There must be something done to level the playing field,
Here's a clue for you dinkwad. Life ain't fair. Anyone who's ever told you that was a lying donkeypunching liberal. Here's a second clue. Government ain't gonna make it fair.
otherwise American labor will never be able to compete with countries that have much lower standards of living and little or no workers rights.
Yeah! So let's tax the shit out of everyone with or without a pulse. That way we can lower the standard of living in the US until it's at a "level playing field" with 3rd world countries.
It perfectly captures the liberal crybaby, handwringing, whimpering attitude. The guy might even be serious with this anti-bush drolling babble. I sure am going to have a big laugh when you prancing commie nancy-boys curl up into a fetal ball when Cowboy George wins re-election. HAHAHA
The man tapped to head Iraq's new interim government has vouched for the authenticity of evidence that links Saddam Hussein to the 9/11 attacks.
Though the notion that Iraq played a role in 9/11 is considered heresy in U.S. intelligence circles, newly appointed Iraq Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said in December that a document purported to be from Saddam's intelligence service that places lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta in Baghdad two months before the attacks was indeed "genuine."
"We are uncovering evidence all the time of Saddam's involvement with al-Qaeda," Allawi told the London Telegraph at the time. "But this is the most compelling piece of evidence that we have found so far. It shows that not only did Saddam have contacts with al-Qaeda, he had contact with those responsible for the September 11 attacks."
As reported by the Telegraph at the time, the document - a handwritten memo dated July 1, 2001 - provides a short resume of a three-day "work program" Atta had undertaken at Abu Nidal's terrorist training camp in Baghdad.
Nidal was executed by Saddam's secret police in August 2002 in what some suspect was a bid to keep him from telling what he knew about 9/11.
Yea yea....along with all of those Weapons of Mass Destruction..
Lab Tests Could Link Saddam's Missing WMDs to Jordan Plot
Laboratory tests on the poison gas smuggled from Syria into Jordan by al Qaeda terrorists earlier this month could determine whether their weapons came from Iraq, intelligence expert John Loftus said Monday.
"What they captured was a poison gas that consisted of several chemicals to be mixed together," Loftus told nationally syndicated radio host John Batchelor. "This has to be a poison gas of what they call the G-series; Sarin, Somin, Taubin and VX."
The terrorism expert noted that, "VX is the only kind of nerve gas where the chemicals could be safely mixed together in the field."
On Saturday, Jordanian officials announced that they had seized WMD components from the cars of the al Qaeda terror plotters, which had been intercepted just 75 miles from the Syrian border. Experts said that had the WMD plot succeeded, it could have killed 20,000.
Jordan's King Abdullah confirmed that the al Qaeda vehicles had come from Syria,
Noted Loftus:
"Syria dopes not make VX nerve gas - only Saddam Hussein did. So it looks as if now that Israeli intelligence and British intelligence were right - that Syria did indeed get a hold of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction just before the war."
Loftus said lab tests of the al Qaeda weapons would be key to establishing a link between the WMDs found in Jordan and Saddam's missing stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons.
That is pure myth. The only adminstration in the last 25 years to not run a deficit was Clinton
You answer one myth with another? I thought Libertarians made some effort to think for themselves and argue with the facts. Look it up, under every President, Democans and Republicrats, the gross national debt increased every single year The so-called Clinton surplus didn't exist.
It was a projected surplus based on static conditions while we had a growing economy.
Asyslum seekers from Uganda and Someone from the UK who fancies going shopping in New York aren't exactly the same thing are they?
How do you know? How would I know? Or how would the US gov know that? Richard Reid had a UK passport didn't he? If he were singled out for a stricter search or denied travel to the US becuase he looked arabic you crybaby handwringers would be weaping in your blankie about it.
Yeah! What Yokaze said and plus Bush squandered Clinton's surplus!.... What? No surplus? Gross national debt increased every year under Clinton? Huh? The surplus was a just a projection?
I've actually thought a bit about the wind resistance thing. I heard once that the dimples on a golf ball create little spherical air vortexes(sp?) over the dimple which makes them less wind resistant. Couldn't you make little dimples on the cars front fender and hood to improve the air flow? May not be asthetically pleasing to having a pockmarked car (and hard to paint) but if it got you better gas mileage....
