This is exactly right, P2P isn't new, when the Internet came into existance, the first FTP site followed within hours. If you want examples of legitimate uses for P2P point to the hundered of thousands of FTP sites that provide terabytes of information everyday. For that matter you could argue the Web is P2P, the basic idea behind it is one person sets up a web page in order to provide another person or persons access that information remotly. Whether it is Slashdot, which provides user entered commentary on issues of the day or NVIDIA who uses it to provide product information, technical support and driver downloads.
If P2P has no legitmate uses, then why is a groupware package considered neccessary for any business employing more that 2 people ? If they want to outlaw P2P, then MS Exchange and Outlook should be the first programs banned, because as far as I can tell its only use is to distribute VB script worms.
All the hardware is in place, both the Hauppauge and ATI TV cards work fine under Linux using the bttv kernel module. There are several decent programs for capturing from the card, goto freshmeat and do a search. I prefer RealProducer Basic because I don't have to worry about Video and Audio sync, which I found was a problem with some others and fairly small file sizes. Setting up a cron job to do the recording at the proper time is easy as well. What this is missing is the TiVo's ability to download current TV listing and adjust recording times when neccessary. This could probably be done with a perl script which downloads the schedule from TVGuide.com, then searches for the programs you specify and/or present you with a menu of options, then update the cron job accordingly. Depending on the information TVGuide.com has you may even be able to look for a paticular actor or director.
I am skeptical about the purpose of doing this. Granted it is isolated, but if you can get people and equipment there, it is not isolated enough to discourage anyone who really wanted to get there. Isolation has its disadvantages as well, the police/fire/rescue people would have as much difficulty getting there as anyone and not to mention replacement parts. Since there is only one pipeline, it is easy to cut. Alaska is still inside the United States and is therefore still subject to U.S. law and Alaska State law. I really see no advantage to building there as opposed to some other less isolated area such as Montana where there might be a road and a small town nearby. Heck I hear Area 51 is vacant now.
No one objects to them trying to minimize piracy. The problem is they are taking it too far and these schemes are interfering with the consumers Fair Use of the product. Under which I have the right to make backup copies in case the original is damaged, I also have the right to listen to/watch the product in any format I choose on any device I choose. For example, I can take a CD I have purchases and record it onto a cassette tape and listen to it in my car or at work. I can make copies of my video tapes and take them to a friends house to watch. I can also use a TV tuner card to convert my video tapes to realvideo and watch them on my laptop. All this is very legal under Fair Use and are by no means a bad thing. The media companies want to deny me the ability to do any of these things with DvD's and this is a bad thing. The media companies and upto this point, the courts, are assuming the only purpose of programs like DeCSS is to pirate DvD movies. The reality is, there are no known cases of DeCSS having been used to pirate any movie, so the correct assumption should be that legal users are using it for Fair Use purposes. DvD Pirates are going to make copies no matter what, so the only people who are being penalized is legal users. This was very likely thier intent to begin with.
Thank goodness, I live in Texas and I wrote my Representive on the very bad points of UCITA, in hopes that the system does work. I would have prefered they drove a stake through its heart to keep from rising again, but I am glad if they couldn't outright kill it, at least they just let it die the quiet wimpering death by commitee.
Don't organize a protest, it will just make you look like wackoes infuriated because your channels for stealing music are being restricted. Protests did not work in the 60's and they won't now.
I have to completely disagree with you here, civil disobiedance is an American tradition, starting with the Boston Tea Party. I beleive the protests of the 60's were very effective, do you really beleive Nixon would have pulled out of Vietnam had there not been rioting in the streets ? and Kent State was in vain ? or Martin Luthor King accomplished nothing ?.
In recent times protests have not been effective, because the government has gotten better at dealing with them. They learned from the invasion of Grenada and later Panama that to control the flow of information to the media is a very effective way to control public opinion. We saw a glimer of how effective this can be during the WTO protests in Seattle, the news media was completely oblivious to the fact that the police were using rubber bullets and tear gas on protestors until it was reported through alternative means, such as the Internet.
As a side note, I think it is ineresting that protests against the status quo, such as the ones in Seattle, are meant with brutle force, while those supporting the status quo, ie both the supporters of Bush and Gore (yes, they both represent the status quo) in Florida during our month long Presidential election are pretty much left alone.
He also maintains that no search warrant was needed because the FBI lacks jurisdiction in Russia.
