Seeing as that you all ready assume guilt by what you hear on the TV, I still wouldn't want you on my jury. I wish I knew your thoughts on OKC BEFORE they decided that it was an american wacko that blew up the building. I'm going to play the assumption game and assume you thuoght it was Arab terrorists like so many other folks. You just followed the herd. It's ok. It's perfectly natural. It's instictive.
Yuo saw the receipts? You know, I realy don't care. By all "known" accounts Saddam was evil. Bin Laden was(is) evil. They probably should be in jail. By the same token so should Bush(both of them) If Nixon and Johnson were still alive so should they. We shouldn't go around killing people based on false assumptions. We need FACTS. UNDENIABLE FACTS.
"I stand by my assumption that you are much younger than you claim to be."
My mind is very slow. It took me two days to realize that you just made my point. I now know from personal experience that you are very willing to make and stand by false assumptions. Since you find it so easy to assume this about me, I can safely assume that you can make the same possibly false assumptions about him. Or not?
If you wish to call living on 2000usd for two years rich...that's ok. My real point was that NAFTA did a lot to ruin the country. The gov't was forced to privatize many of their industries, the railroad being my favorite example. The trains here were very old but in very good condition, and to me, very luxurious(if you rented a sleeper) and also very cheap. It was a wonderful way to travel. All that is gone now, due to NAFTA. The train is virtually unusable. I'm not sure if they even use it for freight anymoer. Another thing is daylight savings time. It is absolutely ridiculous to have such a thing south of the Tropic of Cancer. Daylight doesn't vary that much. But it appears that they have to keep their clocks syncronized with the americans, so now they have it. These are the simplest of examples. I'm sure there are many more.
Just goes to show the/. community is no different than any other community. We're just as greedy and racist as the rest of the world. Generally speaking, of course. Pointing that out will get me modded down, but as we say, "Ni modo".
From ny experience, 20 years ago inflation in Mexico was running about 125% a year, but everything seemed to remain affordable. Now with NAFTA, inflation may be down, but the prices are almost as high as in the states, but the wages are nowhere near that. Prices still do climb, but wages appears stagnant. Gasoline, electricity, milk, toilet paper, etc. are actually more expensive than in the states. I don't know how the people tolerate it. But they do.
The gov't used Bin Laden as an excuse for the power grab. The evidence is spelled out in the Patriot Act. I have no idea if Bin Laden is guilty or not. I DO know that neither you or anybody else here KNOW that he is guilty.
I was born 12 years before the "Gulf of Tolkien" incident. Which, by the way, the gov't lied about that, also. The media swallowed that one up, too. Make sure that limb doesn't break. So to make your point, I wasn't born during the war. Unless you consider the real start of the war 1954 or 1945 when Truman sent in "advisers".
As of now, I believe that expressing unpopular views has no place, even on slashdot. Even here, racism against Arabs seems to be ok. Insightful in this case. This remnds me of how american blacks were all upset over racial profiling(and rightfully so), until 9/11/01. Then it became ok to profile Arabs. I know this, because even some of my friends thought so. My thought at the time was to tell them, "Excuse me, but your equality is showing." This is getting tiresome. I'm outta here(probably until I see the next hateful response. Just can't help myself) Don't worry about grading me. The moderators already did that for you.
Wow...racism being moderated as insightful. Sad indeed. I was hoping that slashdotters were somehow above all that. Evidently not... I've watched mainstream(corporate) media spread Bush's lies about Iraq and Johnson's and Nixon's lies about Vietnam. Now I'm sopposed to believe that this tape actually came from Bin Laden and that he said all these things. These people are no more reputable than whatreallyhappened.com or moveon.org or anybody else for that matter. Oh, well. Happy hunting...
And you know this to be fact...You were there?? Did he show you picture ID??
"Nevermind the fact that bin Laden claimed responsibility hisownself."
How do you know? Were you the cameraman? Or did you just work the boom mike? Or maybe you were laying the gaffer's tape and you overheard something...?
Man...I hope you're never on MY jury if I were to be accused of something. What EVIDENCE do you have?? Did YOU SEE him do or plan it?? Wild speculation is exactly what it is.
"Not some dirty old camel fscker hiding in a cave, cause all he wants to do is kill you."
You really should can that racist bullcrap. Just because FOX news says he did it, doesn't mean he actually did. If the truth were to come out, we might find that some right wing wacko did it(remember OKC? We accused Arab terrorists of that one also) in order to blow up the secret service building(which also contained some IRS and CIA offices) and hired some terrorist wackos to destroy WTC as a distraction.
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"...the cybercafes with the ipse dixit..."
I'm sorry...What?
Seeing as that you all ready assume guilt by what you hear on the TV, I still wouldn't want you on my jury. I wish I knew your thoughts on OKC BEFORE they decided that it was an american wacko that blew up the building. I'm going to play the assumption game and assume you thuoght it was Arab terrorists like so many other folks. You just followed the herd. It's ok. It's perfectly natural. It's instictive.
So soory...forgot to put this :) at the end to spell out that it was a JOKE DAMMIT
Smile...you got fished in by a stupid joke.
