I think I am not alone in questioning your claim that most of the rest of the world hates us.
Most might be excessive. Most of the world is afraid of us isn't.
I am a patriotic American. If you don't question our fucked up policies and our illegally elected president, then you are not.
Wow. I guess I was right, all your claims are ridiculous.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. If you are not actively informing yourself rather than passively receiving the propaganda the major networks call news, then you are not doing your duty as a citizen of a free society. Are you aware that Bush did not win when the full recount was done? Are you also aware that the only reason the Florida election was even close was that his brother illegally disenfranchised somewhere around 80,000 voters? If not you are not taking your responsibility seriously. This was a major headline in England. This is why when Bush went there for the first time, he was seen as a usurper, not a legitimate president.
My claims are not ridiculous. You ignorance of the truth of it is not just ridiculous, but frighteningly ignorant.
If Jesus was, in fact, the eternal God then there is no such thing as "new evidence" from His perspective.
True enough, but the evidence is new to us, not him. Now while some things like don't kill are pretty clear, others are generally considered allegorical which new evidence can change the interpretations thereof. Most christians I've discussed it with feel that the bible is the word of god filtered through man. New evidence changes the filter on the receiving end. People who believe the bible is the absolute word of god in his own words, well... there really is no talking to those people at all. It requires way too much doublethink to believe that.
Common sense is necessary in religion, otherwise you become an easy target.
That's funny. All available evidence would seem to indicate that common sense and religion are mutually exclusive. Thou shalt not kill..Well unless they're not christians and actually not "our" kind of christian.
Protestants do not adhere to the pope's dogmatic statements, they believe the bible as their last authority. As a relatively conervative Christian, I can't believe that these "Christians" don't think for themselves. WWJD is replaced with WWMPD
Not to be too harsh or anything, but this isn't thinking for yourself either. In some ways it's even worse. At least the Pope is alive in this time and can change ideas in response to new evidence. Basing everything on a book written thousands of years ago by people pushing agendas relevant to the time and their ability to maqintain power is not thinking freely.
Just because we're not joining up with the European Union(who keeps making it obvious they fucking hate us)
If you could pull your doublethinking head out of your ass, you might look around and start to wonder *why* most of the rest of the world hates us. Off topic from Kyoto, but look at some of our other fucked up policies. At the recent UN childrens summit, America threatened to refuse to sign any declaration that contained even oblique references to condoms and abortion. This is in regards to adolescent pregnancy and AIDS. Who were the countries on our side in this? Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Syria, and The Vatican. Who were against us (or more accurately for freedom) on this? The rest of the world.
This is one reason people fucking hate the US and rightly so. We claim to be free and anti terror, yet we push policies that only terrorists agree with. I am a patriotic American. If you don't question our fucked up policies and our illegally elected president, then you are not.
Every reasonable person on the planet knows the US is the most violent and unjust nation in the world (at least in foreign policy issues).
If this is true, then 99% of the population of the US are not reasonable people. I don't know if you're an American or not (I am), but it is terrifying to see the lengths people here will go to to ignore any and all evidence that America is not absolutely 100% the only free country in the world and we would never do anything that wasn't perfectly morally pure. I was talking to one of my brothers about some of the things going on and since he actually takes seriously his responsibility as a member of a free society to inform himself, he knew about what I was saying. His wife on the other hand didn't want to hear it and when questioned said, "I just don't want to know". She actually wants to have kids. How sickening is that that a person who is scared to even look at the world she lives in wants to force aniother person to live in it. I'm not ranting against people who have kids, but if you don't do it with your eyes open you are a very disturbed person.
And if I may ask one question about your little rant in the middle of that, what would you call a "suicide bomber?" Isn't that a person who blows you up with a bomb attached to themselves that in turn kills them (suicide)? I mean, what else can they be called?
They could be called "a person who is being repressed by other nations with such superior fire power that they have no other possible way of defending themselves". Of course, the accurate description is somewhere in the middle of these two. Don't kid yourself, the Israelis (and the US) are every bit as much terrorists as the Palestinians just on a much greater scale.
