I can't believe that this is actually a possibility running through politicians' heads... Didn't anyone read *any* of the various postmodern false utopian literature such as Brave New World or 1984? C'mon, people...... This is exactly why i've decided to go into law rather than computer science...
Why don't you think someone has ever thought of this? Why do you think bouncing AM waves off the atmosphere would be anywhere in the realm of possiblity?.. do you seriously think the atmosphere has less radius then half a AM Stations coverage? and everyone knows that all the 'cool' stations are in FM anyway.. Duh@! do you want these kids to be squares???
Use a phreakin phone line- you live in Canada
I don't understand how they are allocating the supply drops for the Afghan citizens. The terrorists live with the other citizens. Who knows who is actually getting these supplies? If this ends up anything like Somalia, the terrorists will begin to become warlord like and intercept any supplies, keeping them from citizens and only using them for terrorist activities. I'm quite confused on this issue. Could someone please enighten me? Or are the supply drops merely a diplomatic ploy?
at my college- there isn't enough programming within the curriculum. People who want to program in their lives go through this program, but if they don't want to learn C, java, perl, or anything else- they don't have too. The little bit of programming available/required is not enough for a programmer to know what they are doing once they hit the market. Is this a common thing? Do employers tend to teach programming on the job? seriously, i'd say 75% of the students in my class will graduate without knowing much more than how to define an int.
Nothing should cause us to allow our birth given rights just so that we have a bit of 'safety'. most of the safety involved in our systems are illusions of safety anyway. In cars, airbags, side impact doors, special bumpers, etc, all give a false sense of not having an accident. The only thing that truly makes us safe, is our decisions. Do we drive the car? Do we drive safely with no distractions and pay attention to our surroundings?
That is the biggest key to safety- attention to your environment. We have lost that as humans living with millions others that we pay no attention to from day to day. If we are attentive and watch those that make us suspicious of their motives, the world will be safer for all. I guess i'm trying to say that looking out for number one can also be looking out for others.
The problem with the airport security is _not_ that we need computer face recognition. It is that we hire people to sit at an x-ray machine for 6.25 dollars an hour and not know what they were looking at. About 3 weeks ago my girlfriend and i went to hang out at the airport, yes we do that every now and again- coffee, magazine racks, and confused people are our entertainment, and she beeped going through the metal detector. Well, she emptied her pockets and everything and still beeped. She was being checked out by the hand held metal detector, and beeped around her knees and shoulder areas. After about 5 minutes, the dumbass running the metal detector got bored trying to figure out whether she had anything else on her person, and said 'well, you look innocent enough; go ahead'.
I would say if someone beeped like that, you take them for a quick pad down. Yes, it's embarrassing, but if done correctly and behind closed doors, it's nothing to worry about. She could have had a knife taped to her back or leg and the guy had just let her go. What the hell? Well, you pay for McDonald's service, you get McDonald's service.
Freakazoid was pulled because he made fun of Princess Di... With shows that we are talking about now- they talked about how terrorism affects real people, and show people trying to fight against terrorism and evil in any form. This is what people need now. If anything these shows act as placators to a rallying point for the war. [which a rallying point, having all citizens behind a war, is the most important aspect of war- look at Korea and Viet Nahm... no rallying point. However the question is, do we want a war?]
Should the news media all of the sudden stop coverage of the event- which i think they should... it's boring and repetitive by now- out of respect? respect is not ignoring something, but showing it, and either condemning the terrorist action or celebrating that we are survivors. This attack, while a tragedy and many people died, was an ankle bite. It was not a 'stab through the heart of america' as cnn likes to put it. It was an ankle bite. Allowing these shows to be pulled does exactly what the terrorists wanted to do.
There is no doubt that security needs to be tightened and will be tightened in light of the recent tragedies. I think that an important question everyone must ask themselves at this time is what liberties are we ready to lose in order to prioritize safety? I for one am not ready to answer this question and certainly don't even know where to begin, but if our security is tightened so much that we are not allowed in our cities after dark, can we call ourselves free?
