Clearly Islam and Nazism are not the same. Or are they? Take an objective look at it (as objective as I can be through the filter of being Irish Catholic) like this: Both ideologies hate Jews, and fundimentaly, are anti-Christian as well. Christianity, like it or not, is the underpinning of western civilization, particularly in America. Read the founding fathers' works sometime. Props also to the Roman Republic. Anyway, Hitler was hell-bent on world domination, as was Islam in its early days, and still is if these alleged "extreamists" aren't that "extream" afterall, which they may not be. Osama bin Laden won't stop until everyone is on a prayr rug facing Mecca or dead. It doesn't matter if you vote for Bush or Kerry or Godzilla. It doesn't matter if you are in the KKK or marching in the streats with a red flag advocating utopian socialism. It's all evil unless it is fundamentalist Islam. The same could be said of people like Pat Robertson, but no one ever hijacked an airplane or murdered children in a shopping mall because of Pat Robertson. Sure, people have done some diabolical things in the name of Christ. However, the crusades were a military operation bent on keeping evil invaders from the east out. Rome and Persia had been going at it for centuries before. Christianity v. Islam is just an extension of taht fight. Sure, not all muslims are evil terrorists. There was also Schindler, so I guess not all nazis were bad people, either. People like my mother (a spanish teacher who was a romance language major at Princeton, now working on her masters and doctorate in Spanish and 2ndary Education via William and Mary), and persumably yourself, will point to the so-called "golden age" of Spain, durring the time the Moores ruled. Well guess what, the alleged "golden age" is a bullshit story concotaed by the British as a propaganda measure to justify alling with the Ottoman Empire. Islam is fundimentally agaisnt Christianity and Judaism. They were brutal and oppressive just like the Soviet Union, the DPRC, Cuba, et cetera. Frankly, I do not belive that the Persians and Arabs went from worshiping dark angles, djins, and the necronomicon to comming back into favor with the Hebrew God, when they have been the sworn enemies of the Jews since Abraham stuck his dick in that whore and knocked her up while thinking that Sara was barren and unable to have kids. I firmly belive that the Islam is a guise for Satanism and that if there is ever going to be a last "great battle" between "good and evil," it is going to be the Christian West vs. the Islamic and/or Communist East. Religion aside, as frankly all theocracies are bad (Civil Government should be composed of individuals who are moral and realize that all rights come from God and that government protects rights, not grants/restricts rights), the establishment of a totalitarian regime that is fundimentally anti-Jewish, anti-Christian, anti-free thought, et cetera, is exactly the aim of Hitler and Bin Laden. It was the goal of Stalin, Mao, and Castro (not Che; he was a good man). It is also the traditional goal of Satan throughout the centuries. Therefor we can assume that they are all in league. Saddam thought Stalin was the greatest thing since sliced bread. It has been proven that Al Queda gave money to Neo-Nazi groups in Europe just because they were anti-Jewish. I am all for "tollerance," but that means I'll put up with Islam. I will never accept it, nor do I expect them to accept Christianity. I believe I am correct and they are not, but they believe the same thing. People shouldn't change beliefes without imperical data showing them to be wrong, or at least a VERY sound Philosophical argument. Otherwise I do not respect them (like John Kerry. Vote Michael Peroutka in '04). However, tollerance can only go so far. Everything has a place. Everyone has a place (while I am a believer in oligarchy and the Roman Republic, I believe everyone should have the chance to better their station in life and then recieve the extra rights
While I am going to start with the disclaimer: I am NOT comparing Gates to Hitler or Software Patents to the Holocaust.
The guy that runs the VA Holocaust Museum in Richmond, VA, spent like, a year as a child living in a potatoe cellar dug into a field in eastern europe to escape the SS and certain death. When he asks tour groups "do you think that the holocaust could ever happen again?" they say no. Predicibly, they answer the same when he asks "do you think it could ever happen in the USA?"
He then gets rather livid. You would think that people who hear stories from previous visiters would have figured it out. He insists, and rightly so, that as soon as you write it off as a possibility, and say "it'll never happen here," or "never again, anywhere," that is exactly when it will. There are evil people and there are stupid people. Evil people prey on stupid people, and that is how they get away with it.
