Typical government FUD. If you reviewed the racial breakdown of all federal employees, and compared it to the last census genpop breakdown, you'd be suprised. Even worse when you look at Congress.
Sheesh, really.... "The people I see on TV are minorities, so therefore the thousands upon thousands of federal employees must be also!".
And, for the record, I was aiming more towards a distinct lack of people of middle eastern descent. Boy, I wish I had links handy...
I don't consider this a troll, so much as a cry for help. If we're lucky, it's related to the AntiBiotic Resistant Staph Infection story.
I'd make some oblique reference to Philip and Terrence, a la South Park, and the infamous "Not without my Anus" bit, wherein one of the canucks needs to have an anus transplant, but this nice person here might decide that they, too, need an anus transplant, and then they wouldn't be able to talk for a few weeks.
(Dear Mods: No, I can't decide if this is funny, offtopic, or troll material either. I'd like to believe, a little bit of each =-) )
The bill also tacks on loosely worded research funding for Texas A&M. It also lets the White House decide who gets hired and fired, bypassing employment standards regulations (who's gonna be suprised when it's 99% white?). The government can now slap wiretaps whereever they think appropriate, and ISPs can divulge information without fear of reprisal. The nice people who make the smallpox vaccine are now protected from litigation, as are the nice people who make metal detectors, and the nice security guards who man them. So when the big bad man carries his briefcase of smallpox through JFK International, you won't be able to sue anyone for reading Archie Digest when he was supposed to be watching the screen, and when it turns out your smallpox vaccine was in fact a dose of really, really dilluted cherry Kool-Aid, well, sucks to be you.
In other news that undoubtedly went unreported, your faithful representatives have bitten the bullet, and given themselves another pay raise. Now your Reps, Senators, VP, and about 1000 other people (literally) make over $154,000 a year, not including kickbacks, expense budgets, under-the-table exchanges, contributions to their re-election fund...
God Bless America.
(I'm legally required to say that, now that Bush signed a bill re-emphasizing the importance of "God" in the pledge of alleigence, as well as "In god we trust" as your national motto. So much for separation of church and state, eh?)
(And before your left-wingers start running your mouth off, I'll point out that the Democrats didn't oppose any of these bills, admitting that the soon-to-be Republican majority would make the effort useless. So much for standing up for what you believe in.)
Riiight.. we all know Taco goes through and hand-picks the people he thinks would make great mods, right?
There are two ways to express opinions on a post. Moderate, and comment. I chose the later, expressing my opinion, and stating what I would do if I had the option of the former.
And at least I have the balls to put my karma on the line for my replies. If you really believed what you were talking about, and weren't just trolling, then maybe you would too.
I am a Canadian (capitol-C). I also know what a chesterfield is, where basketball and baseball were invented, and can get real beer without having to smuggle it in. And I rarely have to put up with spelling nazis, let alone wimpy-ass AC ones. Whats the matter, your karma too precious?
you have never met teh bacteria and mildew in my bathroom.
Actually, we have met it occasionally, but normally it posts as an AC. Don't forget to say hi to Steve, the thing that lives on the crap in your keyboard, for me.
And yes, for my sugar-starved brain, this is humour. And for the brain-starved mods, this is not troll nor flame, though perhaps flaming trolls could clean his bathroom...
Who said anything about putting grepping proxy logs together with Autocomplete? Two seperate things.
One is a convenient way to grab stuff while sitting comfortably at your desk. The other requires heading off to the (l)users computer to do some file pulling/decrypting/etc. Useful for sites that are smart enough not to leave tidbits in the proxy (although those are few and far between.)
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Riiight... and, of course, all of those 30-60 million people will be former Boy Scouts who will remember how to make fire from two sticks...
It's more likely that a few million survivors would be scattered across the globe, retreating into small communities. Those that didn't starve because they don't remember how to farm would face a future of genetic impurity and inbreeding.
Even a 50% reduction in the earths population could wipe out the race.... it might take a bit longer, and involve some paranoid countries throwing nukes around, but in the end, the same would happen.
In answer to the grandparent, I vaguely recall from years ago a report that said even though many second and third world countries would be wiped out, the G8 would likely survive, and keep it's children safe in hospitals long enough to find a cure. The report concluded that AIDS could not exterminate the race entirely, only thin the population and decimate underdeveloped countries that couldn't afford to keep children isolated.
