"50 years ago, torture really was torture. I see it as a good sign that nowadays the world is upset about humiliating photos."
With attitudes like that, you've already lost, and why? Because a) the Iraqis really were tortured, and b)humiliation, in an Islamic country where naked people are a taboo, is a guaranteed way to make the insurgency grow.
And you know what, sunshine? It did grow. It wasn't even supposed to be a war, except that people like you , living in your dream world where Americans are somehow, better people than Iraqis, thought that the Iraqis would be ecstatic to get bombed and shot up for the second time in 12 years, and where they would live in some fucking crazy American capitalist dream where they would all love football and basketball, drive american cars, read playboy, sing the Star Spangeled fucking banner and do all the dirty fighting for the Americans when it came to invading Iran.
From further down: "It just so happens I am planning an HD Image product, service or technology and the spec is totally hostile to everyone BUT microsoft. (no surprise there)
1. 1. You may review these Materials only (a) as a reference to assist You in planning and designing Your product, service or technology ("Product") to interface with a Microsoft product, specification, service or technology
Mac/Linux/BSD? Nope. So, that appears to rule out web-based stuff. Fortunately, I'm only working on Windows, so I'll read on....You may not (i) duplicate any part of these Materials Okay I won't. But how does my engineering group work with the spec if I can't duplicate it?
any Feedback you voluntarily provide may be used in Microsoft Products Okay, I won't provide any feedback. It was once believed that developers were Microsoft's focus. Apparently not anymore.
Without going into specifics because the EULA prevents it, there are proprietary elements hidden inside this spec.
It's clear they are *very* late to the pro-photo fight that is on now between Apple and Adobe. Each of those companies has a proprietary "pro photo" format.
Sadly most pro photographers won't think about the consequences of adopting proprietary formats until it is too late. For example, some legacy proprietary raw images as provided by the camera manufacturers are not backward compatible. I've read it in the mailing lists already."
Good luck. A tip: Do a light sport afterwards, like swimming, or cycling. You won't have a capsule to protect your hip afterwards, so you need to do it with muscle power.
this is one more example of Redmond trying to lock people in with some brainless, but crucial standard. You think it's harmless? You thought Miguel de Icaza, the poor misguided fool was right and Microsoft wouldn't threaten to use its patents against anyone and that implementing Mono was a really swell, cool, groovy idea? You believed Microsoft when they said that OOXML was going to be real open, any day now, while they bribe, extort and do basically anything they can get away with, illegal or not, to force people to use their farcical "standards". You think that if Microsoft didn't have such pile of shit in the mobile OS market that they wouldn't use the same tactics as they do elsewhere to raise prices and fuck people over?
That is what Microsoft does. Peripherally they make software. Their core expertise, however, is trying to ruin competitors and enforce a monumental money making machine. If Linux wasn't around, Microsoft would have been able to buy out even more corrupt politicians, and much sooner, than it has.
Microsoft wants to make and own your toothpaste, and they want you to pay them a "small" subscription fee of $600 a year for the privilige of brushing your teeth. After all, it's Microsoft and they would never lie to their customers or try to rip them off, would they? The insance prices for Vista were all a mistake. Honest.
And now you want to entrust them that they could actually make an open image standard?
Microsoft? They will use it to try and club competitors into submission by overcharging them for licenses or simply refusing to sell it to competitors. At the least they will threaten implementers with the patents. You think Apple will be able to use this freely? Or Adobe? You think the codec will interoperate?
So many posters here with various theories on why they didn't get to have a good fuck when they were teens (or now). Jeezus, isn't it obvious? They spent more time with girls and less doing math. That way, sooner or later even you, noble slashdotter, will get fucked, so to speak, as opposed to being fucked up. Sitting in front of a computer is not conducive to a healthy sex life.
Last year in November, the company I work for decided to switch the entire company over to OSX, for clients and for servers. We still use Linux for our webhosting and mail, but these will be switched or outsourced later this year.
