They are civilians only in a fantasy world. When you take up arms and attack people, both military and civilians, you cease to be a civilian. Do you actually expect are soldiers to say, "Oops, we can't attack them, they aren't wearing uniforms. I guess there's nothing we can do about them shooting at us."
I suggest you look at the Geneva Accords to see how they should be handled. If you use civilian clothing in an attempt to hide, you can be summarily executed. Thus, the US is being nice by only sticking them in prison. We don't have to do that. We could save ourselves a whole lot of trouble by just putting a bullet in their heads when captured. But we go by a higher standard than that. Additionally, if you use civilians as a shield (which Hamas and Al Quada tend to do), you are responsible for injuries and deaths to them, not the attacking force.
There seems to be a whole lot of rumor and little hard facts on this phone. If the rumors are to be believed, it's going to be one hell of a nice phone. One of the rumors, however, said the phone is being retooled and won't be out until May or June.
I take it you graduated from Berkeley. Our soldiers, not counting the rare psycho who slips in, do not target civilians. You must be thinking of Hamas and Al Quada who consider babies a perfectly legitimate target.
Every single soldier I know would be appalled at the very idea of attacking civilians. Every single one of them would refuse an order to do so.
You obviously are not hardcore enough in your conspiracy theorist beliefs. Obviously, the gubment uses the "think of the children" excuse to get the sheeple to go along with the intrusive law requiring the eye scanner on all cameras. The real reason the government wants it is to track journalists (commies) and whistle blowers (terrorist commies).
I've actually considered going that route, but dislike having to carry around two gadgets instead of one. A really good smartphone will support putty so I can ssh into a system to do an emergency repair. If it's something so complicated that it's too much bother to use the tiny phone screen and keyboard, then I'll go home and get on a real computer. The idea is to use the phone to avoid having to interrupt something if at all possible. I have no intention of using it as a total replacement of a real computer. Nor do I want to carry around a laptop or tablet so that I can always be connected. A smartphone with a full (albiet tiny) keyboard is a compromise.
Making the LG Voyager BREW-based was a manufacturer's decision, I thought. If not, then poo on Verizon (again) for letting their marketing division ruin what would otherwise be the best smartphone on the market.
The first thing I thought of after reading the intro paragraph was, "how is this going to be abused?" And what you suggest was exactly what i was thinking. First the government will require all cameras have this technology embedded in it to save the children from pornographers! Then they'll use it to track down that traitorous bastard commie journalist that took pictures of Senator Greedy and his hooker girlfriend (which were faked!).
I'm looking for a new smartphone right now. The Android based phones will fit the bill, but I doubt any products will be available until near the end of the year - perhaps just in time for the Christmas rush.
What I want:
QWERTY keyboard, the LG Voyager has the nicest keyboard I've tried. To bad the Voyager is locked down in BREW hell.
Internet connectivity.
Supports IMAP email to any server (I run my own).
I don't have to pay a damn fee to enable for every little feature that it already comes with.
I can install new applications without using some paid for server, e.g. there's a Symbian OS version of Putty. An ssh client would be awesome.
Unlimited data plan available with provider - and reasonably priced.
Would be nice, but not required:
Linux based (not much out there, probably have to settle for a Symbian based phone).
GPS module.
Wifi support.
If the phone has music playing capability, support for OGG (I'm not holding my breath).
Camera, not really a big deal to me. I can live without one.
Deal breakers:
Locked down. It's my damn phone, you won't be telling me how I can use it!
Windows Mobile. I'm a Linux system administrator, running a windows based phone would be so wrong.
BREW/GIN or anything similar.
So far, the Nokia E90 is the closest to match what I want. The Road's HandyPC S101 surpasses it, but isn't available in the US (afaik).
Would you let a brain surgeon take over as head chef in a five star restaurant? Of course not. A system admin can get away with putting together a personal home page, but most shouldn't be expected to design a commercial web page.
I can put together a web page that passes the w3c validation in xhtml 1.0 strict, no problem, but you probably wouldn't want to use it to attract customers.
