How about you open your eyes: This court,
9) By fourteen votes to one, Finds that the United States of America, by producing in 1983 a manual entitled "Operaciones sicológicas en guerra de guerrillas", and disseminating it to contra forces, has encouraged the commission by them of acts contrary to general principles of humanitarian law; but does not find a basis for concluding that any such acts which may have been committed are imputable to the United States of America as acts of the United States of America;. [Emphasis mine]
So, from the actual World Court documents, actions taken by the guerilla groups were not attributed to the United States of America. And yet, you continue to accuse America of being a terrorist state, while pledging support to the PA when it targets and aids groups that target the civlian population of Israel for political gain. Your sig states that you do not support terrorist regimes, and yet you support those who openly endorse domestic and international terrorism while making eliptical accusations towards the Bush administration with (so far) no proof of said accusations.
How about you open your eyes:
This court
9) By fourteen votes to one,
Finds that the United States of America, by producing in 1983 a manual entitled "Operaciones sicológicas en guerra de guerrillas", and disseminating it to contra forces, has encouraged the commission by them of acts contrary to general principles of humanitarian law; but does not find a basis for concluding that any such acts which may have been committed are imputable to the United States of America as acts of the United States of America;. [Emphasis mine]
So, by the World Court, actions taken by the guerilla groups were not attributed to the United States of America. And yet, you continue to accuse America of being a terrorist state, while pledging support to the PA when it targets and aids groups that target the civlian population of Israel for political gain. Your sig states that you do not support terrorist regimes, and yet you support those who openly endorse domestic and international terrorism while making eliptical accusations towards the Bush administration with (so far) no proof of said accusations.
You are vainly attempting to paint the American taxpayer in the same light as those who actively support an organization dedicated to the slaughter of a country's civilian population and the establishment of a totalitarian regime on its land.
I would challenge you to back up not only this statement, but your ludicrous accusation that George W. Bush, or his administration, engage or abet State Terrorism (like your Mr. Arafat does in the West Bank).
Umm, you said it yourself:
According to US doctrine I myself have supported terrorists - while I like to think of the same donation as me supporting the Palestine state against the occupant nation of Israel.
By supporting the government of Yasser Arafat, an organization intrinsically linked to terrorism and with a constitution preaching the phased takeover of Israel and murder of its inhabitants, you do in fact support domestic and international terrorism.
So, you yourself have said that by international law, the United States has been absolved of all involvement.
That won't stop you from finger-pointing, and whining about "racist, terrorist AMERIKKKA".
Absolutely brilliant.
You're absolutely correct.
However, if it is not the responsibility of the ISPs to at least maintain some level of control over the content accessible on their servers, whose is it?
The most the ISPs can do is attempt to shut down child pornography sites. The least (and worst) they can do is nothing.
Incidentally, I do not believe that you or any other parent is in serious danger of having their site blocked based on pictures of their children. 99% of people have the basic common sense to discern the deprave from the acceptable.
There is no currently feasible alternative. It is foolish to say that capitalism can completely eliminate poverty, but it is also foolish to adopt a mentality that the world is simply not 'fair enough'. Of the two, capitalism is the lesser evil. What has socialism given us? Take a look at Canada, the laughing stock of the developed world. I'd take the "evil greed" of America over Canada's childish, unrealistic, peaceloving foreign policies, social programs and high taxes any day.
Ahem. 1) Have you heard of adoption? If this 'young med student' were really concerned about the lives she could save as a doctor, she could easily put her child up for adoption or give parental responsibility to one of her ever-willing relatives...
2) What the hell kind of example is that? What kind of whore fucks a guy for rent, anyways... trailer park trash. That's who. In the United States, is she going to have enough money to get an abortion, anyway? NO. And by the way, your precious mother would be losing custody of all 3 of her children.:).
3) Ah, the one case in which abortion is fairly widely accepted. I'd like to reiterate a point from nomorenicksleft when I say that perhaps we should focus on eliminating rape.