From RTFA, I kinda get the feeling everyone is missing the point. The recipient of this letter wasn't (from my reading) blatantly intending to rip and share, he bought a CD to listen to, tried it in multiple devices, and in none of them would it play. He writes a letter of complaint, gets labeled a hacker, told he must be lying about the CD not working, and directed to roll over and take it without lube. I, for one, would be outraged. You don't tell your customers they're lying, nor do you presume to know their intentions. I'd be sending this up the chain of management as high as possible, demanding reparations and discipline/dismissal for the employee who sent that.
OTOH, has anyone found/compiled a list of what players don't work with different CP schemes? Not only could it be interesting, but it might provide some ammo against the coming darkness.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Whoops, fergot, this is/. Yeah, how dare they diss P2P! Kazaa forever! Copy protection sucks! Down with **AA! Hilary is a skank!
There, that should offset the big words in the first part of the post.
Well written. And yes, it does remind me of someone in the news, with the exception that Germany wasn't financed by the US to invade Prussia, whereas our current candidate was, in his war with Iran.
I've read similar books describing FDR's stance to the war (isolationist, some might say), but I still can't say it was something I would expect a reasonable person to agree with. I do, however, find the contrast quite amusing... FDR stood by as Europe fell, but waited until provoked before attacking.... GWB goes out in search of someone to attack, and makes up his own excuse for provocation.
Probably the most damaging long term impact of WW2, IMHO, was that it showed the US that war would bring it out of recession. Since then, it seems to be a pattern... poor economy -> war.
Have you heard the part about how FDR may have known that Japan may attack PH, yet elected not to alert the general populace for fear that signs of preparation would lead the japanese to land ground troops and occupy? Leans a little left of crackpot, but makes sense, in an odd way. Of course, I've always wondered if FDR was isolationist, or just frightened of his legacy being reduced to "Wartime President".
They do say that those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it... which reaffirms my view that all those shoddy nursing homes must be run by nazis'. =)
Does this mean that driving around with my car stereo blasting would now be considered "advertising"?
OTOH, has anyone heard what compression this technique has? Is it just good for short text strings, or what? I'm picturing a time when a compressed ogg is broadcast along with the song... get replay, get your own copy... at a lower sample then digital, of course, but enough to encourage radio listeners and drop p2pers.
OTOH2, encrypt it, and then sell the decryption code.
*shrugs* it's been a long day. Don't blame me for the insanity, blame me instead.
I have. It's an interesting read. I think this completely OT thread, though, started more with regards to the US reaction *after* Europe went "Oh, sh*t, we screwed up!". Yes, they f*cked up, but they weren't the only ones, and when they spent 2 years screaming for help, the US sat by and did nothing.
OTOH, you are right. If france had discovered the Blitzkreig before it was unleashed, they would have changed from fixed fortifications to mobile, and he would have been das screwed.
First, have you actually talked to your IT geeks to see how much bandwidth we're talking about?
Second, have them explore options to totally cutting it off. I agree that nuking Kazaa, et al, on an academic network probably isn't a bad thing, but I also agree that it's a bit of a slippery slope, what with things like freenet actually getting a bit of actual content. Bandwidth throttles can be inexpensive if you're lucky. They could also offer "full access" accounts for a premium, and slave those to one part of their bandwidth... then it would be the p2p users fighting over their limited space, and not taking up all the real users bw. My last sysadmin job, we set it up so p2p and anything not p80 was blocked during the day, but after work we'd open it up... perhaps your geeks could open the network on off-peak hours.
And, if all that fails, take a couple older PCs, put them in a room by themselves, share a cable modem or dsl between them, and toss in burners. Students who want stuff not available on the academic network can use those to dl and burn whatever they want. (and yes, there are issues with that... it's a last resort, ok?)
When it boils down to it, the most important thing is "Is this network for academic, or general, use?". If the U is giving you access to do your work with, then it's academic and they're right, but if it's general use, then it should be open. IMHO.
The Japanese declaration of war against the U.S. was scheduled to be delivered to the U.S. Secretary of State by the Japanese ambassador to the U.S. shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor commenced on a Sunday morning. Due to bungling at the Japanese Embassy and the lack of staff at the State Department on a weekend, the actual declaration wasn't delivered until after the attack had started.