We don't have "laws designed to create an industry of incarceration and create an industry for government agencies to make money destroying foreign nations", or a "war on personal freedom", we have a war on drugs.
And what happened? Disco came SCREAMING back into popularity later.
I think you mean a few losers tried to bring it back and it quickly died again. In England though...uggh. I was there back in September and I learned that it never got unpopular. Now no offense to you Brits, I had a great time and most things about the culture and people were pretty cool. Heck, I'm even living with one of you;-) But how could you be that freaking dumb about anything.
"The photos... appeared last year on the site operated by Microsoft Germany where users could post pictures and texts to share with others".
Microsoft was merely acting as ISP in this case.
This has been said many times in this article, so I'm not picking on you specifically. I just picked this post to respond to.
MS was *not* acting as an ISP in this situation. Do you see where you said "on the site operated by Microsoft". In this situation they were a hosting provider. The picture was posted on some MSN community or similar. No one said that whoever posted the picture used them to dial up to the internet. Further MS claims in their terms that they own all of the content on the site. So they are the host of the material and further they claim to own it as well. This makes them the publisher. In this case MS's draconian license scheme backfired and they *are* liable. If they had some disclaimer like at the top of this page:
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
then they would *not* have been liable. Since they provide the web space *and* they feel that this entitles them to ownership of anything anyone else makes and posts there, they got screwed in this case.
Anyhow its similiar to bayonets. As per the Geneva convention you can't sharpen bayonets.
I can at least see the justification for banning mines since they end up getting left there after the war is over, but why the hell would they ban sharpening bayonets?!?
Obviously you have no clue about the facts of the Election. Bush won in Florida the numbers prove it. Just because crooked Democrats have tried to "cook the books", does not mean that facts are facts. Go back to your U.F.O. sightings and crop circles and leave the real world to the rest of us.
I notice you fail to find anything to back yourself up with. Typical of cowards afraid to entertain any ideas besides those drummed into them to attack anyone who takes their responsibilities as a citizen of a free society seriously, to accuse them of being crazy when you are, through your death grip on your ignorance, the worst threat to the country I love.
. The problem with the last election was not a failure in the overall (macro) system, but a detail problem (micro) having to do with counting irregularities in one (or more) of the states. While post-election information indicates that at least one state's counting problems may have resulted in that state voting the wrong way, most of us will never truly know-- given the extremely close nature of the race in that state and the highly inaccurate methods used to tally the votes.
This is a frighteningly uninformed statement. In the first place, we do *truly* know at this point. Bush lost in Florida, Gore won. This has been proven and certified. It isn't drilled into your head over and over on all the networks, but it has been reported.
The second and far more critical point is that this isn't even the real issue with the election. The most sickening part of the election scam happened months before the election. Jeb Bush, brother of GW and governor of Florida stripped 10s of thousands of Florida voters of their most basic right as a citizen of a democracy (ignoring the whole "form of government" issue and just using the common parlance). The only reason he had for doing this is that they were largely black and *all* registered democrats. He did this in violation of Florida law and the US Constitution. Information is available at www.gregpalast.com among many other places.
Take this together with the fact that since in office Bush has raped the freedom of information act. The few rights left to we the people under this act he has specifically ordered all government offices to fight to the best of their abilities.
Now I agree that we do not live under a "tyranny" per se, but neither do we live under the government described in the constitution. When you have a member of a organized crime family who rigged an election and used the supreme court to gain a position where he could cement his power before the truth could come out as president, then it certainly isn't a democracy/republic or anything similar.
When the criminal thug proceeds to use his illegally attained office to strip our rights away in part to protect his father from criminal prosecution for his illegal actions while president, *allow* the single worst terrorist attack in the country's history so he could further strip our rights (patriot act etc.), and bomb the shit out of a stone age country because they wouldn't allow his oil company buddies to build a pipeline through their country, then it is much closer to a tyranny then you have the courage to allow yourself to see.
