"Actually, the regimes we threw out were genocidal religious maniacs, if you want to call them "stable", I'd hate to see how we made things any worse."
You'll find Iraq between Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia - it'll be the place where sectarian violence has gone up from 500 attacks a month in August 2003 to 36 000 in July 2006, where 655 000 civilians have been killed since May 2003 and where 137,862 Iraqis have been displaced, and countless other atrocities. [Source: BBC News]. Then there was Abu Ghraib scandal and countless other reports of abuse by both American and British soldiers. Yeah, I'd agree you really didn't make things worse there. Good job we found all those weapons of mass destruction to make all that loss of blood worthwhile.
Mein Kampf is banned in Germany. The owners of the copyright to Mein Kampf, the Barvarian state of Germany, try to oppose the publication and distribution of the book abroad, but with limited success. German libraries tend to carry heavily biased commentaries of the book.
In France and Hollond, it's illegal to sell the book, but not illegal to own the book. In the majority of European countries, mostly those that didn't feel the full force of the Nazi regime in World War 2, the book is legal to own and trade. This includes the United Kingdom. Furthermore, in Palestine, Mein Kampf hit number 6 on the bestseller's list.
In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate
Oh Almighty God, please, we beg you to send us our Guardian- who You have promised us- soon and appoint us as His close companions.
During the era that nobility was a prestige and living in a city was perfection, I was born in a poor family in a remote village of Garmsar-approximately 90 kilometer east of Tehran. I was born fifteen years after Iran was invaded by foreign forces- in August of 1940- and the time that another puppet, named mohammad Reza - the son of Reza Mirpange- was set as a monarch in Iran. Since the extinct shah -Mohammad Reza- was supposed to take and enter Iran into western civilization slavishly, so many schemes were implemented that Iran becomes another market for the western ceremonial goods without any progress in the scientific field. Our Islamic culture would not allow such an infestation, and this was an impediment in front of shah and his foreign masters' way. Thus, they decided to make this noble and tenacious culture weak gradually that Iran be attached strongly to the west as far as its economy, politics, and culture was concern. After the implementation of this policy and the unreal and outward of upswing, the villagers began to rush to the cities. Upon the enforcement of the land reform, the status of the villages became worst than the past and villagers for earning some breadcrumbs, they were deceived by the dazzling look and the misleading features of the cities and became suburban and lived in ghettos.
My family was also suffered in the village as others. After my birth -the fourth one in the family- my family was under more pressures. My father had finished 6 grade of elementary school. He was a hard-bitten toiler blacksmith, a pious man who regularly participated in different religious programs. Even though never the dazzling look of the world was appealing to him, but the pressure of the life caused that he decided to migrate to Tehran when I was one year old. We chose to live in south central part of Tehran where is called Pamenar.
My father used to buy newspaper all the time. I remember one day, when I was in first grade, by looking through a newspaper - with the help of the adults in our house- I read the news of the capitulation passage by the shah's so called "parliament." Even though I did not understand the meaning of that issue at that time, but due to the protests and the objections of the religious schools of thoughts with the leadership of Imam Khomeini -Almighty God bless his soul- and the relentless reaction of the extinct shah, I realized that Mohammad Reza attempted to add another page to his vicious case history which was the humiliation and indignity of the Iranian people versus Americans. That was the year that the extinct shah slaughtered many followers of Imam Khomeini.
Imam Khomeini was released from prison. I never forget Imam Khomeini's speeches during those years which was very persuasive and appealing. You would hear the strong faith to Almighty God in his orations. He invited the people to pure Islam. His message was invitation to the belief of monotheism- Unity and Oneness of God- and also justice, elimination of oppression, injustice and sedition in the world. He was courageous and had a valiant heart. He spoke firmly and securely. His orations were simple and honest. The people accepted his guidance sincerely. Due to these characteristics, he was a beloved leader for every individuals-young or elderly. Of course he was a disgrace for shah's regime and his Americans masters. Notably, even among his enemies, he was respected with a special honor.
Eventually, the existence of Imam Khomeini was unbearable for the extinct shah and he could not tolerate him any more. Since they knew if they kill him-as they did a great number of his followers- the bloody uprising can not be controlled. Consequently they decided to exile him in order to separate the leader from his followers and to restrain th
Oh come on - give the man a break! Yes, Blair makes a lot of decisions that I strongly disagree with and, indeed, I am often angry with the way he represents my country to the outside world and the decisions he makes. However, he is still human and still deserves the right to have a break. He works 18 hour days, often 7 days a week, doing his best for his country. He only gets a week or two holiday a year! What right do you have to begrudge him some holiday time - what do you want - a robot leading the country? Please, show some grace
... far as i can remember, Yggdrasil were the first to do the 'heres a free bootable Linux CD so you can try it out' promotional trick, as early as 1994.
sure, Ubuntu is a wonderful project, and the purpose of making Linux easier for humans is an admirable and honorable effort. But, these 'new-generation Linux distros' getting all the credit for what has been a 'traditional activity' among the Linux crowd rankles a little ire..
