I can imagine RMS responding to this:
I don't care about the open source definition, GCC is not open source, it's Free Softweare DAMNIT!! I will KILL YOU, KILL YOU!!
RMS would probably love it if FSF is no longer Open Source, that way he would not be the ony person to give a damn about the distinction
By the way? What's a zealous zealot like RMS doing not posting on slashdot... he would have karma coming out his arse since everybody would love to hear his opinions (albiet maybe not agree with them). The same would go for Linus Torvalds
I don't usually respond to anonymous cowards but..
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right after he admits having no knowledge of Windows systems. WTF?
Why would a survey device with the job of simply recording data use KDE, or for that matter GNOME, or even X? Somehow I seriously doubt that KDE's crashing effects this thing in the slightest.
Back in the days when I used KDE I saw it crash a number of times (not as frequently as most MS user interfaces I have used), but even if they were running KDE they cirtainly woudn't be stupid enough to have the data monitoring program running on top of it, and so therefore the mission critical application would continue to run perfectly. This is not as much of an option for windows setups when a UI failure or a falure of a non-essential subsystem can take down the entire system.
If one of those species happens to be homo sapien and the other species happens to not be, I think that will be the grossest transpiration in the research of evolution that will ever take place.
I mean DAMN! That would be so not cool on so many levels!
Well personally I would have cracked into the program, using the exploit and dumped the exploit, and a file explaining it in a conspicuous location. That's sure to get their attention!
It reminds me of the many forign idealists that fought for each of the factions involved in the Spanish Civil War. Great men like George Orwell risked their life in a far away war that their own country was not involved with because they were fighting for what they believed to be the right side.
Personally I think the Telibahn were an oppressive, inhumane lot of religeous thugs that deserved what they got. However the issue is not as clear cut if one is a moslem, I have read the Qu'ran, and if I actually believed that it was passed down from God I don't think there would be much ambiguity at all in what it would tell me to do. Die for Allah, and personally I have never seen such a pios implementation of what the Qu'ran teaches than what the Telibahn did (and I don't mean that in a wholly good way), and the invasion of Afghanistan would cirtainly be classified by a zealous Muslim as an attack on Islam.
Now what he did was planning to act against his country in a violent way. An action that cannot be allowed to continue and must be repremanded in some way. He also planned to help the Telebahn who were a monsterous bunch of tyrants. But surely was a very brave man to be willing to fight for what he believed in, against the country he dispises in a land so far from his own and should be respected accordingly.
The whole idea of grown children who presumably live in a different house (hence the child's bowl and the parent's bowl) is that the parents don't have to worry about what the child is doing.
Maybe it might be useful with a web based interface so a parent could keep in touch with a 12 year old from work, but projecting to another bowl in another home suggests seperate resedences and therefore an independant person on the child end
I'm 19 now (you may have guessed I was less than 20 because of my teen movie quote sig) and am considered an adult in my native Australia, but a child in some other countries, I left home a few months ago and presumably I would be included in the group "grown up children" but my parents really don't want to know what I am doing, and I don't really want them to know either, they figure that I have to grow up and have an independant life some time. My parents know I read slashdot, so they know that I am not having large amounts of promiscuous, unprotected sex.
I guess in the netherlands one can legally get up to more things than I can, and most dutch people I have met have a stronger notion of family than we have in Australia, but generally, if a person is old enough to have their own bowl to put there own keys to their own house, apartment or collage room and be sufficiently far enough from their parents bowl to justify internet based comunication, the parents don't need to keep an eye on them.
And if I had one I would make a point to use it to store empty condom wrappers, syringes and cigarette boxes (and therefore proving my immaturity in a confusing paradoxial way).
Seven hundred years ago, before the printing press nothing was infinitly reproducible. This story sugests that we may soon be living in a society where everything is infinitly reproducible.