Maybe part of freedom comes in being prepared to be the victim of anarchial/terrorist acts. No i'm not trying to reduce any sympathy for the victims... i'm not talking about those who have died- i'm talking about us survivors... do we make the choice to have our lives controlled incredibly [which i actually don't think would happen anyway] or do we go about our lives as usual except with the knowlegde and understanding that at anytime we are susceptible to such violent acts? Someone who is truly free to do exactly as he pleases should understand[and we didn't until this point] that we are free because of the lack of security.
Also, we who call ourselves free should take on the responsibility to look out for eachother- suspicious people should be reported to security/local law enforcement. I don't mean any person who looks Muslim[which is a broad definition anyway]... i'm not even speaking on muslims... if a caucasian or african-american should happen to look as though they have ulterior motives, should we report them so that proper surveillance can be done? I have heard a story that the men who are responsible for this act where in a scuffle out in the parking lot before boarding the planes. how is this possible?
Someone should say in cases like this- hey, these people seem to be aggressive, i'm afraid of them... and then security can take it from there. Or we can do nothing and truly be susceptible to any attack. Or we can allow big brother to decide our involvement or to decide our lives in order for our absolute saftey? There is a tremendous amount of gray area here... i'm interested in what slashdotters think.
If 1,000,000 grasshoppers fight the cat, eventually it will be annoyed enough and frightened by the shear numbers that it will run away and go in it's little door on the back of the house. I don't want to see M$ go away, they have some solid software that I use everyday quite extensively. And frankly, it would send businesses in a spiral as they search for people to teach the software to non techies.
It would be a good thing, however, if we were able to seperate the companies correctly or possibly force them to adhere to some Open Source standard so that others could help work on it. Noone truly wants to see Windows bite the dust, i think (correct me if i'm wrong), we just want the opportunity to try out our ideas, and if they work... all the better for the consumer. but, i'm not a programmer yet so when i say we, i mean that in the loosest sense of the word.
what i mean by all of this, is that this is the same deal as with David Korresh and his terrorist/cultist/militant peons. We destroyed their citadel, their home, their church. What is the difference. I'm not saying Napalm and A-Bomb all of the Middle East. What I am saying is a very decisive and clear attack on whoever is responsible(when we find out who is) is necessary to tell these people, 'Hey, we're not gonna take your shit. You are not an individual snowflake. Rules _do_ apply to you. Don't fuck with us.'
And while many people go about their daily lives without worrying about the U.S. as people do here, there is a far greater percentage of terrorist activity in the Middle East than anywhere in the nearly deregulated U.S. [what I mean by this is that the U.S. is so large, it is quite possible that vast militia's could be formed in rural areas without government knowlegde]
And while many overseas had nothing to do with this, many are celebrating. Those celebrating the deaths of well over 10,000 people should be held just as responsible as those who committed the act. We have laws similiar to that over here making people accomplises after the fact- not exactly the same situation, but i think you get my point.
And while the bible has been abused, it's not nearly as often or recent or on grand scale as such.
And correct me if i'm wrong, but I think a major reason that everyone blames the U.S. for their problems is the major restrictions and rules they place upon themselves. They really aren't free in their own beliefs if they are fundamentalist. This builds up a hostility that is outwardly projected. I say, we show them that we will not take any act of terrorism or threat to our civilians.
Also, fundamentalists would use that passage as to mean, 'Do not harm anyone who has or is willing to assimilate to our culture.' They would consider 'homes' as the place of residence- their actual house. Today many people stand with homes broken, no father, no mother, no job, no income. The economy will take a definite blow. This destroyed their 'means of substinence', however fundamentalist would still consider all these people hurt to be infidels.
We took over Japan once, not in the best way. But, in rebuilding their economy during our occupation [mainly because we felt bad], we showed[or tried to show] that we were not all bad. Today, the U.S. has great relations with Japan. I'm just saying it might help to be the forceful hand. We've turned our heads away from terrorism one to many times.
I did see Palestinians at least in the streets dancing and celebrating- it was mainly women and their children. Regardless;
I am aware that many islamic countries have condemned the attack. The reasons for this are two-fold. A)Not all countries hate us. B)These countries did not attack us and do not wish to be blamed for the attack.
