Dude, you come across as a pompous smart ass kid that has all the answers. Yet all you do is spout the Bush administration's line verbatim. I know the administrations line without you repeating it and as I have demonstrated I do not agree with it for the reasons I have outlined earlier.
You and I have totally different philosophies; I do not agree that wars can ever be justified. It would be easy to refute your arguments but pointless as you are determined you are correct no matter how fallious you logic appears to other. I agree with Einstein's thoughts on the matter of war:
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
When you have lived through the horrors of war or maybe when people like Bush are sending your children to a far off land for a conquest of resources you might change your mind?
Reading a lot of these comments it is plain to see that a lot of US citizens are deeply concerned and less than taken in by the lies comming out of the white house.
The comments here and the anti-war protests in the US point out that the media is lying about the public's support for the president.
So/. readers thanks for being smart enought for spotting what Bush is up to, the rest of the world can see it but its American that have to fight it, please try for all our sakes.
Oh come on! Do you believe all propaganda or only most of it? A prime example of what Lenin called a "Useful Idiot".
Wishing a terrorist attack on Madison because they do not hold the same narrow minded views as you is something I find despicable and ignorant but to flame is not constructive, so I offer you food for thought.
The patriots who setup the American constitution understood tyrants and the human failings of greed and power lust hence the checks and balances therein. If these checks and balances are removed for whatever excuse, I would certainly smell a rat. Members of the Congress & Senate pledge an oath to uphold the constitution when taking office however; they have just granted Bush the ability to declare war which the constitution clearly forbids and I think this spells trouble.
Everything isn't a cut and dried as you or Bush like to make out, this simplistic view of the world where there are good guys in white hats and bad guys in black hats is childish and ignorant yet you tell others to grow up.
Some Americans who have retained some critical thinking abilities are realising the people in the white house hijacked a nations grief to throw the nation in to a perpetual war. People like you label these anti-American but let me ask you this: When has it ever been American to blindly follow a leader?
Real people will die in the upcoming war against Iraq, real families will grieve for the loss of loved ones and for what? OIL.
Here are a coupleoflinks
If terrorists did attack Madison, after going against the Ashcroft patriot act, who would it really help? Certainly Would remind me of the Lavon Affair or maybe closer to Operation Northwoods.
OK, emulator is maybe the wrong word, I guess it's really an implimentation of the xbox libs (XTLs) under win32; ala what WINE is for Linux and the Win 16/32 enviroment.
The author did mention that he intends to make cxbx open source in the future. OK, there's the info, is it viable?
*Sigh*, should have known the irony would be missed due to ignorance. Suggest google search for a book title that includes the word "thinketh" by James Allen.
Now realise that to think that oneself is smart doesn't make it so, in actual fact if you think you "know all" then you never feel the need to learn, thus never learn and remain ignorant.
The irony is to be massively ignorant yet to believe oneself to be smart. Of course you'll disagree with this as you believe yourself to be smart but I'd suggest this is self deception.
Sorry that this might be off topic and cheerleading (right place though).
GNU/Linux impresses me a great deal. I've been running it for a few years now, mainly at home and in some positions when I can get away with it and its easy to take it for granted. But its articles like this that make me step back and think about what as really been achived by a bunch of mainly unpaid developers who provide all their source code for free.
Sure there a few places where Windows is more suitable but everyday, these few places get fewer.
So to any Linux developers and supporters who read this, thank you all.
Well there is something here that doesn't make sense. Answer me this one question: If you do not have your own expensive TV station, radio station or newspaper, what medium would you use to get information to the world about your beliefs, goals?
And the answer isn't John Edward.
So, why would you want to attack that very same, very useful medium?
Read 1984, Bush seems to be using it as a play book.
A classic case of logical fallacy:argumentum ad hominem (attack the arguer and not the argument), which highlights your ignorance, furthermore, you even makeup the traits you attack; not so smart as one thinketh eh?