4) Well, she can always hand over custody to adoption services... Social workers love all kinds of children. Are you trying to say that killing a child is better than at least giving it a chance with a family that has the means or the time to cater to his or her needs?
5) What kind of assbackwards example is this? She didn't know anything, and then Billy Joe from accross the street says "can I plow your bramble patch"? Get real. And as for little children not knowing how babies are made, perhaps it's for the best... we don't need to inform children about the wonders of life when they should be worrying about simpler things.
Don't speak for all the wealthy... that's ignorance. Should you commit tax fraud, there's a chance you will be found out. It's not just the wealthy who do this, so don't associate crime with those with money. It's bad to stereotype upper or lower class in this manner.
For your information, the upper echelons of the public service are paid at what is classified by the Government as within the top bracket and are taxed (in Canada, at least) at 60%+ of their income.
I demand that you back up these wild, conspiracy-theorist-like accusations with concrete evidence of their occurence. Should you not be able to come up with concrete, credible evidence supporting your claims, I would suggest that you not post such blatant trolling at a default of 2.
"disappearing innocent people in the USA"
"mass-murder of Iraqis"
- My friend, should there have been evidence to support this, the myriad of anti-US countries who form a majority in the United Nations would have brought it to our collective attentions before you. But, of course, if you refer to the Persian Gulf killing of soldiers in armed combat as mass-murder of civilians, by all means, rant on about the evil Americans from your cozy, suburban home or downtown office in some American city.
I cannot in good conscience lend any credibility to information from the book "Israel's Secret Wars". The state of Israel did not exist until May 1948, and the Irgun Zvai Leumi, while a terrorist organisation, was no worse than the PLO. The PLO is a veiled front for Hamas and Hezbollah, and the evidence implicating their chain of command with these two groups is too great to be ignored. In addition, the PLO is the sometimes-recognised government of a people. The important thing is to recognise the wrongdoings of both sides... If the Palestinians dropped their weapons, they would gain true sovereignty and statehood. Should the Israelis drop their weapons, many more civilians would die. Something also needs to be done about the neighbouring terrorist organisations and religious fanatics, who fuel the "resistance" and send innocent Palestinians to their deaths, furthering this bloody conflict.
If we were to block the sale of such truly offensive games as Quarterback Club 2000 DC, perhaps Acclaim would get its' act together and give us decent software!
An aging gaming population...
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The Aging Gamer
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· Score: 2, Funny
perhaps if the average age of gamers keeps rising, there will eventually be a bigger gamer "death" rate than "birth" rate?
I'm slightly perturbed by the almost zealot-like pro-OSD slant of this article. While Open Source software in some cases is a better idea than proprietary source, you must realise that the majority of the desktop users in governments are trained to use Microsoft Windows and products. Full switching to Linux or other open source alternatives would take money for training. I don't suppose you've taken into account how much this would cost?
Additionally, the government does in fact use Linux. At least the Canadian government does... many of our servers run on Linux boxes as they are superior to the NT 4.0 boxes we also run for desktop applications.
The government never simply listens to corporate America. It chooses between products to determine which is better, and if the efficiency-conveniency comparison merits changing products. You see, changing to Linux would mean a need to replace all the applications on computers with those for the new OS. An OS is like a toolkit... while Linux may be a very cost-efficient alternative to the MS OS and their applications, is switching and having to install software on EVERY SINGLE COMPUTER really efficient?
These are the questions that the governments deal with. It's not simply 'the corporations are playing hardball'. If it was all about money, the government would simply switch to Open Source programs exclusively. I myself have no problem with going for training, and if it means that money could be spent elsewhere, I'd be all for a complete switch. However, you must realise that this is in many cases not logistically possible, as sad as this may be.
If P2P systems are displacing sales, then who is going to invest in an online delivery system that actually pays royalties to artists, songwriters, producers, publishers and labels?
How about no one? Why even try... now that the P2P ball has been rolling for a while, almost noone will pay for P2P if it's obtainable for free.
My favorite: the Internet will become nothing more than a haven for piracy, with no legitimate alternatives.
