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  1. Re:Silent protest on Memory Holes and the Internet (updated) · · Score: 1

    How about simply asking daily@timeinc.net what's up with the missing link to the GWB sr article at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/980302/ special_report.clintons_29.html

  2. Re:TROLL on Memory Holes and the Internet (updated) · · Score: 1
    it's kinda funny. Most people think differently than you on the causes of stagnation in your country. Most experts agree that Bush's policies are what's killing your economy. War is horrible for an economy 90% of the time and that's the same in fierce dictatorships and democracies.

    Since Dubya's been in power he's ordered an illegal war that even his own father disagrees with. The cost of that war alone is enough to cause recession. When we show you that there is a machine of propaganda and censorship you get all uppity and stand blindly behind your commander in chief. Sounds like a fierce dictatorship to me.

  3. Re:Hussein and Rummi picture? on Dilbert Readers Rat Out Some Weasels · · Score: 1

    http://www.msnbc.com/news/812805.asp?cp1=1

  4. Re:Contradictory on Dilbert Readers Rat Out Some Weasels · · Score: 3, Insightful
    "Namely, they (the French)have strong trade links with Iraq". Who didn't? Certainly not the US! I'll recall that outside of the US we have seen video recordings of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein before sitting down to discuss "business".

    Is this compromising for the US? NO! Why should it be for the French?

  5. Re:I'm sick of those bashing the French! on Dilbert Readers Rat Out Some Weasels · · Score: 1
    Look if you start bashing again you only give the French more reason to bash you. Sure there was a lot of heat and too many doctors planned their vacation at the same time. In their culture they value vacation a lot and unfortunatly they screwed up because they hadn't anticipated on record heats they hadn't seen in 100 years.

    But because you just bashed the French wouldn't they feel obliged to remind you that Americans are the fattest of all people on earth(and getting fatter), that your vacation, if you have any at all is a measly 2 weeks a year (compared to the 5-7 weeks they enjoy). Then you could probably retaliate by mentionning the fact that a large portion of the French population doesn't wash once every day but every second day!

    If you really want to go down that road there is plenty of ammo to shoot on both sides. Just remember that everytime you shoot someone shoots back.

    As a Canadian bystander I find the attitude of the Americans that bash the French arrogant and immature. In no country I know other than in the US would a politician get away with calling French Fries freedom fries to insult another country. It really shows little class from the USian part. All the French did was say what the world was saying and what the majority of Americans are saying right now. That your war in Iraq was wrong. Even Bush Sr agrees. Get over it.

  6. I'm sick of those bashing the French! on Dilbert Readers Rat Out Some Weasels · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Whenever someone bashes the French for being arrogant I wonder who's the real culprit.

    I guess most Americans only ever saw the video of Jacques Chirac shaking hands with Saddam Hussein and never the one of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with the Iraqi leader.

    The French like the Americans have been in bed with Saddam Hussein at some point in time. If the French are weasels because of that, what does that make Americans? Iraq is an important country geopolitically and if any country didn't at one point have ties with it they'd be stupid not to!

    The French don't owe the US for freeing them from Nazis just like the US doesn't owe the French for their helping hand during the civil war.

    I don't understand why Americans enjoy bashing the French so much! Do you feel threathened by something they have and you don't? 5 weeks of paid vacation perhaps?

  7. Re:Commie bullshit on Mandrake Linux 9.2 Hits the Street · · Score: 1
    I guess now I want to be a commie too. Your rational is that someone should be allowed to profit from forcing me to use something. Your economy sucks shit anyways.

    You have the most deficit in the history of the known universe and that M$ money is not going to fix that. Soon you'll not be able to afford buying Windows and you'll need yet another loan to afford it, or get with Linux.

  8. I love how France deals with those on Ubisoft Gets Restraining Order In EA Non-Compete Battle · · Score: 1

    They have to prove that you use intellectual property or some trade secrets before they can ask you to quit a job. That way you had a bitter end with one employer he can't ruin your life by stopping you from getting another job.

