Oh I suppose those 500 pound bombs were delivering cinnamon buns then huh? And those mass graves? do they contain barbie dolls?
Listen I am sorry that the reality of the situation is so harsh and not to your liking but you can't deny that american soldiers have killed tens of thousands of innocent civillians. Why? To put down some insurgency in fallujiah or najaf. What the fuck kind of reason is that? Why is that your job?
Are you seriously claiming the US military never kills civillians?
Oh and keep thinking that you are "protecting people's freedom" I am sure it helps you sleep better. Too bad the only people who deserve freedom also happen to have something you want. The people in Sudan, Liberia, china, north korea, palestine, chechnia etc can continue to starve, be massacred, subjugated and die off in disgusting numbers because you can't be bothered to lift a finger to help them. It's much more important to deliver najaf back to alawi, we just can't let some cleric control a city damnit. Those people deserve to be ruled by somebody we handpicked not some damned cleric!.
A nation which calls itself a democracy has chosen to put 3.5 million people into apartheid. Like any other people who have their freedom taken away the palestenians are fighting back any way they can including blowing themselves up. I understand that feeling because if my country was being occupied I would do everything in my power to kick them out too. If you read history we had similar events in our history too. You might remember guerilla types of tactics the Americans took against the British. You might remember phrases like "give me liberty or give me death" and "don't tread on me".
Since you feel that jews can do no wrong you refuse to accept this very simple political reality and blame it all on religious hatred even though the jews the and muslims lived together for thousands of years in peace. Jew and Muslims historically have seen themselves as being allies because neither one believes in the divinity of christ and both of them acknowledge various parts of the old testament.
"No, the UN did because Europe didn't want to deal with the Millions of Jews from the internment/death camps."
Yea right. The palestenians should ask the UN to free them. LOL. Who builds settlements the UN or the israelis? Who runs the checkpoints the UN or the israelis?
"No they don't. Now you're getting emotional with your blather. Why do you hate Jews?"
Any settler can walk up to any palestenian, pull out a gun and shoot them dead without any punishment.
"The Muslims forced this on themselves. "
Ah yes let's blame the victims. I am sure you had nothing to with it.
'Them being terrorists? Yes. Them just being dead civilians, then no."
I was just counting the civillians. Israel kills them by the thousands every year. Of course it wounds and leaves homeless tens of thousands more.
"I suspect that your hypothetical 3D blood-spatter system(TM) would be all the more effective in giving the more hawkish among the population pause to consider exactly what it means for both our troops and the "enemy" to declare war and go off to battle."
I very seriously doubt it. The hawkish are very easily lied to. Today for example I was flipping through the channels trying to avoid bush when I heard him say the phrase.
"the people of iraq are no longer afraid of being buried in a mass grave" or something to that effect. I guess he wasn't counting the mass graves outside of faluhja where two soccer fields were dug up to accomodate the people he killed. He also didn't see fit to mention the graveyards that are being up right now for the people he killed in najaf.
I honestly don't think it mattered to the dead or their relatives whether GW or Saddam did the killing. Do you?
Does he show the actual carnage or is it just "wowie just look at how our soldiers shoot the terrorists just like that video game".
I admit most americans would enjoy shootage of their soldiers destroying towns, buildings, and of course thousands of people but they don't seem to want to actually see the bown apart bodies or the mass graves that are dug afterwards.
"They (the fanatical Muslims) do hate the Jews on religious grounds."
No they don't. They hate jews because the jews built a nation where they were living. Because the jews treat them like cockroaches. Because the jews have set up a system of apartheid. Because the jews kill a couple of thousand of them every year.
As I said there are lot of reasons to hate israel. It has nothing to do with religion.
" It's SOP on/. to instantly hate anything that is 1) MS or MS related or 2) not open source. "
So? Arent there plenty of boards where people
1) Love MS or 2) Hate open source?
The internet is a big place. You could always hang out at gotdotnet or any of the thousands of MS sponsored blogs if you want to be filled with pro MS propaganda.
"We seem to be hard-wired with an innate desire to connect our consciousness with that of the Other"
If so then why haven't we learned the languages of dolphins and whales or even octupi? They are all intelligent creatures and they all communicate. If we can't communicate with a dolphin what makes anybody think we can communicate with an alien.
"With these patterns, we see that an intelligent alien would probably roughly resemble us"
How much do you look like an octopus or a mushroom? Not much huh? And you both evolved on the same planet.
What makes you think that something that evolved on a different planet, with a different sun, different gravity, different atmosphere would look like you?
I think it's a waste of time looking for signals. If they were sufficiently advanced and wanted to interact with us they would have. Of course some people claim that they are already here and are already interacting with us but that's another topic entirely.
Yes there is a terminal services client for linux. In fact there are a few of them. There are also some java based ones. If you are using a Mac MS makes one for the Mac.
Why not just a get a linux based PDA. You can most of that TODAY.
"Pocket outlook would be great for the exchange server my company uses"
Evolution
"Terminal Services would be great for administrating my company's exchange server"
Done.