WILL become? I think he'll give us all chills when he predicts that *gasp* internet users may soon be using something called IRC to distribute pirated media at alarming speeds on technology that may or may not be called "high speed internet lines"... the horror!:P
While those who feel passionately about environmental issues and wildlife have no doubt been aware of endocrine disruptors and their use, one must realise that the general public has remained largely obivious to their existance, let alone which chemicals are endocrine disruptors.
Teachers are always up to date on these sorts of things as one of their duties is to inform students of the goings-on in the world. The problem is that outside of the schools, this issue gets very little publicity. In fact, Slashdot is the first place I've seen an article about it on. None of the papers in Ottawa seem to have covered it, at least not in the front page/world news area where it should be.
Currently, the political and media interest/attention lies in infighting in the Liberal party (which holds a majority in Canadian parliament), Israel-Palestine and on the US-led war on terrorism. Environmental issues seem to get no coverage. For that reason, unless more media coverage is devoted to this, I'm afraid that it be solved as without awareness, there is nothing we can really do...
The Japanese are a culture that prides themselves on traditional values of honor, discretion and privacy. The 11 digit number system is an affront to this system of values in the eyes of many Japanese... this is the reason for the protests.
Many Japanese do not see any reason for the 11 digit number. They feel that this level of monitoring and tracking goes against their traditional values, and feel detached from the events that have lead to higher security levels all over the world.
Despite the Sarin gas attacks by Aum, the Japanese remain very confident in their society's moral standing and place privacy and discretion on a high pedestal.
NASA has pressure-time graphs of dust devils as well as their patterns on their website.
Interesting findings from the Mars Pathfinder are also shown and detailed there.
Slashdot Mirror
How about you open your eyes:
This court,
9) By fourteen votes to one, Finds that the United States of America, by producing in 1983 a manual entitled "Operaciones sicológicas en guerra de guerrillas", and disseminating it to contra forces, has encouraged the commission by them of acts contrary to general principles of humanitarian law; but does not find a basis for concluding that any such acts which may have been committed are imputable to the United States of America as acts of the United States of America;. [Emphasis mine]
So, from the actual World Court documents, actions taken by the guerilla groups were not attributed to the United States of America. And yet, you continue to accuse America of being a terrorist state, while pledging support to the PA when it targets and aids groups that target the civlian population of Israel for political gain. Your sig states that you do not support terrorist regimes, and yet you support those who openly endorse domestic and international terrorism while making eliptical accusations towards the Bush administration with (so far) no proof of said accusations.
How about you open your eyes: This court
9) By fourteen votes to one, Finds that the United States of America, by producing in 1983 a manual entitled "Operaciones sicológicas en guerra de guerrillas", and disseminating it to contra forces, has encouraged the commission by them of acts contrary to general principles of humanitarian law; but does not find a basis for concluding that any such acts which may have been committed are imputable to the United States of America as acts of the United States of America;. [Emphasis mine]
So, by the World Court, actions taken by the guerilla groups were not attributed to the United States of America. And yet, you continue to accuse America of being a terrorist state, while pledging support to the PA when it targets and aids groups that target the civlian population of Israel for political gain. Your sig states that you do not support terrorist regimes, and yet you support those who openly endorse domestic and international terrorism while making eliptical accusations towards the Bush administration with (so far) no proof of said accusations.
You are vainly attempting to paint the American taxpayer in the same light as those who actively support an organization dedicated to the slaughter of a country's civilian population and the establishment of a totalitarian regime on its land.
I would challenge you to back up not only this statement, but your ludicrous accusation that George W. Bush, or his administration, engage or abet State Terrorism (like your Mr. Arafat does in the West Bank).
Umm, you said it yourself: According to US doctrine I myself have supported terrorists - while I like to think of the same donation as me supporting the Palestine state against the occupant nation of Israel. By supporting the government of Yasser Arafat, an organization intrinsically linked to terrorism and with a constitution preaching the phased takeover of Israel and murder of its inhabitants, you do in fact support domestic and international terrorism.
So, you yourself have said that by international law, the United States has been absolved of all involvement.
