Morale on capitol hill has been low since the end of the cold war. Damn hard to bomb who you want when you want without the "anti-communist" cover.
Wars are very convenient for boosting profits and keeping the public in check. If no other country is willing to stand up and be the big aggressive asshole, then it will just have to be the US.
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More accurately, they've been fucking each other. Kossovo used to be nearly 50% Serbian. Since the 1980's, that Serbian population has been uh, dealt with by ethnic Albanians.
The KLA is also nearly 100% an American creation. Those are US-supplied arms they're using, and there have been artocities on BOTH sides, not just Milosevic.
Oh, and the "genocide" is 2000 dead Kossovars, nearly all KLA and combatants, not helpless civilians like CNN tells you they are.
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China 1945-46 Korea 1950-53 China again 1950-53 Guatemala 1954 Indonesia 1958 Cuba 1959-60 Guatemala 1960 Congo 1964 Peru 1965 Laos 1964-73 Vietnam 1961-73 Cambodia 1969-70 Guatemala 1967-69 Grenada 1983 Libya 1986 El Salvador 1980s Nicaragua 1980s Panama 1989 Iraq 1991-99 Sudan 1998 Afghanistan 1998 Yugoslavia 1999
If only the rest of the world would simply accept that the US is always right, they wouldn't have any trouble!
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If you mean these last few conflicts have been nearly 100% propaganda on both sides, I'd say I agree.
In Vietnam, the reporting was at least in part impartial, with (admittedly inflated) body counts showing in the corner of the screen. The fighting being shown was real too.
In the gulf and now in Serbia, actual numbers are hidden, and the "conflicts" are staged. Serbia is blowing up it's own houses for the benifit of TV crews, and NATO is doing the same. In the Bosnia affair, we had Croats shell their own buildings and beaches for the benefit of Western TV crews.
In the gulf, the viewing public was treated only to grainy images of the miraculous accuracy of our "smart bombs". No mention of the 750,000 Iraqi casualties.
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Gah! This most recent season of the Simpsons has been so bad. Did Matt steal away all the good writers to work on Futurama?
Lisa's character has changed from the show's confused manifestation of Matt himself into some fruity new-age stereotype. Homer is just stupid anymore in very predictable ways. I can hardly bring myself to watch it anymore. I hope Matt stays on the Futurama project a lot longer than he stuck with the Simpsons.
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I've had my whois record used to spam me at least 10 times. From MCI, Compaq, and other various asshole individuals.
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The food unit is NOT broken.
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The food processing system is massively parallel, and an entirely independent process. The actual initial intake requires a fairly high priority, but afterwards consumes very little in the way of system resources. Unless you have some kind of a buffer overflow during the process (which is non-fatal), you should notice absolutely no degradation in overall performance during the subsequent processing.
What you term "waste disposal" is really no such thing. What you are doing is making a system backup in the event something in the overall system becomes corrupt. Don't ask about the restore process, it's ugly.
Someday you need to check out the ammount of crap you have sitting around in/dev/null. Then you'll appreciate just how efficient the human body really is.
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They weren't Jehova's witnesses. If they keep coming back after you tell them to go away, they are Mormons. The guys in white are God and Jesus, and they don't drink coffee.
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BUG! Assertion failed, cleaning up. Please send the text of the failed assertion, along with the contents of auto1.sav to: beta@lokigames.com
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You'll have more fun with it when the fatal bugs are eliminated. Pisses me off when the game keeps dying in the same spot and I have to start over...
Awesome game though. Kicks Alpha Centauri's ass as far as fun features and replay value. The clerics, lawyers, and corporate franchise units are a real kick in the pants.:-)
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And a lot more different reasons can make someone collaborate with the authors to improve a program, because it's fun, because it's cool, because have nothing to do on sundays, and none of the reasons above are related to money.
So what you're saying is that you're an unpaid volonteer.
I'm pro-OSS, and a programmer, and I agree with everything you said. What makes you think I was trying to troll you?
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It's easy to bag on something because it isn't what you're used to, or not exactly what you want it to be. Fact is that Linux, like life, is exactly what you make of it.
Want a roadmap? An interface? A program that does [X]? A simplified command line? Make one! (or have one made)
There is nobody but nobody restricting you or anyone elses freedom to do so. (You might attract a lot of ire if you forked the kernel, but no challenge to your right to do so).
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I don't think free software will stay in the hands of purely unpaid volonteers forever. When the model becomes universally accepted by all, it will gravitiate to some sort of institution or another. The possibilities (in reverse order of preference) are:
Development will be concentrated in companies like RedHat (with dubious motives),
Universities, taking on the character of other kinds of research, or
The government. (Which may not so be as bad as it sounds.) Ideally, I think writing (good) software should be recognized for what it truly is: an art form. Hence it should get federal funding like PBS, NPR, and the NEA.
National Endowment for Free Software anyone?
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I bought onea them Creative PC-DVD players (don't bother). Movies are win9x ONLY. I think if we want to be able to take over the desktop market, this needs to be looked into. (Not just creative but any DVD).
Last I heard, there was like a $5000 barrier to getting the DVD decoding specs. Now I have $5000, but I need it for tuition and food. I would be happy to donate however.
