To get rid of that cancer on the human race? Absolutely. The UN had its thumb up its ass and was unwilling to do a thing to stop the murder, rape, and torture carried out on a daily basis in Iraq. It was unwilling to enforce any of the eighteen Security Council resolutions passed against Iraq. It looked the other way while France, Germany, Russia, and North Korea kept selling Saddam weapons systems and related equipment. Saddam Hussein was a threat to the world on the same scale as Hitler and Stalin. That we eliminated that threat at a loss of hundreds (vs. the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands lost in your average war) is an acceptable trade for the millions in Iraq who are no longer under his thumb...or for the billions elsewhere in the world who are a little bit safer tonight.
So quick with your answer. You must not have much love in your life, I guess. Saddam was never a threat to anyone outside of the middle east, and he wasn't a threat to anyone outside of southern Iraq since 1991.
You forgot to mention that Saddam's death toll, which is by most estimates about three orders of magnitude greater, is no longer increasing.
17 Iraqis died just yesterday, 20 times as many as American solders. And tens of thousands of Iraqis died in the war. This is hardly the end of suffering in Iraq, but hopefully it will be the beginning of then end.
And incase you were sleeping before the war started, inspectors were back in Iraq before the war started. Hans Blix himself has said that military action was not necessary. How can you claim that UN demands were not being met when the people responsible for implementing those said they were?
In the end, this will probably a good thing for the people of Iraq, but I think it's doubtful that bush would have been able to gather the political support he needed if He'd tried to sell the war on a "Saddam is evil" meme in the first place. The reason we had to go to war now is because of the WMD that the administration claimed he had. Bush should not have lied to get us into a war. And if he wasn't lying, if he actually believed what he was saying, then that's far, far worse.
Bonus question: why would the US government fine you $50,000 if you travel to Cuba, while China is A-OK? They both suffer under tyrannical regimes known for brutally crushing opposition and are known for human rights abuses. What's the dif?
Anti-Communist Chinese "exiles" all live in Taiwan, not Miami, and therefore don't have a huge voting block in a large swing state. If Taiwan had been lost and all the exiles had come to say, Arazona, we never would have normalized relations with Cuba
.The only textbooks I recall running across that mentioned him would've been for AFJROTC...and there's a fair chance most of the kids taking that would've learned of Chuck Yeager on their own anyway. About the only aerospace milestones you're likely to run across in the average haskrool history textbook are the Wright brothers' first flight and Apollo 11...and even those aren't guaranteed. (It's not even guaranteed that most kids will ever take a real history course before college...instead of history and civics, they're more likely to end up in some watered-down "social studies" classes instead.)
I think your use of a rush-Limbaugh-ism ought to disqualify your comments in general, ellipsis boi. No doubt the watered-down 'social-studies' classes are the result of 'the liberals' trying to keep real history from the minds of impressionable yoots where they would learn truth, justice, and the neo-con way which is implied by true world history. Do you have any facts, figures, statistics of any kind to back up your wild assertions?
"If Howard Dean had his way, Saddam Hussein would still be in power today, not in prison..."
-Joe Lieberman
This is true. And 459 Americans who are now dead, would be alive. If you could make the choice of saddam being in power or sacrificing the lives of people you loved, would you have made that choice. This war was not supposed to be about brining one man to justice. Joe Leiberman is a punk.
I've found pages that were obviously personal start pages in my logs for autopr0n, and google indexed mine and put it up as the third search result on my real name (amazingly, they actualy removed it from their index when I emailed them).
"Ma'am, your husband died doing what he volunteered to do. He got killed 'over there' because every Islamic thug we kill 'over there' is one less Islamic thug who can eventually try his luck at killing civilians 'over here', but sometimes the Islamic thugs get lucky 'over there' too. War is hell."
Well, the point is to make her feel better, not worse by treating her like a 3-year old. You think she dosn't know what the words "Iraq" and "America" mean? You think she dosn't know the diffrence between Al-Quaida and the Fedayeen Saddam?
Duh? What does the UK (or AU) labor party have to do with the labor movement? Look at what they actualy did, rather then their name. The Nazis had nothing to do with any sort of normaly defined socialism
Sorry, that won't help. The vast majority of spam these days comes from completely compromized systems. Along with the viruses, another thing you can thank Microsoft's shitty security for. The spam problem won't be solved untill teh vast majority of computers are completly un-hackable, or untill SMTP is improved
The Catholics are all about forgiveness? As long as she (as a woman) doesn't try to become a priest, gay, or give out condoms to any third worlders, I doubt she'll be excommunicated
Have people sit around and manualy count votes? Whats wrong with simple-scan tron sheets? And how do punch-cards not produce a paper trail? What does cringly think they were counting during the florida recount?
