Read at least the first paragraph before spreading more FUD. This is NOT a security problem as many pointed out here.
"allowing for arbitrary code execution once the victim interacts with a malicious JET-dependent file (such as an Access file)."
It is crazy. Like saying you downloaded a malicious.so file, installed it and it caused a security problem and the OS should not have allowed it. If you download malicious JET files, well, these tend to have code in them that can cause problems. DO NOT do that. So, this is not a critical problem unless your application is critically insecure by design in which case you have a different problem.
And no you will not get one of them "You want to proceed with blah?" windows because an exploit will not have a manifest. It is difficult to get Vista hosed by malware compared to XP.
AMD has best performance for the buck. 99% of people would be happy with AMD X2 AM2 socket processors. That's what I use. I also use nVidia graphics - on-board graphics chips are quite good these days.
Intel CPU prices are generally higher than AMDs and ATI drivers suck. Hence my decision. Oh, and memory bandwidth on AMD processors at least used to be high than Intel's - not sure where that is right now.
Japan is no longer on my list for places to visit. So is UK, Russia, China, and few others. I'm a tourist. I can't vote for people representing those countries directly. I vote with my money.
The Japanese are not known to waste time and resources on what I'd call useless ventures
I am an outsider but see the waste by the famous postal system (I think they are Japanese bank, insurer, etc. as well). Wasting money on multi-billion and multi-trillion yen projects like some tunnel to some region that has a very low population anyway.
Or, see whale killing in the antarctic. Unsustainable and not even making money - only surviving on government subsidies. And their excuse (the Japanese official whaling agency!) is "whales are eating all the fish and depleting fish stocks" which is such baloney and bull shit that I cannot believe it is coming out of a mouth of an intelligent person (eg. 1000 years ago seas had 1000s of time the number of whales and A LOT more other fish too -- how retarded can one be not to see the connection between man and fish stock declines?)
Fingerprinting is another, but you should be saying that UK is forefront on that. They are doing the same AFAIK. And even started to collect DNA from their own citizens.
There are many more examples of waste in Japan but I haven't looked for any. Nor do I live there to know.
After 9/11, no passengers would stand by and allow hijackers to command a plane. This applies most strongly to any american planes. As an example, look what happened to the last plane on 9/11? The passengers, when they realized planes are being flown into buildings, fought back. People will always try to survive. If the choice (in the past) was sit quietly until hijackers get what they want vs. risk of getting killed, people played safe. Now, that choice is sitting quietly while plane will be crashed and you dieing or risk a death by fighting back, people will fight (safer option).
You do not have to worry about people as much anymore as the stuff that goes onto the plane. The baggages. The parcels. Today's "security" practices are not really doing that - they are still optimized to counter 9/11. But they wouldn't work back then. The terrorists back then could still intimidate and take over a plane by bluffing (why? see above for the old mentality of what hijacking meant for safety).
In conclusion, the reactionary "tactics" of people and policy makers (who should know better) are to blame for the "security" mess.
If you have to resort to drugs to alter your state of reality, you are living a quite pitiful life. There is more than enough in this world to do and experience to fill half a dozen lifetimes without getting bored, not to mention one. To resort to drugs and have an excuse that you "live only once" is just sad.
What is next in the experience list? How to kill people with a car while on drugs/alcohol? Or drooling through a straw for rest of your life because you had one-too-many?
Good for the employees. Now, is this good for Google and its shareholders? Probably less so. They are the ones that end up paying these millions out without getting a return.
In all seriousness, any law which makes the majority of citizens into criminals by its design is a law which is perverse and illegitimate on its face.
Bullshit. Speed limits are traffic laws that are routinely *broken*. This results in *thousands* of deaths in US alone each and every year. Yet, police is not enforcing these common-sense laws. People that drive according to the laws, are harassed not only by other reckless drivers but sometimes also by police. Ever driven last at no more than the posting speed limit? Anyone ever receive a ticket for driving "too fast for conditions" even when they are driving under the posted speed limit? (that's another law that is not really enforced - sad but true as you can see every winter and fog patches from the crashes on the road)
Speed kills. Everyone that is not a retard knows that. Police knows that. But they do not enforce the laws because too many people are breaking the rules.