Don't let yourself be caught unaware. Don't let your guard down. Otherwise, Nazism can rise again, Communism can rise again, Islam could conqure Europe again, or Microsoft could take away our ability to exercise freedom of speach and press by controlling the only medium available with a still-low-enough barrier to entry. The death camps wouldn't have been possible without IBM. Who knows where we are being forced to goto today?
I am 6'4", was 260 in high school, now 330 but can press another 100 pounds than i could in my senior year, i guess it's about even... I was riddiculed, called "gay," (it turns out my best friend and the "hardware kid" in our duo/is/ gay), beaten up, et cetera ad nausum. I'm one huge fucking Paddy, but it didn't matter... they picked on me for being Irish, too. It was Columbine that got people to leave me alone. All the real pyshical attacks happened in jr. high school. columbine happened my freshman year. i am known gun enthusiast and 2nd amendment advocate with ties to the Republic of Texas (I live in Virginia though) and IRA. After Columbine, no one wanted to take a chance because they were affraid I would kill them all. I perhaps would have, had I been continuously subjected to beatings by groups. I have no qualms with revenge, as I can just confess and get myself out of being hellbound. Besides, if women can kill abusive husbands premptivly before the next beating and get off as "self defense," I am sure I could argue the same. It wouldn't have been a "massacre" as much as a "targeted strike." These days, I'd just blame G.W. as being a bad influence. In my senior year, my best friend, who was the most beautiful girl in school (a goth chick thogh, so not popular; was runner up and won "spirit" award (don't ask me how) for Miss Teen Virginia) and I started "going steady." this spared me all of the emotional trauma of being called "gay" or not being included in anything. I also learned to play guitar. You should all go learn an instrument. This is what got her to go with me after 5 years of asking.
I know and trust my computers. They have their quriks but I know how to work around them. It is the same with my Yukon (like a Suburban, but 18" shorter). Hell, it can be the same with people, too. I know my priest and I trust him. I won't automagically have the same amount of trust for another priest just because he has the same office. My iBook G4 has some sort of trackpad issue. I know how to work around it. My father tried to use it and he hates it. I hate the computer that I have to use at school, but always use the same one rather than a different one even though they are all "exactly the same" just out familiarity. This machine runs Windows 2000 Pro jsut now. I bought it from eRacks running FreeBSD. I built the computer I had before that (started out as an AMD K6 400Mhz and then moved to Dual Celeron 366Mhz). I loved that machine because I knew EVERYTHING about it. I knew exactly what all the hardware was. I hated having to install Linux or BSD on a machine "back in the day" if it wasn't my box because I didn't know the hardware and configuring X or the network card was a real bitch. Once you become familiar with a product, person, or dog, you can work around the flaws. I don't think that it's really that people "love" a specific machine (except Macintoshes), rather than they know what to expect and the get comfort out of that. I know this is the case for me.
the male teacher would not work the same. People are driven for the younger, more viril, healthy, semtrical person who would make the best mate and produce children capeable of carrying on the species successfully... at least, that is what was intended. God sort of fucked up when he included "free will" as a factor in otherwise basic, predictible biology.
If, as you say, they are so grand at "weeding out the chaff," then how come with all these talented super-geniuses do their products tend to be so flawed? That would indicate a desire to make some really bad shit. Now, don't get me wrong -- while i primarily use my iBook G4 12" (800Mhz, 256MB of RAM), I actually rather like Windows 2000 Professional. It was more or less "done right" for what Windows is intended for. All the DRM ramblings aside in their new products, why does XP suck so much? Seriously. And why were Windows 95, 98, and as I hear (i never used it myself), ME such abismal failures (unless you count success in $billions, which as a product is true; as software is not true)? According to that Bob Cringly documentary from a few years back, Gates had intended to surround himself with only the best and brightest who were most capible. Reading Slashdot you would think they are all morons or evil. I doubt either is true. Bugs or not, no code is perfect. Windows is incredbily complex and is bound to have even a few hundred bugs in so many millions of lines of code. That is to be expected. But many of the "bugs" are such gapeing holes and bad design decisions that one must conculde that either they are in fact idiots, or are involved in some sort of evil master plan. I am sure that Slashdot readers will be more than willing to select "evil master plan" as their most popular choice, but i am not so sure. I suspect it to be a mystery that we cannot solve from such distance. Maybe if we were to infiltrate Redmond and discover who, in fact, these people really are...