This decision came one and a half years after we almost switched all the clients over to Windows, back in 2005, when we wanted to consolidate costs. We do need Windows for limited Office testing and we need Windows for our high end CAD software. However, ever since it became easy to dual boot Windows in Bootcamp on OSX, it is much easier for us to do just that for our Windows needs. OSX is far more flexible for design and media companies, we feel. Almost all new employees know and prefer OSX.
We briefly looked at Vista late last year, and discovered that it doesn't offer anything we don't already have. We will only install some limited Vista machines for compatibility with external clients when it becomes absolutely necessary. And that is probably why the majority of companies are not installing Vista. It looks nice and is somewhat better, but brings with it a whole host of resource requirements and software compatibility unknowns that most companies simply don't need. I'm sure most Windows shops will eventually switch, but ony when they really truly must.
It has been many, many years now that OS X has supported multi-button mice, and a couple of years simce Apple produces multi-touch mice itself, which work just like the fucking iphone. I'm using one right now. Normally, I wouldn't give a fuck, but man, this is getting fucking old, and all the fucking iMacs have had CD-burners etc since the second edition, like 7 yeras ago.
In your post, you almost never use the second or third person, it's almost always "I". There is nothing in your post - which makes some interesting points, but loses it because you fail to include others in your observations - which indicates that your point of view is in any way representative, and I somehow don't see anyone making devices just to suit you personally. Not yet, anyway. Try to see what others are thinking. You might learn something.
For Microsoft to be talking about the next Windows release so soon after its first main release in 6 years, Vista, and potentially putting customers off buying into Vista now, speaks legions about just how bad Vista adoption is going (notwithstanding fanboi propaganda FUD like the/. article comparing Vista to OSX marketshare). It says to me that Microsoft must really be panicking, badly.
If there is any one thing that will end Windows dominance amongst the teeming masses of people who don't live in developed countries and who, if they can afford it, usually run pirated versions of Microsoft software, then the OLPC is it. The machine looks like a wonderfully designed machine with some extremely practical features that make it useful in harsh environments where there is little power or infrastructure. It stands to very quickly make Windows a non consideration because the millions of pupils who use the OLPC will ask for siilar environments, and above all, the legal freedom to view and modify the source of the software they are using.
People seem to think that all third world people are criminals who couldn't care whether the software they use is pirated or not. This is, in my experience, not the case. Most of them simply don't know. If, when the OLPC is used in classrooms, children are made aware of the fact that the software they are using is freely modifiable, then the chance of them looking for the same legal freedoms is much larger. The danger to Microsoft is that in the future, any attempt by Microsoft to buy favours in developing countries will be met by demands that their software provide source and be freely modifiable, something that Microsoft will not agree to.
Given that any one of these countries where the OLPC is to be implemented could become a large developed country in the future, Microsoft should start worrying, and probably already has. The OLPC would even be an enormously practical machine for technicians and others in developed countries, where power saving is a premium due to enhanced energy costs.
I am shocked, I tell you. I am going to sell my two Macs right away, my Adobe suite is going up on ebay, and I will write a written apology to BillG for ever having doubted him.
But seriously, WTF? Vista is sold with new PCs, so it's sort of obvious that its market share will grow, as the Windows market is far bigger than the Mac market. Having said that, BillG must be really, totally unhappy that Vista is now, some 6 months after release, still below 10% of the total marketshare, because that means it's also below 10% of the Windows marketshare, which is far more interesting news. At the current rate, it means that about one year after release, Vista will only have about 12% marketshare, or thereabouts.
And that doesn't surprise me at all. Microsoft's extortionate pricing on upgrade prices means it's cheaper to buy a new PC than upgrade your old one, and while some people will do just that, most normal people will just wait.
P.S. Scuttlemonkey, you brainless cunt, this post is as much flamebait as some Mac fanboy article praising Steve Jobs' hemaroids for their good design.
In order to head off claims that this environment would be useless if network connections were down, I should point out, that in modern business and private settings, having no network is almost as bad. In other words, being dependent on the network is probably not a liability.
