are you trying to be condescending, or does it just happen? You are talking to a 30 year old who has served in the army, kid.
Are you therefore desensitized to the murder of civilians? Please stop thinking about Israel's "strategy" when I am condemning the fact that civilians are being slaughtered. I don't care if it is in Israel's best interests to nuke the rest of the world - it does not justify it. Your view on human suffering IS childish, this is not "us vs them", this is "homo sapiens killing other homo sapiens" who are not terrorists and have committed no crime, but they are being slaughtered nonetheless. "Oh, but they live near where missiles were fired from." Well, say I live next door to someone who has committed a crime, should I be held responsible? Of course not. Random acts of violence do nothing to advance peace and justice.
Are you an American? I am Canadian and I have family in Israel. If you are an American don't forget this: the USA started a war in Iraq pretending that there was some imminent danger from Saddam when it was clearly not so. THERE IS imminent danger from Hizballah to Israel.
I am Canadian, how can you condemn the invasion of Iraq and support the invasion of Lebanon? They were both invasions of sovereign territories based on alleged crimes. We know the Iraq crimes were fabricated, what about the Lebanese? Were those soldiers really kidnapped in Israeli territory, or was it in Lebanon? The truth will come out some day, sooner of later.
my cousin is in the Israeli army, one thing is certain: Israelies are not aiming at innocent lebanese people. They are fighting active terrorist formations. Terrorists don't care if civilians around them die, in fact they welcome it, because it is such a great publicity stunt.
The killing of civilians for any reason is wrong. Get that through your head. I don't care if you kill them when they are held hostage as part of a terrorist plot, or if they were simply sleeping in a neighborhood where criminals were active. You are not allowed to kill them, and if you try and justify it you will incur the wrath of the world. Killing innocents in war is a war crime. End of story.
There will be no peaceful solution to this problem ever. The only solution to this problem is a controlled state of perpetual war. And strategically Israel must control it. When Iran builds nuclear reactors, Israel must destroy them every single time. Israel now must destroy Hizballah and not stop no matter what the world's opinion is, otherwise Israel is done.
If Israel wants to destroy the nuclear reactors, go ahead. I'd just watch out for the radiation that would be released, 'cause that's going to affect Israel along with every other state around there. They're not going to be happy. Listen kid, the world is not black and white, Israel does not have to kill or be killed. There can be peace, we just need to stop killing each other first. At the dawn of the 21st century, why are we still killing?
No, it's not called evolution, it's called technology. We, Homo Sapiens, evolved our brains 200,000 years ago, but didn't really start to use them until 50,000 years ago. Surely there is something more than biological since we're discussing this via a computer terminals connected to a worldwide network instead of banging rocks against treetrunks, especially if there was a 150,000 year gap in between where we did so, with the same biology. See this wikipedia article.
Televised debates really only occur for the presidency, not for senate seats and house seats.
You've never seen local televised debates? Wow, your democracy must really be in peril. They don't even bother to debate!
That's worse than just not inviting people from other political parties, citing that they're not popular enough, "which is an argument I fully reject as bullshit".
You are very confused about the Petrov incident. It was a computer glitch. If the worst - nuclear attack from the US - was assumed, there would have been a nuclear war. People should not be making policy decisions because of fear, but should rationally decide them. Just like you didn't shoot yourself when this timer went out.
I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to, but how about this very real incident where a computer glitch would have caused global nuclear war if it weren't for one man making a rational decision?
Really? What about the various tabloids which show girls in their bathing suits? Oh thats right, they're hypocrites. Does your definition make that link child pornography? That girl is 15, and they're drawing attention to her breasts in a sexual way... ironically printed right next to an article decrying a satire of the media's two-face sensationalism with the subject.
If that's how you describe child pornography, then you have a lot more things to ban besides a random imageboard.
There's 100 million people dead at communisms feet since Marx and Engels came to the scene a little over a century ago, and true believers like you can still be found.
Ad hominem. Nice, trying to pin all these statistics of death that you pulled out of your ass personally on a fellow slashdot poster. I myself am not a communist, but it is absurd to treat it like heretical doctrine and you're the Catholic Church. Like I iterated in my first post, that would be akin to ascribing a death toll for "democracy", an ideal does not kill people. People do, and corrupt governments are made of people.
