" So what? The question is wether or not Iraq has them and the answer is yes, it doesn't matter how old they are"
Well that certainly establishes how gullable you are.
First of all nobody went to war about weapons that are decades old. Secondly this is likely a some stolen or misplaced missile, if there was a stockpile or manufacturing facilites either the UN or the US inspectors would have found them. Thirdly chemical weapons degrade over time becoming ineffectual (this one seemed to make some people sick but didn't kill anybody).
You want to believe that a stray warhead from a decade old bomb is equavalent to the nightmare scenario George Bush presented to the American be my guest. You want to pretend that this singular warhead justifies the deaths of 10+ thousand iraqi civillian deaths, 800+ dead US soldiers, 26+ thousand wounded soldiers, over $100 billion dollars and lasting shame on the US govt go ahead an do so.
Why not damage to his reputation. Maybe it's not so tangible but other people has sued over it and won. SCO is suing Novell for slander of their product aren't they?
I hope Linus sues. I hope he sues everybody who lies about him in order to defame him. It's the only way to stop this shit. Imagine if Ken Brown had to pay a million dollars out of his own pocket, you can bet your ass he'd be more cautious about muckraking the next time.
Of course people will probably post his name, address and phone number here soon after the book is published so other types of punishment will be visited on him but that's not good news. People will seek vigilante justice and that will make everybody look bad. Better to sue I say.
In the war of good and evil, evil will usually triumph. Why? Because evil knows no bounds and has no limits.
Microsoft (through it's servants/minions like ADTI and SCO) will attack linus, RMS, etc because they know full well these people are too good natured to sue them back.
If LInus does sue though I would be the first to contribute to his legal fund.
Mozilla is faster, faster loading and faster rendering. It has tons more features. HOnestly I don't know how people live without search as you type and tabbed browsing. It also has cool plug ins like click to play flash. Combine that with "block images from this server" and you have hassle free browsing. Oh also it does not visit the MSN site every time I mistype a URL either.
IE is for people who like to see advertisements. That's not me.
It's called dumping. It's technically illegal but MS knows by now they are above the law. They'll dump, drag the trial for a few years and then settle for pennies on the dollar.
Imagine that. A company that has made a business model out of being sleazy and breaking the law.
You are way too optimistic. Maybe we can adapt or move around but the forests won't. If some sort of a global warming occurs and the forests die we won't be able to simply replant the forests somewhere else and have instant trees or habitat for animals. What will the effects of massive forest die off be? I don't know but I bet it won't be so good.
Is there a file which knows the URLs to fetch the packages from? One of the things I like about apt is that it knows which versions you have installed and which versions exist "out there" and allows you to update your packages. I hear netbsd pkgsrc has the same thing.
It seems to me that the game is a little tilted in favor of competent new players. Once you have become a "regular" in the tournament the other players learn to read you and don't fall for your bluffs as much. A brand new players is much harder to read.
"aybe the history lesson from ww1 was why we wanted an unnconditional surender."
Again that may be considered a somewhat valid reason to drop the first bomb.
"maybe it was more of a payback or punishment for all the american lives lost"
This sounds more like the real reason why.
"This they were ready to surender is like saying i was getting ready to turn the wsdteering wheel in the car but it all the sudden fell of the cliff."
We should have asked them to surrender after the first bomb was dropped. We never did that. We never really even gave them a chance to surrender. I think we did it just to kill lots of them. I don't think anybody in America cared about killing civillians at that point. To us they were barely humans.
They never asked japan to surrender after the first one. Actually japan was ready to surrender before they evern dropped the first bomb. The japanese were using the russians as go betweens to arrange the terms for a conditional surrender. We dropped the bomb because we wanted them to surrender unconditionally.
Once you have invaded a country and occupied it you really have no moral high ground to speak from. Sure the people resisting your rule may resort to questionable methods but they are simply defending their homeland against invaders the best way they can.
Surely their army is big enough to occupy another oil rich country. They could take over iran or kuwait very easily. We got to iraq but there are lots of oil rich countries still around.
Just how successful did you or your sister become. Do you have your own jet? Can you afford to vacation on a private island for a week?