Interactive Reality may require a larger investment in order to get a satisfieing level of game play, but the rewards are better, not to mention the graphics are like none other, and the tactile interface is truely ground breaking. Unfortunatly, i am a broke student and can't afford to play. My stack of quarters will only go so far, so I am stuck in the "pinball" level.
the PC model is kind of really not that good of an idea, all things concidered. I am sure those of who are network admins or some such at companies know that individual PCs on the desks of the employees is headache central. Why not take the terminal server model into the homes? There would need to be only one machine, it could sit in the closet w/ the cable modem or whatever, out of the way. Perhaps with a CD changer or virtual disk mirrors to keep it from really needing to be accessed. Then there could be wireless heads around the house, one for each member of the family, say. Then everyone can use the computer at the same time and need only one copy of the OS, anti-virus, et cetera. It'd be a lot neater to handle.
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i have used a trackball for several years. the cord is irrelevent. Also, a trackpad on my iBook G4.
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what makes this different than bluetooth, and what really are the benefits of wireless keyboards and mice and stuff anyway? Sure, I can sit far away from the computer, but then i cannot see to read the monitor.
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I more or less forced my family into the posititon of working on a FreeBSD workstation running Gnome. My sister, who has recently turned 18 has adapted amazingly well, as has my mother. My dad couldn't really use a windows computer, so i guess he's the "control" group saying it is equally has difficult. I took back my 1.2Ghz Celeron w/ 1GB of RAM because they were not actually/doing/ anything and I needed my server back. Now all parties are well served. I login via SSH w/ forwared X11 via my iBook G4 and do what I need to do on the FreeBSD machine. They use it physically. GNOME is "good enough" the way it is. Personally, I wouldn't attempt to make my grandparnts change. My grandpa is 91 and my grandma is 81. They don't really use their computer much, but can do what they do (email and that's about it). For christs sake, they're old enough, you know? why make them suffer more over so trivial an issue?
First of all, I will agree taht policing the world is stupid. However, I also believe that the rest of the world is irrelevant except as a market for goods that should be produced here and shipped abroad. importing crap is stupid. importing european luxory items is ok. however, over 20,000 people died in one day invading Normandy. less than 800 of died in over a year in Iraq. When did this county become so pussy about death? Also, al-Sadr committed murder. An Iraqi court issued a warrent for his arrest. This is known as the rule of law. On the topic of the newspaper, Iraq has no first amendment protection, so shutting down subversive propoganda is OK. Also, why vote anyone but bush? You mean Kerry, don't you? Democrats are lieing sneeks bent on selling out American soverignty to the UN and other such Marxist-Leninist organizations. I am not voting for Bush, but not because I dislike Bush, but rather because I like my party's candidate. Why not try voting for who you like rather than just voting agaisnt who you don't? Personally, I think we should pull our troops out and carpet nuke the entire middle east, plus afganistan and pakistan, and north africa. I hate Islam and think we need to finish the crussades. However, why am I against the war? Because congress did not declare war. They must do so. There is no other constitutional means for the deployment of troops. Also, a standing army is unconstitutional, plus in blatant opposition to the writings of the founding fathers. We have a 2nd amendment for a reason -- protecting ourselves, property, and state. We do not need a standing army, but rather to call up the militia if we need to fight. We can have as many Marines as we want, though, because they are Department of the Navy, and the Navy is constitutional. Further, al-Sadr is funded by Iran. He is a terrorist fundamentalist and he needs to be stoped before he turns into another bin laden. you, sir, hate America and are a seditionist. Please go fuck yourself, hippie.
it is the same here in America. if I have already committed a crime, they have to keep their mouths shut. But if one is not telling the operator, merely using the opperator to tell someone else, that would make them an accessory or a conspiritor, i suspect. For instance, a client can tell his lawyer he did it and no biggie. However, if the lawyer passes notes to/from the guy's mob buddies, then he can be indicited as an accessory to the crime. i don't know if this is different or not.
