Congratulations! You have purchased an extremely fine device that would give you thousands of years of trouble-free service, except that you undoubtably will destroy it via some typical bonehead consumer maneuver. Which is why we ask you to PLEASE FOR GOD'S SAKE READ THIS OWNER'S MANUAL CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU UNPACK THE DEVICE. YOU ALREADY UNPACKED IT, DIDN'T YOU? YOU UNPACKED IT AND PLUGGED IT IN AND TURNED IT ON AND FIDDLED WITH THE KNOBS, AND NOW YOUR CHILD, THE SAME CHILD WHO ONCE SHOVED A POLISH SAUSAGE INTO YOUR VIDEOCASSETTE RECORDER AND SET IT ON "FAST FORWARD", THIS CHILD ALSO IS FIDDLING WITH THE KNOBS, RIGHT? AND YOU'RE JUST NOW STARTING TO READ THE INSTRUCTIONS, RIGHT??? WE MIGHT AS WELL JUST BREAK THESE DEVICES RIGHT AT THE FACTORY BEFORE WE SHIP THEM OUT, YOU KNOW THAT?
-- Dave Barry, "Read This First!"
Forget the man!
(without discrediting his research of course)
It's what the prizes resemble in the current world: An achievement of perfection in various scientific, philosofic, etc. fields. That's why it's important, every year, to reach hands that did something overally good for humanity.
Instead of pointing out what the US does, look what the US doesn't. Can you imagine yourself in these people situation ? Homeless in a military zone with no forseable (sp?) future ? Being No.1 world power bears a lot of responsibility. And no, "We don't negotiate with terrorists", is not an answer when human lives are at stake. How can a president (and a democratically elected one!) state sth like this "We want him dead or alive." ? Who is he to claim human lives, even a terrorists one ? (The last question also applies to bin Laden and everyone who claims human lifes just to promote his party/thesis/...) And you know what makes it worse for Bush ? The fact that he is US elected president, while (every) Laden is just a fool madman. That was my point and take it for what it worths (propably nothing).
I condemn terrorism as much as you do, but your post contains a lot of arrogance.
Arguing for such a matter is indeed and obviously a waste of time.
Well being broadcasted on local tv gives it enough credebility (sp?). Anyway, it would be ironic to give Bush and his buddy Blair the peace prize... and the end of humanity as we know it.
For the same reason Bush (i don't want to call him president) gets nominated for a Nobel ! And which one ?!? Well I leave that as an excersice to the reader...
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a portion of the README included in WindowMaker:
Congratulations! You have purchased an extremely fine device that would give you thousands of years of trouble-free service, except that you undoubtably will destroy it via some typical bonehead consumer maneuver. Which is why we ask you to PLEASE FOR GOD'S SAKE READ THIS OWNER'S MANUAL CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU UNPACK THE DEVICE. YOU ALREADY UNPACKED IT, DIDN'T YOU? YOU UNPACKED IT AND PLUGGED IT IN AND TURNED IT ON AND FIDDLED WITH THE KNOBS, AND NOW YOUR CHILD, THE SAME CHILD WHO ONCE SHOVED A POLISH SAUSAGE INTO YOUR VIDEOCASSETTE RECORDER AND SET IT ON "FAST FORWARD", THIS CHILD ALSO IS FIDDLING WITH THE KNOBS, RIGHT? AND YOU'RE JUST NOW STARTING TO READ THE INSTRUCTIONS, RIGHT??? WE MIGHT AS WELL JUST BREAK THESE DEVICES RIGHT AT THE FACTORY BEFORE WE SHIP THEM OUT, YOU KNOW THAT?
-- Dave Barry, "Read This First!"
Forget the man!
(without discrediting his research of course)
It's what the prizes resemble in the current world: An achievement of perfection in various scientific, philosofic, etc. fields. That's why it's important, every year, to reach hands that did something overally good for humanity.
It looks like you didn't understood my point.
Instead of pointing out what the US does, look what the US doesn't. Can you imagine yourself in these people situation ? Homeless in a military zone with no forseable (sp?) future ? Being No.1 world power bears a lot of responsibility. And no, "We don't negotiate with terrorists", is not an answer when human lives are at stake. How can a president (and a democratically elected one!) state sth like this "We want him dead or alive." ? Who is he to claim human lives, even a terrorists one ? (The last question also applies to bin Laden and everyone who claims human lifes just to promote his party/thesis/...) And you know what makes it worse for Bush ? The fact that he is US elected president, while (every) Laden is just a fool madman. That was my point and take it for what it worths (propably nothing).
I condemn terrorism as much as you do, but your post contains a lot of arrogance.
Arguing for such a matter is indeed and obviously a waste of time.
Well being broadcasted on local tv gives it enough credebility (sp?). Anyway, it would be ironic to give Bush and his buddy Blair the peace prize ... and the end of humanity as we know it.
:)
Mind my spelling, since I am a foreign student
Going completely off-topic ...
Food for thought and just to give your words another meaning:
What makes you think that Bush is better than Yasser Arafat ? Exactly !
For the same reason Bush (i don't want to call him president) gets nominated for a Nobel ! And which one ?!? Well I leave that as an excersice to the reader ...