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It is left as an exercise for the ignorant to search their "shrink wrap" Microshit License Agreements for the "... do NOT use this product for medical, mission-critical, aviation, nuclear power plant applications..." don't blame us statements.
Too bad trial lawyers contribute [bribe???] so much to corrupt democrap politicians (e.g. Clinton-Gore). Only through them is it likely that Linus will be sued for ignorant use of Linux.
In summary, your lame example of robots attacking workers resulting in Linus getting sued is akin to the real-life lawsuits against firearms manufacturers... instead of sueing a gun-maker why not sue the person pulling the trigger?... Instead of sueing Linus & Co. why not sue the "Linux Solution Provider" & "Linux Solution Customer" for not performing due dilegence on Software Quality Assurance and Fault Checking?
Same as Reagan... would not have happened in the first place.
Throw in the fact that Bush's father stood up to Saddam and it becomes more obvious the whole thing just would not have happened.
Clinton would have not made an issue of missiles in Cuba. Either the KGB would have bought Clinton off with previous campaign contributions a la the Chinese (Year of the Rat) or Castro would have threatened a refugee crisis thus causing Clinton to cave in a la Elian.
"... throwing around those stupid US military acronyms doesn't much serve to impress,..."
My apologies for the acronyms, I made a boo-boo ASSUMING (i.e. to make an ass out of you and ME) that all/. former military readers were from the US vice elsewhere. The acronyms would (?) have meaning to the US military members who might wish to discount my ravings as those of a dirtball whiner.
My problem with Somalia is that I received a medal at all. I did nothing extraordinary except my normal routine job... no bullets, no discomfort, no injuries, etc etc etc... typical American military inflation of awards. Checkout some columns by Hackworth
BTW, did you check-out any of the other three websites I had listed?
Regarding the "pink-eye", I was told to return to SERVING food... SERVING food... I asked to be sent to the dishwashing area... NO we need you serving food... I asked to be sent to the trash collection detail... NO we need you serving food... I asked... I guess I'll tell St. Pete "I was just following orders" (grin)
Before I rip your bung-hole a wee bit, let me give you some acronyms, abbreviations, and slang regarding who I am... E-6 in less than six, item 11 has three nuke NECs(MOSs), item 12c > 8 yrs, item 12g > 3 yrs, item, item 13 has 8 awards, item 24 = Honorable, item 26 = KBK, item 27 = RE-R1
Read "Conduct Unbecoming" for details on military fuckjobs. Primary focus is on fags/dykes in the military but it gives you a feel for how awful military life can be.
Visit this website for some details on military work Fun Time Navy
Also visit Soldiers For The Truth for a current event perspective of what is wrong with the current military after eight-years of pathetic Clinton-Gore leadership (i.e. WAR-CRIMES)
Here is a VERY SHORT list of what I saw during my approx nine-years in the Navy, making me "Glad I'm now a civilian":
incompetant medical care (told to return to serving food as a recruit with an active case of pink eye and broncitis)
co-worker almost made blind by contaminated and expired navy-issued eye medication - ends up with EXTENDED shore duty and eventual medical discharge
sorry... I can't talk about the whole ANTHRAX thing... I escaped in '98
tricked into investing in US Savings Bonds vice Index Funds (read "Random Walk Down Wall Street")
obviously ill co-worker forced to stand vice sitting on floor while waiting in line to see a health tech (note: you are LUCKY if you get to see a nurse or a doctor... sure glad Clinton-Gore Health Care got defeated... wouldn't want to force a dog through government health care)
ship-wide food poisoning due to no soap in bathroom adjacent to kitchen
over 48 hours with no sleep or food
even though I am white I began to appreciate how American blacks felt under slavery because I was an Enlisted person
received medal for going to Somilia - was 4 miles offshore (hot showers, hot food, TV, Air Conditioning, clean sheets,....) while the Army died due to the Clinton-Gore failure to send M1A1s and AC-130s to support the troops
Newt Gingrich was trying to change all that. He called DC "America's Hometown" (or something like that) <p> One of those strange things. A Republican Speaker of the House trying to improve the lives of people living in DC (most are registered Democrats). For decades the Democrap Speakers of the House cared not at all about DC. <p>
Any comment on Manzanar? Worth a visit on the way to Mammoth Ski Area or Death Valley.
