"there would be as many definitions of it as there are consumers"
And how many customers would actually have the desire to hack theirs?
It took me 3 hours to teach my dad to use a DVR. For some reason I don't see him or the majority of people out there taking advantage of this.
One thing slowing its growth is an inability of today's companies to program in a way that supports anything other than IE
For ex. I work for a certain distributor of medical products.
This company has been heavily promoting a new web based service which does not support firefox. For the record this new service supports six digits worth of users.
Also , I noticed that most of the websites that I visit that have very complex web based services also do not support the firefox browser (even with the most recent versions of plug-ins etc...)
Without corporate support firefox ill never gain more than a handfull of users because love it or hate it when it comes to compatibility the only browser who gets attention is IE
how many of us here can honestly say that we bought our copy of xp/2k etc...
now lets take into consideration what percentage of those of us who pirate the OS are probably network technicians/computer technicians.
my guess is that those of us on/. who purchase the os are biologists, programmers and engineers and to be quite honest with you - if the hardware and software techs cant pirate vista they are gonna go linux. i know that im gonna be switching and i know that many of my friends will. To top it all off - none of us are gonna be willing to deal with the strict DRM restrictions.
I understand that often times its not the techs who have to use the technology; it is the engineers and scientists, but if there are more techies out there who are not willing to deal with the hassle that is undoubtedly going to be associated with cracking vista at home and therefore switch to linux - more companies will then turn towards that now slightly more popular platform that all of their "geeks" are suggesting.
Besides, i think most programmers would support those techies. Especially the slashdot ones ^^
Sooooo is it just me or does a 4 gig piece of flash memory cost significantly more than a 4 gig hard disk?
How were they planning on making up for that? Increase in price? Or will they market it differently than the 4 gig minis currently being sold with the hard drive.
OSU just built a new nanotechnology lab. it has always been my dream to get into the field and im gonna be moving to columbus next month.
When one looks over most Electrical Engineering reqs they see that its pretty much 45% comp sci 25% general engineering and 30% electrical engineering specifics. I don't know...just seems like comp sci is for the football players who heard that computers are where the future lies to they decided to be comp sci majors. The geek majors are in biotech and electrical eng.
my girlfriend's family has been using aol for over a year now.
why you ask?
because they get it free!!!
they signed up for the free whatever and ever since then, every time that they call in to cancel their subscription - AOL give them more free months. This has gone on for a year now without her family paying a cent.
It seems to me that there is a mix up as far as the terminology being used goes.
philosophy - any good philosophy course focuses on logic. things must have facts and then must be proved true based upon those facts. there are no facts involved in ID
theory - theories can be proven wrong. that is part of it BEING a theory is that it can be tested and revised or dismissed. please show me how ID can be tested or dismissed. oh...it cant? then its not a theory. evolution can be tested - and its proven itself true through and through.
to all of you out there who think that your psuedo science will prevail, you are wrong.
why should we teach something that clearly has nothing to do with science? this is religious theology and yes there is a difference between theology and science and philosophy.
evolution doesnt even say that the universe was caused with a bang. for all we know your god did make the universe and evolution came about naturally, so it doesn't even REALLY contradict your entire creationist view.
wow, i am the dave.
where the hell did you derive that from.
please, do show me how him saying that "there is a sizeable contingent of extremist christians" = a person believing in creationsim or ID being called an extremist. in my opinion, they arent extremists just morons.
i live about 45 min. away from cedar point in northern ohio (lorain county) and was actually there yesterday.
pretty crazy ride. don't think i'll ever have a chance to get launched up to 120 mph in that short of a time anywhere else. several times ive seen it not quite clear the top and the people come down backwards to relaunch. one of the only rides there to dry out your lips in less than 20 seconds
seeing as how the only high speed alternative in my area is a motorolla canopy service which is over 400 dollars for the equipment and then 59 bucks a month for the mediocre service - 80 bucks a month for the good 1 meg down 512k up I'd gladly pay 25, hell - 30 or 40 bucks a month for community wireless. I live in a small township of a village and we don't even have cable or dsl out here.
even at their estimated 100 people/mile it would still prove to be cheaper than any other high speed alternative the residents of my area (grafton township) have at their disposal
That's funny, my BROTHER IN LAW was KILLED (born in Florida, US citizen all the way) while working for a contracting company in... Kuwait. Last time I checked, that wasn't in Iraq.