That won't stop you from finger-pointing, and whining about "racist, terrorist AMERIKKKA".
Absolutely brilliant.
There has never been Doom III on the Xbox. Never!
God will roast Microsoft's stomachs in hell.
You're absolutely correct. However, if it is not the responsibility of the ISPs to at least maintain some level of control over the content accessible on their servers, whose is it? The most the ISPs can do is attempt to shut down child pornography sites. The least (and worst) they can do is nothing. Incidentally, I do not believe that you or any other parent is in serious danger of having their site blocked based on pictures of their children. 99% of people have the basic common sense to discern the deprave from the acceptable.
That's like asking if Al Gore say "misunderestimated" and "dignitude". :P
Pople will always use the lack of a feasible median or alternative to justify their own brands of extremism. Take a look at the Middle East...
There is no currently feasible alternative. It is foolish to say that capitalism can completely eliminate poverty, but it is also foolish to adopt a mentality that the world is simply not 'fair enough'.
Of the two, capitalism is the lesser evil. What has socialism given us? Take a look at Canada, the laughing stock of the developed world. I'd take the "evil greed" of America over Canada's childish, unrealistic, peaceloving foreign policies, social programs and high taxes any day.
if by 'sexy' you mean 'makes me wish for blindeness and beat my head on a post until I lose all memory of her terrible terrible face'.
Ahem.
:).
1) Have you heard of adoption? If this 'young med student' were really concerned about the lives she could save as a doctor, she could easily put her child up for adoption or give parental responsibility to one of her ever-willing relatives...
2) What the hell kind of example is that? What kind of whore fucks a guy for rent, anyways... trailer park trash. That's who. In the United States, is she going to have enough money to get an abortion, anyway? NO. And by the way, your precious mother would be losing custody of all 3 of her children.
3) Ah, the one case in which abortion is fairly widely accepted. I'd like to reiterate a point from nomorenicksleft when I say that perhaps we should focus on eliminating rape.
4) Well, she can always hand over custody to adoption services... Social workers love all kinds of children. Are you trying to say that killing a child is better than at least giving it a chance with a family that has the means or the time to cater to his or her needs?
5) What kind of assbackwards example is this? She didn't know anything, and then Billy Joe from accross the street says "can I plow your bramble patch"? Get real. And as for little children not knowing how babies are made, perhaps it's for the best... we don't need to inform children about the wonders of life when they should be worrying about simpler things.
Don't speak for all the wealthy... that's ignorance. Should you commit tax fraud, there's a chance you will be found out. It's not just the wealthy who do this, so don't associate crime with those with money. It's bad to stereotype upper or lower class in this manner.
For your information, the upper echelons of the public service are paid at what is classified by the Government as within the top bracket and are taxed (in Canada, at least) at 60%+ of their income.
I demand that you back up these wild, conspiracy-theorist-like accusations with concrete evidence of their occurence. Should you not be able to come up with concrete, credible evidence supporting your claims, I would suggest that you not post such blatant trolling at a default of 2.
"disappearing innocent people in the USA"
"mass-murder of Iraqis"
- My friend, should there have been evidence to support this, the myriad of anti-US countries who form a majority in the United Nations would have brought it to our collective attentions before you. But, of course, if you refer to the Persian Gulf killing of soldiers in armed combat as mass-murder of civilians, by all means, rant on about the evil Americans from your cozy, suburban home or downtown office in some American city.
God bless free speech!
I cannot in good conscience lend any credibility to information from the book "Israel's Secret Wars". The state of Israel did not exist until May 1948, and the Irgun Zvai Leumi, while a terrorist organisation, was no worse than the PLO. The PLO is a veiled front for Hamas and Hezbollah, and the evidence implicating their chain of command with these two groups is too great to be ignored. In addition, the PLO is the sometimes-recognised government of a people. The important thing is to recognise the wrongdoings of both sides...
If the Palestinians dropped their weapons, they would gain true sovereignty and statehood. Should the Israelis drop their weapons, many more civilians would die.
