Appearantly, the abilities to monitor all communications, break into any residence, and to steal any property have not been sufficient to bring those attackers to justice. (1) No one is trying to monitor all communications, even if it were possible. (2) It was the last administration that justified breaking into residences. I didn't hear you complaining. (3) No one is stealing properties except for the criminals. (4) Evidently something is working because we have not had another attack since 9-11. Be glad, because you thing terrorists are harrassed now, wait 'til another plane is hijacked!
Perhaps we should just round up everyone who has had contact with that strain, send them off to secret prisons, and torture them until somebody talks. I know I'd feel safer. You mean putting panties on their head? Why is it that I see so many "torture" pictures out of Abu Graib (sp?), but I have to search long and hard to find pictures of people getting flogged before having their tongues and/or hands cut off at the same prison before we took over. How come you were not complaining about it then? How come no one mentions the secret prisons in Syria, Iran or China? Why is GWB the "world's biggest terrorist", but no one seems to mind the mass graves filled with women and children?
Oh, and your "Freedom Collar" would sell better if it played MP3's.
I find it funny that a guy calling the US hypocritical for not protecting civil liberties also has a Zappa quote as his SIG wondering why we don't have more manifestos.
Dude! Don't you know that sort of opinion will get you modded down!??! Look at my Karma. You see, people here believe in free speech, provided that you agree with their views. "NO ONE CAN CITE ONE EXAMPLE OF ANYONE BEING INJURED UNJUSTLY BY THE PATRIOT ACT?" gets you "flame bait". "Bush is the world's largest terrorist" gets you "insightful". That's the way things work here at SlashDot.
Back on topic: My brother's brother-in-law works for the FBI. He told me that the FBI knew something was about to happen before 9-11-01, but they were not able to do anything about it. Even now, if the Prez listens to phone conversations between a suspected terrorist here and a known terrorist over seas people start screaming for impeachment. Can you imagine how limited the FBI was before 9-11? Even today, you can't deport illegal aliens without someone screaming "RACISM!" Even today, the FBI can not enter a mosque to conduct survelence. What would have happened if federal agents stormed Mohamed Atta's apartment on 9-10 and arrested him? What if the FBI had looked at the books he had checked out from the library or checked his bank records for that $100,000 check he deposited? These limitations are what the Patriot Act is intended to overcome.
The problem is that some people are so worried about protecting civil liberties, they forget about the most important, basic liberty of all, "Life". (Then Liberty... Then the Pursuit of Happiness)
The argument "Senator X voted to open this country to terrorists!" would move to "Senator X voted to protect his constituent's rights!" That's all fine and good until some sort of attack happens. Then it would be "We could have stopped it, but Senator X voted against the measures we needed to prevent this sort of thing." Then it's all over but the 10,000 years of fall out.
No one gets credit for "protecting civil liberties" (especially the liberties of people who have attended terrorist training camps), but the blame will readily flow in the event of a disaster.
I agree that spam is a HUGE problem at AOL and elsewhere. My favorite aunt is on AOL and I deplore the thought of all the "Chicks-that-take-it-up-the-butt" spam that she and her children receive daily. Because I do not expect my aunt and her kids to know how to set up spam filters, and AOL is sold as being easy to use, it is AOL's responsibility to block all that crap. However, making me pay to send her pictures of my kids is unacceptable. AOL charges it's clients enough already, they don't need to be charging me too. Otherwise, I'll be sending an invite for my aunt to join G-mail!
Two possible solutions: 1) When a single IP is trying to force through 10,000 emails, it's probably spam, block it and all future emails from that IP. If it is legit spam like a newsletter, it can be placed on the "excused" list. While I know these IP's change constantly, the block list will become huge, and legit traffic will be blocked. However, spammers will not bother trying to get the block lifted.
2) Only allow email from sources approved by the user. Earthlink has this approach under it's spam blocking features and it works pretty well. Earthlink sends a daily report of all the emails that it blocks. I can look at the return address and know if it's spam or not. I check a box that allows the non spam to get through and adds those users to my allowed list. The rest is reported as spam and deleted. I use this and no longer receive spam in my inbox, even though at least 10 a day are sent to my address.
