a high-tech, minimally-intrusive way for the government to lift our citizens away from the twin perils of poverty and crime
Sure. Maybe social a social security system would be a better way to achieve this? Homeless people aren't criminals, and last time I checked the onus of proof was supposed to be on the prosecution. Why not do a trial on politicians? I think the voters have a right to know who our leaders are mixing with more than the police have a right to know where the homeless people are finding shelter.
Yet another one of Bush's wars on the defenseless.
Oh yeah. And the US government is in no position to be lecturing us on crimes...
You've seen that article too, eh? Yeah it's pretty scary stuff.
I found it interesting that all of the energy sources that we currently preceive as being 'alternative' are actually dependant on oil for a number of reasons.
I actually haven't seen a decent rebutal for it yet, and I'm looking for one - mainly to calm my nerves. So anyone out there who has a rational rebutal - not just a "he's a crank" jab, please either post it here or post a link to it or something.
Trouble is, deep down, I know he's right. Many scientists have been warning for decades now that we simply can't continue our dependance on oil and expect to come out on top. I believe one of the US's presidential candidates ran a whole campaign around the issue - and lost by a landslide. Sad.
Anyway, bring on the rational, critical analysis, all you right-wing bomb-dropping hippy-whipping gun-toting bastards!
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Methane, eh? They can probably get away with that for now. But if someone discovers oil under the surface, well, they'd better get ready for regime change!
I think you're forgetting the fact that Israel exists only because Palestine was 'liberated' of it's population. Granted, it wasn't liberated by the US directly, but certainly by proxy.
Afghanistan has been handed back to the Afghanis
Bullshit. Afghanistan is being run by pro-US war-lords, as opposed to anti-US war-lords. There's certainly nothing democractic about it, and for individuals there, live is far worse since the carpet bombing by the US, as they don't have houses or half of their family any more.
The cause of terrorism is terrorist. They hate us for being us no matter what we do
It's sad to see that people believe such shallow lies as this. Why would someone from another country hate you 'no matter what you do'? Your arguement is not coherent. Clearly US foreign policy is the main cause of terrorism - both on US soil and in our places such as Israel. You need to pull your head out of the sand and do some thinking for yourself instead of repeating everything you hear in the mass media. Terrorists are simply normal people who have had everything taken away from them, seen their families die in front of their eyes, seen their homes destroyed and their hope taken away, and know that the US is to blame. Don't try to wash your hands of it and claim that they are sub-human or 'can not be bargained'. Take some responsibility for what is being done in your name.
The treaties that make up the WTO have exclusion clauses for things like laws governing morality.
Ha! The day the US government leads the way on morality is the day the appocolypse happens ( which Baby Bush believes is coming, by the way ). How can they talk of morality after their deceipt over Iraq's so-called weapons of mass destruction? Would you care to take a trip to Iraq and lecture the broken families that have had their mothers / fathers / brothers / sisters killed by your 'Shock and Awe' campaign about morality?
When the government starts talking about morality, you know it's time to run and hide. The government has no business deciding issues of morality when relating to private activities such as gambling, substance consumption, sexual activity, etc. And the US government in particular has voided it's right to talk of morality for a very long time.
They certainly have the idea that it's one set of rules for them and their war buddies, and one set for everyone else.
When's the last time UN weapons inspectors had a good look around the US or Israel? Their respect for other countries can be gauged from their almost daily use of their power of veto in the UN. The latest of these was the veto on the resolution to condemn the assassination of the Hamas leader. I bet if someone assassinated Wolfowitz and then vetoed a UN resolution condemning the action there'd be hell to pay... literally. The US would go in there, chemical weapons and depleted-uranium ammunition pouring out liberally over the side of all US craft, and the country would be 'liberated'... much in the same fashion Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq have been 'liberated'.
You'd think after all the talk of terrorism, someone in the US would get the hint that maybe they're causing it all, and maybe it's time to start playing by the same rules as you impose on everyone else.
