I agree with the sense of what you said. However, I think it is not useful
to use the terms "liberal" and "conservative". They no longer have significant
meaning because those who want government corruption have been pretending that
they have a legitimate political view, and calling that view "conservative".
Check out the government debt to see who is conserving the
quality of government. The Bush administration is borrowing more money than
any entity has borrowed in the history of the world.
Is breaking the law "conservative"? Bush and Cheney are the most
arrested U.S. president and vice-president in history. George W. Bush was
arrested once for the crime of
DUI and Dick Cheney twice:
The U.S. government engages in more surveillance than any other country in
the history of the world. The U.S. government spends more on surveillance than
any country in the history of the world, and U.S. taxpayers are not allowed to
know true total amount.
The departments of the U.S. government such as the CIA and NSA and FBI
function as a world-wide secret police. Sure, they have openly acknowledged
purposes, but much of what they do and how they do it is hidden from U.S.
citizens. There are departments of the U.S. government that do secret police
work whose names are even secret. United States taxpayers are expected to pay,
and vote, and they are expected to accept that they won't have the full facts
of the activities of their government. United States citizens are not allowed
to know enough to base their vote on the facts.
Historically, U.S. government surveillance has had some political or
economic benefit for those who wanted the surveillance.
Another difficulty with Firefox is CPU usage. When Firefox bugs occur, sometimes Firefox CPU use climbs to 10% and even to 98%, even with no pages loading. Then ALL operations on that computer are slow, verrrrrry slow.
I've been having very serious stability problems here, too.
When Firefox crashes, all windows and tabs crash together. That means that if you were researching LCD monitors, and you had several tabs open for each manufacturer, when Firefox crashes, you lose ALL your work.
It's easy to understand why. The head of the Mozilla team was interviewed on the Charlie Rose show. She admitted she is a lawyer with NO technical experience. Her social skills are so limited, in comparison she makes the average computer professional look like a movie star.
Apparently because of bugs or inconsistencies in Window handling, Firefox does not work well with UltraVNC. Sometimes menus go way when they should, sometimes they don't. The page drawing problems mentioned in the parent post cause even worse problems with remote programs like UltraVNC.
Two other reasons why there are problems: 1) When you report crashes on Bugzilla, you often get unpleasant, unhelpful replies. This discourages reporting. 2) Often when Firefox crashes, TalkBack crashes, too, meaning that the Firefox team doesn't get a report of the crash. A crash reporting tool that itself crashes? Awesome mismanagement.
Writing... in [the book]Taliban, Ahmed Rashid notes, "None of the intelligence agencies involved wanted to consider the consequences of bring together thousands of Islamic radicals from all over the world. 'What was more important in the world view of history? The Taliban or the fall of the Soviet Empire?' said Zbigniew Brzezinski," National Security Adviser in the Carter Administration.
Another thought: If you love a woman, you will use your energy and creativity and intellect to try to understand when she has problems. If you love your country, you will do the same. I love the U.S., and I've done my best to understand the present problems. I'd like other people to do the same.
It seems reasonable that, considering the way things are going, the quality of life in the U.S. may eventually have the same level as in Israel, where everyone is worried all the time about violence. How do we avoid doing what they have done to themselves?
Don't miss the statement that the parent comment cannot be a complete discussion of how to deal with violence. It just provides some ideas. Peaceful methods are more secure and far, far less expensive. However, such methods are still complicated and still require research. It is not just weapons that require research.
I always like a good joke. But your joke wasn't very funny, and I feel uncomfortable with so many jokes about something that should be taken seriously. It seems to me that there is too much joking about this subject and not enough seriousness.