This case is exactly the same. Copyright violation is wrong. Police do not enforce it because they would be overwhelmed. They do not pick and choose what laws they'll enforce based on some mystical scoring system. It is not their job./me puts on a flamesuit - sad that people don't even know the difference between lawmakers (parliament), enforcers (police) and law-interpreters/fixers (judiciary)
Actually, I would prefer the water over all the land. US is already having problems with water not to mention China and rest of the world. Canada has something like 10% of all the non-ice-locked drinkable water. US already has plans to try to export Canada's best resource many times in the past including something called NAWAPA [1]. Too bad US, you can't have it.
Someone can go and kill someone else as a "crime of passion" then not do anything for rest of their lives. It doesn't mean they didn't kill in the first place.
Agreed. Solution is simple. Convert all fossil fuel plants to nuclear and add more nuclear/solar (in desert areas, rooftops, for example) to generate hydrogen for stuff that is not fixed (eg. cars, trucks, long haul railway lines like in Siberia or Canada, etc.). Then you have no carbon footprint. Problem solved. Right?
But until then, throwing money and technology by taxing carbon is probably the best way of dealing with CO2. CO2 is a waste and when consumers pay for the waste they generate (ie. business generate CO2, pay for it, price of goods then in fraction reflects CO2 costs which is passed to consumers as cost of materials is now). Sorry, Utopia of living in caves will not solve the problem of CO2.
Money runs the world as people seem to like it that way. Put a price on waste, and people will start to reduce their waste.
The store I buy my computer crap checks the boxes for me as I leave. Then they scan serial numbers. Any returns or exchanges? Serial numbers must match not just UPC.
It is theft and scam. I hope Best Buy tracks down the assholes that are doing this and pass the "costs" down on them + a nice visit to police station in cuffs + nice fine and restitution.
This is actually a case *for* unique ids like RFID to be implemented everywhere. At least that way you would be able to track down the asshole that stole from Best Buy and the guy in question. Now it is still possible, but will take time. I'm sick and tired that Best Buy should "eat it". The thief should be the one that eats the damn tiles.
As for the guy that ended up with garbage (if BestBuy didn't do the right thing, as they didn't seem to),
1. file a police report
2. chargeback credit card
3. contact drive manufacturer and report that the drive in question was stolen -- this at least voids warranty on the drive
4. if new drive is not handed over by Best Buy (show them police report), add to the police report that they stole your new drive
5. if Best Buy continue to not hand over the drive, sue them for selling you a brick (small claims) + taking money for it + ALL your time you lost + court filing fees. Just do not exaggerate your time - judges don't like that.
Unfortunately, theft like this hits us all in the pocketbooks all the way from customers up to Best Buy shareholders.
As to parent, I don't know what "people" you hang around with that "do this all the time". Sounds like a bunch of assholes to me.
Security is about how things are done not how they turn out to be. This means you use placeholders such that then the database layer doesn't have to parse the data. If the database driver is stupid such that placeholders are just cosmetic, then well, no security gained.
If you don't use placeholders on ASCII text files, easy to sanitize anyway. But if you don't use placeholders on multi-byte encoded characters, then it is SQL injection and a security hole.
PostgreSQL was hit by the problem. The problem was later identified in MySQL and other databases as well. Escaping only works properly in regular ASCII, but still a pain for the parser. Data may be passed to the server faster and securely with prepared statements.
As I spent the last week trying to untangle the mess of manifests, I realized one thing. Vista is NOT all crap.
UI popup asking you to verify that you clicked something is not that great. But if you get a virus, you may stop and wander why you get popoup boxes all the time even if you didn't click it. Annoying but maybe effective? Don't know. This is the part of Vista I do not like at all.
manifest files - ughh! Well, if you understand them, they are not that bad. Still annoying to the developers but better than DLL Hell of yesteryears. If you want a different confusion for developers, look at OS X frameworks. Not exactly standard dynamic libraries there either.