William Dean Freeman PO Box 931 Gloucester, VA, 23061 21 June, 1984 (I do not believe in Socail Security) Straight Laura Haase Constitution Party of VA (804)815-6114
No where do you have a constitutional right to privacy. While it is implied by the 9th and 10th amendments, it is not the same as "being secure in your person and property." People should stand up and take responsibility for themselves. Do I have things to hide? Yes. Is who I am one of them? No. We have freedom of speach so that we don't have to hide who we are when speaking out.
If the operator is, by law, required to facilitate the conversation, what happens if it is blatantly illegal, such as a terrorist plot, or a deal for kiddy porn or drugs? the operator is required to keep the conversation confidentail? It is not like there can't be deaf criminals. And besides, if these people are not even deaf, what is to say that the same thing can not be done by criminals or terrorists? is the opperator still required to facilitate the conversation and keep quiet? isn't that then like, being an accessory to the crime, maybe even conspiricy? If they call the police, then is that evidence or witness testimony inadmissible for breaking the confidentiality of the service?
There is usually a little wiggle room. Besides, people can talk about whatever the hell they want. I'm just going to post news. Anyway, i am hoping to draw out liberals in order to get them to rant and rave and show their true colours as being afraid of the truth.
While the USA (as well as any country that won independence from the "old world") was founded by terrorists, the countries of Europe were founded by brutal dictators (except Ireland; they really were founded by "terrorists"). It's all in how you look at it. That said, I'll go with the terrorists than the brutal dictators any day. Erin go Bragh and One Nation, Under God. Neither flag shall bow to any earthly king.
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i'll find you and kill you bitch! I'll kick you in the NUTS!! DIE!!!
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Clearly Islam and Nazism are not the same. Or are they? Take an objective look at it (as objective as I can be through the filter of being Irish Catholic) like this:
Both ideologies hate Jews, and fundimentaly, are anti-Christian as well. Christianity, like it or not, is the underpinning of western civilization, particularly in America. Read the founding fathers' works sometime. Props also to the Roman Republic.
Anyway, Hitler was hell-bent on world domination, as was Islam in its early days, and still is if these alleged "extreamists" aren't that "extream" afterall, which they may not be. Osama bin Laden won't stop until everyone is on a prayr rug facing Mecca or dead. It doesn't matter if you vote for Bush or Kerry or Godzilla. It doesn't matter if you are in the KKK or marching in the streats with a red flag advocating utopian socialism. It's all evil unless it is fundamentalist Islam. The same could be said of people like Pat Robertson, but no one ever hijacked an airplane or murdered children in a shopping mall because of Pat Robertson. Sure, people have done some diabolical things in the name of Christ. However, the crusades were a military operation bent on keeping evil invaders from the east out. Rome and Persia had been going at it for centuries before. Christianity v. Islam is just an extension of taht fight.
Sure, not all muslims are evil terrorists. There was also Schindler, so I guess not all nazis were bad people, either.
People like my mother (a spanish teacher who was a romance language major at Princeton, now working on her masters and doctorate in Spanish and 2ndary Education via William and Mary), and persumably yourself, will point to the so-called "golden age" of Spain, durring the time the Moores ruled. Well guess what, the alleged "golden age" is a bullshit story concotaed by the British as a propaganda measure to justify alling with the Ottoman Empire. Islam is fundimentally agaisnt Christianity and Judaism. They were brutal and oppressive just like the Soviet Union, the DPRC, Cuba, et cetera.
Frankly, I do not belive that the Persians and Arabs went from worshiping dark angles, djins, and the necronomicon to comming back into favor with the Hebrew God, when they have been the sworn enemies of the Jews since Abraham stuck his dick in that whore and knocked her up while thinking that Sara was barren and unable to have kids. I firmly belive that the Islam is a guise for Satanism and that if there is ever going to be a last "great battle" between "good and evil," it is going to be the Christian West vs. the Islamic and/or Communist East.
