A better option might be to reply, delete the original text, and say something along the lines of "No, I do not want to help you overthrow your government and replace it with a worker's paradise. And stop sympathizing with the white farmers."
Ah yes, getting death squads to take out spammers. And who said a brutal dictatorship didn't have its uses?
OK. You're wrong, but not entirely. You're right that car manufacturers were forced to produce cars which used only unleaded gas, and that oil producers were forced to make that type of fuel, but this has nothing to do with diesel. You see, back in the day, gasoline actually lead in it, and to promote cleaner air "unleaded" gas was forced on all of us. Of course, at the time (mid-70's) people complained about the extra cost and lack of horsepower. But it's been nigh-on thirty years, and with smog levels in places like Los Angeles lower now than they were in the 50s and 60s, I think the politicians made the right move.
They didn't find any functional manufacturing capability nor significant military stores of WMD.
Um, yes they did. Entire labs were found. So were large stockpiles of long range missiles, of the type banned by the UN sanctions. We might not have found the quantity of prepared weapons we expected, but finding all those labs and precursor chemicals pretty much proved that Iraq was persuing chemical weapons. Which was the point, that they could make the weapons.
Besides, we still haven't accounted for the tons and tons of missing chemicals from 1998. Saddam never explained where they went. It wasn't our job to find them, just to make sure he couldn't use them anymore. Saying anything else is just calling the sky green.
It's still a pointless example, given that there have been actual cases of GPL code being incorporated into commercial products illegally. Google for "gpl copyright infringement -sco" for examples (without the exclusion of SCO, you just end up with lots of garbage about their lawsuit).
Raymond saw a chance to take a swipe at Microsoft, and took it. He should've stayed focus, but based on his past writings I'm not sure he's capable of doing that.
Politicians love to associate their names with "get tough on crime" laws that raise the punishment for certain crimes... but you rarely here about anybody supporting lower sentances for crimes.
Yes, you're right. Why, just this morning on the way to work, I stopped by the town square to throw tomatoes at two blasphemers currently locked up in stocks. And I noticed one of my neighbors now has a very red "A" on her forehead. May have to stop by her place after work tonight, see if her cows need milking....
Most people would be fined and that would be end of that.
Tell that to this guy. He lost his job as an FBI agent, because he lied to investigators about an affair. In this case, the affair was with an informant he was managing, but that fact is not listed on his charge sheet. All that was important was that he lied, noone cared what about, or that it was "a personal matter."
In the real world, when people lie, there are consequences.
History shows that the impeachment distracted the president enough for al quada to plan and execute attacks against the US.
Bullshit. The World Trade Center was bombed in '93, long before the impeachment. Khobar Towers was blown up in '96, again long before the impeachment. It was Clinton's ineffectual response to those activitities that gave al Queda the nuts to do whatever they wanted, including bombing our embassies in Africa (the response for which was to blow up an aspirin factory and some empty tents).
Shouldn't the President of the United States be expected to hold the truth in a higher regard than a filmmaker?
Gee, are you saying we should hold the President of the United States to a higher standard than that to which we hold movie producers/directors? I thought the liberal chorus was that "everyone did it", and we shouldn't hold elected officials to higher standards? Can't you people make up your mind(s)?
A small business is more likely to reflect the personality -- the values -- of its owners. Large corporations by their nature gravitate toward impersonal, dehumanising treatment of their employees, the surrounding community, even their customers.
I don't know, man. Inittech seemed like it was a pretty small company, and that place was evil.
Oh, good, I'll let my ex-fiance know she doesn't have to worry about her brothers and cousins killing her for converting then.
I've lived in Islamic countries, and visited others. I've had friends who were Muslims only because they were terrified of what would happen if they converted. My knowledge of Islam comes from firsthand experience, something I doubt you can claim. If you could, we wouldn't be having this disagreement.
