You still hear folks wondering why an individual would offer himself as a sacrifice in suicide bombing
You know I wonder that myself. Can you explain to me why someone is willing to blow themselves up and kill innocent women and children? I totally fail to understand how walking on to a subway train with a rucksack full of explosives and killing and maiming scores of people, including muslims, is justifiable or even understandable in any way of form.
Maybe I don't get "it" either. Can you please enlighten me?
And don't give me any of that "desparate because of poverty" crap; the London suicide bombers were middle class, the 9/11 hijackers too.
"Microsoft's Linux developer Bill Hilf pulled out of the conference. There has been some press suggesting that this may be because Microsoft does not want to let Hilf in front of the media."
It could be because he can longer put forth the stuff MS was expecting him to spout without curling up in embarassment and dying.
A few weeks ago he was interviewed on the LUG Radio Podcast http://www.lugradio.org/episodes/ (see Epsiode 3) in which he was asked about how Open Source people could go and work for Microsoft.
He stated the Microsoft was OK really, had learned from it's mistakes and that we should judge the company on what it was doing now.
A couple of weeks or so later Microsoft helped hound the Massachusetts guy out of office http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/ 28/0037246&tid=185 and the comment on a subseqeunt LUG Radio show was , "Well, we've looked at what MS is doing and it hasn't changed at all"
The guy from Gentoo took the honourable way out and resigned. Bill Hilf's mortage is obviously more important to him than his principles. However, being a mortage paying family gut myself can't say that I blame him. It is only software after all.
Surely if you are considering going to work for a company you might like to know how they respond to questions regarding how they square their ethical behaviour with their very public mission statement.
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The British English word for a cigarette you are thinking of is fag, not faggot.
In British English a faggot is either a kind of meatball or a bundle of sticks.
There's also another meaning of fag: a younger boy who acts a servant for an older boy at some English public (Amer. Private) schools.
It could be that it's just at Eton or it could be some others but what do I know, I'm only a Grammar School oik.
Yeah! Lets have a big protest where we complaing about all the companies doing business with all the countries in the world who have repressive regimes. That will really make them sit-up and take notice.
It may have escaped your attention but the organisation is concenred with human rigths abuses bny the Chinese Government, not the Burmese Government, not the Iranian Government, not the Malaysion Government, not the North Korean Government.
Google makes a bit thimg about not being evil. Although we know this is juts a cynical marketying phrase it does set them up for attack and if the aim of any protest is to get yourself noticed then attacking google has certinaly had the right effect.
You see five minutes or less thought has answered all you questions. THat wasn;t hard was it?
You forgot Fawlty towers, the best sitcom ever, One hotel.. OK there was a reception, dining room, kitchen office and bar, plus a couple of very short outside scenes, Basil fetching money from the bank, Basil going to the betting shop,..er..quite a few outside scenes.. four main charcters.. Basil Sybil, Polly Manuel,..er.. the Major.. five main..er. Maybe the single set isn't such a decider after all. Maybe ist excellent scrpt and actors.
"I knew a girl once, Fawlty....took her to see India !.....at the Oval!"
Well anyone cam make ignorant semi-racist comments. It takes a bit more work to actually findout what the situation really is. Children from immigrant commnunities generally perform better than the "natives"
Well Mr Anonymous, children from the immigrant commnunities tend in general to perfrom much better at school that "aryan" anglo-saxon kids. So you're not just cowardly but wrong as well
Funnily enough, when I used to go to Grammar School, back when there were a lot more of them around, I used to think exactly the same about my schoolmates.
The global warming crowd warns that Europe is going to get cold because (and ONLY because) of the greenhouse gasses, yet can't explain all of those old paintings of ice skaters.
I thought that they had been painted by people who were around at the time who saw some people skating.
Weather fluxuates. Always has. Always will. To claim that every -previous- shift in climate was completely natural but THIS one is caused by humans... well, I'm probably just wasting my breath.
You still haven't really grasped the difference between climate and weather have you?
Couldn't we all just switch of half of our devices that are in standby and fly the population of Glasgow to New York one way.
Or maybe the Huns could switch off their stuff and fly the Tims out, or the other way round... or better still fly each other out one way and then we could let Rangers and Celtic into the Premier League but wouldn't get their bigoted obnoxious supporters.