If you want the violence and the degradation of the U.S. lifestyle to stop, study the situation carefully. Below is background information you need to know to understand the Washington Post article referenced in the Slashdot story. You could gather this information yourself, but people who joke easily about this kind of thing generally don't take the time:
The SITE Institute supplied information for the Washington Post article. SITE stands for "Search for International Terrorist Entities". SITE Institute provides examples of terrorist web sites. One of them, PalestinianInfo.net, published this photograph: Photo of the day. The caption says, "Palestinian children walk on the rubble of a Palestinian house that was demolished by Israeli occupation authorities, in the east Jerusalem neighbourhood of A-tur July 5, 2005. According to the Israeli authorities, the house was demolished due to a lack of permits." It seems that the issue might not be completely one-sided.
The Arab "terrorists" believe they are fighting a war, and that violence is a solution to social problems. The U.S. government believes it is fighting a war, and that violence is a solution to social problems. I'm not saying those groups have anything else in common, just that they share two beliefs in common.
If your government chooses killing as policy, expect others to choose the same. The U.S. government began killing Arabs and Muslims and corrupting their governments long before most Arabs and Muslims thought about the United States. None of the violence was secret. It was in the newspapers and in magazines and on TV, but not in enough detail that U.S. citizens could understand the implications. I remember reading that the U.S. government overthrew a democratically elected president of Iran (Mossadegh) because he wanted his country to share more of the profits of U.S. and British oil companies doing business in Iran. The U.S. government put a weak man in power, the Shah of Iran, who became very violent toward his own citizens. Eventually, people in Iran overthrew the Shah. The U.S. government's actions de-stabilized the country and encouraged the violence that came after. For more information, see
the short article, To understand the present conflict, consider the past.
As of 2005-08-08, 04:24 AM PDT, the SITE Institute says these are other terrorist web sites: http://www.kataebaqsa1.com/, http://www.moqawama.net/, and http://www.qudsway.com/. The only way you can know directly what they say in Arabic is to read Arabic. Be careful about accepting what someone else says they say. You need to be able to trust that the translator is not politically involved.
The Washington Post article says, "Hampered by the nature of the Internet itself, the government has proven ineffective at blocking or even hindering significantly this vast online presence." This sentence worries me. It seems to justify U.S. government interference with free speech. It's not clear that preventing open speech for those who disagree with the policies of the U.S. government is a sensible idea. It seems likely that knowing what they are saying is important; we don't want
Nothing like that. I assume no one is reading this thread except you. How much time should I spend talking to one person who is not even willing to reveal anything about himself except that he was in the military, and who does not log in to Slashdot?
The first step is to understand anger. Anger is a mental illness that makes those who have it unable to emphasize with other people. Anger feeds on itself. Those who have anger are often unable to stop its worsening, even though it degrades everything in the lives of the people who have it.
You are not understanding something. The local Safeway grocery store, for example, raises prices considerably on many items, and then offers the normal price only to card holders. So, if you pay with cash, you will pay 20% more.
Kill someone now to possibly prevent killing in the future? Who gets to decide who kills? Who gets to decide who gets killed? I'm betting that you are not volunteering yourself or your family to be killed.
Killing to stop violence? Is that like sex to prevent pregnancy?
Sorry for my mistake!!! The real number should have been 5,000,000 people killed just in Vietnam.
I had forgotten about the latest estimates. The U.S. government engages in so much violence that it is impossible for one person to know about all of it.
This seems correct:
Vietnam War Casualties"Vietnam released figures on April 3, 1995 that a total of one million Vietnamese combatants and four million civilians were killed in the war."
NONE of those people killed directly threatened anyone in the United States. The average income in Vietnam was then something like $80/YEAR (not week or month). What was a violent-minded Vietnamese to do, get his relatives to contribute to buy a $1,000 airline ticket, and hit people with his fists?
It's terrible that anyone needs a citation for this. The U.S. government
has been a major killer, and most U.S. citizens have not been paying
attention.
Recently I was talking with someone from another country. When I said
that the U.S. government had killed 3,000,000 since the end of the Second
World War, he said, "11,000,000". He's right. The lower figure includes just
those killed directly by the U.S. government. The higher figure includes
people who died because of indirect events caused by the U.S. government. For
example, the U.S. government (not the people) bombed Cambodia. It is credibly
estimated that the violence that happened after caused the deaths of millions
of people.
