" Saddam was a mass murderer. Look at how many graves they have uncovered. That right there is enough for me to condone what we did. That kind of stuff is just not something the 21st century should put up with."
Where were you when those graves were being dug up? Where was bush? Where was runsfeld, perle, cheney and the rest of the war mongers? When amnesty international was publishing it's list of atrocities in Iraq did you join them, did you give them money? Or did you mock them for being liberal faggots.
I am touched by your newfound love of the iraqi people, I really am. If only with people like you cared about the iraqis before 9/11. Like maybe in the 1980s when Saddam was gassing the kurds or when saddam was putting doen the Shia. Maybe even when the UN sanctions were starving hundreds of thousands of people. Too bad back then you didn't give a fuck about the iraqis back then. Back then they were just another set of ragheads.
Now that you love the iraqis so much maybe you can learn to love other people was well. People in Uganda, sudan, haiti, iran, north korea, china, russia, chechnia, and palestine all need your love. Please love these people as much as you love the iraqis. They too need help from brutal dictators, widespread disease, famine, starvation and genocide.
I suppose one could argue that these people probably deserved freedom before the iraqis even but I am not going to nitpick. I don't want to diminish your newfound love of the opressed peoples of the world. I want to celepbrate it with you.
You are right, these kinds of things are just not something the 21st century should put up with. Only if we had a president that was comitted to ending opression everywhere in the world.
If republicans believed in private proterty they would not have invaded another country on such flimsy grounds. Unless you meant they believe in the private property rights of themselves and nobody else.
The preview in explorer first showed up in lotus magellan for DOS. It was amazing, you could see inside zip files, it would show you the gif files and if it was a text file you could edit it right there.
It also had other neat features like find as you type!.
Lotus magellan was the most well thought file explorer ever created. Nobody has ever duplicated it or matched it's feature set. Xtree for dos was pretty damned good, the new apple finder has adapted the multiple horizantal panes interface but completely missed the point. Then again they wrapped it in finder which is an abomination in and of itself.
I have had the fortune not to have to deal with anybody who forces me to use IE. Even the exchange web interface they use at work doesn't force me to use it. I am truly sorry your school is unable to write applications that can't work in browsers other then IE (to me that says something about them).
The only time I use IE is when I am on other peoples computers or public computers, then I am remindeded at what a crappy piece of software it is. Browsing without firefox is like trying to type with all your fingers cut off.
I almost never run into those sites. On the extremely rare situation that I do run into them I go somewhere else. I can't think of the last time I had to fire up IE. It's been so long.
"However since XP SP2, I've started moving back to using IE sometimes, because it blocks pop-ups, ActiveX controls, etc."
Huh? You are going back to IE because it blocks popups? Firefox blocks popups too. Why would you stop using a browser you have used for seven months and go back to IE because it blocks popups?
As for activeX controls I don't let anybody run activex controls on my browser. I have then disabled in IE. By the way MS put out an advisory not too long ago telling people to disable activeX controls. You knew about that right?
"However from the average Windows XP user's point of view, why would they switch to Firefox when Microsoft just made IE more secure for them and blocked annoying popups for them?"
Search as you type, tabs, block images from this server, better management of saved information, better management of privacy, download manger, and last but not least faster startup time (with the preload) and rendering.
Is there an example of a non trivial XUL app someplace we can check out. I don't mean the amazon search thing (although it's OK). I mean one where somebody can browse a database and update records.
Personally I really don't know if I would want to write an entire application in XML and javascript, but hey that's just me.
I made no claims about his affliation with SCO or tried to psycho analyze him. I am just reporting some of the posts we wrote himself on the kernel mailing list and gorklaw.
Having said that he does seem to be highly unstable. I forgot the post he wrote where he claimed to find a massive gold mine in Utah and he was going to use the proceeds from that to sue Novell.
Finally he is not some random person. He really did work at Novell and by all accounts was a pretty bright guy. He seems to have come unglued sometime after he quit and tried to sell novell IP to MS.
The title shows what the author was thinking, in a very real sense it's a summary of the book. Read the book and see for yourself. It's simply a gross caricature of arabs as unthinking automatons who are incapable of rational thought.
Pretty much exactly what you'd expect from a racist author.