So you're a liar (I went to the funeral, he was most certainly dead) and since liars disgust me, you can shut up now.
Really, do you think lying to convince people makes you seem more connected to the process? Like you have some rare insight that others don't?
SORRY BUT YOU'RE A LIAR. STOP LYING.
im sorry for your loss but i have to ask. he was killed in kuwait - by iraqis? are you sure?
Israel does a lot of nasty things, but without US support they'd all be slaughtered in a much more nasty way than anything that's happening to the Palestinians. The only possibly moral thing for the US to do is to protect Israel at the same time while trying to negotiate for a peaceful resolution to the conflict.
once again i am not some anti-seminist nazi - all i am saying is that we need to look at things through these people's eyes before we demonize them. there are better ways to solve this than through war. oh, and there is a difference between keeping the jews alive and allowing palestinians who have been cut off from their homes and or work to rot.
We stood up to a bully and tried to protect the little guy. We made mistakes, but our intentions were laudable. If you forget about the techniques employed by these 'freedom fighters' and look at their goals and motivations you see that we should be trying to stop them even if their tactics were in accord with the Geneva conventions.
once again you are missing my point. the point is that we call them evil and say that they do horrible things without thinking why. the question is why and once we look at the things that we do to provoke such responses - be they right or wrong, extreme or not - we can begin to make peace. this war WILL NOT END through violence. their tactics? how about "smart" bombs that have hit schools and hospitals on accident because we don't truly want to get our hands dirty. like i said - its all about perspective and most of you seem to be sorely lacking it.
Fact is we should have invaded Afghanistan years before 9/11. We should have stopped the Taleban -- even though many innocents would die in such a war -- because they were evil, and the US has an ideological obligation to fight such fights.
no doubt and after 9/11 we had all the more reason to go in but after afghanistan we went into iraq and we have yet to do anything about saudi arabia and we have yet to show that we actually care about the iraqi people. what kind of people do we look like when we put more defense on their oil fields than we do on their museums and national treasures after the invasion
Why do they hate us? Essentially, because we won and they lost. What did we win? The battle of civilizations. The Islamic world was once pre-eminent. Muslim armies had conquered all the way into Spain. Muslim science and learning was supreme. Ever hear of the Ottoman Empire? And then what? Decline. Failure. Defeat. Poverty. Oppression by homegrown tyrants (yes, often backed by Britain, France, and the United States among others). If not for oil and the infrastructure the Western powers built and then handed over to the Arabs, they would be even more pathetic than they are now.
you people are so fucking ignorant. you want to talk about fucking loser societies and tyrants?
where the fuck do you think we got the USA? i mean really. with our green pastures and beautiful beaches etc....
I KNOW, WHY DONT YOU ASK THE FUCKING NATIVE AMERICANS?!?!?!
after that we can go to the carribean and ask them about how christopher columbus went around and chopped off every natives hands who couldnt bring him a certain amount of gold.....off of a fucking volcanic island!!
then lets go to south america and ask them what the dutch did that left them with a screwed up political system to this date.
really, even though they sell to many companies associated with bush?
view them more as a supplier than as a competitor
also, the government now puts on an image of anti-terrorism. before 9/11 they gave more money to their religious organizations than they did to education. i'll give you three guesses where the CIA says most of that money went.
