"P.S. - This close to having my home desktop setup to dual boot win98 and linux. I'm sure you're all very impressed..."
Tad off topic but I at least am impressed and glad to see fresh blood in the linux world. Welcome to the community, if you need any help feel free to send me a mail and I'll try to do what I can;) But please first... rtfm
With that said, I think slashdot coverage has been excellent. I've seen alot of good insight into the bloodthirsty minds of my fellow greedy Americans. Are we really so arrogant as to believe an isolated attack here requires instant nuclear retribution or annihilation of nations reacting when we picked the fight in the first place?
What we call a devestating world shaking tragedy is no different than what happens in various places throughout the world everyday. In fact often as a result of the devestation of our own bombers because we felt we had to spread our high "morality" through vicious bloodshed. But that's ok because we murder by the rules and politely and for just POLITICAL causes.
What happened WAS horrible, no more than what we can depend on our nation doing in return. Right or wrong, our attackers attack because they believe in something, because of religion, to reclaim what was there's before we decided we'd rather have someone else have it. We started a fight with them because we could and we would get bored if we didn't have someone elses fight to stick our noses in.
Has anyone considered a legitimate first place to start an investigation of the "host" nation is in our own government? At this point nobody has made the blatant connection betweeen expensive mass armed conflict and economic depression at home? As soon as we hear the word recession I think, oh goodie another war is coming soon. It has always been our answer... if we are broke we need a good war to reduce population and propigate massive spending. Always works too... hell we even set up pretty bad guys so we don't have to face the dirty means we use to stimulate our economy.
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Maybe people have decided SPAM is an act of terrorism and their afraid of the FBI and slashdotters with nukes? Could be?
"P.S. - This close to having my home desktop setup to dual boot win98 and linux. I'm sure you're all very impressed..."
;) But please first... rtfm
Tad off topic but I at least am impressed and glad to see fresh blood in the linux world. Welcome to the community, if you need any help feel free to send me a mail and I'll try to do what I can
With that said, I think slashdot coverage has been excellent. I've seen alot of good insight into the bloodthirsty minds of my fellow greedy Americans. Are we really so arrogant as to believe an isolated attack here requires instant nuclear retribution or annihilation of nations reacting when we picked the fight in the first place?
What we call a devestating world shaking tragedy is no different than what happens in various places throughout the world everyday. In fact often as a result of the devestation of our own bombers because we felt we had to spread our high "morality" through vicious bloodshed. But that's ok because we murder by the rules and politely and for just POLITICAL causes.
What happened WAS horrible, no more than what we can depend on our nation doing in return. Right or wrong, our attackers attack because they believe in something, because of religion, to reclaim what was there's before we decided we'd rather have someone else have it. We started a fight with them because we could and we would get bored if we didn't have someone elses fight to stick our noses in.
Has anyone considered a legitimate first place to start an investigation of the "host" nation is in our own government? At this point nobody has made the blatant connection betweeen expensive mass armed conflict and economic depression at home? As soon as we hear the word recession I think, oh goodie another war is coming soon. It has always been our answer... if we are broke we need a good war to reduce population and propigate massive spending. Always works too... hell we even set up pretty bad guys so we don't have to face the dirty means we use to stimulate our economy.