Indeed that's a round number, that's the furthest to the future a date can be when using a 32-bit millisecond counter starting from the Unix epoch (00:00 Jan 1, 1970)
What, April Fools was 4 days ago, typical bureaucracy always delaying things!
Yeah right it's not an April Fools, the government really wants to make sure the rights of American citizens and the actions of the government are well documented?
Oh shit, when it's not an April Fools Joke then it's your Ministry of Information. Its name almost sounds like it too.
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman. I really never did. What woman are you even talking about?"
Yeah, no Iraq, who wasn't even a threat before. Now you just have to worry about the threat of angry new terrorists who just became more convinced that the USA wants to kill their religion. If Bush could spread propaganda to convince a lot of (supposedly educated) Americans that Saddam was involved in 9/11, how easy would it be for an Islamic cleric to spread his anti-US propaganda and make his pupils believe that the way to please Allah is if they blew themselves up in a crowded New York bus. Yes, that's not the teaching of the real Islam, but hey, which religion haven't exploited other people's fear of the afterlive?
Well imagine you live in an Arab country where your religion (I'm assuming Christianity) isn't so popular and the people there view christians with distrust. Maybe the few christians there set-up an organization so they can get together, practice their religion, and inform others that their religion isn't a religion of evil. If you were a good religious person, wouldn't you donate a few dollars for their cause if you could?
It's scary to think that some people (using the parent poster as an example) find it acceptable that some people are arrested without cause. Living in the USA would be just as scary as in Saddam's Iraq. The one difference is the US only arrests people of Arab-descent, at least at the moment.
What if geek-using computers who say their opinion about music downloading will be the next terrorists. Maybe they'll bust you for posting something on slashdot.
Americans, it's time you do something about the thieves running the current Administration! They do not represent the will of the people of the United States of America.
It sure does. Watch this news item to understand what really happened. Sure Cheney gave up his stocks as he became VP, but the whole conspiracy is run by a network of friends anyway, and when Cheney leaves office in 2009, he'll surely get his share of the profits. Yes 2009, because I'm sure the Bush Regime already has juicy plans for Election 2004.
A benevolent boss? You gotta be kidding me. Maybe it was, but it certainly isn't anymore. What was the mantra about being a boss and a leader? Wasn't one of them, to be a leader you have to have respect? Your Dubya made the US lose all the respect most of the world had for it, vote for a real leader next time.
Yeah yeah yeah, if it's our guys we whine because they get shown on TV, if it's the enemy, let them die.
I don't understand what the big deal is, the Iraqis seem to be treating the POWs just fine, but then again I don't know what sort of propaganda the US media is feeding you. "Oh my God we were so worried about you, did you feel humiliated being shown on TV like that?" would be a question they least expect when they get back.
From their point of view, the US is this evil Islam-killing imperialist power. Sure it's not true, but try to convince them. It would be as hard as getting you convinced that the US is an Islam-killing imperialist power.
So, who's right? Who knows. When both sides believe they're right, we got conflict, and that's what we have.
I find it only fair, considering the US's YASPM (childishness) with "freedom fries" and throwing away French cheese and wine (although this is only a rumor, I think).
Reminds me of a headline I saw yesterday; "The USA remembers the Geneva Convention". GFD, the people who've been there for one and a half years in Guantanamo are suffering a lot more than the "humiliation" of being taped on TV.
Stupid fucking Administration, and those who suppport it.
The US won't lose the war with Iraq, but they (at least the current Administration) is sure losing the trust of a lot of people in the world, and other countries will probably be more wary about dealing with the US next time (it's like when you hear what Microsoft does to its "partner companies", you'd be wary about jumping in when they offer you some money as a "partner"), and as a result these countries might trade with other rich countries instead.
And I wonder if Bush had calculated what Turkey has done now, what might end up destabilizing the region as all war critis have feared.
Well, what's going to stop Iran is the fact that Iran is next on Bush's agenda. Why else is he attacking Iraq, to control the long border with Iran, with which he can easily launch an attack to Iran.
No I don't believe that's true, but considering what a fucked up Satan-who-thinks-he's-doing-God's-work Bush is, who the hell knows?
Of course the Dems didn't know in December 2000 that in 9 months something bad was about to happen. But they were doing research on terrorist threats, and had this research continued, I'm sure they would have prevented 9/11. But they had to hand over the research to the illegitimate new Administration, who then promptly ignored the already alarming results of said research. I read this in Time, too bad it's now archived, but you can look it up yourself, in any rate, Bush probably wouldn't want you to remember such things, "we have always been at war with Iraq".
Oh well, that's life, except for the 3000 victims of Bush's fuck-up.
