This allows a sort of cultural bonding to take place over certain songs--the producers of "Garden State" can put Cold Play's "Don't Panic" in the begginning of that movie and we'll all understand its shared meaning. It becomes a generational thing.
...or a radio station can play a song by SoulHat every Friday at 5pm and we all understand it's the weekend, time to party down, woo hoo!
Um, oh yeah, er, what was I saying?
I noticed this back in the early 90s when I was a reviewer for a heavy metal mag. We got *lots* of fantastic CDs in (Along with loads of dross) that, over time, became some of my favorite music. But I feela loss because no one today would know what a great band, say, Antic Hay, was. The music is just as good as what was popular, but something is lost nonetheless.
As a longtime fan of Wrathchild America, Anthrax, Skid Row, and a smattering of other now unpopular bands, I can honestly say I don't give a fuck if no one else likes what I listen to. They're all dumb anyway, right?;)
Speaking of "don't give a fuck", there is that one song that goes "I don't give a fuck, I don't give a shit, I don't give a fuck, I don't give a shit". True art, brother. True art.;)
I was already pissed that it was going to be so tightly tied to GNOME, and I tried to build it anyway. No go, even after installing *every* package it requires. Something's wrong somewhere, obviously.
What I'd like to see is their backend factored out into a cross-platform library (note when I say cross-platform that does not mean it can require GNOME on Linux and still be cross-platform, because GNOME is a platform and depending on GNOME libraries means you're tied to a platform). It would be trivial at that point to build a wxPython client using their backend, and I might well do so just to avoid locking into GNOME. GNOME is as predatory as Microsoft in their lockin tactics, and I'd just as soon not use it.;)
:) KLBJ is awesome. They had an internet stream at one point, you might be able to find it if you hit their website. My only real caveat with it is that it required internet explorer to work.
Ok, I checked, and they don't stream over the internet any more.:( Sucks, but you can at least visit their website. Naturally I recommend visiting their lame website so you don't promote excessive usage of flash.
And a slight political word: KLBJ better represents Texans than the president. In fact, you can consider KLBJ authoritative, and the president, well, let's just say we voted him *out* of Texas, if you catch my meaning.
Seriously, the two interesting complaints I've seen are "Not enough local bands" and "ClearChannel". Try living in Austin sometime. KLBJ has a good, solid mix of local bands, and they aren't clearchannel and never will be. (If they become clearchannel, expect rednecks to develop suicide bombing tactics)
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And oh, completely offtopic -- what's the deal with saying, work fine in OOorg -- shouldn't that be works fine with OO? Why the org/.org thingy?
Trademark. Somebody holds a trademark on OpenOffice(tm) that's not connected to the OpenOffice.org project we all love (theoretically, anyway, that love I mean). So OpenOffice.org had to change their name to avoid getting in trouble over the trademark. Mind you, the OpenOffice(tm) crew (whoever they are, I forget who) are totally disconnected from OO.org, and I think they're not even competitive with them. So it's cool, just respecting someone else's trademark, and they're happy with OpenOffice.org's fix of just appending.org to their name.
So, looking into Linux's future (which I've been having some of the same wonderings you've been having, apparently), what would it take to a) turn Linux into a microkernel and b) get Linus to accept the design change?
Presumably (and another poster already said it had been done) you wouldn't turn Linux into a microkernel in one revision, you'd start with one part, create the messaging system (and most of the microkernel stuff), and just have one part operating on its own from the kernel. So maybe 2.8 would have some of it as microkernel, 3.0 would have more, and then maybe at 3.2 Linux would be completely switched to a microkernel. (Also presumably Linux is already so modular in design that it would be possible to do it, one of the key benefits of modular design being that you can make major changes like this and still reuse 90% of your code)
But the real catch would be getting Linux to accept the changes, I suspect. He's still pretty adamant about Linux being what it is and not changing to a microkernel setup...
Not exactly. The scene was really shot, and it really did appear on tv. It was just never in any edited release of the movie. (I remember seeing that scene and the original scene with jabba in a special about scenes that got cut)
I have a vague memory of Chewbacca kicking the controls of the falcon away from him, and HBO running that scene in a lot of their commercials in the mid-80s about how cool they were for showing movies you want to watch.