The Talisban do hate Americans and only condemn the attack because they have been housing BinLidden for a long while. They[the Talisban] are trying to shirk an attack by the US.
I also understand that many countries like us. I said 'people hate us'... not 'everyone hates us'. There is a major difference in these statements. There are a good number of, mainly third world, countries that despise our existence.
'It's a doctrine of Islam as it's a Christian doctrine, that you'll get a in heaven for killing the turks to free the Holy Land.
Both aren't.'
While i'm not sure if you left out a modifier (maybe 'just'?) in the first part of the sentence, I think I get what you are saying. However you're incorrect. Islam's very foundations state that dieing in a war for Allah is a ticket into heaven. It's in the Korran. While Christians get a free ride into Holy Land for defending their faith, this doesn't mean killing turks. Or dieing for their faith. BTW, I'm not christian if you were trying to get me riled up with that comment.
"How nice of you to bunch all the people of the same faith into one faceless mass."
woah! hold it there buddy. One of the fundamentals of the islamic faith is that it is okay to murder anyone of different faith. It is also fundamental that dieing for the faith is extremely honorable. I did not get this from CNN. I have done pretty decent amounts of research into all sorts of religions when I was going through a time in my life where I was uncertain. Not that any of this is your business or I should care that you judged me so incorrectly.
You are very correct about CNN and other stations biased views of cultures that are different. That's why I also watch news reports from the other countries when something happens- you can get them on the internet if you didn't know. Simply put, Middle-Eastern countries are much worse about bias and slant in the media that usually sides with the government, or else they get pulled.
Not that it's any of your business but I have a few friends from the Middle East, India, Africa, and Asia. I learned a lot about their cultures from them, and in exchange they learned about the teen/young adult society in the USA. I also learned a lot about myself in the process.
Xenophobic? Hardly. I am a confident person and when I can talk intelligently about the doctrines of a religion in a friendly debate [there is no getting around what is in the Korran, sorry] I do so in a manner that seemed to piss you off. sorry. Don't hold me accountable for your insecurities, though.
'I bet you're just projecting your own feelings of hatred to other people.'
heh. Why are you so angry when I simply pointed out fundamental aspects of their society. If you are Islamic, no offense intended- I'm not speaking on you. I just mentioned the rules of the religion and how many hardcore Islamics [mostly those in the middle east at this time] act. The religion _has_ military like dogmatic and systematic control of the people. This is not to say the people are bad/evil. Just unquestioning and willing to die for their belief.
If you had truly read my original post you would have seen that I tried to approach this situation with an open mind- i mentioned that there is no hard proof [although it is stacking up on BinLadden's side] that muslims had anything to do with this, and compared the actions to christian religions seen as 'normal' by many here in the US.
Sorry if you misunderstood, but my argument was that, as it seems to me, people of islamic faith as a whole are more dogmatic and willing to die for their faith than those of the christian faith- hence the religion plays more of a part into their actions. If they attacked us- a good percentage of why is that we are a christian nation in their eyes and the enemy. Point made, religious centers which act as governmental and military offices should be attacked in retaliation.
If you need more of an argument, think of what most Americans worship- MONEY
They just attacked the center of our belief system... Why didn't they just send an A-Bomb to Rome? The WTC was our largest and most well-constructed temple/cathedral/synagouge/mosque/etc. So what about our religious beliefs, eh?
'That's like saying "destroy all Christian holy sites" '
If you have been watching coverage you would see that many of these muslim/islamic countries have been rejoicing at the fact that the "U.S. Opression" is being ended. All of these countries hate americans and would do anything to destroy us. while it is true that these people are radicals much like Timothy McVeigh, it is also necessary to note that people of the islamic faith are much more prone to resort to violence if it has to do with their Jihaad. They believe that dieing in a holy war is the best way to get into heaven. They also see anyone who is not islamic as the enemy.
They may say, "We don't promote the killing of innocent people," but to them, we civilians who are not muslim are the enemy and are not innocent.