You're either ignorant, or lying. I choose to believe the former, in which case you need to educate yourself and stop believing the lies you've been told. Islam is a religion of evil, and the people forced to live under it should be helped in any way possible to escape its clutches.
I think you're referring to the scene when the deck officer in the hangar calls on the comlink to Luke (dressed as stormtrooper) "Tk-421, why aren't you at your post? Tk-421, do you copy?"
That's also the name of the stereo system Buck tries to sell his customers in "Boogies Nights".
I completely agree with you about the US education system. Short of moving, home schooling and/or private tutors is your best solution, followed by private schools. Both carry additional costs, but neither as great as moving to another country.
For what it's worth, the love of my life is Muslim, and we're not together because of her fear of being murdered by her own brothers and cousins if she converted and/or married a Christian. (And she's from a large, cosmopolitian city in Turkey.) So I sympathize with you about the danger of being hunted down by nutjobs. At least that's one thing you don't have to worry about in the States.
Hello, moronic 15-year-old moderators, only extreme-right groups could ever pronounce a sentence like this in europe!
Wow, what a thoughtful criticism. I'll be sure to take your words to heart.
You do not understand islam
It is common practice for Muslims who convert to other religions to be murdered for doing so. If you honestly think otherwise, you need to educate yourself. Notice that the gp himself made similar comments, and didn't contradict mine.
As for my statement about Europe becoming an Islamic state, I stand by it. Relatively few immigrants get through, true enough, but once there they multiply far more than the native population. The birth rates in Europe are around 1.5 to 1.9 women per child. This means the people are not replacing themselves, and their populations are declining. Since the only net gain in population is coming from immigrants and, eventually, their offspring, it'll only take about one generation for the ethnic and religious populations to shift.
Wow, that's ironic, given that K5 can be considered/.'s schizoid younger sibling.
Just remember, that the articles on K5 are written by the members, then voted on by the populace. A more certain way to enforce groupthink, I can not imagine.
As someone raised muslim, with a muslim name ( and one that happens to correspond to that of an at-large chechen terrorist ) I'll wager it's time to get out of this country.
Well, see, here's the thing: if you're no longer a Muslim, once you leave here you'll find yourself in danger from other Muslims, especially if you go to Europe (Europe is about 20 years away from being yet another Islamic state, thanks to all the immigration recently). So you'll have to change your name to a "non-Muslim" one, just to be safe. And since you'll have to do that anyway, you might as well do it in the States and just stay here, saving yourself the effort.
Pick a simple one, like John Quincy Smith. Or one based on your personal heroes, whoever they may be.
The gp was talking about false positives leading to investigations, not false positives leading to arrest and conviction. The former happens all the time, everytime someone is cleared of wrongdoing before the case gets to trial it's because, originally, there was a false positive pointing them out as the culprit to a crime.
Though I do agree with you about the danger of politicizing investigations. Just look at Richard Jewel for an excellent example. The poor guy was just trying to do his job by reporting details of the Atlanta Olympics bombing, but because he fit the profile of a possible terrorist the FBI harrangued him, costing him his job and reputation. He was eventually cleared, and I wouldn't be surprised if he got some kind of settlement with the Feds. But still, it was just because the FBI was desperate to find someone to blame for the attack, and he was the only one in their cross-hairs.
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Give me somebody who can actually come up with creative solutions and who actually can read a newspaper over the elite Harvard money boys any day.
What, like John Kerry or Al Gore? Yeah, they're definitely cut from a different cloth than President Bush.
A better option might be to reply, delete the original text, and say something along the lines of "No, I do not want to help you overthrow your government and replace it with a worker's paradise. And stop sympathizing with the white farmers."
Ah yes, getting death squads to take out spammers. And who said a brutal dictatorship didn't have its uses?
how does used oil clean fuel injectors?
Never underestimate the scrubbing power of Idaho potatos.