The top universities don't need funding, anyway. Harvard, for example, has so much in endowments that they could permanently stop charging tuition without putting a dent in their mountain of money. I'd love to see something like that. A top university that didn't care about your money. They could concentrate on what they "say" is all that is important, the prospective students qualifications. So a brilliant but poor black kid from the ghetto would truly have a leg up on some mediocre rich white kid. It's never going to happen, though. Congress has threatened to get involved if universities don't spend at least 5% of the endowments to lower tuition, but it's an idle threat. Way too many congress-critters have close ties with those universities.
A laundry list of recent attacks by people claiming to be followers of X, believers of Y, citizens of Z, etc.
Make up a laundry list of any other group performing violent attacks against innocent people for religious reasons. You won't have much success making a list. You might be able to find an isolated incident on a rare occasion, but you certainly won't be able to make a list. Islam, on the other hand, has a long list of violent attacks for religious reasons. I just listed a single month and I purposely omitted Iran and Afghanistan. How about I post the attacks for all of last year? Let's compare that to the list for ALL OTHER RELIGIONS COMBINED. The difference is night and day.
If these terrorists don't represent the beliefs of the mainstream, why hasn't the Council of Imams denounced them? The terrorists use pronouncements from that council as justification for their murderous attacks. In fact, the council (the main body of religious leaders for Islam), won't denounce them because they support what the terrorists are doing. The council may not control Islam, but they have enough influence to make a major difference.
I didn't come to the conclusion that Islam is a corrupt and evil religion because of a few isolated incidents. I came to that conclusion because of multiple daily attacks against anyone who disagrees with them, or for the tiniest of perceived insults. I came to that conclusion because these terrorists consider killing babies as perfectly acceptable actions. And the muslim world itself sealed my belief by staying silent and allowing a small percentage of their people to decide the direction of their religion.
A few hundred years ago the Catholic church was going in a direction many people couldn't accept. They didn't remain silent, however. They spoke up, they argued. First they tried to reform the church, then they broke away rather than remain part of something they considered wrong. The Catholic church eventually discontinued their slide towards evil. No one today would say it is same organization that it was in the days of the inquisition.
Since it's my damn money, I should be allowed to decide how it gets invested.
How about a compromise. Let me invest half the money the way I see fit. If I used a dart board to choose my investment strategy, I'd still get a better return on my investment than Social Security.
I'm denouncing the entire religion because the followers of that religion haven't denounced the evil that is perpetuated in the name of Islam. The typical response to a group of Westerners getting blown up is dancing in the streets, not a protest against violence. Therefore, I must conclude that the majority of the followers of Islam actively support evil. When I see mass protests against bombing of innocents, I'll reconsider my stance. If I see mass protests of bombings of Jews, I will believe Islam has been saved.
Let's take one example from the list. Thailand is about 95% Buddhist. Muslims make up almost all of the remaining 5%. But they just can't tolerate the idea of other religions existing, so they start killing peaceful monks and teachers (About 20 attacks by your-so called "religion" of peace in a single month). Not counting the Islamic terrorist attacks, how violent is Thailand? According to the CIA World Factbook, not very.
As for the huge population of Muslims. That religion is the only one that has an automatic death penalty for changing your religion. I wonder how many people would remain Muslim if they had a choice. I would bet any amount of money that a significant percentage of people would denounce Islam if they wouldn't be killed for it. I'll bet any amount of money that a significant percentage only go through the motions of being Muslim, when in their hearts they don't actually believe the prayers they are mouthing or the words of hate being preached from the mosques. Also, Islam is the only religion that considers forced conversion as legitimate. Egyptian Coptic Christians have been suffering from this for years. Teenage girls are kidnapped, converted, and married off to some old Islamic asshole. Then the government refuses to do anything about it because it falls under their separate Islamic laws.
It doesn't matter if the majority are not violent. The people who control Islam are extremely violent and extremely evil and they do not tolerate one tiny bit of descent. Kind of like the Catholic church 500 years ago, but far worse than anything the inquisition ever did.
Even if Social Security doesn't collapse, from a financial point of view, it's an extremely bad investment.
Besides, the government broke every single promise they made about Social Security. For example, the promised the money would go into a special fund that wouldn't be touched. Of course it went right into the general fund and pissed away. They also promised (and put into the law!) that the Social Security number would never be used for identification purposes.
