Absolutely. Let's fry everyone in Iraq who dares to resist an invading army. They all must murderers, too, right? How dare they fight the US, with its humane intentions?!
They were given the chance to surrender and chose not to. If the way you wage war is to not attempt to defeat those who oppose you, then you would be one pathetic adversary!
Against a background where 80% of Brits are against the war and only 40% of Americans are - I sure hope the US appreciates that!
Absolutely we do. The Brits have been our staunchest allies, and its a testament to your Prime Minister's integrity that he ignored the hype and went with what he believed was the right decision.
And FYI, approximately 70+% of Americans support this war. Don't take Slashdot posters as an accurate Sampling of the American public!
I just think it's bad policy for the U.S. to do this more-or-less on their own
On their own? Did you know that the coalition of nations providing either troops and/or monetary or other types of support now numbers near 40? It is the third largest coalition ever assembled behind World War II and the Gulf War.
Huh? The attack is meant to continue to destroy key Iraqi command installations and to further weaken the morale of those who are still considering putting up a fight.
In the end it will make it that much safer for our troops as they approach Baghdad.
The U.S. doesn't need to fear & awe the world. Are you implying that there are (sane) nations out there that doubt our "Military Might" ?
And if by backfiring you mean we'll liberate an oppressed and grateful people from a horrible murderous dictator, then world opinion be damned, I'll take "backfiring" any day of the week.
What justifies this war is that Saddam is a horrible dictator who oppresses his people, makes war on his neighbors, and murders countless thousands a year in order to keep his regime intact.
Get off your high horse. If someone had gone in and taken out Hitler before he had a chance to really gain steam would you have been against that too?
Thank you! Saddam is horrible. This should have been done long ago... it's sad to think that people are protesting the removal of a dictator who is on par with Hitler in evilness if not in capability or intelligence. He'd has 10+ YEARS of opportunity to disarm and/or to change his ways.
The fact that the Iraqi people themselves have embraced our troops as they've been liberated is wonderful. We're doing a good thing here...
Sure, they work fine. Using one here with XFree86 4.2.0. I had some troubles making it display properly initially, but removing all the modelines from my XF86Config file cleared that up.
Just set your vert and horiz config as normal and it will display fine.
The bidirectional protocol I recall using was HS/Link. Heck, the protocol even had a chat interface so you could talk with the sysop or user on the other end as you transferred!
Are FidoNet messages archived anywhere? Just did a quick search on Google as well as checking out the fido.* newsgroups and the FidoNet homempage but didn't really find a message of such an archive.
Yeah it might disgruntle them--in the short term. But at this point, what do they have to lose? Maybe they're hoping that the warezers will eventually move on to another IRC network and leave them alone. Obviously DALnet can never completely eliminate it, but there are certainly plenty of other "warez-friendly" IRC networks. If DALnet can weather the storm, they may find themselves better off in the long run.
My guess is the main reason behind it is an attempt to curtail all the DDos attacks and such. Having many different elements of the Warez crowd constantly sharing files, cracked server lists and the like is bound to lead to some disharmony and puts the IRC server(s) at higher risk for attack by disgruntled warezers. DALnet is simply trying to remove this element from the equation in order to get back some of their stability. We'll see if it actually works...
haha, we -HAD- a SCO box running our POS for the retail Pharmacy. It had some hardware issues, so we called up the company that configured the box and no one there reemembered how to use SCO well enough to help us. Apparently all the SCO guys were gone for the most part and everything was Red Hat now.
We now have a brand new Red Had POS server which is fine with me since I am the only one who knows Linux in our dept.:)
Don't want the attacks clogging up your logs?
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If you run Apache and hate looking at the hundreds of annoying attacks by the Code Red and Nimda worms, try adding these to your httpd.conf:
SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/default.ida" attacks # For Code Red
SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/scripts" attacks # For nimda
SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/c/winnt" attacks #... ditto all the way down
SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/_mem_bin" attacks
SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/_vti_bin" attacks
SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/MSADC" attacks
SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/msadc" attacks
SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/d/winnt" attacks
... it's the difference between AMD losing market share because the average person looks only at MHz when buying a computer and levelling the playing field to reflect an AMD processor at a lower MHz performing the same as a P4 at a higher MHz.