Iraq was beligerent about it, so they got stuffed. Iran is probably second, and I imagine they are very worried that the Iraqi conflict may end in a few years (probably why there are so many Iranians trying to extend that conflict as long as possible).
actually, the saudi gov. gave more money to terrorists than all of the other middle eastern countries combined. 9 of the 9/11 terrorist were also saudi.
so why didn't we attack the saudi's?
because the saudi's also sell more oil to us than any other middle eastern country and Iraq has, absolutely, more oil in its land than any other nation in the world while at the same time they sold less to us than any other oil exporting middle eastern nation. so lets think about this
saudi's = terrorist but also = oil
iraq = less terrorist and no ties to the people who bombed us on 9/11 but also = the most oil reserves with the least amount of US access.
hmmmm....bush....oil......hmmmm
Sigh. The fact that can't morally discriminate between intentional, targeted murder and collatoral damage shows how seriously deluded you are. You have to go back 20 years??? They RECENTLY killed 3000 of our brothers, sisters, uncles, fathers... They RECENTLY cut the heads off innocent civilians. And they did it with cold, calculated malice. They are evil, and must be destroyed. We are all nerds, but it's time to grow up and recognize the realities of the world we live in.
i don't have to go back twenty years. and you know what? you don't want to look at we do to the people in the middle east? then look at what they did to rachel corrie. Read her letters home - then bitch at me about my ignorance. http://www.rachelcorrie.org/
better yet - here is one of them -
"You just can't imagine it unless you see it - and even then you are always well aware that your experience of it is not at all the reality: what with the difficulties the Israeli army would face if they shot an unarmed US citizen, and with the fact that I have money to buy water when the army destroys wells, and the fact, of course, that I have the option of leaving. Nobody in my family has been shot, driving in their car, by a rocket launcher from a tower at the end of a major street in my hometown. I have a home. I am allowed to go see the ocean. When I leave for school or work I can be relatively certain that there will not be a heavily armed soldier waiting halfway between Mud Bay and downtown Olympia at a checkpoint with the power to decide whether I can go about my business, and whether I can get home again when I'm done. As an afterthought to all this rambling, I am in Rafah: a city of about 140,000 people, approximately 60% of whom are refugees - many of whom are twice or three times refugees. Today, as I walked on top of the rubble where homes once stood, Egyptian soldiers called to me from the other side of the border, "Go! Go!" because a tank was coming. And then waving and "What's your name?". Something disturbing about this friendly curiosity. It reminded me of how much, to some degree, we are all kids curious about other kids. Egyptian kids shouting at strange women wandering into the path of tanks. Palestinian kids shot from the tanks when they peak out from behind walls to see what's going on. International kids standing in front of tanks with banners. Israeli kids in the tanks anonymously - occasionally shouting and also occasionally waving - many forced to be here, many just agressive - shooting into the houses as we wander away."
btw - she was an american ran over by an israeli bulldozer in broad daylight when she refused to move away from a FAMILIES house
Ok so then to follow your logic "the jews are the reason." That's the same thing that Hitler was saying and the reason he murdered 6 million of them. You sir are a Nazi! Tell me why women in muslim countries are treated like dogs. Is that also the fault of the Jews? Blame violence on the violent! You jew hating nazi scum.
not saying that we should leave them to rot. What I am saying is that instead of complaining about how they have no morals (the terrorist) - perhaps we should look at what sort of image we are painting for ourselves over there AND THEN pick our course of action.
do you hate women?
wtf? no i don't hate women anymore than i "hate" Jews. I left them out of that statement because they are not caught in the crossfire or wrongly targeted as hostiles nearly as often as males are.
bin Laden was very clear about the motivation for the 9/11 attacks. His primary motivation is to remove American troops from the "Land of the Two Holy Shrines". That is, Saudi Arabia. While he does mention the Israeli occupation of Palestine, that was not his primary motivation, and reducing U.S. support for Israel will not appease him.
that may be but when i spoke of people being killed 20 or 10 or hell 2 3 1 5 4 years ago - i was speaking of iraq and iran as well
maybe our support of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip? we have given the Israeli's millions of dollars AND weapons and aircraft. what have we given the people whos land we took to give to them? several hundred thousand dollars and no protection from a military who has killed thousands of palistinian children.
think about it - if 10 or 20 years ago an american hellicopter came in and blew up your dad or your uncle or your brother or your friend you'd be pissed wouldn't you. Lucky for you, you're American. You will most likely never have to experience someone coming onto your soil and accidentally killing your friends and/or family because they had to shove their nose where it didnt belong. Unfortunately, this new "war on terror" in a nation that never once supported bin laden (in fact, bin laden HATED hussein) and who never once threatened or attacked any US citizen outside of their own country - is creating the next generation of terrorist. Look at the children you see in the news footage now - we are killing their big brothers, fathers and uncles, and because of it - your child may be stuck fighting them in the next war.