The obvious reason why Microsoft would go to extreme lengths to get advertisers to spend their advertising megabucks with lovely, sweet, sexy Steve Ballmer and his troop of marketing thugs is that Microsoft, in all and every single market, shits itself if it isn't dominating, be that market IT-Executive toilet paper, or reinventing spyware, MS has to be there, and Googles huge market dominance must frighten little BillyG and StevieB so that they need their own toys to play with.
Typically, MS has to go and fuck it up totally, as only MS really can. If anything can lose Microsoft marketshare quickly, in an IT world almost totally dominated by them, it is MS made spyware. Users and companies would desert the company in droves, literally. You would see a huge upswing in Ubuntu use (and Macs would do well too).
Fortunately, MS is having real trouble getting people to like Vista, so it'll be a while before this gets implemented, and when it does, after a huge outcry, it will be removed, only to appear in some later stealth form, along with a draconian EULA to enforce its use.
I have read numerous astroturfers here on slashdot praise Office 2007 for its wonderful, brilliant, earth shattering, world peace bringing, new UI (did we tell you the UI is new, all yours for only some ungodly upgrade fee?). Somedays I really wonder about MS marketing if you clowns are the best they can do (hint: try coming up with wild praise that isn't word for word the same as MS marketing buzz).
Today, I had to test a Word template in Office 2003 and Office 2007. I had never used Office 2007 before. I started up Word 2007 and was promptly fucked: where the fuck is the File menu item? No alt key helped me, no icon, just a bunch of useless shit that some insane prick at MS decided was a good idea to shove in a UI. Ctl-O saved the day. I promptly quit Word 2007 and left. I will give MS brownie points for being "innovative" about the new UI. The brainless bastards have been yacking on about "innovation" for so goddamn long that it had to happen sometime.
But seriously, who, dear God, could claim that the user training required for moving from Office 2003 to Office 2007 would be less than moving from Office 2003 to OOo 2.0, which has a very similar UI to Office 2003?
Office 2007 along with Sharepoint might be a nice way to share documents in a company and publish them to the web at the same time, but OOo can do that a lot cheaper with any CMS capable of parsing xml
Really, mate, you should read what you just wrote. That is such a load of crap. I used Office 2007 for the first time today, along with another system admin. We got stuck on the fucking simple operation of how to open a document....
Apart from the claim by infosec sellout sounding less than adult - he says the payload was "weaponised" - and his claim that Apple will somehow not fix the "root cause" of the vulnerability if he gives it to them now - extortion anyone? mDNSResponder is Open Source - I seriously question how some independent reearcher can have, as he claims, a test base of 1500 systems. A big company with $1million to throw around might have that, or a university, but I seriously doubt he has the place or resources to afford a test base of this size unless he is using a local university or school, and judging by his spelling and grammar, he is either not English native or he is a teenager, or both. That says nothing about the veracity (truth) of his claim but it is somewhat juvenile, the whole thing.
Y'poor bastard, Apache has a larger share of the web server market than IIS, and is just as often targeted, but is more secure. Your question, however, is about targeting, and you're spot on. Mac users are singularly useless when it comes to security. You got modded flamebait by an overzealous dickwad Mac user (and I use Macs m'self)
Populations are not innocent until they prove themselves to be innocent. Allowing your government to be hostile on your behalf does not make you innocent.
That's the exact same justification the 9-11 attackers used.
The feuds do go back to the beginning of Islam, but the real problem is that Iraq is a British creation of 3 Ottoman provinces, one Shiite, one Sunni and one Kurd, an almost perfect guarantee for eternal slaughter and hatred. As much of a genocidal butcher that Saddam was, his heavy oppression kept the country from falling apart, and certainly less people died then than die now.
The Taliban in Afghanistan had the perfect solution: ban all music. Period.
Judging by how the various Record companies, interest groups and other shitlickers are acting, I would suspect they are in fact Islamic extremists and therefore terrorists and should therefore all be declared illegal combatants and spend some time in Guantanamo.*
* This is obviously crap, but, it would make a hell of an effective threat to shove down the throats of the record companies.