The Apple discussions are about the only ones where I have got no fucking clue what most of the posters are gibbering on about. It's all iThis, iGarage, iRobot, iThat, Front Row, Dashboard.....and fuck knows what else.
About the only terms I understand are "X86", "two button mouse", and "Steve Jobs wearing black"
"I don't see why America and companies put up with so much crap from them."
Because they want a share of one of the largest markets in the world perhaps. Of course, if any American companies don't like doing business in the EU according to EU business laws then they're quite welcome to fuck off back home.
I'm sure that the USA expects EU companies doing business in the USA to follow the local laws there, or have I missed something.
I'd love to know what they are going to do about all the strange number plates that have wierd fonts or the numbers or letters distorted to look like something else; all to try and make the number plate look like some semblance of the name of the dickhead driver.
Plus for the terrorist angle; what are they going to do about foreign number plates, and cars from other EU countries.
It sounds to me like Blair and his gang are lying again, what a surprise.
As a matter of interest, aren't you allowed to swear on anything but the bible, or take some other form of oath if you're a non-christian in a US court. In the Hollywod films that I've scene they never seem to cross-examine someone not from a Judao-Christian religion, or someone non-religious.
Here in the UK you have the choice to swear on the bible or to make an affirmation.
Uncannily, I live in the UK I listen to the BBC World Wervice to help me get to sleep at 1am. If I want to stay awake at night then I listen to http://www.lugradio.org/
No, there is no such thing as impartiality. All news is slanted in some way. Some news sources and journalist strive for impartiality but they can never reach it. The fact that there is someone present between you and the events introduces partiality into the news in the way that an observer introduces uncertainty in the Hesienberg uncertainty principle
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You still hear folks wondering why an individual would offer himself as a sacrifice in suicide bombing
You know I wonder that myself. Can you explain to me why someone is willing to blow themselves up and kill innocent women and children? I totally fail to understand how walking on to a subway train with a rucksack full of explosives and killing and maiming scores of people, including muslims, is justifiable or even understandable in any way of form.
Maybe I don't get "it" either. Can you please enlighten me?
And don't give me any of that "desparate because of poverty" crap; the London suicide bombers were middle class, the 9/11 hijackers too.
"Microsoft's Linux developer Bill Hilf pulled out of the conference. There has been some press suggesting that this may be because Microsoft does not want to let Hilf in front of the media."
/ 28/0037246&tid=185 and the comment on a subseqeunt LUG Radio show was , "Well, we've looked at what MS is doing and it hasn't changed at all"
It could be because he can longer put forth the stuff MS was expecting him to spout without curling up in embarassment and dying.
A few weeks ago he was interviewed on the LUG Radio Podcast http://www.lugradio.org/episodes/ (see Epsiode 3) in which
he was asked about how Open Source people could go and work for Microsoft.
He stated the Microsoft was OK really, had learned from it's mistakes and that we should judge the company on what it was doing now.
A couple of weeks or so later Microsoft helped hound the Massachusetts guy out of office http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12
The guy from Gentoo took the honourable way out and resigned. Bill Hilf's mortage is obviously more important to him than his principles. However, being a mortage paying family gut myself can't say that I blame him. It is only software after all.
Wasted ten minutes ?!??!?!
Surely if you are considering going to work for a company you might like to know how they respond to questions regarding how they square their ethical behaviour with their very public mission statement.
The British English word for a cigarette you are thinking of is fag, not faggot.
In British English a faggot is either a kind of meatball or a bundle of sticks.
There's also another meaning of fag: a younger boy who acts a servant for an older boy at some English public (Amer. Private) schools.
It could be that it's just at Eton or it could be some others but what do I know, I'm only a Grammar School oik.
...and I bravely predict that you are wrong.
Actually I don't need to be very brave to predict that.
Yeah! Lets have a big protest where we complaing about all the companies doing business with all the countries in the world who have repressive regimes. That will really make them sit-up and take notice.
It may have escaped your attention but the organisation is concenred with human rigths abuses bny the Chinese Government, not the Burmese Government, not the Iranian Government, not the Malaysion Government, not the North Korean Government.
Google makes a bit thimg about not being evil. Although we know this is juts a cynical marketying phrase it does set them up for attack and if the aim of any protest is to get yourself noticed then attacking google has certinaly had the right effect.
You see five minutes or less thought has answered all you questions. THat wasn;t hard was it?