Because you left out Good 'ole tim mcveigh. Should we deport all redneck republicans along with the mexicans? Actualy, that would be a pretty good tradeoff.
The cost of getting fuel to troupes during the invasion of Iraq was $90/galon. I'm sure it's a lot more to ship it to Antarctica, you think they get regular deliveries from the tanker trucks there? I'd be willing to bet that with transportation costs, fuel could be worth over $100/galon.
Here's another idea. How about discouraging
illegal immigrants that cost taxpayers billions of
dollars from breaking our laws, maybe by sending
them home? Or even making them pay their own way
while they're here? Oh no? That's not compassionate
enough? Free schools, hospitals and prisons for them!
How do illegal immigrants cost billions in taxpayer money? Certainly, it would cost far, far more money to police the border and actually locate and deport everyone who wasn't supposed to be here, in addition to turning the country into an orwelian nightmare to do it. Illegal immigrants also contribute to the economy by doing jobs that Americans would frown upon, and by working more cheaply (say, three houses could be build with illegal labor, where one could be build with full-rate American labor). Also, many illegals do in fact pay taxes, because their income is automatically withheld from their paychecks. their kids even die for this country. As far as schools are consourned, all children born in the US are citizens, regardless of the status of their parents. And how exactly would you make them pay for their stay in prison? Or do you think we should just dump them back in Mexico so they can hop back across the border if they are caught committing a crime?
One of the most annoying things about slashdot is their tendency to post completely vacuous science stories. Would it have been that hard to look up the actual paper before posting, or at least any information at all? All this story tells us is that it doesn't involve storing the photons in an atom as other researchers did. Oh, and that it's "very clever". How nice.
Does the laziness of slashdot "editors" truly know no bounds? If you're not interested in doing the work, why not find people who are?
No, actualy you are the one who's stupid. did you even read this article posted this very day? Spammers don't give a fuck about open relays. These days they are using open proxies and ownzored boxes. This won't cost them any time, and do some of their work for them. If spammers were truly idiots, they would have been stopped by the simplest filters and preventions. God damnit if anyone one of us here can think of a work-around, so can the spammers. And plenty of us have.
Slashdot Mirror
On the one hand, microsoft using it's monopoly is a bad thing.
On the other hand, the sooner real networks dies and takes their horrible, ad-driven software with them, the better.
To get rid of that cancer on the human race? Absolutely. The UN had its thumb up its ass and was unwilling to do a thing to stop the murder, rape, and torture carried out on a daily basis in Iraq. It was unwilling to enforce any of the eighteen Security Council resolutions passed against Iraq. It looked the other way while France, Germany, Russia, and North Korea kept selling Saddam weapons systems and related equipment. Saddam Hussein was a threat to the world on the same scale as Hitler and Stalin. That we eliminated that threat at a loss of hundreds (vs. the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands lost in your average war) is an acceptable trade for the millions in Iraq who are no longer under his thumb...or for the billions elsewhere in the world who are a little bit safer tonight.
So quick with your answer. You must not have much love in your life, I guess. Saddam was never a threat to anyone outside of the middle east, and he wasn't a threat to anyone outside of southern Iraq since 1991.
You forgot to mention that Saddam's death toll, which is by most estimates about three orders of magnitude greater, is no longer increasing.
17 Iraqis died just yesterday, 20 times as many as American solders. And tens of thousands of Iraqis died in the war. This is hardly the end of suffering in Iraq, but hopefully it will be the beginning of then end.
And incase you were sleeping before the war started, inspectors were back in Iraq before the war started. Hans Blix himself has said that military action was not necessary. How can you claim that UN demands were not being met when the people responsible for implementing those said they were?
In the end, this will probably a good thing for the people of Iraq, but I think it's doubtful that bush would have been able to gather the political support he needed if He'd tried to sell the war on a "Saddam is evil" meme in the first place. The reason we had to go to war now is because of the WMD that the administration claimed he had. Bush should not have lied to get us into a war. And if he wasn't lying, if he actually believed what he was saying, then that's far, far worse.
Bonus question: why would the US government fine you $50,000 if you travel to Cuba, while China is A-OK? They both suffer under tyrannical regimes known for brutally crushing opposition and are known for human rights abuses. What's the dif?
Anti-Communist Chinese "exiles" all live in Taiwan, not Miami, and therefore don't have a huge voting block in a large swing state. If Taiwan had been lost and all the exiles had come to say, Arazona, we never would have normalized relations with Cuba
I think your use of a rush-Limbaugh-ism ought to disqualify your comments in general, ellipsis boi. No doubt the watered-down 'social-studies' classes are the result of 'the liberals' trying to keep real history from the minds of impressionable yoots where they would learn truth, justice, and the neo-con way which is implied by true world history. Do you have any facts, figures, statistics of any kind to back up your wild assertions?