What about the people who couldn't vote because their name was blacklisted, because the company that Florida (run by Jeb Bush) hired to do the voters database was a Republican one, and got lists of convicts from other states (Texas for one) and when they see a Florida citizen's name which looks just slightly similar to a name in those lists, they blacklist this "citizen". And this task they focused on African-Americans who are more likely to vote Democrat. 90,000 votes would have been enough, Gore would have been president, September 11 would have not happened (look, the Republican Administration ignored the outgoing Democrat Admin's warning about the fucking terrorist threat, just because of that childlike rivalry they have. If the Democrats had stayed in White House, I am sure they would have prevented the attack), and the world would have been a better place and even so for the Americans , because they won't have an idiot president fucking up their country's reputation.
Third time's the charm: I never mentioned there wouldn't be a few repeats in those 52/. article.:) In any case, I'm not a US-ian, and I couldn't bother looking up how many states they really have. Well, that makes me closer to being a US-ian in that I was being ignorant. Tell me, do you know how many provinces France has?
As I wrote to another person; I never mentioned there wouldn't be a few repeats in those 52/. article. In any case, I'm not a US-ian, and I couldn't bother looking up how many states they really have. Well, that makes me closer to a US-ian in that I'm just ignorant and couldn't be bothered to do anything about it. Tell me, do you know how many provinces France has?
Well, I never mentioned there wouldn't be a few repeats in those 52/. article. In any case, I'm not a US-ian, and I couldn't bother looking up how many states they really have. Well, that makes me closer to a US-ian in that I'm just ignorant and couldn't be bothered to do anything about it. Tell me, do you know how many provinces France has?
Terrorism: The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
Gee, that fits the description of what Bush is doing to Saddam.
You know, I saw a documentary about the 1st Gulf War the other day - it was shown on a TV station which is run as a corporation between Germany and France (The two new evil countries), so I guess you can dismiss it as propaganda - which stated that, the US tricked Iraq into attacking Kuwait in 1990, claiming "There are no defences in Kuwait". But when Iraq attacked, they got in there, scared the governments of the neighbouring countries to buy weapons from them, and even got themselves nicely in an airbase in Saudi Arabia, sure for the Saudi's defense they claim, but in the process also making sure there's someone guarding one of the most important sources of oil for the US.
A quote from someone in this documentary was, "When the world starts to realize that the cause of world instability is the US itself..."
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Indeed that's a round number, that's the furthest to the future a date can be when using a 32-bit millisecond counter starting from the Unix epoch (00:00 Jan 1, 1970)
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Spooky.
What, April Fools was 4 days ago, typical bureaucracy always delaying things!
Yeah right it's not an April Fools, the government really wants to make sure the rights of American citizens and the actions of the government are well documented?
Oh shit, when it's not an April Fools Joke then it's your Ministry of Information. Its name almost sounds like it too.
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman. I really never did. What woman are you even talking about?"
Yeah, no Iraq, who wasn't even a threat before. Now you just have to worry about the threat of angry new terrorists who just became more convinced that the USA wants to kill their religion. If Bush could spread propaganda to convince a lot of (supposedly educated) Americans that Saddam was involved in 9/11, how easy would it be for an Islamic cleric to spread his anti-US propaganda and make his pupils believe that the way to please Allah is if they blew themselves up in a crowded New York bus. Yes, that's not the teaching of the real Islam, but hey, which religion haven't exploited other people's fear of the afterlive?
Well imagine you live in an Arab country where your religion (I'm assuming Christianity) isn't so popular and the people there view christians with distrust. Maybe the few christians there set-up an organization so they can get together, practice their religion, and inform others that their religion isn't a religion of evil. If you were a good religious person, wouldn't you donate a few dollars for their cause if you could?
It's scary to think that some people (using the parent poster as an example) find it acceptable that some people are arrested without cause. Living in the USA would be just as scary as in Saddam's Iraq. The one difference is the US only arrests people of Arab-descent, at least at the moment.
What if geek-using computers who say their opinion about music downloading will be the next terrorists. Maybe they'll bust you for posting something on slashdot.
Americans, it's time you do something about the thieves running the current Administration! They do not represent the will of the people of the United States of America.
the server that hosted the site!
Yeah, it being european, they're just going to bomb it out of existence, because "you're either with us, or we'll bomb you!!!"
It sure does. Watch this news item to understand what really happened. Sure Cheney gave up his stocks as he became VP, but the whole conspiracy is run by a network of friends anyway, and when Cheney leaves office in 2009, he'll surely get his share of the profits. Yes 2009, because I'm sure the Bush Regime already has juicy plans for Election 2004.
A benevolent boss? You gotta be kidding me. Maybe it was, but it certainly isn't anymore. What was the mantra about being a boss and a leader? Wasn't one of them, to be a leader you have to have respect? Your Dubya made the US lose all the respect most of the world had for it, vote for a real leader next time.
Yeah yeah yeah, if it's our guys we whine because they get shown on TV, if it's the enemy, let them die.
I don't understand what the big deal is, the Iraqis seem to be treating the POWs just fine, but then again I don't know what sort of propaganda the US media is feeding you. "Oh my God we were so worried about you, did you feel humiliated being shown on TV like that?" would be a question they least expect when they get back.