I do agree with the 'lack of staff at the State Department'. It was for this reason that the declaration was never delivered on time. I've never seen definitive proof of "bungling" on behalf of the Japanese Embassy... but, of course, I still have the silly notion that it wouldn't matter if I was the janitor at the state department, if i saw a declaration of war I'd call the president myself. I did 'fact check', and the most reliable information I could find indicated that the declaration was left in a diplomatic envelope to be delivered in the normal manner on the Monday.
Depending on whom you talk to, the argument could be made that it was the US withdrawal from the League of Nations that caused its collapse. And lets not get into cases where the US hasn't had provocation to get into a war, but has anyways. And I'm not referring to the current "They might supposedly have the possible technology to maybe make a big bad weapon, someday". It's not so much that the US didn't join the war in 39, as Europe started to fall, but that they didn't seriously consider it. If it hadn't have been for one stupid U-Boat captain, I don't think the US would have joined up at all. The conspiracists would claim that the US was hoping for Third Reich world domination (sans North America), because they expected it to collapse in on itself within a few years, and that would make their own plans for the 51-60th states possible. But those would be the nutcases, eh?
Yes, how silly of the French and English and their reparations.... it's much better now to give billions to countries the US destroys. =)
Seriously, though, that was an oversight, not so much that they demanded the reparations, but that they didn't closely monitor German compliance to the armistice agreement. Of course, I believe the LoN was supposed to help ensure stability in Europe, among other aims, so the US helping that collapse didn't help.
I, for one, am just impressed to find someone who actually knew the whole thing started on a Sunday. That alone puts you in the top 5% of people. Did you also know about the radar operator who tried to warn of the incoming planes, but was told to be quiet because, obviously, it must be a mistake?
Actually, the Japanese declaration of war came the day BEFORE Pearl Harbour, but was put in a diplomatic pouch and not delivered to Washington in time. I don't have the appropriate links handy from work, but if you aren't frothing in Pro-American sentiment, it might be informative to take a look.
And, if we're looking at American attitudes, lets look. Millions of people die, countries crumble, the Third Reich takes over most of Europe... America sits by. A ship under American flag gets sunk by a U-Boat... and america goes to war. Thank goodness for priorities!
And if by "coming over to fight the bad guys for them", you mean "begging you to save their lives from the Reich, which got powerful again because you didn't live up to your promises from the WW1", then yes, I agree.
Yes, the US made good contributions to the war, as did many other countries. But if you think you single-handedly saved the universe, then it's time you went back to your comic book.
Yeah, it was so nice of you guys to wait OVER 2 YEARS before you got involved in the war in Europe. And even then, you only did it because the Japanese attacked your forward military base in the pacific.
I'm sure the other people who went through the american school system applaud your thoughts. I'm sure the Poles, Danes, French, et al, who died while the US sat by and said "Not our war" have a different view.
Don't get me wrong, I liked the move towards innane causes of death for the dear Mr King, which is exactly why I lambasted the AC for wussing out and not thinking one up for today. If I have to put up with Mr Dickhead posting the same sh*t joke every day, the least he can do is keep it interesting.
Just in case our dear AC is feeling under the weather today:
"Mr. King was found dead today below a mountain of paper. Apparently, he was working on a new, massive manuscript when the gargantuan pile of paper tipped over onto him, cutting him several thousand times. The pile of paper must have been too large for him to move, for although obvious signs of struggle were seen, he was unable to extricate himself, and bled to death. Ironically, the story was about a mountain climber who gets trapped in an avalanche with an alien, a dog, and a little girl who can set herself on fire at will. No word as to whether the story will be published."
Oh, come on, "There weren't any more details."? Get with it, lameass! If you're gonna post this s*it every day with a new modus operandi, you can't wuss out suddenly. Get with it, sucka, and give me some gory details!
I tell ya'll, the quality of trolling these days is going right downhill.
I, for one, refuse to buy new CDs anymore, but that doesn't mean that the dozens of people who turn to me as their local geek don't. The lil ole lady who lives next to me got sent some CDs from her son (who's overseas ATM), and couldn't figure out why they wouldn't play in her new(ish) CD player. You try explaining to a 90 year old luddite the intricacies of CD TOC practices and Redbook.
BTW, how does having a corrupt TOC adhere to the Redbook? Just curious how they managed that.