"If Howard Dean had his way, Saddam Hussein would still be in power today, not in prison..." -Joe Lieberman
This is true. And 459 Americans who are now dead, would be alive. If you could make the choice of saddam being in power or sacrificing the lives of people you loved, would you have made that choice. This war was not supposed to be about brining one man to justice. Joe Leiberman is a punk.
What about programmers who make sure their code is cross platform? You know, the ones who arn't to retarded to code for more then one OS.
I've found pages that were obviously personal start pages in my logs for autopr0n, and google indexed mine and put it up as the third search result on my real name (amazingly, they actualy removed it from their index when I emailed them).
A "refer" attribute in the HTML link tag. So you could do something like . That way you could simply point people to the right place.
Sites could get around that with a cookie, of course.
"Ma'am, your husband died doing what he volunteered to do. He got killed 'over there' because every Islamic thug we kill 'over there' is one less Islamic thug who can eventually try his luck at killing civilians 'over here', but sometimes the Islamic thugs get lucky 'over there' too. War is hell."
Well, the point is to make her feel better, not worse by treating her like a 3-year old. You think she dosn't know what the words "Iraq" and "America" mean? You think she dosn't know the diffrence between Al-Quaida and the Fedayeen Saddam?
Nixon declared a "War on Cancer". and so far no one has anounced a defeat...
Duh? What does the UK (or AU) labor party have to do with the labor movement? Look at what they actualy did, rather then their name. The Nazis had nothing to do with any sort of normaly defined socialism
Sorry, that won't help. The vast majority of spam these days comes from completely compromized systems. Along with the viruses, another thing you can thank Microsoft's shitty security for. The spam problem won't be solved untill teh vast majority of computers are completly un-hackable, or untill SMTP is improved
The Catholics are all about forgiveness? As long as she (as a woman) doesn't try to become a priest, gay, or give out condoms to any third worlders, I doubt she'll be excommunicated
Have people sit around and manualy count votes? Whats wrong with simple-scan tron sheets? And how do punch-cards not produce a paper trail? What does cringly think they were counting during the florida recount?
Because you left out Good 'ole tim mcveigh. Should we deport all redneck republicans along with the mexicans? Actualy, that would be a pretty good tradeoff.
I can't compete with $10/hr indian programmers.
It's not their fault you suck.
Nevermind
Why did you say that to me?
And this improved the public's perception of spammers how?
spammers care about the public's perception of them now?
They won't sell him fuel, but they make him sleep in the fuel shed. That's just cruel :P
The cost of getting fuel to troupes during the invasion of Iraq was $90/galon. I'm sure it's a lot more to ship it to Antarctica, you think they get regular deliveries from the tanker trucks there? I'd be willing to bet that with transportation costs, fuel could be worth over $100/galon.
Here's another idea. How about discouraging illegal immigrants that cost taxpayers billions of dollars from breaking our laws, maybe by sending them home? Or even making them pay their own way while they're here? Oh no? That's not compassionate enough? Free schools, hospitals and prisons for them!
How do illegal immigrants cost billions in taxpayer money? Certainly, it would cost far, far more money to police the border and actually locate and deport everyone who wasn't supposed to be here, in addition to turning the country into an orwelian nightmare to do it. Illegal immigrants also contribute to the economy by doing jobs that Americans would frown upon, and by working more cheaply (say, three houses could be build with illegal labor, where one could be build with full-rate American labor). Also, many illegals do in fact pay taxes, because their income is automatically withheld from their paychecks. their kids even die for this country. As far as schools are consourned, all children born in the US are citizens, regardless of the status of their parents. And how exactly would you make them pay for their stay in prison? Or do you think we should just dump them back in Mexico so they can hop back across the border if they are caught committing a crime?
Oh, I get it, you're just stupid.
Dennis miller is so not funny anymore.
One of the most annoying things about slashdot is their tendency to post completely vacuous science stories. Would it have been that hard to look up the actual paper before posting, or at least any information at all? All this story tells us is that it doesn't involve storing the photons in an atom as other researchers did. Oh, and that it's "very clever". How nice.
Does the laziness of slashdot "editors" truly know no bounds? If you're not interested in doing the work, why not find people who are?
No, actualy you are the one who's stupid. did you even read this article posted this very day? Spammers don't give a fuck about open relays. These days they are using open proxies and ownzored boxes. This won't cost them any time, and do some of their work for them. If spammers were truly idiots, they would have been stopped by the simplest filters and preventions. God damnit if anyone one of us here can think of a work-around, so can the spammers. And plenty of us have.
What exactly makes a light meter worth so much?