"Anyone notice how all the usual terrorist-coddling media sources referred to the suspects as being of south Asian origin? For crying out loud, call a spade a spade! The correct word is ARAB!"
The term "South Asia" is usually used to refer to the region around India. There are three countries in that area with huge Muslim populations: India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. With the exception of the inevitable few immigrants here and there, all of these Muslims are non-Arabs. Closer to the topic, the Pakistani bottle-bombers being referred to are Muslims, but aren't Arab in the least. This is probably news to you. I would guess you have the mistaken belief that Iranians are "Arabs" too.
"since by nature religions tell their followers that their religion is right, all others are wrong"
This is no less true for atheists than for other religions. The arrogance and prosylizing are present in atheism too.
"May I point out that no terrorist act was ever committed by atheists and that no war has ever been started by atheists"
1) Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
2) Chinese invasion of Tibet
3) Cuban war against Angola
Took ten seconds to think of those. There are probably a lot more. As for "religion of peace", you might want to check out the faith of Martin Luther King Jr, Gandhi, and many Buddhists.
"Take some porn and go to your downtown local metropolis. Now hand out those pornographic pictures to everyone, young and old alike"
Have you been to Las Vegas lately? That's exactly what is happening there now. These guys line the streets aggressively handing out what looks like hooker trading cards (really advertisements)
The "pen test" is to see whether it much easier, faster, safer, and cheaper to create a document using a pen and paper compared to booting up the computer and doing it there.
Your pirate neighbor (what, do you live on a WHARF???) should be able to get around this by launching his Windows in pirate mode. He has to boot to the command line, and then enter WIN.EXE -R -R -R. Also, has he considered the eyepatched system? It might be more useful to him than the "unpatched system" you mentioned.
Here's my suggestion for a new Microsoft Windows mascot. She's old enough to be public domain, she's tanned, she's rested, she's ready, and she's all patched to hell. All the better that Redmond is located in the vicinity of America's "Emerald City". Please, pay no attention to the borg behind the curtain.
"The Cyber Gnome here. Denouncer of computer myths. Who needs to download security patches? I don't, and I've never had any prob%$#@@@@#^_@_#@ NO CARRIER"
"Not because the Quran says so, incidently my understanding is that Islamic literature is very strongly worded to oppose attacking innocent civilians"
The terrorists merely stretch it a little to exclude anyone at their convenience from being an "innocent civilian" in their estimation. They do indeed justify it by the Quran.
"How do these tiny organisations achieve widespread popular suppport? What dissolusions the populace enough to side with organisations murdering innocent people?"
What disillusions them? Well, you can't underestimate the power of the "Madras" education system to instill ignorance, hatred, and fear. Another part of it has to do with the tendency, found throughout all humanity, of sometimes siding with the dashing rogue fighting a mighty power. Tightly controlled government media also fuel the hatred and ignorance.
"Terrorism has been around for a long time and usually the aim is to inspire a revolution so that the people might govern themselves"
Usually the aim is democracy? It would appear that usually the aim is much less democracy. Might as well mention the conflict in the northwestern United Kingdom. The IRA terrorists didn't want democracy. They instead wanted rule by a small ethnic minority over the majority in that area. The Muslim terrorists certainly want less democracy when they consistently want to roll back and remove participation of women.
The "oppressed people fighting back" idea is indeed too simplistic and explains little of the terrorist problem. Those who advance such theories usually have false premises about "Western imperialism" which descend from completely invalid Marxist theory, and also ignore Soviet imperialism (that's why the US is pretty popular in Nicaragua). The "economic sanctions by the west" you mention, in the case of Iraq, allowed food to come in. Saddam Hussein just chose to keep the food away from the people. "Displaced in the hundreds of thousands" doesn't cut it either: Muslim terrorist atrocities in the Israel area predates the mid 20th century, before these often voluntary "displacements".
Where do the international terrorists come from? Places like Saudi Arabia, and now Pakistan (not places that have terrorist leaders like Saddam who are under sanction). Men who are quite often rich or quite well off (not oppressed)
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"I STOPPED POKING THEM WITH STICKS WHILE STANDING ON THEIR NESTS"
That's when you learn to use a strong insecticide from a metre or two away.
"Impressing people? Sure, a wall of DVDs says "I've spent a lot of money".
Until they look closer and find out that every DVD is one of those $1.00 specials from Wal-Mart. REAL impressive!
Does this mean there will be a new day of the week devoted to patching the patchguard?
"Can it go over a waterfall or down some steep rapids?"
Still looking for a way to return to the Land of the Lost, Rick Marshall?
"And Fox news here in the U.S. would NEVER slander people using crude stereotypes on behalf of a fundamentalist religious group"
It wouldn't. Why would you think it would?
You mean George Washington really didn't go to war against the Confederacy in 1917 because they attacked Pearl Harbor????
The term "South Asia" is usually used to refer to the region around India. There are three countries in that area with huge Muslim populations: India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. With the exception of the inevitable few immigrants here and there, all of these Muslims are non-Arabs. Closer to the topic, the Pakistani bottle-bombers being referred to are Muslims, but aren't Arab in the least. This is probably news to you. I would guess you have the mistaken belief that Iranians are "Arabs" too.