I'm not saying that they are right in what they do . All I'm saying is that perhaps we should pick the stick from our own eye before we attempt to pick the splinter from theirs.
so what you are saying is that they will take that new version of netscape and put an aol logo and skin on it?
can anyone really have any doubts whatsoever about that?
is this really/. worthy?
I work for a company that deals in computers, monitors, fax machines, printers, speakers, etc... from role outs.
the majority of our bus. is done over the internet and we sell a lot of things on ebay.
i handle shipping and all of the used computers that come in.
On an everage day i handle between 20 and 40 orders. today? 0
as was the case yesterday.
there is always more work to be done (we just got in about 200 PIII 933 hp vectras that i have to go through) but it has definatley slowed things down
GB has had public surveilence systems up for some time now. My ex went to Europe about two years ago and saw the cameras all over and I did a report the year before that on the dangers of Big Brother monitoring.
I remember arguing with her when she returned from her trip.
She told me that there was a story in the paper while she was there about a woman who was raped in her car on the highway and how they used footage captured through one of these cameras to identify and apprehend her asailant (sp?).
Hearing this made me ask the ultimate question - is this woman's sense of closure and peace of mind worth that little bit of privacy lost?
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que the linux/amd fanboy bashings of WINTEL!!! ;-)
Just me or were the PII 350 and the PIII 850 different slots/sockets?
I could still just download it via bittorrent for free.....
"there would be as many definitions of it as there are consumers"
And how many customers would actually have the desire to hack theirs? It took me 3 hours to teach my dad to use a DVR. For some reason I don't see him or the majority of people out there taking advantage of this.
One thing slowing its growth is an inability of today's companies to program in a way that supports anything other than IE
For ex. I work for a certain distributor of medical products.
This company has been heavily promoting a new web based service which does not support firefox. For the record this new service supports six digits worth of users.
Also , I noticed that most of the websites that I visit that have very complex web based services also do not support the firefox browser (even with the most recent versions of plug-ins etc...)
Without corporate support firefox ill never gain more than a handfull of users because love it or hate it when it comes to compatibility the only browser who gets attention is IE
how many of us here can honestly say that we bought our copy of xp/2k etc...
/. who purchase the os are biologists, programmers and engineers and to be quite honest with you - if the hardware and software techs cant pirate vista they are gonna go linux. i know that im gonna be switching and i know that many of my friends will. To top it all off - none of us are gonna be willing to deal with the strict DRM restrictions.
now lets take into consideration what percentage of those of us who pirate the OS are probably network technicians/computer technicians.
my guess is that those of us on
I understand that often times its not the techs who have to use the technology; it is the engineers and scientists, but if there are more techies out there who are not willing to deal with the hassle that is undoubtedly going to be associated with cracking vista at home and therefore switch to linux - more companies will then turn towards that now slightly more popular platform that all of their "geeks" are suggesting.
Besides, i think most programmers would support those techies. Especially the slashdot ones ^^
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=160087&cid=134 01052
i guess im not the only one...
Sooooo is it just me or does a 4 gig piece of flash memory cost significantly more than a 4 gig hard disk? How were they planning on making up for that? Increase in price? Or will they market it differently than the 4 gig minis currently being sold with the hard drive.