The new folder locations are great. Vista is getting closer to what Linux/Unix had for years. Actually, they are easier to understand than Mac OS X stuff.
The real pain are the 64-bit/32-bit file/registry reflections. That is just stupid. Same application = Same key! The lack of manifest = registry reflection is also crap. Open a registry, and it opens a different one for you! Stupid!!
But the changes in Vista are not all bad. There are some good ones. (BTW, manifests and SxS execution was in place since XP or 2000, just no one used it until Vista is forcing it down our throats:).
Of course, I still find Gnome+Linux the most productive environment over Vista or XP or OS X. It just works.
PS. 2003 is not faster than XP. It will only be faster if you install crap on your XP box. What 2003 has is more throughput = less overhead. But that also means less interactivity. And people will not "transition" from XP -> 2008. If they do, then they have too much money in their pockets.
Yes. And because the Canadian Government is swimming in cash from its record surplus each year (remember when "Conservatives" repeatedly demanded resignation of Liberal's Minister of Finance when they were in power because surplus meant they weren't doing enough to cut taxes? Will the current minister then resign?). Money means pork. And Conservatives or Liberals mean nothing in terms of ideology. It is just "Blue Party" and "Red Party".
If Conservative party was any conservative, they would not cut GST but Income Tax first and stop increasing gov't spending at much more than inflation or growth. Oh well....
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I'm sure Google is very happy about it too. Targeted advertising people, targeted advertising.
So maybe good for NSA and other 3 letter agencies - they don't even have to try to intercept email these days anymore. People store it conveniently for them on Google.
gmail, hotmail, instant messanger, facebook, myspace, slashdot, etc. The distributed Internet has become very modular these days. People are worried about root DNS hosts. Imagine what people would do if you took down only a handful of these domains. 1/2 the people online would be lost.
Vista is more compatible with Windows 95 apps than with Windows XP applications.
Registry reflections, file system reflections, DLL reflections/manifests (and other manifestations) are just a tip of the ice-berg. Instead of locking down an administrative account and using a user to run things that then sudo (or whatever) to Admin to install, Windows' admin doesn't have admin rights - you have to jumps hoops though the UAC (or whatever it is called).
If you ever want to run Custom Actions in an MSI installer that was created with Visual Studio 2005, sorry, you are *out of luck*. The new flags to allow admin custom actions are not supported by VS2005 even with Vista update for it. You have to dick around the MSI files with Orca.
And let's not forget the last 3 days of me running around the forums trying to figure out why a MS supplied runtime does not install with their own installer on Vista. Turns out some "security" update or SDK update or whatever, broke the installers...
Oh, but the Windows 95 apps run fine. The designed for XP or 2000, with people running the apps as normal users in mind type of applications, are the ones that are fscked up.
The hellish experience of Vista is even worse for developers (Visual Studio was not even recommended to be run on Vista by Microsoft until earlier this year with SP1 and that SP1 broke the compiler as we see with Qt4).
No. Websites like and similar to Slashdot are a goldmine for CIA/NSA. They decide whom to put on the "watch lists" from automatic and semi-automatic scans of these boards.
Why do you think there are terrorist message boards out there? If US wanted, these would be removed tomorrow. They are using them.
haha. Yes, like secret CIA planes that then shipped the people you let it to secret torture detention camps
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You can't leave with your money. Check with IRS, but I don't think they'll let you without filing forms and taxes and getting permission.
You can leave in a car. For now. Want to walk into Canada in December? Be my guest. Oh and you forgot, maybe they can swim the atlantic/pacific too.
Denying ability to fly is for transportation like denying ability to buy food in a market is to eating. Maybe you'll need to think about it for a minute or few days to sink in.