Maybe it suggests that something went wrong with the marketing of Yggdrasil and Ubuntu's "effort" seems to be competently led.
I did an osCommerce site for an artist (http://www.bydon.org/shop) and modifying the layout was a nightmare. Because of the fact there is no separation between PHP code and layout, it is a case of traversing through nearly 50 jumbled files and manually changing many lines. It is a thing I never want to repeat EVER.
You're right that they may lere away Gentoo developers, for example, but you overlook the fact that most members of the OSDL are large companies with lots of money. We're talking Sun, Novell and Red Hat here. Employees there are on good enough stipends to resist any Microsoft ploy. As for mono, that is Novell backed and with huge salaries, I believe!
"Taylor: From a software perspective, we don't think the patent system is perfect. We had put forward some recommended restructuring to patent laws in the United States which will give (software) innovators more opportunities."
Whilst sueing anyone that might possibly interfere with their intent of world domination. Hypicrite or what!
I doubt it will if it makes a success - if you look at other things like Listen Again, Podcasting or Freeview, they will do a lot of advertising over it to make sure people know what benefits it provides.
I agree; I know someone who is a proffessional artist, with briefs from companies like MacDonalds, who only ever uses LCD screens. The convenience and quality of them are beyond what he would get from a CRT, and the added advantage that much less desk space is used
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I find it hard to believe I'm the only one who is going to find it hard to take an OS with the name Feisty Fawn seriously!
"Actually, the regimes we threw out were genocidal religious maniacs, if you want to call them "stable", I'd hate to see how we made things any worse." You'll find Iraq between Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia - it'll be the place where sectarian violence has gone up from 500 attacks a month in August 2003 to 36 000 in July 2006, where 655 000 civilians have been killed since May 2003 and where 137,862 Iraqis have been displaced, and countless other atrocities. [Source: BBC News]. Then there was Abu Ghraib scandal and countless other reports of abuse by both American and British soldiers. Yeah, I'd agree you really didn't make things worse there. Good job we found all those weapons of mass destruction to make all that loss of blood worthwhile.
"Schnell!" is the german word for please.
No, that'll be "bitte". Schnell is the German word for quickly
Mein Kampf is banned in Germany. The owners of the copyright to Mein Kampf, the Barvarian state of Germany, try to oppose the publication and distribution of the book abroad, but with limited success. German libraries tend to carry heavily biased commentaries of the book.
In France and Hollond, it's illegal to sell the book, but not illegal to own the book. In the majority of European countries, mostly those that didn't feel the full force of the Nazi regime in World War 2, the book is legal to own and trade. This includes the United Kingdom. Furthermore, in Palestine, Mein Kampf hit number 6 on the bestseller's list.
Hmm. In the original post I made of this story, I had linked to the blog. Must just have been removed in the editing process :(
Oh, and I'm a Brit!
Just in case it doesn't survive Slashdot...
In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate Oh Almighty God, please, we beg you to send us our Guardian- who You have promised us- soon and appoint us as His close companions.
During the era that nobility was a prestige and living in a city was perfection, I was born in a poor family in a remote village of Garmsar-approximately 90 kilometer east of Tehran. I was born fifteen years after Iran was invaded by foreign forces- in August of 1940- and the time that another puppet, named mohammad Reza - the son of Reza Mirpange- was set as a monarch in Iran. Since the extinct shah -Mohammad Reza- was supposed to take and enter Iran into western civilization slavishly, so many schemes were implemented that Iran becomes another market for the western ceremonial goods without any progress in the scientific field. Our Islamic culture would not allow such an infestation, and this was an impediment in front of shah and his foreign masters' way. Thus, they decided to make this noble and tenacious culture weak gradually that Iran be attached strongly to the west as far as its economy, politics, and culture was concern. After the implementation of this policy and the unreal and outward of upswing, the villagers began to rush to the cities. Upon the enforcement of the land reform, the status of the villages became worst than the past and villagers for earning some breadcrumbs, they were deceived by the dazzling look and the misleading features of the cities and became suburban and lived in ghettos.
