Teenage rape victims fleeing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo are being
sexually exploited by the United Nations peace-keeping troops sent to the stop their suffering.
The Independent has found that mothers as young as 13 - the victims of multiple rape by militiamen - can only secure enough food to survive in the sprawling refugee camp by routinely sleeping with UN peace-keepers.
This guy named Darien is apparently promoting "Windows Mainframes." Apparently a "Windows Mainframe" uses the cost-effective *cough* "Windows Datacenter Edition." The Unisys ES7000, one of the says you can buy 'Datacenter', starts at $35,000. Yeah! Cheap! And that gets you four processors... "mainframe" indeed.
Google decided to use extremely large clusters of single-processor PCs and Linux.
Microsoft will need to offer some type of very low cost, gui-less, remotely manageable, stripped-down windows if they really want to compete against Linux clusters. Even then, they would be competing with both FREE and YEARS OF EXPERIENCE.
GDI hardware acceleration will be disabled when desktop composition is enabled This is because GDI rendering is being redirected to an offscreen surface rather than going directly to the screen
Here's a good clue as to when one side has 'won' a war: they stop being killed by the opposition.
In that case, we didn't "win" World War 2 in until years after the "end of major battle."
"Decresed American security dramatically worldwide" -- bullshit!
As far as "encouraging the terrorists," the opposite is true. Libya came clean recently. North Korea is seeking engagement, now. A lot of hurt has been put on Islamo-fascists in many places recently.
Pulling out of Iraq would definitely encourage the terrorists! "America is weak! See!"
That's why Somalia got us in trouble. It displayed weakness. Osama said, "see? kill a few, and they go home."
Well, not this time. Not in Iraq. We stay, and we do the right thing.
The point behind all these pictures and stories I mentioned is that the people started to speak out and express their feelings and here we're in great need for support from the free world to back the progress. Moving back is absolutely unacceptable; we've put our feet on the right way and we need help from the others. Never let the bad pictures lay their heavy shadow on the good, bright ones.
The negative media want our eyes to pause on the bad events to win time in this worldwide battle and to make us forget the good pictures that encourage us to keep the momentum. This includes most of the major western media.
I always talk to the people there and the accelerated rate their consciousness and understanding are growing at, often surprises me. In one of the meetings I asked them about their opinion about the government and the president they would like to have in the future, here, a man said " I'd prefer a Christian president" as a matter of fact I was shocked as I wasn't expecting to hear such a perspective in an almost exclusively Shei'at village. Here the others agreed and clarified their friends point "we mean that we don't want an Islamic or Shei'at government" "see, the SCIRI party established a library and a school to give religion classes that no one attends despite it cost the party thousands of dollars and occupied one of the towns' buildings. Take a look at the water treatment plant that the coalition established, people gather around it every morning". "We want those who know what we need, not those who tell us to do what they want" another man added".
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on our way back to Baghdad where we were delayed for a few hours after the coalition forces blocked the road, we didn't know why but one of the passengers started to complain saying "those Americans always put obstacles in our way and make our lives difficult" the driver couldn't hold himself from answering this comment in a sharp tone as he said "NO, it's not the Americans. It's because of those bastards who plant bombs on the roads. You must thank the Americans for delaying you for a couple of hours to save your live".
Staying for the long haul is the right thing to do.
Yes, I'm certain that's why Europe rushed to the aid of the Iraqis. The ones who weren't busy with the "Oil-for-Food" program, anyway. Truth be told, I think certain European states were interested in keeping Saddam in power for business reasons. "No blood for oil," indeed.
Incidentally, I am for cooperation and integration with Europe. I am also for the end of Middle-Eastern Islamo-fascist dictatorships. I'm not really convinced Europe is interested in that, however. I hope things turn around.
I don't see "The Palestine problem" as the root cause of the "middle east unrest." That's naive, and buys into the typical propaganda from Middle-Eastern leaders seeking to keep attention away from themselves. I think the root cause of the "middle-east unrest" is the panoply of theocratic dictatorships in the Middle East who oppress and torture their citizens, in combination with extremist strains of Islam -- the Wahabbism, for example, that the Saudi dictatorship subsidizes and exports.