You would have problem with getting a fix for your issue with any software company. First, you don't know what happened. Second, you cannot give steps to reproduce the problem. So, the developers are left with,
"whaa whaaa whaa.!!!! Software broke! Erased stuff! Fix it!!! Fix it or I switch!"
Good luck with the switch. Be this commercial or free software, you are likely to get the same type of support if you are unwilling to help with the debugging of your problem.
From year 1076 "These wars were to last nearly 200 years", so until 1250 or so? Then you have the Spanish Inquisition that swept most of Europe. Then the wars between protestants and the catholics slaughtering themselves everywhere. Well, that was just religious unrest that never really stopped until modern times.
Northern Ireland still has that problem and I'm sure they would start to kill each other again if it wasn't for the "man's law". Protestants there were still (maybe still are) parading through the streets proclaiming how they killed the stupid catholics some few centuries back. One of the replies is that it is really "Thou shalt not murder" and hence killing for self-defense is no problem. Well, yes, until the evil group A starts to spread their devil-words and you have to defend your god. Why can't religious folks just have faith? Put some faith in your god that the guilty heathens will be punished after they die and leave the punishment to god.
As to Muslims, same shit with shia and sunni. You see that in Iraq today with the ethnic violence there (the one against the US/UK/other troops is different). The entire middle east is either suppressing shia (eg. Emirates) or the sunni (eg. Iran). It is a freaking powder cake. Other examples are all the fatwas to murder. Really peaceful.
The point is that both Christianity and Islam proclaims they are "peaceful" religions. Sorry. History and current events speak for themselves.
As for other religions? Probably the same. I think only something like Buddhism has any merit to call itself peaceful. But then look how marginalized that religion has become when confronted with the more militant religions.
As for Republicans, I don't know where that came from, but their record as being "conservative" is rather not. And no, this is not "hating", this is *mocking*. I'm mocking their proclamation that they are "peaceful religions". And yes, I just mocked that Republicans are calling themselves conservatives./rant2
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Read at least the first paragraph before spreading more FUD. This is NOT a security problem as many pointed out here.
.so file, installed it and it caused a security problem and the OS should not have allowed it. If you download malicious JET files, well, these tend to have code in them that can cause problems. DO NOT do that. So, this is not a critical problem unless your application is critically insecure by design in which case you have a different problem.
"allowing for arbitrary code execution once the victim interacts with a malicious JET-dependent file (such as an Access file)."
It is crazy. Like saying you downloaded a malicious
No. Vista.
And no you will not get one of them "You want to proceed with blah?" windows because an exploit will not have a manifest. It is difficult to get Vista hosed by malware compared to XP.
AMD has best performance for the buck. 99% of people would be happy with AMD X2 AM2 socket processors. That's what I use. I also use nVidia graphics - on-board graphics chips are quite good these days.
Intel CPU prices are generally higher than AMDs and ATI drivers suck. Hence my decision. Oh, and memory bandwidth on AMD processors at least used to be high than Intel's - not sure where that is right now.
I'd say yes.
Japan is no longer on my list for places to visit. So is UK, Russia, China, and few others. I'm a tourist. I can't vote for people representing those countries directly. I vote with my money.
I am an outsider but see the waste by the famous postal system (I think they are Japanese bank, insurer, etc. as well). Wasting money on multi-billion and multi-trillion yen projects like some tunnel to some region that has a very low population anyway.
Or, see whale killing in the antarctic. Unsustainable and not even making money - only surviving on government subsidies. And their excuse (the Japanese official whaling agency!) is "whales are eating all the fish and depleting fish stocks" which is such baloney and bull shit that I cannot believe it is coming out of a mouth of an intelligent person (eg. 1000 years ago seas had 1000s of time the number of whales and A LOT more other fish too -- how retarded can one be not to see the connection between man and fish stock declines?)
Fingerprinting is another, but you should be saying that UK is forefront on that. They are doing the same AFAIK. And even started to collect DNA from their own citizens.
There are many more examples of waste in Japan but I haven't looked for any. Nor do I live there to know.
It is no longer possible to hijack a plane.