I do not agree with systematic wiping out of certain peoples, but the people who did this(and we don't actually have complete proof that it were the palestinians or whoever) need to be hit in their most important areas. This being their governmental buildings and their places of worship. The church acts as a military for these people, as the Catholic church once has.
I have been outside the U.S.- people hate us. People would like to see our country burnt to the ground, our men killed, our children afraid and hiding in caves, and our women raped.
It is a simple fact to these people and a doctrine of Islam that if you die in a holy war, Allah will praise you in heaven. If anything we would be doing these people a favor... especially if they then realize that their dogmatic and unquestioned beliefs in a deity(I speak of most all religions now) whose sole purpose is to create an iron like grasp on the people of the world. Religions love power- let's give 'em all we've got.
heh. here in kentucky (yah i know) they recently passed a law prohibiting people from driving with drunk people in their cars. Hence, no DD's. Pretty much bullshit, but now you can get in as much trouble trying to keep your friends safe as you would being reckless. so, these things will probably be the first thing to go in cars in KY from now on.
damn... this is the kind of work i was interested in doing after college. At this rate, they'll have constructed every organelle known to man by the time i'm a junior. Time to find a new major...
Spammers have as much of a right to advertise their product as do any other corporation. However, television and radio stations will not play back to back advertisements and there are regulations regarding courtesy calls made by companies restricting them to residential phone lines between the hours of 8 am and 5 pm M-F.
The thing that we must do to stop this madness is to somehow find someone to construct a bill that will restrict spam to once a day per email address and only _proven_ personal email addresses. Sending spam to someone's professional email is like calling their office phone or their company cell phone. It isn't right and isn't done. Also those who wish their address, much like their phone number, to remain unlisted should be able to do so. I know this is a daunting task, but what we've seen out of spammers so far requires a sort of yellow pages for email addresses- listing "residential" addresses and business addresses seperately, and the ability to "unlist" one's address.
Also the spamming would be hard to regulate without anyone's cooporation in reporting such offenses [only something like 1 in 4 rapes go reported].
The reason I propose such an idea, is that in personal email accounts, most people are simply annoyed by spam[having a regulation to 1 mail a day or less would cut down on this] much like courtesy calls. You can delete them. The real problem is when spam floods corporate networks, again, just like when there are too many calls coming in for the operator to handle.
I'm writing my senator about this problem[when i find time, which between beer, chicks, food, and school... spam is relatively a low priority] and i suggest that everyone who feels the same way, do the same. Regulations are there to keep people in check, as much as we would like to have the internet deregulated. We have rules in a society for a reason- the majority of people decide what is moral and just in that society.
I have a lot more to say, but i'm sure it's already been said... and i'm tired.
I would suggest reading the Hobbit first, since it will give you a background into the characters of LOTR, and it fits in with his masterly crafted plot flow... yes the Hobbit is lighter and more childish; however it progresses to become somewhat darker. This is what Tolkien meant to do from the onset. If you read LOTR, you will see that the Fellowship Of The Ring[first book] is quite lofty compared to Return of The King[last book]. Within the story beginning with the Hobbit, the books are progressively darker as the cast delves closer into the depths of Mordor. This is done on purpose, and this (more so than chronological order or for background) is the reason that the books should be read in this order. Also, The Silmarrilion makes a nice book to read after LOTR, even though the events in that book take place thousands of years ahead of the Hobbit.
The key is communication skills and knowlegde in depth of the course material. One should take education courses to be able to teach, however- a core knowledge of subject matter is just as(if not more) important. I would rather have a person who *knew* principles behind the math than someone who wrote something on the board and said 'copy it and memorize it.' And that is precisely the attitude of most non-scientific people- memorize it. Memorization is bullshit. You can always look something up at a library or the internet if you need to know specific values. Core concepts are much more needed in the minds of the human race.
my roomate this past semester had a setup like that- we kept seeing people in windows' network neighborhood; we had no idea whose computers they were, but there were probably 8 or 9 of them, but not all at the same time. We couldn't figure out why we were seeing them in the network neighborhood...
