Great! Of course we have to now plant the thing everywhere the US has been involved in wars ( basically everywhere ) and we also have to pay the company whatever they're asking price is.
But I'm sure the US will cough up for the costs associated with cleaning up after their inhumane use of land minds across the globe.
Where can I get one? I assume if I use Mozilla, it won't be emailing itself to everyone in my ( outlook express ) addressbook, and I can just let it distribute itself across the Kazaa network and wait for the DOS attack to beef up:)
Bullshit. If it weren't for the incredible oil resources in the middle east, the US couldn't give a flying fuck about Israel, Palestine or Iraq, in much the same way they couldn't give a flying fuck about anything else not related to power and profit. I suppose you'll argue that the US sells and gives Weapons of Mass Destruction to Israel because it is simply a bastion of peace, love and understanding in a cold, hard, backward Arab world. But the rest of the world disagrees. Do a google search on the number of UN resolutions against Israel that the US has vetoed, which has the direct effect of fucking over millions of innocent Palestinians, all in the name of having a western 'watchdog' in the middle east if things go sour ( which is highly likely considering the rest of their foreign policy ).
Shit, maybe you should thank the Yanks for safeguarding the foundation of the world economy, rather than attacking it.
Oh suck my dick. The US only safeguards what is in it's best interests, and then it does a shitty job of that. Look at your balance of payments defecit. How many more TRILLIONS of dollars are going to go buy before you start paying your way like the rest of the world? And I suppose the antics of the World Bank and the International Monetary Funds are also all in the name of 'safeguarding' the 'world economy'. Well the rest of the world disagrees with you on this point to. US foreign policy does nothing but cause catastrophe in all but the largest and most established capitalist nations of the world. Nothing is being safeguarded here. In fact, the US is creating an economic time-bomb, and even the right-wing press are picking up on it. It's time you did too.
It's actually quite funny watching the Yanks scurry around looking for ways to deal with the problem that profits depend on fuel, and their fuel is running out.
Of course it's not nearly so funny for the Iraqis, or the Palestinians, or anyone else who gets caught up in their 'quest for world peace and democracy' that they bullshit on so much about. But at least from here, for now, I can see some humour to it.
I have to agree with their actions here. This is the sort of 'collateral damage' I agree with. Asking ISPs nicely to clamp down on spammers doesn't work - after all, spammers are customers too. To get an ISP's attention, you have to talk their language: money, and the easiest way to do that is to cause their customers to move elsewhere, and the easiest ( and most defensible ) way to do that is to blacklist IP blocks belonging to the ISP. It's just cold, hard reality. Note that I'm not saying that we have to bomb the Christ out of the ISPs and kill hundreds of thousands of innocent customers and steal their computers... that would be taking things too far!
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This kind of argument - that technology of war is being developed for our own good and protection - is always given by right-wing apoligists when they don't have anything else to fall back on.
The simple fact is that most of the world's people are quite content withouth space being militarized, and the only people who long for weapons can be divided into 2 categories:
1) The agressors, and 2) Those who feel a need to defend themselves from (1)
As recent world history has shown us, despite all the scare-mongering over 'Weapons of Mass Destruction', the real agressors come from the country that makes and sells more weapons of mass destruction than all the rest of the countries combined. And for those interested in the competitors, Israel and the UK come a distant 2nd and 3rd.
I'm not implying by this that Americans are inherintly evil or backward ( as they imply of their enemies ). The US is simply the pinnacle of the world's capitalist empire, and as such, is the most glarying obvious example of what capitalism is really about: profit at any cost.
And that's why the US targets societies with different value systems to it's own for conquering and assimilation: as examples of alternatives to capitalism, they are the biggest threat to the US goal of total global military domination. Don't think that's what the plan is? Check out http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmeric asDefenses.pdf, which was prepared by such war criminals as Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Elliot Abrams, Jeb Bush, and Paul Wolfowitz. While you're at it, check out the web site it comes from: http://newamericancentury.org. It will shock you into becoming a socialist!
Why trust them less? They're huge and get press. That doesn't mean that the sleaze bags who run that company are any worse then the sleaze bags who run a company that get no press.