"Look, maybe you haven't been paying attention, but different cultures are, in fact, DIFFERENT."
But he is not talking about cultures, he is talking about race. The arab mind is not about the culture of a particular nation it's about the thinking process of an entire race no matter what country they live in or what culture they experience. That's racism in a nutshell. The idea that all arabs think alike because of their race.
The conclusion that he reasches (which is that the arabs are an insect like unthinking race) is doubly racist.
I once got a hold of some diaries that were written by a schizophrenic. He too believed fervently in the bible. He belived that god was speaking to him and telling him to go to particular places in order to witness prophesies coming true.
It was facinating reading. I wonder if there is a corrolation between schizophrenia and being born again. I would think it would be only natural to think that the voices in your head were coming from god.
Business acumen is not intelligence. It's being able to make judgements about people that are accurate. Put two people across the table from each other in a negotiation and each person is trying to make sure they are not screwed while screwing the other person.
Great business people read their enemies correctly, pinpoint their weaknesses and exploit them without mercy. I suppose you might call that an intelligence of sorts but they are not using analytical processes. They are going by non verbal cues and gut feelings.
In a very real sense the same traits that make mass murderers, serial rapists etc great predetors are the same traits that make a great businessperson.
You still haven't answered my question. DO all arabs think alike no matter what country they live in? Do all muslims think alike no matter what country theylive in?
This is a book that purports to know "the arab mind". This implies that there is only one arab mind and that's it's knowable. the premise of the book itself is racist.
Once again there is a book written about the arab mind whose author is a jew. If you find that this has no relevance whatsoever then you are simply being blind.
Linuxworld is an anti linux FUD site. It's aimed at CxOs who don't know any better and just blindly accept whatever zdnet says.
"but if a business leader is dumb enough to read this and not see it as a paid advertisement, they won't be leading their business for long."
If you met any business leaders you'd be shocked at how stipid they are. You don't need to be smart to be a business leader you just have to be able to put aside your morals to make money.
This Merkey guy is a hoot. Here is a quick rundown on some of the stuff he has done just catch people up.
He used to work at novell, he took their technology after he left and tried to sell it as a product to MS. Novell sued and the judge said some hilarious things about him including that he lives in his own reality. He in turn called the judge "a novell stooge".
He has offered FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS MUHAHAHAHA for the linux kernel. That's right if the writers of the code would give him the code so he can release it under a BSD license he will give them FIFTH THOUSAND DOLLARS.
He claims to have talked to Darl and Blake (stowell) at SCO and has gotten immunity for linux but they have remove JFS, RCU, SMP, NUMA and of course all software written by IBM from the linux kernel. See how simple that was? Just revert back to kernel 1.0 and SCO will certify that linux does not infringe and we can thank Merkey for that!.
He claims to be a member of a native american religion or a native american (he is kind of vague) and therefore will sue Pamela for hate crimes for saying bad things about native americans and inciting hate speech against native americans. All pamela did was to post the text of a ruling by the judge (public information).
He claims to have cured (that's right CURED) arthiritis by genetically modifying peyote.
He claims to take a lot of peyote.
He claims to have taken part in an effort to ship peyote to NY after 9/11 in order to heal people of NY.
He has sued novell for sexual harrasment (he has a femal boss).
HE claims Novell has released him from all restrictions about their IP. He is working on something really big but can't tell us about it.
He has claimed in the past to be working on an open source implementation of novell netware, NTFS support for linux and a few other big ticket items. Nothing seems to have come out of any of them though.
He claims to have seen the code for SYSV, Linux, Unixware, and windows and claims there is substantial infringement by the linux kernel on the SCO owned IP (Daryl showed him the code!).
He claims that Pamela Jones came into his room naked one day in monterrey and they went partying afterwards. He claims she is a scorned women out to get him.
He sounds like he is half tripped out or drunk most of the time. If you look at the yahoo boards you see postings in his style under different names although he signs his name to the kernel list.
I would be interested in knowing anything else about him. He is truly one of the most bizaare characters in this whole surreal saga. Apparently he works in a canopy owned building which is populated with other canopy owned companies but he claims the company he works for is not owned by canopy.
Actually since most of the palestenians are semites and very few of the israelis are semites technically it's anti-semitism to take a pro israeli position.