By this logic, all the government has to do is setup a law enforcment agency which has no jursidiction in the US and they can gather evidence on its own citizens without regard to the constitution.
(Ok, since I (mostly) control the KDE and Qt packages, make that "when I think it's ready" Send bribery in cash^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hgood arguments my way.;) ).
Thats okay, I think I can handle one check box. I am just happy I don't have build from source again.
Good point, I'm sure it wouldn't be too tough for RH to add the code to the setup program. I wonder if the rpm.spec file supports this type of action for people who install KDE after the initial install.
That begs the question.... why would you turn it off by default?
Before anti-aliasing will do you any good, your video card must support RENDER (xdpyinfo | grep RENDER, to find out), which most don't yet. Enabling it by default would be a waste of resources for most systems. Better to disable by default and let those who want it enable it themselves.
No. We're including Qt 2.3.0, Freetype 2.0.1, XFree86 4.0.3 and KDE 2.1.1 + extra fixes.
Anti-Aliasing is turned off by default, but turning it on is as simple as clicking a checkbox in KControl.
I would have done it anyway, but you kind folks at RedHat have saved me considerable time and trouble. If nobody has said it yet, thank you all for your hard work.
A couple of weeks ago I spent a couple of days downloading, compiling and installing QT 2.3.0, FreeType2, XFree86 4.03 and KDE 2.1.1 to get anti-aliased fonts. If I upgrade to RedHat 7.1, am I going to have to do this all over again ?
Microsoft will copy someone else's nifty but slow GUI again and that will drive the next generation hardware purchases.
I am sure this is true, I for one would love to see an OpenGL driven desktop, but it is not Microsoft who usually leads cutting edge of hardware, it is usually the game designers. Frankly I don't see the next generation of games requiring much more than a Celeron 500. Right now only a handful require anything more than a 233, even if they double or triple that requirement, an 800 Mhz processor you buy today will do nicely. I stand by my original post, anyone buying a computer today should avoid any processor over 1 Ghz and instead spend the money on other components or a good meal with good company.
I currently am running a Duron 850, would buying a Pentium IV, along with a new motherboard and memory gain me any real world speed ? If benchmarks are to be trusted, the answer is no, I wouldn't see much of a performance gain. This is especially true when you consider we must seperate benchmark differences and precievable differences. Meaning, just because the Pentium IV or even an Athlon scores higher on any given benchmark, does not neccessarliy mean I will notice any difference in my day to day usage. I will go out on a limb here and say most people, even power users, would be hard put to tell the difference between a 1.5 G Pentium, a 1.3 G Athlon and a 1 G Pentium III or for that matter a Duron 850, when using the systems for basic tasks, such as web browsing, email, word processing etc. Even when considering 3D gaming, the Video card has a bigger impact on the FPS then the processor.
In this is day and age most programs run well on a 233 or less, the most processor intense thing we do is watch DvD's ripped to DiVX and this can be done on 350 or 400. My point is don't bother with any of the high end stuff, very likely anything faster than 600 M processor on a 100 M bus will be fine for the forseeable future. Spend your money instead on a large fast hard drive, a good Video Card, decent sound card/speakers and tons of memory. You will probably save yourself enough money take take your Sigificant Other out to dinner and a movie.
Secondly, Why do you advocate buying all that extra stuff to supplement the laptop?!
I only advocate the extra stuff for the purpose his is intending to use it for, which is LAN parties. Where all this stuff matters, if all he was going to do was play solitaire, I'd say it was a waste.
go with a full tower case w/ better equipment
I am running on the assumption that he wants something easy to transport, he stated as much, I don't think a full tower case is what he had in mind. I suggested a laptop, not because it can replace a loaded desktop PC, but because it is portable. Most of the extremely small desktop PC systems use integrated sound and video, which are also crappy when compared to a Soundblaster Live and a GeForce II. So why shouldn't he buy himself some flexibilty. You can't play solitaire on an airplane with a full tower system.
Given a choice between a micro desktop integrated everything desktop and a laptop system, I take the laptop everytime.