Actually I disagree with that. A company that has 'made it big' is far more likely to be completely untrustworthy than one which is quietly pottering away in their corner of the globe. At the big end of town, you either play dirty, or get replaced by someone else who does.
I would put my support behind Oracle simply to weeken Microsoft's position, and rely on the GPL to protect us from their acquisitional tendancies.
Yeah I'm replying to my own post. I just noticed that they are British images. Well substitute 'US' for 'UK'. I understand Tony Blair is taking quite a pounding over this as well:)
Install Gentoo. It incrementally updates itself. Just type:
emerge sync emerge -u --deep world
and Gentoo will update all your packages to the latest available. There is even the excellent 'etc-update' command, that helps you merge in any changes to config files.
It's great not having to download a couple of 600MB ISOs every time an update is available.
I would have believed you until I read the 'openoffice' bit. Don't get me wrong, I love openoffice, and am pushing hard to move the other 50% of our office onto it, but it needs a fast processor... no, no... a very fast processor.
Also you are discounting the effect of games. I only play about 3 hours per week, but it is nice to be able to play something other than Warcraft or Tuxracer.
Q: Which processor should I buy? A: The one that makes the biggest profit for it's manufacturer.
Very strange logic.
And if we're talking about sucessful processors, lets not drag the Celeron 4 and Centrino into it. Those things are both complete dogs. Read some reviews if you don't believe me. But of course by your unquestionable powers of deduction, they have been sucessful product lines as far as intel is concerned, so they must be good for consumers!
While it's better that taxpayer money gets spent on a redundant mechanical watch that is useless on Earth ( and can be implemented with half and hour's work in software as pointed out ), I suppose at least it's less money that goes directly into weapons of mass destruction. Of course the technology that gets developed in the aerospace industry is very handy in making said weapons. But to be politically correct, I can't accuse the US of making weapons of mass destruction. The US makes weapons of peace and understanding. They only become weapons of mass destruction when they are sold or given to 'the enemy' by the current president of the US, or at the least, his father.
It makes sense for them to use wiretaps to catch drug dealers that aren't the CIA's own. Most of the money that going into CIA terrorist activities comes from drug money, because it's harder ( basically impossibly ) to track than tax money.
And then there's the fact that those people who use drugs are far more likely to lean to the left ( away from the CIA & Pentagon ).
Looks like 1984 is here, only 20 years later than predicted. Enjoy your fascist society, Americans. Land of the free, my arse!
Imagine if you could extend this idea to the whole US industrial military complex, and prevent them from invading defenseless countries without provocation. Now that would reduce the number of terrorist attacks.
The gap between rich Jews and poor Jews, or the gap between the Jews and the Palestinians whose land they stole when they 'thnically cleansed'the place?
Not committing a crime in the past doesn't absolve you from committing one now. You say that the oil will be sold at market value. Oil was a NATIONAL ASSET for the Iraqi people. It has been PRIVITISED, just like all other NATIONAL ASSETS. And all this is happening before the Iraqi people are being allowed to democratically elect a government to rubber-stamp the 'deals'. All Iraqi's assets that were not bombed are now on the chopping block, and available for a song to any foreign investors with a US security clearance. What utter bullshit! I'll tell you something: if anyone tries that in MY country, they've have some fucking terrorists to deal with, that's for sure.
But that doesn't mean that we just throw up our arms and let that kind of behavior run rampant
What kind of behaviour? He let UN weapons inspectors in. They found nothing. According to international law, the US has no business interfering in the internal affairs of another country. And don't try to bring the 'War on Terrorism' into it. Every intelligence expert I've seen quoted on TV and in the newspaper and on the net have stated that Saddam would be the least likely to have anything to do with Bin Laden and his gang. There is no terrorist link, and there are no weapons of mass destruction.
And yes I was against the Kosovo intervention. I saw a documentary about the revolution there and people were saying that UN ( US ) involvement did not help, and victory was claimed by the local oppressed people. One student was quoted as saying: "If we are ever in a similar situation again, I beg the US and others NOT to try to save us with their bombs. We will do it ourselves".
As for evidence that the US sold WOMD to Iraq, try google, or these:
Jesus Christ. They're not going to start hammering people over this now, surely? They do realise that they acted illegally, and France was actually right to oppose the invasion?