OSU just built a new nanotechnology lab. it has always been my dream to get into the field and im gonna be moving to columbus next month. When one looks over most Electrical Engineering reqs they see that its pretty much 45% comp sci 25% general engineering and 30% electrical engineering specifics. I don't know...just seems like comp sci is for the football players who heard that computers are where the future lies to they decided to be comp sci majors. The geek majors are in biotech and electrical eng.
my girlfriend's family has been using aol for over a year now.
why you ask?
because they get it free!!!
they signed up for the free whatever and ever since then, every time that they call in to cancel their subscription - AOL give them more free months. This has gone on for a year now without her family paying a cent.
you make absolutely no sense.
this has nothing to do with agreeing. it has to do with making a defendable argument.
thats ok though. like most christians you just throw your hands up and say "they'll just never get it" when cornered.
It seems to me that there is a mix up as far as the terminology being used goes. philosophy - any good philosophy course focuses on logic. things must have facts and then must be proved true based upon those facts. there are no facts involved in ID theory - theories can be proven wrong. that is part of it BEING a theory is that it can be tested and revised or dismissed. please show me how ID can be tested or dismissed. oh...it cant? then its not a theory. evolution can be tested - and its proven itself true through and through. to all of you out there who think that your psuedo science will prevail, you are wrong.
why should we teach something that clearly has nothing to do with science? this is religious theology and yes there is a difference between theology and science and philosophy.
evolution doesnt even say that the universe was caused with a bang. for all we know your god did make the universe and evolution came about naturally, so it doesn't even REALLY contradict your entire creationist view.
wow, i am the dave.
where the hell did you derive that from.
please, do show me how him saying that "there is a sizeable contingent of extremist christians" = a person believing in creationsim or ID being called an extremist. in my opinion, they arent extremists just morons.
kenya actually has an anti-poaching army. they do kill on site. a friend of mine wants to go join them.
i live about 45 min. away from cedar point in northern ohio (lorain county) and was actually there yesterday.
pretty crazy ride. don't think i'll ever have a chance to get launched up to 120 mph in that short of a time anywhere else. several times ive seen it not quite clear the top and the people come down backwards to relaunch. one of the only rides there to dry out your lips in less than 20 seconds
the millenium force is pretty sweet to
seeing as how the only high speed alternative in my area is a motorolla canopy service which is over 400 dollars for the equipment and then 59 bucks a month for the mediocre service - 80 bucks a month for the good 1 meg down 512k up I'd gladly pay 25, hell - 30 or 40 bucks a month for community wireless.
I live in a small township of a village and we don't even have cable or dsl out here.
even at their estimated 100 people/mile it would still prove to be cheaper than any other high speed alternative the residents of my area (grafton township) have at their disposal
That's funny, my BROTHER IN LAW was KILLED (born in Florida, US citizen all the way) while working for a contracting company in... Kuwait. Last time I checked, that wasn't in Iraq.
So you're a liar (I went to the funeral, he was most certainly dead) and since liars disgust me, you can shut up now.
Really, do you think lying to convince people makes you seem more connected to the process? Like you have some rare insight that others don't?
SORRY BUT YOU'RE A LIAR. STOP LYING.
im sorry for your loss but i have to ask. he was killed in kuwait - by iraqis? are you sure?
Israel does a lot of nasty things, but without US support they'd all be slaughtered in a much more nasty way than anything that's happening to the Palestinians. The only possibly moral thing for the US to do is to protect Israel at the same time while trying to negotiate for a peaceful resolution to the conflict.
once again i am not some anti-seminist nazi - all i am saying is that we need to look at things through these people's eyes before we demonize them. there are better ways to solve this than through war. oh, and there is a difference between keeping the jews alive and allowing palestinians who have been cut off from their homes and or work to rot.
We stood up to a bully and tried to protect the little guy. We made mistakes, but our intentions were laudable. If you forget about the techniques employed by these 'freedom fighters' and look at their goals and motivations you see that we should be trying to stop them even if their tactics were in accord with the Geneva conventions.
once again you are missing my point. the point is that we call them evil and say that they do horrible things without thinking why. the question is why and once we look at the things that we do to provoke such responses - be they right or wrong, extreme or not - we can begin to make peace. this war WILL NOT END through violence. their tactics? how about "smart" bombs that have hit schools and hospitals on accident because we don't truly want to get our hands dirty. like i said - its all about perspective and most of you seem to be sorely lacking it.