You forgot Fawlty towers, the best sitcom ever, One hotel.. OK there was a reception, dining room, kitchen office and bar, plus a couple of very short outside scenes, Basil fetching money from the bank, Basil going to the betting shop, ..er..quite a few outside scenes.. four main charcters.. Basil Sybil, Polly Manuel, ..er.. the Major .. five main..er. Maybe the single set isn't such a decider after all. Maybe ist excellent scrpt and actors.
"I knew a girl once, Fawlty....took her to see India !.....at the Oval!"
Well anyone cam make ignorant semi-racist comments. It takes a bit more work to actually findout what the situation really is. Children from immigrant commnunities generally perform better than the "natives"
Well Mr Anonymous, children from the immigrant commnunities tend in general to perfrom much better at school that "aryan" anglo-saxon kids. So you're not just cowardly but wrong as well
Funnily enough, when I used to go to Grammar School, back when there were a lot more of them around, I used to think exactly the same about my schoolmates.
The global warming crowd warns that Europe is going to get cold because (and ONLY because) of the greenhouse gasses, yet can't explain all of those old paintings of ice skaters.
I thought that they had been painted by people who were around at the time who saw some people skating.
Weather fluxuates. Always has. Always will. To claim that every -previous- shift in climate was completely natural but THIS one is caused by humans... well, I'm probably just wasting my breath.
You still haven't really grasped the difference between climate and weather have you?
..again?
Couldn't we all just switch of half of our devices that are in standby and fly the population of Glasgow to New York one way.
Or maybe the Huns could switch off their stuff and fly the Tims out, or the other way round... or better still fly each other out one way and then we could let Rangers and Celtic into the Premier League but wouldn't get their bigoted obnoxious supporters.
-1 Troll ? Fucking Macboys got no sense of humour !
The Apple discussions are about the only ones where I have got no fucking clue what most of the posters are gibbering on about. It's all iThis, iGarage, iRobot, iThat, Front Row, Dashboard.....and fuck knows what else.
About the only terms I understand are "X86", "two button mouse", and "Steve Jobs wearing black"
If you think that there is such a word as "irregardless" then I don't believe that you went to University at all, never mind you rcock and bull story.
"I don't see why America and companies put up with so much crap from them."
Because they want a share of one of the largest markets in the world perhaps. Of course, if any American companies don't like doing business in the EU according to EU business laws then they're quite welcome to fuck off back home.
I'm sure that the USA expects EU companies doing business in the USA to follow the local laws there, or have I missed something.
I'd love to know what they are going to do about all the strange number plates that have wierd fonts or the numbers or letters distorted to look like something else; all to try and make the number plate look like some semblance of the name of the dickhead driver.
Plus for the terrorist angle; what are they going to do about foreign number plates, and cars from other EU countries.
It sounds to me like Blair and his gang are lying again, what a surprise.
Yup! you should see the shirts he is wearing for his photographs in the print edition, plus his moustache, woof! woof!
..er..eccentric.
There's photos of his family too they're all
As a matter of interest, aren't you allowed to swear on anything but the bible, or take some other form of oath if you're a non-christian in a US court. In the Hollywod films that I've scene they never seem to cross-examine someone not from a Judao-Christian religion, or someone non-religious.
Here in the UK you have the choice to swear on the bible or to make an affirmation.
Hey ! I dont need no propaganda to know that the Chinese communist party is evil. No matter what kind a smiling, trading face they put on.
Some of us old timers remember having the same reaction to the web when it first appeared, or even Gopher, and being just as distracted by it.
Cue comments about anonymous ftp servers and Monty Python's Yorkshiremen
Uncannily, I live in the UK I listen to the BBC World Wervice to help me get to sleep at 1am. If I want to stay awake at night then I listen to http://www.lugradio.org/
"So then what? Back to paper and pens?"
Why not? That's what we use in the UK for all national, reginal and local elections. It's worked well enough for a few hundred years.
No, there is no such thing as impartiality. All news is slanted in some way. Some news sources and journalist strive for impartiality but they can never reach it. The fact that there is someone present between you and the events introduces partiality into the news in the way that an observer introduces uncertainty in the Hesienberg uncertainty principle
I bet flashing your paid-for 15 page intelligence and personality report around really impresses those hot chicks:
...er....where are you going...."
" Look I'm interesting, it says so in this 15 page