The conversation isn't about capitilism
Of course it isn't, if it were you'd have a much harder time spelling the subject. How many "anti-communist Yay America!" karma trolls have you posted?
That being said, the leakers comprimise anti-terror operations for the reasons I've stated in this sub thread, and should be found out and shut down. Seeing who the reporters (who broke the story) talked to is a perfectly reasonable investigative method.
Combine that with this:
Don't give me crap about any party line or the brainwashing of Americans about communism. The mountains of corpses from every attempt at a communist society speaks volumes about communism, more than any jingonistic American textbook from the past 60 years possibly could
Your precious but unworkable ideals are not worth the lives of even one more person, nor even a papercut on him. The lives of the citizens of any nation are not your playthings for yet another murderous social expirement.
First of all, what? My playthings? Again, I am a person who posts on slashdot like you. I'm not some sort of murderous god that you need to worship! You better worship though, or you'll burn soon (ooh, am I a communist, a terrorist, or just another preacher?). Plus murderous as an adjective? That's like saying that "oh, my date wasn't so bad, he just walked kind of murderously", and I don't see how you end up with murderous as an adjective for a political theory.
Anyways, to your apparent True American Pride(TM): So who cares about civil rights, or about torturing human beings for abstract concepts, right? (Terrorism is a political tactic at most, anti-terror is just something to make the scared people follow you.) but decry the basic ideal of equality for all to be "murderous" is astounding. Double Plus un-good, has your country always been at war with terror? Its the new communism, after all. Oh, but I'm sure torture is less harmful to humans than a paper cut, those things hurt! Remember dear readers, do not believe "books" or "news", don't research for yourself. Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
Oh... brave new world! Brave brave new world that has such people in it! I believe they call them hypocrites.
So a terrible president got elected, does it therefore follow that democracy is a failure? how many people have died at the hands of "democratic governments" over the thousands of years since democracy became a popular choice? Is that really a fault of the ideal of "democracy"?
Or consider the Holocaust, wasn't Hitler both democratically elected to office (before using those powers to make himself a dictator), and a diligent anti-communist? How could one with such a good foundation end up with genocide?
Or the 21st Century Iraq War, I mean your country was founded on the CONSTITUTION, how many lives is that founding document considered responsible for now?
A lot of Americans are taught in school that Communism is somehow inherently evil (Reagan and his "evil empire", etc. It is happening with "terrorism" today, to keep the people in line, fighting shadows instead of holding their government accountable).
However, like everything, politics is not a black and white, left to right, ridged continuum. One can choose one direction for social issues and another for economic, and change based on the situation. Corruption and greed in government (or among the powerful in the market, if you are considering a purely capitalist system) - rather than lofty ideals, such as equality for mankind - cause hardship and suffering among the people under this system. Because Chinese government says they are communist means as much as the US President providing lip-service to the constitution. The NSA spying on you isn't the fault of the founding fathers, just like Stalin murdering his enemies isn't due to Communism.
Nevertheless, make sure you continue to squawk the party line (you are free to choose between these two identical but opposite ideals!), and also buy consumer goods! You guys should really change your national bird from the eagle to the Consumerist Parrot. Seems to sadly be where we are heading.
Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely - Lord Acton
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have you found any decent skins for Opera on OSX? The nicest one I've found has variable tab length, which is annoying. (for example, if you go to a page with a long title, it takes up most of your tab bar. see this example.)
Not a deal breaker for most people, but the lack of good skins is enough to keep me using Safari+Saft (it looks very nice with Unified Aqua applied). Anyone have any ideas?
Who knows? The copyright industry in Canada is said to contribute about 5% of the economy so its probably slightly more in the US, and with the US outsourcing much of its manufacturing to other countries, maybe copyright will be valuable enough to go to war over someday.
When we run out of oil, we'll probably squabble over other things. Drinking water, copyright, its all possible.
I mean, with the demise of Netscape we got much BETTER browsers, in the way of Mozilla and Firefox and Camino. An MPL'd spyware scanner for windows? I dont think it will have that wide of appeal though...
