something like this is absurd. A strike that powerful does not exist. Why would terrorists like these ever fear us?
If anybody in the command chain is bright enough to realize it, there can be a natural and beneficial evolution to events in Afghanistan. Assuming the Taliban don't hand OSM over, and I don't think they will - they'll keep talking about it but they'll never do it - then the only thing left to do is kick the taliban out. Remember, they're not the legitmate government of Aghanistan anyway.
But note: bombing isn't going to do it. Rockets and strafing are not going to do it. That stuff will ake out lots of civilians, sure, but Afghanistan withstood worse for *years* against the soviets, partly because of the terrain, but more because of how the people are.
And there is no industrial infrastructure in Afghanistan worth hitting.
So it has to be a ground operation. Sound dangerous? You better believe it. The place is mountainous and riddled with tunnels. The fighters are skilled and don't give a shit. It's hard to operate tanks there, and rockets just move the rocks around. This should be done together with Amadshah Masood the "lion of Panjhir" who represents the interests of the legitimate government of Afghanistan. And actually, he's a cool guy, besides being the consumate military strategist he holds a firm belief in democracy, is moderate in his faith, sees women as equal in society (!) builds schools, real schools, and on the face of it is just completely upstanding. Quite apart from the succession of thugs and crazies we've seen in Afghanistan. Oh, and he's not aiming to be the guy in charge either, he's the defense minister. President Rabbani is in exile. (Time for him to return by the way.) Anyway, the thing to do is land there, in Masood's territory and work with him. Any other strategy is going to be horribly costly in terms of time, money and life. Not to mention that this guy deserves the support, and is already getting it from Russia (whom he defeated before) and India. So lets exercise a little sanity this time, shall we? Look at the situation, learn its structure and work with that instead of against it.
Ideally the result would be not only an Osama-less Afghanistan but a free and democratic Afghanistan, where the rights of women are repected and people can watched tv without receiving lashes for it.
Then Afghanistan should be reconstructed. A happy healthy, free Afghanistan means no more Bin Ladens there again, ever. Not only is this just inherently enlightened and moral, it's also the cheapest and fastest strategy.
By cutting off support for the Taliban from Pakistan and backing Masood the whole Afghanistan campaign could be over in a couple of months. Again, assuming the Taliban is crazy enough to play games about turning over OBL, which I think is a pretty safe bet.
What nonsense. The terrorists do not wish to reform America's crypto policy. They wish to subject the world to Allah's will.
And what better way to start than by making the U.S. a less desirable place to live in?
Understand this simple fact of guerilla warfare: the first objective is to limit the enemy's mobility by making him take cover. So, he attacks, target responds by discarding its societal freedoms. People don't want to go there any more, or conduct their business there. Good start.
Running and hiding" are okay -- the president doesn't really have a say in this.
When there's an emergency, he's a pawn who is moved here and there as a show.
The real problem with Bush is much bigger. After 11 hours, Bush went on the air with his big address to the nation. He had nothing but platitudes ("We're gonna get these folks." (that was from his florida speech)) or inane lists of who was harmed, ("Firement, Police men, Business men and women, Mothers, Fathers...").
Compare and contrast with even the lowest of the elected officials in NYC. The fire commissioner was incredibly eloquent. Giuliani became the voice of the nation, answering questions and providing information.
Face it: if the president needs 2 hours of preparation to be able to read 120 words off a teleprompter, he's simply not able to communicate effectively during an emergency. Deficiencies like this usually cause delays, confusion, pain, and needless deaths.
Bush's communication problems in this context have been brought up before. He needs some more edumacation.
I quoted your post in full because some immature dickhead who doesn't understand the concept of moderation modded it down.
And some loser, probably the same one, did it again. Look buddy, if you disagree, reply to the post, otherwise you are a coward.
(1) Everyone has the right to freely express and disseminate his opinion in speech, writing, and pictures and to freely inform himself from generally accessible sources. Freedom of the press and freedom of reporting by means of broadcasts and films are guaranteed. There will be no censorship.