I have many ghosts of memories around scenes in the first two movies that may or may not be products of my imagination.;)
In the original that everyone around here grew up with, Han Solo guns down Greedo the bounty hunter because he's sneaky and cold-blooded when we first meet him. In the new versions, Han Solo shoots Greedo in self-defense and survives by sheer luck. In effect, Lucas changes the character to be more "warm and fuzzy".
This further reduces the impact of Han Solo not leaving Luke to fight the Death Star on his own later. You see, when han was a cold-blooded prick that shot first and didn't ask questions because he killed everyone he would've asked, his conversion to the rebel cause was a big deal. Now it's just...not...anymore.
Asshole. You are never to mention that again. I've spent the last FIVE YEARS of my life in treatment and on medication over that scene.
The doctors tell me I'm just remembering it wrong. I swear that when I was a kid, I saw a special on TV about star wars where they showed a big, fat, hairy man playing the role of Jabba the Hutt, and he spoke the dialog. None of this weird text stuff.
But the doctors say it didn't really happen, that the scene really was "shot with a placeholder until we had the technology to make a big fat lizard like we'd intended to from the beginning."
My advice? Don't see a doctor that's under 25 years old and practicing psychiatry.
Fuck that. I want him to release it as he originally wrote it, with Han getting bitchy and whiny and greedo just slunking off. Then Obi-wan just kills both of them. he was an evil dude as it was originally written.
We have studied positive and negative reinforcement. There are experts clinging to all of the colors in the child rearing spectrum. I agree that it all "has to be done with caution and a great deal of thought." How can parents be expected to see it in every little thing? It's a godlike ability that is only required of other people. Never oneself.
This is all true and not in contention.;)
Have you ever cut food for your children? In our child's lives they've said "No. I do it my own self. Nooo! Me do it." They see even at a young age that you don't trust them with that steak knife.
Your point is made, but I want to point out that it's a bad example for me.;) I actually give my kids the steak knife and let them do it. When they take a few swipes at it, they usually either ask me to do it for them or they manage it. When they successfully cut their own steak, I stop cutting it for them. I don't let them keep the steak knife, at first, because I know they'll play with it. So it's a "Cut your steak and give back the knife" deal. When they insist on keeping it, it's "As long as you don't play with it". When they start playing with it, I take the knife. There's probably an argument to be made that I'm not showing trust at some point, and we can certainly get into defining trust as some sort of pissing match. But your point is made, anyway, because I'm perfectly capable of seeing any of the bazillion examples you didn't cite that still make your point.
Our general approach is to always let them give it a shot when they decide they're ready for it. When they fail (as they always do the first couple of times at anything), we try to help them understand why they failed. It's tricky to compare your own progress with your kids to other parents' progress with theirs because each job of child-rearing is a custom job, never to be repeated. There are two parents and three kids in my house, so there's six parent-child relationships that are completely different. Furthermore, they're nebulous things, always changing, growing, evolving. Developmentally, though, my kids are ahead of the curve, every single one of them. Of course, it's hard to screw up a relationship with a kid when they're only five, but we do have strong relationships with them with open communication channels. I realize the situation will be totally different at the onset of puberty, but I think we've got a good start, anyway.
Have you ever seen a parent that wasn't watching their child, like at a park or on a playground or even in a store.
Besides my wife?;) I make it a practice not to second-guess parents with specific issues with their kids. That's why I spent so many words trying to reduce this to a general-case discussion. As I mentioned above, each child-rearing job is a custom job, never to be repeated. So, by definition, it's not possible (or polite, for that matter) to second-guess other parents. It's only possible to second-guess yourself.
I still think GPS at a teens age is little, or no different, than watching carefully when we finally let them cut their own steak with the knife.
To be honest, when watching my kids take on a new challenge, I'm not watching to see how I can protect them from harm. I'm watching to see them overcome the challenge, and I'm a cheerleader when I do it.
It's a fine line to walk on the occasion when you go to checkup on your kid to see that they're doing what they said they'd do, and I can at least say that with my own the instances that I've gone checking up on them have turned up almost 100% to be finding them not doing it. So while there may be perceptible mistrust, it's not misplaced, and the kids are smart enough to see it. They want to do better, and they do. So I guess we get back to the beginning of the conversation when we talk about well-placed mistrust vs misplaced mistrust. My contention being that in the general case, the GPS tracking
I know you Must be Wondering which DINA this is? I am DINA SULEYMAN. I Live far on the Sea of the Indian Ocean. I don't think you have come that Far, Do you know Mauritius. That's where i am Mailing you from.
