You were an idiot for believing what your govt told you. Suckers like you are a dime a dozen.
Think about what you are saying. If you didn't go to war and kill hundreds of thousands of people and make millions sick and destitude a totalitarian govt would have come in end killed their enemies. You went in, killed lots of people and the totalitarians came in and killed their enemies anyway.
You made it worse by going in. If you didn't go in then less people would have died.
" None. I was on a ship on the Gun Line, not involved with the gunnery except for (as most everybody was) carrying shells and powdercases during resupply."
Great you only helped other people kill. That means you are less evil then the people who did kill but more evil then the people who did not help anybody kill.
" I'll bet we saved more American lives, and that's all that matters to me."
Most Americans (like you) believe that American humans are worth more then humans of other countries. This moral relativism of course is not valid from a biblical christian view where god loved every human being and created all of them with souls and freewill. You believe that killing vietnamese was OK as long as you saved Americans.
I should point out one thing to you though. Americans went to vietnam willingly. They went there to kill. They could have stayed home if they wanted to and no American would be killed. They could have pulled out earlier and less americans would be killed.
You could have saved even more americans by fighting to end the war early. War protesters saved more american lives then you did. Even if they shortened the war for a month they saved more lives then you did.
" No, we understood why we were fighting that war, although many today who rely on revisionist history may not. Most of us volunteered. Polls show that the vast majority of us are proud of our service and would go again."
So what? You think God will care that you wanted to kill people and that you were proud to kill people? You think God cuts you a break because you volunteered to go to another country and kill people there who never attacked you or your country?
"We know that 100,000 Vietnamese were summarily executed after we left, that hundreds of thousands more were sent to concentration camps (where many more died),"
Mmm. They killed hundreds of thousands of people. That means they are evil. You killed hundreds of thousands of people. That means you are evil.
God does not give you a pass because somebody is more evil then you. There are lots of people more evil then you but that does not excuse your actions. You will be held responsible for every life you took, every baby that grew up without parents because of you, every kid missing a leg because you left mines laying around, every deformed baby and old man rotting from cancer because you dropped napalm on their village.
Go ahead, feel better about yourself because you are not the most evil person in the world. But realize this you are evil, more evil then 90% of the people in this world who manage to get through their lives without killing anybody. The vast majority of humanity would be disgusted if they killed somebody not proud.
Where in the constitution does it grant the president to commit armed forces without declaring a war and getting the permission of congress?
"I don't know how many people Hanoi Jane is responsible for killing, but I could make a good guess how many lives she helped ruin by making soldiers out to be horrible people that deserved to be spat upon, hated and discriminated against. "
And you think this is worse then dropping bombs on villages? You think maybe dropping bombs on villages and napalming a country ruins a few lives too?
"I think God will judge her far more harshly than he does me."
Don't you think people who sent you to kill and die without declaring war deserve to be tried for treason more then Jane?
How many people is Jane Fonda responsible for killing? How many is Nixon? How many people did you kill while you were over there?
When you die do you think God will judge you more harshly then Jane? Do you think God will punish somebody who was trying to end bloodshed more then somebody who was comitting bloodshed?
It was less disgusting then carpet bombing cambodia and dropping agent orange on civillian populations.
Big whoop, she said bad things about americans if that makes her evil then the whole world is evil.
Going on an undeclared war and killing hundreds of thousands of human beings on premise of lies is OK with you but protesting against it not? If anybody should be jailed for treason it should be Mcnamara and Nixon.
Bush Style? This man is ruthless when it comes to campaigning. Of course he uses henchmen to spread the hate speech so the stink does not get on him but everybody knows who is in charge.
Just recently his administration reffered to the teachers union as a terrorist organization.
It's not that the republican politicians are rich, it's that the rich by and large are republicans and they certainly fund republicans way more then democrats (yes I know there are a few exceptions).
BTW how Rich is Bush? Being from one of the elite families in the US you'd think he would be swimming in money. After all wasn't his grandfather or great grandfather one of founders of the CIA or something.
Most people buy their PC with bundled software. The resellers like dell, compaq etc would choose what browser they include with their system and more then likely include more then one browser.
I remember when any PC you bought used to have an icon for AOL and compuserve, it would be just like that.
I am shocked the lawyers for MS did not think of this very clever argument you have come up with.
I mean they could have gone up to the judge and say "your honor It is just a matter of how you define the market so you have to throw this case out" and the judge stunned by the power of that argument would have thrown the case out.
Really you should ask to a transfer to MS legal I am sure they get better snacks then the building where you work.
I think the legal definition of monopoly is around 80% not 100% as you are saying.
"Superior technology isn't good enough. It must be SIGNIFICANTLY better to require the switch"
That's right. That's why monopolies are so effective at shutting out competition. MS is able to kill any company it wants any time it wants by simply bundling an application that has 80% of the features of the competition.