There is a very clever game being played here, it's about what the word "jew" means. Sometimes a jew is a person who believes in one religion, but then again other times it's a race. Yet other times the word jew is synomymous with the word israel except sometimes it's not. It all depends on whether you are critising israel or not. Of course they have also claimed an entire race. These days the only semites are the jews and being anti semitic means being anti jew no matter what.
As for the plaestenians, you keep repeating the israeli mantra. It's OK to kill people and occupy them because they don't want peace, they never had a country in the first place, they don't deserve freedom, they hate us, yadda yadda.
" I bet my buttocks that there wouldn't be two months without a suicide bomber."
You'd lose your bottocks. There have been plenty of two month spans without suicide bombers. Usually if a period of calm gets established sharon launches missiles into the citiies and kills a few kids in order to get them riled up again.
"Anyway, trying to tie it to Saddam makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE WHAT SO EVER"
Bingo!. While ranting against what you thought I was saying you accidentally hit on exactly what I was saying.
BTW giving Putin the green light slide the soviet union backwards to totalitarionaism will be noted as the worst mistake of G.W. Did you know Bush calls Putin "pootie poot"? Google for it.
Which arab/muslim cultures? Is muslim culture the same as arab culture? Are the arab cultures in Syria, Iraq, Iran, egypt, etheopia, pakistan, lebanon etc are all the same? Are all arabs alike no matter where they are in the world. Are all muslims alike no matter where they are in the world?
The fact that you are able to make sweeping judgements about a race despite their cultural differences makes you a racist.
What if I wrote a book called "the negro mind" and lumped together people from africa, carribian, the US and europe and pretended that they all think and act the same because they are all black. Would that be racist? You bet yous ass it would.
The animosity between jews and arabs is longstanding and well known. It certainly says something about the author that he is a jew. If you think it's irrelevent then you are an idiot.
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" Saddam was a mass murderer. Look at how many graves they have uncovered. That right there is enough for me to condone what we did. That kind of stuff is just not something the 21st century should put up with."
Where were you when those graves were being dug up? Where was bush? Where was runsfeld, perle, cheney and the rest of the war mongers? When amnesty international was publishing it's list of atrocities in Iraq did you join them, did you give them money? Or did you mock them for being liberal faggots.
I am touched by your newfound love of the iraqi people, I really am. If only with people like you cared about the iraqis before 9/11. Like maybe in the 1980s when Saddam was gassing the kurds or when saddam was putting doen the Shia. Maybe even when the UN sanctions were starving hundreds of thousands of people. Too bad back then you didn't give a fuck about the iraqis back then. Back then they were just another set of ragheads.
Now that you love the iraqis so much maybe you can learn to love other people was well. People in Uganda, sudan, haiti, iran, north korea, china, russia, chechnia, and palestine all need your love. Please love these people as much as you love the iraqis. They too need help from brutal dictators, widespread disease, famine, starvation and genocide.
I suppose one could argue that these people probably deserved freedom before the iraqis even but I am not going to nitpick. I don't want to diminish your newfound love of the opressed peoples of the world. I want to celepbrate it with you.
You are right, these kinds of things are just not something the 21st century should put up with. Only if we had a president that was comitted to ending opression everywhere in the world.
Dude have you been forgetting to take your medication?
If republicans believed in private proterty they would not have invaded another country on such flimsy grounds. Unless you meant they believe in the private property rights of themselves and nobody else.
The preview in explorer first showed up in lotus magellan for DOS. It was amazing, you could see inside zip files, it would show you the gif files and if it was a text file you could edit it right there.
It also had other neat features like find as you type!.
Lotus magellan was the most well thought file explorer ever created. Nobody has ever duplicated it or matched it's feature set. Xtree for dos was pretty damned good, the new apple finder has adapted the multiple horizantal panes interface but completely missed the point. Then again they wrapped it in finder which is an abomination in and of itself.
I have had the fortune not to have to deal with anybody who forces me to use IE. Even the exchange web interface they use at work doesn't force me to use it. I am truly sorry your school is unable to write applications that can't work in browsers other then IE (to me that says something about them).
The only time I use IE is when I am on other peoples computers or public computers, then I am remindeded at what a crappy piece of software it is. Browsing without firefox is like trying to type with all your fingers cut off.