I started on SuSE, then went to RedHat, then Slackware, now I'm back on SuSE- don't know whether i truly prefer it, or whether it's because it was my first. *aww*. anyhow- i love and suggest SuSE
My dad works for dupont as a ChemE... i wonder if he can get my first dibs on some prototypes.[right]
i'll resell them to any slashdotters, for a price.
Slashdot Mirror
I can't believe that this is actually a possibility running through politicians' heads... Didn't anyone read *any* of the various postmodern false utopian literature such as Brave New World or 1984? C'mon, people...... This is exactly why i've decided to go into law rather than computer science...
Why don't you think someone has ever thought of this? Why do you think bouncing AM waves off the atmosphere would be anywhere in the realm of possiblity?.. do you seriously think the atmosphere has less radius then half a AM Stations coverage? and everyone knows that all the 'cool' stations are in FM anyway.. Duh@! do you want these kids to be squares???
Use a phreakin phone line- you live in Canada
I don't understand how they are allocating the supply drops for the Afghan citizens. The terrorists live with the other citizens. Who knows who is actually getting these supplies? If this ends up anything like Somalia, the terrorists will begin to become warlord like and intercept any supplies, keeping them from citizens and only using them for terrorist activities. I'm quite confused on this issue. Could someone please enighten me? Or are the supply drops merely a diplomatic ploy?
at my college- there isn't enough programming within the curriculum. People who want to program in their lives go through this program, but if they don't want to learn C, java, perl, or anything else- they don't have too. The little bit of programming available/required is not enough for a programmer to know what they are doing once they hit the market. Is this a common thing? Do employers tend to teach programming on the job? seriously, i'd say 75% of the students in my class will graduate without knowing much more than how to define an int.
Nothing should cause us to allow our birth given rights just so that we have a bit of 'safety'. most of the safety involved in our systems are illusions of safety anyway. In cars, airbags, side impact doors, special bumpers, etc, all give a false sense of not having an accident. The only thing that truly makes us safe, is our decisions. Do we drive the car? Do we drive safely with no distractions and pay attention to our surroundings?
That is the biggest key to safety- attention to your environment. We have lost that as humans living with millions others that we pay no attention to from day to day. If we are attentive and watch those that make us suspicious of their motives, the world will be safer for all. I guess i'm trying to say that looking out for number one can also be looking out for others.
The problem with the airport security is _not_ that we need computer face recognition. It is that we hire people to sit at an x-ray machine for 6.25 dollars an hour and not know what they were looking at. About 3 weeks ago my girlfriend and i went to hang out at the airport, yes we do that every now and again- coffee, magazine racks, and confused people are our entertainment, and she beeped going through the metal detector. Well, she emptied her pockets and everything and still beeped. She was being checked out by the hand held metal detector, and beeped around her knees and shoulder areas. After about 5 minutes, the dumbass running the metal detector got bored trying to figure out whether she had anything else on her person, and said 'well, you look innocent enough; go ahead'.
I would say if someone beeped like that, you take them for a quick pad down. Yes, it's embarrassing, but if done correctly and behind closed doors, it's nothing to worry about. She could have had a knife taped to her back or leg and the guy had just let her go. What the hell? Well, you pay for McDonald's service, you get McDonald's service.
Freakazoid was pulled because he made fun of Princess Di... With shows that we are talking about now- they talked about how terrorism affects real people, and show people trying to fight against terrorism and evil in any form. This is what people need now. If anything these shows act as placators to a rallying point for the war. [which a rallying point, having all citizens behind a war, is the most important aspect of war- look at Korea and Viet Nahm... no rallying point. However the question is, do we want a war?]
Should the news media all of the sudden stop coverage of the event- which i think they should... it's boring and repetitive by now- out of respect? respect is not ignoring something, but showing it, and either condemning the terrorist action or celebrating that we are survivors. This attack, while a tragedy and many people died, was an ankle bite. It was not a 'stab through the heart of america' as cnn likes to put it. It was an ankle bite. Allowing these shows to be pulled does exactly what the terrorists wanted to do.
