So it would be fine if Britain had gone storming into Ireland every time the IRA bombed London?
If tens of thousands of Londoners died, YES! Let me repeat this: TENS OF THOUSANDS of Americans are dead because of this. Two skyscrapers are GONE! This is not some yahoo with a bomb strapped to his chest killing a dozen or so people outside a disco. When the dust clears, TENS OF THOUSANDS of people will be dead.
Whoever did this really fucked up. Terrorists around the world are going to be scrambling for cover within the week. Here is what our response should be:
"To all countries who harbor or support the training of terrorist factions, you have 48 hours to eliminate any camps within your borders and turn over all leaders to the US for interrogation. Failure to do so will result in direct military action against said camps by the Armed Forces of the United States of America. This is directed in particular against the nations of Sudan, Afghanistan, and Syria. Sovereignty be damned; this has been an act of war."
"You fools have woken the sleeping giant. This deed will be punished and punished harshly. THIS ENDS NOW.
Every terrorist faction in the world will be affected by this. We know where the camps are, we know who the leaders are... even those who have had nothing to do with this will go down. We have to make sure nothing like this ever happens again, here or anywhere else in the world.
And it will take us about 1 week at best to figure out a way around it if necessary.
Heh. Probably more like 1 minute:
#grep -r stupidgubmentshit()/usr/src/linux
Then apply `/*'s and `*/'s where necessary, recompile,/sbin/lilo, problem solved!
Of course, we'll all go to jail under Section 103(a), but who cares about trivia like that?!
In fact, I can probably go to jail under Section 103(b) for posting the above! SHIT! I was never here....
Do not let them ever find Earth. Galactica '82 (81? 83?) was an offense against decency.
Galactica 1980. And the final episode "The Return of Starbuck" was actually pretty good. They should keep that one and make the rest of the series a dream (parallels to Dallas be damned!)
If refugees are supposed to be tired, hungry, unwashed, don't let them look like runway models (except for the emaciated part).
That was the brilliant thing about the pilot -- the refugees were tired, hungry, and unwashed. For some reason this went away (along with Cassiopia's status as a prostitute) when the weekly series began.
Try to find a plausible explanation for why the Cylons are zealously searching for the remnants of humanity in order to destroy then, and occasionally find the rag-tag fleet of presumably old slow ships, but don't gang up on them and blow them into dust.
And why they were so damn inaccurate shots! I swear, every episode it would be like Starbuck, Apollo, Boomer and a couple "Red Shirts" against hundreds of Cylon Raiders! (Jolly and Green Bean were usually held in reserve for when Baltar had 5 base ships under his control and launched all of their squadrons against the Galactica.) Plus, there were three Cylons in those things! WTF?!?
At least once an episode, have that bitchin' shot of the fighter taking off down the launch tunnels.
And reuse the same 5 stock "space battle" scenes -- wave after wave of advancing Raiders; Viper shooting at Raider and missing; Viper shooting at Raider and hitting; Cylon hitting Viper wingman (bye-bye "Red Shirt"!); Viper hitting its "reverse" thrusters and coming up behind a Raider -- time after time!
After his last meeting, Pichinson drives to the baseball stadium. He's chairman of a networking group that is watching the Giants from private box seats...
I wonder if he'll be in charge of liquidating the assets of the Montreal Expos (or the Tampa Bay Devil Rays... or the Florida Marlins... or the Minnesota Twins... or the *gasp* Anaheim Angels) if (when?) those clubs fold after this year? How schweet would that be? Maybe we all could chip in a few bucks and buy a stadium?!? SLASHDOT FIELD... I like the sound of that.... Can you say "world's largest LAN party"?
If one of the companies developing bio-engineered plants/animals messes up, the consequences to the rest of the world could be extreme
You know, it's asinine statements like this that really piss me off. You Chicken Littles who truly put one ounce of credit into statements like this remind me of my grandmother when she said in all seriousness on a particularly warm October day that "The weather just hasn't been the same since we launched men into space!"
Hmmm, I can't get to Google right now, so I'll have to paraphrase here.... I think it goes something like this:
"When they came for the Jews, I said nothing, for I was not Jewish."
"When they came for the Poles, I said nothing, for I am not Polish."
"When they came for Russians, I said nothing, for I am not Russian."
JJ ... (etc., etc., you get the picture)
"When they finally came for me... there was no one left to speak up against them."
This Washington Post article linked to yesterday is one scary scenario that everyone (hacker and non-hacker alike) should take very seriously. Without a dissenting voice to dismiss the bullshit coming out of Redmond's PR department, Gates and his bitch Ballmer will be able to run towards this future full-steam ahead.
You know, when I was in high school, I had an underground newspaper.
What if someone had told you to just stop "worrying about this crap" in regards to what you were printing? You would have gone balistic! Free speech and all that jazz, right? The thing is, dealing with Microsoftian FUD is important to enough people to speak up about.
Yes, continuing to "write good programs" is an important part of the FSF/OSS/whatever crusade, but there are other aspects. Dealing with attacks (both direct and indirect) is one of them.
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Old news.
If tens of thousands of Londoners died, YES! Let me repeat this: TENS OF THOUSANDS of Americans are dead because of this. Two skyscrapers are GONE! This is not some yahoo with a bomb strapped to his chest killing a dozen or so people outside a disco. When the dust clears, TENS OF THOUSANDS of people will be dead.
Every terrorist faction in the world will be affected by this. We know where the camps are, we know who the leaders are
Then apply `/*'s and `*/'s where necessary, recompile,
Of course, we'll all go to jail under Section 103(a), but who cares about trivia like that?! In fact, I can probably go to jail under Section 103(b) for posting the above! SHIT! I was never here....
Galactica 1980. And the final episode "The Return of Starbuck" was actually pretty good. They should keep that one and make the rest of the series a dream (parallels to Dallas be damned!)
That was the brilliant thing about the pilot -- the refugees were tired, hungry, and unwashed. For some reason this went away (along with Cassiopia's status as a prostitute) when the weekly series began.
And why they were so damn inaccurate shots! I swear, every episode it would be like Starbuck, Apollo, Boomer and a couple "Red Shirts" against hundreds of Cylon Raiders! (Jolly and Green Bean were usually held in reserve for when Baltar had 5 base ships under his control and launched all of their squadrons against the Galactica.) Plus, there were three Cylons in those things! WTF?!?
And reuse the same 5 stock "space battle" scenes -- wave after wave of advancing Raiders; Viper shooting at Raider and missing; Viper shooting at Raider and hitting; Cylon hitting Viper wingman (bye-bye "Red Shirt"!); Viper hitting its "reverse" thrusters and coming up behind a Raider -- time after time!
"When they came for the Jews, I said nothing, for I was not Jewish."
"When they came for the Poles, I said nothing, for I am not Polish."
"When they came for Russians, I said nothing, for I am not Russian."
JJ
"When they finally came for me
This Washington Post article linked to yesterday is one scary scenario that everyone (hacker and non-hacker alike) should take very seriously. Without a dissenting voice to dismiss the bullshit coming out of Redmond's PR department, Gates and his bitch Ballmer will be able to run towards this future full-steam ahead.
What if someone had told you to just stop "worrying about this crap" in regards to what you were printing? You would have gone balistic! Free speech and all that jazz, right? The thing is, dealing with Microsoftian FUD is important to enough people to speak up about.
Yes, continuing to "write good programs" is an important part of the FSF/OSS/whatever crusade, but there are other aspects. Dealing with attacks (both direct and indirect) is one of them.