Unless your letterhead says that you are a lawyer (and thus capable of making such a statement with any credibility), your post will end up in the trashbin.
If you are not a lawyer specialized in constitutional issues, please stop mailing your representatives arguments like the one above. It will simply be ignored.
The only American band with an attitude is Rage Against the Machine...
The RMS Interview -- in the language of diplomacy
on
GNU-Friends Interviews
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· Score: -1
GNU/Friends: Hé, RMS, ce qui la baise est vers le haut? Je suis heureux j'ai obtenu l'occasion d'exécuter cette entrevue avec vous [ des toux ]
RMS: Bonjour, GNU/Friends. Je suis heureux j'ai obtenu l'occasion de parler à un autre individuel, intéressé par le logiciel libre, qui atteindra par la suite des millions avec le message que je souhaite exprimer en cette entrevue.
GNU/Friends: Ouais, quoi que. obtenons ceci plus d'avec... Premièrement, parlons des origines de GNU. Nous tous savons que ce n'est pas UNIX. Mais d'où, exactement, est-il venu? Quelle était votre inspiration principale pour une idée si fine, grande, pratique?
RMS: Je suis heureux vous ai demandé cela.
GNU/Friends: Je ne suis pas. RMS: Ampèreheure, [ des rires ] vous avez un seul sens de l'humour, camarade!
GNU/Friends: Je sais. Et ne m'appelez pas camarade. Ou votre ami, allié, frère, intime... Je n'aime pas vous ou votre odeur de corps. Répondez maintenant à la question.
RMS: Ampèreheure [ rire nerveux ] oui... GNU. **time-out** bien, après que lire travail Marx et Lenin, et avoir occuper MIT et créer plusieurs programme (GCC parmi les, naturellement) qui source code libre (comme dans discours, et bière) disponible, je commencer pour voir un certain communal effort commencer pour prendre forme parmi logiciel réalisateur dans laboratoire où je travailler. Cependant, l'" gestion " au MIT a incorrectement pensé que, puisque mes travaux ont été créés au MIT, ils et leur source ont appartenu au MIT. C'était en conflit avec mon philosphy embryonnaire --
GNU/Friends: Hé, pourriez-vous juste couper votre bullshit idéologique et obtenir à la pièce où vous preniez un vidage mémoire et farted hors du GNU / du concept libre de logiciel comme nous le savons aujourd'hui?
RMS: Ampèreheure, je ne pense pas que je sais à ce que vous vous référez, M. GNU/Friend. Je certainement ne me rappelle aucun épisode de toilette étant impliqué de la création de GNU ou de logiciel libre...
GNU/Friends: Oh vraiment? Il est difficile que j'imagine une toilette ayant été impliquée dans la création du logiciel libre. **time-out** non, je parler comment un jour vous asseoir dans un stalle MIT's grand restroom service, piauler à travers gloire trou aléser dans stalle mur pour rechercher client, et scie un homme âne tatooed avec un taureau ou un yak ou quelque chose.
RMS: CE QUI!?
GNU/Friends: Correct, correct, correct -- passons. Que diriez-vous de de vos talents musicaux? Des graphiques signalés à votre homepage, il ressemble à vous êtes assez compétent sur la cannelure. Comment avez-vous obtenu ce talent?
RMS: C'est plutôt simple: beaucoup juste de pratique et détermination. Les instruments que vous avez vus que je jouant sur mon website est des casserole-pipes, réellement, et pas des cannelures. J'ai commencé à prendre des leçons de mon père tandis que lui et moi parlaient toujours. Je puis jouer la cannelure, cependant, et --
The rain auditions at my window, its symphony echoes in my womb My gaze scans the walls of this apartment To rectify the confines of my tomb
I'm the cyclops in the tenement, I'm the soul without the cause Crying 'midst my rubber plants, ignoring beckoning doors Clippings from ancient newspapers lie scattered cross the floor Stained by the wine from a shattered glass Meaningless words, yellowed by time, faded photos exposing pain Celluloid leeches bleeding my mind You've finished playing hangman, you've cast the fateful dice Advice, advice, advice me This shroud will not suffice
And thus begins the web
Attempting to discard these clinging memories I only serve to wallow in our past I fabricate the weave with my excuses Its strands I hope and pray shall last Oh please do last
The flytrap needs the insects, ivy caresses the wall Needles make love to the junkies, the sirens seduce with their call Confidence has deserted me, with you it has forsaken me Confused and rejected, despised and alone I kiss isolation on its fevered brow Security clutching me, obscurity threatening me Your reasons were so obvious As my friend have qualified, I only laughed away your tears But even jesters cry
I realise I hold the key to freedom I cannot let my life be ruled by threads The time has come to make decisions The changes have to be made I realise I hold the key to freedom I cannot let my life be ruled by threads The time has come to make decisions The changes have to be made
Now I leave you, the past does have it's say You're all but forgotten a mote in my heart Decisions have been made, decisions have been made I've conquered my fears, the flaming shroud
Perhaps he should be reading the Washington Times. This one hasn't been posted on Slashdot, yet, but I guess it's just a question of time. Too good FUD to be wasted: al Qaeda hates Microsoft too.