They could also use this to play Tennis! No wonder the Wii looks like an Apple product, it uses bluetooth to let you use your Macbook (Pro) as a paddle! Hooray!
uhh.. isn't the reason why we can use wifi in most countries because the 2.4Ghz is unregulated?
have you tried changing your wireless to a different channel? i find that helps, and is less of a hassle than being harassed by the FCC (or insert_local_regulatory_body from your country that does the same thing).
Actually, the first time you visit google.com with IE7, it suggests that you change the search box to google, it even serves you up a.exe file which makes the change. That way people who USE google will go there, but IE users who dont know google (yes they exist) will probably just use MSN Search. The only downfall is the fact that it encourages people to download.exe files that will alter their browser.:\
This isn't really much different than IE6, they just didn't show you the search bar. The address bar search went to MSN, or if you misstyped a URL.
that doesn't explain it, that doesn't even make any sense.
What are you quoting? how is that going to help with spam? "WE HAVE A SECRET LIST THAT YOU CANT SEE AND CANT SPAM THE PEOPLE ON THIS LIST". How does that prevent spam coming to you?
ohhhh yeah that doesn't make sense at all. what do they do besides get you to install software on your computer to "link up" with the bluesecurity antispam solution? ????
There is no supersubmitter account, this article by WSJ probably took like 200 attempts to get accepted. He submitted this well crafted article bit by bit -- not in one flawless, improbable take.
so what you're saying is we'll be seeing this again in a few days when the other takes get approved as dupes?:)
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Are you therefore desensitized to the murder of civilians? Please stop thinking about Israel's "strategy" when I am condemning the fact that civilians are being slaughtered. I don't care if it is in Israel's best interests to nuke the rest of the world - it does not justify it. Your view on human suffering IS childish, this is not "us vs them", this is "homo sapiens killing other homo sapiens" who are not terrorists and have committed no crime, but they are being slaughtered nonetheless. "Oh, but they live near where missiles were fired from." Well, say I live next door to someone who has committed a crime, should I be held responsible? Of course not. Random acts of violence do nothing to advance peace and justice.
Are you an American? I am Canadian and I have family in Israel. If you are an American don't forget this: the USA started a war in Iraq pretending that there was some imminent danger from Saddam when it was clearly not so. THERE IS imminent danger from Hizballah to Israel.
I am Canadian, how can you condemn the invasion of Iraq and support the invasion of Lebanon? They were both invasions of sovereign territories based on alleged crimes. We know the Iraq crimes were fabricated, what about the Lebanese? Were those soldiers really kidnapped in Israeli territory, or was it in Lebanon? The truth will come out some day, sooner of later.
my cousin is in the Israeli army, one thing is certain: Israelies are not aiming at innocent lebanese people. They are fighting active terrorist formations. Terrorists don't care if civilians around them die, in fact they welcome it, because it is such a great publicity stunt.
The killing of civilians for any reason is wrong. Get that through your head. I don't care if you kill them when they are held hostage as part of a terrorist plot, or if they were simply sleeping in a neighborhood where criminals were active. You are not allowed to kill them, and if you try and justify it you will incur the wrath of the world. Killing innocents in war is a war crime. End of story.
There will be no peaceful solution to this problem ever. The only solution to this problem is a controlled state of perpetual war. And strategically Israel must control it. When Iran builds nuclear reactors, Israel must destroy them every single time. Israel now must destroy Hizballah and not stop no matter what the world's opinion is, otherwise Israel is done.
If Israel wants to destroy the nuclear reactors, go ahead. I'd just watch out for the radiation that would be released, 'cause that's going to affect Israel along with every other state around there. They're not going to be happy. Listen kid, the world is not black and white, Israel does not have to kill or be killed. There can be peace, we just need to stop killing each other first. At the dawn of the 21st century, why are we still killing?
It's called evolution. get used to it.
No, it's not called evolution, it's called technology. We, Homo Sapiens, evolved our brains 200,000 years ago, but didn't really start to use them until 50,000 years ago. Surely there is something more than biological since we're discussing this via a computer terminals connected to a worldwide network instead of banging rocks against treetrunks, especially if there was a 150,000 year gap in between where we did so, with the same biology. See this wikipedia article.