At Starbucks: "I'd like a grande latte". "here you go". "uhm, why is it in a thimble?" "what? You actually want a grande sized drink? You're ruining it for everybody else, you thief!"
At Arco: "I got charged for a full tank of gas, but it only filled up half way." "You want a full tank? You're ruining it for everybody else, you thief!"
At the record store.... On second thought, bad example.
At H.R. at the office, "How come I only got half my pay?" "You want a full paycheck? You're ruining it for everybody else, you thief!"
In other words, in what other industry are you treated like a thief when you expect what you pay for?
Associating violence with any one religion, or religion as a whole is just silly.
Except with Islam, where violence is the norm. Below is a list of religious based violent attacks by muslims for just the past month of January. There's 111 incidents, an average of just shy of three a day, every day. I didn't bother to add up the total injured and killed. Also, I deleted attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan from the list to prevent anyone from making it a "it's Bush's fault" political statement.
Of all the religions in the world, Islam is the only one associated with murder and mayhem at such a consistent level. Yes, every now and then someone Christian survivalist nut-job goes off. Or an odd Hindu does something. Those are so rare that they make headlines. The muslim attacks, however, have become so common that the mainstream news almost completely ignores them.
Why do people keep offering up excuses for the evilness of what Islam has become? When a religion not only allows it's members to kill innocents, but even actively encourages it, the religion is evil. There is no wiggle room. There is no excuse. There is no defense.
BTW, anyone who pulls out "but Christians did that a few hundred years ago" line is a complete moron. I don't care what happened 200 years ago. I care about what is happening right now. If the Catholic church still ran things like they did back during the inquisition, I'd be actively hunting and killing their church leaders. The Catholic church changed, but Islam remains in the dark ages.
Date, Country, City, Killed, Injured, Details 1/31/2008, Somalia, Mogadishu, 3, 1, Islamic militia stage a drive-by attack on a house, killing three people inside. 1/31/2008, Somalia, Mogadishu, 1, 0, Islamic militias assassinate a government spokesperson. 1/30/2008, Thailand, Yala, 2, 0, Two men, ages 32 and 52, are shot to death by Muslim militants in separate attacks. 1/30/2008, Pakistan, NWFP, 13, 0, The bodies of thirteen soldiers taken hostage several days earlier by religious extremists are discovered. 1/30/2008, Philippines, Zamboanga, 1, 1, A woman is killed, and another injured, following an ambush by Moro Islamic terrorists. 1/30/2008, Thailand, Pattani, 1, 0, A security guard at a car showroom is shot to death by Muslim militants. 1/29/2008, Pakistan, Razmak, 3, 4, Three local soldiers are killed in an ambush by Islamic militants. 1/29/2008, Algeria, Thenia, 4, 20, At least four people are killed in a suicide attack by Islamic radicals. 1/29/2008, Pakistan, FATA, 1, 0, A village elder is abducted and murdered by al-Qaeda terrorists. 1/29/2008, Pakistan, Punjab, 1, 0, A 16-year-old Christian is kidnapped and sold for organ harvesting. 1/28/2008, Pakistan, Swat, 1, 0, Islamic militants drag a policeman from his house and behead him. 1/28/2008, India, Handwara, 1, 0, A 34-year-old man is abducted from his village and murdered by the Mujahideen. 1/28/2008, Somalia, Mogadishu, 2, 9, Two Ethiopian guards at a market are murderd in an ambush by Islamic militias. 1/28/2008, India, Tenkasi, 1, 0, A gang of Muslims hacks a Hindu man to death. 1/28/2008, Somalia, Kismayu, 4, 0, Two humanitarian doctors and a journalist are among four killed in a remote-controlled bomb attack. 1/27/2008, Somalia, Mogadishu, 2, 3, A man and woman are killed by Islamic militia bombers. 1/27/2008, Thailand, Pattani, 1, 1, A woman is shot to death by Muslim terrorists while a motorcycle. 1/27/2008, Pakistan, Orakzai, 3, 2, Islamic militants attack a checkpost, killing three local soldiers. 1/27/2008, Pakistan, Makin, 3, 0, The bodies of three soldiers taken hostage by the Taliban are found. 1/27/2008, Thailand, Pattani, 1, 0, Islamists gun down a trained monkey vendor. 1/27/2008, Somalia, Mogadishu, 2, 2, Two civilians are killed when Islamic militias fire rockets into the main airport. 1/26/2008, Jordan, Jerash, 1, 0, A 17-year-old girl is strangled by her brother for shaming her family.
