I bought a laptop about three months ago (Toshiba Satellite 1755, see above for my praise thereof) and thought "hell, I'll just get this cheap little Netgear LAN card and it'll work fine for me.
Three of those little conduit-dongle thingies (and three returns) later, I'm at CompUSA shelling out $60 more to get the Xircom card. Sure, it takes up one more PCMCIA slot, but I can plug it directly into my network cable and don't have to worry about breaking any more of those stupid things.
I agree. I got a Satellite 1755 (700MHz, 10GB HD, 128 MB RAM) this April and it's been quite wonderful to have around. Very stable, very reliable, typed a whole English paper in the green room during the show I was in.
Unlike going after the population directly, which would be clear evidence of hostile intent on someone's part, plant and animal diseases would be looked at as epidemics that got out of control (like the European bout with mad cow disease) before they are looked as acts of terrorism.
And therein lies the problem. Terrorists are after attention first and foremost... to strike terror into the population, and to make sure they know who did it. When a terrorist act occurs, there is always a rush of non-responsible groups to claim responsibility for the act. If it looks like an accident or an epidemic rather than a planned thing, it loses much of its value to terrorists.
Of course, this may not apply to groups like Bin Laden's or other typical anti-Western groups, who mainly want to see anything having to do with the West destroyed.
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I bought a laptop about three months ago (Toshiba Satellite 1755, see above for my praise thereof) and thought "hell, I'll just get this cheap little Netgear LAN card and it'll work fine for me.
Three of those little conduit-dongle thingies (and three returns) later, I'm at CompUSA shelling out $60 more to get the Xircom card. Sure, it takes up one more PCMCIA slot, but I can plug it directly into my network cable and don't have to worry about breaking any more of those stupid things.
I'm glad I switched.
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Unlike going after the population directly, which would be clear evidence of hostile intent on someone's part, plant and animal diseases would be looked at as epidemics that got out of control (like the European bout with mad cow disease) before they are looked as acts of terrorism. And therein lies the problem. Terrorists are after attention first and foremost... to strike terror into the population, and to make sure they know who did it. When a terrorist act occurs, there is always a rush of non-responsible groups to claim responsibility for the act. If it looks like an accident or an epidemic rather than a planned thing, it loses much of its value to terrorists. Of course, this may not apply to groups like Bin Laden's or other typical anti-Western groups, who mainly want to see anything having to do with the West destroyed. InigoMontoya