Political, medical, language science, economics, and history (just to name a few) are ones obviously influenced by all kinds of cultural and political biases.
That's why they're mostly not 'hard' sciences. (Medical research is in general, but when you're actually treating patients you don't keep on doing double-blind trials with placebo doses because you may kill quite a few people who needed the drugs.)
Terrorists don't usually attack in mobs - in fact, almost never. Thus, any non-lethal crowd control weapon is going to do fuck-all good against Al-Qaeda.
Established facts:
1) There were no WMDs
2) We all thought there were WMDs
No, we didn't. Most of the world were unconvinced and thought any invasion was a bad idea.
Honestly, I thought that there was no way Bush would go into Iraq given the complete lack of solid evidence and no UN mandate to do so. Guess I'll know better next time. Maybe they way he was pissing all over a bunch of international treaties in his first few years should have given me a clue.
"#In 1985, Air India Flight 182 was blown up over the Atlantic by:
a. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
b. Bill O'Reilly
c. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
d. Indian Sikh extremists, in retaliation for the Indian Army's attack on the Golden Temple shrine in Amritsar
# In 1986, who attempted to smuggle three pounds of explosives onto an El Al jetliner bound from London to Tel Aviv?
a. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
b. Michael Smerconish
c. Bob Mould
d. A pregnant Irishwoman named Anne Murphy
# In 1962, in the first-ever successful sabotage of a commercial jet, a Continental Airlines 707 was blown up with dynamite over Missouri by:
a. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
b. Ann Coulter
c. Henry Rollins
d. Thomas Doty, a 34-year-old American passenger, as part of an insurance scam
# In 1994, who nearly succeeding in skyjacking a DC-10 and crashing it into the Federal Express Corp. headquarters?
a. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
b. Michelle Malkin
c. Charlie Rose
d. Auburn Calloway, an off-duty FedEx employee and resident of Memphis, Tenn.
# In 1974, who stormed a Delta Air Lines DC-9 at Baltimore-Washington Airport, intending to crash it into the White House, and shot both pilots?
a. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
b. Joe Scarborough
c. Spalding Gray
d. Samuel Byck, an unemployed tire salesman from Philadelphia
Cops come in and tell you to stand up, else there will be consequences... if the idiot decided to resist then he deserves to be tasered.
No.
In his own country, he would have been shot.
His own country is the US.
Maybe the cops should have just shot him and make him feel at home... but then again, if police were allowed to do their job, then he wouldn't have felt he could mouth off like a little immature kid.
"The U.S. government conducted a series of secret war games in 1999 that anticipated an invasion of Iraq would require 400,000 troops, and even then chaos might ensue."
Which is what nobody seems to get nowadays. Does anyone think that had someone else been in charge they would have brought western style democracy to Iraq?
Well, yes. I seem to remember half the fucking planet - including the Pentagon - pointing that out before the war.
"Can anyone out there go through this piece and tell me why it might be wrong?"... The author of the Telegraph piece is Christopher Monckton, a retired journalist and former policy advisor to Margaret Thatcher.
I've spotted two dead giveaways and I haven't even Read The Fine Article yet.
Web 2.0 - it solves the halting problem! It violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics! It makes your tea and washes the dog! It's a floor wax and a dessert topping! Web 2.0 will not pollute your precious bodily fluids!
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Someone obviously forgot about it.
"Fuck a mild mannered apology on page 10. The only honest way for the New York Times to deal with this shit would have been to run a big-ass banner headline that says 'WHY THE HELL ARE YOU STILL READING US? DOES JUDITH MILLER HAVE TO KILL YOU HERSELF?'"
If we can all make cellphone calls reliably, the terrorists have won!
You don't like Bush. But stand up and have some principles. Otherwise you are no better than he is.
Well, apart from not having killed hundreds of thousands of people. Which is quite important.
... even on Windows :p
Political, medical, language science, economics, and history (just to name a few) are ones obviously influenced by all kinds of cultural and political biases.