"Pocket Internet explorer is great for those spur of the moment wikipedia lookups, not to mention slashdot and company."
Pocket mozilla good enough for you?
"Pocket Streets would be great if the device had GPS, and even better if I can plot a waypoint when GeoCaching"
I don't know about this one maybe somebody else can let us know.
"Windows Media player would be great for MP3s on the SD card, however I think there is a winamp port which would be even cooler but to save memory I'm sure WMP would work just fine."
" Funny, you don't appear to get pissed at the arabs who have done the same thing."
Really? Says who? I am against all apartheid. The topic of this duscussion just happens to be israel and I am ALSO against israels implementation of it.
BTW saying that other people do evil shit too is not an excuse to do evil shit. You have just compared the govt of israel and the treatment of palestenians under sharon to the govt of Saddam Hussein and the treatment of jews under him.
Grammar checker is not that important. It's just an item on the checklist for people to bitch about when they compare open source word processors.
This has become routine now. Remember how people were critizing mozilla because it didn't have the exact same keyboard shortcuts as IE? Same thing. Instead if doing an honest study they just bitch and moan that it's not exactly the same.
"You don't necessarily need to emulate all of Word's features and quirks to get those users, but they're probably going to want to be able to use their old documents"
It seems to me if you were to actually mimic the word feature list you would also have to mimic the UI so that they won't need to get retrained. If you do that however you run the real risk of being sued either for trademark or patent infringement.
As for the opening up the files. OO does a pretty good job. Too bad MS doesn't use an open format and until they do everybody else will have to just bend over and take it.
Mmmm. You really believe that? You really think anybody believes that some story written two thousand years ago is actually historically true?
The conflict started soon after the treaty of versailles was signed giving the land that formally belonged to the ottoman empire to the british. That was around 1920. It does not really go back further then that.
Ah now I get it. I guess that makes it OK to keep 3 million people as domesticated animals. Since they don't have a nationality it's perfectly OK to institute apartheid, round them up in reservations and drop bombs on them once in a while.
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That's only because Saddam had a bigger army and a better established secret service.
We are not there yet but we are well on our way.
Oh I suppose those 500 pound bombs were delivering cinnamon buns then huh? And those mass graves? do they contain barbie dolls?
Listen I am sorry that the reality of the situation is so harsh and not to your liking but you can't deny that american soldiers have killed tens of thousands of innocent civillians. Why? To put down some insurgency in fallujiah or najaf. What the fuck kind of reason is that? Why is that your job?
Are you seriously claiming the US military never kills civillians?
Oh and keep thinking that you are "protecting people's freedom" I am sure it helps you sleep better. Too bad the only people who deserve freedom also happen to have something you want. The people in Sudan, Liberia, china, north korea, palestine, chechnia etc can continue to starve, be massacred, subjugated and die off in disgusting numbers because you can't be bothered to lift a finger to help them. It's much more important to deliver najaf back to alawi, we just can't let some cleric control a city damnit. Those people deserve to be ruled by somebody we handpicked not some damned cleric!.
You are wrong. What you have here is very simple.
A nation which calls itself a democracy has chosen to put 3.5 million people into apartheid. Like any other people who have their freedom taken away the palestenians are fighting back any way they can including blowing themselves up. I understand that feeling because if my country was being occupied I would do everything in my power to kick them out too. If you read history we had similar events in our history too. You might remember guerilla types of tactics the Americans took against the British. You might remember phrases like "give me liberty or give me death" and "don't tread on me".
Since you feel that jews can do no wrong you refuse to accept this very simple political reality and blame it all on religious hatred even though the jews the and muslims lived together for thousands of years in peace. Jew and Muslims historically have seen themselves as being allies because neither one believes in the divinity of christ and both of them acknowledge various parts of the old testament.
"No, the UN did because Europe didn't want to deal with the Millions of Jews from the internment/death camps."
Yea right. The palestenians should ask the UN to free them. LOL. Who builds settlements the UN or the israelis? Who runs the checkpoints the UN or the israelis?
"No they don't. Now you're getting emotional with your blather. Why do you hate Jews?"
Any settler can walk up to any palestenian, pull out a gun and shoot them dead without any punishment.
"The Muslims forced this on themselves. "
Ah yes let's blame the victims. I am sure you had nothing to with it.
'Them being terrorists? Yes. Them just being dead civilians, then no."
I was just counting the civillians. Israel kills them by the thousands every year. Of course it wounds and leaves homeless tens of thousands more.
Sorry the facts are so harsh.
"I suspect that your hypothetical 3D blood-spatter system(TM) would be all the more effective in giving the more hawkish among the population pause to consider exactly what it means for both our troops and the "enemy" to declare war and go off to battle."
I very seriously doubt it. The hawkish are very easily lied to. Today for example I was flipping through the channels trying to avoid bush when I heard him say the phrase.
"the people of iraq are no longer afraid of being buried in a mass grave" or something to that effect. I guess he wasn't counting the mass graves outside of faluhja where two soccer fields were dug up to accomodate the people he killed. He also didn't see fit to mention the graveyards that are being up right now for the people he killed in najaf.
