And...have you been watching TV recently? The current Sunni strategy in Iraq is to behead as many Shi'ites as possible - on TV - in order to intimidate the Kurds and the Shi'ites. I mean, do you remember November 2005 in Jordan?
And...I am serious. Ex-military (Desert Shield/Storm vet.), and generally interested in the world.
The Muslim world produces more history than it can consume locally, so it has to export.
OK, I'm being facetious.
If you're really interested in understanding how all this came to pass, I'd suggest reading some books by Bernard Lewis. He's been studying the Muslim world for 70+ years, and has a lot of insights. Start with "What went Wrong?".
Then, there's "Gos has 99 Names", by Judith Miller and "Inside the Arab World" by Michael Field.
25% of British Muslims believe the 7/7 bombings were justified.
When asked, "Is Britain my country?" only one in four British Muslims it is. Thirty percent of British Muslims would prefer to live under Sharia law than under British law. Half of those British Muslims who express a preference for living under Sharia law say that, given the choice, they would move to a country governed by those laws.
Twenty-eight percent of Brirish Muslims hope for the U.K. one day to become a fundamentalist Islamic state.
I'm forced to use Linux on one of my work boxes. As long as I don't have to do anything to its configuration, I'm ok. When I do have to change its configuration, I'm screwed. Mostly because I'm surrounded by a collection of clueless Linux bigots.
Typical conversation:
"I need to install an update." "Use apt." "What's that?" "Look it up." (much looking up, installation of rpms) "apt doesn't work." "Sorry, can't help you. Try yum." "yum? What's that?" "Look it up." (much looking up, installation of rpms) "yum doesn't work." "Sorry, can't help you. Try apt." "apt? Already tried it." "Sorry. Can't help you. F*in' newbie."
or
"My access to CVS is running really slow." "Try iptables --flush" "Why?" "I don't know, but when I do this, CVS access is much faster. F*in' newbie." "O......k...."
In my experience, Windows works out of the box, pretty much all the time. And when I have a problem, most solutions are only a google away. Linux may be a better OS, but it's not the better-supported OS. Had I the chance, I'd never use it. Well, I'd be happy to hand over.ear files for deployment. That's about it.
The process is exactly as outlined in the US Constitution. The President proposes, and the Senate advises and consents.
Keep in mind, as you offer your criticism, that the US Constitution is not only older than the French, German, Italian, Belgian, Spanish and Greek constitutions, it's older than all of them put together.
"when it's about to hit an obstacle an LED will shine on the creature from the direction of the barrier, hopefully causing it to run in the other direction."
In other words, the perfect antidote to politicians, and GuardedNet executives.
Just about any one of you is smart enough to do this. Now that you've sold out, and screwed your developers, I say: "Go for it!" Cockroach technology is about what you're good for.
So, Bush II gets to appoint two new Justices. Doubtless he'll pick them based on their past conservative decisions, only to have them become raving looney liberals as soon as they're confirmed.
Meanwhile, Hillary becomes the next President, and Bill becomes Secretary General of the UN.
Slashdot Mirror
Subject line says it all.
I grew up in Galway, from 1968 through 1984 - when I left Ireland.
The IRA did all its terrorism in Northern Ireland, apart from one visit to Dublin in 1974.
I despise the IRA as a Marxist-Leninist insurgency. That said, the IRA never blew up civilians in Jerusalem, New York, Washingon DC, Bali, etc.
So, screw you and the IRA thing.
Though, since the IRA eventually morphed into a drug-smuggling crime empire, I guess I have a sense of where al Qaeda is going.
"ridiculous"
And...have you been watching TV recently? The current Sunni strategy in Iraq is to behead as many Shi'ites as possible - on TV - in order to intimidate the Kurds and the Shi'ites. I mean, do you remember November 2005 in Jordan?
And...I am serious. Ex-military (Desert Shield/Storm vet.), and generally interested in the world.
You've very nicely ignored the means the 30% or so is willing to use to achieve its goals.
Democracy isn't much use to you if your head's been sawed off. On TV. Pour encourager les autres, don't you know.
What happens to the 70% or so when the 30% or so start beheading those who disagree with them?
The younger generation is more alienated and radicalized than the older generation. The 7/7 bombers were born and raised in the UK.
While most Muslims may not be terrorists, most terrorists are Muslim.
Let's see what happens when the 28% start beheading the 72% who don't agree with them.
The Muslim world produces more history than it can consume locally, so it has to export.