Televised debates really only occur for the presidency, not for senate seats and house seats.
You've never seen local televised debates? Wow, your democracy must really be in peril. They don't even bother to debate!
That's worse than just not inviting people from other political parties, citing that they're not popular enough, "which is an argument I fully reject as bullshit".
You are very confused about the Petrov incident. It was a computer glitch. If the worst - nuclear attack from the US - was assumed, there would have been a nuclear war. People should not be making policy decisions because of fear, but should rationally decide them. Just like you didn't shoot yourself when this timer went out.
Hint: thats not a standard way to show dates. Try 1983-09-26 next time. That way people will know what you're talking about.
I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to, but how about this very real incident where a computer glitch would have caused global nuclear war if it weren't for one man making a rational decision?
Really? What about the various tabloids which show girls in their bathing suits? Oh thats right, they're hypocrites. Does your definition make that link child pornography? That girl is 15, and they're drawing attention to her breasts in a sexual way... ironically printed right next to an article decrying a satire of the media's two-face sensationalism with the subject.
If that's how you describe child pornography, then you have a lot more things to ban besides a random imageboard.
There's 100 million people dead at communisms feet since Marx and Engels came to the scene a little over a century ago, and true believers like you can still be found.
Ad hominem. Nice, trying to pin all these statistics of death that you pulled out of your ass personally on a fellow slashdot poster. I myself am not a communist, but it is absurd to treat it like heretical doctrine and you're the Catholic Church. Like I iterated in my first post, that would be akin to ascribing a death toll for "democracy", an ideal does not kill people. People do, and corrupt governments are made of people.
The conversation isn't about capitilism
Of course it isn't, if it were you'd have a much harder time spelling the subject. How many "anti-communist Yay America!" karma trolls have you posted?
Heres one from another thread, this time civil rights:
That being said, the leakers comprimise anti-terror operations for the reasons I've stated in this sub thread, and should be found out and shut down. Seeing who the reporters (who broke the story) talked to is a perfectly reasonable investigative method.
Combine that with this:
Don't give me crap about any party line or the brainwashing of Americans about communism. The mountains of corpses from every attempt at a communist society speaks volumes about communism, more than any jingonistic American textbook from the past 60 years possibly could
Your precious but unworkable ideals are not worth the lives of even one more person, nor even a papercut on him. The lives of the citizens of any nation are not your playthings for yet another murderous social expirement.
First of all, what? My playthings? Again, I am a person who posts on slashdot like you. I'm not some sort of murderous god that you need to worship! You better worship though, or you'll burn soon (ooh, am I a communist, a terrorist, or just another preacher?). Plus murderous as an adjective? That's like saying that "oh, my date wasn't so bad, he just walked kind of murderously", and I don't see how you end up with murderous as an adjective for a political theory.
Anyways, to your apparent True American Pride(TM): So who cares about civil rights, or about torturing human beings for abstract concepts, right? (Terrorism is a political tactic at most, anti-terror is just something to make the scared people follow you.) but decry the basic ideal of equality for all to be "murderous" is astounding. Double Plus un-good, has your country always been at war with terror? Its the new communism, after all. Oh, but I'm sure torture is less harmful to humans than a paper cut, those things hurt! Remember dear readers, do not believe "books" or "news", don't research for yourself. Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
Oh... brave new world! Brave brave new world that has such people in it! I believe they call them hypocrites.
So a terrible president got elected, does it therefore follow that democracy is a failure? how many people have died at the hands of "democratic governments" over the thousands of years since democracy became a popular choice? Is that really a fault of the ideal of "democracy"?
Or consider the Holocaust, wasn't Hitler both democratically elected to office (before using those powers to make himself a dictator), and a diligent anti-communist? How could one with such a good foundation end up with genocide?
Or the 21st Century Iraq War, I mean your country was founded on the CONSTITUTION, how many lives is that founding document considered responsible for now?
A lot of Americans are taught in school that Communism is somehow inherently evil (Reagan and his "evil empire", etc. It is happening with "terrorism" today, to keep the people in line, fighting shadows instead of holding their government accountable).