It seems like you escaped poverty to join the middle class and you and your parents deserve credit for that but we are not talking about the middle class here. You are probably not in the top 5% who own 95% of the wealth.
Anecdotally linux has better hardware support then windows. Windows seems to crash on off the shelf dells and compaqs (two of the largest brands) while linux works great with them.
One wonders if their increasing shrill and irrational pronouncements will backfire on them. They keep doing more and more desparate things and it's starting to make them look really bad. Once you get the stink of a desparate loser on yourself it's just about impossible to get it off.
Not at all. I am fully aware at how skilfully the media is played by this administration. Of course the administration sought to cover it's ass by using weasel words whenever possible. Of course the president's speech writers suggested and implied that osama and saddam were bosom buddies without actually saying so. This is how politicians make their living.
When bush repeatedly mentions 9/11 and iraq in the same sentence he is making a connection between the two even though no connection exists. He did it again tonight!. When he says "we don't want to wake up one day to find a mushroom cloud on our soil" during a speech about iraq he is implying that iraq has nuclear weapons without actually saying so.
The president was so successful with his lying techniques that at one time 69% of americans believed that saddam hussein was behind 9/11.
This man (or his handlers) is professional and skilled liar and media manipulator. Wink-wink nude-nudge, smear, inuendo, weasel words.
So don't go on pretending that because in 1% of his sentences he paid lip service the the suffering of iraqis the other 99% of his sentences don't count. If he really cared about the iraqis he would have lifted the sanctions as soon as he got into office. Hell he would have declared war as soon as he got into office.
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" So what? The question is wether or not Iraq has them and the answer is yes, it doesn't matter how old they are"
Well that certainly establishes how gullable you are.
First of all nobody went to war about weapons that are decades old. Secondly this is likely a some stolen or misplaced missile, if there was a stockpile or manufacturing facilites either the UN or the US inspectors would have found them. Thirdly chemical weapons degrade over time becoming ineffectual (this one seemed to make some people sick but didn't kill anybody).
You want to believe that a stray warhead from a decade old bomb is equavalent to the nightmare scenario George Bush presented to the American be my guest. You want to pretend that this singular warhead justifies the deaths of 10+ thousand iraqi civillian deaths, 800+ dead US soldiers, 26+ thousand wounded soldiers, over $100 billion dollars and lasting shame on the US govt go ahead an do so.
Damages?
Why not damage to his reputation. Maybe it's not so tangible but other people has sued over it and won. SCO is suing Novell for slander of their product aren't they?
I hope Linus sues. I hope he sues everybody who lies about him in order to defame him. It's the only way to stop this shit. Imagine if Ken Brown had to pay a million dollars out of his own pocket, you can bet your ass he'd be more cautious about muckraking the next time.
Of course people will probably post his name, address and phone number here soon after the book is published so other types of punishment will be visited on him but that's not good news. People will seek vigilante justice and that will make everybody look bad. Better to sue I say.
Typical republican. Only hears the news that supports his viewpoint and ignores all news that contradicts his ideology.
Pentagon has admitted that those shells are pre-1991.
In the war of good and evil, evil will usually triumph. Why? Because evil knows no bounds and has no limits.
Microsoft (through it's servants/minions like ADTI and SCO) will attack linus, RMS, etc because they know full well these people are too good natured to sue them back.
If LInus does sue though I would be the first to contribute to his legal fund.
Except that they have never indicated they would so such a thing.
WOW. According to this linux has 1% of the desktop market!. That's pretty significant. This is the same as windows 95. Mac has 4% and NT has 3%.
Thanks for the link. I will keep an eye out for this. It will be fun to keep watching that linux number go up.
Mozilla is faster, faster loading and faster rendering. It has tons more features. HOnestly I don't know how people live without search as you type and tabbed browsing. It also has cool plug ins like click to play flash. Combine that with "block images from this server" and you have hassle free browsing. Oh also it does not visit the MSN site every time I mistype a URL either.
IE is for people who like to see advertisements. That's not me.
Well when the hell is AOL going to switch to Mozilla? They fucking bought netscape for gods sake.
Mozilla is better then IE and more programable then IE. AOL could design their whole UI in mozilla if they wanted to.
Who is we kimo sabe?