OK, I'm being facetious.
If you're really interested in understanding how all this came to pass, I'd suggest reading some books by Bernard Lewis. He's been studying the Muslim world for 70+ years, and has a lot of insights. Start with "What went Wrong?".
Then, there's "Gos has 99 Names", by Judith Miller and "Inside the Arab World" by Michael Field.
The public dole?
25% of British Muslims believe the 7/7 bombings were justified.
When asked, "Is Britain my country?" only one in four British Muslims it is. Thirty percent of British Muslims would prefer to live under Sharia law than under British law. Half of those British Muslims who express a preference for living under Sharia law say that, given the choice, they would move to a country governed by those laws.
Twenty-eight percent of Brirish Muslims hope for the U.K. one day to become a fundamentalist Islamic state.
Enough said. Keep monitoring those bank accounts.
I'm forced to use Linux on one of my work boxes. As long as I don't have to do anything to its configuration, I'm ok. When I do have to change its configuration, I'm screwed. Mostly because I'm surrounded by a collection of clueless Linux bigots.
.ear files for deployment. That's about it.
Typical conversation:
"I need to install an update."
"Use apt."
"What's that?"
"Look it up."
(much looking up, installation of rpms)
"apt doesn't work."
"Sorry, can't help you. Try yum."
"yum? What's that?"
"Look it up."
(much looking up, installation of rpms)
"yum doesn't work."
"Sorry, can't help you. Try apt."
"apt? Already tried it."
"Sorry. Can't help you. F*in' newbie."
or
"My access to CVS is running really slow."
"Try iptables --flush"
"Why?"
"I don't know, but when I do this, CVS access is much faster. F*in' newbie."
"O......k...."
In my experience, Windows works out of the box, pretty much all the time. And when I have a problem, most solutions are only a google away. Linux may be a better OS, but it's not the better-supported OS. Had I the chance, I'd never use it. Well, I'd be happy to hand over
And it's even worse. The person in question was a contractor, not an employee.
What if the headline had been "Time-wasting Contractor Finally Exhausts Management Patience: Contractor preferred blogging to writing software."
I refer you to my anti-Chimpy..., etc commen of some moments ago.
Fired "for" versus fired "after". There is a difference.
Of course, one doesn't expect the moonbat anti-ChimpyBusHitlerMcHalliburton crowd to catch this.
The process is exactly as outlined in the US Constitution. The President proposes, and the Senate advises and consents.
Keep in mind, as you offer your criticism, that the US Constitution is not only older than the French, German, Italian, Belgian, Spanish and Greek constitutions, it's older than all of them put together.
"when it's about to hit an obstacle an LED will shine on the creature from the direction of the barrier, hopefully causing it to run in the other direction."
In other words, the perfect antidote to politicians, and GuardedNet executives.
Vehicle for Cockroaches? Subject line says it all.
Hi Tom! Hi Graham! Hi Iven! Hi Matt!
Just about any one of you is smart enough to do this. Now that you've sold out, and screwed your developers, I say: "Go for it!" Cockroach technology is about what you're good for.
So, here I am in GA, 6+ years later.
No Islamofascists on the horizon. Saddam gone. House of Saud replacing its ambassador. Blue skies. Pinot Grigiot plentiful. Hmmmm.
(Reassured sigh.)
As soon as you figure out that photoelectric effect thingie, all of modern physics will be done.
Just take care of that, will you?!?!?!!!
Better to kill your astronauts in the devil you know, than
Texas-sized comet, accidentally knocked off-kilter by NASA probe, hits...
T E X A S
!!!!!
Yeah, baby, yeaaaah!
Unless they can figure out a way to have Excel sing out the financial results of British and Japanese companies.
Then, maybe, just mabye, THHGTTG, can be a success.
Oh, Microsoft, yeah, well, they can't make great music with their hind legs.....
Now there's a man who's demonstrated a hard-charging, can-do, UN un-criticized attitude.
Just the man for the job.
I just can't understand the US reticence.
Texas-sized comet, accidentally knocked off-kilter by NASA probe, hits....
T E X A S
!!!!!
Yeah, baby, yeaaaah!
Ummmmmmmmm. Grizzly-sized catfish.
So, Bush II gets to appoint two new Justices. Doubtless he'll pick them based on their past conservative decisions, only to have them become raving looney liberals as soon as they're confirmed.
Meanwhile, Hillary becomes the next President, and Bill becomes Secretary General of the UN.
Congress remains Republican.
And the great game continues.