I don't really understand your post, especially your second and third paragraph. What exactly do you mean by:
They are all mysteriously extinct, for all species, everywhere on the plantet, leaving no fossil records of any kind.
What I mean is that there are no two distinct species living on earth right now that are next to eachother on the evolutionary ladder, nor do their fossils exist. According to evolution, man (and other primates) evolved from some ancient primate that no longer exists. Along the way, there were several non-human species that make up the branch between "Grandpa-Primate" to human. I mean, we did not evolve directly from this ancient primate directly into people, there were steps along the way. This is true for all animals. My question is, where did all these "mid-level" species go? Why did they all disappear? Where is all the fossil records for the chain species that must have existed from the between the "ancient primate" and now (missing links)? All missing links, which must have existed between each species and the each species that preceded it along the evolutionary ladder, have become extinct, taking all records of their existence with them. The only fossils we have are "off-shoots" of the evolutionary tree that leads to where we are now. For example, we are not decendents of neandrethals, but closely related. Neandrethals are an offshoot of the evolutionary branch that leads to man. What creature are both we and the neandrethals decended from? Why did it go extinct all over the world? Where are the rest of the fossils from all those creatures that make up that branch?
In other words, not only is there no missing link between humans and our ancestors, but there is no missing links for any animals, past or present. You find me one species and it's direct ancestor and maybe I'll change my mind.
No missing links? Well there are missing links but if you assert there are no missing links, then you should be able to find millions of examples "one species and it's direct ancestor".
Evolution asserts there there have to be missing links that connect one species to the next. Otherwise, species such as man, would just "spring up", as if designed, stangly enough, that is exaclty what the fossil records show. If evolution were true, we'd see fossils of some "near-human" that existed a few million years before man showed up and it should start dwindiling after man showed up. No such creature exists. Man just kinda showed up. What creature did man evolve from? What creature was the next step up on the evolutionary ladder, where are its fossils and why did it become extinct? Evoluation states that one species mutates from another and gains favorable traits. Why does the parent always become extinct and why can no one find what was the "parent" of humans, dogs, cats or whatever? This is true for all animals. A man, a dog and a cat have a common ancestor, what was it? Where are its fossils? Where is the common ancestor of a gazelle and a white-tail deer? And again, why did all these ancestors go extinct all over the world?
The way I understand evolution is that it is driven by mutation. For example, giraffes had short necks. Every now and then, a long necked giraffe was born, but couldn't graze that well on grass and was generally unsuccessful, until there was suddenly no more grass anywhere the giraffes lived (like all of Africa) and those with long necks that were able to eat leaves thrived(because trees were mysteriously not affected by whatever killed all the grass), and the short-necked giraffes died off.
While this story seems plausible, in order for Darwin to be correct, every species would have to come into existence because of some catastrophe that causes it's non-mutated parents to die off. I say this because no one can show me two distinct species (short and long necked giraffes) where one had evolved from the other... Nowhere on earth. Humans, chimps and baboons both evolved from some great-grandparent species, but none of these are around... and none of the species that existed between us and them exist either. They are all mysteriously extinct, for all species, everywhere on the plantet, leaving no fossil records of any kind.
In other words, not only is there no missing link between humans and our ancestors, but there is no missing links for any animals, past or present. You find me one species and it's direct ancestor and maybe I'll change my mind. But the way it stands right now, I've seen about as much evidence for evolution as have for some sort of ID.
I'm sure glad we live in country that is fiscally responsible. We've got our debt down to nine trillion, so it really was time to start a few wars and spend half a trillion dollars a year on our military. Who needs an education or the stabilization of developing countries through economic development when we can have maglev engines and VTOL projects that literally waste billions of dollars?