"A Muslim from southeast Asia is likely to be Asian, not Arabic"
Likewise, a Muslim from Palestine, Syria, or Saudi Arabia is likely to be Asian and Arabic.
"You are wrong. The victim was Brazilian"
That really doesn't say what race the shooter and the shootee were. Brazilian is not a race.
"This incident was caused by racism and irrational fear"
What race did they belong to? I thought all involved were of the same race; correct me if I am wrong.
"Oh, yes, evil socialists"
That's about it. The idea that the government should run people's personal economic lives for them is a pretty bad one.
"We had a chance with aids, but we blew it."
You can say that again.
"Some Arab states being incorrectly blamed for supporting terrorism, and invaded and occupied on the flimsiest of pretexts"
Can you name one?
"since by nature religions tell their followers that their religion is right, all others are wrong"
This is no less true for atheists than for other religions. The arrogance and prosylizing are present in atheism too.
"May I point out that no terrorist act was ever committed by atheists and that no war has ever been started by atheists"
1) Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
2) Chinese invasion of Tibet
3) Cuban war against Angola
Took ten seconds to think of those. There are probably a lot more. As for "religion of peace", you might want to check out the faith of Martin Luther King Jr, Gandhi, and many Buddhists.
"I'm looking to complete the set, so if anyone has Foxy Downtown let me know, I'd be willing to trade."
You need to hook up with other collectors to play the game "Gasmic: The Gathering". You'll get a lot more cards that way.
"Not all of us want spam, do we have to impregnate some woman to be eligible for this kind of protection? :)... "
I see a new subject line coming soon to email boxes everywhere to advertise this:
"Fr3e S3x wiht OUR Russian Models to STOP SP4M"
"Remember after the 3rd Punic war the entire surrounds of Carthage was sewn with salt to render it useless."
How big of a needle did they use?
The troll side of the force is strong in this one.
Hungry is actually in the heart of Eastern Europe: http://travel.10best.com/packages/show_region.asp? regionid=EEUR
Maybe "Hungaria" is in Central Europe, whatever that country is!
"Take some porn and go to your downtown local metropolis. Now hand out those pornographic pictures to everyone, young and old alike"
Have you been to Las Vegas lately? That's exactly what is happening there now. These guys line the streets aggressively handing out what looks like hooker trading cards (really advertisements)
The "pen test" is to see whether it much easier, faster, safer, and cheaper to create a document using a pen and paper compared to booting up the computer and doing it there.
Your pirate neighbor (what, do you live on a WHARF???) should be able to get around this by launching his Windows in pirate mode. He has to boot to the command line, and then enter WIN.EXE -R -R -R. Also, has he considered the eyepatched system? It might be more useful to him than the "unpatched system" you mentioned.
Here's my suggestion for a new Microsoft Windows mascot. She's old enough to be public domain, she's tanned, she's rested, she's ready, and she's all patched to hell. All the better that Redmond is located in the vicinity of America's "Emerald City". Please, pay no attention to the borg behind the curtain.
"The Cyber Gnome here. Denouncer of computer myths. Who needs to download security patches? I don't, and I've never had any prob%$#@@@@#^_@_#@ NO CARRIER"
"Not because the Quran says so, incidently my understanding is that Islamic literature is very strongly worded to oppose attacking innocent civilians"
The terrorists merely stretch it a little to exclude anyone at their convenience from being an "innocent civilian" in their estimation. They do indeed justify it by the Quran.
"How do these tiny organisations achieve widespread popular suppport? What dissolusions the populace enough to side with organisations murdering innocent people?"
What disillusions them? Well, you can't underestimate the power of the "Madras" education system to instill ignorance, hatred, and fear. Another part of it has to do with the tendency, found throughout all humanity, of sometimes siding with the dashing rogue fighting a mighty power. Tightly controlled government media also fuel the hatred and ignorance.
"Terrorism has been around for a long time and usually the aim is to inspire a revolution so that the people might govern themselves"
Usually the aim is democracy? It would appear that usually the aim is much less democracy. Might as well mention the conflict in the northwestern United Kingdom. The IRA terrorists didn't want democracy. They instead wanted rule by a small ethnic minority over the majority in that area. The Muslim terrorists certainly want less democracy when they consistently want to roll back and remove participation of women.
The "oppressed people fighting back" idea is indeed too simplistic and explains little of the terrorist problem. Those who advance such theories usually have false premises about "Western imperialism" which descend from completely invalid Marxist theory, and also ignore Soviet imperialism (that's why the US is pretty popular in Nicaragua). The "economic sanctions by the west" you mention, in the case of Iraq, allowed food to come in. Saddam Hussein just chose to keep the food away from the people. "Displaced in the hundreds of thousands" doesn't cut it either: Muslim terrorist atrocities in the Israel area predates the mid 20th century, before these often voluntary "displacements".
Where do the international terrorists come from? Places like Saudi Arabia, and now Pakistan (not places that have terrorist leaders like Saddam who are under sanction). Men who are quite often rich or quite well off (not oppressed)