I can understand the Brazillians rooting for their country and SMSing in the statue of Christ. It IS pretty cool. That said, what really blew my mind is that while 3 (!) things from South America made it, the Easter Island statues didn't and Stonehenge didn't either? And if you're going to push a Mexican Mayan pyramid, what about the huge carved Olmec stone heads. That they did that with rock tools amazes me every time I see it. And to ignore thousands of years of human history by ignoring the megalithic era, such as Stonehenge, Carnac or the huge cairns in Ireland simply stuns me. Those people did those things without any metal tools! And there is, apart from the Pyramids, nothing from Africa. Why? And if you can include something like the Statue in Rio, whx can't you include the Sydney opera house which is easily as iconic?
Too many whys. I think we should start our own list.
I personally think you're dreaming. Firstly, it would be nice if you were less frightened of posting with a nic. Posting as an AC doesn't give you any credibility. Secondly, you can throw war-penis arguments around all day, my friend, but the fact is that if your country is incapable of winning two bush wars, I seriously doubt it is capable of winning any other today. Jabbering on about how many nuclear war penises your country has makes you look dumb. One, just one nuclear bomb is a price almost all politicians would not be willing to pay. Do you think your politicians would willingly sacrifice LA for Taiwan? You must be living in another world than the one I'm living in. Thirdly, your somewhat moronic comment of the USA being able to gather 100 million people to fight in a war made me burst out laughing. How old are you? You seriously think 100 million of your mostly overweight, SUV driving, lazy, totally disinterested in foreign affairs, WORKING people, would get up and go and fight in a war? Who pray, would make your economy turn? Who would actually do things in your country. Your country cannot even provide the necessary soldiers to hold Iraq, so how the hell do you think you'll come up with 100 million?????
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"50 years ago, torture really was torture. I see it as a good sign that nowadays the world is upset about humiliating photos."
With attitudes like that, you've already lost, and why? Because a) the Iraqis really were tortured, and b)humiliation, in an Islamic country where naked people are a taboo, is a guaranteed way to make the insurgency grow.
And you know what, sunshine?
It did grow. It wasn't even supposed to be a war, except that people like you , living in your dream world where Americans are somehow, better people than Iraqis, thought that the Iraqis would be ecstatic to get bombed and shot up for the second time in 12 years, and where they would live in some fucking crazy American capitalist dream where they would all love football and basketball, drive american cars, read playboy, sing the Star Spangeled fucking banner and do all the dirty fighting for the Americans when it came to invading Iran.
From further down:
...You may not (i) duplicate any part of these Materials
"It just so happens I am planning an HD Image product, service or technology and the spec is totally hostile to everyone BUT microsoft. (no surprise there)
1. 1. You may review these Materials only (a) as a reference to assist You in planning and designing Your product, service or technology ("Product") to interface with a Microsoft product, specification, service or technology
Mac/Linux/BSD? Nope. So, that appears to rule out web-based stuff. Fortunately, I'm only working on Windows, so I'll read on.
Okay I won't. But how does my engineering group work with the spec if I can't duplicate it?
any Feedback you voluntarily provide may be used in Microsoft Products
Okay, I won't provide any feedback. It was once believed that developers were Microsoft's focus. Apparently not anymore.
Without going into specifics because the EULA prevents it, there are proprietary elements hidden inside this spec.
It's clear they are *very* late to the pro-photo fight that is on now between Apple and Adobe. Each of those companies has a proprietary "pro photo" format.
Sadly most pro photographers won't think about the consequences of adopting proprietary formats until it is too late. For example, some legacy proprietary raw images as provided by the camera manufacturers are not backward compatible. I've read it in the mailing lists already."
So, uhm yeah, I was right.