Maybe part of freedom comes in being prepared to be the victim of anarchial/terrorist acts. No i'm not trying to reduce any sympathy for the victims... i'm not talking about those who have died- i'm talking about us survivors... do we make the choice to have our lives controlled incredibly [which i actually don't think would happen anyway] or do we go about our lives as usual except with the knowlegde and understanding that at anytime we are susceptible to such violent acts? Someone who is truly free to do exactly as he pleases should understand[and we didn't until this point] that we are free because of the lack of security.
Also, we who call ourselves free should take on the responsibility to look out for eachother- suspicious people should be reported to security/local law enforcement. I don't mean any person who looks Muslim[which is a broad definition anyway]... i'm not even speaking on muslims... if a caucasian or african-american should happen to look as though they have ulterior motives, should we report them so that proper surveillance can be done? I have heard a story that the men who are responsible for this act where in a scuffle out in the parking lot before boarding the planes. how is this possible?
Someone should say in cases like this- hey, these people seem to be aggressive, i'm afraid of them... and then security can take it from there. Or we can do nothing and truly be susceptible to any attack. Or we can allow big brother to decide our involvement or to decide our lives in order for our absolute saftey? There is a tremendous amount of gray area here... i'm interested in what slashdotters think.
If 1,000,000 grasshoppers fight the cat, eventually it will be annoyed enough and frightened by the shear numbers that it will run away and go in it's little door on the back of the house. I don't want to see M$ go away, they have some solid software that I use everyday quite extensively. And frankly, it would send businesses in a spiral as they search for people to teach the software to non techies.
It would be a good thing, however, if we were able to seperate the companies correctly or possibly force them to adhere to some Open Source standard so that others could help work on it. Noone truly wants to see Windows bite the dust, i think (correct me if i'm wrong), we just want the opportunity to try out our ideas, and if they work... all the better for the consumer. but, i'm not a programmer yet so when i say we, i mean that in the loosest sense of the word.
And while many people go about their daily lives without worrying about the U.S. as people do here, there is a far greater percentage of terrorist activity in the Middle East than anywhere in the nearly deregulated U.S. [what I mean by this is that the U.S. is so large, it is quite possible that vast militia's could be formed in rural areas without government knowlegde]
And while many overseas had nothing to do with this, many are celebrating. Those celebrating the deaths of well over 10,000 people should be held just as responsible as those who committed the act. We have laws similiar to that over here making people accomplises after the fact- not exactly the same situation, but i think you get my point.
And while the bible has been abused, it's not nearly as often or recent or on grand scale as such.
And correct me if i'm wrong, but I think a major reason that everyone blames the U.S. for their problems is the major restrictions and rules they place upon themselves. They really aren't free in their own beliefs if they are fundamentalist. This builds up a hostility that is outwardly projected. I say, we show them that we will not take any act of terrorism or threat to our civilians.
Also, fundamentalists would use that passage as to mean, 'Do not harm anyone who has or is willing to assimilate to our culture.' They would consider 'homes' as the place of residence- their actual house. Today many people stand with homes broken, no father, no mother, no job, no income. The economy will take a definite blow. This destroyed their 'means of substinence', however fundamentalist would still consider all these people hurt to be infidels.
We took over Japan once, not in the best way. But, in rebuilding their economy during our occupation [mainly because we felt bad], we showed[or tried to show] that we were not all bad. Today, the U.S. has great relations with Japan. I'm just saying it might help to be the forceful hand. We've turned our heads away from terrorism one to many times.
I am aware that many islamic countries have condemned the attack. The reasons for this are two-fold. A)Not all countries hate us. B)These countries did not attack us and do not wish to be blamed for the attack.
The Talisban do hate Americans and only condemn the attack because they have been housing BinLidden for a long while. They[the Talisban] are trying to shirk an attack by the US.
I also understand that many countries like us. I said 'people hate us'... not 'everyone hates us'. There is a major difference in these statements. There are a good number of, mainly third world, countries that despise our existence.
'It's a doctrine of Islam as it's a Christian doctrine, that you'll get a in heaven for killing the turks to free the Holy Land. Both aren't.'