After 9/11, no passengers would stand by and allow hijackers to command a plane. This applies most strongly to any american planes. As an example, look what happened to the last plane on 9/11? The passengers, when they realized planes are being flown into buildings, fought back. People will always try to survive. If the choice (in the past) was sit quietly until hijackers get what they want vs. risk of getting killed, people played safe. Now, that choice is sitting quietly while plane will be crashed and you dieing or risk a death by fighting back, people will fight (safer option).
You do not have to worry about people as much anymore as the stuff that goes onto the plane. The baggages. The parcels. Today's "security" practices are not really doing that - they are still optimized to counter 9/11. But they wouldn't work back then. The terrorists back then could still intimidate and take over a plane by bluffing (why? see above for the old mentality of what hijacking meant for safety).
In conclusion, the reactionary "tactics" of people and policy makers (who should know better) are to blame for the "security" mess.
As he said, he lived only once :)
If you have to resort to drugs to alter your state of reality, you are living a quite pitiful life. There is more than enough in this world to do and experience to fill half a dozen lifetimes without getting bored, not to mention one. To resort to drugs and have an excuse that you "live only once" is just sad.
What is next in the experience list? How to kill people with a car while on drugs/alcohol? Or drooling through a straw for rest of your life because you had one-too-many?
Good for the employees. Now, is this good for Google and its shareholders? Probably less so. They are the ones that end up paying these millions out without getting a return.
Bullshit. Speed limits are traffic laws that are routinely *broken*. This results in *thousands* of deaths in US alone each and every year. Yet, police is not enforcing these common-sense laws. People that drive according to the laws, are harassed not only by other reckless drivers but sometimes also by police. Ever driven last at no more than the posting speed limit? Anyone ever receive a ticket for driving "too fast for conditions" even when they are driving under the posted speed limit? (that's another law that is not really enforced - sad but true as you can see every winter and fog patches from the crashes on the road)
Speed kills. Everyone that is not a retard knows that. Police knows that. But they do not enforce the laws because too many people are breaking the rules.
This case is exactly the same. Copyright violation is wrong. Police do not enforce it because they would be overwhelmed. They do not pick and choose what laws they'll enforce based on some mystical scoring system. It is not their job.
Actually, I would prefer the water over all the land. US is already having problems with water not to mention China and rest of the world. Canada has something like 10% of all the non-ice-locked drinkable water. US already has plans to try to export Canada's best resource many times in the past including something called NAWAPA [1]. Too bad US, you can't have it.
[1] - http://www.schillerinstitute.org/economy/phys_econ/phys_econ_nawapa_1983.html
Why?
Someone can go and kill someone else as a "crime of passion" then not do anything for rest of their lives. It doesn't mean they didn't kill in the first place.
Agreed. Solution is simple. Convert all fossil fuel plants to nuclear and add more nuclear/solar (in desert areas, rooftops, for example) to generate hydrogen for stuff that is not fixed (eg. cars, trucks, long haul railway lines like in Siberia or Canada, etc.). Then you have no carbon footprint. Problem solved. Right?
But until then, throwing money and technology by taxing carbon is probably the best way of dealing with CO2. CO2 is a waste and when consumers pay for the waste they generate (ie. business generate CO2, pay for it, price of goods then in fraction reflects CO2 costs which is passed to consumers as cost of materials is now). Sorry, Utopia of living in caves will not solve the problem of CO2.
Money runs the world as people seem to like it that way. Put a price on waste, and people will start to reduce their waste.
The store I buy my computer crap checks the boxes for me as I leave. Then they scan serial numbers. Any returns or exchanges? Serial numbers must match not just UPC.
It is theft and scam. I hope Best Buy tracks down the assholes that are doing this and pass the "costs" down on them + a nice visit to police station in cuffs + nice fine and restitution.
This is actually a case *for* unique ids like RFID to be implemented everywhere. At least that way you would be able to track down the asshole that stole from Best Buy and the guy in question. Now it is still possible, but will take time. I'm sick and tired that Best Buy should "eat it". The thief should be the one that eats the damn tiles.