But I wonder why this brought on such a vicious personal attack? History shows that censorship is only in the best interests of the censor; hence I am not in favour of net censorship by any government. As for "vitrol [sic] and bigotry", I merely state that I find it hard to believe that people living in caves in Afghanistan could launch a serious cyber attack to bring down the entire Internet, of course this only based on a professional judgement but I'll remind you of this quote from one of your earlier Slashdot comments"How do I know all this? I'm currently a freelance graphic designer and you better believe I know my shit when it comes to copyright."
As for bigoted, this is an odd context to use of the word, the only meaning here being that I am bigoted towards terrorists, well hey if I'm going to be bigoted maybe terrorists are a better choice than just because of someone's hair colour eh? See another one of your comments. Sigh. Initially I thought this was a troll but after looking at your older posts, you seem to have some egotistical need to tell people how incredibly smart you are and how remarkably wrong they are. Congratulations on being the first in my foes list
I wondered when this would finally start to kick off. There are many things that I have doubt about with this government and their obvious manipulations but due to lack of knowledge there is an element of doubt who is telling the truth. As a CCIE, networks are something I consider I know a bit about and this rings alarm bells.
There have been a few articles now in the press that state there could easily be a terrorist attack on the internet which I merly laughted at but it seems that average joe in the street thinks that a bunch of Afganistan cavemen could seriously achive this.
To me, this is an obvious attempt to censor the internet by using fear tactics which work due to peoples ignorance. I'm tired of this annoying propaganda and manipulation by what is meant to be a government of the people and for the people.
This site is very interesting and certainly worth seeing the other side of the story, maybe this is why censorship is so important?
Regardless, the net doesn't need this "protection" and I wonder if this "protection" is for my benifit in any case.
These are no ordanary contractors though. We're are talking about at least 2 uber KDE developers here, namely Matthias Kalle Dalheimer & Bernhard Reiter.
Plus, they are not starting from scratch, they already know the KDE infrastructure inside out and have a truck load of Jolt & Mt.Dew delivered weekly.
"to fear the government entering into direct competition with known economic paradigms--and that's what we're talking about."
It seems that we have a one world government already, must have missed that one. Like any money spending entity the German government have simply had enough of being dictated to by an American monopoly. A government has a responsibility to the tax payer to find cost effective solutions, just as Microsoft has a responsibility to its share holders to screw customers as much as possible. We are all mostly tax payers yet only a few of are Microsoft share holders, I wholly support this and nor does it come as a surprise.
This little elegant quote fits well:
"The amount of oppression the oppressed will bear is determined by the oppressed NOT the oppressor." -- Frederick Douglass
This worries me terribly. Of course the CIA has been caught dealing in drugs but is this a very short memory or is this the memory hole in action?
The Taliban did a lot to stem the opium cultivation (death sentence) however, since the US oil puppet guys has had control, Afghanistan farmers are replanting for a massive poppy crop. The worrying thing is that you can now find various articles in major newspapers that claim the Taliban supported the drugs trade.
Does anyone remember that after Andy Card told Dubya about the second plane, he continued to sit for more 20 minutes reading about a goat?! In a recent interview with CNBC Nightly News, Andy Card gives the impression that as soon as Dubya was informed, he left the school children he was reading to and came to the aid of the crisis.
He who controls the past controls the present and he who controls the present controls the future.
1984 is a must read especially as whoever is pulling Dubya's strings seems to be using it as a play book.
For years America has been putting puppet governments in other people's countries and now we have finally done it to ourselves. Arrhh.. the sweet sweet smell of poetic justice.
What amazes me is that when a perpetual motion Dolorian is presented before the/. crowd they instantly smell a rat but with things that matter a great deal more, they fail to think critically at all. Always look who benefits from a given situation and you see the instigator.
Do you really believe that some bunch of Afghanistan cavemen could have pulled off 9/11 unaided? Or that a passport of the lead highjacker could survive the 9/11 crash and float to earth? How about the fake tape that was peddled as the evidence for the Afghanistan bombing? Check the pictures if you don't believe the tape was fake, they are on the net.
There is a lot that obviously doesn't add up to even the dumbest retard but as long as Americans can keep their standard of living they will always turn a blind eye to criminal activities of their government. That is the path of least resistance but that lazy attitude is exactly what is being used against you. Its a lot nicer to think America is the world's policeman instead of the world's #1 rouge state looking to conqueror middle eastern oil fields.