Yeah. I know of PHP-GTK. I'm waiting for the GTK2 port. GTK looks butt-ugly.
But thanks for the reminder anyway. I'm better at PHP than Perl. Maybe I should head in that direction. I was kinda swayed away from that direction by a few friends who told me that PHP's object-orientedness ( or whatever ) wasn't as strong as Perl's. And I haven't found any decent PHP debuggers yet. But anyway, I will watch both Perl/GTK2 and PHP/GTK2.
Wait a second... I remember now... All those fucking incompatible changes that force a rewrite of my code every time a new minor version comes out. And the PHP/GTK site says that the GTK2 port will be with PHP5. I assume they won't be breaking with tradition and will instead break all my previous knowledge of PHP?
One wonders how the US government would react if a foreign nation tried a similar approach.
Indeed. Imagine a group of Iraqi citizens trying to bring Wolfowitz, Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheyne to justice under Iraqi law. And yes I realise the US is trying to sweep Iraqi law under the carpet in favour of US law. That's exactly what I'm talking about.
Looks like they're scared now. It won't be long... We've been using OpenOffice since before it was born - StarOffice 5.2. God that was painful!
OOo has come a LONG way since then. It's MUCH faster, and compatibility issues are almost completely resolved. I've been using a developer build ( one leading up to the OOo-2.0 release ) and our incredibly-complex analysis spreadsheets now look EXACTLY the same under OOo. And I hear an MS Office ==> OOo macro converter is in the works.
Management here are very happy with OOo. We certainly won't be switching back to MS Office, and with the release of version 2, we will be migrating most of the rest of the office ( those not dependant of VB macros ).
I love it when M$ is running scared. They come up with such crap. More secure. Yeah right. I'm always fixing problems with people's computers because of OpenOffice macro viruses. Sure...
Bush's capabilities mean that he can only be blamed for his own bog not being flushed down the toilet. Anyone who tries to blame him for the rest of the mess he's associated with have no idea who is running the show.
The Project For A New American Century are the ones running the show, and have such terrorists as Paul Wolfowitz deciding war policy and lame excuses for said war.
But that's not to say that people should vote Bush in again. At the least, he is an evil yet stupid man. He knew all along that there were no WMD, and instead of chasing down the 'nasty terrorists' that were responsible for 9/11 when he knew about them up to a year before the event he instead followed his oil buddy's wishes and invaded Iraq.
And the opposition isn't exactly opposing anything. Instead of being criticial of the war crimes that have been committed, they are arguing over the fine print of the occupation! Swinging voters and those who haven't made up their mind: the only solution is to vote WAY left of the centre: greens or socialist. Everything else will continue the US on the warpath. And we all know how much you hate ( US-foreign-policy-inspired ) terrorism. Look at the types of people at anti-war demonstrations. These are the people arguing for fundamental human rights for all; not the typical pro-corporate, pro-globalisation politicians that you can't distinguish from each other because they're falling over themselves to dish out more tax cuts for the rich.
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I've been using a pre-release version ( compiled via Gentoo's portage system ) and I'm very impressed with it indeed.
The text tool has undergone a MAJOR overhaul and is far more powerful than in the old Gimp-1.3. When you add text, it creates a layer of it's own instead of being dumped onto the current layer, and you can go back and edit the text and font etc after you've added it. This saves me a lot of time, because I often add text, add some effects, do something else, adn then come back and think... 'maybe I should have done *this* with the text instead'. The text tool is cool try it out.
Also there are a lot of scripts and plugins ( at least in the Gentoo build ) that do some powerful stuff - bevelling & 3d outlining and all sorts of things.
While the addition of the menus at the top are merely cosmetic, it will at least shut up all the users who can't get the hang of the right-click menu system.