I have to agree here, this is what portable computers were made for. I am not sure why you object to carrying around a laptop as opposed to micro desktop PC. In the configuration you are looking at, the bulkiest part is going to be the monitor anyway. Buying a small integrated system like the BookPC is going to have all the same problems as a portable and weigh 3 times as much. The ATI Mobile Rage isn't a great chipset, but it kicks butt on the 810 chipset and the new Nvidia chipset promises to be better. The portable can also be used in many places a BookPC type system can not, like an airplane. Buy a laptop and get a decent external monitor, keyboard, mouse, joystick and some speakers (all of which you will need anyway), all your problems will be solved. The only set back is price, even a low end laptop costs a lot more than a BookPC.
Yeah when the many realize that they've toiled an entire life fearing that some big bad boogey man
I think what he was saying is, people who say they believe in god and yet spread war, hate and discontent, will goto to hell and will be suprised. We Athiests on the other hand will only be suprised if there is a judgment day.
How dare you insult the good Christian Faith like that, in your signature! Do you put the words of a communist SATAN whorshipper like Patti Smith above the gospel of the LORD, who DIED for all our SINS even yours?
SATAN has a special place reserved in hell for you, boy.
I highly recommend QT 2.3, XFree86 4.03, FreeType2 and KDE 2.1.1. If your video card supports RENDER (xdpyinfo | grep RENDER), it is worth the time to compile all these things from scratch to get Anti-Aliased Fonts, which Gnome does not support yet. Once you've seen it, you will never want to go back.
I think Microsoft would form an partnership with the Aliens and trade technology with them. They would put out A/OS (Alien Operating System), then the partnership would brake up because Microsoft wanted to move in a different direction. The Aliens would continue to work on on A/OS and eventually put out A/OS 2. Microsoft would integrate the aliens technology into Windows and release Windows AT (Alien Technology) and proceed to market the Aliens into the ground. The Aliens would go bankrupt, Microsoft would buy the remains of the Company for 10 cents on the dollar.
The Aliens would then move to Silicon Valley to start a new company. They put out software which revolutionizes Networking and the Internet, Microsoft embraces the new software by buying a license and first integrating it into Windows AT, then extending it capabilities with new Windows AT only features. Because 99.9999% of the world is using Windows AT, there is now no need for the Aliens software, they go bankrupt again, Microsoft buys them out for 5 cents on the dollar. The Aliens leave Earth in disgust.
How about someone put up a list of these websites advocating the murder Doctors, to be cracked. Of course the first paragraph would claim they do not advocate cracking, wink, wink. Then when one of the sites was cracked they could cheer the crackers on and call them heroes of the revolution.
The same can be said for Athiests, most are good people who live incredibly moral lives, even by the standards of any Christian church, by which I mean, they don't lie, cheat, steal, murder and rape. Like it or not hypocrites are the reason most of us left organized religion, and it is the hypocrites by which we judge organized religion.
In reality you are wrong, according to Fox News, if they are to be beleived, Americans are becoming more religious, not less. More people are going to Church regularly and the number of people claiming to be Athiest is on the decline and has been for several years. Abortion clinic bombing and the assasination of doctors who proform them, simply shows us we are no more civilized than we were when the Great Reliions of the world brought us the Crusades, the Inquisitions and the Salem Witch hunts. Frankly the Christian Religion has been responsible for more murders throughout history than Abortion, Drugs, Pornography and Video Games combined.
As an after thought, I'd also like to point out that Jim Jones and David Keresh were both Christian, as well as all or most members of the KKK and the Neo Nazi movement. Humans will be Humans regardless of the presence of religion.
You mean bunch of Cubans with guns would be harder to deal with than entire Iraq army ?
The Cubans would have the tactical advantage. Taking the citied would be easy, although at the cost of many civilain lives. However, Castro's Army would head for the hills, then we would be dealing with a well armed Guerilla force who knows the territory much better than we do. If Castro is smart, and he is, he has been planning for this possibility for 40 years, which means he has many caches of food, guns, ammo and other supplies hidden throughout the country, just waiting for the U.S. to invade. Which of course, short of carpet bombing the entire country, means it would be a long bloody war. All Castro has to do is get a body count of 10 or 15 thousand and the American people will start to wonder if Cuba is worth that many American lives and the U.S. Government starts to loose the Public Relations War. Also, there is a good chance another coutry will come to his aid, possibly China, then things get really ugly. The short of it is, yes Cuba would be much more difficult to take then Iraq, which is why no President since Kennedy has even tried.