When the printing press was born, together with gunpowder in weapons it brought about the distruction of fudal opression. It allowed new ideas to spread promoting revolution and eventually democracy, the availability of religeous texts lifted the oppressive and conservative warping of the bible propergated by the clergy of the day. The publishing of the classics in vast quantities allowed the commoners to become educated and eventually stand up for themselves.
It was centuries later that it was decided that things printed on these presses should be copied, before then everything was for accidemic uses or was timless like the bible or classical plays or histories. Then someone found out a way to make money from this, create new laws to force royaties. Machinery started to be patented and builders were forced to not use new technology.
Today we stand in a world where entire countries have incomes less than individuals, where the worlds most ecconomically prosperous country exports almost nothing phisical, except maybe old el-paso barito kits, coca-cola concentrate and the occasional calefornian orange. Where the holders of the "interlectual property" that they obtained though a little bit of tenacity or luck, or simply bought like an officer from victorian england buying his commision can dictate the price of the sale of their intangible chattles and the public must buy. Where streamlining, efficiency and outsourcing are the measure of good buisiness in an effort to have as few workers who will work for as little as possible so those who simply manage can take everything.
Today the measure of a physical object is not what it is, it is what it represents. Western "worksmanship" is simply a swoosh slapped onto a shirt made for nearly nothing in a third world country, rather like the way a five hundred dollar program is arranged in dints upon the surface of a worthless disk. If you live in a western country, you already live in a world where the construction is nothing and the concept, or interlectual property is everything. This new manufacturing won't change anything.
The sooner this thing is ported to linux/unix the better.
Until the game can recive its input from stin which is in turn piped from fortune, zippy or the aspell dictionary file piped through a sed routine based on/dev/random it will fall short of the nessicary geekiness required to captivate a slashdot audience.
After all, they seem to have mastered military planes..uh, i mean submarines...domestic cars..nope, sorry, i meant potato crops...doh!
The russians had a good excuse, the first car was made by a guy called Benz, a German, the first jet powered military planes were made my the Luftwaffa in WWII, and the first effective submarines were the U boats used by Germans Navy in WWI, and we all know that Russians and Germans didn't get along, so it was an act of patriotism to screw up in everything German.
But seriously, the MIG 29s had the USAF pissing in their pants until they developed the F22, the Typhoon class submarines, although having one unfortunate accedent were generally good ships that could match any Ammerican offering, and anyway, at least they don't come up under civilian boats to show off. The Lada may suck, but they can be made very cheap, and the potato screwup was not as bad as the one the Irish had a while back.
Seriously, the Russians were very good at what they did, they just had a few mistakes experimenting to try and make the world better, something the American government has never had the balls to do.
Most busses are driven by honest hard working blue collar joes who drive their busses with great skill... the only accidents you hear of are where a PHB gets behind the wheel, possibly the middle managers of the transport companies that run them.
It's not just programmers that get their work ruined and the name of their profession covered in infamy by PHBs who think they know what needs to be done better than the professionals.
I think the last one was GUAD3C so presumably it is an incremental thing based on how many there have been. They just decided to integrate the number into the name so they could u53 1337 d00d sp33k as well.
I don't know if I am sounding like one of those religeousy self rightious, self important types that seem to delight in kidding themselves into thinking that they have huge buying power and that their psudo boycott is hurting a huge entity in a large way, but I am sitting in front of a _Legal_ copy of the following:
* Load
* Garage Inc.
* And Justice for All
* Black (also called Metallica)
And I would like to confess that before this inncident a little while ago (or at least before I heard of it) I was a big Metalica fan who was capible of reciting the lyrics to most Metalica songs, biographising all of the members (except for that wanker who left for Megadeath, I can't even remember his name), but more importantly, who was capible of spending rediculous sums of money on albums, merchandise and concert tickets.
Now I am over Metalica, I am not boycotting them or anything, I just don't like them much anymore, partly because of that napster shit and partly because they havn't done anything as cool as one since the eighties, that song by itself was able to keep Metalica in my good books even through the sissieness of Load and Re-Load, but now it is fifteen years old and they are long overdue for something that cool again.