I almost never run into those sites. On the extremely rare situation that I do run into them I go somewhere else. I can't think of the last time I had to fire up IE. It's been so long.
"However since XP SP2, I've started moving back to using IE sometimes, because it blocks pop-ups, ActiveX controls, etc."
Huh? You are going back to IE because it blocks popups? Firefox blocks popups too. Why would you stop using a browser you have used for seven months and go back to IE because it blocks popups?
As for activeX controls I don't let anybody run activex controls on my browser. I have then disabled in IE. By the way MS put out an advisory not too long ago telling people to disable activeX controls. You knew about that right?
"However from the average Windows XP user's point of view, why would they switch to Firefox when Microsoft just made IE more secure for them and blocked annoying popups for them?"
Search as you type, tabs, block images from this server, better management of saved information, better management of privacy, download manger, and last but not least faster startup time (with the preload) and rendering.
Is there an example of a non trivial XUL app someplace we can check out. I don't mean the amazon search thing (although it's OK). I mean one where somebody can browse a database and update records.
Personally I really don't know if I would want to write an entire application in XML and javascript, but hey that's just me.
Why do you think the editors would object. They get lots of hits from trolling the OSS crowd and each hit means more advertising.
It's not sys-con is interested in truth or journalisting integrity. They are simply there to sell advertising.
Wow. Tell me more. I have never heard voices in my head or heart.
I made no claims about his affliation with SCO or tried to psycho analyze him. I am just reporting some of the posts we wrote himself on the kernel mailing list and gorklaw.
Having said that he does seem to be highly unstable. I forgot the post he wrote where he claimed to find a massive gold mine in Utah and he was going to use the proceeds from that to sue Novell.
Finally he is not some random person. He really did work at Novell and by all accounts was a pretty bright guy. He seems to have come unglued sometime after he quit and tried to sell novell IP to MS.
The title shows what the author was thinking, in a very real sense it's a summary of the book. Read the book and see for yourself. It's simply a gross caricature of arabs as unthinking automatons who are incapable of rational thought.
Pretty much exactly what you'd expect from a racist author.
"Look, maybe you haven't been paying attention, but different cultures are, in fact, DIFFERENT."
But he is not talking about cultures, he is talking about race. The arab mind is not about the culture of a particular nation it's about the thinking process of an entire race no matter what country they live in or what culture they experience. That's racism in a nutshell. The idea that all arabs think alike because of their race.
The conclusion that he reasches (which is that the arabs are an insect like unthinking race) is doubly racist.
I once got a hold of some diaries that were written by a schizophrenic. He too believed fervently in the bible. He belived that god was speaking to him and telling him to go to particular places in order to witness prophesies coming true.
It was facinating reading. I wonder if there is a corrolation between schizophrenia and being born again. I would think it would be only natural to think that the voices in your head were coming from god.
Business acumen is not intelligence. It's being able to make judgements about people that are accurate. Put two people across the table from each other in a negotiation and each person is trying to make sure they are not screwed while screwing the other person.
Great business people read their enemies correctly, pinpoint their weaknesses and exploit them without mercy. I suppose you might call that an intelligence of sorts but they are not using analytical processes. They are going by non verbal cues and gut feelings.
In a very real sense the same traits that make mass murderers, serial rapists etc great predetors are the same traits that make a great businessperson.
You still haven't answered my question. DO all arabs think alike no matter what country they live in? Do all muslims think alike no matter what country theylive in?
This is a book that purports to know "the arab mind". This implies that there is only one arab mind and that's it's knowable. the premise of the book itself is racist.
Once again there is a book written about the arab mind whose author is a jew. If you find that this has no relevance whatsoever then you are simply being blind.
Linuxworld is an anti linux FUD site. It's aimed at CxOs who don't know any better and just blindly accept whatever zdnet says.
"but if a business leader is dumb enough to read this and not see it as a paid advertisement, they won't be leading their business for long."
If you met any business leaders you'd be shocked at how stipid they are. You don't need to be smart to be a business leader you just have to be able to put aside your morals to make money.
This Merkey guy is a hoot. Here is a quick rundown on some of the stuff he has done just catch people up.
He used to work at novell, he took their technology after he left and tried to sell it as a product to MS. Novell sued and the judge said some hilarious things about him including that he lives in his own reality. He in turn called the judge "a novell stooge".