So, anyways, I end up bringing the f*cking things over to my place to burn off onto *real* CDs for her, which unfortunately ends up with her seeing my setup when she brings me over homemade cookies to say thanks. Next thing I know, I'm putting every bit of music she owns to CD... and I mean *every*, considering I have a turntable, cassette, CD (old-skool, to read those f-ing cds), and 8-Track all on my line-in. So I end up spending all day and night pulling off all this music (it took days and days of 24 hour play to get this stuff in), and more days and nights of doing some rudimentary cleaning on pops and crackles. She ends up so happy with it, she tells everyone else in the complex about it during the monthly condo meeting... I now have a computer slaved to nothing more than audio reads, and literally SHELVES of cookies and cakes and preserves and everything else you can think of. If you consider the average phono/tape/8-track/cd to be roughly 1 hour in length, it's going to take me over 3 months just to read this shit in.... and it still hasn't stopped. They don't even say hi anymore, just leave a stack of music at the door with a bag of something homemade on top... the guy from the other end of the complex left his DVD player and a bunch of out-of-region DVDs for me last week (he's maxxed his region changes). And every time I say I'm too busy for this crap, whatever sweet lil grannie it is this time looks up (wayyy up, I'm 6'4") and says "Don't worry dear, whenever you get to it. I kind of like the silence."
Therefore, based on the imperical evidence of the growing hell life is becoming, coupled with the expected dentist bills I'll get soon from all the cavities I'm sure to develop, I'm forced to conclude not only that copy protection == PAIN, but also that CP==EVIL. And, based on this, I'm lead to the conclusion that Hillary Rosen must be the bane of my existance.
It's time for it to end. I can't take another day of "The Beach Boys greatest hits!". Someone tell me where the bitch lives. It's time to go give her a cookie.
Hmmm... several million times warmer than Winnipeg... ok, so a median of 20C, check... sucks change out of your pocket... check.... erases data from great distances... check.
Ladies and gentleman, I have located the 5th Magnetar... the good ole US of A!
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Typical government FUD. If you reviewed the racial breakdown of all federal employees, and compared it to the last census genpop breakdown, you'd be suprised. Even worse when you look at Congress.
Sheesh, really.... "The people I see on TV are minorities, so therefore the thousands upon thousands of federal employees must be also!".
And, for the record, I was aiming more towards a distinct lack of people of middle eastern descent.
Boy, I wish I had links handy...
I don't consider this a troll, so much as a cry for help. If we're lucky, it's related to the AntiBiotic Resistant Staph Infection story.
I'd make some oblique reference to Philip and Terrence, a la South Park, and the infamous "Not without my Anus" bit, wherein one of the canucks needs to have an anus transplant, but this nice person here might decide that they, too, need an anus transplant, and then they wouldn't be able to talk for a few weeks.
(Dear Mods: No, I can't decide if this is funny, offtopic, or troll material either. I'd like to believe, a little bit of each =-) )
The bill also tacks on loosely worded research funding for Texas A&M. It also lets the White House decide who gets hired and fired, bypassing employment standards regulations (who's gonna be suprised when it's 99% white?). The government can now slap wiretaps whereever they think appropriate, and ISPs can divulge information without fear of reprisal. The nice people who make the smallpox vaccine are now protected from litigation, as are the nice people who make metal detectors, and the nice security guards who man them. So when the big bad man carries his briefcase of smallpox through JFK International, you won't be able to sue anyone for reading Archie Digest when he was supposed to be watching the screen, and when it turns out your smallpox vaccine was in fact a dose of really, really dilluted cherry Kool-Aid, well, sucks to be you.
In other news that undoubtedly went unreported, your faithful representatives have bitten the bullet, and given themselves another pay raise. Now your Reps, Senators, VP, and about 1000 other people (literally) make over $154,000 a year, not including kickbacks, expense budgets, under-the-table exchanges, contributions to their re-election fund...
God Bless America.
(I'm legally required to say that, now that Bush signed a bill re-emphasizing the importance of "God" in the pledge of alleigence, as well as "In god we trust" as your national motto. So much for separation of church and state, eh?)
(And before your left-wingers start running your mouth off, I'll point out that the Democrats didn't oppose any of these bills, admitting that the soon-to-be Republican majority would make the effort useless. So much for standing up for what you believe in.)