(2) These rights are subject to limitations in the provisions of general statutes, in statutory provisions for the protection of the youth, and in the right to personal honor.
(3) Art and science, research and teaching are free. The freedom of teaching does not release from allegiance to the constitution.
Listen, this is one of the big problems the world has with Americans. Can't look beyond their own borders, think they're the only people in the world that can stand tall. Cannot take or understand criticism from anyone but another American. And worse, don't realize that the entire rest of the world perceives them this way. Hey, don't take offense. I'm just passing this along, not making it up. Just know that the *only* way this is ever going to change is by first recognizing the problem.
By the way, there is a statutory prohibition of any kind of typically Nazi symbolism, which is often attacked on the strength of this clearcut constitutional.
"Running and hiding" are okay -- the president doesn't really have a say in this.
When there's an emergency, he's a pawn who is moved here and there as a show.
The real problem with Bush is much bigger. After 11 hours, Bush went on the air with his big address to the nation. He had nothing but platitudes ("We're gonna get these folks." (that was from his florida speech)) or inane lists of who was harmed, ("Firement, Police men, Business men and women, Mothers, Fathers...").
Compare and contrast with even the lowest of the elected officials in NYC. The fire commissioner was incredibly eloquent. Giuliani became the voice of the nation, answering questions and providing information.
Face it: if the president needs 2 hours of preparation to be able to read 120 words off a teleprompter, he's simply not able to communicate effectively during an emergency. Deficiencies like this usually cause delays, confusion, pain, and needless deaths.
Bush's communication problems in this context have been brought up before. He needs some more edumacation.
The itchier the culture, the more arms the gods have.
I quoted your post in full because some immature dickhead who doesn't understand the concept of moderation modded it down.
Here in the U.S., privacy is a consitutionally guaranteed right, says so right in the 4th and 10th Amendments.
Unfortunately, the federal government doesn't give a fried fart what the constitution says.
It says "security"...of... "papers". It doesn't say privacy. In Germany it comes right out and says privacy. Guess they knew what it's like to live without it.
"Running and hiding" are okay -- the president doesn't really have a say in this.
But running and hiding from airliners is just bizarre behaviour, there's no other word for it.
Was he expecting a stealth 767? "OK, George, you can come out from under your desk now, somebody's here to see you."
When he did get brave enough to stick his nose out, he toured the pentagon where 200 hundred soldiers died, not New York where thousands died.
OK, mod it down again, you know it's the truth. Just plain chickenshit, in the face of no risk whatsover. Next he will ask 1,000's of GI's to risk their lives storming mountain strongholds. Jeez.
There was, save the existence of airplanes, no technology whatsoever in Tuesday's attacks. Just victims' fear and the terrorists' willingness to die. These are social problems, and all the techno-fear 'solutions' that have been bandered about over the last few days both here and in the mainstream media, are completely ineffective to affect these social problems.
Thanks, you expressed it far more eloquently than I ever could.
Here in Germany (I'm a Canadian by the way) privacy is a constitutionally guaranteed right. Too bad it isn't in the U.S.
In the U.S. it's more and more like a favor the state gives to some people, some of the time, depending on how benevolent somebody feels that day. So bow to the demands of the spooks, make backdoors mandatory, give people long jail terms for circumventing them, and the terrorists win. They win bigger than they ever imagined by making life worse for ordinary U.S. citizens.
In the name of pride we have to win this without cheating. Cheating means using the same tactics as the bad guy. No murdering civilians. No spying on our own people. No cameras in the bedrooms.
Make cryptography a crime and only criminals will have cryptography.
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"My only problem with mozilla is how long it takes to create a new window."
Really? It takes about 1 second on my system (750mhz Duron/256mb, Debian 2.2r3). What kind of hardware do you have?
It takes at most 1/10th second on Opera, for comparison, IOW, effectively instant which is how I want it.
More stable that Opera maybe but not as fast. I use both Mozilla and Opera on my laptop, mostly Opera because of the speed. I go to Mozilla when some page doesn't work. Mozilla is pretty fast at rendering (Gecko) but still, Opera is faster in many case. There's no question that Mozilla's UI is slow, though much faster than it used to be.