Win32 support is also interesting, as it means that GTK2 under Windows shouldn't be too far off. Personally, I'd LOVE to be able to write Perl / GTK2 apps that run under Windows, and it looks like I might be able to soon:)
All I do is re-install computers for friends & family who have had their computers 'up to date' ( I know because I set the update policy ), with virus scanners and up-to-date definitions, and still are infected by an endless stream of worms, browser hijacks, viruses, spyware and other crap.
Time to move on, eh? X works well for me. But let me guess...... your computer isn't just used for surfing porn and running Setiathome; you've already started coding a replacement, right?
Either this guy is a spammer masquerading as a satisfied customer, or he's just a shrivel-dick who needs to buy Viagra anonymously ( pharmacutical products, indeed... ) and makes the rest up.
Anyone who actually tried to buy as much as this guy claims would find that most spam set-ups are pure scams that will take your money and disappear.
Yeah. Like a chicken with 3 legs. Didn't you read the article on Chernobyl? With a half life of hundreds of thousands of years, we simply don't have a safe solution for the waste. And Uraniam, while being relatively abundant now, is not a renewable source of energy. We'd be better off investing in a renewable source and avoiding the risk of more radioactive contaminations.
Cancelling sound with sound sounds cool, but it's a waste of energy. Surely there are cheaper, more environmentally friendly ways of protecting our sensitive ears from the nasty CPU fan noise.
Every little bit counts. Just imagine if we didn't have to invade Iraq for their oil because we could properly manage our energy usage and R&D into renewable energy sources.
A very small number of those that stayed behind survived. Whole towns were slayed. Even Zionists that witnessed it confessed it was the most horrifying sight they'd ever seen.
And I think you're deluding yourself if you think the Paletstinians who live in Israel now are represented in parliament. Far from it. They are persecuted daily and forced back into Palestinian territories, which are shrinking daily and being carved up by the apartheid 'fence' as Sharon calls it.
But I agree that the only answer is a one-state solution with all treated as equals.
I'm ashamed to think that I come from the same species as people so narrow minded. Why do you think teh Palestinians are taught to hate Jews? Do you know the history of so-called Israel? Do you know what happened to the Palestinians when the Jews evicted millions and millions of the local inhabitants? Do you know what life is like for Palestinians right now, as a direct result of the US's unconditional support for the occupation of Palestine?
If you were born a Palestinian, and all you friends and family had been killed, you wife shot at a check-point while trying to get to a hospital to give birth to your child, and you land taken from you, you would most likely become a 'terrorist' too.
There are a lot of brainwashed people, yes. And you are one of them. Look around you at how people are being treated in your name.
And you talk of complacency leading to WW2. For fuck's sake, you really don't know your history, do you? The sat on the sidelines until the very end, when they were 'invited' to join by the British, who attacked a US ship and made out it was an enemy attack, to drag the US into it. Compacency! Fitting coming from an American...
A quote from a recent SBS Insight special on terrorism:
There's this thing called 'oppression', and you want have peace until you get rid of it
Have a good think about it. Why are they terrorists to start with? Maybe because they're sick of being fucked over by the US? People are generally peaceful and friendly until you put them under intense pressure. Ask a Palestinian about it.
If you hunt down 1 terrorist, another will arrive to fill in the gaps. If you are really serious about stopping terrorism, you need to attack the cause: the massive injustices in the world. Then terrorists will have no cause. Until then, expect more of the same.
With the constant stream of disasters coming out of the Bush administration ( Iraq is fun, isn't it ), it is actually quite important for the current power structure to demonstrate that they were 'right' in as many ways as possible. One way to do that is to capture Osama, and they are willing to spend billions of dollars in doing so ( at the expense of average US workers, not to mention the whole country of Afghanistan ). And yes, it would make Osama ( more of ) a martyr if he were captured, and that would cause an increase in the rate of terrorist attacks on US targets ( and idiotic regimes like Australia that follow the US's war path ), and this will just cause the US to turn up the heat in the war on terrorism, taking advantage of the polarisation of society that the fear of terrorist attacks cause. So it's a win-win situation for Bush.