Religion aside, as frankly all theocracies are bad (Civil Government should be composed of individuals who are moral and realize that all rights come from God and that government protects rights, not grants/restricts rights), the establishment of a totalitarian regime that is fundimentally anti-Jewish, anti-Christian, anti-free thought, et cetera, is exactly the aim of Hitler and Bin Laden. It was the goal of Stalin, Mao, and Castro (not Che; he was a good man). It is also the traditional goal of Satan throughout the centuries. Therefor we can assume that they are all in league.
Saddam thought Stalin was the greatest thing since sliced bread. It has been proven that Al Queda gave money to Neo-Nazi groups in Europe just because they were anti-Jewish.
I am all for "tollerance," but that means I'll put up with Islam. I will never accept it, nor do I expect them to accept Christianity. I believe I am correct and they are not, but they believe the same thing. People shouldn't change beliefes without imperical data showing them to be wrong, or at least a VERY sound Philosophical argument. Otherwise I do not respect them (like John Kerry. Vote Michael Peroutka in '04).
However, tollerance can only go so far. Everything has a place. Everyone has a place (while I am a believer in oligarchy and the Roman Republic, I believe everyone should have the chance to better their station in life and then recieve the extra rights
Purposely misspelling product names like "M$" and "Windowze" does not reflect well on the community and makes you look like a moron.
While I am going to start with the disclaimer: I am NOT comparing Gates to Hitler or Software Patents to the Holocaust.
The guy that runs the VA Holocaust Museum in Richmond, VA, spent like, a year as a child living in a potatoe cellar dug into a field in eastern europe to escape the SS and certain death. When he asks tour groups "do you think that the holocaust could ever happen again?" they say no. Predicibly, they answer the same when he asks "do you think it could ever happen in the USA?"
He then gets rather livid. You would think that people who hear stories from previous visiters would have figured it out. He insists, and rightly so, that as soon as you write it off as a possibility, and say "it'll never happen here," or "never again, anywhere," that is exactly when it will. There are evil people and there are stupid people. Evil people prey on stupid people, and that is how they get away with it.
Don't let yourself be caught unaware. Don't let your guard down. Otherwise, Nazism can rise again, Communism can rise again, Islam could conqure Europe again, or Microsoft could take away our ability to exercise freedom of speach and press by controlling the only medium available with a still-low-enough barrier to entry. The death camps wouldn't have been possible without IBM. Who knows where we are being forced to goto today?
but that means that you have to take the time to inspect what you are stealing. it is easier to just take /everything/ and figure it out later.
I am 6'4", was 260 in high school, now 330 but can press another 100 pounds than i could in my senior year, i guess it's about even... /is/ gay), beaten up, et cetera ad nausum. I'm one huge fucking Paddy, but it didn't matter... they picked on me for being Irish, too.
I was riddiculed, called "gay," (it turns out my best friend and the "hardware kid" in our duo
It was Columbine that got people to leave me alone. All the real pyshical attacks happened in jr. high school. columbine happened my freshman year. i am known gun enthusiast and 2nd amendment advocate with ties to the Republic of Texas (I live in Virginia though) and IRA. After Columbine, no one wanted to take a chance because they were affraid I would kill them all. I perhaps would have, had I been continuously subjected to beatings by groups. I have no qualms with revenge, as I can just confess and get myself out of being hellbound. Besides, if women can kill abusive husbands premptivly before the next beating and get off as "self defense," I am sure I could argue the same. It wouldn't have been a "massacre" as much as a "targeted strike." These days, I'd just blame G.W. as being a bad influence.
In my senior year, my best friend, who was the most beautiful girl in school (a goth chick thogh, so not popular; was runner up and won "spirit" award (don't ask me how) for Miss Teen Virginia) and I started "going steady." this spared me all of the emotional trauma of being called "gay" or not being included in anything.
I also learned to play guitar. You should all go learn an instrument. This is what got her to go with me after 5 years of asking.
imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
I know and trust my computers. They have their quriks but I know how to work around them. It is the same with my Yukon (like a Suburban, but 18" shorter). Hell, it can be the same with people, too. I know my priest and I trust him. I won't automagically have the same amount of trust for another priest just because he has the same office.