On my 2x1 GHz/2 GB machine I only use Mozilla.
Err, sorry, you're living on another planet. Pretty well everybody running Linux is using either Netscape or Mozilla, increasingly Mozilla. Mozilla usage is obviously increasing rapidly.
So you're saying that in the case, the desire to build a pipeline across Afghanistan justified supporting two groups (Gullbuddin Hekmatyar and Taleban) that everybody knew were a gang of bloodthirty murderers (the first) and delusional fundamentalists (the second)? I'm really curious, are you going to plead ignorance or "National Interest"?
And here's another guarantee: We will make mistakes this time, also. You don't seem to have come to grips with the fact that foreign policy -- particularly in the middle east -- is an inexact science. I think it's somewhat naive to think that government has some sort of crystal ball that tells you the best course of action.
You don't seem to have come to grip with the fact that supporting the Taliban was just a cynical money grab, since some U.S. Oil company wanted to build a pipeline through the country and wanted somebody strong and central to negotiate with. So it was nothing but greed, and those chickens came home to roost.
Like I said, this is a common theme in U.S. foreign policy. Look at the history of South America. It's time for you to stop denying that this happens and start recognizing that the only way to have a safe, secure world is to stop this shit.
It's an imperfect world, and hindsite is 20/20.
That's a complete copout. It was known at the time that the people who were getting the money (e.g., Gulbuddin Hekmatyar) were the most bloodthirsty fanatics in the country, and not even the best fighters (Massoud was).
The stupidity was compounded by supporting the Taliban, which seemed liked a good idea to who? Not to me. We're talking at the time, this was obvious. U.S. foreign policy seems to be to support whoever looks like the biggest strongman with the fewest moral inhibitions. It's a theme that's been played out over and over again. Please, lets not have any more of those stupid "hindsight" platitudes, lets get it right this time. The only people worth supporting are those whose aims are a free, democratic society.
Sometimes you have to take the lessor of the evils of the time (See Iran/Iraq war) and do the best you can. And it's hard to imagine a bigger evil than the former Soviet Union.
So why exactly was it necessary to support the Taliban? The soviet union was already out of the picture by that time. Whose bright idea was it. Sorry, this "lessor evil" thing is just used to justify policies that are nothing less than evil. I give you Saddam. Why is he there? To counter Iran. Never mind that Iran is slowly coming to its senses by itself, but Saddam isn't.
Err, no, you don't get it. There was Mesa before there was VA and if there were no VA or Precision Insight there would still be Mesa. It's called Open Source, it doesn't die when companies go down. Sometimes it gets stronger.
No, 3D graphics development has nothing to do with Sourceforge maintainance or consulting expertise.
This is a matter of consolodation. Its the right thing to do in the current climate. VA has to trim all fat to the point where it can get by on the rather small revenue from its web portals and Sourceforge businesses. Or at least conserve its cash through the high-tech winter. I support VA in that, I'd rather that they be small than nonexistent.
You don't want Brian to drop Mesa and start maintaining Sourceforge do you?
I couldn't if I wanted to, I don't have a Windows box. I wonder how many belong to the Linux-only club now? Maybe not too many games so far. I notice a lot more can dual boot but refuse to though.
Or just click here.
Maybe those Windows users would be interested to know that dvi's now play more smoothly and look better on Linux than on Windows? Heh, I was surprised too. My friend who set it up did admittedly put a lot of hours into getting everything assembled and working. No, he didn't have to write code, just sort out a lot of compile and config details. But you know - today's hack is tomorrow's apt-get.
Along the same lines, it's said Unreal plays more smoothly on Linux than Windows. So I guess we're talking language that even nongeeks can appreciate.
With its heavy emphasis on KDE and Wine, I've always seen Corel's distribution as a migration path for Windows users more than anything else. As such Xandros and Progeny are not playing in the same space.