See this article. AnandTech points out that MHz is NOT everything. (I'm sure there are countless more benchmarks and articles like this one).
This is a fallacious argument called "begging the question" It assumes that people were in fact brainwashed when this is not necessarily the case simply because this fellow thinks so.
I've taken history classes--it's plainly clear to me that socialism, while a fine ideal, cannot succeed in anything humans are involved in. There is an inherent desire for returns from our work--take the rewards away, and whether you like it or not people are not going to work as hard or care as much.
Certainly, this is my opinion, one I have arrived at not by being brainwashed but by -thinking-.
You mean taxpayer money. Bush favors the government taking money from high income earners and using that money to police other people's kids.
The most disgusting aspect of this is that the Republicans claim to be for smaller government then propose a big-government "solution" to a problem that does not exist.
Huh? Bush proposes to do filtering in places funded by public money--libraries, etc. This seems completely within the boundaries of the government's responsibilities! He said -nothing- about filtering in someone's home and taking over the job of the parent. If you read Gore's statement, he wants protection 95% of the time a page comes up... who's infringing on parental responsibility now? Someone mod that inaccurate post down!
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What have we become?
liberators of an oppressed people.
Dark indeed.
Absolutely. Let's fry everyone in Iraq who dares to resist an invading army. They all must murderers, too, right? How dare they fight the US, with its humane intentions?!
They were given the chance to surrender and chose not to. If the way you wage war is to not attempt to defeat those who oppose you, then you would be one pathetic adversary!
Stupid asshole
:-P
From the brainless contents of your post, I am assuming that's your John Hancock...
Against a background where 80% of Brits are against the war and only 40% of Americans are - I sure hope the US appreciates that!
Absolutely we do. The Brits have been our staunchest allies, and its a testament to your Prime Minister's integrity that he ignored the hype and went with what he believed was the right decision.
And FYI, approximately 70+% of Americans support this war. Don't take Slashdot posters as an accurate Sampling of the American public!
I just think it's bad policy for the U.S. to do this more-or-less on their own
On their own? Did you know that the coalition of nations providing either troops and/or monetary or other types of support now numbers near 40? It is the third largest coalition ever assembled behind World War II and the Gulf War.
Huh? The attack is meant to continue to destroy key Iraqi command installations and to further weaken the morale of those who are still considering putting up a fight.
In the end it will make it that much safer for our troops as they approach Baghdad.
The U.S. doesn't need to fear & awe the world. Are you implying that there are (sane) nations out there that doubt our "Military Might" ?
And if by backfiring you mean we'll liberate an oppressed and grateful people from a horrible murderous dictator, then world opinion be damned, I'll take "backfiring" any day of the week.
What justifies this war is that Saddam is a horrible dictator who oppresses his people, makes war on his neighbors, and murders countless thousands a year in order to keep his regime intact.
Get off your high horse. If someone had gone in and taken out Hitler before he had a chance to really gain steam would you have been against that too?
But Saddam killing 2 million of his own people is acceptable?
They've also liberated civilians and towns.. so, they're not allowed to capture oil fields as well which the Iraqis would just blow up?
Unlike you I don't conduct my actions out of fear.
Which is why, if you were a country, you'd have been overrun, captured and beaten to a bloody pulp countless times.
Link?
Besides, what's your point? Saddam has done _far_ worse to his own people. Repeatedly. For years.
Yeah, we're evil alright. Let Saddam stay in power because you perceive us as hypocrites!
Thank you! Saddam is horrible. This should have been done long ago... it's sad to think that people are protesting the removal of a dictator who is on par with Hitler in evilness if not in capability or intelligence. He'd has 10+ YEARS of opportunity to disarm and/or to change his ways.