It is worth noting though that it only works because everyone is forced to pay this by law if they own a TV set.
I knew about this, but I'm curious about a few things. Do you pay if you own a set, or if you watch it? What if you decided to give up watching it for a year? Do you still have to pay?
I'm using Netscape 4.77 on a dual processor 533MHz G4 Power Macintosh with 256 MB of RAM (no slouch processor wise) running System 9.1, and when I scroll the page down, it takes about 20 seconds to render.
Actually, Netscape (pre 6) on a Mac (pre OSX anyway) Sucks serious ass at rendering large tables. This is a flaw in the OS/Application, not the HTML.
Well it's about time, we are the only government that does not support the businesses by the assistance of spying.
In the first place this is blatently false. See the Airbus case where Echelon was used to win Boeing a major contract.
Secondly no governments should be doing this. If other governments are doing this, then we need to take action on this, but not by doing the same thing. Two wrongs don't make a right and all of that.
Third, why should *my* taxes be used to prop up some huge corporation to make its executives even richer.
Click on the teeny arrow to the left of the desktop switching buttons.
Whoa... Cool! Not quite the same though. I see a mozilla icon over a Limewire icon with a Konsole icon in between. Enlightenment's pager showed the changing contents of the application windows not just the icons. You could also drag the windows around in the pager and have them move on your desktop.
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I think I am not alone in questioning your claim that most of the rest of the world hates us.
Most might be excessive. Most of the world is afraid of us isn't.
I am a patriotic American. If you don't question our fucked up policies and our illegally elected president, then you are not.
Wow. I guess I was right, all your claims are ridiculous.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. If you are not actively informing yourself rather than passively receiving the propaganda the major networks call news, then you are not doing your duty as a citizen of a free society.
Are you aware that Bush did not win when the full recount was done?
Are you also aware that the only reason the Florida election was even close was that his brother illegally disenfranchised somewhere around 80,000 voters?
If not you are not taking your responsibility seriously.
This was a major headline in England. This is why when Bush went there for the first time, he was seen as a usurper, not a legitimate president.
My claims are not ridiculous. You ignorance of the truth of it is not just ridiculous, but frighteningly ignorant.
If Jesus was, in fact, the eternal God then there is no such thing as "new evidence" from His perspective.
True enough, but the evidence is new to us, not him. Now while some things like don't kill are pretty clear, others are generally considered allegorical which new evidence can change the interpretations thereof.
Most christians I've discussed it with feel that the bible is the word of god filtered through man. New evidence changes the filter on the receiving end.
People who believe the bible is the absolute word of god in his own words, well... there really is no talking to those people at all. It requires way too much doublethink to believe that.
Common sense is necessary in religion, otherwise you become an easy target.
That's funny. All available evidence would seem to indicate that common sense and religion are mutually exclusive.
Thou shalt not kill..Well unless they're not christians and actually not "our" kind of christian.
Protestants do not adhere to the pope's dogmatic statements, they believe the bible as their last authority. As a relatively conervative Christian, I can't believe that these "Christians" don't think for themselves. WWJD is replaced with WWMPD
Not to be too harsh or anything, but this isn't thinking for yourself either. In some ways it's even worse. At least the Pope is alive in this time and can change ideas in response to new evidence. Basing everything on a book written thousands of years ago by people pushing agendas relevant to the time and their ability to maqintain power is not thinking freely.
Just because we're not joining up with the European Union(who keeps making it obvious they fucking hate us)
If you could pull your doublethinking head out of your ass, you might look around and start to wonder *why* most of the rest of the world hates us.
Off topic from Kyoto, but look at some of our other fucked up policies.
At the recent UN childrens summit, America threatened to refuse to sign any declaration that contained even oblique references to condoms and abortion.
This is in regards to adolescent pregnancy and AIDS. Who were the countries on our side in this? Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Syria, and The Vatican.
Who were against us (or more accurately for freedom) on this? The rest of the world.