President's Day really got me thinking of how lucky I am to live in America. I mean, only communists forcibly take money away from their citizens in order to increase their own power, domestically and abroad. And, if we lived in a communist country, just doing something like reading a book or saying we should overthrow the government would warrant an interview from the police! They can even spy on their own citizens in secret! And, in communist countries, they can throw you in jail for no reason, and you don't get a lawyer or anything! Lincoln would be so, so proud.
You are free to move, ya know. Cuba is just a short swim away. Why people continue to live under totalitarian regimes when no one is keeping them here is beyond me.
BTW, did you notice that there was not a single weapon mentioned in the article? The entire of the article spoke of how to silence subs and save lives. If what you were saying is true, we'd be researching how to gas Iran and the DNC.
the US has never gone that far when another country was threatened by a major power.
I'm sure there are a lot of Germans in Berlin who would whole-heartedly disagree with you. Does the term Berlin Airlift mean anything to you. Google it.
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I think part of the problem is small, cheap, single use Windows servers. If a company needs to add a new service to their existing list of IT services, rather than adding to the existing UNIX big-iron server that's 10 years old, they buy a cheap-ass Dell box with some sort of Windows preinstalled and add whatever service they need.
An example would be a small database used by sales or accounting. Another would be an internal web server that keeps the company home page. Maybe even a mail server for a small business or remote office. If an application that was maintained at the corporate office is not being handled locally at each remote office, a Windows based server for each location is going to be a cheaper, better fit. For these applications, it's easier to have some junior IT guy throw together an inexpensive Windows box than it would be to have the old, well paid UNIX guru to add the service to the aging mainframe.
First of all, America is not a Christian country. That sort of thing is banned by the Constitution. Mosques are protected here. As a matter of fact, more churches have been burned down in Alabama this week than Mosques have been in the entire US.
I also recognize that christianity is in the same boat. They are actually very similar religions. Bullshit!
Christianity teaches to turn the other cheek, not burn down an embassy. According to Islaam, it's OK to enslave those who are not Muslims (see http://www.dhimmitude.org/) I've seen pictures of the Virgin Mary made from Elephant dung, right here in America. How long do you think such a picture of Mohammed would last anywhere, especially in the Arab world? How long do you think the artist would live, or the museum director, or the mayor of that town? And yes, there have been a few murders committed by those who call themselves Christian, but those are prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and Christains agree with this prosecution. Besides, how many gays and abortion doctors have been murdered this week? Can you point to one story? I can tell you about at least 18 Christians who were murdered in Nigeria this weekend. A Jewish man in France was tortured for three weeks and killed in France by several muslims. How many gays died again? How many riots have there been because muslims are burning red banners with crosses on them (the Danish flag). How would muslims respond if we were burning flags with a koran on it?
Need I go on? Now, stop being ignorant. Stop comparing the true religion of peace with that of murderous thugs.
I believe you are full of shit! I will continue to believe that until I see a second croud of rioting muslims with sticks beat the living shit out of those who are threatening to "behead the infidels" and burning flags with crosses on them. Why? Because if they don't, eventually someone else will. Whoever that someone else may be will not know the difference between the wahabi's and yourself. Muslims know this as well, but they don't care. I honestly believe they are letting the "brown trash", as you call them, do the dirty work for them.
Yeah, there are Christians that offend me as well. There is a church in Kansas that protests at the funerals of fallen soldiers. Well, they used to until other Americans, Christains or otherwise, get on Harleys and block these protestors when the funeral procession rolls by, protecting the family. If I were paying my respects to a soldier and saw these guys, along the side of the road, my grief might cause my eyes to water causing the car to swerve to the right, accidentally plowing a few. (It will be my unadulterated rage that causes me to back up and finish the job off!) My point is that when we get bad apples, we do something about it. When I saw Cindy Shehan in Crawford calling our troops terrorists, I drove out there with 1000 other families and showed my disaproval of Cindy and my support for our troops and their families. Now, where are the muslim protests in support of free speech? (Why are muslims living in a country that has free speech if it offends them, btw?) Where are the thousands taking to the streets with signs that call for peace and denounce terrorism. Until I see such a thing, I will continue to call bullshit!
