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  1. Re:No! on The Riddle of Baghdad's Battery · · Score: 1
    hmm bomb a nation for "I dont like your policy" would this be like tell a nation "you cant be in nato" because they dont like your policy on one issue.

    Umm spunky the Tax cut was enacted before the war, just because the guy cant see the future does not mean he is a moron. The fact that some in our governemnt want to spend 186,000 dollars on things like a bi-lingual tour for the national cowgirl museam in a time of war a defecit is the problem. youre uninformed about what has to happen for money to be spent in this nation so shut up and take your losses on this one.

    Umm the UN inspectors have found evidance of Iraqi non compliance, infact IRaq has all but admitted it was out of compliance by saying it will dismantle some of its ballistic missles that violate the cease fire, go inform yourself than talk.

    Umm you dont stage an accident to start a war I would not want a leader who does that (Tonkin and the USS Main) are shameful examples of when this was done. It shows your character if youre willing to lie to do somethine. BTW Autopilot of F16's does not work that way.

    And you are known the have no insight into how our Governenmt works, so let it go...

  2. Re:No! on The Riddle of Baghdad's Battery · · Score: 1

    well we could be like France and tell nations that disagree with us that they cant be in NATO..

  3. Re:No! on The Riddle of Baghdad's Battery · · Score: 1
    umm I did not say they had to be a democracy (though Turkey is and the majority of them are Islamic, so is Indonesia), Jordan is a Stable Monarchy, Iran is a quasi Republic, Hell even if they went socialist, or for that matter communist it would be better than a dictator.

    on the unseen WMD: where was international outrage when Clinton fired bombs on Iraq, oh thats right hollywood loved him so they did not stir the hornets nest of cause heads. When NATO fired bombs on Serbia they told the world they knew of mass graves with 10k in them, (with women and children) it does not matter that the graves were never found. I am against war, but I am pragmatic sometimes you need to fight and stomping a little problem today will keep you from having to battle it tommorow (see Germany WW2).

    I dont give a flying fart what the Frogs and Krauts do but for a nation that has sent letter to potentional NATO members telling the shape up or ship out who the hell is france to talk about imposing policy. I hope war does not happen but Iraq has brought this on herself, she kicked out inspectors 5 years ago and it was **ONLY** GWB being tough that got them back in there not french 'diplomacy'.

  4. Re:OT: Your sig on The Riddle of Baghdad's Battery · · Score: 1

    it roughly translates into the french are cheese eating surrender monkeys..

  5. Re:No! on The Riddle of Baghdad's Battery · · Score: 1

    BS site, nothing like an unbiased point of view...

  6. Re:No! on The Riddle of Baghdad's Battery · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The only thing keeping the kurds in the north safe is US air power, look even today Iraq is saying it will dismantle its longest range missles. I am never for doing something because its popular, or it sells well. Getting WMD out of Iraq is good enough for me and most of the American people (Bush does after all answer to us not the French or the Germans). To say we neeed to find a reason people will like is to say that being a popular president is more important than doing the right thing, Clinton did that for 8 years in his forign policy and I put us in the mess were in with Iraq.

    I just think it funny how people assume Bush is a moron, when he always seems to outwit his political opponents. He got the democrats to vote on giving him authority to attack Iraq, and though he has taken fire from the world for being a 'cowboy' he has got inspectors back in Iraq (by forcing the UN), and now Iraq may take apart its missles. Bush has done more on Iraq in 2 years than Clinton did in 8 and he has not fired a shot. I hope a bomb never falls on Iraq, I have a sister in law over there right now and a brother who might have to ship out in the event of a long war, but I agree with them when they say the right, not the easy or popular thing, has to be done.

    Right now the Democrats are killing themselves in the senate with regards to Estrada, a philibuster, I welcome the government doing nothing for awhile, keep it up.

  7. Re:No! on The Riddle of Baghdad's Battery · · Score: 3, Insightful
    As I understand it, Sadamm has committed endless atrocities, but the very worst ones were committed in the past. Why are we only going in now? So that we can get cheap oil? Because Bush holds a grudge against this guy ("he tried to kill my dad")? Because we can't find Osama and so need an easy scapegoat to bring down in his stead?
    The reason we are doing this now is because when he violated the cease fire he signed (1992?) in 1998 clinton did nothing about it. Youre right now makes little sense but it makes more than in 5 more years it would have been right to do this 5 years ago. In 1998 when Iraq kicked out inspectors Clinton dropped a few bombs on them, looked good for him and he did not have to really commit to doing anything. In 1998 I did not see outrage we were bombing Iraq becuase in the minds of many Clinton is not an 'evil republican' so his motives must be true. The truth is we have more proof of WMD in Iraq than we had of mass graves in Kosovo...

    And look at Afghanistan. All these months after our liberation there and have we really done that much good? Warlords are still running amock; the only place they don't have any real power is Kabul. Are we really interested in helping the oppressed of the world or are we just so blindingly scared of terrorism that we're willing to lash out at the first country the President looks at funny?

    It will be a long process to reunite that country, but the taliban did support a man and shelter a man who plots every day to kill people. In addition to this you could be killed if youre a woman and too much of your face is showing. I just hope we do right by them and stay there long enough for a govt to hold (be it a monarcy, a tribal republic, or whatever)..

  8. Re:No! on The Riddle of Baghdad's Battery · · Score: 1

    yea and liberals who loved clinton going into kosovo because he was freeing people from a dictator now think the US has no right to police the world..

  9. Re:No! on The Riddle of Baghdad's Battery · · Score: 1

    why should we let a petty things like facts get in the way of the french taking the high moral ground..

