"As a Canadian I am sorry!" How... ignorant! All this is off topic, but your post is so ignorant that I have to respond.
In this post I'll list some of the things the US have done to the arab world, I don't mean to offend anyone, I know the American leaders don't represent to thinking/aware part of the population.
First, Israel - the American support enables the Israeli to be as ruthless as they are. Think civilian victims every second week.
The US has done more than that to the world. I talked to an friend origining from the Middle East just after 11/9. He said that the entire arab world hates the US (something I don't believe). He had a 10-15 minute list of offenses the US had done to it.
Like helping Saddam Hussein get to power (CIA!) in Iraq, in Iran they were instrumental in the fall of the democratic/parlamentic regime, they help the Saudi regime staying in power with their support.
I too, like most of the Canadians, believe the US are to take some responsibility for the attacks on them.
And I too think it's cowardly attacking civilians - the attack was cowardly. Then you can argue that the Americans are somewhat responsible for the very frequent attacks on civilians in Israel due to their support, and very responsible for the losses of civilian life in their attacks on civilians in Afghanistan.
And, was it in Jordania (?) a few years ago that they attacked a drug factory with cruise missiles believing it was a factory for the manufacturing of biologic weapons? More innocent losses of civilian life in the Middle East due to the US.
Those attacks are cowardly, and done by Americans. And the list can be made much longer.
Actually I'm listening to Swedish radio now. They ask people in the street (I think it's some in Stockholm and some in New York): "do you believe Usama bin Laden or president Bush are responsible for the most civilian losses?". All Swedes who were to respond had to think a while before they answered Usama, but they had to ponder it a while. When someone is so ignorant as you are not seeing the entire picture, just seeing "~we are the good guys" - I get *so* offended.
The US had & have created some resentment among the people in the Middle East, and that in some circles appears to manifest itself as hatred. The Americans ought to be aware of at least some of their (former) actions, to think that the US is totally innocent is *very* ignorant.
I unable to play Stallman singing " Free Software song
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Does anyone have a link to a music file of *him* singing it in another music format (ogg/mp3)?
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I *really* look forward to Doom 3. Does anyone know if it will be released for Linux?
the swedish paper "Aftonbladet", which in the 1830:s annoyed the government so much that it was banned. The next day/week they published themselves under the name "Aftonbladet 2" (or something similar), was banned again, after which they published the new paper "Aftonbladet 3" and so on, I think they reached something like "Aftonbladet 80", until they got accepted/tolerated by the swedish state.
If I understand it correctly, licq supports encrypted messaging. My friends are all Windows-users, so I haven't been able to try it... Does licq compile under Windows? (if so, I would use it those times I "have to" boot up in Windows for game-playing...)
Not likely - the goal of the EU army would be peacekeeping, and it would consist of nothing more than aircraft, ground forces and personell like field hospitals, Sweden has two of them standing by.
The satellites and cruise missiles and first strikes would be the responsibility of the USA.
Nobody in Europe wants to throw money in the sea by uselessly trying to rival USA. The only use of force on the horizon between USA and Europe is the proposed American mandate/bill for freeing imprisoned American war-criminals, a mandate giving the right of attacking even European countries (think International Crime Court in Haag and people like Kissinger)
The post reminds me of one of my favorite quotes, actually from "the Mythical Man Month", first chapter, Brooks deals with the question of why it is fun to program, what a programmer gains from it
"... Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures...."
Considering that 2/3:s of the earths area is water, and some of the surface is uninhabitated, what's the risk of an asteroid of the same size hitting a populated area if it came today?
Does someone have any figures?
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"As a Canadian I am sorry!"
How... ignorant! All this is off topic, but your post is so ignorant that I have to respond.
In this post I'll list some of the things the US have done to the arab world, I don't mean to offend anyone, I know the American leaders don't represent to thinking/aware part of the population.
First, Israel - the American support enables the Israeli to be as ruthless as they are. Think civilian victims every second week.
The US has done more than that to the world. I talked to an friend origining from the Middle East just after 11/9. He said that the entire arab world hates the US (something I don't believe). He had a 10-15 minute list of offenses the US had done to it.
Like helping Saddam Hussein get to power (CIA!) in Iraq, in Iran they were instrumental in the fall of the democratic/parlamentic regime, they help the Saudi regime staying in power with their support.
I too, like most of the Canadians, believe the US are to take some responsibility for the attacks on them.
And I too think it's cowardly attacking civilians - the attack was cowardly. Then you can argue that the Americans are somewhat responsible for the very frequent attacks on civilians in Israel due to their support, and very responsible for the losses of civilian life in their attacks on civilians in Afghanistan.
And, was it in Jordania (?) a few years ago that they attacked a drug factory with cruise missiles believing it was a factory for the manufacturing of biologic weapons? More innocent losses of civilian life in the Middle East due to the US.
Those attacks are cowardly, and done by Americans. And the list can be made much longer.
Actually I'm listening to Swedish radio now. They ask people in the street (I think it's some in Stockholm and some in New York): "do you believe Usama bin Laden or president Bush are responsible for the most civilian losses?". All Swedes who were to respond had to think a while before they answered Usama, but they had to ponder it a while. When someone is so ignorant as you are not seeing the entire picture, just seeing "~we are the good guys" - I get *so* offended.
The US had & have created some resentment among the people in the Middle East, and that in some circles appears to manifest itself as hatred. The Americans ought to be aware of at least some of their (former) actions, to think that the US is totally innocent is *very* ignorant.
A better way: Universal currency converter
It does!!! /dev/audio), but this one is much better!!!
I got the original version to play now (with cat >
It rocks pretty hard!!!
I unable to play Stallman singing " Free Software song ". Does anyone have a link to a music file of *him* singing it in another music format (ogg/mp3)?
I *really* look forward to Doom 3. Does anyone know if it will be released for Linux?
mother nature is binary compatible ;=)
the swedish paper "Aftonbladet", which in the 1830:s annoyed the government so much that it was banned. The next day/week they published themselves under the name "Aftonbladet 2" (or something similar), was banned again, after which they published the new paper "Aftonbladet 3" and so on, I think they reached something like "Aftonbladet 80", until they got accepted/tolerated by the swedish state.
If I understand it correctly, licq supports encrypted messaging.
My friends are all Windows-users, so I haven't been able to try it...
Does licq compile under Windows? (if so, I would use it those times I "have to" boot up in Windows for game-playing...)
EU building a big army to rival USA?
Not likely - the goal of the EU army would be peacekeeping, and it would consist of nothing more than aircraft, ground forces and personell like field hospitals, Sweden has two of them standing by.
The satellites and cruise missiles and first strikes would be the responsibility of the USA.
Nobody in Europe wants to throw money in the sea by uselessly trying to rival USA. The only use of force on the horizon between USA and Europe is the proposed American mandate/bill for freeing imprisoned American war-criminals, a mandate giving the right of attacking even European countries (think International Crime Court in Haag and people like Kissinger)
The post reminds me of one of my favorite quotes, actually from "the Mythical Man Month", first chapter, Brooks deals with the question of why it is fun to program, what a programmer gains from it
..."
"... Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
It's so... right on target.
OpenBSD last (&first) time, the group "wheel" was created (for those users who are to be allowed to su to root).
I've been wondering since: what's the meaning and origin of the use of the word "wheel" here (there?) ?
I'll buy my Star Trek-loving girl friend property on the moon. She'll appreciate it.
Considering that 2/3:s of the earths area is water, and some of the surface is uninhabitated, what's the risk of an asteroid of the same size hitting a populated area if it came today? Does someone have any figures?
Yet another reason to outlaw Linux/*BSD