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Sure. Maybe social a social security system would be a better way to achieve this? Homeless people aren't criminals, and last time I checked the onus of proof was supposed to be on the prosecution. Why not do a trial on politicians? I think the voters have a right to know who our leaders are mixing with more than the police have a right to know where the homeless people are finding shelter.
Yet another one of Bush's wars on the defenseless.
Oh yeah. And the US government is in no position to be lecturing us on crimes...
God damn!
We're going down sooner that I thought then.
You've seen that article too, eh?
Yeah it's pretty scary stuff.
I found it interesting that all of the energy sources that we currently preceive as being 'alternative' are actually dependant on oil for a number of reasons.
I actually haven't seen a decent rebutal for it yet, and I'm looking for one - mainly to calm my nerves. So anyone out there who has a rational rebutal - not just a "he's a crank" jab, please either post it here or post a link to it or something.
Trouble is, deep down, I know he's right. Many scientists have been warning for decades now that we simply can't continue our dependance on oil and expect to come out on top. I believe one of the US's presidential candidates ran a whole campaign around the issue - and lost by a landslide. Sad.
Anyway, bring on the rational, critical analysis, all you right-wing bomb-dropping hippy-whipping gun-toting bastards!
Methane, eh?
They can probably get away with that for now.
But if someone discovers oil under the surface, well, they'd better get ready for regime change!
You're a fucking idiot if you believe what you just wrote.
I think you're forgetting the fact that Israel exists only because Palestine was 'liberated' of it's population. Granted, it wasn't liberated by the US directly, but certainly by proxy.
Bullshit. Afghanistan is being run by pro-US war-lords, as opposed to anti-US war-lords. There's certainly nothing democractic about it, and for individuals there, live is far worse since the carpet bombing by the US, as they don't have houses or half of their family any more.
It's sad to see that people believe such shallow lies as this. Why would someone from another country hate you 'no matter what you do'? Your arguement is not coherent. Clearly US foreign policy is the main cause of terrorism - both on US soil and in our places such as Israel. You need to pull your head out of the sand and do some thinking for yourself instead of repeating everything you hear in the mass media. Terrorists are simply normal people who have had everything taken away from them, seen their families die in front of their eyes, seen their homes destroyed and their hope taken away, and know that the US is to blame. Don't try to wash your hands of it and claim that they are sub-human or 'can not be bargained'. Take some responsibility for what is being done in your name.
Ha! The day the US government leads the way on morality is the day the appocolypse happens ( which Baby Bush believes is coming, by the way ). How can they talk of morality after their deceipt over Iraq's so-called weapons of mass destruction? Would you care to take a trip to Iraq and lecture the broken families that have had their mothers / fathers / brothers / sisters killed by your 'Shock and Awe' campaign about morality?
When the government starts talking about morality, you know it's time to run and hide. The government has no business deciding issues of morality when relating to private activities such as gambling, substance consumption, sexual activity, etc. And the US government in particular has voided it's right to talk of morality for a very long time.
Indeed.
... literally. The US would go in there, chemical weapons and depleted-uranium ammunition pouring out liberally over the side of all US craft, and the country would be 'liberated' ... much in the same fashion Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq have been 'liberated'.
They certainly have the idea that it's one set of rules for them and their war buddies, and one set for everyone else.
When's the last time UN weapons inspectors had a good look around the US or Israel? Their respect for other countries can be gauged from their almost daily use of their power of veto in the UN. The latest of these was the veto on the resolution to condemn the assassination of the Hamas leader. I bet if someone assassinated Wolfowitz and then vetoed a UN resolution condemning the action there'd be hell to pay
You'd think after all the talk of terrorism, someone in the US would get the hint that maybe they're causing it all, and maybe it's time to start playing by the same rules as you impose on everyone else.
Yeah. I know of PHP-GTK. I'm waiting for the GTK2 port. GTK looks butt-ugly.
