The US is fast becoming a place similar to those farcical democracies in the Middle East where you have liberties in image but in practice your exercise of them is either limited or ineffectual. The republicans seem to have learnt quite well from their Middle Eastern allies how to present the image of democratic particpation to their citizens while the game results are laregly fixed behind closed doors, and Americans are proving even more gullible than Middle-Easterners, at least Middle-Easterners know a bullshit when they see it. So you want to exercise your democratic rights and clown about? Well, go ahead, we'll send you our shills to clown against you and EVEN clown along with you. Religious bullshit, divisive non-issues, glorification of the leader and the troops, bought politicians, suspect elections, O'Reilly vs Olbermann, and so on. Had enough of your clowning, had fun, well revv it up, enterain the folks some more, torn your vocal cords yet? We're still winning elections and getting our business done. Seen it all in the Middle East, now seeing it in the US.
"Water Tile [businessweek.com] - the coolest showerhead I've ever seen"... I respectfully disagree. It's stupid. This is an example of a needless "invention" that worsens on an existing simple and very versatile solution (the handheld shower head). Just tell me, how do you wash your butt with this Water Tile?
It depends where you are. In England they are very respectful by default, perhaps it's not carrying the guns that makes them so, you know, gun=prick. Perhaps it's a general, old-fashioned culture of politeness. This happens to be true of the older recruits more so than the new. The new, like all things in Britain, are not as well-mannered as their elders. So much so that, for the elder generation of the police, one of them could be heard saying "be careful, Sir" as he punches you in the face. I'm witness to that. Seen it happen.
What ebay could teach you if you have a busy schedule and limited personal time is that £10 is not worth the time and hassle of burning and posting a DVD.
"Think special, high-speed priority for campaign commercials or educational videos about global warming." You know what? My bullshit detector went off the scale on reading this. It's quite obvious where he's coming from, and whom he's trying to fool. Goddammit those assholes got no shame. Without reading any other text in the posting or TFA I know fore friggin' sure that this guy is paid by the telecoms for this garbage piece.
I will use Wikipedia if I'm looking up a topic that most people have not even heard of and are extremely unlikely to have any remote interest in. I will NOT, though, use it for any topic that may get on any person's or group nerves, which means most topics. In my experience, a bitter experience, Wikipedia is being used as a platform for propaganda by organised, dedicated and persistent groups with very biased and unreasonable agendas, and my time and life is far too valuable to devote to such a futile effort as buttheading with them when the Wikipedia system does not provide protections against that. And to anyone that says it does provide protections, I'll say shutup, without hesitation, just STFU; I've wasted enough of months of my life wading through them to know better. Such groups are passionate about their biases, seem quite adept at amassing their members and directing them towards any happening conflict, drowning the discussion in enough noise to mislead newcomers and intimidate unbiased individuals to leave, toppling votes, and otherwise gaming the system. I have better things in life to do than butthead in vain with idiots.
That's what makes slashdot what it is. The site itself maybe flawed in one way or another, or may not be, but that doesn't matter; what sets it apart are its users and their comments. Whenever I see a story on the web that amuses me I'm always thinking "I can't wait till this hits slashdot"; a recent example, the story that humans and monkeys had sex for a million years, I can't tell you how much anticipation I had when I saw the story on Google News for it to arrive on slashdot to read the hilarious comments I've come to associate with slashdotters.
"What, pray tell, COULD we be doing to people that would make sawing off a man's head with a knife "minor"?!" Here's your answer from Zawahiri himself when he told off Zarqawi for those beheadings. Note the second paragraph and you'll find your answer, and by the way, decapitatioin and slaughter, though grotesque, are considered "humane" methods of killing.
"Among the things which the feelings of the Muslim populace who love and support you will never find palatable - also- are the scenes of slaughtering the hostages. You shouldn't be deceived by the praise of some of the zealous young men and their description of you as the shaykh of the slaughterers, etc. They do not express the general view of the admirer and the supporter of the resistance in Iraq, and of you in particular by the favor and blessing of God.
And your response, while true, might be: Why shouldn't we sow terror in the hearts of the Crusaders and their helpers? And isn't the destruction of the villages and the cities on the heads of their inhabitants more cruel than slaughtering? And aren't the cluster bombs and the seven ton bombs and the depleted uranium bombs crueler than slaughtering? And isn't killing by torture crueler than slaughtering? And isn't violating the honor of men and women more painful and more destructive than slaughtering?
All of these questions and more might be asked, and you are justified. However this does not change the reality at all, which is that the general opinion of our supporter does not comprehend that, and that this general opinion falls under a campaign by the malicious, perfidious, and fallacious campaign by the deceptive and fabricated media. And we would spare the people from the effect of questions about the usefulness of our actions in the hearts and minds of the general opinion that is essentially sympathetic to us.