The fact that the Iraqi people themselves have embraced our troops as they've been liberated is wonderful. We're doing a good thing here...
Sure, they work fine. Using one here with XFree86 4.2.0. I had some troubles making it display properly initially, but removing all the modelines from my XF86Config file cleared that up.
Just set your vert and horiz config as normal and it will display fine.
The bidirectional protocol I recall using was HS/Link. Heck, the protocol even had a chat interface so you could talk with the sysop or user on the other end as you transferred!
Are FidoNet messages archived anywhere? Just did a quick search on Google as well as checking out the fido.* newsgroups and the FidoNet homempage but didn't really find a message of such an archive.
Yeah it might disgruntle them--in the short term. But at this point, what do they have to lose? Maybe they're hoping that the warezers will eventually move on to another IRC network and leave them alone. Obviously DALnet can never completely eliminate it, but there are certainly plenty of other "warez-friendly" IRC networks. If DALnet can weather the storm, they may find themselves better off in the long run.
My guess is the main reason behind it is an attempt to curtail all the DDos attacks and such. Having many different elements of the Warez crowd constantly sharing files, cracked server lists and the like is bound to lead to some disharmony and puts the IRC server(s) at higher risk for attack by disgruntled warezers. DALnet is simply trying to remove this element from the equation in order to get back some of their stability. We'll see if it actually works...
haha, we -HAD- a SCO box running our POS for the retail Pharmacy. It had some hardware issues, so we called up the company that configured the box and no one there reemembered how to use SCO well enough to help us. Apparently all the SCO guys were gone for the most part and everything was Red Hat now.
:)
We now have a brand new Red Had POS server which is fine with me since I am the only one who knows Linux in our dept.
If you run Apache and hate looking at the hundreds of annoying attacks by the Code Red and Nimda worms, try adding these to your httpd.conf:
... ditto all the way down
/var/log/access_log combined env=!attacks
/var/log/attack_log combined env=attacks
SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/default.ida" attacks # For Code Red
SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/scripts" attacks # For nimda
SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/c/winnt" attacks #
SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/_mem_bin" attacks
SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/_vti_bin" attacks
SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/MSADC" attacks
SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/msadc" attacks
SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/d/winnt" attacks
CustomLog
CustomLog
This will dump all the "attacks" into a file called attack_log and leave your normal logfile clutter free.
... it's the difference between AMD losing market share because the average person looks only at MHz when buying a computer and levelling the playing field to reflect an AMD processor at a lower MHz performing the same as a P4 at a higher MHz.
See this article. AnandTech points out that MHz is NOT everything. (I'm sure there are countless more benchmarks and articles like this one).
or how bout Live-astrator??
This is a fallacious argument called "begging the question" It assumes that people were in fact brainwashed when this is not necessarily the case simply because this fellow thinks so.
I've taken history classes--it's plainly clear to me that socialism, while a fine ideal, cannot succeed in anything humans are involved in. There is an inherent desire for returns from our work--take the rewards away, and whether you like it or not people are not going to work as hard or care as much.
Certainly, this is my opinion, one I have arrived at not by being brainwashed but by -thinking-.
You mean taxpayer money. Bush favors the government taking money from high income earners and using that money to police other people's kids.
The most disgusting aspect of this is that the Republicans claim to be for smaller government then propose a big-government "solution" to a problem that does not exist.
Huh? Bush proposes to do filtering in places funded by public money--libraries, etc. This seems completely within the boundaries of the government's responsibilities! He said -nothing- about filtering in someone's home and taking over the job of the parent. If you read Gore's statement, he wants protection 95% of the time a page comes up... who's infringing on parental responsibility now? Someone mod that inaccurate post down!
Hmmmm... looks like Anand has some decent hardware--maybe it's the OS? :-)
I took a look at http://www.tpc.org/new_result/c-db-results.idc They don't even test MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc... not exactly a very conclusive study.