My family was also suffered in the village as others. After my birth -the fourth one in the family- my family was under more pressures. My father had finished 6 grade of elementary school. He was a hard-bitten toiler blacksmith, a pious man who regularly participated in different religious programs. Even though never the dazzling look of the world was appealing to him, but the pressure of the life caused that he decided to migrate to Tehran when I was one year old. We chose to live in south central part of Tehran where is called Pamenar.
My father used to buy newspaper all the time. I remember one day, when I was in first grade, by looking through a newspaper - with the help of the adults in our house- I read the news of the capitulation passage by the shah's so called "parliament." Even though I did not understand the meaning of that issue at that time, but due to the protests and the objections of the religious schools of thoughts with the leadership of Imam Khomeini -Almighty God bless his soul- and the relentless reaction of the extinct shah, I realized that Mohammad Reza attempted to add another page to his vicious case history which was the humiliation and indignity of the Iranian people versus Americans. That was the year that the extinct shah slaughtered many followers of Imam Khomeini.
Imam Khomeini was released from prison. I never forget Imam Khomeini's speeches during those years which was very persuasive and appealing. You would hear the strong faith to Almighty God in his orations. He invited the people to pure Islam. His message was invitation to the belief of monotheism- Unity and Oneness of God- and also justice, elimination of oppression, injustice and sedition in the world. He was courageous and had a valiant heart. He spoke firmly and securely. His orations were simple and honest. The people accepted his guidance sincerely. Due to these characteristics, he was a beloved leader for every individuals-young or elderly. Of course he was a disgrace for shah's regime and his Americans masters. Notably, even among his enemies, he was respected with a special honor.
Eventually, the existence of Imam Khomeini was unbearable for the extinct shah and he could not tolerate him any more. Since they knew if they kill him-as they did a great number of his followers- the bloody uprising can not be controlled. Consequently they decided to exile him in order to separate the leader from his followers and to restrain th
Oh come on - give the man a break! Yes, Blair makes a lot of decisions that I strongly disagree with and, indeed, I am often angry with the way he represents my country to the outside world and the decisions he makes. However, he is still human and still deserves the right to have a break. He works 18 hour days, often 7 days a week, doing his best for his country. He only gets a week or two holiday a year! What right do you have to begrudge him some holiday time - what do you want - a robot leading the country? Please, show some grace
It would still take a good 10 seconds to start up OpenOffice.org
... far as i can remember, Yggdrasil were the first to do the 'heres a free bootable Linux CD so you can try it out' promotional trick, as early as 1994.
..
sure, Ubuntu is a wonderful project, and the purpose of making Linux easier for humans is an admirable and honorable effort. But, these 'new-generation Linux distros' getting all the credit for what has been a 'traditional activity' among the Linux crowd rankles a little ire
Maybe it suggests that something went wrong with the marketing of Yggdrasil and Ubuntu's "effort" seems to be competently led.
I know what you mean!
I did an osCommerce site for an artist (http://www.bydon.org/shop) and modifying the layout was a nightmare. Because of the fact there is no separation between PHP code and layout, it is a case of traversing through nearly 50 jumbled files and manually changing many lines. It is a thing I never want to repeat EVER.
It still takes 15 seconds to start up OpennOffice.org
Forget Ubuntu. Is it possible for OpenOffice to load in less than half a century so I can actually do something on it?
My grammer like myself is perfect.
That should be:
My grammer, like myself, is perfect.
'denser than diamonds'
rather than what is currently writter: 'harder than diamonds'
This is meant to be the reporting of a science story you know!
You're right that they may lere away Gentoo developers, for example, but you overlook the fact that most members of the OSDL are large companies with lots of money. We're talking Sun, Novell and Red Hat here. Employees there are on good enough stipends to resist any Microsoft ploy. As for mono, that is Novell backed and with huge salaries, I believe!
What about thick black permenant marker of the front of the screen? Makes a good drawing program in my experiance!
I wonder if Microsoft will install Linspire on their system too.
"Taylor: From a software perspective, we don't think the patent system is perfect. We had put forward some recommended restructuring to patent laws in the United States which will give (software) innovators more opportunities." Whilst sueing anyone that might possibly interfere with their intent of world domination. Hypicrite or what!
I doubt it will if it makes a success - if you look at other things like Listen Again, Podcasting or Freeview, they will do a lot of advertising over it to make sure people know what benefits it provides.
a) This story is being denied by the government and QinetiQ. That should make point 1 true then
I agree; I know someone who is a proffessional artist, with briefs from companies like MacDonalds, who only ever uses LCD screens. The convenience and quality of them are beyond what he would get from a CRT, and the added advantage that much less desk space is used