Good luck. A tip: Do a light sport afterwards, like swimming, or cycling. You won't have a capsule to protect your hip afterwards, so you need to do it with muscle power.
this is one more example of Redmond trying to lock people in with some brainless, but crucial standard. You think it's harmless? You thought Miguel de Icaza, the poor misguided fool was right and Microsoft wouldn't threaten to use its patents against anyone and that implementing Mono was a really swell, cool, groovy idea? You believed Microsoft when they said that OOXML was going to be real open, any day now, while they bribe, extort and do basically anything they can get away with, illegal or not, to force people to use their farcical "standards". You think that if Microsoft didn't have such pile of shit in the mobile OS market that they wouldn't use the same tactics as they do elsewhere to raise prices and fuck people over?
That is what Microsoft does. Peripherally they make software. Their core expertise, however, is trying to ruin competitors and enforce a monumental money making machine. If Linux wasn't around, Microsoft would have been able to buy out even more corrupt politicians, and much sooner, than it has.
Microsoft wants to make and own your toothpaste, and they want you to pay them a "small" subscription fee of $600 a year for the privilige of brushing your teeth. After all, it's Microsoft and they would never lie to their customers or try to rip them off, would they? The insance prices for Vista were all a mistake. Honest.
And now you want to entrust them that they could actually make an open image standard?
Microsoft? They will use it to try and club competitors into submission by overcharging them for licenses or simply refusing to sell it to competitors. At the least they will threaten implementers with the patents. You think Apple will be able to use this freely? Or Adobe? You think the codec will interoperate?
Have you people not learned ANYTHING, yet?
If somehow, it would be possible to give me regrown bone hips instead of these metal ones, I would be a very happy man.
So many posters here with various theories on why they didn't get to have a good fuck when they were teens (or now). Jeezus, isn't it obvious? They spent more time with girls and less doing math. That way, sooner or later even you, noble slashdotter, will get fucked, so to speak, as opposed to being fucked up. Sitting in front of a computer is not conducive to a healthy sex life.
Last year in November, the company I work for decided to switch the entire company over to OSX, for clients and for servers. We still use Linux for our webhosting and mail, but these will be switched or outsourced later this year.
This decision came one and a half years after we almost switched all the clients over to Windows, back in 2005, when we wanted to consolidate costs. We do need Windows for limited Office testing and we need Windows for our high end CAD software. However, ever since it became easy to dual boot Windows in Bootcamp on OSX, it is much easier for us to do just that for our Windows needs. OSX is far more flexible for design and media companies, we feel. Almost all new employees know and prefer OSX.
We briefly looked at Vista late last year, and discovered that it doesn't offer anything we don't already have. We will only install some limited Vista machines for compatibility with external clients when it becomes absolutely necessary. And that is probably why the majority of companies are not installing Vista. It looks nice and is somewhat better, but brings with it a whole host of resource requirements and software compatibility unknowns that most companies simply don't need. I'm sure most Windows shops will eventually switch, but ony when they really truly must.
It has been many, many years now that OS X has supported multi-button mice, and a couple of years simce Apple produces multi-touch mice itself, which work just like the fucking iphone. I'm using one right now. Normally, I wouldn't give a fuck, but man, this is getting fucking old, and all the fucking iMacs have had CD-burners etc since the second edition, like 7 yeras ago.
In your post, you almost never use the second or third person, it's almost always "I". There is nothing in your post - which makes some interesting points, but loses it because you fail to include others in your observations - which indicates that your point of view is in any way representative, and I somehow don't see anyone making devices just to suit you personally. Not yet, anyway. Try to see what others are thinking. You might learn something.
For Microsoft to be talking about the next Windows release so soon after its first main release in 6 years, Vista, and potentially putting customers off buying into Vista now, speaks legions about just how bad Vista adoption is going (notwithstanding fanboi propaganda FUD like the /. article comparing Vista to OSX marketshare). It says to me that Microsoft must really be panicking, badly.
If there is any one thing that will end Windows dominance amongst the teeming masses of people who don't live in developed countries and who, if they can afford it, usually run pirated versions of Microsoft software, then the OLPC is it. The machine looks like a wonderfully designed machine with some extremely practical features that make it useful in harsh environments where there is little power or infrastructure. It stands to very quickly make Windows a non consideration because the millions of pupils who use the OLPC will ask for siilar environments, and above all, the legal freedom to view and modify the source of the software they are using.