Instead of believing the tripe on CNN, NBC, etc, I've been looking for the opinions of actual Iraqis. You may find this blog entry interesting; it's written by an Iraqi. In fact, I will copy the text of it here.
Saturday, May 15, 2004
My last trip to Samawa was short but full of events. It's not easy for someone who used to live in Baghdad to accommodate to life in a village far away in the south. Baghdad is the most civilized place in Iraq and there's no way one can compare it with the rest of the governorates not to mention the ignored villages in the south.
I set off with a number of passengers heading for Samwa. The road was quiet despite the troubles in Kerbala and Najaf, which are both on the road. We had to use the old road as the new one (the high way) is closed because of the current fights in those two cities.
My arrival day was the day when a rally of support and gratitude to the coalition passed the streets of Samawa. The scene was very delightful for me, I, who believe in the necessity of establishing a strategic partnership with the free world represented by the coalition, because this the only way for Iraq to rise again, prosper and join the modern, free world. Such partnership, the way I see it, is vital for the free world in its war with terrorism, the corner stone of which is to establish peace and stability in the ME. Yes, we should put our hands in each other's because we have a common destiny. It was a very encouraging thing to see that the simple people there understood the case and this is probably the first time where people go out to the streets to thank and support our allies in the coalition, but strangely it came from ordinary, simple people not from those who claim to be civilized intellectuals.
On the road to the residents' house we passed near the coalition base in Samawa; the striking and ugly feature of this base, like any other one is, the concrete wall that surrounds it. These walls initiate a sensation of fear in the hearts and a feeling that there's a huge block between the people and the coalition. I understand the security necessity of these walls but they still form an unpleasant sight for everyone, except this particular one. The coalition forces here invited all the kids-and their parents-in the neighborhood for a special festival, the kids were given paints and brushes and a definite area of the wall was assigned for each kid to paint on whatever he likes and to sign his painting with his/her name. I leave it for you to imagine how this hateful wall looked like after this festival. It became a fascinating huge painting that gives a feeling of brotherhood and friendship. These paintings eliminated all the psychological walls between the folks and the coalition here.
At the end of the festival, gifts were given to each
I've noticed the newest Visio has lots of problems along this line... I generally have to print using PDF995, then print the PDF, to get the output to look right.
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I wonder why he doesn't get his mail at michaelmoore.com... I'm sure he could afford his own mail server...
FOX is the least of the problem. Yeah, they're biased, but they don't pretend otherwise.
I'll take honest bias over fake integrity any day.
I liked "Bowling for Columbine," but I understood it to be an indictment of the U.S. media -- especially local TV. Broadcast news in this country is in the business of selling fear and creating opinion. Period. Moore himself, in Columbine, noted that guns couldn't be the problem, and gun ownership couldn't be the problem, as other countries not only allow gun ownership, but have higher rates of gun ownership than the U.S. -- but they also have less gun-related crime. Canada, for example. But Canada also doesn't have the indefensible cesspit that is the U.S. broadcast media establishment. Just watch your "local news" sometime. It is sickening.
I tend to be skeptical of polls in general. Are the differences between Fox polls and, say, MSNBC polls within statistical error? How are their questions phrased?
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The Lohner-Porsche Electric Car, unveiled in 1900 at the Paris Expo, was an electric car with a motors-in-the-hubs design. 1900!
Thinkpads using PowerPC chips would only be able to use Linux.
Or, if they ask their partner Apple nicely, perhaps Mac OS X!
HP branded iPods, IBM branded Powerbooks!
Pfft. The "Enterprise," "Advanced" and "Datacenter" flavors of Windows cost more than any Linux distro I know of.
it's not ALL just silly bigotry and bias ;)
It is if you're a Microsoftie.
Really! There's no Blue Screen in XP; it simply reboots. Yessirree! They fixed that blue-screen problem!
how many mice will that require?
This guy named Darien is apparently promoting "Windows Mainframes." Apparently a "Windows Mainframe" uses the cost-effective *cough* "Windows Datacenter Edition." The Unisys ES7000, one of the says you can buy 'Datacenter', starts at $35,000. Yeah! Cheap! And that gets you four processors... "mainframe" indeed.
Google decided to use extremely large clusters of single-processor PCs and Linux.