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I'm one of the lucky ones who gets to betatest CIV: Call To Power. And I can tell you it's an incredible game, and system performance is unbelievable.
Ever try to alt+tab out of a windows game and do something else? (ha) I have civ:ctp running right now on another desktop and have 80-90% system resources free.
it's only a matter of time 'till folks figure out what the better gaming platform is.
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Wars are very convenient for boosting profits and keeping the public in check. If no other country is willing to stand up and be the big aggressive asshole, then it will just have to be the US.
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Pretty obvious why NATO troops need to be on the ground there. I give it 2 weeks tops.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Kossovo used to be nearly 50% Serbian. Since the 1980's, that Serbian population has been uh, dealt with by ethnic Albanians.
The KLA is also nearly 100% an American creation. Those are US-supplied arms they're using, and there have been artocities on BOTH sides, not just Milosevic.
Oh, and the "genocide" is 2000 dead Kossovars, nearly all KLA and combatants, not helpless civilians like CNN tells you they are.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
A brief rundown of the US bombing world tour:
China 1945-46
Korea 1950-53
China again 1950-53
Guatemala 1954
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-60
Guatemala 1960
Congo 1964
Peru 1965
Laos 1964-73
Vietnam 1961-73
Cambodia 1969-70
Guatemala 1967-69
Grenada 1983
Libya 1986
El Salvador 1980s
Nicaragua 1980s
Panama 1989
Iraq 1991-99
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia 1999
If only the rest of the world would simply accept that the US is always right, they wouldn't have any trouble!
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
In Vietnam, the reporting was at least in part impartial, with (admittedly inflated) body counts showing in the corner of the screen. The fighting being shown was real too.
In the gulf and now in Serbia, actual numbers are hidden, and the "conflicts" are staged. Serbia is blowing up it's own houses for the benifit of TV crews, and NATO is doing the same. In the Bosnia affair, we had Croats shell their own buildings and beaches for the benefit of Western TV crews.
In the gulf, the viewing public was treated only to grainy images of the miraculous accuracy of our "smart bombs". No mention of the 750,000 Iraqi casualties.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
I also favor their foreign policy a bit higher than I do the West's.
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Pokey, I did not know you could fly the space shuttle.
The back is filled with yummy poutine!
hooray!
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ROTFLMAO!
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They don't call it the Left coast for nuttin'.
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Not that I'm complaining, I always thought it would make a good cartoon.
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'member "Akbar and Jeff"? I doubt it's a Star Wars reference.
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Lisa's character has changed from the show's confused manifestation of Matt himself into some fruity new-age stereotype. Homer is just stupid anymore in very predictable ways. I can hardly bring myself to watch it anymore. I hope Matt stays on the Futurama project a lot longer than he stuck with the Simpsons.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
I've had my whois record used to spam me at least 10 times. From MCI, Compaq, and other various asshole individuals.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
What you term "waste disposal" is really no such thing. What you are doing is making a system backup in the event something in the overall system becomes corrupt. Don't ask about the restore process, it's ugly.
Someday you need to check out the ammount of crap you have sitting around in
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
They weren't Jehova's witnesses. If they keep coming back after you tell them to go away, they are Mormons. The guys in white are God and Jesus, and they don't drink coffee.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
And dammit, I had those arrogant Americans by the throat!
*sigh*
time to start over.
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There is software-only Mesa, Barbie. It's just slower.
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And open too!
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Initializing Tile Engine...goals/glovertime.cpp:156: 0.0 m_utility
BUG! Assertion failed, cleaning up.
Please send the text of the failed assertion,
along with the contents of auto1.sav to: beta@lokigames.com
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You'll have more fun with it when the fatal bugs are eliminated. Pisses me off when the game keeps dying in the same spot and I have to start over...
Awesome game though. Kicks Alpha Centauri's ass as far as fun features and replay value. The clerics, lawyers, and corporate franchise units are a real kick in the pants.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
So what you're saying is that you're an unpaid volonteer.
I'm pro-OSS, and a programmer, and I agree with everything you said. What makes you think I was trying to troll you?
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
It's easy to bag on something because it isn't what you're used to, or not exactly what you want it to be. Fact is that Linux, like life, is exactly what you make of it.
Want a roadmap? An interface? A program that does [X]? A simplified command line? Make one! (or have one made)
There is nobody but nobody restricting you or anyone elses freedom to do so. (You might attract a lot of ire if you forked the kernel, but no challenge to your right to do so).
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Development will be concentrated in companies like RedHat (with dubious motives),
Universities, taking on the character of other kinds of research, or
The government. (Which may not so be as bad as it sounds.) Ideally, I think writing (good) software should be recognized for what it truly is: an art form. Hence it should get federal funding like PBS, NPR, and the NEA.
National Endowment for Free Software anyone?
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Doesn't mean he ain't gonna git his scrawny ass kicked.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Last I heard, there was like a $5000 barrier to getting the DVD decoding specs. Now I have $5000, but I need it for tuition and food. I would be happy to donate however.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Ever try to alt+tab out of a windows game and do something else? (ha) I have civ:ctp running right now on another desktop and have 80-90% system resources free.
it's only a matter of time 'till folks figure out what the better gaming platform is.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.