Violence breeds violence, as the U.S. government's present
war in Iraq demonstrates once again.
If your government chooses killing as policy, expect others to choose the
same.
By far, the retailers are the biggest users of fraudulent tricks. Almost
every time when we apply for a rebate, there is some excuse why they didn't
send the money. Then I get on the telephone and begin saying the "F" word,
fraud, and they either send the check or try another fraudulent trick.
Remember, if you don't get a rebate, call the rebate company and
mention FRAUD. Mention that it is almost never the executives of a company who
go to jail, everything is usually blamed on an employee.
This works because it costs money to hire people to answer the phone.
They quit when they realize that they are working for a company whose business
is fraud.
Another trick retailers and manufacturers have been using for years is
to advertise something as the "lowest price for this model in your
area". The manufacturers simply make the same item with several model
numbers.
There are at least 100 other tricks commonly used by retailers.
Another trick is to mark merchandise discovered as defective, "sale".
Certainly it seems that is what happened, that there was illegal activity on the part of the government. Otherwise you have to believe something like this:
U.S. government (Calmly): We just need some log files from you.
Rackspace: Oh wow!!! We will damage our reputation by giving you far more than you asked!!! Our customer's trust means nothing to us!
It is a better guess that someone at Rackspace was very, very scared because of being intimidated.
Most people in the U.S. don't want to know how corrupt their government has become. In this thread from yesterday, someone claims "Christianity has matured - it's a peaceful religion" when the U.S. government, a government of a Christian country, has killed more than 3,000,000 people since the end of the Second World War.
"Christians" are so arrogant that they believe they can kill anyone they like, and their killing should not be considered.
The "Christian" U.S. has supported a government that has killed perhaps 3,000,000 people since the end of the Second World War. None of those people threatened the United States.
The "Christians" in the U.S. think these people and their families and friends don't matter: Iraqi Civilian Body Count.
Osama bin Laden said that he attacked solely because of the U.S. government support for killing Arabs. Is that true? Did the U.S. government kill Arabs? Yes.
If your gov't chooses killing as policy, expect others to choose the same.
I'm against violence. In my opinion, violence is caused by mental illness, and has nothing to do with religion.
Many fundamentalist "Christians" believe that the "end time" is near. They believe that during the approach of the "end time", the Jews will have power over all of the region around Israel. Then they believe Jews will either die or be converted to Christianity.
Wait, there's more: The Jews support the Christian violence because they want U.S. citizens to be involved in "defense" of Israel. That reduces the cost to them. The Israelis believe that, this time, the Christians won't really kill them. That's in spite of the fact that, during the Second World War, "Christians" killed half of the Jews in the entire world. (At present, there are about 14,000,000 Jews in the entire world. More Jews live in New York than live in Israel.)
Slashdot Mirror
I agree with the sense of what you said. However, I think it is not useful to use the terms "liberal" and "conservative". They no longer have significant meaning because those who want government corruption have been pretending that they have a legitimate political view, and calling that view "conservative".
Check out the government debt to see who is conserving the quality of government. The Bush administration is borrowing more money than any entity has borrowed in the history of the world.
Is dishonesty and violence "conservative"?
Is breaking the law "conservative"? Bush and Cheney are the most arrested U.S. president and vice-president in history. George W. Bush was arrested once for the crime of DUI and Dick Cheney twice:
George W. Bush DUI, 1st record of arrest
George W. Bush DUI, 2nd record of arrest
George W. Bush was arrested 2 other times in his life, also, for stunts that were not something a sober person would find interesting.
Dick Cheney DUI, record of 1st arrest
Dick Cheney DUI, record of 2nd arrest
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If your government chooses killing as policy, expect others to choose the same.
The U.S. government engages in more surveillance than any other country in the history of the world. The U.S. government spends more on surveillance than any country in the history of the world, and U.S. taxpayers are not allowed to know true total amount.