I love the whole classical guitar intro with the memorable riff and the first quiet but dark verses, and then kirk hammet GOES FUCKING OFF!!!! with those FUCKING INSANE guitar work!!! FUCK YEAH!!!
... I am not sounding like your typical Metalica fan or anything am I...
Well, I was diagnosed with ADD or ADHD (my parents cannot remember which one) as a child... my parents chose not to give me amphetamines because of reasoning similar to the reasoning you put forward, I have only tried ritalin twice, both times it gave me not a "speedy" nature resulting in a hard crash but a quiet serene feeling where all other trails of thought in my head not relevent to the task at hand were silenced until they slowly became louder back to their original levels while the drug wore off.
'Begin anecdotal wallowing in self pitty
My parents tried everything to improve my accedemic performance in early school because of my inability to pay attention to anything. Finally it came up to a desision between sending me to a special school and accelerating me a year or repeating me in my current year. I was given an IQ test to decide my fate, scored 150 and was repeated anyway, this pretty much ruined my self esteem (to repeat a year is pretty much an admission of stupidity) and because of my infantile pride (I was 9 at the time) I didn't want to make friends in my own year and was left without any friends in my class until I changed town many years later.
'End anecdotal wallowing in self pitty
I cannot claim that amphetamines would have made any difference, obviously my perspective is far too subjective for me to make any valid judgement on my own case. But when a child is intelegent but cannot learn because of lack of focus, action has to be taken or the potential of that child will be forever unachieved, and it seems to me that the other options can be quite brutal as well, so I encorage people to at least try ritalin or dexamphetamine or a similar drug on their children if they have been diagnosed with ADD or especially ADHD. Because if indeed it does help, the child should not be put through the other possible treatments that are far more drastic than just a simple prescription. And if it doesn't, providing you take your child off soon enough and not try to kid yourself that it is working when it isn't, it will have very few side effects.
As a non-american who has never seen a wal-mart, let alone shopped at one, my knowledge of the subject comes wholly from the internet. From what I have heard it is a "Redneck superstore" that sells all your supplies like subversive family movies, old time inbread burbon, mullet combs, nigger linchin' rope, crossburning kits and cheap PCs loaded with Linux.
May I ask someone knowledgable on the subject what can be "evil" about a department store, I have personally been to shops that are overpriced, with bad service or crappy goods but never one that is as morally black as I am told wal-mart is, come on! It's just a frigging retailer!
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries
It seems to me that this might be a silly way to promote such things... My suggestion is to make it considered increadibly cool to be an inventer or an author or an artist, and even cooler to buy them a beer/sleep with them. All you would need is a few laws controlling the media forcing them to cast inventors/authors into their shows as cameos, into variety shows with the interviewer sucking up to them, in celebrity events etc in really glamorous positions, soon they will be cool, they can get all the money they need from sponsorship by rich people wanting to be cool, they can pick up girls/guys who are attractive and charasmatic. So they can generally have a great life after inventing something while still letting people copy their works.
This is probably not as good dor most people as getting rich, but I know, since I am a slashdotter, I couldn't get laid regually or considered cool even if I was rolling in cash and this solution seems like the only one for my current problem.
What about a guy who has a girlfriend or wife (possibly hotter than the girl in question or possibly not) and values his relationship with her.
Or maybe its a slashdot reader that has beliefs that conflict with promiscuity.
Or the more likley, she jumps into a guys bed and he thinks GREAT! I am gunna get some sweet lovin' from a girl that may or may not be attractive but is definantly not hideous. Then she informs him that he is not getting anything, so the guy wants to go to bed and have some sleep, but NO! He can't because she is there.
Or maybe that guy is Bill Gates or Steve Balmer or something and he knows that this is just a ploy by her so she can castrate him.
