They go overboard on this site, were talking martian war machines being chased by a car. Possibly the most irritating adverts every concieved, well maybe not as bad as adverts starring Jamie 'twat' Oliver...
Considering the sheer amount of armies they fought you have gotta give them a lot of credit. They beat the French and British armies before near as damn it wiping out the russians. They then spent 3 years holding off three truly massive and well equipped armies on three different fronts seperated by thousands of miles. Even then they almost managed to pull off a successful blitzkreig against the Allies in the west.
I'm listening to Learn to Fly by the Foo's right now and as far as I can tell its about someone going away to sort themselves and there life out.
e.g.
"..make my way back home when I learn to fly"
"run and tell the angels that everything is alright.."
Also 'Brain Stew' by Green day is clearly a song about insomnia:
"I'm having trouble trying to sleep, Im counting sheep but running out"
Jon
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The reality of Afghanistan is that its people have a fearsome reputation for beating back massive organised armies. Even before they managed to drive the Russian army out, in the 1800's and early 1900's they beat several large British armies.
Quite simply, these people's have known nothing but war for hundred's of years and are not afraid to die for their beliefs and their country. You may be able to take the cities quite easily but what happens when day after day hundreds of american troops are killed in action? This is what happened to the soviets, hundreds of little skirmishes made the army pull out to stop the draining dry of its army.
And of course if you invade Afghanistan you're going to get every stupid fanatic with a grudge joining them in driving out the invaders. The Russians probably wont have to worry about the Chechyen rebels because they will be fighting alongside the Taliban.
I'm not going to compare this to Vietnam, the US army performed well in that war, what I do warn is not to expect some Desert Storm style conflict. You will lose TENS OF THOUSANDS of soldiers if you invade Afghanistan as well as cause the death of hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Lets make the extreme presumption that this Bill is passed and events conspire to mean that the GNU/Linux OS is in breach of the law. Who do the government prosecute?
The obvious choice would be Linus, but as Richard Stallman never fails to tell us, the Linux OS is more than its kernel. Even if Linus were to be prosecuted it would hardly be the end of the kernel as the OSS model would allow anyone with the correct skills to pick up development.
Do you prosecute the distributors such as Red Hat or do you try and take on the developers? For gods sake would they try and jail all those using it?
Also why do I get the scary feeling that the US government/media could probably make this look like a crackdown on evil hackers?
"Secondly, I haven't seen a gui application yet that I religiously envoke from the command prompt."
Command prompt envoking actually seems to be a good thing for new users. You can see new user's becoming very happy when you explain that typing mozilla loads mozilla and typing abiword loads abiword etc etc
You then show them how to use Alt-F2 in KDE2 to have a nice window to type it in and suddenly they dont need icons again:)
Just a point, the UK has a fully fledged nuclear arsenal, mainly cause you keep selling us it:)
To the best of my knowledge, the UK has:
1. 6 Trident enabled Submarines, with about 5-10 nukes in each.
2. Cruise Missle Technology on the same submarines and soon to be fitted to destroyers
3. At least a couple of silo based missle sites
Also Im sure we still have a load of 'gravity' nukes which we developed for our (now redundant) Vulcan bomber fleet.
Yes its strange I remember this shit, but there you go.
Or the classic bit of Star Wars fluff, that a single A-Wing crashing into the bridge of the largest battlsship in the imperial fleet could destroy the entire thing.
I watched that for the first time and just laughed quite loudly.
Word macro's achieve another distinct use. Torturing UK A-level IT Students. As well as a steady diet of mistakes and down-right lies (Bill Gates apparantly invented BASIC according to my text book) we got it drummed into us that we should use Word macros for everything.
Word got as good as it was ever gonna get in '97, since then MS have just tried to persuade us all that we need their nice new features.
Try the film 'Stalingrad'. Its german but you can get it dubbed. Its centred around the lives of common soldiers on each side and their experiences in Stalingrad. Wondeful film.
If you or I wrote such an off-topic article and submitted it, would it get posted? Of-course not. People tend to get annoyed when someone can write articles of very low quality and interest and get them posted automatically. The amount of valid articles Ive had rejected from this site must be in double figures by now, yet Katz just posts whatever he likes, and shock, it gets posted.
There was originally five elephants, but one got loose and ended up crashing into Uberwald, thus providing the rich deposits of gold, silver and fat.
One of the truly funniest discworld books is 'Small Gods' in which a religion believes the world is a sphere and they persecute the heretics who believe in the turtle theory. Marvelous.
"and infused the runes of the Waffen-SS with an élan now become legendary. "
This is as far as I got. The 'runes' of the waffen SS were infused with blood and misery. The Waffen SS openly (and without hesitation or guilt) moved away from the relative honours of soldiers and into the darker territory of murderers. Your argument's die with this statement.
Im proud to be a European but Im even more proud just to be a decent person. Try it some time.
"You mean like Virgin Cola? They seem to be doing all right. "
A bit offtopic, but Virgin Cola is doing pitifully, it has consistently made massive losses. Virgin (and the evil bearded one) put out the impression that every Virgin product is a success, shame almost everyone makes a large loss whilst the record label and airline ensures the company stay in the black.
Im getting sick of explaining this. In the UK we have a situation where the middle earners refuse to pay anymore income tax (its political suicide for any part to raise income tax significantly), so the government has to extract the money through indirect taxes.
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Of course it might be more effective to go to London where he is actually buried
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Just curious.....
They go overboard on this site, were talking martian war machines being chased by a car. Possibly the most irritating adverts every concieved, well maybe not as bad as adverts starring Jamie 'twat' Oliver...
Considering the sheer amount of armies they fought you have gotta give them a lot of credit. They beat the French and British armies before near as damn it wiping out the russians. They then spent 3 years holding off three truly massive and well equipped armies on three different fronts seperated by thousands of miles. Even then they almost managed to pull off a successful blitzkreig against the Allies in the west.
Jon
I'm listening to Learn to Fly by the Foo's right now and as far as I can tell its about someone going away to sort themselves and there life out.
e.g.
"..make my way back home when I learn to fly"
"run and tell the angels that everything is alright.."
Also 'Brain Stew' by Green day is clearly a song about insomnia:
"I'm having trouble trying to sleep, Im counting sheep but running out"
Jon
The reality of Afghanistan is that its people have a fearsome reputation for beating back massive organised armies. Even before they managed to drive the Russian army out, in the 1800's and early 1900's they beat several large British armies.
Quite simply, these people's have known nothing but war for hundred's of years and are not afraid to die for their beliefs and their country. You may be able to take the cities quite easily but what happens when day after day hundreds of american troops are killed in action? This is what happened to the soviets, hundreds of little skirmishes made the army pull out to stop the draining dry of its army.
And of course if you invade Afghanistan you're going to get every stupid fanatic with a grudge joining them in driving out the invaders. The Russians probably wont have to worry about the Chechyen rebels because they will be fighting alongside the Taliban.
I'm not going to compare this to Vietnam, the US army performed well in that war, what I do warn is not to expect some Desert Storm style conflict. You will lose TENS OF THOUSANDS of soldiers if you invade Afghanistan as well as cause the death of hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Is revenge worth that?
Jon
Lets make the extreme presumption that this Bill is passed and events conspire to mean that the GNU/Linux OS is in breach of the law. Who do the government prosecute?
The obvious choice would be Linus, but as Richard Stallman never fails to tell us, the Linux OS is more than its kernel. Even if Linus were to be prosecuted it would hardly be the end of the kernel as the OSS model would allow anyone with the correct skills to pick up development.
Do you prosecute the distributors such as Red Hat or do you try and take on the developers? For gods sake would they try and jail all those using it?
Also why do I get the scary feeling that the US government/media could probably make this look like a crackdown on evil hackers?
Jon
"Secondly, I haven't seen a gui application yet that I religiously envoke from the command prompt."
:)
Command prompt envoking actually seems to be a good thing for new users. You can see new user's becoming very happy when you explain that typing mozilla loads mozilla and typing abiword loads abiword etc etc
You then show them how to use Alt-F2 in KDE2 to have a nice window to type it in and suddenly they dont need icons again
Jon
Just a point, the UK has a fully fledged nuclear arsenal, mainly cause you keep selling us it :)
To the best of my knowledge, the UK has:
1. 6 Trident enabled Submarines, with about 5-10 nukes in each.
2. Cruise Missle Technology on the same submarines and soon to be fitted to destroyers
3. At least a couple of silo based missle sites
Also Im sure we still have a load of 'gravity' nukes which we developed for our (now redundant) Vulcan bomber fleet.
Yes its strange I remember this shit, but there you go.
Jon
Yep Im on the way to your house with my trusty hammer....
Or the classic bit of Star Wars fluff, that a single A-Wing crashing into the bridge of the largest battlsship in the imperial fleet could destroy the entire thing.
I watched that for the first time and just laughed quite loudly.
Word macro's achieve another distinct use. Torturing UK A-level IT Students. As well as a steady diet of mistakes and down-right lies (Bill Gates apparantly invented BASIC according to my text book) we got it drummed into us that we should use Word macros for everything.
Word got as good as it was ever gonna get in '97, since then MS have just tried to persuade us all that we need their nice new features.
Nice to see that a change of name hasnt improved Anderson at all.
Snide comments aside, I would like to know if they have ever produced a large system on time and on budget?
Try the film 'Stalingrad'. Its german but you can get it dubbed. Its centred around the lives of common soldiers on each side and their experiences in Stalingrad. Wondeful film.
nope, your just a fuckwit
not my momma, most of hers are found at my website>
Your right on everything but doskey, it still works.
So the British army would slaughter as many as a couple hundred people because of the RIAA? Get real!
The problem is this:
If you or I wrote such an off-topic article and submitted it, would it get posted? Of-course not. People tend to get annoyed when someone can write articles of very low quality and interest and get them posted automatically. The amount of valid articles Ive had rejected from this site must be in double figures by now, yet Katz just posts whatever he likes, and shock, it gets posted.
There was originally five elephants, but one got loose and ended up crashing into Uberwald, thus providing the rich deposits of gold, silver and fat.
One of the truly funniest discworld books is 'Small Gods' in which a religion believes the world is a sphere and they persecute the heretics who believe in the turtle theory. Marvelous.
Jon
From your website:
"and infused the runes of the Waffen-SS with an élan now become legendary. "
This is as far as I got. The 'runes' of the waffen SS were infused with blood and misery. The Waffen SS openly (and without hesitation or guilt) moved away from the relative honours of soldiers and into the darker territory of murderers. Your argument's die with this statement.
Im proud to be a European but Im even more proud just to be a decent person. Try it some time.
Jon
"You mean like Virgin Cola? They seem to be doing all right. "
A bit offtopic, but Virgin Cola is doing pitifully, it has consistently made massive losses. Virgin (and the evil bearded one) put out the impression that every Virgin product is a success, shame almost everyone makes a large loss whilst the record label and airline ensures the company stay in the black.
Jon
I use MacOS on occasions so I can really appreciate Windows :)
its a void function returning a value! It cant be done!
Visual C++ 6 throws this compiler error if you try it:
error C2562: 'main' : 'void' function returning a value
Im getting sick of explaining this. In the UK we have a situation where the middle earners refuse to pay anymore income tax (its political suicide for any part to raise income tax significantly), so the government has to extract the money through indirect taxes.
Jon