Learn, as knowledge protects you from every lie and deceit anyone can pull over you.
Unpatriotic to question the Government? Well that's what they would have you think, but when as it ever been American to blindly follow a leader?
"Palladium never hurts the end user -- you can always turn it off.
In 1933 Weimar Republic President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolph Hitler Chancellor. Less than one month afterwards the Reichstag burns down and Hitler grants himself massive powers which he stated said were only tempoary & "for the Protection of the People". Well I guess you know the rest of the story.
My point being, nobody chases power and control unless they intend to use it. Take DRM, all you ever need to do is look who benifits. Of course you can always turn it off now just as people could have left Germany initally but as time went on, that option disappeared.
Hitler references are a cliche however, most power grabs work in roughly the same way, do the words "patriot act" ring any alarm bells?
Slowly turn up the heat and the frog won't even notice until he is boiled alive.
The people at the top still need the little guy underneath to support the upper levels. With out us little guys to buy their products and increase their profits they would no longer be at the top. They are now trying to maneuver us in to a position where we can have little say in the matter and as you say maintain their position at the top.
The solution is, don't support them, don't buy their products and tell others what is going on. All people need is the knowledge to understand what is happening, nobody likes being trapped but first they need to see the trap. For example, the fait money system run by the federal reserve is a massive shell game for the benifit of a few bankers, if the American public really understood the system I doubt they would tollerate it for long afterwards.
I hope you read this as the topic is a few days old. You managed to pick up on something that I am very interested in, language & how it got the way it is. If only I had more time (and intellgence).
"Philosophy is stored in these terms."
I couldn't agree more, there seem to be "clues" or code regarding something scatered about in language, especially root words and they seem to link in to old myths & legends.
I am not nearly bright enough to express this very eloquently nor to figure it out but language seems to hold a lot more value than just basic communication and something we take for granted.
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How about Juniper M series routers.
Cool, good to know grouse is Aussie wide!
Tit. FTFA: "The whitepaper, by MS Windows 2000 Server Product Group member David Brooks"
"grouse"???
Must be from Melbourne, Australia right?
You and I have totally different philosophies; I do not agree that wars can ever be justified. It would be easy to refute your arguments but pointless as you are determined you are correct no matter how fallious you logic appears to other. I agree with Einstein's thoughts on the matter of war:
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
When you have lived through the horrors of war or maybe when people like Bush are sending your children to a far off land for a conquest of resources you might change your mind?
Reading a lot of these comments it is plain to see that a lot of US citizens are deeply concerned and less than taken in by the lies comming out of the white house.
/. readers thanks for being smart enought for spotting what Bush is up to, the rest of the world can see it but its American that have to fight it, please try for all our sakes.
The comments here and the anti-war protests in the US point out that the media is lying about the public's support for the president.
So
Wishing a terrorist attack on Madison because they do not hold the same narrow minded views as you is something I find despicable and ignorant but to flame is not constructive, so I offer you food for thought.
The patriots who setup the American constitution understood tyrants and the human failings of greed and power lust hence the checks and balances therein. If these checks and balances are removed for whatever excuse, I would certainly smell a rat. Members of the Congress & Senate pledge an oath to uphold the constitution when taking office however; they have just granted Bush the ability to declare war which the constitution clearly forbids and I think this spells trouble.
Everything isn't a cut and dried as you or Bush like to make out, this simplistic view of the world where there are good guys in white hats and bad guys in black hats is childish and ignorant yet you tell others to grow up.
Some Americans who have retained some critical thinking abilities are realising the people in the white house hijacked a nations grief to throw the nation in to a perpetual war. People like you label these anti-American but let me ask you this: When has it ever been American to blindly follow a leader?
Real people will die in the upcoming war against Iraq, real families will grieve for the loss of loved ones and for what? OIL.
Here are a couple of links If terrorists did attack Madison, after going against the Ashcroft patriot act, who would it really help? Certainly Would remind me of the Lavon Affair or maybe closer to Operation Northwoods.
Maybe there are no counts of the DMCA being breached here?
Xbox is reversed engineered for operability; running GNU/Linux which the DMCA allows.