"they had them."
Yuo saw the receipts? You know, I realy don't care. By all "known" accounts Saddam was evil. Bin Laden was(is) evil. They probably should be in jail. By the same token so should Bush(both of them) If Nixon and Johnson were still alive so should they. We shouldn't go around killing people based on false assumptions. We need FACTS. UNDENIABLE FACTS.
"I stand by my assumption that you are much younger than you claim to be."
My mind is very slow. It took me two days to realize that you just made my point. I now know from personal experience that you are very willing to make and stand by false assumptions. Since you find it so easy to assume this about me, I can safely assume that you can make the same possibly false assumptions about him. Or not?
If you wish to call living on 2000usd for two years rich...that's ok. My real point was that NAFTA did a lot to ruin the country. The gov't was forced to privatize many of their industries, the railroad being my favorite example. The trains here were very old but in very good condition, and to me, very luxurious(if you rented a sleeper) and also very cheap. It was a wonderful way to travel. All that is gone now, due to NAFTA. The train is virtually unusable. I'm not sure if they even use it for freight anymoer. Another thing is daylight savings time. It is absolutely ridiculous to have such a thing south of the Tropic of Cancer. Daylight doesn't vary that much. But it appears that they have to keep their clocks syncronized with the americans, so now they have it. These are the simplest of examples. I'm sure there are many more.
I'm a 2-toed sloth.
Just goes to show the /. community is no different than any other community. We're just as greedy and racist as the rest of the world. Generally speaking, of course. Pointing that out will get me modded down, but as we say, "Ni modo".
The most recent lie currently being perpetrated is Iraq's WMD's. It hasn't stopped.
From ny experience, 20 years ago inflation in Mexico was running about 125% a year, but everything seemed to remain affordable. Now with NAFTA, inflation may be down, but the prices are almost as high as in the states, but the wages are nowhere near that. Prices still do climb, but wages appears stagnant. Gasoline, electricity, milk, toilet paper, etc. are actually more expensive than in the states. I don't know how the people tolerate it. But they do.
Yup, That's the senility kickin' in. I love it. I can pee in my pants and not even know about it.
Given its history, I do believe the gov't IS lying.
"Perhaps you have a little too much LoTR on the mind."
Maybe so, I did read the books about 33 years ago. Funny, I used Google to check my spelling. This was the result.
"I find it hard to believe that anyone you age could be such ignorant."
I find your grammar fascinating. Believe it or not There are people that are older than me that are just as ignorant.
The gov't used Bin Laden as an excuse for the power grab. The evidence is spelled out in the Patriot Act. I have no idea if Bin Laden is guilty or not. I DO know that neither you or anybody else here KNOW that he is guilty.
I was born 12 years before the "Gulf of Tolkien" incident. Which, by the way, the gov't lied about that, also. The media swallowed that one up, too. Make sure that limb doesn't break. So to make your point, I wasn't born during the war. Unless you consider the real start of the war 1954 or 1945 when Truman sent in "advisers".
There's no conspiracy here, just you regular gov't power grab.
" Well alright then, what do you believe?"
As of now, I believe that expressing unpopular views has no place, even on slashdot. Even here, racism against Arabs seems to be ok. Insightful in this case. This remnds me of how american blacks were all upset over racial profiling(and rightfully so), until 9/11/01. Then it became ok to profile Arabs. I know this, because even some of my friends thought so. My thought at the time was to tell them, "Excuse me, but your equality is showing." This is getting tiresome. I'm outta here(probably until I see the next hateful response. Just can't help myself) Don't worry about grading me. The moderators already did that for you.
Your right...I don't belong on a planet full of talking monkeys.
Wow...racism being moderated as insightful. Sad indeed. I was hoping that slashdotters were somehow above all that. Evidently not... I've watched mainstream(corporate) media spread Bush's lies about Iraq and Johnson's and Nixon's lies about Vietnam. Now I'm sopposed to believe that this tape actually came from Bin Laden and that he said all these things. These people are no more reputable than whatreallyhappened.com or moveon.org or anybody else for that matter. Oh, well. Happy hunting...
And you know this to be fact...You were there?? Did he show you picture ID??
"Nevermind the fact that bin Laden claimed responsibility hisownself."
How do you know? Were you the cameraman? Or did you just work the boom mike? Or maybe you were laying the gaffer's tape and you overheard something...?
Man...I hope you're never on MY jury if I were to be accused of something. What EVIDENCE do you have?? Did YOU SEE him do or plan it?? Wild speculation is exactly what it is.
I thought Mormons weren't allowed to use computers...
My...name...is...Darl
"Not some dirty old camel fscker hiding in a cave, cause all he wants to do is kill you."
You really should can that racist bullcrap. Just because FOX news says he did it, doesn't mean he actually did. If the truth were to come out, we might find that some right wing wacko did it(remember OKC? We accused Arab terrorists of that one also) in order to blow up the secret service building(which also contained some IRS and CIA offices) and hired some terrorist wackos to destroy WTC as a distraction.