I would have called, if i had your Number. my Kids are here with me, and My Brother In-law (DAVID) too. We have been trying to Reach out for Help for 3 weeks, but i got your Mail from the Internet and i decided to Contact you with the Faith that you would Help me Out, I am planning to Relocate my Family to your Country,
We are not asking you to Finance our Trip, But what i demand from you is Your Trust and Honesty, Because i want you to Help me Out. For Three Weeks, I have being moving from Town to Town. From Shelter to Shelter. I am not a Begger, But I really Value my Life, and that of My Kids. There is Somebody or Group of People after me, I am sure you are not Suprised, It happens Everywhere. But Why? I am Sure You will ask.
I am not going to Hide anything from you. Because i Need you to Believe and Dont take this for Just a Joke or a Game. It involves my Life and My Kids and a Sum of 25.5 Million United States Dollars, Which is the Main Cause I have suddenly made enemies on this Islands. I have been attacked at Gun Point Twice and over 6 of Our New Accomodation given to us by the Police have been broken.
The Police Could not Help much because the Person behind the Plots of Evil is a Specialist at Crime, My Late Husbands Lawyer. Henry Jones, and Now i know why he is After me, He wants The Funds, I remember he had a Fight over some Money Issue with my Husband before he Died, And now this Funds have Come to us as Inheritance and Only him knows of Such.
i immediately Took the Matter to Court and Laid all my Allegations, But they were not Strong Enough to put him Behind bars. So now at this Present time Henry is Still on the Loose. He Follows My Every Move, He has tried to Kiddnap the Kids from school. I have received Calls of Giving Up the Funds or I would be Shot on the Way to Work.
My Kids have Given up School and I have Given up Work, With the help My Brother Inlaw we have managed to Move here and there, Slightly escaping Death. But we are Glad we are Still alive.
All this While He never got the Money becasue i had Deposited them in a Strong Trunk Box, and Lodged the Box in Security Company at the Shores of the IslandS. And All i am waitng for is A Signal from you and I would Send them for you to Keep, Then i would Proceed to a Neighboring Country and make Flight Arrangements to Meet you in your Country.
We cant Engage other Banking Methods to Transfer the Funds Because of the Area we are Located on the Islands, also We do Not Have a Foreign Accounts, And we dont Want mr. Henry to Have any Trace of where the Funds are Going, so as Not to Put you in Danger. So you are our Only Hope, We have A Mapped out plan Already. Its Safe and Secure.
So please There is Nothing to Worry about, its just you and the Security Company and The Destination, Leave me and the Lawyer, I will protect my Kids with the Help of My Brother in-Law, As soon as you receive the Funds in your Account, we would Check out of Mauritius.
Always send me mail on the above E-mail address(dinasuleyman_1@yahoo.co.uk) for sicurity reasonse.
Please try and Send me your Number, So we can Discuss on a Secure Medium.
You think it's ok if the RIAA extradites some brit / aussie / canuck to the US for copying Led Zepplin II?
Hell yeah! That's a band that just needs to die, die, die.
On the other hand, I don't know that it should really be considered copying, since the word sorta assumes that the original Work involved creativity in the first place.
That's sure in the hell better than her getting tried here in the US, where she might get the death penalty or something. What's the worst those Brits'll do to her? I've seen Bridge over the River Kwai...
I would guess no, but whoever owned and operated the server would be in big trouble if they didn't censor you.
And the Saudis might ask for you at some point or threaten to raise their prices or something, but I don't know if that sort of thing happens outside cheesy newsstand action novels...
None of the countries you named here:
France, Libya, China, Germany, Turkey, Spain, Canada and Greece
are openly sympathetic to bin Laden's cause. The one suspect on the list for me would be Libya, but they have made substantial disavowals of terrorism with real deeds. Do you really think France, Germany, Turkey, Spain, Canada, and Greece are hostile to us? China, maybe.