Bruce, I'm sure it's you, but I am not sure that the level of venom in your original post is seemly for a person in your position. You could have just presented what you perceive as the facts and let people draw their own conclusions.
Although I verbaly agreed to advise them more than a year ago, nothing exists on paper...
A verbal agreement is no less an agreement than a paper agreement. Paper and signatures are simply evidence of an agreement, not the agreement itself. That was one of the points you made, another had to do with term sheets. Are you sure that the term sheets had no provision for adverse market conditions? It is typical that they do. Finally, you suggested that Xandro's investor, LGP, entered into negotiations with Genome simply to discover their business plan. I find that something of a stretch, really I do.
I am completely impartial in this, though I admit I want to believe in Xandros. My impression of their intent is that they want to put out a "Corel but done right" distribution, correcting Corel's mistake where some parts of the distribution were closed source. Personally , I believe there is room for a Debian-based KDE-oriented commercially supported distribution and I am relieved to see someone stepping in to fill the market position so recently vacated by Storm Linux. I do not believe that Xandros simply imitating of Genome.
Kind of like previewing your post to make sure you didn't leave an italics tag open?
Hmm, it seems Opera incorrectly closes such tags at the beginning of each paragraph, thanks for the heads-up.
When you're changing jobs is when you have the most leverage.
The violation has nothing to do with source code, which is freely available, it has everything to do with restrictions on use of the software - it is free only for non-commercial use. If you want to sell your program you have to buy a license. Interestingly, this is a case where GPL fanatics are sticking up for the rights of commercial users.
Next post could you please consider checking both your facts and your spelling? ;-)
If anybody in the command chain is bright enough to realize it, there can be a natural and beneficial evolution to events in Afghanistan. Assuming the Taliban don't hand OSM over, and I don't think they will - they'll keep talking about it but they'll never do it - then the only thing left to do is kick the taliban out. Remember, they're not the legitmate government of Aghanistan anyway.
But note: bombing isn't going to do it. Rockets and strafing are not going to do it. That stuff will ake out lots of civilians, sure, but Afghanistan withstood worse for *years* against the soviets, partly because of the terrain, but more because of how the people are. And there is no industrial infrastructure in Afghanistan worth hitting.
So it has to be a ground operation. Sound dangerous? You better believe it. The place is mountainous and riddled with tunnels. The fighters are skilled and don't give a shit. It's hard to operate tanks there, and rockets just move the rocks around. This should be done together with Amadshah Masood the "lion of Panjhir" who represents the interests of the legitimate government of Afghanistan. And actually, he's a cool guy, besides being the consumate military strategist he holds a firm belief in democracy, is moderate in his faith, sees women as equal in society (!) builds schools, real schools, and on the face of it is just completely upstanding. Quite apart from the succession of thugs and crazies we've seen in Afghanistan. Oh, and he's not aiming to be the guy in charge either, he's the defense minister. President Rabbani is in exile. (Time for him to return by the way.) Anyway, the thing to do is land there, in Masood's territory and work with him. Any other strategy is going to be horribly costly in terms of time, money and life. Not to mention that this guy deserves the support, and is already getting it from Russia (whom he defeated before) and India. So lets exercise a little sanity this time, shall we? Look at the situation, learn its structure and work with that instead of against it.
Ideally the result would be not only an Osama-less Afghanistan but a free and democratic Afghanistan, where the rights of women are repected and people can watched tv without receiving lashes for it. Then Afghanistan should be reconstructed. A happy healthy, free Afghanistan means no more Bin Ladens there again, ever. Not only is this just inherently enlightened and moral, it's also the cheapest and fastest strategy.
By cutting off support for the Taliban from Pakistan and backing Masood the whole Afghanistan campaign could be over in a couple of months. Again, assuming the Taliban is crazy enough to play games about turning over OBL, which I think is a pretty safe bet.
What nonsense. The terrorists do not wish to reform America's crypto policy. They wish to subject the world to Allah's will.
And what better way to start than by making the U.S. a less desirable place to live in?