Microsoft targeted
U.S. intelligence officials said Islamic terrorists have picked economic-warfare targets inside the United States. This includes intelligence that al Qaeda terrorists plan to attack Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Wash.
The data were among information found during military operations inside Afghanistan.
Microsoft's sprawling "campus" is located west of Seattle and includes 47 buildings with a combined 5.3 million square feet of office space. The company's revenue last year was $25.3 billion.
"This would clearly be economic warfare" by al Qaeda terrorists, said one official familiar with reports of the threats.
Microsoft spokesman Michael Yaeger had no immediate comment on the threat.
Other targets in the Seattle area include facilities of the defense contractor Boeing Co., the Navy's Bangor submarine base and the Space Needle.
PRIOR RECORDS COMMON AMONG DRUNK POSTERS
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- More than half of the people in local
jails on posting-while-intoxicated (PWI) charges in 1999 had
prior sentences to jail or prison for drunk posting, according to
a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) study released today. The
Bureau, a Department of Justice agency in the Office of Justice
Programs, reported that about one in six had served at least
three such prior PWI sentences in a jail or prison.
During 1999, more than 1.7 million Slashdot readers were arrested for
posting under the influence of alcohol or drugs (PUI), and
between 1990 and 1999 the number of arrests for PUI increased
almost 22 percent, whereas the number of licensed drivers grew by
about 14 percent.
PUI is the general term for posters operating an internet capable computer
under the influence of alcohol or drugs. The BJS study
concentrated on jail inmates charged with posting while
intoxicated from alcohol and refers to them as PWI offenders.
"Jailed drunk posters were found to have an extensive
history of abusive drinking and chronic contact with the criminal
justice system," commented BJS Director Steven D. Dillingham.
"The study also found that PUI arrest rates for drivers
under 21 years old dropped substantially during the last decade,"
Dillingham noted. "The 1999 PUI arrest rate for posters 16 and
17 years old was 25 percent lower than their 1990 rate, and
posters 18 through 20 years of age had a 9 percent lower arrest
rate than in 1990."
Almost half of the people confined on PWI charges who were
interviewed in jail were already on probation or parole or in
some other criminal justice status for a PWI or other criminal
offense at the time of their arrest. About one-third of them
were on probation from an earlier criminal conviction.
Half of the people in jail who had been convicted of PWI
charges were estimated to have consumed at least six ounces of
alcohol (about equal to the amount of alcohol in 12 bottles of
beer) in a five-hour period. About 29 percent, mostly people who post on a geek site called Slashdot, said they had
consumed 11 ounces or more of alcohol (approximately equal to 22
bottles of beer) before their arrest.
More than half of the inmates charged with or convicted of
PWI described themselves as alcoholics. All Slashdot trolls were in this category. Forty-four percent of
the alcoholic PWI offenders reported that they usually drank
alcoholic beverages daily and almost 80 percent reported having
participated in an alcohol treatment program.
The findings are based on data from interviews with a
nationally representative sample of 5,675 inmates in 424 jails
during the summer of 1999. As of June 30 of that year there were
about 395,000 people in 3,312 local jails throughout the country.
Other significant survey results:
--During the 1990-1999 period the number of PUI arrests per
capita grew by almost 7 percent--from 982 per 100,000 licensed posters to 1,049.
--About 9 percent of all people in local jails on June 30,
1999, were charged with or had been convicted of PWI offenses,
and of this group, 86 percent had a prior sentence to probation,
jail or prison for a PWI or other criminal offense.