People seem to think that all third world people are criminals who couldn't care whether the software they use is pirated or not. This is, in my experience, not the case. Most of them simply don't know. If, when the OLPC is used in classrooms, children are made aware of the fact that the software they are using is freely modifiable, then the chance of them looking for the same legal freedoms is much larger. The danger to Microsoft is that in the future, any attempt by Microsoft to buy favours in developing countries will be met by demands that their software provide source and be freely modifiable, something that Microsoft will not agree to.
Given that any one of these countries where the OLPC is to be implemented could become a large developed country in the future, Microsoft should start worrying, and probably already has. The OLPC would even be an enormously practical machine for technicians and others in developed countries, where power saving is a premium due to enhanced energy costs.
I am shocked, I tell you. I am going to sell my two Macs right away, my Adobe suite is going up on ebay, and I will write a written apology to BillG for ever having doubted him.
But seriously, WTF? Vista is sold with new PCs, so it's sort of obvious that its market share will grow, as the Windows market is far bigger than the Mac market. Having said that, BillG must be really, totally unhappy that Vista is now, some 6 months after release, still below 10% of the total marketshare, because that means it's also below 10% of the Windows marketshare, which is far more interesting news. At the current rate, it means that about one year after release, Vista will only have about 12% marketshare, or thereabouts.
And that doesn't surprise me at all. Microsoft's extortionate pricing on upgrade prices means it's cheaper to buy a new PC than upgrade your old one, and while some people will do just that, most normal people will just wait.
P.S. Scuttlemonkey, you brainless cunt, this post is as much flamebait as some Mac fanboy article praising Steve Jobs' hemaroids for their good design.
In order to head off claims that this environment would be useless if network connections were down, I should point out, that in modern business and private settings, having no network is almost as bad. In other words, being dependent on the network is probably not a liability.
The obvious reason why Microsoft would go to extreme lengths to get advertisers to spend their advertising megabucks with lovely, sweet, sexy Steve Ballmer and his troop of marketing thugs is that Microsoft, in all and every single market, shits itself if it isn't dominating, be that market IT-Executive toilet paper, or reinventing spyware, MS has to be there, and Googles huge market dominance must frighten little BillyG and StevieB so that they need their own toys to play with.
Typically, MS has to go and fuck it up totally, as only MS really can. If anything can lose Microsoft marketshare quickly, in an IT world almost totally dominated by them, it is MS made spyware. Users and companies would desert the company in droves, literally. You would see a huge upswing in Ubuntu use (and Macs would do well too).
Fortunately, MS is having real trouble getting people to like Vista, so it'll be a while before this gets implemented, and when it does, after a huge outcry, it will be removed, only to appear in some later stealth form, along with a draconian EULA to enforce its use.
Canonical must be laughing at this.
I have read numerous astroturfers here on slashdot praise Office 2007 for its wonderful, brilliant, earth shattering, world peace bringing, new UI (did we tell you the UI is new, all yours for only some ungodly upgrade fee?). Somedays I really wonder about MS marketing if you clowns are the best they can do (hint: try coming up with wild praise that isn't word for word the same as MS marketing buzz).
Today, I had to test a Word template in Office 2003 and Office 2007. I had never used Office 2007 before. I started up Word 2007 and was promptly fucked: where the fuck is the File menu item? No alt key helped me, no icon, just a bunch of useless shit that some insane prick at MS decided was a good idea to shove in a UI. Ctl-O saved the day. I promptly quit Word 2007 and left. I will give MS brownie points for being "innovative" about the new UI. The brainless bastards have been yacking on about "innovation" for so goddamn long that it had to happen sometime.
But seriously, who, dear God, could claim that the user training required for moving from Office 2003 to Office 2007 would be less than moving from Office 2003 to OOo 2.0, which has a very similar UI to Office 2003?