"A few Jews had some guns... a lot of good it really did them." ==> My apologies... my point was that had more than a few Jews had guns and also better guns then perhaps those Jews could have killed more Nazis
"Imagine how many Nazi citizens used the guns in *their* homes to commit atrocities." ==> not exactly (I guess) in so much as it was the legal government of Germany that was using the state institutions to commit the attrocities.
I _think_ Joe German was probably very passive and law abiding (akin to a 1930's Archie Bunker).
Too bad the Jews had neither the means (firearms) nor the will to make Hiltler's "Final Solution" a more painful experience for the Nazi warmachine.
Like dude... that is "American" with a capital "A" vice a lowercase "a" (grin**grin)
I think Americans have trouble enough trying to remember 225 years of history - as you know, we tend to get confused. Therefore, please help me out with some European history: Germany 1933 Austria 1938 Czechoslovakia (Sudentenland) 1938 Poland 1939 Norway 1940 Denmark 1940 Holland 1940 Belgium 1940 Luxembourg 1940 France 1940 Yugoslavia Post-Cold War
1. Would the Europeans please explain the above places and dates?
2. Would the Europeans please explain how gun control laws helped citizens of the nations in the years specified, both for the general population and specifically for their Jewish (or minority) populations?
An earlier poster had the above examples & questions so I thought it would be illuminating to repeat and modify them. Are they more illuminating than the fires that burned on peoples front lawns (US cross burnings) or during "The Night of Broken Glass"?
Perhaps the Europeans can help out with our understanding of "The Night of Broken Glass" and other sad details of European History (especially the concept of collaboration - do your parents/grand-parents know anything about this?).
One really positive thing in America is the Constitution prohibiting "the corruption of blood" in that one should not hold the actions/behavior of your parents/grandparents against another person.
"Many Jews in ghettos across eastern Europe tried to organize resistance against the Germans and to arm themselves with smuggled [oh no! they were using illegal weapons;-);-);-)] and homemade weapons."
To read more, goto the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's page on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising which is coincidently located in Washington, DC.
Question for the thinking readers of Slashdot: How many of those mothers in DC will visit this memorial to those murdered by a very "civilized" society that had accidentally been taken over by a madman?
Perhaps some high school students in Colorado should have remembered their Dune... "fear is a mind killer" and rushed the two jerks. The high school students who survived are little better than those who survived another far worse terror sixty years ago... SHEEP (and I don't mean the electric variety)
Please review German History prior to US entry into World War II. Specifically, consider a "What If?" If only a large number of German people (very obedient and law abiding they and other Germans were)had possessed firearms then perhaps the genocide that had occurred would have been averted. For lack of a firearm and the will to use it some people (yes I will blame the victims/sheep) ended up letting their whole family & culture die at no cost to their killer.
Warsaw Ghetto during WWII. Well-armed with ILLEGAL weapons. The defendents of the Ghetto cost the killers dearly. Too bad the other killers further to the East waited before advancing on the killers attacking the Ghetto.
Events in the USA in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. Specifically the internment of US Citizens from Japan. Too bad the Supreme Court ruled that it was CONSTITUTIONAL to do such a thing (was someone saying 'It could never happen in the good ole USA'???)
American Indians - poorly armed US Calvery - better armed Conclusion???
Malcolm X and formation of "hunting clubs" in response to racist violence in law-abiding post WWII USA
Will a racist be more or less likely to burn a cross on your front lawn if s/he knows you are a rabid, foaming at the mouth gun nut?
Breaking and Entering crimes at night decline in in Los Angeles during Summer 1985 due to the large number of fearful homeowners purchasing firearms in response to the "Night Stalker" (???). The normal crooks feared to commit the night time burgalry due to the greater number of trigger happy homeowners.