While i'm not sure if you left out a modifier (maybe 'just'?) in the first part of the sentence, I think I get what you are saying. However you're incorrect. Islam's very foundations state that dieing in a war for Allah is a ticket into heaven. It's in the Korran. While Christians get a free ride into Holy Land for defending their faith, this doesn't mean killing turks. Or dieing for their faith. BTW, I'm not christian if you were trying to get me riled up with that comment.
woah! hold it there buddy. One of the fundamentals of the islamic faith is that it is okay to murder anyone of different faith. It is also fundamental that dieing for the faith is extremely honorable. I did not get this from CNN. I have done pretty decent amounts of research into all sorts of religions when I was going through a time in my life where I was uncertain. Not that any of this is your business or I should care that you judged me so incorrectly.
You are very correct about CNN and other stations biased views of cultures that are different. That's why I also watch news reports from the other countries when something happens- you can get them on the internet if you didn't know. Simply put, Middle-Eastern countries are much worse about bias and slant in the media that usually sides with the government, or else they get pulled.
Not that it's any of your business but I have a few friends from the Middle East, India, Africa, and Asia. I learned a lot about their cultures from them, and in exchange they learned about the teen/young adult society in the USA. I also learned a lot about myself in the process.
Xenophobic? Hardly. I am a confident person and when I can talk intelligently about the doctrines of a religion in a friendly debate [there is no getting around what is in the Korran, sorry] I do so in a manner that seemed to piss you off. sorry. Don't hold me accountable for your insecurities, though.
'I bet you're just projecting your own feelings of hatred to other people.'
heh. Why are you so angry when I simply pointed out fundamental aspects of their society. If you are Islamic, no offense intended- I'm not speaking on you. I just mentioned the rules of the religion and how many hardcore Islamics [mostly those in the middle east at this time] act. The religion _has_ military like dogmatic and systematic control of the people. This is not to say the people are bad/evil. Just unquestioning and willing to die for their belief.
If you had truly read my original post you would have seen that I tried to approach this situation with an open mind- i mentioned that there is no hard proof [although it is stacking up on BinLadden's side] that muslims had anything to do with this, and compared the actions to christian religions seen as 'normal' by many here in the US.
Sorry if you misunderstood, but my argument was that, as it seems to me, people of islamic faith as a whole are more dogmatic and willing to die for their faith than those of the christian faith- hence the religion plays more of a part into their actions. If they attacked us- a good percentage of why is that we are a christian nation in their eyes and the enemy. Point made, religious centers which act as governmental and military offices should be attacked in retaliation.
If you need more of an argument, think of what most Americans worship- MONEY
They just attacked the center of our belief system... Why didn't they just send an A-Bomb to Rome? The WTC was our largest and most well-constructed temple/cathedral/synagouge/mosque/etc. So what about our religious beliefs, eh?
If you have been watching coverage you would see that many of these muslim/islamic countries have been rejoicing at the fact that the "U.S. Opression" is being ended. All of these countries hate americans and would do anything to destroy us. while it is true that these people are radicals much like Timothy McVeigh, it is also necessary to note that people of the islamic faith are much more prone to resort to violence if it has to do with their Jihaad. They believe that dieing in a holy war is the best way to get into heaven. They also see anyone who is not islamic as the enemy.
They may say, "We don't promote the killing of innocent people," but to them, we civilians who are not muslim are the enemy and are not innocent.
I do not agree with systematic wiping out of certain peoples, but the people who did this(and we don't actually have complete proof that it were the palestinians or whoever) need to be hit in their most important areas. This being their governmental buildings and their places of worship. The church acts as a military for these people, as the Catholic church once has.
I have been outside the U.S.- people hate us. People would like to see our country burnt to the ground, our men killed, our children afraid and hiding in caves, and our women raped.