The departments of the U.S. government such as the CIA and NSA and FBI function as a world-wide secret police. Sure, they have openly acknowledged purposes, but much of what they do and how they do it is hidden from U.S. citizens. There are departments of the U.S. government that do secret police work whose names are even secret. United States taxpayers are expected to pay, and vote, and they are expected to accept that they won't have the full facts of the activities of their government. United States citizens are not allowed to know enough to base their vote on the facts.
Historically, U.S. government surveillance has had some political or economic benefit for those who wanted the surveillance.
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If you support dishonesty and violence, don't say you are Christian.
Another difficulty with Firefox is CPU usage. When Firefox bugs occur, sometimes Firefox CPU use climbs to 10% and even to 98%, even with no pages loading. Then ALL operations on that computer are slow, verrrrrry slow.
I've been having very serious stability problems here, too.
When Firefox crashes, all windows and tabs crash together. That means that if you were researching LCD monitors, and you had several tabs open for each manufacturer, when Firefox crashes, you lose ALL your work.
It's easy to understand why. The head of the Mozilla team was interviewed on the Charlie Rose show. She admitted she is a lawyer with NO technical experience. Her social skills are so limited, in comparison she makes the average computer professional look like a movie star.
Apparently because of bugs or inconsistencies in Window handling, Firefox does not work well with UltraVNC. Sometimes menus go way when they should, sometimes they don't. The page drawing problems mentioned in the parent post cause even worse problems with remote programs like UltraVNC.
Two other reasons why there are problems: 1) When you report crashes on Bugzilla, you often get unpleasant, unhelpful replies. This discourages reporting. 2) Often when Firefox crashes, TalkBack crashes, too, meaning that the Firefox team doesn't get a report of the crash. A crash reporting tool that itself crashes? Awesome mismanagement.
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If you support dishonesty and violence, don't say you are Christian.
The problems with terrorists were created by the U.S. government. Now the government is taking away our rights, using terrorists as an excuse.
It's an uphappy time for someone who loves the U.S. as much as I do.
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If you support dishonesty and violence, don't say you are Christian.
It's also a Princeton University management idiot test. PU, it stinks! Or maybe someone is taking money under the table.
HTML Tidy cleans HTML, and has a special function for cleaning Word HTML junk.
It must be terrible to work at Microsoft and always do mediocre work.
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If you support dishonesty and violence, don't say you are Christian.
Don't forget HTML Tidy. It has an option to clean Word HTML output.
Thanks for the tip. I've had sociological problems in the past with Dreamhost, and it is interesting to know it is still happening.
HP printer software has been disgusting for us, too. Uninstalling a multi-function printer deleted more than 800 unrelated files on the hard drive.
Additional info:
Correction to this paragraph:
Writing
Another thought: If you love a woman, you will use your energy and creativity and intellect to try to understand when she has problems. If you love your country, you will do the same. I love the U.S., and I've done my best to understand the present problems. I'd like other people to do the same.
It seems reasonable that, considering the way things are going, the quality of life in the U.S. may eventually have the same level as in Israel, where everyone is worried all the time about violence. How do we avoid doing what they have done to themselves?
Don't miss the statement that the parent comment cannot be a complete discussion of how to deal with violence. It just provides some ideas. Peaceful methods are more secure and far, far less expensive. However, such methods are still complicated and still require research. It is not just weapons that require research.
More do-it-yourself:
See this comment: Inkjet refills: 54 cents.
That's not 54 cents per tank, that's 54 cents for all of them together.
I always like a good joke. But your joke wasn't very funny, and I feel uncomfortable with so many jokes about something that should be taken seriously. It seems to me that there is too much joking about this subject and not enough seriousness.