And the punchline is...... This is because he knows that since MS is against the use of UNIX it would be ironic if it was run by one. *ducks flying fruit*
if you're a minor country 'build or buy' is a serious issue
If you are a minor country it probably is not worth it having carriers... a fleet of subs is good enough for the defence of pretty much any "minor" country... if you want a carrier then chances are you are up to some airborne mischief on the other side of the planet, something that "minor" countries possibly with the exception of afghanistan rarely do.
Dunno about where you are from, but in Australia we have two main driving based offences that are criminal: Driving in a manner dangerous to the public, and driving at a speed dangerous to the public. These laws are to leave a loophole for magistrates so that they can procicute any smartarse doing something that is risking other people's lives but are legal according to all the other laws. So if you are driving at 10km/h on a freeway, you could be arrested and charged criminally for driving so slow that you are an obstruction, and that would probably stick... and sting bad unless you had a damn good reason, and IFAIK environmental protection does not count.
But after all, you can't spell IANAL without anal... for some reason that seemed relivant.
Missiles need to be targeted, satilites are good for that kind of thing. In an event of a war, the owner of a GPS system can choose to shut it off, or make it distorted so that the enemy cannot use it.
The Euro GPS is so that if the Americans show their true colours again towards Europe, Europe won't have to sit around playing with their dicks because they can't hit anything without GPS. It's because at the moment the USA can threaten whoever it likes with nuclear missiles, because it knows full well that retaliation would be impossible without proper targeting. With Euro GPS, the Americans will have to worry about a few gigatons of hydrogen fueled goodness falling on them if they try that kind of shit again
a country that got fucked up on account of the stupidity of its former leader
I don't want to support saddam, but in the years before america fucked up the iraqi infrostructure it had sanitation, health care and a quality of life that was the envy of the whole middle east. Sadam built the country into a prosperous nation (through fairly brutal methods that cannot possibly be justified such as the gassing of the Kurds). And most importantly, it seems that Sadam was smart enough to distroy his chemical and biological weapons to save his country. Unfortunantly for him, he had too much faith in American wisdom and his country was invaded anyway.
For the protection of our troops/liberators
Any liberator that anticipates that the people they have liberated will turn against them is fairly dubious. Hell! Sadam trusted the loyalty his countrymen for years without being shot, it seems that he had more popular support than the "liberators"
Ever been in a large scale natural disaster that requires martial law
What natural disaster has happened in Iraq? What has happened in Iraq in the ten years before the war? The fact is that the only reason the "liberators" had to come in is that twelve years ago Sadam got some personal beef with the president's daddy. And one and a half years ago some totally unrelated people (mainly from Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia) commited an act of terrorism and the people of America have decided that everyone who comes from roughly the same area, follows the same religeon, or stands up to America in any way that is noticable are worthy of death. Don't give me that shit about an emergency being held back by the liberators, because the liberators are the emergency.
Well, from what I have learned from dilbert, things that have the capibility to create artificial black holes make great excersise machines... remeber the gruntmaster?
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I don't care about the open source definition, GCC is not open source, it's Free Softweare DAMNIT!! I will KILL YOU, KILL YOU!!
RMS would probably love it if FSF is no longer Open Source, that way he would not be the ony person to give a damn about the distinction
By the way? What's a zealous zealot like RMS doing not posting on slashdot... he would have karma coming out his arse since everybody would love to hear his opinions (albiet maybe not agree with them). The same would go for Linus Torvalds
He said he had limited, experiance, not no experience. And with bill gates confession that five percent of windows systems crash more than twice a day the chances of him knowing all two well the habit that MS systems have of failing
and don't tell me that KDE never crashes
Why would a survey device with the job of simply recording data use KDE, or for that matter GNOME, or even X? Somehow I seriously doubt that KDE's crashing effects this thing in the slightest.
Back in the days when I used KDE I saw it crash a number of times (not as frequently as most MS user interfaces I have used), but even if they were running KDE they cirtainly woudn't be stupid enough to have the data monitoring program running on top of it, and so therefore the mission critical application would continue to run perfectly. This is not as much of an option for windows setups when a UI failure or a falure of a non-essential subsystem can take down the entire system.