My iBook G4 has some sort of trackpad issue. I know how to work around it. My father tried to use it and he hates it. I hate the computer that I have to use at school, but always use the same one rather than a different one even though they are all "exactly the same" just out familiarity. This machine runs Windows 2000 Pro jsut now. I bought it from eRacks running FreeBSD. I built the computer I had before that (started out as an AMD K6 400Mhz and then moved to Dual Celeron 366Mhz). I loved that machine because I knew EVERYTHING about it. I knew exactly what all the hardware was. I hated having to install Linux or BSD on a machine "back in the day" if it wasn't my box because I didn't know the hardware and configuring X or the network card was a real bitch.
Once you become familiar with a product, person, or dog, you can work around the flaws. I don't think that it's really that people "love" a specific machine (except Macintoshes), rather than they know what to expect and the get comfort out of that. I know this is the case for me.
you're merely too SCSI for your computer to want to mate with you!!
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I have trouble myself... according to my internet personals i'm not 'IBM Compatible'
the male teacher would not work the same. People are driven for the younger, more viril, healthy, semtrical person who would make the best mate and produce children capeable of carrying on the species successfully... at least, that is what was intended. God sort of fucked up when he included "free will" as a factor in otherwise basic, predictible biology.
If, as you say, they are so grand at "weeding out the chaff," then how come with all these talented super-geniuses do their products tend to be so flawed? That would indicate a desire to make some really bad shit.
Now, don't get me wrong -- while i primarily use my iBook G4 12" (800Mhz, 256MB of RAM), I actually rather like Windows 2000 Professional. It was more or less "done right" for what Windows is intended for. All the DRM ramblings aside in their new products, why does XP suck so much? Seriously. And why were Windows 95, 98, and as I hear (i never used it myself), ME such abismal failures (unless you count success in $billions, which as a product is true; as software is not true)?
According to that Bob Cringly documentary from a few years back, Gates had intended to surround himself with only the best and brightest who were most capible. Reading Slashdot you would think they are all morons or evil. I doubt either is true. Bugs or not, no code is perfect. Windows is incredbily complex and is bound to have even a few hundred bugs in so many millions of lines of code. That is to be expected. But many of the "bugs" are such gapeing holes and bad design decisions that one must conculde that either they are in fact idiots, or are involved in some sort of evil master plan. I am sure that Slashdot readers will be more than willing to select "evil master plan" as their most popular choice, but i am not so sure. I suspect it to be a mystery that we cannot solve from such distance. Maybe if we were to infiltrate Redmond and discover who, in fact, these people really are...
they could build like, a 1000 nuke plants in the death valley, bottle the electricity in dynamos, and ship it to places.
I don't like the cut of your jib, young man!
Interactive Reality may require a larger investment in order to get a satisfieing level of game play, but the rewards are better, not to mention the graphics are like none other, and the tactile interface is truely ground breaking.
Unfortunatly, i am a broke student and can't afford to play. My stack of quarters will only go so far, so I am stuck in the "pinball" level.
the PC model is kind of really not that good of an idea, all things concidered. I am sure those of who are network admins or some such at companies know that individual PCs on the desks of the employees is headache central.
Why not take the terminal server model into the homes? There would need to be only one machine, it could sit in the closet w/ the cable modem or whatever, out of the way. Perhaps with a CD changer or virtual disk mirrors to keep it from really needing to be accessed. Then there could be wireless heads around the house, one for each member of the family, say. Then everyone can use the computer at the same time and need only one copy of the OS, anti-virus, et cetera. It'd be a lot neater to handle.
i have used a trackball for several years. the cord is irrelevent. Also, a trackpad on my iBook G4.
what makes this different than bluetooth, and what really are the benefits of wireless keyboards and mice and stuff anyway? Sure, I can sit far away from the computer, but then i cannot see to read the monitor.
I more or less forced my family into the posititon of working on a FreeBSD workstation running Gnome. My sister, who has recently turned 18 has adapted amazingly well, as has my mother. My dad couldn't really use a windows computer, so i guess he's the "control" group saying it is equally has difficult. I took back my 1.2Ghz Celeron w/ 1GB of RAM because they were not actually /doing/ anything and I needed my server back. Now all parties are well served. I login via SSH w/ forwared X11 via my iBook G4 and do what I need to do on the FreeBSD machine. They use it physically.