Correct me if I'm wrong
OK. You're wrong, but not entirely. You're right that car manufacturers were forced to produce cars which used only unleaded gas, and that oil producers were forced to make that type of fuel, but this has nothing to do with diesel. You see, back in the day, gasoline actually lead in it, and to promote cleaner air "unleaded" gas was forced on all of us. Of course, at the time (mid-70's) people complained about the extra cost and lack of horsepower. But it's been nigh-on thirty years, and with smog levels in places like Los Angeles lower now than they were in the 50s and 60s, I think the politicians made the right move.
Either way we would have ended up with a continent of people with one muscular arm.
Wait, I'm confused. You'd end up with a continent of Slashdot readers?
They didn't find any functional manufacturing capability nor significant military stores of WMD.
Um, yes they did. Entire labs were found. So were large stockpiles of long range missiles, of the type banned by the UN sanctions. We might not have found the quantity of prepared weapons we expected, but finding all those labs and precursor chemicals pretty much proved that Iraq was persuing chemical weapons. Which was the point, that they could make the weapons.
Besides, we still haven't accounted for the tons and tons of missing chemicals from 1998. Saddam never explained where they went. It wasn't our job to find them, just to make sure he couldn't use them anymore. Saying anything else is just calling the sky green.
But that sort of talent comes cheap in the US. I imagine that you can buy a lot of denial for $100.
Nah, most people just outsource it to India for $0.02.
It's still a pointless example, given that there have been actual cases of GPL code being incorporated into commercial products illegally. Google for "gpl copyright infringement -sco" for examples (without the exclusion of SCO, you just end up with lots of garbage about their lawsuit).
Raymond saw a chance to take a swipe at Microsoft, and took it. He should've stayed focus, but based on his past writings I'm not sure he's capable of doing that.
Politicians love to associate their names with "get tough on crime" laws that raise the punishment for certain crimes... but you rarely here about anybody supporting lower sentances for crimes.
Yes, you're right. Why, just this morning on the way to work, I stopped by the town square to throw tomatoes at two blasphemers currently locked up in stocks. And I noticed one of my neighbors now has a very red "A" on her forehead. May have to stop by her place after work tonight, see if her cows need milking....
It's obvious they were talking about the friend who's house the guy was at when he made the call.
I personally will not be replacing my car for at least a couple of years (knock on wood)
Wait, your car is made of wood? Doesn't sound very safe. What if you get a really bad termite infestation?
While the Trek people were pretty cool and not as weird as others
Just a guess, but I think that's probably a completely unique comment. I can't imagine it ever having been written before you just did.
Most people would be fined and that would be end of that.
Tell that to this guy. He lost his job as an FBI agent, because he lied to investigators about an affair. In this case, the affair was with an informant he was managing, but that fact is not listed on his charge sheet. All that was important was that he lied, noone cared what about, or that it was "a personal matter."
In the real world, when people lie, there are consequences.
History shows that the impeachment distracted the president enough for al quada to plan and execute attacks against the US.
Bullshit. The World Trade Center was bombed in '93, long before the impeachment. Khobar Towers was blown up in '96, again long before the impeachment. It was Clinton's ineffectual response to those activitities that gave al Queda the nuts to do whatever they wanted, including bombing our embassies in Africa (the response for which was to blow up an aspirin factory and some empty tents).
Shouldn't the President of the United States be expected to hold the truth in a higher regard than a filmmaker?
Gee, are you saying we should hold the President of the United States to a higher standard than that to which we hold movie producers/directors? I thought the liberal chorus was that "everyone did it", and we shouldn't hold elected officials to higher standards? Can't you people make up your mind(s)?
A small business is more likely to reflect the personality -- the values -- of its owners. Large corporations by their nature gravitate toward impersonal, dehumanising treatment of their employees, the surrounding community, even their customers.
I don't know, man. Inittech seemed like it was a pretty small company, and that place was evil.
False, false and false.
Oh, good, I'll let my ex-fiance know she doesn't have to worry about her brothers and cousins killing her for converting then.