From their point of view, the US is this evil Islam-killing imperialist power. Sure it's not true, but try to convince them. It would be as hard as getting you convinced that the US is an Islam-killing imperialist power.
So, who's right? Who knows. When both sides believe they're right, we got conflict, and that's what we have.
I find it only fair, considering the US's YASPM (childishness) with "freedom fries" and throwing away French cheese and wine (although this is only a rumor, I think).
Reminds me of a headline I saw yesterday; "The USA remembers the Geneva Convention". GFD, the people who've been there for one and a half years in Guantanamo are suffering a lot more than the "humiliation" of being taped on TV.
Stupid fucking Administration, and those who suppport it.
I think he meant, "collect the whole set!", like the whole set of Pokemon creatures..
"All your set are belong to the camera add-on", you see.
The US won't lose the war with Iraq, but they (at least the current Administration) is sure losing the trust of a lot of people in the world, and other countries will probably be more wary about dealing with the US next time (it's like when you hear what Microsoft does to its "partner companies", you'd be wary about jumping in when they offer you some money as a "partner"), and as a result these countries might trade with other rich countries instead.
And I wonder if Bush had calculated what Turkey has done now, what might end up destabilizing the region as all war critis have feared.
Well, what's going to stop Iran is the fact that Iran is next on Bush's agenda. Why else is he attacking Iraq, to control the long border with Iran, with which he can easily launch an attack to Iran.
No I don't believe that's true, but considering what a fucked up Satan-who-thinks-he's-doing-God's-work Bush is, who the hell knows?
Hahahaha Bush worrying about the environment? What about The Kyoto Treaty, drilling in Alaska, what the hell else I know..
You should open your eyes and get over your love of GWB.
Of course the Dems didn't know in December 2000 that in 9 months something bad was about to happen. But they were doing research on terrorist threats, and had this research continued, I'm sure they would have prevented 9/11. But they had to hand over the research to the illegitimate new Administration, who then promptly ignored the already alarming results of said research.
I read this in Time, too bad it's now archived, but you can look it up yourself, in any rate, Bush probably wouldn't want you to remember such things, "we have always been at war with Iraq".
Oh well, that's life, except for the 3000 victims of Bush's fuck-up.
What about the people who couldn't vote because their name was blacklisted, because the company that Florida (run by Jeb Bush) hired to do the voters database was a Republican one, and got lists of convicts from other states (Texas for one) and when they see a Florida citizen's name which looks just slightly similar to a name in those lists, they blacklist this "citizen". And this task they focused on African-Americans who are more likely to vote Democrat. 90,000 votes would have been enough, Gore would have been president, September 11 would have not happened (look, the Republican Administration ignored the outgoing Democrat Admin's warning about the fucking terrorist threat, just because of that childlike rivalry they have. If the Democrats had stayed in White House, I am sure they would have prevented the attack), and the world would have been a better place and even so for the Americans , because they won't have an idiot president fucking up their country's reputation.
Too fucking bad that he didn't win, because he sure wouldn't have turned US to the imperealistic dictatorship that the rest of the world doesn't like.
What one reward point is that, the one they took off between the 1 and the 7? Hehe.
He probably confused Pounds with Euros, heh probably an American.
Third time's the charm: I never mentioned there wouldn't be a few repeats in those 52 /. article. :) In any case, I'm not a US-ian, and I couldn't bother looking up how many states they really have. Well, that makes me closer to being a US-ian in that I was being ignorant. Tell me, do you know how many provinces France has?
As I wrote to another person; I never mentioned there wouldn't be a few repeats in those 52 /. article. In any case, I'm not a US-ian, and I couldn't bother looking up how many states they really have. Well, that makes me closer to a US-ian in that I'm just ignorant and couldn't be bothered to do anything about it. Tell me, do you know how many provinces France has?
Well, I never mentioned there wouldn't be a few repeats in those 52 /. article. In any case, I'm not a US-ian, and I couldn't bother looking up how many states they really have. Well, that makes me closer to a US-ian in that I'm just ignorant and couldn't be bothered to do anything about it. Tell me, do you know how many provinces France has?
A repeat!!!! Oregon, Texas, what's the difference!?!
:)
OK, just being sarcastic, let's hope we see 50 or so more of these..
Gee, that fits the description of what Bush is doing to Saddam.
You know, I saw a documentary about the 1st Gulf War the other day - it was shown on a TV station which is run as a corporation between Germany and France (The two new evil countries), so I guess you can dismiss it as propaganda - which stated that, the US tricked Iraq into attacking Kuwait in 1990, claiming "There are no defences in Kuwait". But when Iraq attacked, they got in there, scared the governments of the neighbouring countries to buy weapons from them, and even got themselves nicely in an airbase in Saudi Arabia, sure for the Saudi's defense they claim, but in the process also making sure there's someone guarding one of the most important sources of oil for the US.
A quote from someone in this documentary was, "When the world starts to realize that the cause of world instability is the US itself..."
Well if you had a Slashdot subscription you would've heard about it earlier! ;)