Something also needs to be done about the neighbouring terrorist organisations and religious fanatics, who fuel the "resistance" and send innocent Palestinians to their deaths, furthering this bloody conflict.
If we were to block the sale of such truly offensive games as Quarterback Club 2000 DC, perhaps Acclaim would get its' act together and give us decent software!
perhaps if the average age of gamers keeps rising, there will eventually be a bigger gamer "death" rate than "birth" rate?
I'm scared to think of what would happen. heh.
A curling rock, perchance?
I thought so!
I'm slightly perturbed by the almost zealot-like pro-OSD slant of this article. While Open Source software in some cases is a better idea than proprietary source, you must realise that the majority of the desktop users in governments are trained to use Microsoft Windows and products. Full switching to Linux or other open source alternatives would take money for training. I don't suppose you've taken into account how much this would cost?
Additionally, the government does in fact use Linux. At least the Canadian government does... many of our servers run on Linux boxes as they are superior to the NT 4.0 boxes we also run for desktop applications.
The government never simply listens to corporate America. It chooses between products to determine which is better, and if the efficiency-conveniency comparison merits changing products. You see, changing to Linux would mean a need to replace all the applications on computers with those for the new OS. An OS is like a toolkit... while Linux may be a very cost-efficient alternative to the MS OS and their applications, is switching and having to install software on EVERY SINGLE COMPUTER really efficient?
These are the questions that the governments deal with. It's not simply 'the corporations are playing hardball'. If it was all about money, the government would simply switch to Open Source programs exclusively. I myself have no problem with going for training, and if it means that money could be spent elsewhere, I'd be all for a complete switch. However, you must realise that this is in many cases not logistically possible, as sad as this may be.
Wow... Cryptoheaven sure is great. Now I don't have to mess around with OS X Mail client, or use bad Mac ports of Windows IM products.
I believe there's a huge market for a product like this.
On another note, doing some research, I found that there were several interesting ways of achieving secure e-mail connections in OS X.
If P2P systems are displacing sales, then who is going to invest in an online delivery system that actually pays royalties to artists, songwriters, producers, publishers and labels? :P
How about no one? Why even try... now that the P2P ball has been rolling for a while, almost noone will pay for P2P if it's obtainable for free.
My favorite: the Internet will become nothing more than a haven for piracy, with no legitimate alternatives.
WILL become? I think he'll give us all chills when he predicts that *gasp* internet users may soon be using something called IRC to distribute pirated media at alarming speeds on technology that may or may not be called "high speed internet lines"... the horror!
While those who feel passionately about environmental issues and wildlife have no doubt been aware of endocrine disruptors and their use, one must realise that the general public has remained largely obivious to their existance, let alone which chemicals are endocrine disruptors.
Teachers are always up to date on these sorts of things as one of their duties is to inform students of the goings-on in the world. The problem is that outside of the schools, this issue gets very little publicity. In fact, Slashdot is the first place I've seen an article about it on. None of the papers in Ottawa seem to have covered it, at least not in the front page/world news area where it should be.
Currently, the political and media interest/attention lies in infighting in the Liberal party (which holds a majority in Canadian parliament), Israel-Palestine and on the US-led war on terrorism. Environmental issues seem to get no coverage. For that reason, unless more media coverage is devoted to this, I'm afraid that it be solved as without awareness, there is nothing we can really do...
You're DFAIT too?
The intranet post was from a friend who was interested in the subject.
As for me, I'm SXTT Server.... What are you?
The Japanese are a culture that prides themselves on traditional values of honor, discretion and privacy. The 11 digit number system is an affront to this system of values in the eyes of many Japanese... this is the reason for the protests.
Many Japanese do not see any reason for the 11 digit number. They feel that this level of monitoring and tracking goes against their traditional values, and feel detached from the events that have lead to higher security levels all over the world.
Despite the Sarin gas attacks by Aum, the Japanese remain very confident in their society's moral standing and place privacy and discretion on a high pedestal.
NASA has pressure-time graphs of dust devils as well as their patterns on their website.
Interesting findings from the Mars Pathfinder are also shown and detailed there.