That's why they're mostly not 'hard' sciences. (Medical research is in general, but when you're actually treating patients you don't keep on doing double-blind trials with placebo doses because you may kill quite a few people who needed the drugs.)
Someone beat you to it, and that's 8 years, not 7.
I prefer 20061214 - date order is ASCII order so your directory listings come out nicely and there's no ambiguity.
Of course, the real freaks state it as seconds since epoch.
Landmines are cheap as chips - unfortunately - hence this is not likely to replace them any time soon.
Terrorists don't usually attack in mobs - in fact, almost never. Thus, any non-lethal crowd control weapon is going to do fuck-all good against Al-Qaeda.
They had sued Irix instead of IBM
Believe me, there are times when I would have loved to sue IRIX, but you'd have to settle for suing SGI - who make the IRIX Operating System.
Worse than that, he sells SCO OpenServer.
Established facts:
1) There were no WMDs
2) We all thought there were WMDs
No, we didn't. Most of the world were unconvinced and thought any invasion was a bad idea.
Honestly, I thought that there was no way Bush would go into Iraq given the complete lack of solid evidence and no UN mandate to do so. Guess I'll know better next time. Maybe they way he was pissing all over a bunch of international treaties in his first few years should have given me a clue.
Or if you didn't mean that, try this quiz:
"#In 1985, Air India Flight 182 was blown up over the Atlantic by:
a. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
b. Bill O'Reilly
c. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
d. Indian Sikh extremists, in retaliation for the Indian Army's attack on the Golden Temple shrine in Amritsar
# In 1986, who attempted to smuggle three pounds of explosives onto an El Al jetliner bound from London to Tel Aviv?
a. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
b. Michael Smerconish
c. Bob Mould
d. A pregnant Irishwoman named Anne Murphy
# In 1962, in the first-ever successful sabotage of a commercial jet, a Continental Airlines 707 was blown up with dynamite over Missouri by:
a. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
b. Ann Coulter
c. Henry Rollins
d. Thomas Doty, a 34-year-old American passenger, as part of an insurance scam
# In 1994, who nearly succeeding in skyjacking a DC-10 and crashing it into the Federal Express Corp. headquarters?
a. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
b. Michelle Malkin
c. Charlie Rose
d. Auburn Calloway, an off-duty FedEx employee and resident of Memphis, Tenn.
# In 1974, who stormed a Delta Air Lines DC-9 at Baltimore-Washington Airport, intending to crash it into the White House, and shot both pilots?
a. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
b. Joe Scarborough
c. Spalding Gray
d. Samuel Byck, an unemployed tire salesman from Philadelphia
The answer, in all cases, is D."
and mod this funny ...
WindowsME aka WindowsMErde
Remember, KitchenAid doesn't kill people - your wife's muffins kill people. :p
Then we'll all have to start coding in Pascal (which stores length, then string). The horror! The horror!
Cops come in and tell you to stand up, else there will be consequences... if the idiot decided to resist then he deserves to be tasered.
No.
In his own country, he would have been shot.
His own country is the US.
Maybe the cops should have just shot him and make him feel at home... but then again, if police were allowed to do their job, then he wouldn't have felt he could mouth off like a little immature kid.
Then what is the first amendment for exactly?
Er, no. "1999 war games foresaw problems in Iraq".
Yes, but a brain-damaged chimp with a porn fixation is too good for tech support.
You can do comments in perl ? Tell me more.
"Can anyone out there go through this piece and tell me why it might be wrong?" ...
The author of the Telegraph piece is Christopher Monckton, a retired journalist and former policy advisor to Margaret Thatcher.
I've spotted two dead giveaways and I haven't even Read The Fine Article yet.
Web 2.0 - it solves the halting problem! It violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics! It makes your tea and washes the dog! It's a floor wax and a dessert topping! Web 2.0 will not pollute your precious bodily fluids!