Yes, anything that does so much as report what the right's opinion is, even when presented side by side with the left's opinion, is obviously a right wing propaganda machine.
DOWN WITH ALL FREE SPEECH PRESS FREEDOMS THAT DO NOT AGREE WITH THE LEFT!!!!! ALL OTHER VOICES MUST BE SILENCED!
What would stop the government of say, China or N. Korea from simply blocking port 443? I mean, it's no secret what port this uses. I'm sure Kim Jung Il reads SlashDot.
I thought they already did that... As a matter of fact, I saw it. It was called Starship Troopers. I went to the theatre because I thought it would have something to do with the book of the same name(which was awesome, btw). It didn't. It was merely a misnamed "StarCraft Troopers"
Most of what I see here is a bunch of "God kills" in the Old Testament.
However, Christians read what is in the New Testament, where Jesus says to tear down the church of the Old Testament and rebuild it with new rules. These rules are "Turn the other cheek" and "Forgive" and "Do unto others..." That is why CHRISTians are called what they are; they follow the teachings of CHRIST.
Can you show me where Christ says to kill non-believers? OK then. Stop trying to equate the two.
On that note, I've seen pictures of the Virgin Mary made from elephant dung and a cross dumped into a jar of urin in an "art" piece called "piss Christ". No one got stabbed, beheaded, or shot and no buildings or embassies were burned down.
Public Transport? What is this thing you call "Public Transport?"
I'm sorry, but outside of NY and Chicago, and Houston, there is no such a thing a "Public Transport". Besides, my wife's SUV gets gas mileage as good as my car (both Toyota).
How about nuclear power and plug in hybrids? How about allowing the US to drill for its own oil and use the revenue to research cleaner energy? How about stop paying farmers to NOT grow one crop and start paying them to grow something like corn that can be converted into a renewable bio fuel?
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Appearantly, the abilities to monitor all communications, break into any residence, and to steal any property have not been sufficient to bring those attackers to justice.
(1) No one is trying to monitor all communications, even if it were possible.
(2) It was the last administration that justified breaking into residences. I didn't hear you complaining.
(3) No one is stealing properties except for the criminals.
(4) Evidently something is working because we have not had another attack since 9-11. Be glad, because you thing terrorists are harrassed now, wait 'til another plane is hijacked!
Perhaps we should just round up everyone who has had contact with that strain, send them off to secret prisons, and torture them until somebody talks. I know I'd feel safer.
You mean putting panties on their head? Why is it that I see so many "torture" pictures out of Abu Graib (sp?), but I have to search long and hard to find pictures of people getting flogged before having their tongues and/or hands cut off at the same prison before we took over. How come you were not complaining about it then? How come no one mentions the secret prisons in Syria, Iran or China? Why is GWB the "world's biggest terrorist", but no one seems to mind the mass graves filled with women and children?
Oh, and your "Freedom Collar" would sell better if it played MP3's.
I find it funny that a guy calling the US hypocritical for not protecting civil liberties also has a Zappa quote as his SIG wondering why we don't have more manifestos.
Dude! Don't you know that sort of opinion will get you modded down!??! Look at my Karma. You see, people here believe in free speech, provided that you agree with their views. "NO ONE CAN CITE ONE EXAMPLE OF ANYONE BEING INJURED UNJUSTLY BY THE PATRIOT ACT?" gets you "flame bait". "Bush is the world's largest terrorist" gets you "insightful". That's the way things work here at SlashDot.
Back on topic:
My brother's brother-in-law works for the FBI. He told me that the FBI knew something was about to happen before 9-11-01, but they were not able to do anything about it. Even now, if the Prez listens to phone conversations between a suspected terrorist here and a known terrorist over seas people start screaming for impeachment. Can you imagine how limited the FBI was before 9-11? Even today, you can't deport illegal aliens without someone screaming "RACISM!" Even today, the FBI can not enter a mosque to conduct survelence. What would have happened if federal agents stormed Mohamed Atta's apartment on 9-10 and arrested him? What if the FBI had looked at the books he had checked out from the library or checked his bank records for that $100,000 check he deposited? These limitations are what the Patriot Act is intended to overcome.