  9. I did this for my DeskJet842C on Networked Printing on a DI-707P Router? · · Score: 1

    Queue Name Tab
    Name : DeskJet842C
    Description : My Printer

    Queue Type Tab
    Queue Type : Networked UNIX (LPD)
    Server : 192.168.0.1 (default)
    Queue : lp (default)

  10. May I recommend on Encouraging Growth in a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    you actually write a business plan for profit only? Most banks don't give out cheques to people who's business plan says "yeah we want to have fun and make some profit".

  11. yeah cut the taxes at the right spot! on New U.S. Sales Tax Regime For Internet Sellers? · · Score: 1

    Now let's use this extra tax revenue so we can cut taxes for the rich again! :-)

  12. Dartmouth, NS, Canada is in the dark right now on Electricity Apocalypse Soon? · · Score: 1
    following the nice hurricane that left it's trace.

    http://www.canada.com/national/story.asp?id=3BA2 09F4-C6C9-4DA5-962F-00C9BE324668

  13. Re:This is easy to fix on Reliance On MS A Danger To National Security · · Score: 1

    I didn't think firewalls stopped viruses. I thought it stopped port hijacking.

  14. I read the French article and.... on EU Parliament Approves Software Patents · · Score: 2, Insightful
    the law has past but this part here : "Un autre amendement precise que l'utilisation d'une technique brevetee n'est pas consideree comme une contrefacon si elle est necessaire pour assurer la communication entre differents systemes ou reseaux informatiques."

    which means :

    Another amendment specifies that the utilisation of a patented technique is not considered law-breaking if it is necessary for communication between different systems or networks.

    I don't know if anyone knows what that means but OSS software has nothing to worry about.

  15. Re:Not the first on First Commercial Sub-Sea Tidal Power Station · · Score: 1

    yeah I visited that plant!! It's awesome! And for people that wonder about the health of the fish, they have put nets on both sides of the plant to make sure no water is used to hit on the turbine and not fish!! :-)

  16. we found the WMDs!!!!!! on Google Adds Location Targeted Searching · · Score: 1

    http://labs.google.com/location?q=weapons+of+mass+ destruction&geo_near=washington+dc&Search=Google+S earch

  17. poor baby on Are You On Time To Work? · · Score: 1

    want to trade with my job you arrogant, feed-me-i-m-kind-of-the-world-and-people-should-gr ant-my-every-wishes.

  18. Re:Hmm... on Canada Immune From RIAA? · · Score: 1

    50% tax?!?!?!?!?!?!? What country is this? Certainly not Canada.

  19. Re:Hmm... on Canada Immune From RIAA? · · Score: 1

    You forgot to mention that drinking age is 18 in some provinces.

  20. Re:So far it is as good as they say on New VOIP App. Profiled · · Score: 2, Insightful

    if it is kicked from MS serves shouldn't you consider using ICQ instead or some other IM? Why support them if they force you to use their client?

  21. if you are american go live in europe for a bit on CS Master's Degrees - US vs. EU Programs? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    and if you live in europe go to america for a bit.

    If not for the degree at least to be more open to the world.

  22. Re:What is wrong with unmanned flight? on The Return of Apollo? · · Score: 1
    Your answer is far from logical and doesn't follow in this discussion. I'm arguing that there is a case for unmanned flights today and you want to argue with me that we should explore space.

    Obviously you don't understand one thing. I'm all for space exploration and certainly for the colonization of Mars. However I don't see why we need to send humans in flight right now as the feasability of colonization as not yet shown its nose. The world is still collecting important data/funds for Mars expeditions and at the rate it is going it might take another 100 years before we know enough about it to colonize it.

    What I am saying is that for today's tasks R/C cars and robots are more than enough. Why send humans at all?

  23. What is wrong with unmanned flight? on The Return of Apollo? · · Score: 1

    Seriously with today's technology in robotics and computers why do we need to send humans out to space?

  24. Is this guy explaining to us why... on Linux vs. Windows: Choice vs. Usability · · Score: 1

    the icons in the menu in both Gnome and KDE are not draggable?

  25. I'm a Linux user and I wouldn't mind on Linux vs. Windows: Choice vs. Usability · · Score: 1

    if Red Hat just stuck with KDE or GNOME and dropped the choices they give. I find it counter-productive to have so many GUIs.