And I say to you with sure feeling and I say: That the author of these lines has tasted the bitterness of American brutality, and that my favorite wife's chest was crushed by a concrete ceiling and she went on calling for aid to lift the stone block off her chest until she breathed her last, may God have mercy on her and accept her among the martyrs. As for my young daughter, she was afflicted by a cerebral hemorrhage, and she continued for a whole day suffering in pain until she expired. And to this day I do not know the location of the graves of my wife, my son, my daughter, and the rest of the three other families who were martyred in the incident and who were pulverized by the concrete ceiling, may God have mercy on them and the Muslim martyrs. Were they brought out of the rubble, or are they still buried beneath it to this day?
However, despite all of this, I say to you: that we are in a battle, and that more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media. And that we are in a media battle in a race for the hearts and minds of our Umma. And that however far our capabilities reach, they will never be equal to one thousandth of the capabilities of the kingdom of Satan that is waging war on us. And we can kill the captives by bullet. That would achieve that which is sought after without exposing ourselves to the questions and answering to doubts. We don't need this."
And what bothers me is that this is so damn effective. All you have to do as a corporation to reap millions out of public funds is to find the few crooked decision makers on meager wage who'll be bribed or otherwise influenced to push business your way, and usually, it doesn't take much to persuade them, they come pretty cheap. As for the technical aspects, heck, did they or what the techies think ever matter?! If they did you wouldn't have seen all those Diebold voting machines everywhere. Techies gotta put up with what their dim managers throw at them and shut up.
You're completely missing the point. It's not about you feeling 2 or 3 degree difference in temperature and wearing a lighter t-shirt or a thicker sweater, not at all, it's what those 2 or 3 degrees do to climate phenomena such as hurricanes, polar ice, oceans, plankton and so on. What to you could mean a warmer day could mean mass extinction to tens of thousands of species.
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The US is fast becoming a place similar to those farcical democracies in the Middle East where you have liberties in image but in practice your exercise of them is either limited or ineffectual. The republicans seem to have learnt quite well from their Middle Eastern allies how to present the image of democratic particpation to their citizens while the game results are laregly fixed behind closed doors, and Americans are proving even more gullible than Middle-Easterners, at least Middle-Easterners know a bullshit when they see it. So you want to exercise your democratic rights and clown about? Well, go ahead, we'll send you our shills to clown against you and EVEN clown along with you. Religious bullshit, divisive non-issues, glorification of the leader and the troops, bought politicians, suspect elections, O'Reilly vs Olbermann, and so on. Had enough of your clowning, had fun, well revv it up, enterain the folks some more, torn your vocal cords yet? We're still winning elections and getting our business done. Seen it all in the Middle East, now seeing it in the US.
"No... you provide the facts, we provide the opinion." .... "fact" is a matter of opinion.
"Water Tile [businessweek.com] - the coolest showerhead I've ever seen" ... I respectfully disagree. It's stupid. This is an example of a needless "invention" that worsens on an existing simple and very versatile solution (the handheld shower head). Just tell me, how do you wash your butt with this Water Tile?
What always amazes me is how cheaply those politicians can be bought. Cheap whores.
It depends where you are. In England they are very respectful by default, perhaps it's not carrying the guns that makes them so, you know, gun=prick. Perhaps it's a general, old-fashioned culture of politeness. This happens to be true of the older recruits more so than the new. The new, like all things in Britain, are not as well-mannered as their elders. So much so that, for the elder generation of the police, one of them could be heard saying "be careful, Sir" as he punches you in the face. I'm witness to that. Seen it happen.
What ebay could teach you if you have a busy schedule and limited personal time is that £10 is not worth the time and hassle of burning and posting a DVD.
What about the ones Apple used? Were they 64 or 32?
Biblical scholar consensus is not comparable to methodical scientiests. Witchcraft practitioner consensus is not comparable to empirical scientists.
Is the intel duo a 64 processor or is it 32?
I'm sick of this. Children are the new "Terrorism".
Can anyone tell me, does this net neutrality issue only affect the US or will it have negative implications for the rest of the world?
"Think special, high-speed priority for campaign commercials or educational videos about global warming." You know what? My bullshit detector went off the scale on reading this. It's quite obvious where he's coming from, and whom he's trying to fool. Goddammit those assholes got no shame. Without reading any other text in the posting or TFA I know fore friggin' sure that this guy is paid by the telecoms for this garbage piece.
It has no chance against firefox.
http://i5.tinypic.com/14x12ty.jpg
Because passionate partisan propaganda affects you. That's why.