... I remember now ... All those fucking incompatible changes that force a rewrite of my code every time a new minor version comes out. And the PHP/GTK site says that the GTK2 port will be with PHP5. I assume they won't be breaking with tradition and will instead break all my previous knowledge of PHP?
But thanks for the reminder anyway. I'm better at PHP than Perl. Maybe I should head in that direction. I was kinda swayed away from that direction by a few friends who told me that PHP's object-orientedness ( or whatever ) wasn't as strong as Perl's. And I haven't found any decent PHP debuggers yet. But anyway, I will watch both Perl/GTK2 and PHP/GTK2.
Wait a second
Indeed. Imagine a group of Iraqi citizens trying to bring Wolfowitz, Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheyne to justice under Iraqi law. And yes I realise the US is trying to sweep Iraqi law under the carpet in favour of US law. That's exactly what I'm talking about.
Looks like they're scared now. It won't be long...
We've been using OpenOffice since before it was born - StarOffice 5.2. God that was painful!
OOo has come a LONG way since then. It's MUCH faster, and compatibility issues are almost completely resolved. I've been using a developer build ( one leading up to the OOo-2.0 release ) and our incredibly-complex analysis spreadsheets now look EXACTLY the same under OOo. And I hear an MS Office ==> OOo macro converter is in the works.
Management here are very happy with OOo. We certainly won't be switching back to MS Office, and with the release of version 2, we will be migrating most of the rest of the office ( those not dependant of VB macros ).
I love it when M$ is running scared. They come up with such crap. More secure. Yeah right. I'm always fixing problems with people's computers because of OpenOffice macro viruses. Sure...
Bush's capabilities mean that he can only be blamed for his own bog not being flushed down the toilet. Anyone who tries to blame him for the rest of the mess he's associated with have no idea who is running the show.
The Project For A New American Century are the ones running the show, and have such terrorists as Paul Wolfowitz deciding war policy and lame excuses for said war.
But that's not to say that people should vote Bush in again. At the least, he is an evil yet stupid man. He knew all along that there were no WMD, and instead of chasing down the 'nasty terrorists' that were responsible for 9/11 when he knew about them up to a year before the event he instead followed his oil buddy's wishes and invaded Iraq.
And the opposition isn't exactly opposing anything. Instead of being criticial of the war crimes that have been committed, they are arguing over the fine print of the occupation! Swinging voters and those who haven't made up their mind: the only solution is to vote WAY left of the centre: greens or socialist. Everything else will continue the US on the warpath. And we all know how much you hate ( US-foreign-policy-inspired ) terrorism. Look at the types of people at anti-war demonstrations. These are the people arguing for fundamental human rights for all; not the typical pro-corporate, pro-globalisation politicians that you can't distinguish from each other because they're falling over themselves to dish out more tax cuts for the rich.
I've been using a pre-release version ( compiled via Gentoo's portage system ) and I'm very impressed with it indeed.
... 'maybe I should have done *this* with the text instead'. The text tool is cool try it out.
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The text tool has undergone a MAJOR overhaul and is far more powerful than in the old Gimp-1.3. When you add text, it creates a layer of it's own instead of being dumped onto the current layer, and you can go back and edit the text and font etc after you've added it. This saves me a lot of time, because I often add text, add some effects, do something else, adn then come back and think
Also there are a lot of scripts and plugins ( at least in the Gentoo build ) that do some powerful stuff - bevelling & 3d outlining and all sorts of things.
While the addition of the menus at the top are merely cosmetic, it will at least shut up all the users who can't get the hang of the right-click menu system.
Win32 support is also interesting, as it means that GTK2 under Windows shouldn't be too far off. Personally, I'd LOVE to be able to write Perl / GTK2 apps that run under Windows, and it looks like I might be able to soon
Bullshit.
All I do is re-install computers for friends & family who have had their computers 'up to date' ( I know because I set the update policy ), with virus scanners and up-to-date definitions, and still are infected by an endless stream of worms, browser hijacks, viruses, spyware and other crap.