Fact is we should have invaded Afghanistan years before 9/11. We should have stopped the Taleban -- even though many innocents would die in such a war -- because they were evil, and the US has an ideological obligation to fight such fights.
no doubt and after 9/11 we had all the more reason to go in but after afghanistan we went into iraq and we have yet to do anything about saudi arabia and we have yet to show that we actually care about the iraqi people. what kind of people do we look like when we put more defense on their oil fields than we do on their museums and national treasures after the invasion
Why do they hate us? Essentially, because we won and they lost. What did we win? The battle of civilizations. The Islamic world was once pre-eminent. Muslim armies had conquered all the way into Spain. Muslim science and learning was supreme. Ever hear of the Ottoman Empire? And then what? Decline. Failure. Defeat. Poverty. Oppression by homegrown tyrants (yes, often backed by Britain, France, and the United States among others). If not for oil and the infrastructure the Western powers built and then handed over to the Arabs, they would be even more pathetic than they are now.
you people are so fucking ignorant. you want to talk about fucking loser societies and tyrants?
where the fuck do you think we got the USA? i mean really. with our green pastures and beautiful beaches etc.... I KNOW, WHY DONT YOU ASK THE FUCKING NATIVE AMERICANS?!?!?!
after that we can go to the carribean and ask them about how christopher columbus went around and chopped off every natives hands who couldnt bring him a certain amount of gold.....off of a fucking volcanic island!!
then lets go to south america and ask them what the dutch did that left them with a screwed up political system to this date.
really, even though they sell to many companies associated with bush? view them more as a supplier than as a competitor also, the government now puts on an image of anti-terrorism. before 9/11 they gave more money to their religious organizations than they did to education. i'll give you three guesses where the CIA says most of that money went.
Iraq was beligerent about it, so they got stuffed. Iran is probably second, and I imagine they are very worried that the Iraqi conflict may end in a few years (probably why there are so many Iranians trying to extend that conflict as long as possible). actually, the saudi gov. gave more money to terrorists than all of the other middle eastern countries combined. 9 of the 9/11 terrorist were also saudi. so why didn't we attack the saudi's? because the saudi's also sell more oil to us than any other middle eastern country and Iraq has, absolutely, more oil in its land than any other nation in the world while at the same time they sold less to us than any other oil exporting middle eastern nation. so lets think about this saudi's = terrorist but also = oil iraq = less terrorist and no ties to the people who bombed us on 9/11 but also = the most oil reserves with the least amount of US access. hmmmm....bush....oil......hmmmm
Sigh. The fact that can't morally discriminate between intentional, targeted murder and collatoral damage shows how seriously deluded you are. You have to go back 20 years??? They RECENTLY killed 3000 of our brothers, sisters, uncles, fathers... They RECENTLY cut the heads off innocent civilians. And they did it with cold, calculated malice. They are evil, and must be destroyed. We are all nerds, but it's time to grow up and recognize the realities of the world we live in.