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This is exactly right, P2P isn't new, when the Internet came into existance, the first FTP site followed within hours. If you want examples of legitimate uses for P2P point to the hundered of thousands of FTP sites that provide terabytes of information everyday. For that matter you could argue the Web is P2P, the basic idea behind it is one person sets up a web page in order to provide another person or persons access that information remotly. Whether it is Slashdot, which provides user entered commentary on issues of the day or NVIDIA who uses it to provide product information, technical support and driver downloads.
If P2P has no legitmate uses, then why is a groupware package considered neccessary for any business employing more that 2 people ? If they want to outlaw P2P, then MS Exchange and Outlook should be the first programs banned, because as far as I can tell its only use is to distribute VB script worms.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
All the hardware is in place, both the Hauppauge and ATI TV cards work fine under Linux using the bttv kernel module. There are several decent programs for capturing from the card, goto freshmeat and do a search. I prefer RealProducer Basic because I don't have to worry about Video and Audio sync, which I found was a problem with some others and fairly small file sizes. Setting up a cron job to do the recording at the proper time is easy as well. What this is missing is the TiVo's ability to download current TV listing and adjust recording times when neccessary. This could probably be done with a perl script which downloads the schedule from TVGuide.com, then searches for the programs you specify and/or present you with a menu of options, then update the cron job accordingly. Depending on the information TVGuide.com has you may even be able to look for a paticular actor or director.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
I am skeptical about the purpose of doing this. Granted it is isolated, but if you can get people and equipment there, it is not isolated enough to discourage anyone who really wanted to get there. Isolation has its disadvantages as well, the police/fire/rescue people would have as much difficulty getting there as anyone and not to mention replacement parts. Since there is only one pipeline, it is easy to cut. Alaska is still inside the United States and is therefore still subject to U.S. law and Alaska State law. I really see no advantage to building there as opposed to some other less isolated area such as Montana where there might be a road and a small town nearby. Heck I hear Area 51 is vacant now.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
No one objects to them trying to minimize piracy. The problem is they are taking it too far and these schemes are interfering with the consumers Fair Use of the product. Under which I have the right to make backup copies in case the original is damaged, I also have the right to listen to/watch the product in any format I choose on any device I choose. For example, I can take a CD I have purchases and record it onto a cassette tape and listen to it in my car or at work. I can make copies of my video tapes and take them to a friends house to watch. I can also use a TV tuner card to convert my video tapes to realvideo and watch them on my laptop. All this is very legal under Fair Use and are by no means a bad thing. The media companies want to deny me the ability to do any of these things with DvD's and this is a bad thing. The media companies and upto this point, the courts, are assuming the only purpose of programs like DeCSS is to pirate DvD movies. The reality is, there are no known cases of DeCSS having been used to pirate any movie, so the correct assumption should be that legal users are using it for Fair Use purposes. DvD Pirates are going to make copies no matter what, so the only people who are being penalized is legal users. This was very likely thier intent to begin with.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
Thank goodness, I live in Texas and I wrote my Representive on the very bad points of UCITA, in hopes that the system does work. I would have prefered they drove a stake through its heart to keep from rising again, but I am glad if they couldn't outright kill it, at least they just let it die the quiet wimpering death by commitee.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
Don't organize a protest, it will just make you look like wackoes infuriated because your channels for stealing music are being restricted. Protests did not work in the 60's and they won't now.
I have to completely disagree with you here, civil disobiedance is an American tradition, starting with the Boston Tea Party. I beleive the protests of the 60's were very effective, do you really beleive Nixon would have pulled out of Vietnam had there not been rioting in the streets ? and Kent State was in vain ? or Martin Luthor King accomplished nothing ?.
In recent times protests have not been effective, because the government has gotten better at dealing with them. They learned from the invasion of Grenada and later Panama that to control the flow of information to the media is a very effective way to control public opinion. We saw a glimer of how effective this can be during the WTO protests in Seattle, the news media was completely oblivious to the fact that the police were using rubber bullets and tear gas on protestors until it was reported through alternative means, such as the Internet.
As a side note, I think it is ineresting that protests against the status quo, such as the ones in Seattle, are meant with brutle force, while those supporting the status quo, ie both the supporters of Bush and Gore (yes, they both represent the status quo) in Florida during our month long Presidential election are pretty much left alone.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
He also maintains that no search warrant was needed because the FBI lacks jurisdiction in Russia.