Declare the bridge to Microsoft as unsafe and close it. When Microsoft complains that nobody can get to their office, explain that there simply isn't any money in the budget to do any work on said bridge, so sorry.
I don't actually consider this the right thing to do (MS being in Washington still generates tons of money for the government through other taxes), but Microsoft has been the bully for far too long. It would be funny to see them bullied.
Alternately, turn the bridge into a toll bridge. $100 each way sounds about right.
I'd moderate you up, but I don't have any points at the moment.
The millionaires who demand subsidies to build stadiums or they'll move their team elsewhere insisted that their sporting events helped the local economy by bringing in tax revenues. The first baseball strike proved what a lie that was. What actually happened was people did other things in their cities. They went to dinner and a movie or the theater, etc. They spent roughly the same amount of money except they spread it across multiple businesses instead of only at the stadium. This was actually BETTER for the local economy. More businesses benefited and the tax revenues were often bigger because the professional sports team often received a tax break to stay in town.
Screw professional sports. The next time one demands the taxpayer's cough up money or they'll walk, show them the door.
Sometimes, yes, the minority have the right to use violence to defend themselves from the outcome of a vote. In the deep south, towns did vote to evict all blacks with force. Gun control laws were put into place after the racists discovered that a group of well armed blacks were not so easy to displace.
This is a special case, though. The government not only failed to protect a group of citizens, but was actively involved in violating their rights. Your 2nd Amendment is there to protect you if your government becomes a tyranny.
The Constitution specifically outlaws bills of attainer, so that vote wouldn't be legal. However, if everyone did vote to execute you, it would imply you did something that greatly pissed off a whole lot of people so I would doubt your continued existence, regardless of the law.
Your dad has the rarest form of color blindness. I've only heard of one other person with it. I have the more common red/green type, plus a slight touch of the blue/yellow one. I always bring a friend along when shopping for anything that requires color coordination to avoid embarrassing mistakes, e.g. clothing.
The ability to spot camouflage is because the design and color choices were made to trick people with normal sight.
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They are civilians only in a fantasy world. When you take up arms and attack people, both military and civilians, you cease to be a civilian. Do you actually expect are soldiers to say, "Oops, we can't attack them, they aren't wearing uniforms. I guess there's nothing we can do about them shooting at us."
I suggest you look at the Geneva Accords to see how they should be handled. If you use civilian clothing in an attempt to hide, you can be summarily executed. Thus, the US is being nice by only sticking them in prison. We don't have to do that. We could save ourselves a whole lot of trouble by just putting a bullet in their heads when captured. But we go by a higher standard than that. Additionally, if you use civilians as a shield (which Hamas and Al Quada tend to do), you are responsible for injuries and deaths to them, not the attacking force.
There seems to be a whole lot of rumor and little hard facts on this phone. If the rumors are to be believed, it's going to be one hell of a nice phone. One of the rumors, however, said the phone is being retooled and won't be out until May or June.
I take it you graduated from Berkeley. Our soldiers, not counting the rare psycho who slips in, do not target civilians. You must be thinking of Hamas and Al Quada who consider babies a perfectly legitimate target.
Every single soldier I know would be appalled at the very idea of attacking civilians. Every single one of them would refuse an order to do so.
You obviously are not hardcore enough in your conspiracy theorist beliefs. Obviously, the gubment uses the "think of the children" excuse to get the sheeple to go along with the intrusive law requiring the eye scanner on all cameras. The real reason the government wants it is to track journalists (commies) and whistle blowers (terrorist commies).
I've actually considered going that route, but dislike having to carry around two gadgets instead of one. A really good smartphone will support putty so I can ssh into a system to do an emergency repair. If it's something so complicated that it's too much bother to use the tiny phone screen and keyboard, then I'll go home and get on a real computer. The idea is to use the phone to avoid having to interrupt something if at all possible. I have no intention of using it as a total replacement of a real computer. Nor do I want to carry around a laptop or tablet so that I can always be connected. A smartphone with a full (albiet tiny) keyboard is a compromise.
