I'm a member of the US public and I don't want blood.
I want justice and I'm tired of this kind of behavior being tolerated in the world.
We've put up with terrorism for a solid 30 years, but have pussy footed around really doing something about it because we don't want to deal with the mess.
We're gonna see around 10k+ civilians dead here. If you think we're gonna bluff anybody you're in for a shocker.
What can be done? Plenty.
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It's real simple. We've known of terrorist orginazations for decades but have done very little to combat it.
All civilized nations need to delcare war on terrorism.
Make it real simple:
If you're a terrorist organzation you are at war with us and will be treated as such(ie killed).
If you are a country that habors or funds terrorists you will be treated no differently than the terrorists.
There needs to be a message sent that terrorism in any form will no longer be tolerated and treaties should be put into place so that if it rears its ugly head again in the future it'll be eliminated with the same vengence we used on those that commited these acts.
I've seen a lot of comments on how US policy is to blame. That our foreign involvements has led to these people hating us which in turn has led to this event.
Bullshit.
No matter what you do, no matter how much you try to appease everyone, someone somewhere can find a reason to hate you.
Hate doesn't need a reason, just a target.
A war needs to be declared, a war on terrorism. I'm not talking about a war of idealogy, like the war on drugs, but one of arms.
If you are a group that promotes the use of terrorism, you are an emeny of the Unites States.
We're coming for you.
You can't hide. Any country that shelters you(ANY country) will also be considered our enemy. After we deal with them(through force of arms), we'll be right back on your trail.
Nowhere to run anymore.
Nowhere to hide anymore.
This war is going to cost us. There'll be lives lost when we occupy Afganistan and lives lost as we invade Iraq.
But I think it's a price we're now willing to pay.
F16's are flying over Washington and I've heard rumors that there is another hijacked plane that may have to be shot down.
An aircraft carrier has been dispatched to NY and another one will be sitting off the coast in the DC area. Presumably they'll be there to intercept any international flights that have been hijacked.
This was WELL coordinated. Not only did the hijackers have to get past security, but most likely they would have to fly the planes themselves.
I know a lot of pilots, they're not weak willed individuals. Given the order to ram the WTC I believe most pilots would've chosen to tank the plane into the pavement elsewhere.
Whoever did this is going to get a lot of grief over this. I've heard that people in Palastine are celibrating. That's a mistake. Most American's couldn't care less about Isreal, the Middle East or Palastine.
Assuming this attack came from Palastine sympathizers they've just guaranteed that just about every American will be begging the president to nuke them.
It HAS to have a larger HD in it... MPEG2 CAN'T be 4x more efficient than MPEG1
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Actually it can. I'm pretty sure the DirectTivo's take advantage of Variable Bitrate Recording on the MPEG stream. Basically the signal coming from the dish is compressed based on how much action is going on in the scene.
A fight scene has more information in it so the compression is low. A scene with just two actors talking(and not moving much) doesn't have much information changing in it so it gets compressed heavily.
Seems like every language is an excercise in How Things Should Be Done.
As a programmer that's worked with about 15 languages over 18 years what I really want is a language that:
1> Is as quick to program in as php/perl/python.
2> Is still managable for large projects.
3> Is as fast as C/C++.
4> Is easy to port across platforms(porting Quake V from Linux to Windows should just be a recompile).
5> Performs in a predictable manner(no wierd behavior out of the basic operations every language has in common).
6> Memory management should be handled automatically.
7> Integrates seemlessly over networks.
Looks like the avi and divx links have been taken down for "legal reasons".
Anyone know what's up with that?
Child sex in the media is way over blown
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I was actually a pretty sexually active child at around age 6, with my own peers. Children are sexually active, it's just not a subject that's ever brought up.
Now I don't think a child/adult relationship would ever be healthly. There's too much a power/mental gap for such a relationship to ever be anything other than coercive. But the subject is way blown out of porportion in today's media.
And truthfully, most poeple really don't care about "saving the children", it's just a cause to talk about. If we really cared about our children we'd stop the child on child abuse that's rampant in our schools, or hell, even bother to install seat belts in the school buses that take our children to school.
It's a hostile world for children, but not because of Evil Pedophiles lurking behind every corner.
1> Getting devices on and off the net is cumbersome.
2> The bandwidth sucks and is getting worse by the day.
3> The reliability is poor and there's no one to bitch at when it goes down.
4> The anon nature of the net is a two edge sword: yeah no one really knows I download naked pics of supermodels, but them I'm completely helpless when some spammer decides to flood my inbox with make money fast messages or wants to DOS my servers.
The internet was never designed to be doing what it's doing today.
My dad is recovering in St Louis after having a ventrical assist heart pump installed. He's 70 years old, otherwise in good health, but is old enough to not be a candidate for a new heart transplate.