You, sir, are talking bullshit.
I have no doubt this is the plan.
Keep up your current foreign policy and you won't have long to wait.
Time to move on, eh? ... your computer isn't just used for surfing porn and running Setiathome; you've already started coding a replacement, right?
X works well for me.
But let me guess...
Either this guy is a spammer masquerading as a satisfied customer, or he's just a shrivel-dick who needs to buy Viagra anonymously ( pharmacutical products, indeed ... ) and makes the rest up.
Anyone who actually tried to buy as much as this guy claims would find that most spam set-ups are pure scams that will take your money and disappear.
Yeah. Like a chicken with 3 legs.
Didn't you read the article on Chernobyl?
With a half life of hundreds of thousands of years, we simply don't have a safe solution for the waste. And Uraniam, while being relatively abundant now, is not a renewable source of energy. We'd be better off investing in a renewable source and avoiding the risk of more radioactive contaminations.
Cancelling sound with sound sounds cool, but it's a waste of energy. Surely there are cheaper, more environmentally friendly ways of protecting our sensitive ears from the nasty CPU fan noise.
Every little bit counts. Just imagine if we didn't have to invade Iraq for their oil because we could properly manage our energy usage and R&D into renewable energy sources.
A very small number of those that stayed behind survived. Whole towns were slayed. Even Zionists that witnessed it confessed it was the most horrifying sight they'd ever seen.
And I think you're deluding yourself if you think the Paletstinians who live in Israel now are represented in parliament. Far from it. They are persecuted daily and forced back into Palestinian territories, which are shrinking daily and being carved up by the apartheid 'fence' as Sharon calls it.
But I agree that the only answer is a one-state solution with all treated as equals.
I'm ashamed to think that I come from the same species as people so narrow minded. Why do you think teh Palestinians are taught to hate Jews? Do you know the history of so-called Israel? Do you know what happened to the Palestinians when the Jews evicted millions and millions of the local inhabitants? Do you know what life is like for Palestinians right now, as a direct result of the US's unconditional support for the occupation of Palestine?
If you were born a Palestinian, and all you friends and family had been killed, you wife shot at a check-point while trying to get to a hospital to give birth to your child, and you land taken from you, you would most likely become a 'terrorist' too.
There are a lot of brainwashed people, yes. And you are one of them. Look around you at how people are being treated in your name.
And you talk of complacency leading to WW2. For fuck's sake, you really don't know your history, do you? The sat on the sidelines until the very end, when they were 'invited' to join by the British, who attacked a US ship and made out it was an enemy attack, to drag the US into it. Compacency! Fitting coming from an American...
And others could blow you up every so often.
A quote from a recent SBS Insight special on terrorism:
Have a good think about it. Why are they terrorists to start with? Maybe because they're sick of being fucked over by the US? People are generally peaceful and friendly until you put them under intense pressure. Ask a Palestinian about it.
If you hunt down 1 terrorist, another will arrive to fill in the gaps. If you are really serious about stopping terrorism, you need to attack the cause: the massive injustices in the world. Then terrorists will have no cause. Until then, expect more of the same.
Oh no! Chopped by a pro-US anonymous coward! .
Just keep waving that flag, junior! You yanks sure know how to save the world from the clutches of
Arrogant fucking yanks.
With the constant stream of disasters coming out of the Bush administration ( Iraq is fun, isn't it ), it is actually quite important for the current power structure to demonstrate that they were 'right' in as many ways as possible. One way to do that is to capture Osama, and they are willing to spend billions of dollars in doing so ( at the expense of average US workers, not to mention the whole country of Afghanistan ). And yes, it would make Osama ( more of ) a martyr if he were captured, and that would cause an increase in the rate of terrorist attacks on US targets ( and idiotic regimes like Australia that follow the US's war path ), and this will just cause the US to turn up the heat in the war on terrorism, taking advantage of the polarisation of society that the fear of terrorist attacks cause. So it's a win-win situation for Bush.