This is one reason people fucking hate the US and rightly so. We claim to be free and anti terror, yet we push policies that only terrorists agree with.
I am a patriotic American.
If you don't question our fucked up policies and our illegally elected president, then you are not.
And now when that protection is no longer necessary you have audacity to accuse US of warmongering.
If protection is no longer necessary, and we're still pumping up our conventional military to unprecedented levels, how is this not war mongering?
Right. They have absolutely no choice but to blow up a bunch of innocent people.
No one is innocent.
Every reasonable person on the planet knows the US is the most violent and unjust nation in the world (at least in foreign policy issues).
If this is true, then 99% of the population of the US are not reasonable people.
I don't know if you're an American or not (I am), but it is terrifying to see the lengths people here will go to to ignore any and all evidence that America is not absolutely 100% the only free country in the world and we would never do anything that wasn't perfectly morally pure.
I was talking to one of my brothers about some of the things going on and since he actually takes seriously his responsibility as a member of a free society to inform himself, he knew about what I was saying. His wife on the other hand didn't want to hear it and when questioned said, "I just don't want to know".
She actually wants to have kids.
How sickening is that that a person who is scared to even look at the world she lives in wants to force aniother person to live in it.
I'm not ranting against people who have kids, but if you don't do it with your eyes open you are a very disturbed person.
And if I may ask one question about your little rant in the middle of that, what would you call a "suicide bomber?" Isn't that a person who blows you up with a bomb attached to themselves that in turn kills them (suicide)? I mean, what else can they be called?
They could be called "a person who is being repressed by other nations with such superior fire power that they have no other possible way of defending themselves".
Of course, the accurate description is somewhere in the middle of these two. Don't kid yourself, the Israelis (and the US) are every bit as much terrorists as the Palestinians just on a much greater scale.
.. I could think of a million others
We are no longer "citizens", we are "consumers".
We don't have "laws designed to create an industry of incarceration and create an industry for government agencies to make money destroying foreign nations", or a "war on personal freedom", we have a war on drugs.
who can keep it going?
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Well get to work then.
And what happened? Disco came SCREAMING back into popularity later.
;-)
I think you mean a few losers tried to bring it back and it quickly died again. In England though...uggh. I was there back in September and I learned that it never got unpopular. Now no offense to you Brits, I had a great time and most things about the culture and people were pretty cool. Heck, I'm even living with one of you
But how could you be that freaking dumb about anything.
Microsoft was merely acting as ISP in this case.
This has been said many times in this article, so I'm not picking on you specifically. I just picked this post to respond to.
MS was *not* acting as an ISP in this situation. Do you see where you said "on the site operated by Microsoft". In this situation they were a hosting provider. The picture was posted on some MSN community or similar. No one said that whoever posted the picture used them to dial up to the internet.
Further MS claims in their terms that they own all of the content on the site. So they are the host of the material and further they claim to own it as well. This makes them the publisher. In this case MS's draconian license scheme backfired and they *are* liable. If they had some disclaimer like at the top of this page:
then they would *not* have been liable. Since they provide the web space *and* they feel that this entitles them to ownership of anything anyone else makes and posts there, they got screwed in this case.
They banned bayonets with saw-toothed edges.
OK, so why did they ban these?
Anyhow its similiar to bayonets. As per the Geneva convention you can't sharpen bayonets.
I can at least see the justification for banning mines since they end up getting left there after the war is over, but why the hell would they ban sharpening bayonets?!?
Obviously you have no clue about the facts of the Election. Bush won in Florida the numbers prove it. Just because crooked Democrats have tried to "cook the books", does not mean that facts are facts. Go back to your U.F.O. sightings and crop circles and leave the real world to the rest of us.
I notice you fail to find anything to back yourself up with. Typical of cowards afraid to entertain any ideas besides those drummed into them to attack anyone who takes their responsibilities as a citizen of a free society seriously, to accuse them of being crazy when you are, through your death grip on your ignorance, the worst threat to the country I love.