Microsoft will need to offer some type of very low cost, gui-less, remotely manageable, stripped-down windows if they really want to compete against Linux clusters. Even then, they would be competing with both FREE and YEARS OF EXPERIENCE.
For new applications, only:
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This is because GDI rendering is being redirected to an offscreen surface rather than going directly to the screen
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I personally like the idea of an Alaska-style "oil dividend" for Iraqi citizens... make the oil a collectively-owned asset...
Call your elected representatives! Get them to outlaw spam!
Here's a good clue as to when one side has 'won' a war: they stop being killed by the opposition.
In that case, we didn't "win" World War 2 in until years after the "end of major battle."
"Decresed American security dramatically worldwide" -- bullshit!
As far as "encouraging the terrorists," the opposite is true. Libya came clean recently. North Korea is seeking engagement, now. A lot of hurt has been put on Islamo-fascists in many places recently.
Pulling out of Iraq would definitely encourage the terrorists! "America is weak! See!"
That's why Somalia got us in trouble. It displayed weakness. Osama said, "see? kill a few, and they go home."
Well, not this time. Not in Iraq. We stay, and we do the right thing.
Incidentally, I am for cooperation and integration with Europe. I am also for the end of Middle-Eastern Islamo-fascist dictatorships. I'm not really convinced Europe is interested in that, however. I hope things turn around.
I don't see "The Palestine problem" as the root cause of the "middle east unrest." That's naive, and buys into the typical propaganda from Middle-Eastern leaders seeking to keep attention away from themselves. I think the root cause of the "middle-east unrest" is the panoply of theocratic dictatorships in the Middle East who oppress and torture their citizens, in combination with extremist strains of Islam -- the Wahabbism, for example, that the Saudi dictatorship subsidizes and exports.
Instead of believing the tripe on CNN, NBC, etc, I've been looking for the opinions of actual Iraqis. You may find this blog entry interesting; it's written by an Iraqi. In fact, I will copy the text of it here.
I remember reading an "Avalon is nothing like Quartz Extreme" article recently. Well, the powerpoint application says this:
"Window client areas are each represented by a single large texture"
The PPT pres makes Avalon look exactly like QE. Compositing within the app in software, with single, large client bitmaps composited in hardware.
I've noticed the newest Visio has lots of problems along this line... I generally have to print using PDF995, then print the PDF, to get the output to look right.
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
... while talking to air-xj03.mail.aol.com.: ... Service unavailable ... "oops."
... I'm sure he could afford his own mail server ...
----- Transcript of session follows -----
RCPT To:
MAILBOX FULL
554
Reporting-MTA: dns; rly-xj03.mx.aol.com
Arrival-Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 15:52:58 -0400 (EDT)
I wonder why he doesn't get his mail at michaelmoore.com
FOX is the least of the problem. Yeah, they're biased, but they don't pretend otherwise.
I'll take honest bias over fake integrity any day.
I liked "Bowling for Columbine," but I understood it to be an indictment of the U.S. media -- especially local TV. Broadcast news in this country is in the business of selling fear and creating opinion. Period. Moore himself, in Columbine, noted that guns couldn't be the problem, and gun ownership couldn't be the problem, as other countries not only allow gun ownership, but have higher rates of gun ownership than the U.S. -- but they also have less gun-related crime. Canada, for example. But Canada also doesn't have the indefensible cesspit that is the U.S. broadcast media establishment. Just watch your "local news" sometime. It is sickening.
Hahahaha
*wipes tear from eye*
Start by voting Bush out.
OK, I know what you're against. But what are you for?
Heh. Yeah. And I would say that the "right" numbers would reflect the nation's desire to elect a Libertarian president.
Do you seriously wish to compare the U.S. to Germany as it was in the 30s and 40s?
your username is a series of numbers. Yes, you have sure convinced me.
... says the *Anonymous Coward*. Snort
What would Jesus do?
Hahahahahaha
Yeah, thanks for setting Jesus' voting record straight.
Who Wants Jack Daniel's?
I tend to be skeptical of polls in general. Are the differences between Fox polls and, say, MSNBC polls within statistical error? How are their questions phrased?
Lies, damn lies, etc.
Being for something is really better than being against anything.
Head over to my other post, and tell me what you think.