Riiight.. we all know Taco goes through and hand-picks the people he thinks would make great mods, right?
There are two ways to express opinions on a post. Moderate, and comment. I chose the later, expressing my opinion, and stating what I would do if I had the option of the former.
And at least I have the balls to put my karma on the line for my replies. If you really believed what you were talking about, and weren't just trolling, then maybe you would too.
Someone give this guy a nice mix of +Insightful and +Funny.
Damn, where are my mod points?
I am a Canadian (capitol-C). I also know what a chesterfield is, where basketball and baseball were invented, and can get real beer without having to smuggle it in. And I rarely have to put up with spelling nazis, let alone wimpy-ass AC ones. Whats the matter, your karma too precious?
Actually, we have met it occasionally, but normally it posts as an AC. Don't forget to say hi to Steve, the thing that lives on the crap in your keyboard, for me.
And yes, for my sugar-starved brain, this is humour. And for the brain-starved mods, this is not troll nor flame, though perhaps flaming trolls could clean his bathroom...
Who said anything about putting grepping proxy logs together with Autocomplete? Two seperate things.
One is a convenient way to grab stuff while sitting comfortably at your desk. The other requires heading off to the (l)users computer to do some file pulling/decrypting/etc. Useful for sites that are smart enough not to leave tidbits in the proxy (although those are few and far between.)
Riiight... and, of course, all of those 30-60 million people will be former Boy Scouts who will remember how to make fire from two sticks...
It's more likely that a few million survivors would be scattered across the globe, retreating into small communities. Those that didn't starve because they don't remember how to farm would face a future of genetic impurity and inbreeding.
Even a 50% reduction in the earths population could wipe out the race.... it might take a bit longer, and involve some paranoid countries throwing nukes around, but in the end, the same would happen.
In answer to the grandparent, I vaguely recall from years ago a report that said even though many second and third world countries would be wiped out, the G8 would likely survive, and keep it's children safe in hospitals long enough to find a cure. The report concluded that AIDS could not exterminate the race entirely, only thin the population and decimate underdeveloped countries that couldn't afford to keep children isolated.
Everyone knows that good sysadmins check the proxy logs to find the really good asian schoolgirl sites!
(along with passwords. Thanks, Microsoft Autocomplete!)
I hope you're hoping for a +1 Funny, or maybe +1 Dry Wit. Otherwise you should just go sit in the corner.
And FYI, it was $15,000, not "millions".
From RTFA, I kinda get the feeling everyone is missing the point. The recipient of this letter wasn't (from my reading) blatantly intending to rip and share, he bought a CD to listen to, tried it in multiple devices, and in none of them would it play. He writes a letter of complaint, gets labeled a hacker, told he must be lying about the CD not working, and directed to roll over and take it without lube. I, for one, would be outraged. You don't tell your customers they're lying, nor do you presume to know their intentions. I'd be sending this up the chain of management as high as possible, demanding reparations and discipline/dismissal for the employee who sent that.
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OTOH, has anyone found/compiled a list of what players don't work with different CP schemes? Not only could it be interesting, but it might provide some ammo against the coming darkness.
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Whoops, fergot, this is
Yeah, how dare they diss P2P! Kazaa forever! Copy protection sucks! Down with **AA! Hilary is a skank!
There, that should offset the big words in the first part of the post.
Well written. And yes, it does remind me of someone in the news, with the exception that Germany wasn't financed by the US to invade Prussia, whereas our current candidate was, in his war with Iran.
I've read similar books describing FDR's stance to the war (isolationist, some might say), but I still can't say it was something I would expect a reasonable person to agree with. I do, however, find the contrast quite amusing... FDR stood by as Europe fell, but waited until provoked before attacking.... GWB goes out in search of someone to attack, and makes up his own excuse for provocation.
Probably the most damaging long term impact of WW2, IMHO, was that it showed the US that war would bring it out of recession. Since then, it seems to be a pattern... poor economy -> war.
Have you heard the part about how FDR may have known that Japan may attack PH, yet elected not to alert the general populace for fear that signs of preparation would lead the japanese to land ground troops and occupy? Leans a little left of crackpot, but makes sense, in an odd way. Of course, I've always wondered if FDR was isolationist, or just frightened of his legacy being reduced to "Wartime President".