"(nobody buys new upgrades unless they are worth marginal benefit) and it must be MARKETED well. Show me a product that did these 2 things and failed and you'll have an argument."
Beta.
Also keep this in mind.
hundreds of programmers will be laid off once mcafee, symantec etc close down their AV divisions. These programmers will be competing with you in a ever shrinking programming market. This will drive down the wages of programmers even more.
This kind of centralized communist economy never works out in the long run. Having all the power in the ands of one entity is bad for a society.
One night on a whim I decided to install jabberd2 on my freebsd box. The port did not build (I foget the exact error). Included in the error message was the email address of the package maintainer who happened to be in russia. I cut and paste the error message to him. A short time later he replies to the email with a patch. I apply the patch and install the thing no problem. I let him know about the good outlook and that night when my system does a cvsup the fix is in the port.
There is no reason for the republicans to blow themselves up. They are in control. They can change the law to suit them and they can go after democrats and people who donate to democrats with the full power of the law.
Finally although the republican party has not taken credit for it there is no doubt that the people who kill abortion doctors, blow up clinics, burn down black churches, crucify gays on fenceposts and drag blacks behind their pickup trucks are republicans.
Faced with such overwhelming odds the people who hate us (and there is no shortage of them) will resort to weapons that hurt a lot and cost very little. They will make chemical and biological weapons and let them loose in the population.
In a way it's kind of like what is going on in palestine. The palestenians are overwhelmed militarily so they can't fight the Israeli army face to face so they resort to other tactics.
In fact it's also like the revolutionary war when the rag-tag americans defeated the mighty british army by adopting native american tactics.
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You were an idiot for believing what your govt told you. Suckers like you are a dime a dozen.
Think about what you are saying. If you didn't go to war and kill hundreds of thousands of people and make millions sick and destitude a totalitarian govt would have come in end killed their enemies. You went in, killed lots of people and the totalitarians came in and killed their enemies anyway.
You made it worse by going in. If you didn't go in then less people would have died.
" None. I was on a ship on the Gun Line, not involved with the gunnery except for (as most everybody was) carrying shells and powdercases during resupply."
Great you only helped other people kill. That means you are less evil then the people who did kill but more evil then the people who did not help anybody kill.
" I'll bet we saved more American lives, and that's all that matters to me."
Most Americans (like you) believe that American humans are worth more then humans of other countries. This moral relativism of course is not valid from a biblical christian view where god loved every human being and created all of them with souls and freewill. You believe that killing vietnamese was OK as long as you saved Americans.
I should point out one thing to you though. Americans went to vietnam willingly. They went there to kill. They could have stayed home if they wanted to and no American would be killed. They could have pulled out earlier and less americans would be killed.
You could have saved even more americans by fighting to end the war early. War protesters saved more american lives then you did. Even if they shortened the war for a month they saved more lives then you did.
Thou shall not kill is the first commandment.
SOme people who enjoy killing have chosen to interpret this very simple sentense to mean thou shall not murder.
even if that was true when is invading a country and killing it's residents not murder?
Shared source is not open source.
The Ecma standard does not cover the most important parts of C# onlu the very basic language which is pretty much useless.
Mono is years behind and will never catch up. If they ever do they will be sued.
MS has patents on this stuff.
Nonsense. How many forks of python, perl or tcl are there?
" No, we understood why we were fighting that war, although many today who rely on revisionist history may not. Most of us volunteered. Polls show that the vast majority of us are proud of our service and would go again."
So what? You think God will care that you wanted to kill people and that you were proud to kill people? You think God cuts you a break because you volunteered to go to another country and kill people there who never attacked you or your country?
"We know that 100,000 Vietnamese were summarily executed after we left, that hundreds of thousands more were sent to concentration camps (where many more died),"
Mmm. They killed hundreds of thousands of people. That means they are evil. You killed hundreds of thousands of people. That means you are evil.
God does not give you a pass because somebody is more evil then you. There are lots of people more evil then you but that does not excuse your actions. You will be held responsible for every life you took, every baby that grew up without parents because of you, every kid missing a leg because you left mines laying around, every deformed baby and old man rotting from cancer because you dropped napalm on their village.
Go ahead, feel better about yourself because you are not the most evil person in the world. But realize this you are evil, more evil then 90% of the people in this world who manage to get through their lives without killing anybody. The vast majority of humanity would be disgusted if they killed somebody not proud.
Where in the constitution does it grant the president to commit armed forces without declaring a war and getting the permission of congress?
"I don't know how many people Hanoi Jane is responsible for killing, but I could make a good guess how many lives she helped ruin by making soldiers out to be horrible people that deserved to be spat upon, hated and discriminated against. "
And you think this is worse then dropping bombs on villages? You think maybe dropping bombs on villages and napalming a country ruins a few lives too?
"I think God will judge her far more harshly than he does me."
Depends. How many people did you kill?
People who run the CIA end up knowing a lot things and people. That knowledge translates to millions of dollars once your stint is over.