Not to mention the political ramifications any of them would face if they openly sided with OBL in such a case. If they did a damn fine job of being impartial and judged him "not guilty", they might be safe. But if they were clearly taking his side, then the Golden Rule applies (the only real international law there is), and we'd do unto them as they supported doing unto us, only with real bombs and people that expect to live through the piloting.
So by definition an international tribune that OBL would appear in front of is impartial or biased on our side anyway. His rights stand a better chance of being saved in that case and still delivering the guilty verdict we're all so convinced he deserves. (Mind you I lost some friends by maintaining skepticism over OBL)
And how would an international court, made up of say, France, Libya, China, Germany, Turkey, Spain, Canada and Greece, be necessarily so much more impartial? I am certainly no Bushite, but even I, as a New Yorker who lived through 9/11, would find the idea of an international court to try bin Laden patently offensive. He committed a crime against me, in my territory and I deserve to have him tried in a court that follows my laws. The crime was committed here, and he should be tried here. Victims have rights too, you know, and that's why extradition treaties exist in the first place.
Victim's have rights, which is why we went to war to get him in the first place. Or did you forget that? As an American, I have to agree that OBL should go before an international court of law, as should Hussein (he is, isn't he? I haven't been following his case). You see, the people who actually committed the crimes on American soil, for hte most part, died while committing those crimes. The part of the crimes that was committing off american soil is the part we want OBL for, the conspiracy and stuff.
It's complex, but American legal doctrine provides rights to the accused (while it does tend to favor actual citizens), and those rights must be respected, no matter how horrible the crimes were. Failure to repect those rights can and will lead to the collapse of those rights for all, and I do not wish to live in that America.
So, you need an argument for bringing OBL to stand trial in the US that does not depend on your (our) status as the victim.
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This allows a sort of cultural bonding to take place over certain songs--the producers of "Garden State" can put Cold Play's "Don't Panic" in the begginning of that movie and we'll all understand its shared meaning. It becomes a generational thing.
...or a radio station can play a song by SoulHat every Friday at 5pm and we all understand it's the weekend, time to party down, woo hoo!
Um, oh yeah, er, what was I saying?
I noticed this back in the early 90s when I was a reviewer for a heavy metal mag. We got *lots* of fantastic CDs in (Along with loads of dross) that, over time, became some of my favorite music. But I feela loss because no one today would know what a great band, say, Antic Hay, was. The music is just as good as what was popular, but something is lost nonetheless.
As a longtime fan of Wrathchild America, Anthrax, Skid Row, and a smattering of other now unpopular bands, I can honestly say I don't give a fuck if no one else likes what I listen to. They're all dumb anyway, right? ;)
Speaking of "don't give a fuck", there is that one song that goes "I don't give a fuck, I don't give a shit, I don't give a fuck, I don't give a shit". True art, brother. True art. ;)
I was already pissed that it was going to be so tightly tied to GNOME, and I tried to build it anyway. No go, even after installing *every* package it requires. Something's wrong somewhere, obviously.
What I'd like to see is their backend factored out into a cross-platform library (note when I say cross-platform that does not mean it can require GNOME on Linux and still be cross-platform, because GNOME is a platform and depending on GNOME libraries means you're tied to a platform). It would be trivial at that point to build a wxPython client using their backend, and I might well do so just to avoid locking into GNOME. GNOME is as predatory as Microsoft in their lockin tactics, and I'd just as soon not use it. ;)
:) KLBJ is awesome. They had an internet stream at one point, you might be able to find it if you hit their website. My only real caveat with it is that it required internet explorer to work.
Ok, I checked, and they don't stream over the internet any more. :( Sucks, but you can at least visit their website. Naturally I recommend visiting their lame website so you don't promote excessive usage of flash.
And a slight political word: KLBJ better represents Texans than the president. In fact, you can consider KLBJ authoritative, and the president, well, let's just say we voted him *out* of Texas, if you catch my meaning.
You listen to KLBJ too? ;)
Seriously, the two interesting complaints I've seen are "Not enough local bands" and "ClearChannel". Try living in Austin sometime. KLBJ has a good, solid mix of local bands, and they aren't clearchannel and never will be. (If they become clearchannel, expect rednecks to develop suicide bombing tactics)
The soul of a Texan is independence.
I think that just demonstrates that Miguel probably knows something about inheritance....
As an American I need to make that clear.
As a Texan, I certainly want Miguel to remember the Alamo!