You assume their copy of Win2k is a pirate version.
How do you know this is a bootleg of the Matrix? They could very well own the original disk / this could well be the trailer.
One word: Halo
And another one word (although should be two)
: Goldeneye
And then there's daikatana.. DOH!
To see if this xbox "emulator" is really viable.
OK, emulator is maybe the wrong word, I guess it's really an implimentation of the xbox libs (XTLs) under win32; ala what WINE is for Linux and the Win 16/32 enviroment.
The author did mention that he intends to make cxbx open source in the future. OK, there's the info, is it viable?
*Sigh*, should have known the irony would be missed due to ignorance. Suggest google search for a book title that includes the word "thinketh" by James Allen.
Now realise that to think that oneself is smart doesn't make it so, in actual fact if you think you "know all" then you never feel the need to learn, thus never learn and remain ignorant.
The irony is to be massively ignorant yet to believe oneself to be smart. Of course you'll disagree with this as you believe yourself to be smart but I'd suggest this is self deception.
Sorry that this might be off topic and cheerleading (right place though).
GNU/Linux impresses me a great deal. I've been running it for a few years now, mainly at home and in some positions when I can get away with it and its easy to take it for granted. But its articles like this that make me step back and think about what as really been achived by a bunch of mainly unpaid developers who provide all their source code for free.
Sure there a few places where Windows is more suitable but everyday, these few places get fewer.
So to any Linux developers and supporters who read this, thank you all.
Well there is something here that doesn't make sense. Answer me this one question: If you do not have your own expensive TV station, radio station or newspaper, what medium would you use to get information to the world about your beliefs, goals?
And the answer isn't John Edward.
So, why would you want to attack that very same, very useful medium?
Read 1984, Bush seems to be using it as a play book.
But I wonder why this brought on such a vicious personal attack? History shows that censorship is only in the best interests of the censor; hence I am not in favour of net censorship by any government. As for "vitrol [sic] and bigotry", I merely state that I find it hard to believe that people living in caves in Afghanistan could launch a serious cyber attack to bring down the entire Internet, of course this only based on a professional judgement but I'll remind you of this quote from one of your earlier Slashdot comments "How do I know all this? I'm currently a freelance graphic designer and you better believe I know my shit when it comes to copyright."
As for bigoted, this is an odd context to use of the word, the only meaning here being that I am bigoted towards terrorists, well hey if I'm going to be bigoted maybe terrorists are a better choice than just because of someone's hair colour eh? See another one of your comments. Sigh. Initially I thought this was a troll but after looking at your older posts, you seem to have some egotistical need to tell people how incredibly smart you are and how remarkably wrong they are. Congratulations on being the first in my foes list
Earlier post missing this link
I wondered when this would finally start to kick off. There are many things that I have doubt about with this government and their obvious manipulations but due to lack of knowledge there is an element of doubt who is telling the truth. As a CCIE, networks are something I consider I know a bit about and this rings alarm bells.
There have been a few articles now in the press that state there could easily be a terrorist attack on the internet which I merly laughted at but it seems that average joe in the street thinks that a bunch of Afganistan cavemen could seriously achive this.
To me, this is an obvious attempt to censor the internet by using fear tactics which work due to peoples ignorance. I'm tired of this annoying propaganda and manipulation by what is meant to be a government of the people and for the people.
This site is very interesting and certainly worth seeing the other side of the story, maybe this is why censorship is so important?
Regardless, the net doesn't need this "protection" and I wonder if this "protection" is for my benifit in any case.
Thanks, gave me a good laugh
What is this? Slashdot "Secret Chamber Day" or something?
I watch Shaft exploring programs almost every night, just need to get the right cable channels.
These are no ordanary contractors though. We're are talking about at least 2 uber KDE developers here, namely Matthias Kalle Dalheimer & Bernhard Reiter.
Plus, they are not starting from scratch, they already know the KDE infrastructure inside out and have a truck load of Jolt & Mt.Dew delivered weekly.
"to fear the government entering into direct competition with known economic paradigms--and that's what we're talking about."