Actually I'm very interested in doing this - no, not to create a new international TLD, but just 1) to learn how the root servers work and 2) just as a goof with my friends So, where can I learn about the root server set up? It's more involve than just creating a.TLD zone on my own DNS, right?
abcnews.com ran this story just a few weeks ago (05/26/00) about "an international crime ring last month whose leaders were posing as officials of Sealand" trying to buy $50 million in arms.
First, are these people "officially" affiliated with Sealand?
Secondly, if they are, how does this instill any confidence in your operation by anyone who may be a potential customer?
Third, is this Sealand's idea of Venture Capital (ala' Contragate)?
I'm curious about the tech details too. But I surmise that he got in through poor security on Ye Ol' Port 139. He does show a net view of their lan. And... not many would accuse this spammer group of being all that clueful.
Free Elian? Free as in "Free Beer" or free as in "Free Speech"?
If you haven't noticed Elian has been GPL'd for months now. Everyone has been modifying Elian to suit their own (political) needs and have been distributing him Internationally.
BTW: Is the Elian Distro being used in a DDoE (Distributed Denial of Entertainment) attack? I got up this morning and the Elian Channel - All Elian! All the Time!! - was on every station. I'm running Linux 2.2.0 on my TV. Is there a patch out yet for this?
The Anonymous Coward's Guide to posting on Slashdot
No matter the topic, the AC post should *not* be on topic nor should it offer any new, useful information to the discussion. For the AC, it's not about content, it's about style.
Here's some quality AC comments to post
1. _____ is dead, get over it.
Example:
Apple is dead, get over it. Amiga is dead, get over it. Linux is dead, get over it.
Simple enough, right? Just insert the company/product being discussed at the beginning of the sentence. It doesn't matter if they've just announce some new high-technology or a cure for cancer, they're dead, they're through, nothing will help revive their poor desicated carcus.
2. You should use ________ instead.
Example:
You should use perl instead. You should use visual basic instead.
If someone asks Slashdot for any kind of recommendation for an application, product, etc. to use in a certain situation, always point out that they're taking the wrong approach to the matter and tell them they should use/do something else. And it should be a completely inappropriate solution to the task at hand.
3. Wasn't this on Slashdot last week.
Works for every topic. Who's gonna check? Who has the attention span to remember if it was anyway? Just post a negative comment on how tired you are with the "same old" thing again on Slashdot. Maybe throw in a line about the story only being a rumor and "What is Slashdot? A gossip column now?".
4. Does it run Beowolf?
Use the above for a subject and put a one liner in the body of the comment. Something clever - like "drooooool", "Leeeeeet!", or "I WANT ONE!!!!!" (all caps, lots of exclaimations).
5. Correct there speling.
Point out a spelling or grammatical error with the topic posting or other comments. Be sure to mix tense and contractions when you do so. Here's a few obvious examples.
your/you're there/their/they're to/too/two
And be creative. How about these: we've/weave where/wear/we're
Also, leave off, or add on a "not". Say "should" when you meant "shouldn't" or "cant" (apostrophes optional) for "can".
6. Don't read the article before commenting.
And ask a really obvious question about the topic that was explicitly answered in the topic posting or article.
Example Topic: "Company claims smallest web server..."
Your Post: "Hey, thats prety small. Is this the smalest web server? Imagine a Beowolf of those!! Drooooool. Did I see this on Slashdot last week?"
(Notice several techniques were combined in the above example. Although you may only be a novice AC, this will give you something to aspire to)
7./.ed?
The seasoned AC will simply put the above as a subject with no text. The novice/trainee AC can add a comment like "Is the site /.ed already? I can't get to it. Did someone put up a mirror?" As an AC, you want to be sure to let everyone else know that you couldn't access the site.
8. Not worried. Nothing to hide.
In any post relating to privacy or encryption, state loud and clear the whatever the government wants to do, it's fine by you. After all, you aren't doing anything illegal and have nothing to hide. Ignore everything that indicates our freedom is slowly being stolen and eroded right out from under us, you'll be doing your part to stimulate a lively Slashdot discussion.
9. Does it run Linux?
For any hardware story. Palm-tops, set-top boxes, game boys, game consoles, 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit, 64 bit, bucky tubes, protein chains. Slashdot is Linux. Linux is Slashdot.