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You just made my dick hard.
Just in case you wanted to know...
And oh, completely offtopic -- what's the deal with saying, work fine in OOorg -- shouldn't that be works fine with OO? Why the org/.org thingy?
Trademark. Somebody holds a trademark on OpenOffice(tm) that's not connected to the OpenOffice.org project we all love (theoretically, anyway, that love I mean). So OpenOffice.org had to change their name to avoid getting in trouble over the trademark. Mind you, the OpenOffice(tm) crew (whoever they are, I forget who) are totally disconnected from OO.org, and I think they're not even competitive with them. So it's cool, just respecting someone else's trademark, and they're happy with OpenOffice.org's fix of just appending .org to their name.
So, looking into Linux's future (which I've been having some of the same wonderings you've been having, apparently), what would it take to a) turn Linux into a microkernel and b) get Linus to accept the design change?
Presumably (and another poster already said it had been done) you wouldn't turn Linux into a microkernel in one revision, you'd start with one part, create the messaging system (and most of the microkernel stuff), and just have one part operating on its own from the kernel. So maybe 2.8 would have some of it as microkernel, 3.0 would have more, and then maybe at 3.2 Linux would be completely switched to a microkernel. (Also presumably Linux is already so modular in design that it would be possible to do it, one of the key benefits of modular design being that you can make major changes like this and still reuse 90% of your code)
But the real catch would be getting Linux to accept the changes, I suspect. He's still pretty adamant about Linux being what it is and not changing to a microkernel setup...
Not exactly. The scene was really shot, and it really did appear on tv. It was just never in any edited release of the movie. (I remember seeing that scene and the original scene with jabba in a special about scenes that got cut)
I have a vague memory of Chewbacca kicking the controls of the falcon away from him, and HBO running that scene in a lot of their commercials in the mid-80s about how cool they were for showing movies you want to watch.
I have many ghosts of memories around scenes in the first two movies that may or may not be products of my imagination. ;)
In the original that everyone around here grew up with, Han Solo guns down Greedo the bounty hunter because he's sneaky and cold-blooded when we first meet him. In the new versions, Han Solo shoots Greedo in self-defense and survives by sheer luck. In effect, Lucas changes the character to be more "warm and fuzzy".
This further reduces the impact of Han Solo not leaving Luke to fight the Death Star on his own later. You see, when han was a cold-blooded prick that shot first and didn't ask questions because he killed everyone he would've asked, his conversion to the rebel cause was a big deal. Now it's just...not...anymore.
Asshole. You are never to mention that again. I've spent the last FIVE YEARS of my life in treatment and on medication over that scene.
The doctors tell me I'm just remembering it wrong. I swear that when I was a kid, I saw a special on TV about star wars where they showed a big, fat, hairy man playing the role of Jabba the Hutt, and he spoke the dialog. None of this weird text stuff.
But the doctors say it didn't really happen, that the scene really was "shot with a placeholder until we had the technology to make a big fat lizard like we'd intended to from the beginning."
My advice? Don't see a doctor that's under 25 years old and practicing psychiatry.
Nonono. you see, han is noted for premature ejaculation, hence he shoots first. Greedo, on the other hand, being an alien, well, you see, um, er.
Do you understand now?
Fuck that. I want him to release it as he originally wrote it, with Han getting bitchy and whiny and greedo just slunking off. Then Obi-wan just kills both of them. he was an evil dude as it was originally written.
Stop raping my pre-birth, lucas!!
I still don't believe it.
We have studied positive and negative reinforcement. There are experts clinging to all of the colors in the child rearing spectrum. I agree that it all "has to be done with caution and a great deal of thought." How can parents be expected to see it in every little thing? It's a godlike ability that is only required of other people. Never oneself.
This is all true and not in contention. ;)
Have you ever cut food for your children? In our child's lives they've said "No. I do it my own self. Nooo! Me do it." They see even at a young age that you don't trust them with that steak knife.