Making the LG Voyager BREW-based was a manufacturer's decision, I thought. If not, then poo on Verizon (again) for letting their marketing division ruin what would otherwise be the best smartphone on the market.
The first thing I thought of after reading the intro paragraph was, "how is this going to be abused?" And what you suggest was exactly what i was thinking. First the government will require all cameras have this technology embedded in it to save the children from pornographers! Then they'll use it to track down that traitorous bastard commie journalist that took pictures of Senator Greedy and his hooker girlfriend (which were faked!).
Note to self: Get more foil from the supermarket.
That's exactly what I've been looking for. If OpenMoko worked on something with a qwerty keyboard, I would be happy.
The Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 looks great, but it's running Windows Mobile.
It sells so well because it's the "smartphone for idiots". And there are a hell of a lot of idiots buying cell phones these days. :)
I'm looking for a new smartphone right now. The Android based phones will fit the bill, but I doubt any products will be available until near the end of the year - perhaps just in time for the Christmas rush.
What I want:
Would be nice, but not required:
Deal breakers:
So far, the Nokia E90 is the closest to match what I want. The Road's HandyPC S101 surpasses it, but isn't available in the US (afaik).
Would you let a brain surgeon take over as head chef in a five star restaurant? Of course not. A system admin can get away with putting together a personal home page, but most shouldn't be expected to design a commercial web page.
I can put together a web page that passes the w3c validation in xhtml 1.0 strict, no problem, but you probably wouldn't want to use it to attract customers.
The top universities don't need funding, anyway. Harvard, for example, has so much in endowments that they could permanently stop charging tuition without putting a dent in their mountain of money. I'd love to see something like that. A top university that didn't care about your money. They could concentrate on what they "say" is all that is important, the prospective students qualifications. So a brilliant but poor black kid from the ghetto would truly have a leg up on some mediocre rich white kid. It's never going to happen, though. Congress has threatened to get involved if universities don't spend at least 5% of the endowments to lower tuition, but it's an idle threat. Way too many congress-critters have close ties with those universities.
Make up a laundry list of any other group performing violent attacks against innocent people for religious reasons. You won't have much success making a list. You might be able to find an isolated incident on a rare occasion, but you certainly won't be able to make a list. Islam, on the other hand, has a long list of violent attacks for religious reasons. I just listed a single month and I purposely omitted Iran and Afghanistan. How about I post the attacks for all of last year? Let's compare that to the list for ALL OTHER RELIGIONS COMBINED. The difference is night and day.
If these terrorists don't represent the beliefs of the mainstream, why hasn't the Council of Imams denounced them? The terrorists use pronouncements from that council as justification for their murderous attacks. In fact, the council (the main body of religious leaders for Islam), won't denounce them because they support what the terrorists are doing. The council may not control Islam, but they have enough influence to make a major difference.
I didn't come to the conclusion that Islam is a corrupt and evil religion because of a few isolated incidents. I came to that conclusion because of multiple daily attacks against anyone who disagrees with them, or for the tiniest of perceived insults. I came to that conclusion because these terrorists consider killing babies as perfectly acceptable actions. And the muslim world itself sealed my belief by staying silent and allowing a small percentage of their people to decide the direction of their religion.
A few hundred years ago the Catholic church was going in a direction many people couldn't accept. They didn't remain silent, however. They spoke up, they argued. First they tried to reform the church, then they broke away rather than remain part of something they considered wrong. The Catholic church eventually discontinued their slide towards evil. No one today would say it is same organization that it was in the days of the inquisition.
Islam needs its own "Reformation".
Since it's my damn money, I should be allowed to decide how it gets invested.
How about a compromise. Let me invest half the money the way I see fit. If I used a dart board to choose my investment strategy, I'd still get a better return on my investment than Social Security.
I'm denouncing the entire religion because the followers of that religion haven't denounced the evil that is perpetuated in the name of Islam. The typical response to a group of Westerners getting blown up is dancing in the streets, not a protest against violence. Therefore, I must conclude that the majority of the followers of Islam actively support evil. When I see mass protests against bombing of innocents, I'll reconsider my stance. If I see mass protests of bombings of Jews, I will believe Islam has been saved.