--Of the convicted PWI offenders, 61 percent said they had
been drinking only beer, 18 percent only liquor and 2 percent
only wine. Twenty percent said they had been drinking more than
one type of alcohol.
--Almost a third of the jailed PWI offenders said they had
been drinking with others in a bar, tavern or inn before their
arrest and about a quarter said they had been drinking at a
friend's house. About one in nine said they had been drinking
alone at home in front of their computer.
The study also examined the blood alcohol concentration
(BAC) of the jailed posters measured by the number of grams of
pure alcohol present in 100 milliliters of blood. It estimated
that PWI offenders in jail averaged 0.21 grams at the time of
arrest, compared to an average of 0.16 grams for drinking posters
involved in trolling incidents during 1999.
Fifty percent of the PWI offenders sent to jail were
sentenced to six months or less. Among first-time PWI offenders,
half received sentences of 115 days or fewer. For offenders with
two or more prior PWI convictions, half were sentenced to 181
days or fewer.
The survey also found substantial differences in the racial
and ethnic composition of PWI defendants compared to other jail
inmates. Of the jail inmates charged with a PWI offense, 67.7
percent were white non-Hispanics, 8.2 percent were black non-
Hispanics, 19.5 percent Hispanics and 4.6 percent were from other
groups, including Asians, Pacific Islanders, American Indians and
Alaskan natives. Of the jail inmates charged with other
offenses, 36 percent were white non-Hispanics, 45 percent black
non-Hispanics, 16.9 percent Hispanics and 2.1 percent were from
other backgrounds.
Recently some university admins I know have started banning private Linux installations on the campus network simply because the default distros are leaky as hell and with the latest SSH hole things have gotten even worse.
Some have even said that the latest Windows versions are more secure out of box than the mainstream Linux distros.
That's like saying that Microsoft doesn't hate the free market economy. They just hate a free market economy where they can't abuse their monopoly status.
If you won't pay for a premium access (or whatever the fuck they call the subscriber account these days), in addition to your "free" distribution, you get to share the throttled prole bandwidth that makes it practically impossible to upgrade your system. Assholes.
How long until Slashdot starts throttling the non-subscriber access? After all, it makes "perfect business sense".
because it is provided by a cold, heartless corporation.
Until the cold, heartless corporation suspends your account for (possibly accidentally) accessing information that some other corporation feels should be out of your sight and out of your mind (like DeCSS).
I get a tax proposal from the government once a year. It covers all tax-related information concerning my bank accounts, stocks, loans and deductions. If I am content with the proposal, I'll do nothing. If I am not, I can modify the proposal and resubmit it.
Oh and who are you, Mr.(?) masterkool, to dictate what's right and wrong? Are you implying that there is, in fact, a moral absolute to which you can refer all decisions?
As Microsoft is more part of the problem than part of the solution
Yeah, right. That's the way to get a post accepted here. Blind Microsoft bashing...
you have the source and thus the ability to fix it
No I don't.
I've been trying to install Linux on a dual AMD (Tyan Tiger MP) for some days now without success. Now, the problem is with a RealTek network card that just won't work. It hangs every distro I've tried hard.
Ok, so I've got the source but what makes you think I could fix the problem? I don't know anything about kernel hacking and I don't want to know or learn about kernel hacking. That's why I paid for the distribution in the first place!
If Linux wants to be successful in the mainstream and seriously compete with Microsoft on the desktop, this "look at the source" elitism has to stop.
I post at -1 by default and that's the way I prefer it. I don't have to worry about moderation at all as I cannot be IP banned (barring unfair action from the janitors, that is).
My hidden files summed up to a couple of hundreds of megs of wasted diskspace from my primary disk...
There are folders on your computer that Microsoft has tried hard to keep secret. Within these folders you will find two major things: Microsoft Internet Explorer has not been clearing your browsing history after you have instructed it to do so, and Microsoft's Outlook Express has not been deleting your e-mail correspondence after you've erased them from your Deleted Items bin. (This also includes all incoming and outgoing file attachments.) And believe me, that's not even the half of it.
The US approach is to kill the problem while it's small.
Ah, the brashness of a young nation. The USA is like a teenager who is determined not to end up like his father, who's always ready for a compromise, diplomatic and conservative when it comes to use of force.