I've lived in Islamic countries, and visited others. I've had friends who were Muslims only because they were terrified of what would happen if they converted. My knowledge of Islam comes from firsthand experience, something I doubt you can claim. If you could, we wouldn't be having this disagreement.
You're either ignorant, or lying. I choose to believe the former, in which case you need to educate yourself and stop believing the lies you've been told. Islam is a religion of evil, and the people forced to live under it should be helped in any way possible to escape its clutches.
the US was the first modern democracy
I'm all about giving props to the US of A, but I'm pretty sure Iceland's democracy predated ours by about 800 years.
Reminds me of the old question:
Q: Why did God invent whiskey?
A: To keep the Irish from taking over the world.
I think you're referring to the scene when the deck officer in the hangar calls on the comlink to Luke (dressed as stormtrooper) "Tk-421, why aren't you at your post? Tk-421, do you copy?"
That's also the name of the stereo system Buck tries to sell his customers in "Boogies Nights".
I completely agree with you about the US education system. Short of moving, home schooling and/or private tutors is your best solution, followed by private schools. Both carry additional costs, but neither as great as moving to another country.
For what it's worth, the love of my life is Muslim, and we're not together because of her fear of being murdered by her own brothers and cousins if she converted and/or married a Christian. (And she's from a large, cosmopolitian city in Turkey.) So I sympathize with you about the danger of being hunted down by nutjobs. At least that's one thing you don't have to worry about in the States.
Hello, moronic 15-year-old moderators, only extreme-right groups could ever pronounce a sentence like this in europe!
Wow, what a thoughtful criticism. I'll be sure to take your words to heart.
You do not understand islam
It is common practice for Muslims who convert to other religions to be murdered for doing so. If you honestly think otherwise, you need to educate yourself. Notice that the gp himself made similar comments, and didn't contradict mine.
As for my statement about Europe becoming an Islamic state, I stand by it. Relatively few immigrants get through, true enough, but once there they multiply far more than the native population. The birth rates in Europe are around 1.5 to 1.9 women per child. This means the people are not replacing themselves, and their populations are declining. Since the only net gain in population is coming from immigrants and, eventually, their offspring, it'll only take about one generation for the ethnic and religious populations to shift.
Wow, that's ironic, given that K5 can be considered /.'s schizoid younger sibling.
Just remember, that the articles on K5 are written by the members, then voted on by the populace. A more certain way to enforce groupthink, I can not imagine.
I always cheer myself by reminding me that at least I don't have a brain the size of a planet.
As someone raised muslim, with a muslim name ( and one that happens to correspond to that of an at-large chechen terrorist ) I'll wager it's time to get out of this country.
Well, see, here's the thing: if you're no longer a Muslim, once you leave here you'll find yourself in danger from other Muslims, especially if you go to Europe (Europe is about 20 years away from being yet another Islamic state, thanks to all the immigration recently). So you'll have to change your name to a "non-Muslim" one, just to be safe. And since you'll have to do that anyway, you might as well do it in the States and just stay here, saving yourself the effort.
Pick a simple one, like John Quincy Smith. Or one based on your personal heroes, whoever they may be.
So much for Innocent until Proven Guilty.
The gp was talking about false positives leading to investigations, not false positives leading to arrest and conviction. The former happens all the time, everytime someone is cleared of wrongdoing before the case gets to trial it's because, originally, there was a false positive pointing them out as the culprit to a crime.
Though I do agree with you about the danger of politicizing investigations. Just look at Richard Jewel for an excellent example. The poor guy was just trying to do his job by reporting details of the Atlanta Olympics bombing, but because he fit the profile of a possible terrorist the FBI harrangued him, costing him his job and reputation. He was eventually cleared, and I wouldn't be surprised if he got some kind of settlement with the Feds. But still, it was just because the FBI was desperate to find someone to blame for the attack, and he was the only one in their cross-hairs.