I strongly suggest that everyone check out this website for a dose of reality: Citizens of America Summary of Radio Ads: - innocent people (typically women) being stabbed/raped/strangled in their homes - innocent people unarmed - criminal armed with large body mass (bulk) and knife/baseball bat/hands... no gun - innocent person could not afford taxpayer financed ARMED body guard like the "gun control" politicians - innocent person could not afford expensive private ARMED bodyguard like "gun control" celebrities
BTW, I was physically assaulted and mugged at GUN-POINT outside the NAS Alameda Navy Base (SF Bay area) in 1993. The local thugs knew "squids" returning to base on foot were UNARMED (easy target) by Naval Regulations (no place to conveniently store a legal firearm). Like they say, doubt regarding whether I have a gun on my person or in my home is a deterent. "S/he 'might' have a firearm, better pick an easier target" Deterance works well (evidence - nuclear weapons & Cold War btwn USSR/US, NK/SK, China/Taiwan, India/Pakistan)
Trolls would be bulky creatures wouldn't they? If one were attacking you what would you use to defend yourself? A firearm perhaps???? No... I will use a UN Resolution!
Alien with exoskeleton is attacking!!! What would you use to defend yourself??? A high-velocity assault rifle with teflon coated bullets??? No... I will use another UN Resolution!
check out this website http://www.citizensofamerica.org/radio.htm Citizens of America Summary of Radio Ads: - innocent people (typically women) being stabbed/raped/strangled in their homes - innocent people unarmed - criminal armed with large body mass (bulk) and knife/baseball bat/hands... no gun - innocent person could not afford taxpayer financed ARMED body guard like the "gun control" politicians - innocent person could not afford expensive private ARMED bodyguard like "gun control" celebrities
BTW, I was physically assaulted and mugged at GUN-POINT outside the NAS Alameda Navy Base (SF Bay area) in 1993. The local thugs knew "squids" returning to base on foot were UNARMED (easy target) by Naval Regulations (no place to conveniently store a legal firearm). Like they say, doubt regarding whether I have a gun on my person or in my home is a deterent. "S/he 'might' have a firearm, better pick an easier target" Deterance works well (evidence - nuclear weapons & Cold War btwn USSR/US, NK/SK, China/Taiwan, India/Pakistan)
Trolls would be bulky creatures wouldn't they? If one were attacking you what would you use to defend yourself? A firearm perhaps???? No... I will use a UN Resolution!
Alien with exoskeleton is attacking!!! What would you use to defend yourself??? A high-velocity assault rifle with teflon coated bullets??? No... I will use another UN Resolution!
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Look on the bright side ... we have the LEGACY of the previous eight-years of Clinton-Gore
Maintain a questioning attitude
Maintain a questioning attitude
It is left as an exercise for the ignorant to search their "shrink wrap" Microshit License Agreements for the "... do NOT use this product for medical, mission-critical, aviation, nuclear power plant applications ..." don't blame us statements.
Too bad trial lawyers contribute [bribe???] so much to corrupt democrap politicians (e.g. Clinton-Gore). Only through them is it likely that Linus will be sued for ignorant use of Linux.
In summary, your lame example of robots attacking workers resulting in Linus getting sued is akin to the real-life lawsuits against firearms manufacturers ... instead of sueing a gun-maker why not sue the person pulling the trigger? ... Instead of sueing Linus & Co. why not sue the "Linux Solution Provider" & "Linux Solution Customer" for not performing due dilegence on Software Quality Assurance and Fault Checking?
Maintain a questioning attitude
Throw in the fact that Bush's father stood up to Saddam and it becomes more obvious the whole thing just would not have happened.
Clinton would have not made an issue of missiles in Cuba. Either the KGB would have bought Clinton off with previous campaign contributions a la the Chinese (Year of the Rat) or Castro would have threatened a refugee crisis thus causing Clinton to cave in a la Elian.
Maintain a questioning attitude
Maintain a questioning attitude
My apologies for the acronyms, I made a boo-boo ASSUMING (i.e. to make an ass out of you and ME) that all /. former military readers were from the US vice elsewhere. The acronyms would (?) have meaning to the US military members who might wish to discount my ravings as those of a dirtball whiner .
My problem with Somalia is that I received a medal at all. I did nothing extraordinary except my normal routine job ... no bullets, no discomfort, no injuries, etc etc etc ... typical American military inflation of awards. Checkout some columns by Hackworth
BTW, did you check-out any of the other three websites I had listed?