If you want the violence and the degradation of the U.S. lifestyle to stop, study the situation carefully. Below is background information you need to know to understand the Washington Post article referenced in the Slashdot story. You could gather this information yourself, but people who joke easily about this kind of thing generally don't take the time:
The SITE Institute supplied information for the Washington Post article. SITE stands for "Search for International Terrorist Entities". SITE Institute provides examples of terrorist web sites. One of them, PalestinianInfo.net, published this photograph: Photo of the day. The caption says, "Palestinian children walk on the rubble of a Palestinian house that was demolished by Israeli occupation authorities, in the east Jerusalem neighbourhood of A-tur July 5, 2005. According to the Israeli authorities, the house was demolished due to a lack of permits." It seems that the issue might not be completely one-sided.
The Arab "terrorists" believe they are fighting a war, and that violence is a solution to social problems. The U.S. government believes it is fighting a war, and that violence is a solution to social problems. I'm not saying those groups have anything else in common, just that they share two beliefs in common.
If your government chooses killing as policy, expect others to choose the same. The U.S. government began killing Arabs and Muslims and corrupting their governments long before most Arabs and Muslims thought about the United States. None of the violence was secret. It was in the newspapers and in magazines and on TV, but not in enough detail that U.S. citizens could understand the implications. I remember reading that the U.S. government overthrew a democratically elected president of Iran (Mossadegh) because he wanted his country to share more of the profits of U.S. and British oil companies doing business in Iran. The U.S. government put a weak man in power, the Shah of Iran, who became very violent toward his own citizens. Eventually, people in Iran overthrew the Shah. The U.S. government's actions de-stabilized the country and encouraged the violence that came after. For more information, see the short article, To understand the present conflict, consider the past.
As of 2005-08-08, 04:24 AM PDT, the SITE Institute says these are other terrorist web sites: http://www.kataebaqsa1.com/, http://www.moqawama.net/, and http://www.qudsway.com/. The only way you can know directly what they say in Arabic is to read Arabic. Be careful about accepting what someone else says they say. You need to be able to trust that the translator is not politically involved.
The Washington Post article says, "Hampered by the nature of the Internet itself, the government has proven ineffective at blocking or even hindering significantly this vast online presence." This sentence worries me. It seems to justify U.S. government interference with free speech. It's not clear that preventing open speech for those who disagree with the policies of the U.S. government is a sensible idea. It seems likely that knowing what they are saying is important; we don't want
It's shocking. Most of the people who comment here are facing a serious threat to their liberty, and all they can do is make lame jokes.
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If you support dishonesty and violence, don't say you are Christian.
Nothing like that. I assume no one is reading this thread except you. How much time should I spend talking to one person who is not even willing to reveal anything about himself except that he was in the military, and who does not log in to Slashdot?
The first step is to understand anger. Anger is a mental illness that makes those who have it unable to emphasize with other people. Anger feeds on itself. Those who have anger are often unable to stop its worsening, even though it degrades everything in the lives of the people who have it.
Something like $8 trillion for research into killing and for killing itself.
Very little for research into how to make stable relationships.
You are not understanding something. The local Safeway grocery store, for example, raises prices considerably on many items, and then offers the normal price only to card holders. So, if you pay with cash, you will pay 20% more.
The problem with lying is that, once you use a credit or debit card, your true identity is known exactly.
Kill someone now to possibly prevent killing in the future? Who gets to decide who kills? Who gets to decide who gets killed? I'm betting that you are not volunteering yourself or your family to be killed.
Killing to stop violence? Is that like sex to prevent pregnancy?
Sorry for my mistake!!! The real number should have been 5,000,000 people killed just in Vietnam.
I had forgotten about the latest estimates. The U.S. government engages in so much violence that it is impossible for one person to know about all of it.
This seems correct:
Vietnam War Casualties "Vietnam released figures on April 3, 1995 that a total of one million Vietnamese combatants and four million civilians were killed in the war."
NONE of those people killed directly threatened anyone in the United States. The average income in Vietnam was then something like $80/YEAR (not week or month). What was a violent-minded Vietnamese to do, get his relatives to contribute to buy a $1,000 airline ticket, and hit people with his fists?