Your point is made, but I want to point out that it's a bad example for me. ;) I actually give my kids the steak knife and let them do it. When they take a few swipes at it, they usually either ask me to do it for them or they manage it. When they successfully cut their own steak, I stop cutting it for them. I don't let them keep the steak knife, at first, because I know they'll play with it. So it's a "Cut your steak and give back the knife" deal. When they insist on keeping it, it's "As long as you don't play with it". When they start playing with it, I take the knife. There's probably an argument to be made that I'm not showing trust at some point, and we can certainly get into defining trust as some sort of pissing match. But your point is made, anyway, because I'm perfectly capable of seeing any of the bazillion examples you didn't cite that still make your point.
Our general approach is to always let them give it a shot when they decide they're ready for it. When they fail (as they always do the first couple of times at anything), we try to help them understand why they failed. It's tricky to compare your own progress with your kids to other parents' progress with theirs because each job of child-rearing is a custom job, never to be repeated. There are two parents and three kids in my house, so there's six parent-child relationships that are completely different. Furthermore, they're nebulous things, always changing, growing, evolving. Developmentally, though, my kids are ahead of the curve, every single one of them. Of course, it's hard to screw up a relationship with a kid when they're only five, but we do have strong relationships with them with open communication channels. I realize the situation will be totally different at the onset of puberty, but I think we've got a good start, anyway.
Have you ever seen a parent that wasn't watching their child, like at a park or on a playground or even in a store.
Besides my wife? ;) I make it a practice not to second-guess parents with specific issues with their kids. That's why I spent so many words trying to reduce this to a general-case discussion. As I mentioned above, each child-rearing job is a custom job, never to be repeated. So, by definition, it's not possible (or polite, for that matter) to second-guess other parents. It's only possible to second-guess yourself.
I still think GPS at a teens age is little, or no different, than watching carefully when we finally let them cut their own steak with the knife.
To be honest, when watching my kids take on a new challenge, I'm not watching to see how I can protect them from harm. I'm watching to see them overcome the challenge, and I'm a cheerleader when I do it.
It's a fine line to walk on the occasion when you go to checkup on your kid to see that they're doing what they said they'd do, and I can at least say that with my own the instances that I've gone checking up on them have turned up almost 100% to be finding them not doing it. So while there may be perceptible mistrust, it's not misplaced, and the kids are smart enough to see it. They want to do better, and they do. So I guess we get back to the beginning of the conversation when we talk about well-placed mistrust vs misplaced mistrust. My contention being that in the general case, the GPS tracking
Did I read this right? You're saying it should be legal to prosecute people for committing crimes in Alpha-Beta?
Greetings,
E-mail dinasuleyman_1@yahoo.co.uk
How are you ?. Hope Fine,
I know you Must be Wondering which DINA this is? I am DINA SULEYMAN. I Live
far on the Sea of the Indian Ocean. I don't think you have come that Far,
Do you know Mauritius. That's where i am Mailing you from.
I would have called, if i had your Number. my Kids are here with me, and
My Brother In-law (DAVID) too. We have been trying to Reach out for Help
for 3 weeks, but i got your Mail from the Internet and i decided to Contact
you with the Faith that you would Help me Out, I am planning to Relocate
my Family to your Country,
We are not asking you to Finance our Trip, But what i demand from you is
Your Trust and Honesty, Because i want you to Help me Out. For Three Weeks,
I have being moving from Town to Town. From Shelter to Shelter. I am not
a Begger, But I really Value my Life, and that of My Kids. There is Somebody
or Group of People after me, I am sure you are not Suprised, It happens
Everywhere. But Why? I am Sure You will ask.
I am not going to Hide anything from you. Because i Need you to Believe
and Dont take this for Just a Joke or a Game. It involves my Life and My
Kids and a Sum of 25.5 Million United States Dollars, Which is the Main
Cause I have suddenly made enemies on this Islands. I have been attacked
at Gun Point Twice and over 6 of Our New Accomodation given to us by the
Police have been broken.
The Police Could not Help much because the Person behind the Plots of Evil
is a Specialist at Crime, My Late Husbands Lawyer. Henry Jones, and Now
i know why he is After me, He wants The Funds, I remember he had a Fight
over some Money Issue with my Husband before he Died, And now this Funds
have Come to us as Inheritance and Only him knows of Such.
i immediately Took the Matter to Court and Laid all my Allegations, But
they were not Strong Enough to put him Behind bars. So now at this Present
time Henry is Still on the Loose. He Follows My Every Move, He has tried
to Kiddnap the Kids from school. I have received Calls of Giving Up the
Funds or I would be Shot on the Way to Work.