If one of those species happens to be homo sapien and the other species happens to not be, I think that will be the grossest transpiration in the research of evolution that will ever take place.
I mean DAMN! That would be so not cool on so many levels!
I find it very hard to take anything seriously published on gga after reading this
Well personally I would have cracked into the program, using the exploit and dumped the exploit, and a file explaining it in a conspicuous location. That's sure to get their attention!
Personally I think the Telibahn were an oppressive, inhumane lot of religeous thugs that deserved what they got. However the issue is not as clear cut if one is a moslem, I have read the Qu'ran, and if I actually believed that it was passed down from God I don't think there would be much ambiguity at all in what it would tell me to do. Die for Allah, and personally I have never seen such a pios implementation of what the Qu'ran teaches than what the Telibahn did (and I don't mean that in a wholly good way), and the invasion of Afghanistan would cirtainly be classified by a zealous Muslim as an attack on Islam.
Now what he did was planning to act against his country in a violent way. An action that cannot be allowed to continue and must be repremanded in some way. He also planned to help the Telebahn who were a monsterous bunch of tyrants. But surely was a very brave man to be willing to fight for what he believed in, against the country he dispises in a land so far from his own and should be respected accordingly.
Maybe it might be useful with a web based interface so a parent could keep in touch with a 12 year old from work, but projecting to another bowl in another home suggests seperate resedences and therefore an independant person on the child end
I'm 19 now (you may have guessed I was less than 20 because of my teen movie quote sig) and am considered an adult in my native Australia, but a child in some other countries, I left home a few months ago and presumably I would be included in the group "grown up children" but my parents really don't want to know what I am doing, and I don't really want them to know either, they figure that I have to grow up and have an independant life some time. My parents know I read slashdot, so they know that I am not having large amounts of promiscuous, unprotected sex.
I guess in the netherlands one can legally get up to more things than I can, and most dutch people I have met have a stronger notion of family than we have in Australia, but generally, if a person is old enough to have their own bowl to put there own keys to their own house, apartment or collage room and be sufficiently far enough from their parents bowl to justify internet based comunication, the parents don't need to keep an eye on them.
And if I had one I would make a point to use it to store empty condom wrappers, syringes and cigarette boxes (and therefore proving my immaturity in a confusing paradoxial way).
no, companies scared of loosing market share claim an open source OS stole their code and start suing.
When the printing press was born, together with gunpowder in weapons it brought about the distruction of fudal opression. It allowed new ideas to spread promoting revolution and eventually democracy, the availability of religeous texts lifted the oppressive and conservative warping of the bible propergated by the clergy of the day. The publishing of the classics in vast quantities allowed the commoners to become educated and eventually stand up for themselves.
It was centuries later that it was decided that things printed on these presses should be copied, before then everything was for accidemic uses or was timless like the bible or classical plays or histories. Then someone found out a way to make money from this, create new laws to force royaties. Machinery started to be patented and builders were forced to not use new technology.
Today we stand in a world where entire countries have incomes less than individuals, where the worlds most ecconomically prosperous country exports almost nothing phisical, except maybe old el-paso barito kits, coca-cola concentrate and the occasional calefornian orange. Where the holders of the "interlectual property" that they obtained though a little bit of tenacity or luck, or simply bought like an officer from victorian england buying his commision can dictate the price of the sale of their intangible chattles and the public must buy. Where streamlining, efficiency and outsourcing are the measure of good buisiness in an effort to have as few workers who will work for as little as possible so those who simply manage can take everything.
Today the measure of a physical object is not what it is, it is what it represents. Western "worksmanship" is simply a swoosh slapped onto a shirt made for nearly nothing in a third world country, rather like the way a five hundred dollar program is arranged in dints upon the surface of a worthless disk. If you live in a western country, you already live in a world where the construction is nothing and the concept, or interlectual property is everything. This new manufacturing won't change anything.