The problem is that some people are so worried about protecting civil liberties, they forget about the most important, basic liberty of all, "Life". (Then Liberty... Then the Pursuit of Happiness)
The argument "Senator X voted to open this country to terrorists!" would move to "Senator X voted to protect his constituent's rights!"
That's all fine and good until some sort of attack happens. Then it would be "We could have stopped it, but Senator X voted against the measures we needed to prevent this sort of thing." Then it's all over but the 10,000 years of fall out.
No one gets credit for "protecting civil liberties" (especially the liberties of people who have attended terrorist training camps), but the blame will readily flow in the event of a disaster.
I agree that spam is a HUGE problem at AOL and elsewhere. My favorite aunt is on AOL and I deplore the thought of all the "Chicks-that-take-it-up-the-butt" spam that she and her children receive daily. Because I do not expect my aunt and her kids to know how to set up spam filters, and AOL is sold as being easy to use, it is AOL's responsibility to block all that crap. However, making me pay to send her pictures of my kids is unacceptable. AOL charges it's clients enough already, they don't need to be charging me too. Otherwise, I'll be sending an invite for my aunt to join G-mail!
Two possible solutions:
1) When a single IP is trying to force through 10,000 emails, it's probably spam, block it and all future emails from that IP. If it is legit spam like a newsletter, it can be placed on the "excused" list. While I know these IP's change constantly, the block list will become huge, and legit traffic will be blocked. However, spammers will not bother trying to get the block lifted.
2) Only allow email from sources approved by the user. Earthlink has this approach under it's spam blocking features and it works pretty well. Earthlink sends a daily report of all the emails that it blocks. I can look at the return address and know if it's spam or not. I check a box that allows the non spam to get through and adds those users to my allowed list. The rest is reported as spam and deleted. I use this and no longer receive spam in my inbox, even though at least 10 a day are sent to my address.
What I mean is that there are no two distinct species living on earth right now that are next to eachother on the evolutionary ladder, nor do their fossils exist.
According to evolution, man (and other primates) evolved from some ancient primate that no longer exists. Along the way, there were several non-human species that make up the branch between "Grandpa-Primate" to human. I mean, we did not evolve directly from this ancient primate directly into people, there were steps along the way. This is true for all animals.
My question is, where did all these "mid-level" species go? Why did they all disappear? Where is all the fossil records for the chain species that must have existed from the between the "ancient primate" and now (missing links)? All missing links, which must have existed between each species and the each species that preceded it along the evolutionary ladder, have become extinct, taking all records of their existence with them. The only fossils we have are "off-shoots" of the evolutionary tree that leads to where we are now. For example, we are not decendents of neandrethals, but closely related. Neandrethals are an offshoot of the evolutionary branch that leads to man. What creature are both we and the neandrethals decended from? Why did it go extinct all over the world? Where are the rest of the fossils from all those creatures that make up that branch?
Evolution asserts there there have to be missing links that connect one species to the next. Otherwise, species such as man, would just "spring up", as if designed, stangly enough, that is exaclty what the fossil records show. If evolution were true, we'd see fossils of some "near-human" that existed a few million years before man showed up and it should start dwindiling after man showed up. No such creature exists. Man just kinda showed up. What creature did man evolve from? What creature was the next step up on the evolutionary ladder, where are its fossils and why did it become extinct?
Evoluation states that one species mutates from another and gains favorable traits. Why does the parent always become extinct and why can no one find what was the "parent" of humans, dogs, cats or whatever? This is true for all animals. A man, a dog and a cat have a common ancestor, what was it? Where are its fossils? Where is the common ancestor of a gazelle and a white-tail deer? And again, why did all these ancestors go extinct all over the world?
Nothing will change ID people's minds.
That's not necessarily true.