And in the end that will be *bad* for most all users.
You spelled *good* wrong.
Is this the result of a court order, or is Microsoft actually trying to do something about their (bad) reputation as a psychotic monopolistic company?
The keyword is: Reputation.
What was it Allchin said about shouldn't have mentioned the fatal flaws cause they're workin' on their reputation.
. The problem with the last election was not a failure in the overall (macro) system, but a detail problem (micro) having to do with counting irregularities in one (or more) of the states. While post-election information indicates that at least one state's counting problems may have resulted in that state voting the wrong way, most of us will never truly know-- given the extremely close nature of the race in that state and the highly inaccurate methods used to tally the votes.
This is a frighteningly uninformed statement.
In the first place, we do *truly* know at this point. Bush lost in Florida, Gore won. This has been proven and certified. It isn't drilled into your head over and over on all the networks, but it has been reported.
The second and far more critical point is that this isn't even the real issue with the election.
The most sickening part of the election scam happened months before the election. Jeb Bush, brother of GW and governor of Florida stripped 10s of thousands of Florida voters of their most basic right as a citizen of a democracy (ignoring the whole "form of government" issue and just using the common parlance). The only reason he had for doing this is that they were largely black and *all* registered democrats. He did this in violation of Florida law and the US Constitution.
Information is available at www.gregpalast.com
among many other places.
Take this together with the fact that since in office Bush has raped the freedom of information act.
The few rights left to we the people under this act he has specifically ordered all government offices to fight to the best of their abilities.
Now I agree that we do not live under a "tyranny" per se, but neither do we live under the government described in the constitution.
When you have a member of a organized crime family who rigged an election and used the supreme court to gain a position where he could cement his power before the truth could come out as president, then it certainly isn't a democracy/republic or anything similar.
When the criminal thug proceeds to use his illegally attained office to strip our rights away in part to protect his father from criminal prosecution for his illegal actions while president, *allow* the single worst terrorist attack in the country's history so he could further strip our rights (patriot act etc.), and bomb the shit out of a stone age country because they wouldn't allow his oil company buddies to build a pipeline through their country, then it is much closer to a tyranny then you have the courage to allow yourself to see.
"You start losing marginal dollars when people who you thought you were buying are not viewing"
You completely missed what this quote was about and how utterly disgusting it is.
This has nothing to do with people buying or not buying products.
He is pissed because he thought he bought *you* and you're not doing what you are told (watch the commercials)
It is worth noting though that it only works because everyone is forced to pay this by law if they own a TV set.
I knew about this, but I'm curious about a few things.
Do you pay if you own a set, or if you watch it?
What if you decided to give up watching it for a year? Do you still have to pay?
What if you have more than one TV?
I'm using Netscape 4.77 on a dual processor 533MHz G4 Power Macintosh with 256 MB of RAM (no slouch processor wise) running System 9.1, and when I scroll the page down, it takes about 20 seconds to render.
Actually, Netscape (pre 6) on a Mac (pre OSX anyway) Sucks serious ass at rendering large tables. This is a flaw in the OS/Application, not the HTML.
Well it's about time, we are the only government that does not support the businesses by the assistance of spying.
In the first place this is blatently false.
See the Airbus case where Echelon was used to win Boeing a major contract.
Secondly no governments should be doing this. If other governments are doing this, then we need to take action on this, but not by doing the same thing. Two wrongs don't make a right and all of that.
Third, why should *my* taxes be used to prop up some huge corporation to make its executives even richer.
Well, thankfully, Disney can't bribe the Justices with money for their reelection coffers.
No, they can just bribe them with money for their bank accounts.
Click on the teeny arrow to the left of the desktop switching buttons.
Whoa... Cool!
Not quite the same though.
I see a mozilla icon over a Limewire icon with a Konsole icon in between.
Enlightenment's pager showed the changing contents of the application windows not just the icons.
You could also drag the windows around in the pager and have them move on your desktop.