I honestly don't think it mattered to the dead or their relatives whether GW or Saddam did the killing. Do you?
More important question is.
Does he show the actual carnage or is it just "wowie just look at how our soldiers shoot the terrorists just like that video game".
I admit most americans would enjoy shootage of their soldiers destroying towns, buildings, and of course thousands of people but they don't seem to want to actually see the bown apart bodies or the mass graves that are dug afterwards.
"They (the fanatical Muslims) do hate the Jews on religious grounds."
No they don't. They hate jews because the jews built a nation where they were living. Because the jews treat them like cockroaches. Because the jews have set up a system of apartheid. Because the jews kill a couple of thousand of them every year.
As I said there are lot of reasons to hate israel. It has nothing to do with religion.
That you can't tell the difference between a corporation denouncing a movement and vice versa.
Have you ever read a statement from Ballmer that didn't contain at least one lie? The man is a pathalogical liar.
" There's no "balance" on Slashdot."
So? Did somebody hold a gun to your head and make you read it? If you want balance go to some boring stupid web site that's more to your liking.
Again, So?
If you don't like nobody is holding a gun to your head.
I'd reccomend you read actual history as opposed to mythology that's in the bible.
If you did that you may find out that when the christians were persecuting the jews in europe the muslims offered them shelter and protection.
Muslims don't hate israel because of what the bible says. There are lots of other reasons to hate israel.
Well my respect and love of radiohead just dropped a notch.
" It's SOP on /. to instantly hate anything that is 1) MS or MS related or 2) not open source. "
So? Arent there plenty of boards where people
1) Love MS or 2) Hate open source?
The internet is a big place. You could always hang out at gotdotnet or any of the thousands of MS sponsored blogs if you want to be filled with pro MS propaganda.
"We seem to be hard-wired with an innate desire to connect our consciousness with that of the Other"
If so then why haven't we learned the languages of dolphins and whales or even octupi? They are all intelligent creatures and they all communicate. If we can't communicate with a dolphin what makes anybody think we can communicate with an alien.
"With these patterns, we see that an intelligent alien would probably roughly resemble us"
How much do you look like an octopus or a mushroom? Not much huh? And you both evolved on the same planet.
What makes you think that something that evolved on a different planet, with a different sun, different gravity, different atmosphere would look like you?
I think it's a waste of time looking for signals. If they were sufficiently advanced and wanted to interact with us they would have. Of course some people claim that they are already here and are already interacting with us but that's another topic entirely.
Try these.
w w.hob.de/www_us/produkte/connect/jwt_intr o.htm
http://properjavardp.sourceforge.net/
http://w
Yes there is a terminal services client for linux. In fact there are a few of them. There are also some java based ones. If you are using a Mac MS makes one for the Mac.
Why not just a get a linux based PDA. You can most of that TODAY.
"Pocket outlook would be great for the exchange server my company uses"
Evolution
"Terminal Services would be great for administrating my company's exchange server"
Done.
"Pocket Internet explorer is great for those spur of the moment wikipedia lookups, not to mention slashdot and company."
Pocket mozilla good enough for you?
"Pocket Streets would be great if the device had GPS, and even better if I can plot a waypoint when GeoCaching"
I don't know about this one maybe somebody else can let us know.
"Windows Media player would be great for MP3s on the SD card, however I think there is a winamp port which would be even cooler but to save memory I'm sure WMP would work just fine."
Lots of options there.
"AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, etc..."
No brainer.
As a bonus you an also run openoffice.
" Funny, you don't appear to get pissed at the arabs who have done the same thing."
Really? Says who? I am against all apartheid. The topic of this duscussion just happens to be israel and I am ALSO against israels implementation of it.
BTW saying that other people do evil shit too is not an excuse to do evil shit. You have just compared the govt of israel and the treatment of palestenians under sharon to the govt of Saddam Hussein and the treatment of jews under him.
Congratulations!
Grammar checker is not that important. It's just an item on the checklist for people to bitch about when they compare open source word processors.
This has become routine now. Remember how people were critizing mozilla because it didn't have the exact same keyboard shortcuts as IE? Same thing. Instead if doing an honest study they just bitch and moan that it's not exactly the same.
"You don't necessarily need to emulate all of Word's features and quirks to get those users, but they're probably going to want to be able to use their old documents"
It seems to me if you were to actually mimic the word feature list you would also have to mimic the UI so that they won't need to get retrained. If you do that however you run the real risk of being sued either for trademark or patent infringement.
As for the opening up the files. OO does a pretty good job. Too bad MS doesn't use an open format and until they do everybody else will have to just bend over and take it.
Mmmm. You really believe that? You really think anybody believes that some story written two thousand years ago is actually historically true?
The conflict started soon after the treaty of versailles was signed giving the land that formally belonged to the ottoman empire to the british. That was around 1920. It does not really go back further then that.
" 'Palestinian' is not a nationality."
Ah now I get it. I guess that makes it OK to keep 3 million people as domesticated animals. Since they don't have a nationality it's perfectly OK to institute apartheid, round them up in reservations and drop bombs on them once in a while.