As for the guy that ended up with garbage (if BestBuy didn't do the right thing, as they didn't seem to),
1. file a police report
2. chargeback credit card
3. contact drive manufacturer and report that the drive in question was stolen -- this at least voids warranty on the drive
4. if new drive is not handed over by Best Buy (show them police report), add to the police report that they stole your new drive
5. if Best Buy continue to not hand over the drive, sue them for selling you a brick (small claims) + taking money for it + ALL your time you lost + court filing fees. Just do not exaggerate your time - judges don't like that.
Unfortunately, theft like this hits us all in the pocketbooks all the way from customers up to Best Buy shareholders.
As to parent, I don't know what "people" you hang around with that "do this all the time". Sounds like a bunch of assholes to me.
Security is about how things are done not how they turn out to be. This means you use placeholders such that then the database layer doesn't have to parse the data. If the database driver is stupid such that placeholders are just cosmetic, then well, no security gained.
If you don't use placeholders on ASCII text files, easy to sanitize anyway. But if you don't use placeholders on multi-byte encoded characters, then it is SQL injection and a security hole.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.50
PostgreSQL was hit by the problem. The problem was later identified in MySQL and other databases as well. Escaping only works properly in regular ASCII, but still a pain for the parser. Data may be passed to the server faster and securely with prepared statements.
As I spent the last week trying to untangle the mess of manifests, I realized one thing. Vista is NOT all crap.
:).
UI popup asking you to verify that you clicked something is not that great. But if you get a virus, you may stop and wander why you get popoup boxes all the time even if you didn't click it. Annoying but maybe effective? Don't know. This is the part of Vista I do not like at all.
manifest files - ughh! Well, if you understand them, they are not that bad. Still annoying to the developers but better than DLL Hell of yesteryears. If you want a different confusion for developers, look at OS X frameworks. Not exactly standard dynamic libraries there either.
The new folder locations are great. Vista is getting closer to what Linux/Unix had for years. Actually, they are easier to understand than Mac OS X stuff.
The real pain are the 64-bit/32-bit file/registry reflections. That is just stupid. Same application = Same key! The lack of manifest = registry reflection is also crap. Open a registry, and it opens a different one for you! Stupid!!
But the changes in Vista are not all bad. There are some good ones. (BTW, manifests and SxS execution was in place since XP or 2000, just no one used it until Vista is forcing it down our throats
Of course, I still find Gnome+Linux the most productive environment over Vista or XP or OS X. It just works.
PS. 2003 is not faster than XP. It will only be faster if you install crap on your XP box. What 2003 has is more throughput = less overhead. But that also means less interactivity. And people will not "transition" from XP -> 2008. If they do, then they have too much money in their pockets.
Yes. And because the Canadian Government is swimming in cash from its record surplus each year (remember when "Conservatives" repeatedly demanded resignation of Liberal's Minister of Finance when they were in power because surplus meant they weren't doing enough to cut taxes? Will the current minister then resign?). Money means pork. And Conservatives or Liberals mean nothing in terms of ideology. It is just "Blue Party" and "Red Party".
If Conservative party was any conservative, they would not cut GST but Income Tax first and stop increasing gov't spending at much more than inflation or growth. Oh well....
http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/govt49a.htm
http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/govt49b.htm
I'm sure Google is very happy about it too. Targeted advertising people, targeted advertising.
So maybe good for NSA and other 3 letter agencies - they don't even have to try to intercept email these days anymore. People store it conveniently for them on Google.
gmail, hotmail, instant messanger, facebook, myspace, slashdot, etc. The distributed Internet has become very modular these days. People are worried about root DNS hosts. Imagine what people would do if you took down only a handful of these domains. 1/2 the people online would be lost.
Vista is more compatible with Windows 95 apps than with Windows XP applications.