By this logic, all the government has to do is setup a law enforcment agency which has no jursidiction in the US and they can gather evidence on its own citizens without regard to the constitution.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
(Ok, since I (mostly) control the KDE and Qt packages, make that "when I think it's ready" Send bribery in cash^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hgood arguments my way. ;) ).
Thats okay, I think I can handle one check box. I am just happy I don't have build from source again.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
Good point, I'm sure it wouldn't be too tough for RH to add the code to the setup program. I wonder if the rpm .spec file supports this type of action for people who install KDE after the initial install.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
That begs the question.... why would you turn it off by default?
Before anti-aliasing will do you any good, your video card must support RENDER (xdpyinfo | grep RENDER, to find out), which most don't yet. Enabling it by default would be a waste of resources for most systems. Better to disable by default and let those who want it enable it themselves.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
No. We're including Qt 2.3.0, Freetype 2.0.1, XFree86 4.0.3 and KDE 2.1.1 + extra fixes.
Anti-Aliasing is turned off by default, but turning it on is as simple as clicking a checkbox in KControl.
I would have done it anyway, but you kind folks at RedHat have saved me considerable time and trouble. If nobody has said it yet, thank you all for your hard work.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
A couple of weeks ago I spent a couple of days downloading, compiling and installing QT 2.3.0, FreeType2, XFree86 4.03 and KDE 2.1.1 to get anti-aliased fonts. If I upgrade to RedHat 7.1, am I going to have to do this all over again ?
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
Microsoft will copy someone else's nifty but slow GUI again and that will drive the next generation hardware purchases.
I am sure this is true, I for one would love to see an OpenGL driven desktop, but it is not Microsoft who usually leads cutting edge of hardware, it is usually the game designers. Frankly I don't see the next generation of games requiring much more than a Celeron 500. Right now only a handful require anything more than a 233, even if they double or triple that requirement, an 800 Mhz processor you buy today will do nicely. I stand by my original post, anyone buying a computer today should avoid any processor over 1 Ghz and instead spend the money on other components or a good meal with good company.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
I currently am running a Duron 850, would buying a Pentium IV, along with a new motherboard and memory gain me any real world speed ? If benchmarks are to be trusted, the answer is no, I wouldn't see much of a performance gain. This is especially true when you consider we must seperate benchmark differences and precievable differences. Meaning, just because the Pentium IV or even an Athlon scores higher on any given benchmark, does not neccessarliy mean I will notice any difference in my day to day usage. I will go out on a limb here and say most people, even power users, would be hard put to tell the difference between a 1.5 G Pentium, a 1.3 G Athlon and a 1 G Pentium III or for that matter a Duron 850, when using the systems for basic tasks, such as web browsing, email, word processing etc. Even when considering 3D gaming, the Video card has a bigger impact on the FPS then the processor.
In this is day and age most programs run well on a 233 or less, the most processor intense thing we do is watch DvD's ripped to DiVX and this can be done on 350 or 400. My point is don't bother with any of the high end stuff, very likely anything faster than 600 M processor on a 100 M bus will be fine for the forseeable future. Spend your money instead on a large fast hard drive, a good Video Card, decent sound card/speakers and tons of memory. You will probably save yourself enough money take take your Sigificant Other out to dinner and a movie.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
Secondly, Why do you advocate buying all that extra stuff to supplement the laptop?!
I only advocate the extra stuff for the purpose his is intending to use it for, which is LAN parties. Where all this stuff matters, if all he was going to do was play solitaire, I'd say it was a waste.
go with a full tower case w/ better equipment
I am running on the assumption that he wants something easy to transport, he stated as much, I don't think a full tower case is what he had in mind. I suggested a laptop, not because it can replace a loaded desktop PC, but because it is portable. Most of the extremely small desktop PC systems use integrated sound and video, which are also crappy when compared to a Soundblaster Live and a GeForce II. So why shouldn't he buy himself some flexibilty. You can't play solitaire on an airplane with a full tower system.
Given a choice between a micro desktop integrated everything desktop and a laptop system, I take the laptop everytime.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
Buy a laptop.