10. Story submission
Complain that you submitted the story two days ago and it was rejected. Wonder why it's posted now that it's "old news". Wonder out loud if the credited submitter favored one of the Slashdot authors with a peverted sex act.
11. Duplicate
Not feeling up to AC standards today? Copy someone else's post and change not more than two words and maybe the punctuation. Pick a comment only a few before yours so they'll appear almost next to each other on the same page. Show everyone that you can take the time to pontificate your opinion (because it's so valueable) but just don't care to hear about others. Let everyone know you're a middle manager.
12. Argue moderation
Post a reply to a moderated post taking the "stupid moderator" to task. Flamebait should be Troll. Troll should be OffTopic. OffTopic should be Insightful. Be sure to reference the moderator's mother in your rant.
And of course....
13. First Post?
This is a no-brainer for even the novice AC. If you happen to load up Slashdot soon after a new topic is posted, wait until you're assured of being at least the 5th or 6th comment, then post "First Post?". Don't even bother to add anything else here. "First Post?" then bail. Leave the thinly veiled content to the registered users who "First Post?" and try to make it seem that they've added it as an afterthought. And if you're wishing to take AC to new heights, wait a couple hours after the topic is posted.
God, I'm sick and tired of hearing Americans going on about "Constitutional rights" and how it makes them superior to the people of every other country in the world. Every country has rights for its citizens, but no-one bleats on about it like Americans:)
As an American, I gotta agree with you on this. The Consitution, these days, seems to be nothing more than a vehicle for self-delusion.
For advances of up to $100,000, Fatbrain.com hired ten authors to write short essays about the Bill of Rights. The first of these essays -- by Coretta Scott King, Newt Gingrich, Pete Hamill and Doris Kearns Goodwin -- began appearing last week. Fatbrain has now demonstrated that online publishing sites can be pretentious and boring too.
That's great Jon! Thanks for summing up just what's wrong with America today. It's nice to know that you think the Bill of Rights is boring. And "pretentious"? You're throwing stones Jon. Would you appreciate it more if it were called the eBill of eRights? So then you could use it to synergize a new paradigm?
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Here's a clue for you dinkwad. Life ain't fair. Anyone who's ever told you that was a lying donkeypunching liberal. Here's a second clue. Government ain't gonna make it fair.
otherwise American labor will never be able to compete with countries that have much lower standards of living and little or no workers rights.
Yeah! So let's tax the shit out of everyone with or without a pulse. That way we can lower the standard of living in the US until it's at a
"level playing field" with 3rd world countries.
Troll?!?! Come on ... that's fucking hilarious!!
It perfectly captures the liberal crybaby, handwringing, whimpering attitude. The guy might even be serious with this anti-bush drolling babble. I sure am going to have a big laugh when you prancing commie nancy-boys curl up into a fetal ball when Cowboy George wins re-election. HAHAHA
MOD THIS OFFTOPIC NOW YOU COMMIE PINKO BASTARDS!!
The man tapped to head Iraq's new interim government has vouched for the authenticity of evidence that links Saddam Hussein to the 9/11 attacks.
Though the notion that Iraq played a role in 9/11 is considered heresy in U.S. intelligence circles, newly appointed Iraq Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said in December that a document purported to be from Saddam's intelligence service that places lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta in Baghdad two months before the attacks was indeed "genuine."
"We are uncovering evidence all the time of Saddam's involvement with al-Qaeda," Allawi told the London Telegraph at the time. "But this is the most compelling piece of evidence that we have found so far. It shows that not only did Saddam have contacts with al-Qaeda, he had contact with those responsible for the September 11 attacks."
As reported by the Telegraph at the time, the document - a handwritten memo dated July 1, 2001 - provides a short resume of a three-day "work program" Atta had undertaken at Abu Nidal's terrorist training camp in Baghdad.
Nidal was executed by Saddam's secret police in August 2002 in what some suspect was a bid to keep him from telling what he knew about 9/11.
Lab Tests Could Link Saddam's Missing WMDs to Jordan Plot
Laboratory tests on the poison gas smuggled from Syria into Jordan by al Qaeda terrorists earlier this month could determine whether their weapons came from Iraq, intelligence expert John Loftus said Monday.
"What they captured was a poison gas that consisted of several chemicals to be mixed together," Loftus told nationally syndicated radio host John Batchelor. "This has to be a poison gas of what they call the G-series; Sarin, Somin, Taubin and VX."