Office 2007 along with Sharepoint might be a nice way to share documents in a company and publish them to the web at the same time, but OOo can do that a lot cheaper with any CMS capable of parsing xml
Really, mate, you should read what you just wrote. That is such a load of crap. I used Office 2007 for the first time today, along with another system admin. We got stuck on the fucking simple operation of how to open a document....
Apart from the claim by infosec sellout sounding less than adult - he says the payload was "weaponised" - and his claim that Apple will somehow not fix the "root cause" of the vulnerability if he gives it to them now - extortion anyone? mDNSResponder is Open Source - I seriously question how some independent reearcher can have, as he claims, a test base of 1500 systems. A big company with $1million to throw around might have that, or a university, but I seriously doubt he has the place or resources to afford a test base of this size unless he is using a local university or school, and judging by his spelling and grammar, he is either not English native or he is a teenager, or both. That says nothing about the veracity (truth) of his claim but it is somewhat juvenile, the whole thing.
My take on it as well. The wording of the claim site is somewhat dubious.
Y'poor bastard, Apache has a larger share of the web server market than IIS, and is just as often targeted, but is more secure. Your question, however, is about targeting, and you're spot on. Mac users are singularly useless when it comes to security. You got modded flamebait by an overzealous dickwad Mac user (and I use Macs m'self)
Populations are not innocent until they prove themselves to be innocent. Allowing your government to be hostile on your behalf does not make you innocent.
That's the exact same justification the 9-11 attackers used.
And you sure as fuck gave them one, now.
The feuds do go back to the beginning of Islam, but the real problem is that Iraq is a British creation of 3 Ottoman provinces, one Shiite, one Sunni and one Kurd, an almost perfect guarantee for eternal slaughter and hatred. As much of a genocidal butcher that Saddam was, his heavy oppression kept the country from falling apart, and certainly less people died then than die now.
True, but it is in latin America.
The Taliban in Afghanistan had the perfect solution: ban all music. Period.
Judging by how the various Record companies, interest groups and other shitlickers are acting, I would suspect they are in fact Islamic extremists and therefore terrorists and should therefore all be declared illegal combatants and spend some time in Guantanamo.*
* This is obviously crap, but, it would make a hell of an effective threat to shove down the throats of the record companies.
I can understand the Brazillians rooting for their country and SMSing in the statue of Christ. It IS pretty cool. That said, what really blew my mind is that while 3 (!) things from South America made it, the Easter Island statues didn't and Stonehenge didn't either? And if you're going to push a Mexican Mayan pyramid, what about the huge carved Olmec stone heads. That they did that with rock tools amazes me every time I see it. And to ignore thousands of years of human history by ignoring the megalithic era, such as Stonehenge, Carnac or the huge cairns in Ireland simply stuns me. Those people did those things without any metal tools! And there is, apart from the Pyramids, nothing from Africa. Why? And if you can include something like the Statue in Rio, whx can't you include the Sydney opera house which is easily as iconic?
Too many whys. I think we should start our own list.
I personally think you're dreaming.
Firstly, it would be nice if you were less frightened of posting with a nic. Posting as an AC doesn't give you any credibility.
Secondly, you can throw war-penis arguments around all day, my friend, but the fact is that if your country is incapable of winning two bush wars, I seriously doubt it is capable of winning any other today. Jabbering on about how many nuclear war penises your country has makes you look dumb. One, just one nuclear bomb is a price almost all politicians would not be willing to pay. Do you think your politicians would willingly sacrifice LA for Taiwan? You must be living in another world than the one I'm living in.
Thirdly, your somewhat moronic comment of the USA being able to gather 100 million people to fight in a war made me burst out laughing. How old are you? You seriously think 100 million of your mostly overweight, SUV driving, lazy, totally disinterested in foreign affairs, WORKING people, would get up and go and fight in a war? Who pray, would make your economy turn? Who would actually do things in your country. Your country cannot even provide the necessary soldiers to hold Iraq, so how the hell do you think you'll come up with 100 million?????