He has offered FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS MUHAHAHAHA for the linux kernel. That's right if the writers of the code would give him the code so he can release it under a BSD license he will give them FIFTH THOUSAND DOLLARS.
He claims to have talked to Darl and Blake (stowell) at SCO and has gotten immunity for linux but they have remove JFS, RCU, SMP, NUMA and of course all software written by IBM from the linux kernel. See how simple that was? Just revert back to kernel 1.0 and SCO will certify that linux does not infringe and we can thank Merkey for that!.
He claims to be a member of a native american religion or a native american (he is kind of vague) and therefore will sue Pamela for hate crimes for saying bad things about native americans and inciting hate speech against native americans. All pamela did was to post the text of a ruling by the judge (public information).
He claims to have cured (that's right CURED) arthiritis by genetically modifying peyote.
He claims to take a lot of peyote.
He claims to have taken part in an effort to ship peyote to NY after 9/11 in order to heal people of NY.
He has sued novell for sexual harrasment (he has a femal boss).
HE claims Novell has released him from all restrictions about their IP. He is working on something really big but can't tell us about it.
He has claimed in the past to be working on an open source implementation of novell netware, NTFS support for linux and a few other big ticket items. Nothing seems to have come out of any of them though.
He claims to have seen the code for SYSV, Linux, Unixware, and windows and claims there is substantial infringement by the linux kernel on the SCO owned IP (Daryl showed him the code!).
He claims that Pamela Jones came into his room naked one day in monterrey and they went partying afterwards. He claims she is a scorned women out to get him.
He sounds like he is half tripped out or drunk most of the time. If you look at the yahoo boards you see postings in his style under different names although he signs his name to the kernel list.
I would be interested in knowing anything else about him. He is truly one of the most bizaare characters in this whole surreal saga. Apparently he works in a canopy owned building which is populated with other canopy owned companies but he claims the company he works for is not owned by canopy.
Actually since most of the palestenians are semites and very few of the israelis are semites technically it's anti-semitism to take a pro israeli position.
There is a very clever game being played here, it's about what the word "jew" means. Sometimes a jew is a person who believes in one religion, but then again other times it's a race. Yet other times the word jew is synomymous with the word israel except sometimes it's not. It all depends on whether you are critising israel or not. Of course they have also claimed an entire race. These days the only semites are the jews and being anti semitic means being anti jew no matter what.
As for the plaestenians, you keep repeating the israeli mantra. It's OK to kill people and occupy them because they don't want peace, they never had a country in the first place, they don't deserve freedom, they hate us, yadda yadda.
" I bet my buttocks that there wouldn't be two months without a suicide bomber."
You'd lose your bottocks. There have been plenty of two month spans without suicide bombers. Usually if a period of calm gets established sharon launches missiles into the citiies and kills a few kids in order to get them riled up again.
He said crusades a couple fo times. He has also said that he believes God chose him to be the president and that god speaks through him.
"Anyway, trying to tie it to Saddam makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE WHAT SO EVER"
Bingo!. While ranting against what you thought I was saying you accidentally hit on exactly what I was saying.
BTW giving Putin the green light slide the soviet union backwards to totalitarionaism will be noted as the worst mistake of G.W. Did you know Bush calls Putin "pootie poot"? Google for it.
Which arab/muslim cultures? Is muslim culture the same as arab culture? Are the arab cultures in Syria, Iraq, Iran, egypt, etheopia, pakistan, lebanon etc are all the same? Are all arabs alike no matter where they are in the world. Are all muslims alike no matter where they are in the world?
The fact that you are able to make sweeping judgements about a race despite their cultural differences makes you a racist.
What if I wrote a book called "the negro mind" and lumped together people from africa, carribian, the US and europe and pretended that they all think and act the same because they are all black. Would that be racist? You bet yous ass it would.
The animosity between jews and arabs is longstanding and well known. It certainly says something about the author that he is a jew. If you think it's irrelevent then you are an idiot.
I call bullshit on allmost all your claims. Allawi will be president after the election too, we will see to that. Just like Karzai.
Allawi is a terrorist and a murderer.
The charges on Al Sadr were trumped up in order to get rid of him. He survived because he has a huge following, we were unable to kill him.