It's terrible that anyone needs a citation for this. The U.S. government has been a major killer, and most U.S. citizens have not been paying attention.
Here's a short article: History surrounding the U.S. war with Iraq: Four short stories.
Recently I was talking with someone from another country. When I said that the U.S. government had killed 3,000,000 since the end of the Second World War, he said, "11,000,000". He's right. The lower figure includes just those killed directly by the U.S. government. The higher figure includes people who died because of indirect events caused by the U.S. government. For example, the U.S. government (not the people) bombed Cambodia. It is credibly estimated that the violence that happened after caused the deaths of millions of people.
Violence breeds violence, as the U.S. government's present war in Iraq demonstrates once again.
If your government chooses killing as policy, expect others to choose the same.
If you support dishonesty and violence, don't say you are Christian.
By far, the retailers are the biggest users of fraudulent tricks. Almost every time when we apply for a rebate, there is some excuse why they didn't send the money. Then I get on the telephone and begin saying the "F" word, fraud, and they either send the check or try another fraudulent trick.
Remember, if you don't get a rebate, call the rebate company and mention FRAUD. Mention that it is almost never the executives of a company who go to jail, everything is usually blamed on an employee.
This works because it costs money to hire people to answer the phone. They quit when they realize that they are working for a company whose business is fraud.
Another trick retailers and manufacturers have been using for years is to advertise something as the "lowest price for this model in your area". The manufacturers simply make the same item with several model numbers.
There are at least 100 other tricks commonly used by retailers.
Another trick is to mark merchandise discovered as defective, "sale".
Thanks, Wikipedia, for a wonderful resource.
My total contribution so far: One sentence (a very good one. grin) and two small corrections.
Unless you can see the part of the subpoena that they won't let you see, it is best to assume that you have been given no information at all.
From Secret Documents About Indymedia Server Disappearance Unsealed: "It cannot be determined from the unsealed documents whether or not the government informally pressured Rackspace to turn over the servers."
Certainly it seems that is what happened, that there was illegal activity on the part of the government. Otherwise you have to believe something like this:
U.S. government (Calmly): We just need some log files from you.
Rackspace: Oh wow!!! We will damage our reputation by giving you far more than you asked!!! Our customer's trust means nothing to us!
It is a better guess that someone at Rackspace was very, very scared because of being intimidated.
Most people in the U.S. don't want to know how corrupt their government has become. In this thread from yesterday, someone claims "Christianity has matured - it's a peaceful religion" when the U.S. government, a government of a Christian country, has killed more than 3,000,000 people since the end of the Second World War.
That's even more shocking!!!
"Christians" are so arrogant that they believe they can kill anyone they like, and their killing should not be considered.
The "Christian" U.S. has supported a government that has killed perhaps 3,000,000 people since the end of the Second World War. None of those people threatened the United States.
The "Christians" in the U.S. think these people and their families and friends don't matter: Iraqi Civilian Body Count.
Osama bin Laden said that he attacked solely because of the U.S. government support for killing Arabs. Is that true? Did the U.S. government kill Arabs? Yes.
If your gov't chooses killing as policy, expect others to choose the same.
I'm against violence. In my opinion, violence is caused by mental illness, and has nothing to do with religion.
Many fundamentalist "Christians" believe that the "end time" is near. They believe that during the approach of the "end time", the Jews will have power over all of the region around Israel. Then they believe Jews will either die or be converted to Christianity.
Wait, there's more: The Jews support the Christian violence because they want U.S. citizens to be involved in "defense" of Israel. That reduces the cost to them. The Israelis believe that, this time, the Christians won't really kill them. That's in spite of the fact that, during the Second World War, "Christians" killed half of the Jews in the entire world. (At present, there are about 14,000,000 Jews in the entire world. More Jews live in New York than live in Israel.)
Read all about it: Zion's Christian Soldiers
Again, if your gov't chooses killing as policy, expect others to choose the same.