Us Europeans were once like you. Young and full of futile ambition to "clear up the mess" all around the world. Already back then, the elder cultures like China laughed at our efforts. Now, older and wiser we look at you and see you following our footsteps -- making the same mistakes we did.
Violence solves nothing. It can only make things worse. What you call "hiding one's head in the sand" is mere realpolitik. Today's enemy is a friend tomorrow. Why mess things up with war when you can make friends by trading with them (see France and Iran, for instance)? Believe us. It's us who went through two world wars because of misguided ideals. You'll learn one day.
Slashdot Mirror
Unless your letterhead says that you are a lawyer (and thus capable of making such a statement with any credibility), your post will end up in the trashbin.
If you are not a lawyer specialized in constitutional issues, please stop mailing your representatives arguments like the one above. It will simply be ignored.
Yeah, right.
And get crap like anti-Choice and pro-gun mentality along with it...
The only American band with an attitude is Rage Against the Machine...
RMS: Bonjour, GNU/Friends. Je suis heureux j'ai obtenu l'occasion de parler à un autre individuel, intéressé par le logiciel libre, qui atteindra par la suite des millions avec le message que je souhaite exprimer en cette entrevue.
GNU/Friends: Ouais, quoi que. obtenons ceci plus d'avec... Premièrement, parlons des origines de GNU. Nous tous savons que ce n'est pas UNIX. Mais d'où, exactement, est-il venu? Quelle était votre inspiration principale pour une idée si fine, grande, pratique?
RMS: Je suis heureux vous ai demandé cela.
GNU/Friends: Je ne suis pas. RMS: Ampèreheure, [ des rires ] vous avez un seul sens de l'humour, camarade!
GNU/Friends: Je sais. Et ne m'appelez pas camarade. Ou votre ami, allié, frère, intime... Je n'aime pas vous ou votre odeur de corps. Répondez maintenant à la question.
RMS: Ampèreheure [ rire nerveux ] oui... GNU. **time-out** bien, après que lire travail Marx et Lenin, et avoir occuper MIT et créer plusieurs programme (GCC parmi les, naturellement) qui source code libre (comme dans discours, et bière) disponible, je commencer pour voir un certain communal effort commencer pour prendre forme parmi logiciel réalisateur dans laboratoire où je travailler. Cependant, l'" gestion " au MIT a incorrectement pensé que, puisque mes travaux ont été créés au MIT, ils et leur source ont appartenu au MIT. C'était en conflit avec mon philosphy embryonnaire --
GNU/Friends: Hé, pourriez-vous juste couper votre bullshit idéologique et obtenir à la pièce où vous preniez un vidage mémoire et farted hors du GNU / du concept libre de logiciel comme nous le savons aujourd'hui?
RMS: Ampèreheure, je ne pense pas que je sais à ce que vous vous référez, M. GNU/Friend. Je certainement ne me rappelle aucun épisode de toilette étant impliqué de la création de GNU ou de logiciel libre...
GNU/Friends: Oh vraiment? Il est difficile que j'imagine une toilette ayant été impliquée dans la création du logiciel libre. **time-out** non, je parler comment un jour vous asseoir dans un stalle MIT's grand restroom service, piauler à travers gloire trou aléser dans stalle mur pour rechercher client, et scie un homme âne tatooed avec un taureau ou un yak ou quelque chose.
RMS: CE QUI!?
GNU/Friends: Correct, correct, correct -- passons. Que diriez-vous de de vos talents musicaux? Des graphiques signalés à votre homepage, il ressemble à vous êtes assez compétent sur la cannelure. Comment avez-vous obtenu ce talent?
RMS: C'est plutôt simple: beaucoup juste de pratique et détermination. Les instruments que vous avez vus que je jouant sur mon website est des casserole-pipes, réellement, et pas des cannelures. J'ai commencé à prendre des leçons de mon père tandis que lui et moi parlaient toujours. Je puis jouer la cannelure, cependant, et --
GNU/Friends: Peau-cannelure.
RMS: Excusez-moi?