I have to agree here, this is what portable computers were made for. I am not sure why you object to carrying around a laptop as opposed to micro desktop PC. In the configuration you are looking at, the bulkiest part is going to be the monitor anyway. Buying a small integrated system like the BookPC is going to have all the same problems as a portable and weigh 3 times as much. The ATI Mobile Rage isn't a great chipset, but it kicks butt on the 810 chipset and the new Nvidia chipset promises to be better. The portable can also be used in many places a BookPC type system can not, like an airplane. Buy a laptop and get a decent external monitor, keyboard, mouse, joystick and some speakers (all of which you will need anyway), all your problems will be solved. The only set back is price, even a low end laptop costs a lot more than a BookPC.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
Yeah when the many realize that they've toiled an entire life fearing that some big bad boogey man
I think what he was saying is, people who say they believe in god and yet spread war, hate and discontent, will goto to hell and will be suprised. We Athiests on the other hand will only be suprised if there is a judgment day.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
How dare you insult the good Christian Faith like that, in your signature! Do you put the words of a communist SATAN whorshipper like Patti Smith above the gospel of the LORD, who DIED for all our SINS even yours? SATAN has a special place reserved in hell for you, boy.
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Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
I highly recommend QT 2.3, XFree86 4.03, FreeType2 and KDE 2.1.1. If your video card supports RENDER (xdpyinfo | grep RENDER), it is worth the time to compile all these things from scratch to get Anti-Aliased Fonts, which Gnome does not support yet. Once you've seen it, you will never want to go back.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
This is my take on it.
I think Microsoft would form an partnership with the Aliens and trade technology with them. They would put out A/OS (Alien Operating System), then the partnership would brake up because Microsoft wanted to move in a different direction. The Aliens would continue to work on on A/OS and eventually put out A/OS 2. Microsoft would integrate the aliens technology into Windows and release Windows AT (Alien Technology) and proceed to market the Aliens into the ground. The Aliens would go bankrupt, Microsoft would buy the remains of the Company for 10 cents on the dollar.
The Aliens would then move to Silicon Valley to start a new company. They put out software which revolutionizes Networking and the Internet, Microsoft embraces the new software by buying a license and first integrating it into Windows AT, then extending it capabilities with new Windows AT only features. Because 99.9999% of the world is using Windows AT, there is now no need for the Aliens software, they go bankrupt again, Microsoft buys them out for 5 cents on the dollar. The Aliens leave Earth in disgust.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
How about someone put up a list of these websites advocating the murder Doctors, to be cracked. Of course the first paragraph would claim they do not advocate cracking, wink, wink. Then when one of the sites was cracked they could cheer the crackers on and call them heroes of the revolution.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
The same can be said for Athiests, most are good people who live incredibly moral lives, even by the standards of any Christian church, by which I mean, they don't lie, cheat, steal, murder and rape. Like it or not hypocrites are the reason most of us left organized religion, and it is the hypocrites by which we judge organized religion.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
As America moves further and futher away from God
In reality you are wrong, according to Fox News, if they are to be beleived, Americans are becoming more religious, not less. More people are going to Church regularly and the number of people claiming to be Athiest is on the decline and has been for several years. Abortion clinic bombing and the assasination of doctors who proform them, simply shows us we are no more civilized than we were when the Great Reliions of the world brought us the Crusades, the Inquisitions and the Salem Witch hunts. Frankly the Christian Religion has been responsible for more murders throughout history than Abortion, Drugs, Pornography and Video Games combined.
As an after thought, I'd also like to point out that Jim Jones and David Keresh were both Christian, as well as all or most members of the KKK and the Neo Nazi movement. Humans will be Humans regardless of the presence of religion.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
Linux does have registry, it is called /etc .
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
You mean bunch of Cubans with guns would be harder to deal with than entire Iraq army ?
The Cubans would have the tactical advantage. Taking the citied would be easy, although at the cost of many civilain lives. However, Castro's Army would head for the hills, then we would be dealing with a well armed Guerilla force who knows the territory much better than we do. If Castro is smart, and he is, he has been planning for this possibility for 40 years, which means he has many caches of food, guns, ammo and other supplies hidden throughout the country, just waiting for the U.S. to invade. Which of course, short of carpet bombing the entire country, means it would be a long bloody war. All Castro has to do is get a body count of 10 or 15 thousand and the American people will start to wonder if Cuba is worth that many American lives and the U.S. Government starts to loose the Public Relations War. Also, there is a good chance another coutry will come to his aid, possibly China, then things get really ugly. The short of it is, yes Cuba would be much more difficult to take then Iraq, which is why no President since Kennedy has even tried.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.