Essentially these new types of technologies are the only hope for a lot of people in heart failure.
If I remember correctly his pump(and this new artifical heart probably uses the same power) has an internal 1 hour battery, runs off of external 4 hour worn battery packs, and plugs into an AC outlet unit that can hold a 12 hour charge.
And while a 4 hour "timer" for being away from home may not sound like much, it can mean a 500% improvement in the quality of life for most of these people whose low heart output would otherwise restrict them to the home(and eventually bed).
This is all new territory, no one really knows the long term effects this tech will have(for example my dad no longer has a pulse, his blood flows in a steady stream from the pump and no one knows if this will mess with the body or the mind). These guys are the ultimate Beta testers.
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Yep. Ultima II was my first CRPG and I loved that game.
I loved how you could be a thief, get caught stealing and then have to wipe out all the town guards.
500-750? Funny, pricewatch lists the price diff between a P4 1.4 and Tbird 1.4 motherboard combo to be 69 dollars.
Think I'm going to go with tsetem and get the P4 now instead of the Tbird.
I'm getting real sick of Slashdot twisting facts to support the anti-corp, anti-gov paranoia around here.
Fact: The FBI had subpoenas.
Fact: The ISPs are refusing to install Carnivore.
And yet somehow this has turned into a story about the FBI invading our privacy.
Slashdot has turned into a new service I can't trust anymore.
Whatever injustices these people felt they were being subjected to by supposed "evil" US policies, terrorism is not an acceptable form of protest.
The full support of the population will be behind the invasion.
I can assure you that with that kind of backing this won't turn into a Vietnam.
Thank you for interjecting a little reality into this moron's "give peace a chance" crap.
I'm sure he'd find it kind of hard to turn a blind eye to terrorism if he lived in your apartment complex.
Ground assault out of the question? I don't think so.
I know for damn sure I'd volunteer to go over and land on their shore(and yes, I am fucking dead serious about that, I can even bring my own guns).
Heavy losses to our troops?
When the body count in New York is done I'd guess this "war" will have already claimed 10k+ lives.
It's too late to not have heavy losses.
If Pakistan objects, I'm sure we can divert the troops to their shores first.
I think all terrorist organizations need to be taken out.
.357 and shot the bully.
If any government gets in the way, it should also be eliminated.
Then we work with other NATO allies to ensure that any future terrorist groups are treated the same way.
Or in your schoolyard terms:
The bully punched us.
We pulled out our
The world needs to be taught that all the civilized countries will no longer tolerate terrorism as an acceptable form of "protesting".
The difference is when the FBI comes after you the ISP doesn't try to hide your records.
When he says that these countries "harbor" the terrorists, he's talking about how they keep them safe from justice.
I agree, dropping the bomb wasn't revenge thing for Pearl Habor.
It's just the context.
I see a lot of poeple afraid our politicians aren't really going to do anything substantial over this event.
Battleship Maine sunk = US/Spanish war.
Pearl Habor = WW II
Sept 11, 2001 (is going to) = a hell of a lot more than a token gesture.
I'm a member of the US public and I don't want blood.
I want justice and I'm tired of this kind of behavior being tolerated in the world.
We've put up with terrorism for a solid 30 years, but have pussy footed around really doing something about it because we don't want to deal with the mess.
Well guess what? It just got real messy anyway.
Pearl Habor saw 2400 military personel dead.
Our final reaction? Nuke Japan.
We're gonna see around 10k+ civilians dead here. If you think we're gonna bluff anybody you're in for a shocker.
It's real simple. We've known of terrorist orginazations for decades but have done very little to combat it.
All civilized nations need to delcare war on terrorism.
Make it real simple:
If you're a terrorist organzation you are at war with us and will be treated as such(ie killed).
If you are a country that habors or funds terrorists you will be treated no differently than the terrorists.
There needs to be a message sent that terrorism in any form will no longer be tolerated and treaties should be put into place so that if it rears its ugly head again in the future it'll be eliminated with the same vengence we used on those that commited these acts.
I've seen a lot of comments on how US policy is to blame. That our foreign involvements has led to these people hating us which in turn has led to this event.
Bullshit.
No matter what you do, no matter how much you try to appease everyone, someone somewhere can find a reason to hate you.
Hate doesn't need a reason, just a target.
A war needs to be declared, a war on terrorism. I'm not talking about a war of idealogy, like the war on drugs, but one of arms.
If you are a group that promotes the use of terrorism, you are an emeny of the Unites States.
We're coming for you.
You can't hide. Any country that shelters you(ANY country) will also be considered our enemy. After we deal with them(through force of arms), we'll be right back on your trail.