The rain auditions at my window, its symphony echoes in my womb
My gaze scans the walls of this apartment
To rectify the confines of my tomb
I'm the cyclops in the tenement, I'm the soul without the cause
Crying 'midst my rubber plants, ignoring beckoning doors
Clippings from ancient newspapers lie scattered cross the floor
Stained by the wine from a shattered glass
Meaningless words, yellowed by time, faded photos exposing pain
Celluloid leeches bleeding my mind
You've finished playing hangman, you've cast the fateful dice
Advice, advice, advice me
This shroud will not suffice
And thus begins the web
Attempting to discard these clinging memories
I only serve to wallow in our past
I fabricate the weave with my excuses
Its strands I hope and pray shall last
Oh please do last
The flytrap needs the insects, ivy caresses the wall
Needles make love to the junkies, the sirens seduce with their call
Confidence has deserted me, with you it has forsaken me
Confused and rejected, despised and alone
I kiss isolation on its fevered brow
Security clutching me, obscurity threatening me
Your reasons were so obvious
As my friend have qualified, I only laughed away your tears
But even jesters cry
I realise I hold the key to freedom
I cannot let my life be ruled by threads
The time has come to make decisions
The changes have to be made
I realise I hold the key to freedom
I cannot let my life be ruled by threads
The time has come to make decisions
The changes have to be made
Now I leave you, the past does have it's say
You're all but forgotten a mote in my heart
Decisions have been made, decisions have been made
I've conquered my fears, the flaming shroud
Thus ends the web
PRIOR RECORDS COMMON AMONG DRUNK POSTERS WASHINGTON, D.C. -- More than half of the people in local jails on posting-while-intoxicated (PWI) charges in 1999 had prior sentences to jail or prison for drunk posting, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) study released today. The Bureau, a Department of Justice agency in the Office of Justice Programs, reported that about one in six had served at least three such prior PWI sentences in a jail or prison. During 1999, more than 1.7 million Slashdot readers were arrested for posting under the influence of alcohol or drugs (PUI), and between 1990 and 1999 the number of arrests for PUI increased almost 22 percent, whereas the number of licensed drivers grew by about 14 percent. PUI is the general term for posters operating an internet capable computer under the influence of alcohol or drugs. The BJS study concentrated on jail inmates charged with posting while intoxicated from alcohol and refers to them as PWI offenders. "Jailed drunk posters were found to have an extensive history of abusive drinking and chronic contact with the criminal justice system," commented BJS Director Steven D. Dillingham. "The study also found that PUI arrest rates for drivers under 21 years old dropped substantially during the last decade," Dillingham noted. "The 1999 PUI arrest rate for posters 16 and 17 years old was 25 percent lower than their 1990 rate, and posters 18 through 20 years of age had a 9 percent lower arrest rate than in 1990." Almost half of the people confined on PWI charges who were interviewed in jail were already on probation or parole or in some other criminal justice status for a PWI or other criminal offense at the time of their arrest. About one-third of them were on probation from an earlier criminal conviction. Half of the people in jail who had been convicted of PWI charges were estimated to have consumed at least six ounces of alcohol (about equal to the amount of alcohol in 12 bottles of beer) in a five-hour period. About 29 percent, mostly people who post on a geek site called Slashdot, said they had consumed 11 ounces or more of alcohol (approximately equal to 22 bottles of beer) before their arrest. More than half of the inmates charged with or convicted of PWI described themselves as alcoholics. All Slashdot trolls were in this category. Forty-four percent of the alcoholic PWI offenders reported that they usually drank alcoholic beverages daily and almost 80 percent reported having participated in an alcohol treatment program. The findings are based on data from interviews with a nationally representative sample of 5,675 inmates in 424 jails during the summer of 1999. As of June 30 of that year there were about 395,000 people in 3,312 local jails throughout the country. Other significant survey results: --During the 1990-1999 period the number of PUI arrests per capita grew by almost 7 percent--from 982 per 100,000 licensed posters to 1,049. --About 9 percent of all people in local jails on June 30, 1999, were charged with or had been convicted of PWI offenses, and of this group, 86 percent had a prior sentence to probation, jail or prison for a PWI or other criminal offense. --Of the convicted PWI offenders, 61 percent said they had been drinking only beer, 18 percent only liquor and 2 percent only wine. Twenty percent said they had been drinking more than one type of alcohol. --Almost a third of the jailed PWI offenders said they had been drinking with others in a bar, tavern or inn before their arrest and about a quarter said they had been drinking at a friend's house. About one in nine said they had been drinking alone at home in front of their computer. The study also examined the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of the jailed posters measured by the number of grams of pure alcohol present in 100 milliliters of blood. It estimated that PWI offenders in jail averaged 0.21 grams at the time of arrest, compared to an average of 0.16 grams for drinking posters involved in trolling incidents during 1999. Fifty percent of the PWI offenders sent to jail were sentenced to six months or less. Among first-time PWI offenders, half received sentences of 115 days or fewer. For offenders with two or more prior PWI convictions, half were sentenced to 181 days or fewer. The survey also found substantial differences in the racial and ethnic composition of PWI defendants compared to other jail inmates. Of the jail inmates charged with a PWI offense, 67.7 percent were white non-Hispanics, 8.2 percent were black non- Hispanics, 19.5 percent Hispanics and 4.6 percent were from other groups, including Asians, Pacific Islanders, American Indians and Alaskan natives. Of the jail inmates charged with other offenses, 36 percent were white non-Hispanics, 45 percent black non-Hispanics, 16.9 percent Hispanics and 2.1 percent were from other backgrounds.