It's called dumping. It's technically illegal but MS knows by now they are above the law. They'll dump, drag the trial for a few years and then settle for pennies on the dollar.
Imagine that. A company that has made a business model out of being sleazy and breaking the law.
You are way too optimistic. Maybe we can adapt or move around but the forests won't. If some sort of a global warming occurs and the forests die we won't be able to simply replant the forests somewhere else and have instant trees or habitat for animals. What will the effects of massive forest die off be? I don't know but I bet it won't be so good.
Is there a file which knows the URLs to fetch the packages from? One of the things I like about apt is that it knows which versions you have installed and which versions exist "out there" and allows you to update your packages. I hear netbsd pkgsrc has the same thing.
It seems to me that the game is a little tilted in favor of competent new players. Once you have become a "regular" in the tournament the other players learn to read you and don't fall for your bluffs as much. A brand new players is much harder to read.
I don't usually say things like this but it's starting to look like the citizens of this country will soon have to take the law into their own hands.
There may be no legal way to combat this outrageous expansion of federal powers and unprecedented corporate welfare.
"aybe the history lesson from ww1 was why we wanted an unnconditional surender."
Again that may be considered a somewhat valid reason to drop the first bomb.
"maybe it was more of a payback or punishment for all the american lives lost"
This sounds more like the real reason why.
"This they were ready to surender is like saying i was getting ready to turn the wsdteering wheel in the car but it all the sudden fell of the cliff."
We should have asked them to surrender after the first bomb was dropped. We never did that. We never really even gave them a chance to surrender. I think we did it just to kill lots of them. I don't think anybody in America cared about killing civillians at that point. To us they were barely humans.
They never asked japan to surrender after the first one. Actually japan was ready to surrender before they evern dropped the first bomb. The japanese were using the russians as go betweens to arrange the terms for a conditional surrender. We dropped the bomb because we wanted them to surrender unconditionally.
There was no reason to drop the second bomb.
They knew what kind of carnage it caused after the first one. Why did they drop the second one?
There is no moral or logical reason to drop the second bomb.
Osama Bin Laden had nothing to do with iraq. Saddam was not involved in 9/11.
I do agree with you however that this is the new crusades. We'll see how this one turns out.
Once you have invaded a country and occupied it you really have no moral high ground to speak from. Sure the people resisting your rule may resort to questionable methods but they are simply defending their homeland against invaders the best way they can.
Surely their army is big enough to occupy another oil rich country. They could take over iran or kuwait very easily. We got to iraq but there are lots of oil rich countries still around.
Just how successful did you or your sister become. Do you have your own jet? Can you afford to vacation on a private island for a week?
It seems like you escaped poverty to join the middle class and you and your parents deserve credit for that but we are not talking about the middle class here. You are probably not in the top 5% who own 95% of the wealth.
Anecdotally linux has better hardware support then windows. Windows seems to crash on off the shelf dells and compaqs (two of the largest brands) while linux works great with them.
One wonders if their increasing shrill and irrational pronouncements will backfire on them. They keep doing more and more desparate things and it's starting to make them look really bad. Once you get the stink of a desparate loser on yourself it's just about impossible to get it off.
Not at all. I am fully aware at how skilfully the media is played by this administration. Of course the administration sought to cover it's ass by using weasel words whenever possible. Of course the president's speech writers suggested and implied that osama and saddam were bosom buddies without actually saying so. This is how politicians make their living.
When bush repeatedly mentions 9/11 and iraq in the same sentence he is making a connection between the two even though no connection exists. He did it again tonight!. When he says "we don't want to wake up one day to find a mushroom cloud on our soil" during a speech about iraq he is implying that iraq has nuclear weapons without actually saying so.
The president was so successful with his lying techniques that at one time 69% of americans believed that saddam hussein was behind 9/11.
This man (or his handlers) is professional and skilled liar and media manipulator. Wink-wink nude-nudge, smear, inuendo, weasel words.
So don't go on pretending that because in 1% of his sentences he paid lip service the the suffering of iraqis the other 99% of his sentences don't count. If he really cared about the iraqis he would have lifted the sanctions as soon as he got into office. Hell he would have declared war as soon as he got into office.
How awsome is that. I wish I had enough money to be a thorn in Bill Gates side.