No matter how rich you are when you become the head of the CIA you become much richer after you leave.
Right very vocal and that's all. It's not like she took up a gun and killed anybody or dropped napalm on civillians.
Don't you think people who sent you to kill and die without declaring war deserve to be tried for treason more then Jane?
How many people is Jane Fonda responsible for killing? How many is Nixon? How many people did you kill while you were over there?
When you die do you think God will judge you more harshly then Jane? Do you think God will punish somebody who was trying to end bloodshed more then somebody who was comitting bloodshed?
That's a question you should ask yourself.
"What she did was flat out disgusting."
It was less disgusting then carpet bombing cambodia and dropping agent orange on civillian populations.
Big whoop, she said bad things about americans if that makes her evil then the whole world is evil.
Going on an undeclared war and killing hundreds of thousands of human beings on premise of lies is OK with you but protesting against it not? If anybody should be jailed for treason it should be Mcnamara and Nixon.
Bush Style? This man is ruthless when it comes to campaigning. Of course he uses henchmen to spread the hate speech so the stink does not get on him but everybody knows who is in charge.
Just recently his administration reffered to the teachers union as a terrorist organization.
Not his style my ass.
It's not that the republican politicians are rich, it's that the rich by and large are republicans and they certainly fund republicans way more then democrats (yes I know there are a few exceptions).
BTW how Rich is Bush? Being from one of the elite families in the US you'd think he would be swimming in money. After all wasn't his grandfather or great grandfather one of founders of the CIA or something.
How does that give you the ability to live without fear?
Most people buy their PC with bundled software. The resellers like dell, compaq etc would choose what browser they include with their system and more then likely include more then one browser.
I remember when any PC you bought used to have an icon for AOL and compuserve, it would be just like that.
I am shocked the lawyers for MS did not think of this very clever argument you have come up with.
I mean they could have gone up to the judge and say "your honor It is just a matter of how you define the market so you have to throw this case out" and the judge stunned by the power of that argument would have thrown the case out.
Really you should ask to a transfer to MS legal I am sure they get better snacks then the building where you work.
Right. Because there is no appreciable difference between windows and a microwave.
What kind of an argument is that? Not even you believe what you are saying.
I think the legal definition of monopoly is around 80% not 100% as you are saying.
"Superior technology isn't good enough. It must be SIGNIFICANTLY better to require the switch"
That's right. That's why monopolies are so effective at shutting out competition. MS is able to kill any company it wants any time it wants by simply bundling an application that has 80% of the features of the competition.
"(nobody buys new upgrades unless they are worth marginal benefit) and it must be MARKETED well. Show me a product that did these 2 things and failed and you'll have an argument."
Beta.
Also keep this in mind.
hundreds of programmers will be laid off once mcafee, symantec etc close down their AV divisions. These programmers will be competing with you in a ever shrinking programming market. This will drive down the wages of programmers even more.
This kind of centralized communist economy never works out in the long run. Having all the power in the ands of one entity is bad for a society.
The sec of education recently called the NEA a "terrorist organization" and now Bill gates refers to OSS programers are GPL Zealots.
I guess this is pretty standard tactic these days to describe people who disagree with you.
Civility is dead in this country. It's an all out war.
Needless to say I'd be shitting bricks if I was a teacher, we know what happens to terrorists in the US.
This is a good thing. Trust me joe average is not going to pay for windows and office. If it comes with the computer they are not going to upgrade.
If the people in the third world are unable to pirate they will turn to open source or at least cheaper alternatives.
The worst thing that can happen is that MS will also press non DRM CDs and look the other way while the third world pirates them.
One night on a whim I decided to install jabberd2 on my freebsd box. The port did not build (I foget the exact error). Included in the error message was the email address of the package maintainer who happened to be in russia. I cut and paste the error message to him. A short time later he replies to the email with a patch. I apply the patch and install the thing no problem. I let him know about the good outlook and that night when my system does a cvsup the fix is in the port.
Beat that MS.
There is no reason for the republicans to blow themselves up. They are in control. They can change the law to suit them and they can go after democrats and people who donate to democrats with the full power of the law.
Finally although the republican party has not taken credit for it there is no doubt that the people who kill abortion doctors, blow up clinics, burn down black churches, crucify gays on fenceposts and drag blacks behind their pickup trucks are republicans.
Yes we can all thank our lucky stars for the brave efforts of the ethiopians.
There is no such thing. There never will be such a thing. There never has been such a thing.
Sorry to break the news to you.
Faced with such overwhelming odds the people who hate us (and there is no shortage of them) will resort to weapons that hurt a lot and cost very little. They will make chemical and biological weapons and let them loose in the population.
In a way it's kind of like what is going on in palestine. The palestenians are overwhelmed militarily so they can't fight the Israeli army face to face so they resort to other tactics.
In fact it's also like the revolutionary war when the rag-tag americans defeated the mighty british army by adopting native american tactics.