I'm wondering: if anyone out there actually still trusts Microsoft (rhetoric: of course, some people do), is there any demonstrably good reason for that trust or are they just ignorant/apathetic?
I suppose another way to ask this question is why the Revolution(tm) hasn't come yet...
All the stupid people who thought war could make us safer are to blame for this. Thank you, Tony Blair. You stopped the IRA bombing london then started al Qaida doing it. Sheer fucking genius.
Your logic needs some work.
Frankly, I can't stand Bush and I definitely did not vote for him; however, he and Tony Blair are not to blame for these attacks despite the paths of action they have chosen for our respective countries. Cum hoc ergo propter hoc--you argue that since Bush and Blair have advocated these things (i.e., military action in Iraq), these attacks that have followed are a necessary and direct result of them. That's not right... correlation does not imply causation, and such a path of logic hardly places any kind of responsibility on the agents that actually committed this atrocity: the terrorists themselves.
What you have to remember is that these people are ideologically opposed to our way of life. They call my fellow Americans and I "infidels" and constituents of "the Great Satan." Unmitigated hatred motivates their actions, not some logical progression of thought. While our presence in the Middle East almost certainly gives them something to point at (as what any rational person would call little more than a feeble excuse), it is not the cause for this. We provoked the 9/11 attack by merely existing, and the instant we blame ourselves and one another for these heinous crimes these monsters have committed, we afford credence to their claims that we are, in essence, the Bad Guys(tm).
Don't blame Blair for the terrorism. Blame the terrorists, and the terrorists alone.
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We could even have a plugin in firefox that would warn or block a site that was known to have used spam.
What, you mean Outfoxed?
I'm wondering: if anyone out there actually still trusts Microsoft (rhetoric: of course, some people do), is there any demonstrably good reason for that trust or are they just ignorant/apathetic?
I suppose another way to ask this question is why the Revolution(tm) hasn't come yet...
All the stupid people who thought war could make us safer are to blame for this. Thank you, Tony Blair. You stopped the IRA bombing london then started al Qaida doing it. Sheer fucking genius.
Your logic needs some work.
Frankly, I can't stand Bush and I definitely did not vote for him; however, he and Tony Blair are not to blame for these attacks despite the paths of action they have chosen for our respective countries. Cum hoc ergo propter hoc--you argue that since Bush and Blair have advocated these things (i.e., military action in Iraq), these attacks that have followed are a necessary and direct result of them. That's not right... correlation does not imply causation, and such a path of logic hardly places any kind of responsibility on the agents that actually committed this atrocity: the terrorists themselves.
What you have to remember is that these people are ideologically opposed to our way of life. They call my fellow Americans and I "infidels" and constituents of "the Great Satan." Unmitigated hatred motivates their actions, not some logical progression of thought. While our presence in the Middle East almost certainly gives them something to point at (as what any rational person would call little more than a feeble excuse), it is not the cause for this. We provoked the 9/11 attack by merely existing, and the instant we blame ourselves and one another for these heinous crimes these monsters have committed, we afford credence to their claims that we are, in essence, the Bad Guys(tm).
Don't blame Blair for the terrorism. Blame the terrorists, and the terrorists alone.