Until the game can recive its input from stin which is in turn piped from fortune, zippy or the aspell dictionary file piped through a sed routine based on /dev/random it will fall short of the nessicary geekiness required to captivate a slashdot audience.
The russians had a good excuse, the first car was made by a guy called Benz, a German, the first jet powered military planes were made my the Luftwaffa in WWII, and the first effective submarines were the U boats used by Germans Navy in WWI, and we all know that Russians and Germans didn't get along, so it was an act of patriotism to screw up in everything German.
But seriously, the MIG 29s had the USAF pissing in their pants until they developed the F22, the Typhoon class submarines, although having one unfortunate accedent were generally good ships that could match any Ammerican offering, and anyway, at least they don't come up under civilian boats to show off. The Lada may suck, but they can be made very cheap, and the potato screwup was not as bad as the one the Irish had a while back.
Seriously, the Russians were very good at what they did, they just had a few mistakes experimenting to try and make the world better, something the American government has never had the balls to do.
It's not just programmers that get their work ruined and the name of their profession covered in infamy by PHBs who think they know what needs to be done better than the professionals.
I think the last one was GUAD3C so presumably it is an incremental thing based on how many there have been. They just decided to integrate the number into the name so they could u53 1337 d00d sp33k as well.
* Load
* Garage Inc.
* And Justice for All
* Black (also called Metallica)
And I would like to confess that before this inncident a little while ago (or at least before I heard of it) I was a big Metalica fan who was capible of reciting the lyrics to most Metalica songs, biographising all of the members (except for that wanker who left for Megadeath, I can't even remember his name), but more importantly, who was capible of spending rediculous sums of money on albums, merchandise and concert tickets.
Now I am over Metalica, I am not boycotting them or anything, I just don't like them much anymore, partly because of that napster shit and partly because they havn't done anything as cool as one since the eighties, that song by itself was able to keep Metalica in my good books even through the sissieness of Load and Re-Load, but now it is fifteen years old and they are long overdue for something that cool again.
I love the whole classical guitar intro with the memorable riff and the first quiet but dark verses, and then kirk hammet GOES FUCKING OFF!!!! with those FUCKING INSANE guitar work!!! FUCK YEAH!!!
'Begin anecdotal wallowing in self pitty
My parents tried everything to improve my accedemic performance in early school because of my inability to pay attention to anything. Finally it came up to a desision between sending me to a special school and accelerating me a year or repeating me in my current year. I was given an IQ test to decide my fate, scored 150 and was repeated anyway, this pretty much ruined my self esteem (to repeat a year is pretty much an admission of stupidity) and because of my infantile pride (I was 9 at the time) I didn't want to make friends in my own year and was left without any friends in my class until I changed town many years later.
'End anecdotal wallowing in self pitty
I cannot claim that amphetamines would have made any difference, obviously my perspective is far too subjective for me to make any valid judgement on my own case. But when a child is intelegent but cannot learn because of lack of focus, action has to be taken or the potential of that child will be forever unachieved, and it seems to me that the other options can be quite brutal as well, so I encorage people to at least try ritalin or dexamphetamine or a similar drug on their children if they have been diagnosed with ADD or especially ADHD. Because if indeed it does help, the child should not be put through the other possible treatments that are far more drastic than just a simple prescription. And if it doesn't, providing you take your child off soon enough and not try to kid yourself that it is working when it isn't, it will have very few side effects.
May I ask someone knowledgable on the subject what can be "evil" about a department store, I have personally been to shops that are overpriced, with bad service or crappy goods but never one that is as morally black as I am told wal-mart is, come on! It's just a frigging retailer!
SCO has been getting up people's arses enough already.