Hope they build the reactor next to the next WTC building and it blows sky high.
Yes I know that's what they're saying. What they mean is that they want to liberate Iraq's resources, not the people. If they were interested in Iraqi citizens, they wouldn't have supported Saddam for 2 decades by selling and giving him the fabled Weapons of Mass Destruction.
The Geneva convention? For fuck's sake, give me a break! The US is kidnapping people and sending them US military bases in Cuba to avoid the hassles associated with breaking the Geneva convention in their own country.
If we're going to start bringing international law into the argument, it was George Bush would stated that he did in fact break international law to invade Iraq, but believed he was 'doing the right thing' and was therefore somehow expempt.
The thing about laws is that they cease to become relevant once those who are trying to enforce them begin breaking them.
So don't come crying about the Geneva convention being broken by a group of civilians fighting against a foreign invader when the US is so arrogant as to break every law they feel like, including the Geneva convention, in the name of 'National Security'.
And there's no point declaring suicide bombings illegal. Do you really think that a suicide bomber gives a flying fuck if they're breaking the law. You have to understand their position. They have lost everything: their families, their friends, their jobs. And so they go to take it out on the invading forces. Who the fuck are you to say that their actions are 'terrorist' actions and not simply acts of war, in response to the acts of war of the invaders.
For the most part, they aren't attacking us. The attacks are coming from a minority of Saddam loyalists or foreign Islamic terrorists.
You've been watching too much Fox news. There are no Saddam loyalists. The freedom fighters are just that - fighting for control of their own country. You can't dismiss as everyone who is anti-US as an Islamic terrorist, because you'd be branding practically the rest of the world as Islamic terrorists. And remember: one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter.
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Bullshit.
Guns are for killing. Maybe killing people, maybe killing animals. Killing anyway.
Those guns which aren't used for killing are used for such pleasures as holding up 7-11 stores, holding the upper hand in a fight, stealing, etc.
Have a look at the US - the most 'relaxed' gun laws around, and the highest incidence of violent crime around.
Remember: guns don't kill; people kill; people with GUNS.
Great!
Of course we have to now plant the thing everywhere the US has been involved in wars ( basically everywhere ) and we also have to pay the company whatever they're asking price is.
But I'm sure the US will cough up for the costs associated with cleaning up after their inhumane use of land minds across the globe.
Where can I get one? :)
I assume if I use Mozilla, it won't be emailing itself to everyone in my ( outlook express ) addressbook, and I can just let it distribute itself across the Kazaa network and wait for the DOS attack to beef up
Bullshit. If it weren't for the incredible oil resources in the middle east, the US couldn't give a flying fuck about Israel, Palestine or Iraq, in much the same way they couldn't give a flying fuck about anything else not related to power and profit. I suppose you'll argue that the US sells and gives Weapons of Mass Destruction to Israel because it is simply a bastion of peace, love and understanding in a cold, hard, backward Arab world. But the rest of the world disagrees. Do a google search on the number of UN resolutions against Israel that the US has vetoed, which has the direct effect of fucking over millions of innocent Palestinians, all in the name of having a western 'watchdog' in the middle east if things go sour ( which is highly likely considering the rest of their foreign policy ).
Oh suck my dick. The US only safeguards what is in it's best interests, and then it does a shitty job of that. Look at your balance of payments defecit. How many more TRILLIONS of dollars are going to go buy before you start paying your way like the rest of the world? And I suppose the antics of the World Bank and the International Monetary Funds are also all in the name of 'safeguarding' the 'world economy'. Well the rest of the world disagrees with you on this point to. US foreign policy does nothing but cause catastrophe in all but the largest and most established capitalist nations of the world. Nothing is being safeguarded here. In fact, the US is creating an economic time-bomb, and even the right-wing press are picking up on it. It's time you did too.
Yes.
It's actually quite funny watching the Yanks scurry around looking for ways to deal with the problem that profits depend on fuel, and their fuel is running out.
Of course it's not nearly so funny for the Iraqis, or the Palestinians, or anyone else who gets caught up in their 'quest for world peace and democracy' that they bullshit on so much about. But at least from here, for now, I can see some humour to it.