Let's take one example from the list. Thailand is about 95% Buddhist. Muslims make up almost all of the remaining 5%. But they just can't tolerate the idea of other religions existing, so they start killing peaceful monks and teachers (About 20 attacks by your-so called "religion" of peace in a single month). Not counting the Islamic terrorist attacks, how violent is Thailand? According to the CIA World Factbook, not very.
As for the huge population of Muslims. That religion is the only one that has an automatic death penalty for changing your religion. I wonder how many people would remain Muslim if they had a choice. I would bet any amount of money that a significant percentage of people would denounce Islam if they wouldn't be killed for it. I'll bet any amount of money that a significant percentage only go through the motions of being Muslim, when in their hearts they don't actually believe the prayers they are mouthing or the words of hate being preached from the mosques. Also, Islam is the only religion that considers forced conversion as legitimate. Egyptian Coptic Christians have been suffering from this for years. Teenage girls are kidnapped, converted, and married off to some old Islamic asshole. Then the government refuses to do anything about it because it falls under their separate Islamic laws.
It doesn't matter if the majority are not violent. The people who control Islam are extremely violent and extremely evil and they do not tolerate one tiny bit of descent. Kind of like the Catholic church 500 years ago, but far worse than anything the inquisition ever did.
Even if Social Security doesn't collapse, from a financial point of view, it's an extremely bad investment.
Besides, the government broke every single promise they made about Social Security. For example, the promised the money would go into a special fund that wouldn't be touched. Of course it went right into the general fund and pissed away. They also promised (and put into the law!) that the Social Security number would never be used for identification purposes.
I'd much rather put the money into a 401k.
At Starbucks: "I'd like a grande latte". "here you go". "uhm, why is it in a thimble?" "what? You actually want a grande sized drink? You're ruining it for everybody else, you thief!"
.... On second thought, bad example.
At Arco: "I got charged for a full tank of gas, but it only filled up half way." "You want a full tank? You're ruining it for everybody else, you thief!"
At the record store
At H.R. at the office, "How come I only got half my pay?" "You want a full paycheck? You're ruining it for everybody else, you thief!"
In other words, in what other industry are you treated like a thief when you expect what you pay for?
Except with Islam, where violence is the norm. Below is a list of religious based violent attacks by muslims for just the past month of January. There's 111 incidents, an average of just shy of three a day, every day. I didn't bother to add up the total injured and killed. Also, I deleted attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan from the list to prevent anyone from making it a "it's Bush's fault" political statement.
Of all the religions in the world, Islam is the only one associated with murder and mayhem at such a consistent level. Yes, every now and then someone Christian survivalist nut-job goes off. Or an odd Hindu does something. Those are so rare that they make headlines. The muslim attacks, however, have become so common that the mainstream news almost completely ignores them.
Why do people keep offering up excuses for the evilness of what Islam has become? When a religion not only allows it's members to kill innocents, but even actively encourages it, the religion is evil. There is no wiggle room. There is no excuse. There is no defense.
BTW, anyone who pulls out "but Christians did that a few hundred years ago" line is a complete moron. I don't care what happened 200 years ago. I care about what is happening right now. If the Catholic church still ran things like they did back during the inquisition, I'd be actively hunting and killing their church leaders. The Catholic church changed, but Islam remains in the dark ages.
Date, Country, City, Killed, Injured, Details
1/31/2008, Somalia, Mogadishu, 3, 1, Islamic militia stage a drive-by attack on a house, killing three people inside.
1/31/2008, Somalia, Mogadishu, 1, 0, Islamic militias assassinate a government spokesperson.
1/30/2008, Thailand, Yala, 2, 0, Two men, ages 32 and 52, are shot to death by Muslim militants in separate attacks.
1/30/2008, Pakistan, NWFP, 13, 0, The bodies of thirteen soldiers taken hostage several days earlier by religious extremists are discovered.
1/30/2008, Philippines, Zamboanga, 1, 1, A woman is killed, and another injured, following an ambush by Moro Islamic terrorists.