I will use Wikipedia if I'm looking up a topic that most people have not even heard of and are extremely unlikely to have any remote interest in. I will NOT, though, use it for any topic that may get on any person's or group nerves, which means most topics. In my experience, a bitter experience, Wikipedia is being used as a platform for propaganda by organised, dedicated and persistent groups with very biased and unreasonable agendas, and my time and life is far too valuable to devote to such a futile effort as buttheading with them when the Wikipedia system does not provide protections against that. And to anyone that says it does provide protections, I'll say shutup, without hesitation, just STFU; I've wasted enough of months of my life wading through them to know better. Such groups are passionate about their biases, seem quite adept at amassing their members and directing them towards any happening conflict, drowning the discussion in enough noise to mislead newcomers and intimidate unbiased individuals to leave, toppling votes, and otherwise gaming the system. I have better things in life to do than butthead in vain with idiots.
There's a CCTV camera around here that's famous for following the tiny skirts.
Isn't windows likewise a collection of software projects within microsoft? Media player, IE, aren't exactly OS.
That's what makes slashdot what it is. The site itself maybe flawed in one way or another, or may not be, but that doesn't matter; what sets it apart are its users and their comments. Whenever I see a story on the web that amuses me I'm always thinking "I can't wait till this hits slashdot"; a recent example, the story that humans and monkeys had sex for a million years, I can't tell you how much anticipation I had when I saw the story on Google News for it to arrive on slashdot to read the hilarious comments I've come to associate with slashdotters.
How could it be the largest software project in mankind's history. What about those HUGE linux distributions? SUSE comes to mind.
"What, pray tell, COULD we be doing to people that would make sawing off a man's head with a knife "minor"?!" Here's your answer from Zawahiri himself when he told off Zarqawi for those beheadings. Note the second paragraph and you'll find your answer, and by the way, decapitatioin and slaughter, though grotesque, are considered "humane" methods of killing.
"Among the things which the feelings of the Muslim populace who love and support you will never find palatable - also- are the scenes of slaughtering the hostages. You shouldn't be deceived by the praise of some of the zealous young men and their description of you as the shaykh of the slaughterers, etc. They do not express the general view of the admirer and the supporter of the resistance in Iraq, and of you in particular by the favor and blessing of God.
And your response, while true, might be: Why shouldn't we sow terror in the hearts of the Crusaders and their helpers? And isn't the destruction of the villages and the cities on the heads of their inhabitants more cruel than slaughtering? And aren't the cluster bombs and the seven ton bombs and the depleted uranium bombs crueler than slaughtering? And isn't killing by torture crueler than slaughtering? And isn't violating the honor of men and women more painful and more destructive than slaughtering?
All of these questions and more might be asked, and you are justified. However this does not change the reality at all, which is that the general opinion of our supporter does not comprehend that, and that this general opinion falls under a campaign by the malicious, perfidious, and fallacious campaign by the deceptive and fabricated media. And we would spare the people from the effect of questions about the usefulness of our actions in the hearts and minds of the general opinion that is essentially sympathetic to us.
And I say to you with sure feeling and I say: That the author of these lines has tasted the bitterness of American brutality, and that my favorite wife's chest was crushed by a concrete ceiling and she went on calling for aid to lift the stone block off her chest until she breathed her last, may God have mercy on her and accept her among the martyrs. As for my young daughter, she was afflicted by a cerebral hemorrhage, and she continued for a whole day suffering in pain until she expired. And to this day I do not know the location of the graves of my wife, my son, my daughter, and the rest of the three other families who were martyred in the incident and who were pulverized by the concrete ceiling, may God have mercy on them and the Muslim martyrs. Were they brought out of the rubble, or are they still buried beneath it to this day?
However, despite all of this, I say to you: that we are in a battle, and that more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media. And that we are in a media battle in a race for the hearts and minds of our Umma. And that however far our capabilities reach, they will never be equal to one thousandth of the capabilities of the kingdom of Satan that is waging war on us. And we can kill the captives by bullet. That would achieve that which is sought after without exposing ourselves to the questions and answering to doubts. We don't need this."
And what bothers me is that this is so damn effective. All you have to do as a corporation to reap millions out of public funds is to find the few crooked decision makers on meager wage who'll be bribed or otherwise influenced to push business your way, and usually, it doesn't take much to persuade them, they come pretty cheap. As for the technical aspects, heck, did they or what the techies think ever matter?! If they did you wouldn't have seen all those Diebold voting machines everywhere. Techies gotta put up with what their dim managers throw at them and shut up.
You're completely missing the point. It's not about you feeling 2 or 3 degree difference in temperature and wearing a lighter t-shirt or a thicker sweater, not at all, it's what those 2 or 3 degrees do to climate phenomena such as hurricanes, polar ice, oceans, plankton and so on. What to you could mean a warmer day could mean mass extinction to tens of thousands of species.
Just as current wars are fought over oil, wide predictions are that future ones will be fought over access to water resources.
Don't worry, the cows are already in space. http://www.cowabduction.com/