Recently some university admins I know have started banning private Linux installations on the campus network simply because the default distros are leaky as hell and with the latest SSH hole things have gotten even worse.
Some have even said that the latest Windows versions are more secure out of box than the mainstream Linux distros.
That's like saying that Microsoft doesn't hate the free market economy. They just hate a free market economy where they can't abuse their monopoly status.
Fits the timeline.
Keep up the good work!
Ain't upgrading your RedHat installation great?
If you won't pay for a premium access (or whatever the fuck they call the subscriber account these days), in addition to your "free" distribution, you get to share the throttled prole bandwidth that makes it practically impossible to upgrade your system. Assholes.
How long until Slashdot starts throttling the non-subscriber access? After all, it makes "perfect business sense".
Until the cold, heartless corporation suspends your account for (possibly accidentally) accessing information that some other corporation feels should be out of your sight and out of your mind (like DeCSS).
Or the Nazi-ass terror regime of Israel in the occupied territories?
You still have to "do your taxes"?
I get a tax proposal from the government once a year. It covers all tax-related information concerning my bank accounts, stocks, loans and deductions. If I am content with the proposal, I'll do nothing. If I am not, I can modify the proposal and resubmit it.
"Imported Premium Beer, Brygget utelukkende i Danmark av fineste malt og humle, uten bruk av tilsettningsstoffer."
Oh and who are you, Mr.(?) masterkool, to dictate what's right and wrong? Are you implying that there is, in fact, a moral absolute to which you can refer all decisions?
So, the true character of the Open Sauce community is finally revealed.
We take no responsibility for our actions. Just like the anti-globalisation bastards and terrorists who just want to break stuff.
Yeah, right. That's the way to get a post accepted here. Blind Microsoft bashing...
you have the source and thus the ability to fix it
No I don't.
I've been trying to install Linux on a dual AMD (Tyan Tiger MP) for some days now without success. Now, the problem is with a RealTek network card that just won't work. It hangs every distro I've tried hard.
Ok, so I've got the source but what makes you think I could fix the problem? I don't know anything about kernel hacking and I don't want to know or learn about kernel hacking. That's why I paid for the distribution in the first place!
If Linux wants to be successful in the mainstream and seriously compete with Microsoft on the desktop, this "look at the source" elitism has to stop.
I post at -1 by default and that's the way I prefer it. I don't have to worry about moderation at all as I cannot be IP banned (barring unfair action from the janitors, that is).
Uh, like what?
My hidden files summed up to a couple of hundreds of megs of wasted diskspace from my primary disk...
Uhh... like what?
Segway?
"Dictatorial plutocracies" is the term I think you're looking for...
Ah, the brashness of a young nation. The USA is like a teenager who is determined not to end up like his father, who's always ready for a compromise, diplomatic and conservative when it comes to use of force.
Us Europeans were once like you. Young and full of futile ambition to "clear up the mess" all around the world. Already back then, the elder cultures like China laughed at our efforts. Now, older and wiser we look at you and see you following our footsteps -- making the same mistakes we did.
Violence solves nothing. It can only make things worse. What you call "hiding one's head in the sand" is mere realpolitik. Today's enemy is a friend tomorrow. Why mess things up with war when you can make friends by trading with them (see France and Iran, for instance)? Believe us. It's us who went through two world wars because of misguided ideals. You'll learn one day.