1/30/2008, Thailand, Pattani, 1, 0, A security guard at a car showroom is shot to death by Muslim militants.
1/29/2008, Pakistan, Razmak, 3, 4, Three local soldiers are killed in an ambush by Islamic militants.
1/29/2008, Algeria, Thenia, 4, 20, At least four people are killed in a suicide attack by Islamic radicals.
1/29/2008, Pakistan, FATA, 1, 0, A village elder is abducted and murdered by al-Qaeda terrorists.
1/29/2008, Pakistan, Punjab, 1, 0, A 16-year-old Christian is kidnapped and sold for organ harvesting.
1/28/2008, Pakistan, Swat, 1, 0, Islamic militants drag a policeman from his house and behead him.
1/28/2008, India, Handwara, 1, 0, A 34-year-old man is abducted from his village and murdered by the Mujahideen.
1/28/2008, Somalia, Mogadishu, 2, 9, Two Ethiopian guards at a market are murderd in an ambush by Islamic militias.
1/28/2008, India, Tenkasi, 1, 0, A gang of Muslims hacks a Hindu man to death.
1/28/2008, Somalia, Kismayu, 4, 0, Two humanitarian doctors and a journalist are among four killed in a remote-controlled bomb attack.
1/27/2008, Somalia, Mogadishu, 2, 3, A man and woman are killed by Islamic militia bombers.
1/27/2008, Thailand, Pattani, 1, 1, A woman is shot to death by Muslim terrorists while a motorcycle.
1/27/2008, Pakistan, Orakzai, 3, 2, Islamic militants attack a checkpost, killing three local soldiers.
1/27/2008, Pakistan, Makin, 3, 0, The bodies of three soldiers taken hostage by the Taliban are found.
1/27/2008, Thailand, Pattani, 1, 0, Islamists gun down a trained monkey vendor.
1/27/2008, Somalia, Mogadishu, 2, 2, Two civilians are killed when Islamic militias fire rockets into the main airport.
1/26/2008, Jordan, Jerash, 1, 0, A 17-year-old girl is strangled by her brother for shaming her family.
Declare the bridge to Microsoft as unsafe and close it. When Microsoft complains that nobody can get to their office, explain that there simply isn't any money in the budget to do any work on said bridge, so sorry.
I don't actually consider this the right thing to do (MS being in Washington still generates tons of money for the government through other taxes), but Microsoft has been the bully for far too long. It would be funny to see them bullied.
Alternately, turn the bridge into a toll bridge. $100 each way sounds about right.
I'd moderate you up, but I don't have any points at the moment.
The millionaires who demand subsidies to build stadiums or they'll move their team elsewhere insisted that their sporting events helped the local economy by bringing in tax revenues. The first baseball strike proved what a lie that was. What actually happened was people did other things in their cities. They went to dinner and a movie or the theater, etc. They spent roughly the same amount of money except they spread it across multiple businesses instead of only at the stadium. This was actually BETTER for the local economy. More businesses benefited and the tax revenues were often bigger because the professional sports team often received a tax break to stay in town.
Screw professional sports. The next time one demands the taxpayer's cough up money or they'll walk, show them the door.
Nope, not your dad's friend. The other person I knew about was Monty Roberts, a somewhat famous horse trainer.
Sometimes, yes, the minority have the right to use violence to defend themselves from the outcome of a vote. In the deep south, towns did vote to evict all blacks with force. Gun control laws were put into place after the racists discovered that a group of well armed blacks were not so easy to displace.
This is a special case, though. The government not only failed to protect a group of citizens, but was actively involved in violating their rights. Your 2nd Amendment is there to protect you if your government becomes a tyranny.
The Constitution specifically outlaws bills of attainer, so that vote wouldn't be legal. However, if everyone did vote to execute you, it would imply you did something that greatly pissed off a whole lot of people so I would doubt your continued existence, regardless of the law.
Your dad has the rarest form of color blindness. I've only heard of one other person with it. I have the more common red/green type, plus a slight touch of the blue/yellow one. I always bring a friend along when shopping for anything that requires color coordination to avoid embarrassing mistakes, e.g. clothing.
The ability to spot camouflage is because the design and color choices were made to trick people with normal sight.