The way I understand evolution is that it is driven by mutation. For example, giraffes had short necks. Every now and then, a long necked giraffe was born, but couldn't graze that well on grass and was generally unsuccessful, until there was suddenly no more grass anywhere the giraffes lived (like all of Africa) and those with long necks that were able to eat leaves thrived(because trees were mysteriously not affected by whatever killed all the grass), and the short-necked giraffes died off.
While this story seems plausible, in order for Darwin to be correct, every species would have to come into existence because of some catastrophe that causes it's non-mutated parents to die off. I say this because no one can show me two distinct species (short and long necked giraffes) where one had evolved from the other... Nowhere on earth. Humans, chimps and baboons both evolved from some great-grandparent species, but none of these are around... and none of the species that existed between us and them exist either. They are all mysteriously extinct, for all species, everywhere on the plantet, leaving no fossil records of any kind.
In other words, not only is there no missing link between humans and our ancestors, but there is no missing links for any animals, past or present. You find me one species and it's direct ancestor and maybe I'll change my mind. But the way it stands right now, I've seen about as much evidence for evolution as have for some sort of ID.
I'm sure glad we live in country that is fiscally responsible. We've got our debt down to nine trillion, so it really was time to start a few wars and spend half a trillion dollars a year on our military. Who needs an education or the stabilization of developing countries through economic development when we can have maglev engines and VTOL projects that literally waste billions of dollars?
President's Day really got me thinking of how lucky I am to live in America. I mean, only communists forcibly take money away from their citizens in order to increase their own power, domestically and abroad. And, if we lived in a communist country, just doing something like reading a book or saying we should overthrow the government would warrant an interview from the police! They can even spy on their own citizens in secret! And, in communist countries, they can throw you in jail for no reason, and you don't get a lawyer or anything! Lincoln would be so, so proud.
You are free to move, ya know. Cuba is just a short swim away. Why people continue to live under totalitarian regimes when no one is keeping them here is beyond me.
BTW, did you notice that there was not a single weapon mentioned in the article? The entire of the article spoke of how to silence subs and save lives. If what you were saying is true, we'd be researching how to gas Iran and the DNC.
the US has never gone that far when another country was threatened by a major power.
I'm sure there are a lot of Germans in Berlin who would whole-heartedly disagree with you. Does the term Berlin Airlift mean anything to you. Google it.
Can't I just do it until I need glasses?
(actually, I just had Lasik done. It's the surgical version of shaving your palms)
From the first paragraph at http://www.linux.org/
But GNU does stand for "GNU's Not UNIX"
I think part of the problem is small, cheap, single use Windows servers.
If a company needs to add a new service to their existing list of IT services, rather than adding to the existing UNIX big-iron server that's 10 years old, they buy a cheap-ass Dell box with some sort of Windows preinstalled and add whatever service they need.
An example would be a small database used by sales or accounting. Another would be an internal web server that keeps the company home page. Maybe even a mail server for a small business or remote office. If an application that was maintained at the corporate office is not being handled locally at each remote office, a Windows based server for each location is going to be a cheaper, better fit.
For these applications, it's easier to have some junior IT guy throw together an inexpensive Windows box than it would be to have the old, well paid UNIX guru to add the service to the aging mainframe.
GNU = GNU's Not Unix
GNU makes up half of Linux, so, yes, you are correct. Linux is not UNIX.
The Visual Look?
Is there another kind?
First of all, America is not a Christian country. That sort of thing is banned by the Constitution. Mosques are protected here. As a matter of fact, more churches have been burned down in Alabama this week than Mosques have been in the entire US.
I also recognize that christianity is in the same boat. They are actually very similar religions.
Bullshit!
Christianity teaches to turn the other cheek, not burn down an embassy.
According to Islaam, it's OK to enslave those who are not Muslims (see http://www.dhimmitude.org/)
I've seen pictures of the Virgin Mary made from Elephant dung, right here in America. How long do you think such a picture of Mohammed would last anywhere, especially in the Arab world? How long do you think the artist would live, or the museum director, or the mayor of that town?
