Actually, Americans did nothing to prevent the initial taking of Europe during either World War.
Actually... that is incorrect. FDR officially proposed the Lend-Lease program on December 17, 1940. This program would allow the "loan" of military supplies to Britain. In actuality, we had been supplying equipment before then. FDR was asked, after he signed the Lend-Lease bill into law, if the US had already been sending munitions and the like (there was a rumor going around) and he replied "We work fast, but not that fast." The US didn't actually enter the war until December 8, 1941, largely in part because the sentiment of the collective US citizenship was that of isolationism, although FDR was pushing hard toward a war with Germany anyway. After we declared war on Japan, Germany declared war on us, and of course, we declared a state of war toward Germany. FDR and Churchill agreed that Germany needed to be stopped first, and that's where many of our resources were directed. As for World War I, well... there isn't so much on the History Channel about it as there is World War II and I'm too lazy to do anything but remember facts off the top of my head. However, in WWII at least, we were helping out before we were officially involved...
As for the US spending 3 years with it's "big, noble tail tucked bravely between its legs"... for WWII, this is untrue. Germany attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, thus starting World War II. We entered 26 months later, 10 months short of 3 years. I'd assume you made a typo but 3 is the correct number for World War I (mid-1914 until we entered in early/mid-1917). I know it seems like nitpicking, but 10 months is a long time when it comes to a war. We got in there as soon as could.
I don't have anything against Canada (love it, have a cabin on P.E.I. and spend a fair amount of time in Toronto), nor am I some zealous patriot... I just like to see the facts being told. I'm sure you didn't know about Lend-Lease and whatnot, but I'd hate for you to be erroneously spreading information.
i've been reading 'em for as long as i can remember now, and i've been reading slashdot since august of '98 (under a different name, though)... a lot of the time they're really good, but many times they're horribly unfunny. i guess it all depends on sense of humor, mood, etc. but even so... some of 'em just really suck:)
the fun lies in going from sucking to bad to pretty alright to good to excellent, knowing that maybe one day you'll be a part of The Peacemakers, or at least one of their most worthy opponents. like everything else in life, it takes practice.
thanks for posting that. i'm inspired. sorta. and thanks for all the cool shit too. dunno what i'd do without xscreensaver or the fun of reading your gruntle:)
linux. slackware linux. you can't call linux unstable because one *useless* daemon in redhat crashes after three weeks. yes, qa testing should have gotten it. there's no doubt about that. but for someone as intelligent as you seem to be, you're throwing out generalizations that are just plain untrue.
as for "shitty open source software", i think you read from the wrong places then. i hardly ever have trouble with software, and certainly no more than i ever did when i used to use windows. besides - what do you call FreeBSD then? shitty open source software? i think not. how about thinking before you post mindless trash like this again?
hehe. sorry. found cutthroat island soundtrack on opennap:) it's pretty fast for me, but i'm on cable. go figure. if not opennap, there are other napster-like networks as well that work with gnapster. 'sallgood. i'm sure napigator supports them too if you're windows. and if you're mac... well... your own damn fault:)
opennap is already interconnected. *and* what are you talking about, crappy selection? as of right now, i see 4023 users, 3.527 *terabytes* of data (875,603 songs)... yeah. whew. *really* crappy selection. hardly have anything, these openNap types do...
it's like this: wolfenstein rocked. doom rocked. doom 2 rocked. ultimate doom rocked. quake *owned*... i've never had as much fun, before or since, as the days of playing quakeworld on my high school's t1 line after classes let out (or during class if the teacher snuck away for a while). quake2 multiplayer BLEW. the single player game was pretty fun, but who wants to play single player? and so i just never played it. i own it, but it's by far the least-played of my game collection. when quake3 came out, i had high hopes for it, and id delivered. gameplay is great. graphics are exceptional. and loki did a kickass job on the linux port. what's not to like? hell, i used to be huge on unreal tournament (even though it would segfault every once in a while, which seems to be fixed), but quake3 is the finest first person shooter around. or at least that's my stance until soldier of fortune gets here. hopefully real soon now, since loki shipped it a few days ago...