The terrorism expert noted that, "VX is the only kind of nerve gas where the chemicals could be safely mixed together in the field."
On Saturday, Jordanian officials announced that they had seized WMD components from the cars of the al Qaeda terror plotters, which had been intercepted just 75 miles from the Syrian border. Experts said that had the WMD plot succeeded, it could have killed 20,000.
Jordan's King Abdullah confirmed that the al Qaeda vehicles had come from Syria,
Noted Loftus:
"Syria dopes not make VX nerve gas - only Saddam Hussein did. So it looks as if now that Israeli intelligence and British intelligence were right - that Syria did indeed get a hold of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction just before the war."
Loftus said lab tests of the al Qaeda weapons would be key to establishing a link between the WMDs found in Jordan and Saddam's missing stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons.
You answer one myth with another? I thought Libertarians made some effort to think for themselves and argue with the facts. Look it up, under every President, Democans and Republicrats, the gross national debt increased every single year The so-called Clinton surplus didn't exist. It was a projected surplus based on static conditions while we had a growing economy.
How do you know? How would I know? Or how would the US gov know that? Richard Reid had a UK passport didn't he? If he were singled out for a stricter search or denied travel to the US becuase he looked arabic you crybaby handwringers would be weaping in your blankie about it.
I wanted to go to the US but will not do so
Awwwwwww ... we sure will miss you
Why? Because Kerry will advocate assasinating the spammers?
Yeah! What Yokaze said and plus Bush squandered Clinton's surplus! .... What? No surplus? Gross national debt increased every year under Clinton? Huh? The surplus was a just a projection?
It's called Welfare
Scientific discussion? On Slashdot? Are you new here?
I've actually thought a bit about the wind resistance thing. ....
I heard once that the dimples on a golf ball create little
spherical air vortexes(sp?) over the dimple which makes them
less wind resistant. Couldn't you make little dimples on
the cars front fender and hood to improve the air flow?
May not be asthetically pleasing to having a pockmarked car
(and hard to paint) but if it got you better gas mileage
True, but do any of them work to develop a new type of steel that will revolutionize the railroad industry?
Ummm, don't you mean - Fist Prost!
Actually I'm very interested in doing this - no, not to create a new international TLD, but just 1) to learn how the root servers work and 2) just as a goof with my friends .TLD zone on my own DNS, right?
So, where can I learn about the root server set up? It's more involve than just creating a
I assumed that abcnews' use of the word "posing" was because noone officially recognizes Sealand as a country.
First, are these people "officially" affiliated with Sealand?
Secondly, if they are, how does this instill any confidence in
your operation by anyone who may be a potential customer?
Third, is this Sealand's idea of Venture Capital (ala' Contragate)?
I'm curious about the tech details too. But I ... not many would accuse this spammer
surmise that he got in through poor security on
Ye Ol' Port 139. He does show a net view of their
lan. And
group of being all that clueful.
Umm, why doesn't Napster sell these Offspring
dudes a merchandising license for Napsterware for
$1.00. That would make all the suits happy, no?
Amen! Tell it Brother!
It's nice to see someone with a clue out there.
IF STEVE WOSTON EVER MEETS YOU HES GONNA KICK YOUR ASS
yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, go home now troll
What do you mean I have to "agree to"?
This is what I normally do on a Saturday morning.
Free Elian? Free as in "Free Beer" or free as
in "Free Speech"?
If you haven't noticed Elian has been GPL'd for
months now. Everyone has been modifying Elian
to suit their own (political) needs and have been
distributing him Internationally.
BTW:
Is the Elian Distro being used in a DDoE
(Distributed Denial of Entertainment) attack?
I got up this morning and the Elian Channel
- All Elian! All the Time!! - was on every station.
I'm running Linux 2.2.0 on my TV. Is
there a patch out yet for this?
The Anonymous Coward's Guide to posting on Slashdot
No matter the topic, the AC post should *not* be on
topic nor should it offer any new, useful information
to the discussion. For the AC, it's not about content,
it's about style.
Here's some quality AC comments to post
1. _____ is dead, get over it.
Example:
Apple is dead, get over it.
Amiga is dead, get over it.
Linux is dead, get over it.