Regarding the "pink-eye", I was told to return to SERVING food ... SERVING food ... I asked to be sent to the dishwashing area ... NO we need you serving food ... I asked to be sent to the trash collection detail ... NO we need you serving food ... I asked ... I guess I'll tell St. Pete "I was just following orders" (grin)
Maintain a questioning attitude
Before I rip your bung-hole a wee bit, let me give you some acronyms, abbreviations, and slang regarding who I am ... E-6 in less than six, item 11 has three nuke NECs(MOSs), item 12c > 8 yrs, item 12g > 3 yrs, item, item 13 has 8 awards, item 24 = Honorable, item 26 = KBK, item 27 = RE-R1
Read "Conduct Unbecoming" for details on military fuckjobs. Primary focus is on fags/dykes in the military but it gives you a feel for how awful military life can be.
Visit this website for some details on military work Fun Time Navy
Also visit FTN
Also visit Soldiers For The Truth for a current event perspective of what is wrong with the current military after eight-years of pathetic Clinton-Gore leadership (i.e. WAR-CRIMES)
Here is a VERY SHORT list of what I saw during my approx nine-years in the Navy, making me "Glad I'm now a civilian":
incompetant medical care (told to return to serving food as a recruit with an active case of pink eye and broncitis)
co-worker almost made blind by contaminated and expired navy-issued eye medication - ends up with EXTENDED shore duty and eventual medical discharge
sorry ... I can't talk about the whole ANTHRAX thing ... I escaped in '98
tricked into investing in US Savings Bonds vice Index Funds (read "Random Walk Down Wall Street")
obviously ill co-worker forced to stand vice sitting on floor while waiting in line to see a health tech (note: you are LUCKY if you get to see a nurse or a doctor ... sure glad Clinton-Gore Health Care got defeated ... wouldn't want to force a dog through government health care)
ship-wide food poisoning due to no soap in bathroom adjacent to kitchen
over 48 hours with no sleep or food
even though I am white I began to appreciate how American blacks felt under slavery because I was an Enlisted person
received medal for going to Somilia - was 4 miles offshore (hot showers, hot food, TV, Air Conditioning, clean sheets, ....) while the Army died due to the Clinton-Gore failure to send M1A1s and AC-130s to support the troops
Maintain a questioning attitude
<p>
One of those strange things. A Republican Speaker of the House trying to improve the lives of people living in DC (most are registered Democrats). For decades the Democrap Speakers of the House cared not at all about DC.
<p>
"Maintain a questioning attitude"
"A few Jews had some guns... a lot of good it really did them." ==> My apologies ... my point was that had more than a few Jews had guns and also better guns then perhaps those Jews could have killed more Nazis
"Imagine how many Nazi citizens used the guns in *their* homes to commit atrocities." ==> not exactly (I guess) in so much as it was the legal government of Germany that was using the state institutions to commit the attrocities.
I _think_ Joe German was probably very passive and law abiding (akin to a 1930's Archie Bunker).
Too bad the Jews had neither the means (firearms) nor the will to make Hiltler's "Final Solution" a more painful experience for the Nazi warmachine.
"Maintain a questioning attitude"
I think Americans have trouble enough trying to remember 225 years of history - as you know, we tend to get confused. Therefore, please help me out with some European history:
Germany 1933
Austria 1938
Czechoslovakia (Sudentenland) 1938
Poland 1939
Norway 1940
Denmark 1940
Holland 1940
Belgium 1940
Luxembourg 1940
France 1940
Yugoslavia Post-Cold War
1. Would the Europeans please explain the above places and dates?
2. Would the Europeans please explain how gun control laws helped citizens of the nations in the years specified, both for the general population and specifically for their Jewish (or minority) populations?
An earlier poster had the above examples & questions so I thought it would be illuminating to repeat and modify them. Are they more illuminating than the fires that burned on peoples front lawns (US cross burnings) or during "The Night of Broken Glass"?
Perhaps the Europeans can help out with our understanding of "The Night of Broken Glass" and other sad details of European History (especially the concept of collaboration - do your parents/grand-parents know anything about this?).
One really positive thing in America is the Constitution prohibiting "the corruption of blood" in that one should not hold the actions/behavior of your parents/grandparents against another person.