Mandrake is based very heavily on RedHat. At first, Mandrake was just a repackaging of RedHat. Abit's Gentus is also a repackaging of RedHat. So is LinuxOne *shudders*. Storm Linux and Corel are repackagings of Debian. I'd say that if it's a repackaging of a distribution, it belongs to the family. Or if it borrows heavily, such as Mandrake does now.
or mass-producing (on my 2x writer - yuck!) cds for a musician friend because she couldn't afford to have them pressed professionally. or backing up one's old windows stuff just in case they need it after they turn that 17.2 gig maxtor into a big ext2 partition. or just downloading a redhat or slackware iso after you've bought each about 4,000 times:) i think this move by cebit is silly, but a thousand people have already said it better than i. i just don't understand how they could be so blind to the benefits of mp3, even if the cost to the RIAA is great.
i spoke with the developer, rob flynn, and indeed, checking away messages is a function of OSCAR. that's why you can't do it with toc. if you compile with oscar support (or download the latest version and switch it on in the preferences) you have limited oscar support, including the reading of away messages. oscar also supports a slew of other features, such as the buddy icon, etc. toc really only provides limited file receive capability (though there is a hack in gaim where you can send a file - you need the person you're sending to to you send you a get file first) and basic chat functions. and that's it.
i dunno. your argument seems sorta silly. if you don't like the gpl, don't use it. don't like it, don't buy it. it just seems simple to me. if you don't want to release your source, don't use the gpl:)
The GPL is like making adultery illegal: a net loss of individual freedom for a net gain in morality.
i don't get it. how is the GPL limiting one's freedoms? the only thing i can think of is "well, you *have* to release your source then" - so use a different license. am i missing something here? it makes no sense to me. at all.
my dad owns a cessna and one time, when we *knew* we had the second tank full, we let the first tank run out... and even though we *knew* it was going to happen, it was still scary as hell hearing the engine stop...
yah, i dunno, haven't used it in a while, but i do remember needing to use the mouse, which is a horrendous pain in the ass. that's the problem with aim for linux now, but i submitted a feature request to them giving them a few things to tidy up. anyway, you might want to check out alternate gui's for licq. could be something that you're looking for.
i downloaded it and played with it. it's not something that took them months of hard labor to write. a talented coder (which aol has plenty of) could have churned it out in 10-15 hours i'm guessing. maybe less, maybe more. it's not very featurefull yet.
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Actually... that is incorrect. FDR officially proposed the Lend-Lease program on December 17, 1940. This program would allow the "loan" of military supplies to Britain. In actuality, we had been supplying equipment before then. FDR was asked, after he signed the Lend-Lease bill into law, if the US had already been sending munitions and the like (there was a rumor going around) and he replied "We work fast, but not that fast." The US didn't actually enter the war until December 8, 1941, largely in part because the sentiment of the collective US citizenship was that of isolationism, although FDR was pushing hard toward a war with Germany anyway. After we declared war on Japan, Germany declared war on us, and of course, we declared a state of war toward Germany. FDR and Churchill agreed that Germany needed to be stopped first, and that's where many of our resources were directed. As for World War I, well... there isn't so much on the History Channel about it as there is World War II and I'm too lazy to do anything but remember facts off the top of my head. However, in WWII at least, we were helping out before we were officially involved...
As for the US spending 3 years with it's "big, noble tail tucked bravely between its legs"... for WWII, this is untrue. Germany attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, thus starting World War II. We entered 26 months later, 10 months short of 3 years. I'd assume you made a typo but 3 is the correct number for World War I (mid-1914 until we entered in early/mid-1917). I know it seems like nitpicking, but 10 months is a long time when it comes to a war. We got in there as soon as could.
I don't have anything against Canada (love it, have a cabin on P.E.I. and spend a fair amount of time in Toronto), nor am I some zealous patriot... I just like to see the facts being told. I'm sure you didn't know about Lend-Lease and whatnot, but I'd hate for you to be erroneously spreading information.
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linux. slackware linux. you can't call linux unstable because one *useless* daemon in redhat crashes after three weeks. yes, qa testing should have gotten it. there's no doubt about that. but for someone as intelligent as you seem to be, you're throwing out generalizations that are just plain untrue.
as for "shitty open source software", i think you read from the wrong places then. i hardly ever have trouble with software, and certainly no more than i ever did when i used to use windows. besides - what do you call FreeBSD then? shitty open source software? i think not. how about thinking before you post mindless trash like this again?
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i don't get it. how is the GPL limiting one's freedoms? the only thing i can think of is "well, you *have* to release your source then" - so use a different license. am i missing something here? it makes no sense to me. at all.
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my dad owns a cessna and one time, when we *knew* we had the second tank full, we let the first tank run out... and even though we *knew* it was going to happen, it was still scary as hell hearing the engine stop...
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