Simple enough, right? Just insert the company/product being
discussed at the beginning of the sentence. It doesn't matter
if they've just announce some new high-technology or a cure
for cancer, they're dead, they're through, nothing will help
revive their poor desicated carcus.
2. You should use ________ instead.
Example:
You should use perl instead.
You should use visual basic instead.
If someone asks Slashdot for any kind of recommendation for
an application, product, etc. to use in a certain situation,
always point out that they're taking the wrong approach to
the matter and tell them they should use/do something else.
And it should be a completely inappropriate solution to the
task at hand.
3. Wasn't this on Slashdot last week.
Works for every topic. Who's gonna check? Who has the
attention span to remember if it was anyway? Just post
a negative comment on how tired you are with the "same
old" thing again on Slashdot. Maybe throw in a line about
the story only being a rumor and "What is Slashdot? A gossip
column now?".
4. Does it run Beowolf?
Use the above for a subject and put a one liner in the body
of the comment. Something clever - like "drooooool", "Leeeeeet!",
or "I WANT ONE!!!!!" (all caps, lots of exclaimations).
5. Correct there speling.
Point out a spelling or grammatical error with the topic posting
or other comments. Be sure to mix tense and contractions when
you do so. Here's a few obvious examples.
your/you're there/their/they're to/too/two
And be creative. How about these: we've/weave where/wear/we're
Also, leave off, or add on a "not". Say "should" when you meant
"shouldn't" or "cant" (apostrophes optional) for "can".
6. Don't read the article before commenting.
And ask a really obvious question about the topic that was explicitly
answered in the topic posting or article.
Example Topic: "Company claims smallest web server
Your Post: "Hey, thats prety small. Is this the smalest web server?
Imagine a Beowolf of those!! Drooooool. Did I see this on Slashdot
last week?"
(Notice several techniques were combined in the above example.
Although you may only be a novice AC, this will give you something
to aspire to)
7.
The seasoned AC will simply put the above as a subject with no
text. The novice/trainee AC can add a comment like "Is the site
/.ed already? I can't get to it. Did someone put up a mirror?"
As an AC, you want to be sure to let everyone else know that
you couldn't access the site.
8. Not worried. Nothing to hide.
In any post relating to privacy or encryption, state loud and
clear the whatever the government wants to do, it's fine by
you. After all, you aren't doing anything illegal and have
nothing to hide. Ignore everything that indicates our freedom is
slowly being stolen and eroded right out from under us, you'll
be doing your part to stimulate a lively Slashdot discussion.
9. Does it run Linux?
For any hardware story. Palm-tops, set-top boxes, game boys,
game consoles, 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit, 64 bit, bucky tubes,
protein chains. Slashdot is Linux. Linux is Slashdot.
10. Story submission
Complain that you submitted the story two days ago and it
was rejected. Wonder why it's posted now that it's "old news".
Wonder out loud if the credited submitter favored one of
the Slashdot authors with a peverted sex act.
11. Duplicate
Not feeling up to AC standards today? Copy someone else's
post and change not more than two words and maybe the
punctuation. Pick a comment only a few before yours so
they'll appear almost next to each other on the same page.
Show everyone that you can take the time to pontificate
your opinion (because it's so valueable) but just don't
care to hear about others. Let everyone know you're a
middle manager.
12. Argue moderation
Post a reply to a moderated post taking the "stupid moderator"
to task. Flamebait should be Troll. Troll should be OffTopic.
OffTopic should be Insightful. Be sure to reference the moderator's
mother in your rant.
And of course
13. First Post?
This is a no-brainer for even the novice AC. If you happen to
load up Slashdot soon after a new topic is posted, wait until
you're assured of being at least the 5th or 6th comment, then
post "First Post?". Don't even bother to add anything else here.
"First Post?" then bail. Leave the thinly veiled content to the
registered users who "First Post?" and try to make it seem that
they've added it as an afterthought. And if you're wishing to take
AC to new heights, wait a couple hours after the topic is posted.
As an American, I gotta agree with you on this.
The Consitution, these days, seems to be nothing more
than a vehicle for self-delusion.
That's great Jon! Thanks for summing up just
what's wrong with America today. It's nice to
know that you think the Bill of Rights is boring.
And "pretentious"? You're throwing stones Jon.
Would you appreciate it more if it were called the
eBill of eRights? So then you could use it to
synergize a new paradigm?
Jeez ...