Like dude ... Cheers!
"Maintain a questioning attitude"
To read more, goto the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's page on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising which is coincidently located in Washington, DC.
Question for the thinking readers of Slashdot: How many of those mothers in DC will visit this memorial to those murdered by a very "civilized" society that had accidentally been taken over by a madman?
Please also visit one of many American concentration camps (e.g. Manzanar) or do a Yahoo! search.
Perhaps some high school students in Colorado should have remembered their Dune ... "fear is a mind killer" and rushed the two jerks. The high school students who survived are little better than those who survived another far worse terror sixty years ago ... SHEEP (and I don't mean the electric variety)
"Maintain a questioning attitude"
Warsaw Ghetto during WWII. Well-armed with ILLEGAL weapons. The defendents of the Ghetto cost the killers dearly. Too bad the other killers further to the East waited before advancing on the killers attacking the Ghetto.
Events in the USA in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. Specifically the internment of US Citizens from Japan. Too bad the Supreme Court ruled that it was CONSTITUTIONAL to do such a thing (was someone saying 'It could never happen in the good ole USA'???)
American Indians - poorly armed
US Calvery - better armed
Conclusion???
Malcolm X and formation of "hunting clubs" in response to racist violence in law-abiding post WWII USA
Will a racist be more or less likely to burn a cross on your front lawn if s/he knows you are a rabid, foaming at the mouth gun nut?
Breaking and Entering crimes at night decline in in Los Angeles during Summer 1985 due to the large number of fearful homeowners purchasing firearms in response to the "Night Stalker" (???). The normal crooks feared to commit the night time burgalry due to the greater number of trigger happy homeowners.
"Maintain a questioning attitude"
Summary of Radio Ads:
- innocent people (typically women) being stabbed/raped/strangled in their homes
- innocent people unarmed
- criminal armed with large body mass (bulk) and knife/baseball bat/hands
- innocent person could not afford taxpayer financed ARMED body guard like the "gun control" politicians
- innocent person could not afford expensive private ARMED bodyguard like "gun control" celebrities
BTW, I was physically assaulted and mugged at GUN-POINT outside the NAS Alameda Navy Base (SF Bay area) in 1993. The local thugs knew "squids" returning to base on foot were UNARMED (easy target) by Naval Regulations (no place to conveniently store a legal firearm). Like they say, doubt regarding whether I have a gun on my person or in my home is a deterent. "S/he 'might' have a firearm, better pick an easier target" Deterance works well (evidence - nuclear weapons & Cold War btwn USSR/US, NK/SK, China/Taiwan, India/Pakistan)
Trolls would be bulky creatures wouldn't they? If one were attacking you what would you use to defend yourself? A firearm perhaps???? No ... I will use a UN Resolution!
Alien with exoskeleton is attacking!!! What would you use to defend yourself??? A high-velocity assault rifle with teflon coated bullets??? No ... I will use another UN Resolution!
"Maintain a questioning attitude"
Summary of Radio Ads:
- innocent people (typically women) being stabbed/raped/strangled in their homes
- innocent people unarmed
- criminal armed with large body mass (bulk) and knife/baseball bat/hands
- innocent person could not afford taxpayer financed ARMED body guard like the "gun control" politicians
- innocent person could not afford expensive private ARMED bodyguard like "gun control" celebrities
BTW, I was physically assaulted and mugged at GUN-POINT outside the NAS Alameda Navy Base (SF Bay area) in 1993. The local thugs knew "squids" returning to base on foot were UNARMED (easy target) by Naval Regulations (no place to conveniently store a legal firearm). Like they say, doubt regarding whether I have a gun on my person or in my home is a deterent. "S/he 'might' have a firearm, better pick an easier target" Deterance works well (evidence - nuclear weapons & Cold War btwn USSR/US, NK/SK, China/Taiwan, India/Pakistan)
Trolls would be bulky creatures wouldn't they? If one were attacking you what would you use to defend yourself? A firearm perhaps???? No ... I will use a UN Resolution!
Alien with exoskeleton is attacking!!! What would you use to defend yourself??? A high-velocity assault rifle with teflon coated bullets??? No ... I will use another UN Resolution!
"Maintain a questioning attitude"