I have to agree with their actions here. This is the sort of 'collateral damage' I agree with. Asking ISPs nicely to clamp down on spammers doesn't work - after all, spammers are customers too. To get an ISP's attention, you have to talk their language: money, and the easiest way to do that is to cause their customers to move elsewhere, and the easiest ( and most defensible ) way to do that is to blacklist IP blocks belonging to the ISP. It's just cold, hard reality. Note that I'm not saying that we have to bomb the Christ out of the ISPs and kill hundreds of thousands of innocent customers and steal their computers ... that would be taking things too far!
This kind of argument - that technology of war is being developed for our own good and protection - is always given by right-wing apoligists when they don't have anything else to fall back on.
c asDefenses.pdf, which was prepared by such war criminals as Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Elliot Abrams, Jeb Bush, and Paul Wolfowitz. While you're at it, check out the web site it comes from: http://newamericancentury.org. It will shock you into becoming a socialist!
The simple fact is that most of the world's people are quite content withouth space being militarized, and the only people who long for weapons can be divided into 2 categories:
1) The agressors, and
2) Those who feel a need to defend themselves from (1)
As recent world history has shown us, despite all the scare-mongering over 'Weapons of Mass Destruction', the real agressors come from the country that makes and sells more weapons of mass destruction than all the rest of the countries combined. And for those interested in the competitors, Israel and the UK come a distant 2nd and 3rd.
I'm not implying by this that Americans are inherintly evil or backward ( as they imply of their enemies ). The US is simply the pinnacle of the world's capitalist empire, and as such, is the most glarying obvious example of what capitalism is really about: profit at any cost.
And that's why the US targets societies with different value systems to it's own for conquering and assimilation: as examples of alternatives to capitalism, they are the biggest threat to the US goal of total global military domination. Don't think that's what the plan is? Check out http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmeri
Man that's sweet. Motivation to get my arse into gear and make some music!
Actually I disagree with that.
A company that has 'made it big' is far more likely to be completely untrustworthy than one which is quietly pottering away in their corner of the globe. At the big end of town, you either play dirty, or get replaced by someone else who does.
I would put my support behind Oracle simply to weeken Microsoft's position, and rely on the GPL to protect us from their acquisitional tendancies.
Yeah I'm replying to my own post. :)
I just noticed that they are British images.
Well substitute 'US' for 'UK'.
I understand Tony Blair is taking quite a pounding over this as well
What would be more appropriate at the moment would be images of Iraq before and after the us 'liberated' them.
But you have to commend them, this is a nice way of repairing the US's military image and taking the focus away from current war crimes.
Install Gentoo.
It incrementally updates itself.
Just type:
emerge sync
emerge -u --deep world
and Gentoo will update all your packages to the latest available. There is even the excellent 'etc-update' command, that helps you merge in any changes to config files.
It's great not having to download a couple of 600MB ISOs every time an update is available.
Dude.
That is funny.
Very funny.
I also long for mod points.
I would have believed you until I read the 'openoffice' bit. Don't get me wrong, I love openoffice, and am pushing hard to move the other 50% of our office onto it, but it needs a fast processor ... no, no ... a very fast processor.
Also you are discounting the effect of games. I only play about 3 hours per week, but it is nice to be able to play something other than Warcraft or Tuxracer.
Q: Which processor should I buy?
A: The one that makes the biggest profit for it's manufacturer.
Very strange logic.
And if we're talking about sucessful processors, lets not drag the Celeron 4 and Centrino into it. Those things are both complete dogs. Read some reviews if you don't believe me. But of course by your unquestionable powers of deduction, they have been sucessful product lines as far as intel is concerned, so they must be good for consumers!
While it's better that taxpayer money gets spent on a redundant mechanical watch that is useless on Earth ( and can be implemented with half and hour's work in software as pointed out ), I suppose at least it's less money that goes directly into weapons of mass destruction. Of course the technology that gets developed in the aerospace industry is very handy in making said weapons. But to be politically correct, I can't accuse the US of making weapons of mass destruction. The US makes weapons of peace and understanding. They only become weapons of mass destruction when they are sold or given to 'the enemy' by the current president of the US, or at the least, his father.