i don't have to go back twenty years. and you know what? you don't want to look at we do to the people in the middle east? then look at what they did to rachel corrie. Read her letters home - then bitch at me about my ignorance. http://www.rachelcorrie.org/ better yet - here is one of them - "You just can't imagine it unless you see it - and even then you are always well aware that your experience of it is not at all the reality: what with the difficulties the Israeli army would face if they shot an unarmed US citizen, and with the fact that I have money to buy water when the army destroys wells, and the fact, of course, that I have the option of leaving. Nobody in my family has been shot, driving in their car, by a rocket launcher from a tower at the end of a major street in my hometown. I have a home. I am allowed to go see the ocean. When I leave for school or work I can be relatively certain that there will not be a heavily armed soldier waiting halfway between Mud Bay and downtown Olympia at a checkpoint with the power to decide whether I can go about my business, and whether I can get home again when I'm done. As an afterthought to all this rambling, I am in Rafah: a city of about 140,000 people, approximately 60% of whom are refugees - many of whom are twice or three times refugees. Today, as I walked on top of the rubble where homes once stood, Egyptian soldiers called to me from the other side of the border, "Go! Go!" because a tank was coming. And then waving and "What's your name?". Something disturbing about this friendly curiosity. It reminded me of how much, to some degree, we are all kids curious about other kids. Egyptian kids shouting at strange women wandering into the path of tanks. Palestinian kids shot from the tanks when they peak out from behind walls to see what's going on. International kids standing in front of tanks with banners. Israeli kids in the tanks anonymously - occasionally shouting and also occasionally waving - many forced to be here, many just agressive - shooting into the houses as we wander away." btw - she was an american ran over by an israeli bulldozer in broad daylight when she refused to move away from a FAMILIES house
Ok so then to follow your logic "the jews are the reason." That's the same thing that Hitler was saying and the reason he murdered 6 million of them. You sir are a Nazi! Tell me why women in muslim countries are treated like dogs. Is that also the fault of the Jews? Blame violence on the violent! You jew hating nazi scum.
not saying that we should leave them to rot. What I am saying is that instead of complaining about how they have no morals (the terrorist) - perhaps we should look at what sort of image we are painting for ourselves over there AND THEN pick our course of action.
do you hate women?
wtf? no i don't hate women anymore than i "hate" Jews. I left them out of that statement because they are not caught in the crossfire or wrongly targeted as hostiles nearly as often as males are.
bin Laden was very clear about the motivation for the 9/11 attacks. His primary motivation is to remove American troops from the "Land of the Two Holy Shrines". That is, Saudi Arabia. While he does mention the Israeli occupation of Palestine, that was not his primary motivation, and reducing U.S. support for Israel will not appease him.
that may be but when i spoke of people being killed 20 or 10 or hell 2 3 1 5 4 years ago - i was speaking of iraq and iran as well
"Oh please, then what triggered 9/11?"
maybe our support of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip? we have given the Israeli's millions of dollars AND weapons and aircraft. what have we given the people whos land we took to give to them? several hundred thousand dollars and no protection from a military who has killed thousands of palistinian children.
think about it - if 10 or 20 years ago an american hellicopter came in and blew up your dad or your uncle or your brother or your friend you'd be pissed wouldn't you. Lucky for you, you're American. You will most likely never have to experience someone coming onto your soil and accidentally killing your friends and/or family because they had to shove their nose where it didnt belong. Unfortunately, this new "war on terror" in a nation that never once supported bin laden (in fact, bin laden HATED hussein) and who never once threatened or attacked any US citizen outside of their own country - is creating the next generation of terrorist. Look at the children you see in the news footage now - we are killing their big brothers, fathers and uncles, and because of it - your child may be stuck fighting them in the next war.
I'm not saying that they are right in what they do . All I'm saying is that perhaps we should pick the stick from our own eye before we attempt to pick the splinter from theirs.
so what you are saying is that they will take that new version of netscape and put an aol logo and skin on it? can anyone really have any doubts whatsoever about that? is this really /. worthy?
I work for a company that deals in computers, monitors, fax machines, printers, speakers, etc... from role outs. the majority of our bus. is done over the internet and we sell a lot of things on ebay. i handle shipping and all of the used computers that come in. On an everage day i handle between 20 and 40 orders. today? 0 as was the case yesterday. there is always more work to be done (we just got in about 200 PIII 933 hp vectras that i have to go through) but it has definatley slowed things down
GB has had public surveilence systems up for some time now. My ex went to Europe about two years ago and saw the cameras all over and I did a report the year before that on the dangers of Big Brother monitoring. I remember arguing with her when she returned from her trip. She told me that there was a story in the paper while she was there about a woman who was raped in her car on the highway and how they used footage captured through one of these cameras to identify and apprehend her asailant (sp?). Hearing this made me ask the ultimate question - is this woman's sense of closure and peace of mind worth that little bit of privacy lost?
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