Understand this simple fact of guerilla warfare: the first objective is to limit the enemy's mobility by making him take cover. So, he attacks, target responds by discarding its societal freedoms. People don't want to go there any more, or conduct their business there. Good start.
Running and hiding" are okay -- the president doesn't really have a say in this.
When there's an emergency, he's a pawn who is moved here and there as a show.
The real problem with Bush is much bigger. After 11 hours, Bush went on the air with his big address to the nation. He had nothing but platitudes ("We're gonna get these folks." (that was from his florida speech)) or inane lists of who was harmed, ("Firement, Police men, Business men and women, Mothers, Fathers...").
Compare and contrast with even the lowest of the elected officials in NYC. The fire commissioner was incredibly eloquent. Giuliani became the voice of the nation, answering questions and providing information.
Face it: if the president needs 2 hours of preparation to be able to read 120 words off a teleprompter, he's simply not able to communicate effectively during an emergency. Deficiencies like this usually cause delays, confusion, pain, and needless deaths.
Bush's communication problems in this context have been brought up before. He needs some more edumacation.
I quoted your post in full because some immature dickhead who doesn't understand the concept of moderation modded it down.
And some loser, probably the same one, did it again. Look buddy, if you disagree, reply to the post, otherwise you are a coward.
And too bad freedom of speech isn't protected in Germany. I'll take our problems over there's any day of the week.
No, you're way wrong:
Listen, this is one of the big problems the world has with Americans. Can't look beyond their own borders, think they're the only people in the world that can stand tall. Cannot take or understand criticism from anyone but another American. And worse, don't realize that the entire rest of the world perceives them this way. Hey, don't take offense. I'm just passing this along, not making it up. Just know that the *only* way this is ever going to change is by first recognizing the problem.
By the way, there is a statutory prohibition of any kind of typically Nazi symbolism, which is often attacked on the strength of this clearcut constitutional.
When there's an emergency, he's a pawn who is moved here and there as a show.
The real problem with Bush is much bigger. After 11 hours, Bush went on the air with his big address to the nation. He had nothing but platitudes ("We're gonna get these folks." (that was from his florida speech)) or inane lists of who was harmed, ("Firement, Police men, Business men and women, Mothers, Fathers...").
Compare and contrast with even the lowest of the elected officials in NYC. The fire commissioner was incredibly eloquent. Giuliani became the voice of the nation, answering questions and providing information.
Face it: if the president needs 2 hours of preparation to be able to read 120 words off a teleprompter, he's simply not able to communicate effectively during an emergency. Deficiencies like this usually cause delays, confusion, pain, and needless deaths.
Bush's communication problems in this context have been brought up before. He needs some more edumacation.
The itchier the culture, the more arms the gods have.
I quoted your post in full because some immature dickhead who doesn't understand the concept of moderation modded it down.
Unfortunately, the federal government doesn't give a fried fart what the constitution says.
It says "security" ...of... "papers". It doesn't say privacy. In Germany it comes right out and says privacy. Guess they knew what it's like to live without it.
But I'd tend to agree with the fried fart part.
But running and hiding from airliners is just bizarre behaviour, there's no other word for it.
Was he expecting a stealth 767? "OK, George, you can come out from under your desk now, somebody's here to see you."
When he did get brave enough to stick his nose out, he toured the pentagon where 200 hundred soldiers died, not New York where thousands died.
OK, mod it down again, you know it's the truth. Just plain chickenshit, in the face of no risk whatsover. Next he will ask 1,000's of GI's to risk their lives storming mountain strongholds. Jeez.
Thanks, you expressed it far more eloquently than I ever could.
In the U.S. it's more and more like a favor the state gives to some people, some of the time, depending on how benevolent somebody feels that day. So bow to the demands of the spooks, make backdoors mandatory, give people long jail terms for circumventing them, and the terrorists win. They win bigger than they ever imagined by making life worse for ordinary U.S. citizens.
In the name of pride we have to win this without cheating. Cheating means using the same tactics as the bad guy. No murdering civilians. No spying on our own people. No cameras in the bedrooms.
Make cryptography a crime and only criminals will have cryptography.