However, like everything, politics is not a black and white, left to right, ridged continuum. One can choose one direction for social issues and another for economic, and change based on the situation. Corruption and greed in government (or among the powerful in the market, if you are considering a purely capitalist system) - rather than lofty ideals, such as equality for mankind - cause hardship and suffering among the people under this system. Because Chinese government says they are communist means as much as the US President providing lip-service to the constitution. The NSA spying on you isn't the fault of the founding fathers, just like Stalin murdering his enemies isn't due to Communism.
Nevertheless, make sure you continue to squawk the party line (you are free to choose between these two identical but opposite ideals!), and also buy consumer goods! You guys should really change your national bird from the eagle to the Consumerist Parrot. Seems to sadly be where we are heading.
Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely - Lord Acton
have you found any decent skins for Opera on OSX? The nicest one I've found has variable tab length, which is annoying. (for example, if you go to a page with a long title, it takes up most of your tab bar. see this example.)
Not a deal breaker for most people, but the lack of good skins is enough to keep me using Safari+Saft (it looks very nice with Unified Aqua applied). Anyone have any ideas?
The platypus doesn't really prove the existance of god - or the humour of such an entity, you're just anthropomorphising natural selection.
Interestingly enough, "Supply and Command..." is one of the malapropisms used by Ricky from Trailer Park Boys
Who knows? The copyright industry in Canada is said to contribute about 5% of the economy so its probably slightly more in the US, and with the US outsourcing much of its manufacturing to other countries, maybe copyright will be valuable enough to go to war over someday.
When we run out of oil, we'll probably squabble over other things. Drinking water, copyright, its all possible.
I mean, with the demise of Netscape we got much BETTER browsers, in the way of Mozilla and Firefox and Camino. An MPL'd spyware scanner for windows? I dont think it will have that wide of appeal though...
They could also use this to play Tennis! No wonder the Wii looks like an Apple product, it uses bluetooth to let you use your Macbook (Pro) as a paddle! Hooray!
Perfect opportunity for 3rd party controller designers. PS2 has some innovative add-ons like the Eye-toy and the Guitar Hero controller.
which will never get used except the games that force you to buy their extra peripherals
and every other game will use the same exact controller as the PS2.
hope you like sequels!
if anything, Sony and Nintendo both ripped off of a 20 year old Atari controller...
egads! but who had the time machine - Sony, Nintendo, or ATARI?
(Whats next, Sony starting a centralized online playstation network, but they are not taking ideas from Xbox Live, they're ripping off SegaNet.)
uhh.. isn't the reason why we can use wifi in most countries because the 2.4Ghz is unregulated?
have you tried changing your wireless to a different channel? i find that helps, and is less of a hassle than being harassed by the FCC (or insert_local_regulatory_body from your country that does the same thing).
putting the cart (the product, in this case the routers) before the horse (standards).
nothing could possibly go wrong!
Actually, the first time you visit google.com with IE7, it suggests that you change the search box to google, it even serves you up a .exe file which makes the change. That way people who USE google will go there, but IE users who dont know google (yes they exist) will probably just use MSN Search. The only downfall is the fact that it encourages people to download .exe files that will alter their browser. :\
This isn't really much different than IE6, they just didn't show you the search bar. The address bar search went to MSN, or if you misstyped a URL.
that doesn't explain it, that doesn't even make any sense.
What are you quoting? how is that going to help with spam? "WE HAVE A SECRET LIST THAT YOU CANT SEE AND CANT SPAM THE PEOPLE ON THIS LIST". How does that prevent spam coming to you?
ohhhh yeah that doesn't make sense at all. what do they do besides get you to install software on your computer to "link up" with the bluesecurity antispam solution? ????
There is no supersubmitter account, this article by WSJ probably took like 200 attempts to get accepted. He submitted this well crafted article bit by bit -- not in one flawless, improbable take.
:)
so what you're saying is we'll be seeing this again in a few days when the other takes get approved as dupes?
playing guitar is equivalent to hurting people?
playing guitar will put you in jail?
I guess I didn't get it.
Cristopher Columbus broke asked a question "How do you make an egg stand on its end?"
Listen, I'm pretty sure the video tape recorder was not invented by someone posting drunk on slashdot.