My Kids have Given up School and I have Given up Work, With the help My
Brother Inlaw we have managed to Move here and there, Slightly escaping
Death. But we are Glad we are Still alive.
All this While He never got the Money becasue i had Deposited them in a
Strong Trunk Box, and Lodged the Box in Security Company at the Shores of
the IslandS. And All i am waitng for is A Signal from you and I would Send
them for you to Keep, Then i would Proceed to a Neighboring Country and
make Flight Arrangements to Meet you in your Country.
We cant Engage other Banking Methods to Transfer the Funds Because of the
Area we are Located on the Islands, also We do Not Have a Foreign Accounts,
And we dont Want mr. Henry to Have any Trace of where the Funds are Going,
so as Not to Put you in Danger. So you are our Only Hope, We have A Mapped
out plan Already. Its Safe and Secure.
So please There is Nothing to Worry about, its just you and the Security
Company and The Destination, Leave me and the Lawyer, I will protect my
Kids with the Help of My Brother in-Law, As soon as you receive the Funds
in your Account, we would Check out of Mauritius.
Always send me mail on the above E-mail address(dinasuleyman_1@yahoo.co.uk)
for sicurity reasonse.
Please try and Send me your Number, So we can Discuss on a Secure Medium.
Hope you Can Help
DINA and Kids
You think it's ok if the RIAA extradites some brit / aussie / canuck to the US for copying Led Zepplin II?
Hell yeah! That's a band that just needs to die, die, die.
On the other hand, I don't know that it should really be considered copying, since the word sorta assumes that the original Work involved creativity in the first place.
A far more important question, in my mind:
Why should he go to jail for copyright infringement?
Think about it.
That's sure in the hell better than her getting tried here in the US, where she might get the death penalty or something. What's the worst those Brits'll do to her? I've seen Bridge over the River Kwai...
I would guess no, but whoever owned and operated the server would be in big trouble if they didn't censor you.
And the Saudis might ask for you at some point or threaten to raise their prices or something, but I don't know if that sort of thing happens outside cheesy newsstand action novels...
Yeah, except he's obviously not French. He fought back. ;P
None of the countries you named here: France, Libya, China, Germany, Turkey, Spain, Canada and Greece are openly sympathetic to bin Laden's cause. The one suspect on the list for me would be Libya, but they have made substantial disavowals of terrorism with real deeds. Do you really think France, Germany, Turkey, Spain, Canada, and Greece are hostile to us? China, maybe.
Not to mention the political ramifications any of them would face if they openly sided with OBL in such a case. If they did a damn fine job of being impartial and judged him "not guilty", they might be safe. But if they were clearly taking his side, then the Golden Rule applies (the only real international law there is), and we'd do unto them as they supported doing unto us, only with real bombs and people that expect to live through the piloting.
So by definition an international tribune that OBL would appear in front of is impartial or biased on our side anyway. His rights stand a better chance of being saved in that case and still delivering the guilty verdict we're all so convinced he deserves. (Mind you I lost some friends by maintaining skepticism over OBL)
And how would an international court, made up of say, France, Libya, China, Germany, Turkey, Spain, Canada and Greece, be necessarily so much more impartial? I am certainly no Bushite, but even I, as a New Yorker who lived through 9/11, would find the idea of an international court to try bin Laden patently offensive. He committed a crime against me, in my territory and I deserve to have him tried in a court that follows my laws. The crime was committed here, and he should be tried here. Victims have rights too, you know, and that's why extradition treaties exist in the first place.
Victim's have rights, which is why we went to war to get him in the first place. Or did you forget that? As an American, I have to agree that OBL should go before an international court of law, as should Hussein (he is, isn't he? I haven't been following his case). You see, the people who actually committed the crimes on American soil, for hte most part, died while committing those crimes. The part of the crimes that was committing off american soil is the part we want OBL for, the conspiracy and stuff.
It's complex, but American legal doctrine provides rights to the accused (while it does tend to favor actual citizens), and those rights must be respected, no matter how horrible the crimes were. Failure to repect those rights can and will lead to the collapse of those rights for all, and I do not wish to live in that America.
So, you need an argument for bringing OBL to stand trial in the US that does not depend on your (our) status as the victim.