  10. Re:Oracle Bug Double Standard? on SecurityFocus On MS Security "Hole" · · Score: 2, Interesting
    But the whole problem is the history of MS patches, I fell perfectly comfortable patching a test *nix computer and going to prod within a few hours. With windows I will have to start at the dev level because 7/10 time it will break something else and the developers need to fix it, then to test and god willing to prod the next day.

    Not even MS keeps up with their patches so who are they to fault sysadmins for not doing the same..

  11. Re:So how secure is it? on Root-server switches from BIND to NSD · · Score: 1

    Actually no you are creating multiple POF's not just having one POF which I dont care how *many* systems youre running having them all run the same software is creating just that, no matter how good the software is..

  12. Boy wont this cheese off the RIAA on Ogg Vorbis Portables On The Way · · Score: 1

    Things like this which will record directly from FM to MP3/OGG people will not have to swap files online, they can just lift them off the radio like the good old days. Unless I am mistaken (happens way too often) it is 100% legal to record off the radio for personal use..

  13. Re:MP3 players on Ogg Vorbis Portables On The Way · · Score: 1

    I know people who have spent a ton for the ipod (and they are windows not mac users) who will crap when they see that I get a device just as good as theirs + the transmitter..

  14. Re:Court orders without how to do it. on Pennsylvania Court Forces ISPs to Block Porn Sites · · Score: 1
    Its not about keeping people from being pervs in NYS, or Russia. Tts about keeping Pervs **IN** NYS, or Russia, from being able to place 'perv feed' in PA. This would not affect someone in Russia or Cali from looking at 'perv feed' in Russia, Cali, Iraq, or France. It would keep 'perv feed' from these places getting into PA, there is a big difference..

    Now, on to the issue of should they publish the list, yes, 100%, absolutly! But dont use a crap argument to make a good point because in the end the point also looks like $hit.

    A better argument to say the list should be published is to:
    1) Protect Users rights
    2) Protect the ISP from law suits
    3) Protect sites which are wrongly put on there

    If you argue that PA has to publish the list so that NY, or Russia can know what is getting banned your argument will fall apart because frankly they dont have a right to know what goes on in PA only, but the people in PA deserve to know..

  15. Re:Censorship on Pennsylvania Court Forces ISPs to Block Porn Sites · · Score: 0
    But hte Supreme court has ruled that the first amendment does not apply to kiddy porn, therfore as there is no amendment specifically giving the federal government claim here the 10th takes over.

    ah the forgotten amendment..

  16. Re:Court orders without how to do it. on Pennsylvania Court Forces ISPs to Block Porn Sites · · Score: 1

    again I dont think the list should be private but the parent was claiming a contradiction where none existed. Pointing out that someone is using a stupid argument does not mean I disagree with their ends.

  17. Re:Court orders without how to do it. on Pennsylvania Court Forces ISPs to Block Porn Sites · · Score: 1

    I dont disagree with you, but the parent claimed a contradiction where none existed..

  18. Re:Court orders without how to do it. on Pennsylvania Court Forces ISPs to Block Porn Sites · · Score: 1

    No because the block will be in PA only, if you make the list public pervs world wide will get it.

  19. Re:Censorship on Pennsylvania Court Forces ISPs to Block Porn Sites · · Score: 0

    umm this is a state, 10th amendment....

  20. If one gets through on Pennsylvania Court Forces ISPs to Block Porn Sites · · Score: 1

    I think best effort enforcement is the way to go..

  21. Re:How will this be licensed? on VMware: Another Netscape? · · Score: 1

    Nothing wrong with being for peace (who is not) but you have to know when its time to figt. Europe desire for peace allowed Hitler to solidify his position. I think we know how that one turned out..

  22. Re:why on VMware: Another Netscape? · · Score: 1

    So have I and you can save alot of money. Take VMware for example we have one compaq dl360 running redhat as a base and vmware. on the computer we have 5 small web-application servers. Each of those we require at least a desktop to run, at 400 a pop thats 1600$ minus the cost of vmware and thats 1300$ right there. Now I would never allow an application server to run on a desktop in my datacenter, its too damn messy so we would get a dl360 for each server (we get them through a vendor of 1K a piece) now we have a savings of 4.6K. Now lets look at DR, because I am just backing up the filesytem of the Linux host (VM's are in non-persistant mode and use samba to share their files on the red hat host) I only have to pay for one client backup license for netbackup datacenter. Also if I buy one extra DL360 and keep a cold spare hard drive I can recover from a critical system failure in minutes. I have saved money, space, & time. I have several servers like this all together we are saving in the area of 25K. It stuff like this the buisness guys like to see, ill give them this and they will be easy on my next PO request...

  23. Re:How will this be licensed? on VMware: Another Netscape? · · Score: 1

    I have used both over the same network and noticed little difference.

  24. Re:How will this be licensed? on VMware: Another Netscape? · · Score: 1

    umm terminal server is one server. Just because you have 50+ **CLIENTS** using it does not mean you have 50 servers. In this case you would pay for 1 server and 50 cals (windows 2k comes with ts cals)

  25. Re:Pirates taking food from my kids mouths. on Uni Students Slammed For Music Swapping · · Score: 1

    3) Yes you did, the radio station sells commercials, the ones to which you listin (or like me flip around during). They use that money to buy Music that you listin to. I think its tacky to go after university students because they have no money to buy overpriced CD's, however, last time I checked a CD is not an item one needs to live. When I was in school I DL through napster, now I buy the music I really want thats the way it should go. In my opinion the real problem is the person who *CAN* afford to go out and buy the single, or CD yet DL's it. The current situation is way beyond people taping music off the radio because distribution of such media never wide scale, where as file sharing is. The fact is it is theft (thats basically what Copyright infringement is).