They do say that those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it... which reaffirms my view that all those shoddy nursing homes must be run by nazis'. =)
Does this mean that driving around with my car stereo blasting would now be considered "advertising"?
OTOH, has anyone heard what compression this technique has? Is it just good for short text strings, or what? I'm picturing a time when a compressed ogg is broadcast along with the song... get replay, get your own copy... at a lower sample then digital, of course, but enough to encourage radio listeners and drop p2pers.
OTOH2, encrypt it, and then sell the decryption code.
*shrugs* it's been a long day. Don't blame me for the insanity, blame me instead.
I have. It's an interesting read. I think this completely OT thread, though, started more with regards to the US reaction *after* Europe went "Oh, sh*t, we screwed up!". Yes, they f*cked up, but they weren't the only ones, and when they spent 2 years screaming for help, the US sat by and did nothing.
OTOH, you are right. If france had discovered the Blitzkreig before it was unleashed, they would have changed from fixed fortifications to mobile, and he would have been das screwed.
First, have you actually talked to your IT geeks to see how much bandwidth we're talking about?
Second, have them explore options to totally cutting it off. I agree that nuking Kazaa, et al, on an academic network probably isn't a bad thing, but I also agree that it's a bit of a slippery slope, what with things like freenet actually getting a bit of actual content. Bandwidth throttles can be inexpensive if you're lucky. They could also offer "full access" accounts for a premium, and slave those to one part of their bandwidth... then it would be the p2p users fighting over their limited space, and not taking up all the real users bw. My last sysadmin job, we set it up so p2p and anything not p80 was blocked during the day, but after work we'd open it up... perhaps your geeks could open the network on off-peak hours.
And, if all that fails, take a couple older PCs, put them in a room by themselves, share a cable modem or dsl between them, and toss in burners. Students who want stuff not available on the academic network can use those to dl and burn whatever they want. (and yes, there are issues with that... it's a last resort, ok?)
When it boils down to it, the most important thing is "Is this network for academic, or general, use?". If the U is giving you access to do your work with, then it's academic and they're right, but if it's general use, then it should be open. IMHO.
I do agree with the 'lack of staff at the State Department'. It was for this reason that the declaration was never delivered on time. I've never seen definitive proof of "bungling" on behalf of the Japanese Embassy... but, of course, I still have the silly notion that it wouldn't matter if I was the janitor at the state department, if i saw a declaration of war I'd call the president myself. I did 'fact check', and the most reliable information I could find indicated that the declaration was left in a diplomatic envelope to be delivered in the normal manner on the Monday.
Depending on whom you talk to, the argument could be made that it was the US withdrawal from the League of Nations that caused its collapse. And lets not get into cases where the US hasn't had provocation to get into a war, but has anyways. And I'm not referring to the current "They might supposedly have the possible technology to maybe make a big bad weapon, someday". It's not so much that the US didn't join the war in 39, as Europe started to fall, but that they didn't seriously consider it. If it hadn't have been for one stupid U-Boat captain, I don't think the US would have joined up at all. The conspiracists would claim that the US was hoping for Third Reich world domination (sans North America), because they expected it to collapse in on itself within a few years, and that would make their own plans for the 51-60th states possible. But those would be the nutcases, eh?
Yes, how silly of the French and English and their reparations.... it's much better now to give billions to countries the US destroys. =) Seriously, though, that was an oversight, not so much that they demanded the reparations, but that they didn't closely monitor German compliance to the armistice agreement. Of course, I believe the LoN was supposed to help ensure stability in Europe, among other aims, so the US helping that collapse didn't help.
I, for one, am just impressed to find someone who actually knew the whole thing started on a Sunday. That alone puts you in the top 5% of people. Did you also know about the radar operator who tried to warn of the incoming planes, but was told to be quiet because, obviously, it must be a mistake?
Actually, the Japanese declaration of war came the day BEFORE Pearl Harbour, but was put in a diplomatic pouch and not delivered to Washington in time. I don't have the appropriate links handy from work, but if you aren't frothing in Pro-American sentiment, it might be informative to take a look.
And, if we're looking at American attitudes, lets look. Millions of people die, countries crumble, the Third Reich takes over most of Europe... America sits by. A ship under American flag gets sunk by a U-Boat... and america goes to war. Thank goodness for priorities!