And yes, there have been a few murders committed by those who call themselves Christian, but those are prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and Christains agree with this prosecution. Besides, how many gays and abortion doctors have been murdered this week? Can you point to one story? I can tell you about at least 18 Christians who were murdered in Nigeria this weekend. A Jewish man in France was tortured for three weeks and killed in France by several muslims. How many gays died again?
How many riots have there been because muslims are burning red banners with crosses on them (the Danish flag). How would muslims respond if we were burning flags with a koran on it?
Need I go on? Now, stop being ignorant. Stop comparing the true religion of peace with that of murderous thugs.
So how long before ham and pork chops are no longer sold at my local grocer?
I believe you are full of shit! I will continue to believe that until I see a second croud of rioting muslims with sticks beat the living shit out of those who are threatening to "behead the infidels" and burning flags with crosses on them. Why? Because if they don't, eventually someone else will. Whoever that someone else may be will not know the difference between the wahabi's and yourself. Muslims know this as well, but they don't care. I honestly believe they are letting the "brown trash", as you call them, do the dirty work for them.
Yeah, there are Christians that offend me as well. There is a church in Kansas that protests at the funerals of fallen soldiers. Well, they used to until other Americans, Christains or otherwise, get on Harleys and block these protestors when the funeral procession rolls by, protecting the family. If I were paying my respects to a soldier and saw these guys, along the side of the road, my grief might cause my eyes to water causing the car to swerve to the right, accidentally plowing a few. (It will be my unadulterated rage that causes me to back up and finish the job off!) My point is that when we get bad apples, we do something about it. When I saw Cindy Shehan in Crawford calling our troops terrorists, I drove out there with 1000 other families and showed my disaproval of Cindy and my support for our troops and their families. Now, where are the muslim protests in support of free speech? (Why are muslims living in a country that has free speech if it offends them, btw?) Where are the thousands taking to the streets with signs that call for peace and denounce terrorism. Until I see such a thing, I will continue to call bullshit!
Yes, anything that does so much as report what the right's opinion is, even when presented side by side with the left's opinion, is obviously a right wing propaganda machine.
DOWN WITH ALL FREE SPEECH PRESS FREEDOMS THAT DO NOT AGREE WITH THE LEFT!!!!! ALL OTHER VOICES MUST BE SILENCED!
Um... OK. Make a RAID of these bad boys.
Problem solved.
Banned from Competing?
NO
Banned from Breathing?
Absolutely!
What would stop the government of say, China or N. Korea from simply blocking port 443? I mean, it's no secret what port this uses. I'm sure Kim Jung Il reads SlashDot.
I thought they already did that... As a matter of fact, I saw it. It was called Starship Troopers. I went to the theatre because I thought it would have something to do with the book of the same name(which was awesome, btw). It didn't. It was merely a misnamed "StarCraft Troopers"
Most of what I see here is a bunch of "God kills" in the Old Testament.
However, Christians read what is in the New Testament, where Jesus says to tear down the church of the Old Testament and rebuild it with new rules. These rules are "Turn the other cheek" and "Forgive" and "Do unto others..." That is why CHRISTians are called what they are; they follow the teachings of CHRIST.
Can you show me where Christ says to kill non-believers? OK then. Stop trying to equate the two.
On that note, I've seen pictures of the Virgin Mary made from elephant dung and a cross dumped into a jar of urin in an "art" piece called "piss Christ". No one got stabbed, beheaded, or shot and no buildings or embassies were burned down.
Public Transport? What is this thing you call "Public Transport?"
I'm sorry, but outside of NY and Chicago, and Houston, there is no such a thing a "Public Transport". Besides, my wife's SUV gets gas mileage as good as my car (both Toyota).
How about nuclear power and plug in hybrids? How about allowing the US to drill for its own oil and use the revenue to research cleaner energy? How about stop paying farmers to NOT grow one crop and start paying them to grow something like corn that can be converted into a renewable bio fuel?