It is a simple fact to these people and a doctrine of Islam that if you die in a holy war, Allah will praise you in heaven. If anything we would be doing these people a favor... especially if they then realize that their dogmatic and unquestioned beliefs in a deity(I speak of most all religions now) whose sole purpose is to create an iron like grasp on the people of the world. Religions love power- let's give 'em all we've got.
well, considering one of my friends was arrested for just that- being a DD- recently, i would say that it is illegal.
heh. here in kentucky (yah i know) they recently passed a law prohibiting people from driving with drunk people in their cars. Hence, no DD's. Pretty much bullshit, but now you can get in as much trouble trying to keep your friends safe as you would being reckless. so, these things will probably be the first thing to go in cars in KY from now on.
Motorola's new process (covered by 200+ patents)
hmm... which means we'll be forced to buy these from Motorola for a few years...
damn... this is the kind of work i was interested in doing after college. At this rate, they'll have constructed every organelle known to man by the time i'm a junior. Time to find a new major...
Spammers have as much of a right to advertise their product as do any other corporation. However, television and radio stations will not play back to back advertisements and there are regulations regarding courtesy calls made by companies restricting them to residential phone lines between the hours of 8 am and 5 pm M-F.
The thing that we must do to stop this madness is to somehow find someone to construct a bill that will restrict spam to once a day per email address and only _proven_ personal email addresses. Sending spam to someone's professional email is like calling their office phone or their company cell phone. It isn't right and isn't done. Also those who wish their address, much like their phone number, to remain unlisted should be able to do so. I know this is a daunting task, but what we've seen out of spammers so far requires a sort of yellow pages for email addresses- listing "residential" addresses and business addresses seperately, and the ability to "unlist" one's address.
Also the spamming would be hard to regulate without anyone's cooporation in reporting such offenses [only something like 1 in 4 rapes go reported].
The reason I propose such an idea, is that in personal email accounts, most people are simply annoyed by spam[having a regulation to 1 mail a day or less would cut down on this] much like courtesy calls. You can delete them. The real problem is when spam floods corporate networks, again, just like when there are too many calls coming in for the operator to handle.
I'm writing my senator about this problem[when i find time, which between beer, chicks, food, and school... spam is relatively a low priority] and i suggest that everyone who feels the same way, do the same. Regulations are there to keep people in check, as much as we would like to have the internet deregulated. We have rules in a society for a reason- the majority of people decide what is moral and just in that society.
I have a lot more to say, but i'm sure it's already been said... and i'm tired.
I would suggest reading the Hobbit first, since it will give you a background into the characters of LOTR, and it fits in with his masterly crafted plot flow... yes the Hobbit is lighter and more childish; however it progresses to become somewhat darker. This is what Tolkien meant to do from the onset. If you read LOTR, you will see that the Fellowship Of The Ring[first book] is quite lofty compared to Return of The King[last book]. Within the story beginning with the Hobbit, the books are progressively darker as the cast delves closer into the depths of Mordor. This is done on purpose, and this (more so than chronological order or for background) is the reason that the books should be read in this order. Also, The Silmarrilion makes a nice book to read after LOTR, even though the events in that book take place thousands of years ahead of the Hobbit.
to katz for not writing a bullshit review this time.
i'm more worried about other bone[s] falling off...
lol
The key is communication skills and knowlegde in depth of the course material. One should take education courses to be able to teach, however- a core knowledge of subject matter is just as(if not more) important. I would rather have a person who *knew* principles behind the math than someone who wrote something on the board and said 'copy it and memorize it.' And that is precisely the attitude of most non-scientific people- memorize it. Memorization is bullshit. You can always look something up at a library or the internet if you need to know specific values. Core concepts are much more needed in the minds of the human race.
my roomate this past semester had a setup like that- we kept seeing people in windows' network neighborhood; we had no idea whose computers they were, but there were probably 8 or 9 of them, but not all at the same time. We couldn't figure out why we were seeing them in the network neighborhood...
I started on SuSE, then went to RedHat, then Slackware, now I'm back on SuSE- don't know whether i truly prefer it, or whether it's because it was my first. *aww*. anyhow- i love and suggest SuSE
My dad works for dupont as a ChemE...
i wonder if he can get my first dibs on some prototypes.[right]
i'll resell them to any slashdotters, for a price.