GNOME is "good enough" the way it is. Personally, I wouldn't attempt to make my grandparnts change. My grandpa is 91 and my grandma is 81. They don't really use their computer much, but can do what they do (email and that's about it). For christs sake, they're old enough, you know? why make them suffer more over so trivial an issue?
First of all, I will agree taht policing the world is stupid. However, I also believe that the rest of the world is irrelevant except as a market for goods that should be produced here and shipped abroad. importing crap is stupid. importing european luxory items is ok.
however, over 20,000 people died in one day invading Normandy. less than 800 of died in over a year in Iraq. When did this county become so pussy about death? Also, al-Sadr committed murder. An Iraqi court issued a warrent for his arrest. This is known as the rule of law. On the topic of the newspaper, Iraq has no first amendment protection, so shutting down subversive propoganda is OK.
Also, why vote anyone but bush? You mean Kerry, don't you? Democrats are lieing sneeks bent on selling out American soverignty to the UN and other such Marxist-Leninist organizations. I am not voting for Bush, but not because I dislike Bush, but rather because I like my party's candidate. Why not try voting for who you like rather than just voting agaisnt who you don't?
Personally, I think we should pull our troops out and carpet nuke the entire middle east, plus afganistan and pakistan, and north africa. I hate Islam and think we need to finish the crussades.
However, why am I against the war? Because congress did not declare war. They must do so. There is no other constitutional means for the deployment of troops. Also, a standing army is unconstitutional, plus in blatant opposition to the writings of the founding fathers. We have a 2nd amendment for a reason -- protecting ourselves, property, and state. We do not need a standing army, but rather to call up the militia if we need to fight. We can have as many Marines as we want, though, because they are Department of the Navy, and the Navy is constitutional.
Further, al-Sadr is funded by Iran. He is a terrorist fundamentalist and he needs to be stoped before he turns into another bin laden. you, sir, hate America and are a seditionist. Please go fuck yourself, hippie.
You mean like rap names? "50 cent" "p-diddy" "snoop doggy dog" "what the fuck."
it is the same here in America. if I have already committed a crime, they have to keep their mouths shut. But if one is not telling the operator, merely using the opperator to tell someone else, that would make them an accessory or a conspiritor, i suspect. For instance, a client can tell his lawyer he did it and no biggie. However, if the lawyer passes notes to/from the guy's mob buddies, then he can be indicited as an accessory to the crime. i don't know if this is different or not.
William Dean Freeman
PO Box 931
Gloucester, VA, 23061
21 June, 1984
(I do not believe in Socail Security)
Straight
Laura Haase
Constitution Party of VA
(804)815-6114
No where do you have a constitutional right to privacy. While it is implied by the 9th and 10th amendments, it is not the same as "being secure in your person and property." People should stand up and take responsibility for themselves.
Do I have things to hide? Yes. Is who I am one of them? No. We have freedom of speach so that we don't have to hide who we are when speaking out.
If the operator is, by law, required to facilitate the conversation, what happens if it is blatantly illegal, such as a terrorist plot, or a deal for kiddy porn or drugs? the operator is required to keep the conversation confidentail? It is not like there can't be deaf criminals. And besides, if these people are not even deaf, what is to say that the same thing can not be done by criminals or terrorists?
is the opperator still required to facilitate the conversation and keep quiet? isn't that then like, being an accessory to the crime, maybe even conspiricy? If they call the police, then is that evidence or witness testimony inadmissible for breaking the confidentiality of the service?
There is usually a little wiggle room. Besides, people can talk about whatever the hell they want. I'm just going to post news. Anyway, i am hoping to draw out liberals in order to get them to rant and rave and show their true colours as being afraid of the truth.
While the USA (as well as any country that won independence from the "old world") was founded by terrorists, the countries of Europe were founded by brutal dictators (except Ireland; they really were founded by "terrorists"). It's all in how you look at it. That said, I'll go with the terrorists than the brutal dictators any day. Erin go Bragh and One Nation, Under God. Neither flag shall bow to any earthly king.
i'll find you and kill you bitch! I'll kick you in the NUTS!! DIE!!!