And if by "coming over to fight the bad guys for them", you mean "begging you to save their lives from the Reich, which got powerful again because you didn't live up to your promises from the WW1", then yes, I agree.
Yes, the US made good contributions to the war, as did many other countries. But if you think you single-handedly saved the universe, then it's time you went back to your comic book.
Fair enough. Which US base did Iraq attack again? I can't seem to recall.
And no, the North/South no-fly zones don't count as "your bases". Thanks for playing.
The war on terrorism promotes the heroism of cowardice.
Amen, Zaphod!
Yeah, it was so nice of you guys to wait OVER 2 YEARS before you got involved in the war in Europe. And even then, you only did it because the Japanese attacked your forward military base in the pacific.
I'm sure the other people who went through the american school system applaud your thoughts. I'm sure the Poles, Danes, French, et al, who died while the US sat by and said "Not our war" have a different view.
Don't get me wrong, I liked the move towards innane causes of death for the dear Mr King, which is exactly why I lambasted the AC for wussing out and not thinking one up for today. If I have to put up with Mr Dickhead posting the same sh*t joke every day, the least he can do is keep it interesting.
Just in case our dear AC is feeling under the weather today:
"Mr. King was found dead today below a mountain of paper. Apparently, he was working on a new, massive manuscript when the gargantuan pile of paper tipped over onto him, cutting him several thousand times. The pile of paper must have been too large for him to move, for although obvious signs of struggle were seen, he was unable to extricate himself, and bled to death. Ironically, the story was about a mountain climber who gets trapped in an avalanche with an alien, a dog, and a little girl who can set herself on fire at will. No word as to whether the story will be published."
Oh, come on, "There weren't any more details."? Get with it, lameass! If you're gonna post this s*it every day with a new modus operandi, you can't wuss out suddenly. Get with it, sucka, and give me some gory details!
I tell ya'll, the quality of trolling these days is going right downhill.
I blame AOL.
I, for one, refuse to buy new CDs anymore, but that doesn't mean that the dozens of people who turn to me as their local geek don't. The lil ole lady who lives next to me got sent some CDs from her son (who's overseas ATM), and couldn't figure out why they wouldn't play in her new(ish) CD player. You try explaining to a 90 year old luddite the intricacies of CD TOC practices and Redbook.
BTW, how does having a corrupt TOC adhere to the Redbook? Just curious how they managed that.
So, anyways, I end up bringing the f*cking things over to my place to burn off onto *real* CDs for her, which unfortunately ends up with her seeing my setup when she brings me over homemade cookies to say thanks. Next thing I know, I'm putting every bit of music she owns to CD... and I mean *every*, considering I have a turntable, cassette, CD (old-skool, to read those f-ing cds), and 8-Track all on my line-in. So I end up spending all day and night pulling off all this music (it took days and days of 24 hour play to get this stuff in), and more days and nights of doing some rudimentary cleaning on pops and crackles. She ends up so happy with it, she tells everyone else in the complex about it during the monthly condo meeting... I now have a computer slaved to nothing more than audio reads, and literally SHELVES of cookies and cakes and preserves and everything else you can think of. If you consider the average phono/tape/8-track/cd to be roughly 1 hour in length, it's going to take me over 3 months just to read this shit in.... and it still hasn't stopped. They don't even say hi anymore, just leave a stack of music at the door with a bag of something homemade on top... the guy from the other end of the complex left his DVD player and a bunch of out-of-region DVDs for me last week (he's maxxed his region changes). And every time I say I'm too busy for this crap, whatever sweet lil grannie it is this time looks up (wayyy up, I'm 6'4") and says "Don't worry dear, whenever you get to it. I kind of like the silence."
Therefore, based on the imperical evidence of the growing hell life is becoming, coupled with the expected dentist bills I'll get soon from all the cavities I'm sure to develop, I'm forced to conclude not only that copy protection == PAIN, but also that CP==EVIL. And, based on this, I'm lead to the conclusion that Hillary Rosen must be the bane of my existance.
It's time for it to end. I can't take another day of "The Beach Boys greatest hits!". Someone tell me where the bitch lives. It's time to go give her a cookie.
Hmmm... several million times warmer than Winnipeg... ok, so a median of 20C, check... sucks change out of your pocket... check.... erases data from great distances... check.
Ladies and gentleman, I have located the 5th Magnetar... the good ole US of A!
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