It seems that we have a one world government already, must have missed that one. Like any money spending entity the German government have simply had enough of being dictated to by an American monopoly. A government has a responsibility to the tax payer to find cost effective solutions, just as Microsoft has a responsibility to its share holders to screw customers as much as possible. We are all mostly tax payers yet only a few of are Microsoft share holders, I wholly support this and nor does it come as a surprise.
This little elegant quote fits well:
"The amount of oppression the oppressed will bear is determined by the oppressed NOT the oppressor." -- Frederick Douglass
Outlook *server* replacement... Using Outlook 2k for windows client. The reverse Ximian connector.
This worries me terribly. Of course the CIA has been caught dealing in drugs but is this a very short memory or is this the memory hole in action?
/. crowd they instantly smell a rat but with things that matter a great deal more, they fail to think critically at all. Always look who benefits from a given situation and you see the instigator.
The Taliban did a lot to stem the opium cultivation (death sentence) however, since the US oil puppet guys has had control, Afghanistan farmers are replanting for a massive poppy crop. The worrying thing is that you can now find various articles in major newspapers that claim the Taliban supported the drugs trade.
Does anyone remember that after Andy Card told Dubya about the second plane, he continued to sit for more 20 minutes reading about a goat?! In a recent interview with CNBC Nightly News, Andy Card gives the impression that as soon as Dubya was informed, he left the school children he was reading to and came to the aid of the crisis.
He who controls the past controls the present and he who controls the present controls the future.
1984 is a must read especially as whoever is pulling Dubya's strings seems to be using it as a play book.
For years America has been putting puppet governments in other people's countries and now we have finally done it to ourselves. Arrhh.. the sweet sweet smell of poetic justice.
What amazes me is that when a perpetual motion Dolorian is presented before the
Do you really believe that some bunch of Afghanistan cavemen could have pulled off 9/11 unaided? Or that a passport of the lead highjacker could survive the 9/11 crash and float to earth?
How about the fake tape that was peddled as the evidence for the Afghanistan bombing? Check the pictures if you don't believe the tape was fake, they are on the net.
There is a lot that obviously doesn't add up to even the dumbest retard but as long as Americans can keep their standard of living they will always turn a blind eye to criminal activities of their government. That is the path of least resistance but that lazy attitude is exactly what is being used against you. Its a lot nicer to think America is the world's policeman instead of the world's #1 rouge state looking to conqueror middle eastern oil fields.
Learn, as knowledge protects you from every lie and deceit anyone can pull over you.
Unpatriotic to question the Government? Well that's what they would have you think, but when as it ever been American to blindly follow a leader?
In 1933 Weimar Republic President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolph Hitler Chancellor. Less than one month afterwards the Reichstag burns down and Hitler grants himself massive powers which he stated said were only tempoary & "for the Protection of the People". Well I guess you know the rest of the story.
My point being, nobody chases power and control unless they intend to use it. Take DRM, all you ever need to do is look who benifits. Of course you can always turn it off now just as people could have left Germany initally but as time went on, that option disappeared.
Hitler references are a cliche however, most power grabs work in roughly the same way, do the words "patriot act" ring any alarm bells?
Slowly turn up the heat and the frog won't even notice until he is boiled alive.
The people at the top still need the little guy underneath to support the upper levels. With out us little guys to buy their products and increase their profits they would no longer be at the top. They are now trying to maneuver us in to a position where we can have little say in the matter and as you say maintain their position at the top.
The solution is, don't support them, don't buy their products and tell others what is going on. All people need is the knowledge to understand what is happening, nobody likes being trapped but first they need to see the trap. For example, the fait money system run by the federal reserve is a massive shell game for the benifit of a few bankers, if the American public really understood the system I doubt they would tollerate it for long afterwards.
I hope you read this as the topic is a few days old. You managed to pick up on something that I am very interested in, language & how it got the way it is. If only I had more time (and intellgence).
.sig :-)
"Philosophy is stored in these terms."
I couldn't agree more, there seem to be "clues" or code regarding something scatered about in language, especially root words and they seem to link in to old myths & legends.
I am not nearly bright enough to express this very eloquently nor to figure it out but language seems to hold a lot more value than just basic communication and something we take for granted.
If only the birds could talk.
Also, time for a new