Registry reflections, file system reflections, DLL reflections/manifests (and other manifestations) are just a tip of the ice-berg. Instead of locking down an administrative account and using a user to run things that then sudo (or whatever) to Admin to install, Windows' admin doesn't have admin rights - you have to jumps hoops though the UAC (or whatever it is called).
If you ever want to run Custom Actions in an MSI installer that was created with Visual Studio 2005, sorry, you are *out of luck*. The new flags to allow admin custom actions are not supported by VS2005 even with Vista update for it. You have to dick around the MSI files with Orca.
And let's not forget the last 3 days of me running around the forums trying to figure out why a MS supplied runtime does not install with their own installer on Vista. Turns out some "security" update or SDK update or whatever, broke the installers...
Oh, but the Windows 95 apps run fine. The designed for XP or 2000, with people running the apps as normal users in mind type of applications, are the ones that are fscked up.
The hellish experience of Vista is even worse for developers (Visual Studio was not even recommended to be run on Vista by Microsoft until earlier this year with SP1 and that SP1 broke the compiler as we see with Qt4).
Huh!? So, you are going to get a 5W box so you can hook it up to your 16-disk SAN and save on power?
No. Websites like and similar to Slashdot are a goldmine for CIA/NSA. They decide whom to put on the "watch lists" from automatic and semi-automatic scans of these boards.
Why do you think there are terrorist message boards out there? If US wanted, these would be removed tomorrow. They are using them.
You forgot. It still works to just say "because of 9/11".
American freedoms we enjoyed rolled over and died on 9/11. Not by terrorism, but fear and apathy.
haha. Yes, like secret CIA planes that then shipped the people you let it to secret torture detention camps
keywords: rendering cia
You can't leave with your money. Check with IRS, but I don't think they'll let you without filing forms and taxes and getting permission.
You can leave in a car. For now. Want to walk into Canada in December? Be my guest. Oh and you forgot, maybe they can swim the atlantic/pacific too.
Denying ability to fly is for transportation like denying ability to buy food in a market is to eating. Maybe you'll need to think about it for a minute or few days to sink in.
You would have problem with getting a fix for your issue with any software company. First, you don't know what happened. Second, you cannot give steps to reproduce the problem. So, the developers are left with,
"whaa whaaa whaa.!!!! Software broke! Erased stuff! Fix it!!! Fix it or I switch!"
Good luck with the switch. Be this commercial or free software, you are likely to get the same type of support if you are unwilling to help with the debugging of your problem.
From year 1076 "These wars were to last nearly 200 years", so until 1250 or so? Then you have the Spanish Inquisition that swept most of Europe. Then the wars between protestants and the catholics slaughtering themselves everywhere. Well, that was just religious unrest that never really stopped until modern times.
/rant2
Northern Ireland still has that problem and I'm sure they would start to kill each other again if it wasn't for the "man's law". Protestants there were still (maybe still are) parading through the streets proclaiming how they killed the stupid catholics some few centuries back. One of the replies is that it is really "Thou shalt not murder" and hence killing for self-defense is no problem. Well, yes, until the evil group A starts to spread their devil-words and you have to defend your god. Why can't religious folks just have faith? Put some faith in your god that the guilty heathens will be punished after they die and leave the punishment to god.
As to Muslims, same shit with shia and sunni. You see that in Iraq today with the ethnic violence there (the one against the US/UK/other troops is different). The entire middle east is either suppressing shia (eg. Emirates) or the sunni (eg. Iran). It is a freaking powder cake. Other examples are all the fatwas to murder. Really peaceful.
The point is that both Christianity and Islam proclaims they are "peaceful" religions. Sorry. History and current events speak for themselves.
As for other religions? Probably the same. I think only something like Buddhism has any merit to call itself peaceful. But then look how marginalized that religion has become when confronted with the more militant religions.
As for Republicans, I don't know where that came from, but their record as being "conservative" is rather not. And no, this is not "hating", this is *mocking*. I'm mocking their proclamation that they are "peaceful religions". And yes, I just mocked that Republicans are calling themselves conservatives.