It seems to me that this might be a silly way to promote such things... My suggestion is to make it considered increadibly cool to be an inventer or an author or an artist, and even cooler to buy them a beer/sleep with them. All you would need is a few laws controlling the media forcing them to cast inventors/authors into their shows as cameos, into variety shows with the interviewer sucking up to them, in celebrity events etc in really glamorous positions, soon they will be cool, they can get all the money they need from sponsorship by rich people wanting to be cool, they can pick up girls/guys who are attractive and charasmatic. So they can generally have a great life after inventing something while still letting people copy their works.
This is probably not as good dor most people as getting rich, but I know, since I am a slashdotter, I couldn't get laid regually or considered cool even if I was rolling in cash and this solution seems like the only one for my current problem.
For a role like gollum, I don't think attractivness could have ever been a consideration.... even without CG.
Or maybe its a slashdot reader that has beliefs that conflict with promiscuity.
Or the more likley, she jumps into a guys bed and he thinks GREAT! I am gunna get some sweet lovin' from a girl that may or may not be attractive but is definantly not hideous. Then she informs him that he is not getting anything, so the guy wants to go to bed and have some sleep, but NO! He can't because she is there.
Or maybe that guy is Bill Gates or Steve Balmer or something and he knows that this is just a ploy by her so she can castrate him.
And the punchline is...... This is because he knows that since MS is against the use of UNIX it would be ironic if it was run by one. *ducks flying fruit*
If you are a minor country it probably is not worth it having carriers... a fleet of subs is good enough for the defence of pretty much any "minor" country... if you want a carrier then chances are you are up to some airborne mischief on the other side of the planet, something that "minor" countries possibly with the exception of afghanistan rarely do.
Dunno about where you are from, but in Australia we have two main driving based offences that are criminal: Driving in a manner dangerous to the public, and driving at a speed dangerous to the public. These laws are to leave a loophole for magistrates so that they can procicute any smartarse doing something that is risking other people's lives but are legal according to all the other laws. So if you are driving at 10km/h on a freeway, you could be arrested and charged criminally for driving so slow that you are an obstruction, and that would probably stick... and sting bad unless you had a damn good reason, and IFAIK environmental protection does not count.
But after all, you can't spell IANAL without anal... for some reason that seemed relivant.
The Euro GPS is so that if the Americans show their true colours again towards Europe, Europe won't have to sit around playing with their dicks because they can't hit anything without GPS. It's because at the moment the USA can threaten whoever it likes with nuclear missiles, because it knows full well that retaliation would be impossible without proper targeting. With Euro GPS, the Americans will have to worry about a few gigatons of hydrogen fueled goodness falling on them if they try that kind of shit again
I don't want to support saddam, but in the years before america fucked up the iraqi infrostructure it had sanitation, health care and a quality of life that was the envy of the whole middle east. Sadam built the country into a prosperous nation (through fairly brutal methods that cannot possibly be justified such as the gassing of the Kurds). And most importantly, it seems that Sadam was smart enough to distroy his chemical and biological weapons to save his country. Unfortunantly for him, he had too much faith in American wisdom and his country was invaded anyway.
For the protection of our troops/liberators
Any liberator that anticipates that the people they have liberated will turn against them is fairly dubious. Hell! Sadam trusted the loyalty his countrymen for years without being shot, it seems that he had more popular support than the "liberators"
Ever been in a large scale natural disaster that requires martial law
What natural disaster has happened in Iraq? What has happened in Iraq in the ten years before the war? The fact is that the only reason the "liberators" had to come in is that twelve years ago Sadam got some personal beef with the president's daddy. And one and a half years ago some totally unrelated people (mainly from Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia) commited an act of terrorism and the people of America have decided that everyone who comes from roughly the same area, follows the same religeon, or stands up to America in any way that is noticable are worthy of death. Don't give me that shit about an emergency being held back by the liberators, because the liberators are the emergency.
Fuck. Give us a break!
Well, from what I have learned from dilbert, things that have the capibility to create artificial black holes make great excersise machines... remeber the gruntmaster?