That's one damned fine simulation video they have. For those who can't get to it ( or simply to relieve the load on the CSIRO server ), I've mirrored the big one at: http://enthalpy.homelinux.org/cool_stuff/PulsarsEv olutionPAL.mpg
It makes sense for them to use wiretaps to catch drug dealers that aren't the CIA's own. Most of the money that going into CIA terrorist activities comes from drug money, because it's harder ( basically impossibly ) to track than tax money.
And then there's the fact that those people who use drugs are far more likely to lean to the left ( away from the CIA & Pentagon ).
Looks like 1984 is here, only 20 years later than predicted. Enjoy your fascist society, Americans. Land of the free, my arse!
Imagine if you could extend this idea to the whole US industrial military complex, and prevent them from invading defenseless countries without provocation. Now that would reduce the number of terrorist attacks.
The gap between rich Jews and poor Jews, or the gap between the Jews and the Palestinians whose land they stole when they 'thnically cleansed'the place?
The US could have taken it in 1991, they didn't.
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Not committing a crime in the past doesn't absolve you from committing one now. You say that the oil will be sold at market value. Oil was a NATIONAL ASSET for the Iraqi people. It has been PRIVITISED, just like all other NATIONAL ASSETS. And all this is happening before the Iraqi people are being allowed to democratically elect a government to rubber-stamp the 'deals'. All Iraqi's assets that were not bombed are now on the chopping block, and available for a song to any foreign investors with a US security clearance. What utter bullshit! I'll tell you something: if anyone tries that in MY country, they've have some fucking terrorists to deal with, that's for sure.
But that doesn't mean that we just throw up our arms and let that kind of behavior run rampant
What kind of behaviour? He let UN weapons inspectors in. They found nothing. According to international law, the US has no business interfering in the internal affairs of another country. And don't try to bring the 'War on Terrorism' into it. Every intelligence expert I've seen quoted on TV and in the newspaper and on the net have stated that Saddam would be the least likely to have anything to do with Bin Laden and his gang. There is no terrorist link, and there are no weapons of mass destruction.
And yes I was against the Kosovo intervention. I saw a documentary about the revolution there and people were saying that UN ( US ) involvement did not help, and victory was claimed by the local oppressed people. One student was quoted as saying: "If we are ever in a similar situation again, I beg the US and others NOT to try to save us with their bombs. We will do it ourselves".
As for evidence that the US sold WOMD to Iraq, try google, or these:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52241-2
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1213-02.h
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/apr2003/sanc-a2
Jesus Christ. They're not going to start hammering people over this now, surely? They do realise that they acted illegally, and France was actually right to oppose the invasion?
Hope they build the reactor next to the next WTC building and it blows sky high.
Yes I know that's what they're saying. What they mean is that they want to liberate Iraq's resources, not the people. If they were interested in Iraqi citizens, they wouldn't have supported Saddam for 2 decades by selling and giving him the fabled Weapons of Mass Destruction.
The Geneva convention? For fuck's sake, give me a break! The US is kidnapping people and sending them US military bases in Cuba to avoid the hassles associated with breaking the Geneva convention in their own country.
If we're going to start bringing international law into the argument, it was George Bush would stated that he did in fact break international law to invade Iraq, but believed he was 'doing the right thing' and was therefore somehow expempt.
The thing about laws is that they cease to become relevant once those who are trying to enforce them begin breaking them.
So don't come crying about the Geneva convention being broken by a group of civilians fighting against a foreign invader when the US is so arrogant as to break every law they feel like, including the Geneva convention, in the name of 'National Security'.
And there's no point declaring suicide bombings illegal. Do you really think that a suicide bomber gives a flying fuck if they're breaking the law. You have to understand their position. They have lost everything: their families, their friends, their jobs. And so they go to take it out on the invading forces. Who the fuck are you to say that their actions are 'terrorist' actions and not simply acts of war, in response to the acts of war of the invaders.
Fucking US hypocrits!
For the most part, they aren't attacking us. The attacks are coming from a minority of Saddam loyalists or foreign Islamic terrorists.
You've been watching too much Fox news. There are no Saddam loyalists. The freedom fighters are just that - fighting for control of their own country. You can't dismiss as everyone who is anti-US as an Islamic terrorist, because you'd be branding practically the rest of the world as Islamic terrorists. And remember: one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter.