I just worry that Iraq and its surrounding nations will propagandize this (as history shows they have before) and use it as a tool to create more, not less terrorism.
Those people propagandize everything into a racist excuse for why they need to kill others. Their religion teaches it. This cannot be avoided.
I am serious here. Take the most educated Muslim man you know (and I mean one of the brilliant ones that come to any Western country... the real physics whiz kids) and sit him down. Ask him about Middle Eastern politics. You'll see in about 30 seconds how his mind has been screwed so logically backwards when it comes to the sanctity of human life that you'll be scared. Then you'll see it for what it is. ONE OF THE GUYS THAT IS WAY SMARTER THAN YOU, THE SMARTEST OF THE SMART, CAN'T GET PAST THIS RELIGIOUS BULLSHIT. Can't see people as human beings. The only humans are Muslims. You are technically a sub-human. So therefore, even the most murderous Muslim is better than you. The murderous Muslim should never be turned in to the infidels. Period.
They are, as one would say, permanently screwed in the head since birth. They are maintained by their religion to be murderous bigots. Told that getting a choice spot in heaven is to be a really good murderous bigot.
Then you'll really see why the whole world has been at arms length, and hasn't wanted a f'n thing to do with them for centuries.
Note that the Christians started the crusades to kill the unbelievers. Of course, the word "crusade" is politically correct in this country, but its arabic equivalent, "jihad", is not.
Wrong again. The Crusades were a reaction to the violent, kingdom conquering nature of Early Islam. Many kingdoms that were neither Christian, nor Muslim were overthrown by Muslims in the very first several hundred years. When Islam started making headroom and setting up a warring shop next to Christians, then they got an organized response. Keep in mind that kings had enough trouble keeping their own people in check. Think about how things were run. The Crusades were not a pleasure cruise. The Moors were in Spain. Think about it. By the way, I am not justifying killing.
Besides, that was several hundred years ago. SEVERAL HUNDRED. The fact that those people in the Middle East are using 600+ year old justifications for killing anyone not like them is complete and utter horseshit. The fact that you bought into this long-dead-I-cannot-believe-you-are-talking-about-t he-middle-ages-as-a-legitimate-response-to-obvious -racism argument about the crusades says that you are IMHO a person that needs an excuse for your behavior, and needs a justification for your jackassery.
Honestly, if anyone brings up a 600 year old argument to shop around for some violence, may I suggest Prozac.
IF YOU NEED ANY EXCUSE FOR YOUR BEHAVIOR, EITHER RACIST OR VIOLENT, I've got a few Middle Easterners you need to talk to. They pretty much got the xenophobia and open racial anger thing down cold. Oh, and the wife ass kicking thing too.
Me? I don't do religions. Its all a bunch of crap... although I do appreciate a little bit of what Buddha and Jesus were talking about.
Burning a mix CD of Moog Cookbook supports terrorism, but a "Christian" country unilaterally declaring war on a Muslim nation doesn't?
Like I said, I don't like the war, and am confused on what intelligence the US Govt does have...
The horsecrap that you are shilling above is quite possibly the most ridiculous statement that I have ever seen. That is like saying that the alliance counter-attacked Hitler because he wasn't a Christian. Truly uneducated. And poorly stated... because of the serious slew of information that is out there. READ A LITTLE. Stop listening to your college buddies that are getting all of their war opinions from a 20 year old on MTV. Two of my best friends at work are in Kuwait (I am a news videographer)with the 101st right now. So I might have an idea about what is happening over there. You would too if you paid attention. There are a whole bunch of media outlets... read them all instead of only believing the gospel of the ones that have a fist in the air as their logo.
The last three military police actions in the United States have been at the protection of Muslims or Muslim Nations. If anyone remembers Bosnia, the Christians were slaughtering the Muslims, so we intervened. Kinda shoots your theory full of holes, does't it?
Besides, if you really want to get to the truth, Muslims historically have been the ones to strike first for religious differences. ONCE AGAIN, READ A LITTLE.
Like I said, currently I am not happy about this war, but I am much more unhappy about bald faced ignorance in both camps than I am about us going after a complete nutjob.
This law is being moved forward to punish all of their PC using citizens that may or may not be breaking a law.
Conclusion #1: They are enforcing and placing punitive actions on law abiding citizens.
Yet Germany cannot seem to understand that an A-bomb going off in a city is double plus ungood, and the laws they made to stop him go unenforced.
Conclusion #2: They are not enforcing and placing punitive actions on a known international lawbreaker, the rules of which they helped make.
Thank goodness I am not in Germany. I don't think that I could put up with the punishment of innocent citizens, and then their free attitude about known nutjobs and their planet busting weapons.
Doubtless there were felinoid aliens before the Kzin.
Cmon. You're ridiculous. There is no idea stealing there. This is all a way to damage the good name of Wing Commander.
The kzinti are ratcats. The Wing Commander Kilrathi have no rat like ears. They have fur on their tails. Kzinti do not. SEE THE DIFFERENCE? I think your mind is wandering too much. Stay off the drugs.
Please, do not pursue this line of thinking again, or you will be sued.
The bnetd developers asked Blizzard if they could hook into the official online CD key verification system. Blizzard denied them that.
Yeah, giving BnetD (the place where cracked copies are played) the opportunity to look at the code for Blizzards Copy Protection Scheme and then complaining about it has to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard on/. for a while. That's not even some left wing "let the people be free" crap. That is a justification for piracy. The poster should be ashamed for trying to justify stealing a video game. After all people, IT IS JUST A FRICKING VIDEO GAME.
People, Blizzard makes good games. They deserve to be paid the going rate for that. They are not a charitable organization out to benefit the people that play cracked copies on BnetD. If ya don't like Battle.net, then don't play a Blizzard game.
Some you want it your way, you little thieves out there. You want a Blizzard game, but you don't want to pay for it.
Scenario 1: "Yes, let everyone else have my backup data, they certainly wouldn't tamper with that!"
Scenario 2: "Look, someone invented a worm that infests everyone's remote backup files. This should be really easy to remove!"
Scenario 3: "No one can get into my distributed backup files. It's 128 encrypted!"
This is just a terrible idea all around. The reason why I don't hand out my personal or config files is the same reason I don't give my wallet and turn my back to the cashier every time I pay for something.
The best part of the article has to be that they approached museumtour.com (a site based in Oregon that sells educational toys over the Net) first. I WONDER WHY.
This is obvious. You knock over a small site to set a precedent, and then you go after someone with some real money. Build up your cash to knock over some real players out there.
This is its best moment in the article: To its credit, SBC Intellectual Property was very polite in its approach to Museumtour, pointing out the existence of the patent, citing specifically how it believed Museumtour is in violation and offering to sell the company a license based on some percentage of gross sales.
I specifically love how they say they initially came in and asked nicely for a gross percentage of sales... it reminds me how the mafia is so polite, explaining how that you could avoid an "financial incident" by "licensing out protection" from said "financial incident" say, from, somebody you just met. Capiche?
If they really want to do this right, they need a fat man in a fedora and wingtips saying this to them in a raspy voice:
"Ya know, not saying that it is going to happen, but if it did happen it might cause you to lose some money there, pal. You better just license with us on your gross earnings, cuz, well, you never know. We live in strange times."
It is against the US constitution for any state member to place tax that in any way that restricts interstate commerce. Period. End of discussion.
Guys, this has been around for two hundred years. It would require a Constitutional Convention to change that. That sure ain't gonna happen in this day and age. If a Constitutional Convention is suggested at this political climate, the public will suggest right back radical legistlator removal from Congress come next elections. And there is only one legislator fear in the world, that is losing their incumbancy.
This concept has been in the US Constitution since probably before the first Constitutional Convention, and was probably one of the first major reasons for the Constitutional Conventions. Colonial States were using tariffs as a source of funding for their states... screwing one over the other, and screwing overall revenues of the colonies. States can act like they can do what they want. They need to shut up. It will never happen because it screws with revenues at the federal level.
Besides, that kind of law would allow states to fix tax rates that would effect the ENTIRE NATION. That cannot occur. That would mean that the heavy populated states would get more freeways and the ones that don't have a lot of industry would get the shaft. THINK HOW FAST THE "SMALL STATE" AND "LOW COMMERCE" MEMBERS OF THE US SENATE WOULD GO AFTER THAT PLAN. Keep in mind how the Senate works.
Well, let them have their meetings. This is a pipe dream that will never work.
Repeat after me... "Al Capone was busted for tax evasion."
Not "avoision." Definitely not "tax aversion," Mr. English teacher.
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Honestly people, please look this stuff up. IN the US Constitution, there is a difference between free speech and protected speech.
Free speech is a more nebulous term, it allows for the rights to freely congregate and express opinions about anything. If you use that to hawk wares with people that is fraudulent, then you may be prosecuted for your behavior. If you are falsely yelling "fire" in a theatre, then you may be prosecuted for injuries in the stampede. However, protected speech is a little different.
Protected speech in the US is Political Speech. Meaning that you cannot be restricted from standing in a public place and protest an event within reason. All political opinons are considered protected, and part of the democratic process. But even this has limits. You cannot disrupt or cause a public nuisance with this, like say blast a recording of the Communist Mannifesto every day with 1k watt speakers at the White House Lawn. That would disrupt the political process, and infringe on others rights to a working government.
In a word, we do have free speech, but these are solicitations... not political speech.
Also, corporations should not have free speech, because they are not citizens, do not vote, cannot be jailed for disruptive behavior, and do not pay any real taxes compared to their earnings.
Either way, free speech is not a license for fraud.
Now, the devices have current limiting circuitry that disconnects the chip from the antenna when there's a power surge. The new RFIDs can be sewn into clothing and dried in microwave ovens with no ill effect to the chip.
WEll, yes they might do that for shoplifters, but no one is going to shoplift tires, and anything that isn't necessary is going to add cost to the tire. So when it comes to added money in the tire, I'm going to take the safe bet and assume that corporate America is going to take the cheapest route with the RFIDs. So, you could probably fry them, unless it is cost negligable to make them tamper proof.
I guess the only good news of this is that soon no one can just go dumping and throw old tires out on the side of the highway anymore. They're gonna know it is you that did it, or at least the tire company when they come to talk to you.
Mirosoft announces its foray into the portables with the new X-boy gaming system, allowing users to have all the portability of playing such fast-paced and unconfusing Microsoft favorites like Age of Empires and Flight Simulator with all of the kiddies in the neighborhood.*
*Included in the system is its own rechargeable power supply, backlit screen, co-op cable, and pull cart.
I just got one! And they didn't say any mainstream word about it until a quarter before it comes out? I own a Nintendo everything (well, except a "Virtual Boy," that is if anyone remembers it). Still, the GBA is a little too small for my hands, and if you look at the new one, I don't think I could even hold it.
"Bad Nintendo! Bad, bad, bad, Nintendo!"
Looks like I'm going to have to have the tattoo of Princess Peach lasered off of my bum in disgust.
Please respond to this... And I know it is offtopic but I want to know... and I have little insight into why all of this N. Korea business has even started at all.
Why would N. Korea reveal that it has nuclear weapons in direct violation of a fuel and food treaty when its citizens are starving?
I have a few theories, but none of them make any sense. I have no idea why this is occurring. Are these viable answers?
1. Becasue Bush called them the "axis of evil."
2. They want to influence the S. Korean elections against the US for removal of US occupation (so they can attack? Or unite without the US?).
3. They revealed their nuke program because of Saddam (a fellow dictator) so that the US would have to fight a 2 front war... the old "enemy of my enemy is my friend routine." Which obviously idn't work out the way they planned.
4. Their motivations and thought processes are so "not Westerner" that I as a westerner just can't get it and it is all too complicated to say anyway.
5. This has all happened before, maybe not in this scale, and it is a big bluff to hold a regime together.
6. The regime is dying fast, and it needs an enemy to hold it together, so it mentions it has nukes to the US to threaten them, and then starts the war machine to unite N. Koreans.
Once again, please forgive the offtopic, but our current situation is intimately tied in with this election, and I need a Korean point of view to really make any sense of it. I think I speak for more than a few Westerners when we say we don't have any idea how things operate over there. Please enlighten us.
"I mean, the government wants to just "check" research so that no one can use it as a weapon... as an upstanding American who loves his country AND science, I see nothing wrong with that. After all... America owns science that it creates... just look at all the patents."
"Ya pinkos."
(Quickly scurries into patented asbestos-lined flamewar bunker, and braces for incoming fire)
Its still a non-sequitor. Equating microsoft to the US Gov't.
Also. Please don't think I don't have an international perspective. It is insulting to a person to make assumptions. For I only judge comments, but not make assumptions about a persons character. Making snap judgements about a person's character shows how base a person is.
Yes, yet another anti-US rant... accusations of hegemony on all fronts without any knowledge of world politics, how the US operates, and pandering to the/. opinion that the US is naturally big, bad, and evil. By the way, India is our friend. Please keep up on world politics in the last 75 years before you shoot your mouth off for some cheap karma.
Of course, the rest of you might have noticed that the US was really not included in the conversation initially about supercomputers, it just always seems to hijack the conversation on/. to how evil the US is. ON ALL ACCOUNTS. In all ways. And how the US will use everything to attack YOUR GRANDMOTHER. This is not even really as comical as it used to be. Its just downright ignorant and insulting now.
Poster, tell me where you come from, so I can return your ignorant favor and call your home "evil and domineering" over something as irrelevent to your life as software piracy in China, or food prices in Algeria.
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I just worry that Iraq and its surrounding nations will propagandize this (as history shows they have before) and use it as a tool to create more, not less terrorism.
Those people propagandize everything into a racist excuse for why they need to kill others. Their religion teaches it. This cannot be avoided.
I am serious here. Take the most educated Muslim man you know (and I mean one of the brilliant ones that come to any Western country... the real physics whiz kids) and sit him down. Ask him about Middle Eastern politics. You'll see in about 30 seconds how his mind has been screwed so logically backwards when it comes to the sanctity of human life that you'll be scared. Then you'll see it for what it is. ONE OF THE GUYS THAT IS WAY SMARTER THAN YOU, THE SMARTEST OF THE SMART, CAN'T GET PAST THIS RELIGIOUS BULLSHIT. Can't see people as human beings. The only humans are Muslims. You are technically a sub-human. So therefore, even the most murderous Muslim is better than you. The murderous Muslim should never be turned in to the infidels. Period.
They are, as one would say, permanently screwed in the head since birth. They are maintained by their religion to be murderous bigots. Told that getting a choice spot in heaven is to be a really good murderous bigot.
Then you'll really see why the whole world has been at arms length, and hasn't wanted a f'n thing to do with them for centuries.
Note that the Christians started the crusades to kill the unbelievers. Of course, the word "crusade" is politically correct in this country, but its arabic equivalent, "jihad", is not.
Wrong again. The Crusades were a reaction to the violent, kingdom conquering nature of Early Islam. Many kingdoms that were neither Christian, nor Muslim were overthrown by Muslims in the very first several hundred years. When Islam started making headroom and setting up a warring shop next to Christians, then they got an organized response. Keep in mind that kings had enough trouble keeping their own people in check. Think about how things were run. The Crusades were not a pleasure cruise. The Moors were in Spain. Think about it. By the way, I am not justifying killing.
Besides, that was several hundred years ago. SEVERAL HUNDRED. The fact that those people in the Middle East are using 600+ year old justifications for killing anyone not like them is complete and utter horseshit. The fact that you bought into this long-dead-I-cannot-believe-you-are-talking-about-
Honestly, if anyone brings up a 600 year old argument to shop around for some violence, may I suggest Prozac.
IF YOU NEED ANY EXCUSE FOR YOUR BEHAVIOR, EITHER RACIST OR VIOLENT, I've got a few Middle Easterners you need to talk to. They pretty much got the xenophobia and open racial anger thing down cold. Oh, and the wife ass kicking thing too.
Me? I don't do religions. Its all a bunch of crap... although I do appreciate a little bit of what Buddha and Jesus were talking about.
Burning a mix CD of Moog Cookbook supports terrorism, but a "Christian" country unilaterally declaring war on a Muslim nation doesn't?
Like I said, I don't like the war, and am confused on what intelligence the US Govt does have...
The horsecrap that you are shilling above is quite possibly the most ridiculous statement that I have ever seen. That is like saying that the alliance counter-attacked Hitler because he wasn't a Christian. Truly uneducated. And poorly stated... because of the serious slew of information that is out there. READ A LITTLE. Stop listening to your college buddies that are getting all of their war opinions from a 20 year old on MTV. Two of my best friends at work are in Kuwait (I am a news videographer)with the 101st right now. So I might have an idea about what is happening over there. You would too if you paid attention. There are a whole bunch of media outlets... read them all instead of only believing the gospel of the ones that have a fist in the air as their logo.
The last three military police actions in the United States have been at the protection of Muslims or Muslim Nations. If anyone remembers Bosnia, the Christians were slaughtering the Muslims, so we intervened. Kinda shoots your theory full of holes, does't it?
Besides, if you really want to get to the truth, Muslims historically have been the ones to strike first for religious differences. ONCE AGAIN, READ A LITTLE.
Like I said, currently I am not happy about this war, but I am much more unhappy about bald faced ignorance in both camps than I am about us going after a complete nutjob.
Hmmmm... just wanted to check.
This law is being moved forward to punish all of their PC using citizens that may or may not be breaking a law.
Conclusion #1: They are enforcing and placing punitive actions on law abiding citizens.
Yet Germany cannot seem to understand that an A-bomb going off in a city is double plus ungood, and the laws they made to stop him go unenforced.
Conclusion #2: They are not enforcing and placing punitive actions on a known international lawbreaker, the rules of which they helped make.
Thank goodness I am not in Germany. I don't think that I could put up with the punishment of innocent citizens, and then their free attitude about known nutjobs and their planet busting weapons.
They are men of power. They hump their beautiful but otherwise useless secretaries.
If you and I ever got that powerful, we would have no need for watching sexual variety.
Doubtless there were felinoid aliens before the Kzin.
Cmon. You're ridiculous. There is no idea stealing there. This is all a way to damage the good name of Wing Commander.
The kzinti are ratcats. The Wing Commander Kilrathi have no rat like ears. They have fur on their tails. Kzinti do not. SEE THE DIFFERENCE? I think your mind is wandering too much. Stay off the drugs.
Please, do not pursue this line of thinking again, or you will be sued.
There is no copyright infringement.
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What did you think about Snow Crash.
/.ers can't seem to shut up about it.
I think I am obligated to ask because
He makes my head explode every time he talks video cards.
Tell him Corky here can't handle this.
The bnetd developers asked Blizzard if they could hook into the official online CD key verification system. Blizzard denied them that.
/. for a while. That's not even some left wing "let the people be free" crap. That is a justification for piracy. The poster should be ashamed for trying to justify stealing a video game. After all people, IT IS JUST A FRICKING VIDEO GAME.
Yeah, giving BnetD (the place where cracked copies are played) the opportunity to look at the code for Blizzards Copy Protection Scheme and then complaining about it has to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard on
People, Blizzard makes good games. They deserve to be paid the going rate for that. They are not a charitable organization out to benefit the people that play cracked copies on BnetD. If ya don't like Battle.net, then don't play a Blizzard game.
Some you want it your way, you little thieves out there. You want a Blizzard game, but you don't want to pay for it.
Perhaps we should Ask Jeeves.
Hmmmmmm?
Scenario 1: "Yes, let everyone else have my backup data, they certainly wouldn't tamper with that!"
Scenario 2: "Look, someone invented a worm that infests everyone's remote backup files. This should be really easy to remove!"
Scenario 3: "No one can get into my distributed backup files. It's 128 encrypted!"
This is just a terrible idea all around. The reason why I don't hand out my personal or config files is the same reason I don't give my wallet and turn my back to the cashier every time I pay for something.
The best part of the article has to be that they approached museumtour.com (a site based in Oregon that sells educational toys over the Net) first. I WONDER WHY.
This is obvious. You knock over a small site to set a precedent, and then you go after someone with some real money. Build up your cash to knock over some real players out there.
This is its best moment in the article:
To its credit, SBC Intellectual Property was very polite in its approach to Museumtour, pointing out the existence of the patent, citing specifically how it believed Museumtour is in violation and offering to sell the company a license based on some percentage of gross sales.
I specifically love how they say they initially came in and asked nicely for a gross percentage of sales... it reminds me how the mafia is so polite, explaining how that you could avoid an "financial incident" by "licensing out protection" from said "financial incident" say, from, somebody you just met. Capiche?
If they really want to do this right, they need a fat man in a fedora and wingtips saying this to them in a raspy voice:
"Ya know, not saying that it is going to happen, but if it did happen it might cause you to lose some money there, pal. You better just license with us on your gross earnings, cuz, well, you never know. We live in strange times."
Yes, the article is right. They are very polite.
Until they attack you.
I have said it before and I will say it again:
It is against the US constitution for any state member to place tax that in any way that restricts interstate commerce. Period. End of discussion.
Guys, this has been around for two hundred years. It would require a Constitutional Convention to change that. That sure ain't gonna happen in this day and age. If a Constitutional Convention is suggested at this political climate, the public will suggest right back radical legistlator removal from Congress come next elections. And there is only one legislator fear in the world, that is losing their incumbancy.
This concept has been in the US Constitution since probably before the first Constitutional Convention, and was probably one of the first major reasons for the Constitutional Conventions. Colonial States were using tariffs as a source of funding for their states... screwing one over the other, and screwing overall revenues of the colonies. States can act like they can do what they want. They need to shut up. It will never happen because it screws with revenues at the federal level.
Besides, that kind of law would allow states to fix tax rates that would effect the ENTIRE NATION. That cannot occur. That would mean that the heavy populated states would get more freeways and the ones that don't have a lot of industry would get the shaft. THINK HOW FAST THE "SMALL STATE" AND "LOW COMMERCE" MEMBERS OF THE US SENATE WOULD GO AFTER THAT PLAN. Keep in mind how the Senate works.
Well, let them have their meetings. This is a pipe dream that will never work.
RrrrrrrOOOOOAAAAD TRIP!
Oh yeah.
You were fishing for the term "tax evasion."
Repeat after me... "Al Capone was busted for tax evasion."
Not "avoision." Definitely not "tax aversion," Mr. English teacher.
Honestly people, please look this stuff up. IN the US Constitution, there is a difference between free speech and protected speech.
Free speech is a more nebulous term, it allows for the rights to freely congregate and express opinions about anything. If you use that to hawk wares with people that is fraudulent, then you may be prosecuted for your behavior. If you are falsely yelling "fire" in a theatre, then you may be prosecuted for injuries in the stampede. However, protected speech is a little different.
Protected speech in the US is Political Speech. Meaning that you cannot be restricted from standing in a public place and protest an event within reason. All political opinons are considered protected, and part of the democratic process. But even this has limits. You cannot disrupt or cause a public nuisance with this, like say blast a recording of the Communist Mannifesto every day with 1k watt speakers at the White House Lawn. That would disrupt the political process, and infringe on others rights to a working government.
In a word, we do have free speech, but these are solicitations... not political speech.
Also, corporations should not have free speech, because they are not citizens, do not vote, cannot be jailed for disruptive behavior, and do not pay any real taxes compared to their earnings.
Either way, free speech is not a license for fraud.
Now, the devices have current limiting circuitry that disconnects the chip from the antenna when there's a power surge. The new RFIDs can be sewn into clothing and dried in microwave ovens with no ill effect to the chip.
WEll, yes they might do that for shoplifters, but no one is going to shoplift tires, and anything that isn't necessary is going to add cost to the tire. So when it comes to added money in the tire, I'm going to take the safe bet and assume that corporate America is going to take the cheapest route with the RFIDs. So, you could probably fry them, unless it is cost negligable to make them tamper proof.
I guess the only good news of this is that soon no one can just go dumping and throw old tires out on the side of the highway anymore. They're gonna know it is you that did it, or at least the tire company when they come to talk to you.
Okay, we're talking about duping a story about duping toner cartridges...
you better run this one past the legal department just in case.
Mirosoft announces its foray into the portables with the new X-boy gaming system, allowing users to have all the portability of playing such fast-paced and unconfusing Microsoft favorites like Age of Empires and Flight Simulator with all of the kiddies in the neighborhood.*
*Included in the system is its own rechargeable power supply, backlit screen, co-op cable, and pull cart.
I just got one! And they didn't say any mainstream word about it until a quarter before it comes out? I own a Nintendo everything (well, except a "Virtual Boy," that is if anyone remembers it). Still, the GBA is a little too small for my hands, and if you look at the new one, I don't think I could even hold it.
"Bad Nintendo! Bad, bad, bad, Nintendo!"
Looks like I'm going to have to have the tattoo of Princess Peach lasered off of my bum in disgust.
Please respond to this... And I know it is offtopic but I want to know... and I have little insight into why all of this N. Korea business has even started at all.
Why would N. Korea reveal that it has nuclear weapons in direct violation of a fuel and food treaty when its citizens are starving?
I have a few theories, but none of them make any sense. I have no idea why this is occurring. Are these viable answers?
1. Becasue Bush called them the "axis of evil."
2. They want to influence the S. Korean elections against the US for removal of US occupation (so they can attack? Or unite without the US?).
3. They revealed their nuke program because of Saddam (a fellow dictator) so that the US would have to fight a 2 front war... the old "enemy of my enemy is my friend routine." Which obviously idn't work out the way they planned.
4. Their motivations and thought processes are so "not Westerner" that I as a westerner just can't get it and it is all too complicated to say anyway.
5. This has all happened before, maybe not in this scale, and it is a big bluff to hold a regime together.
6. The regime is dying fast, and it needs an enemy to hold it together, so it mentions it has nukes to the US to threaten them, and then starts the war machine to unite N. Koreans.
Once again, please forgive the offtopic, but our current situation is intimately tied in with this election, and I need a Korean point of view to really make any sense of it. I think I speak for more than a few Westerners when we say we don't have any idea how things operate over there. Please enlighten us.
You know, research. The kind of things that might improve human life or knowledge. This is a job to people. HELLOOOOO!!!
"I mean, the government wants to just "check" research so that no one can use it as a weapon... as an upstanding American who loves his country AND science, I see nothing wrong with that. After all... America owns science that it creates... just look at all the patents."
"Ya pinkos."
(Quickly scurries into patented asbestos-lined flamewar bunker, and braces for incoming fire)
Its still a non-sequitor. Equating microsoft to the US Gov't.
Also. Please don't think I don't have an international perspective. It is insulting to a person to make assumptions. For I only judge comments, but not make assumptions about a persons character. Making snap judgements about a person's character shows how base a person is.
Yes, yet another anti-US rant... accusations of hegemony on all fronts without any knowledge of world politics, how the US operates, and pandering to the /. opinion that the US is naturally big, bad, and evil. By the way, India is our friend. Please keep up on world politics in the last 75 years before you shoot your mouth off for some cheap karma.
/. to how evil the US is. ON ALL ACCOUNTS. In all ways. And how the US will use everything to attack YOUR GRANDMOTHER. This is not even really as comical as it used to be. Its just downright ignorant and insulting now.
Of course, the rest of you might have noticed that the US was really not included in the conversation initially about supercomputers, it just always seems to hijack the conversation on
Poster, tell me where you come from, so I can return your ignorant favor and call your home "evil and domineering" over something as irrelevent to your life as software piracy in China, or food prices in Algeria.