Nowhere to run anymore.
Nowhere to hide anymore.
This war is going to cost us. There'll be lives lost when we occupy Afganistan and lives lost as we invade Iraq.
But I think it's a price we're now willing to pay.
F16's are flying over Washington and I've heard rumors that there is another hijacked plane that may have to be shot down.
An aircraft carrier has been dispatched to NY and another one will be sitting off the coast in the DC area. Presumably they'll be there to intercept any international flights that have been hijacked.
This was WELL coordinated. Not only did the hijackers have to get past security, but most likely they would have to fly the planes themselves.
I know a lot of pilots, they're not weak willed individuals. Given the order to ram the WTC I believe most pilots would've chosen to tank the plane into the pavement elsewhere.
Whoever did this is going to get a lot of grief over this. I've heard that people in Palastine are celibrating. That's a mistake. Most American's couldn't care less about Isreal, the Middle East or Palastine.
Assuming this attack came from Palastine sympathizers they've just guaranteed that just about every American will be begging the president to nuke them.
Does anyone else see the irony in Russia warning its citizens to avoid the US because we might unjustly lock them up?
This is scary stuff people.
It HAS to have a larger HD in it... MPEG2 CAN'T be 4x more efficient than MPEG1
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Actually it can. I'm pretty sure the DirectTivo's take advantage of Variable Bitrate Recording on the MPEG stream. Basically the signal coming from the dish is compressed based on how much action is going on in the scene.
A fight scene has more information in it so the compression is low. A scene with just two actors talking(and not moving much) doesn't have much information changing in it so it gets compressed heavily.
20 bucks so I can watch Quicktime movies using a product that may or may not work with the next browser release?
Pass.
Closed video codecs = waste of time.
Funny thing is if Quicktime was open it probably would've been the standard by now(can you say pdf, mp3).
Too bad there isn't a video version of Ogg.
Seems like every language is an excercise in How Things Should Be Done.
As a programmer that's worked with about 15 languages over 18 years what I really want is a language that:
1> Is as quick to program in as php/perl/python.
2> Is still managable for large projects.
3> Is as fast as C/C++.
4> Is easy to port across platforms(porting Quake V from Linux to Windows should just be a recompile).
5> Performs in a predictable manner(no wierd behavior out of the basic operations every language has in common).
6> Memory management should be handled automatically.
7> Integrates seemlessly over networks.
Is this too much to ask for?
Is that it doesn't pay out to the content providers.
If I'm surfing slashdot and see adds, those adds should pay out to slashdot: I'm using slashdot resources.
But by ad hijacking a 3rd party(Gator and Kaazaa) is basically selling revenue off of bandwidth they're not paying for.
Where's Might and Magic, or the best space game of all time, Elite?
Looks like the avi and divx links have been taken down for "legal reasons".
Anyone know what's up with that?
I was actually a pretty sexually active child at around age 6, with my own peers. Children are sexually active, it's just not a subject that's ever brought up.
Now I don't think a child/adult relationship would ever be healthly. There's too much a power/mental gap for such a relationship to ever be anything other than coercive. But the subject is way blown out of porportion in today's media.
And truthfully, most poeple really don't care about "saving the children", it's just a cause to talk about. If we really cared about our children we'd stop the child on child abuse that's rampant in our schools, or hell, even bother to install seat belts in the school buses that take our children to school.
It's a hostile world for children, but not because of Evil Pedophiles lurking behind every corner.
1> Getting devices on and off the net is cumbersome.
2> The bandwidth sucks and is getting worse by the day.
3> The reliability is poor and there's no one to bitch at when it goes down.
4> The anon nature of the net is a two edge sword: yeah no one really knows I download naked pics of supermodels, but them I'm completely helpless when some spammer decides to flood my inbox with make money fast messages or wants to DOS my servers.
The internet was never designed to be doing what it's doing today.
My dad is recovering in St Louis after having a ventrical assist heart pump installed. He's 70 years old, otherwise in good health, but is old enough to not be a candidate for a new heart transplate.
Essentially these new types of technologies are the only hope for a lot of people in heart failure.
If I remember correctly his pump(and this new artifical heart probably uses the same power) has an internal 1 hour battery, runs off of external 4 hour worn battery packs, and plugs into an AC outlet unit that can hold a 12 hour charge.
And while a 4 hour "timer" for being away from home may not sound like much, it can mean a 500% improvement in the quality of life for most of these people whose low heart output would otherwise restrict them to the home(and eventually bed).
This is all new territory, no one really knows the long term effects this tech will have(for example my dad no longer has a pulse, his blood flows in a steady stream from the pump and no one knows if this will mess with the body or the mind). These guys are the ultimate Beta testers.