A soldier would rather not be doing his job and while they think they have to kill they do not think they are going to heaven because they are doing it. A suicide bomber believes that by *intentionally* killing a bus of women, kids, and elderly they are earning heaven.
10 easy steps to create an enemy and start a war: Listen closely because we will all see this weapon used in our lives. It can be used on a society of the most ignorant to the most highly educated. We need to see these tactics as a weapon against humanity and not as truth.
THIS IS HOW TO CREATE AN ENEMY! THIS IS HOW TO START A WAR! THIS IS HOW TO CREATE AN ENEMY!
First step: create the enemy. Sometimes this will be done for you.
Second step: be sure the enemy you have chosen is nothing like you. Find obvious differences like race, language, religion, dietary habits Fashion. Emphasize that their soldiers are not doing a job, They are heartless murderers who enjoy killing!
Third step: Once these differences are established continue to reinforce them with all disseminated information.
Fourth step: Have the media broadcast only the ruling party's information This can be done through state run media. Remember, in times of conflict all for-profit media repeats the ruling party's information, therefore all for-profit media is state-run.
Fifth step: show this enemy in actions that seem strange, militant, or different. Always portray the enemy as non-human, evil, a killing machine.
Sixth step: Eliminate opposition to the ruling party. Create an "Us versus Them" mentality. Leave no room for opinions in between. One that does not support all actions of the ruling party should be considered a traitor.
Seventh step: Use nationalistic and/or religious symbols and rhetoric to define all actions. This can be achieved by slogans such as "freedom loving people versus those who hate freedom." This can also be achieved by the use of flags.
Eighth step: Align all actions with the dominant deity. It is very effective to use terms like, "It is god's will" or "god bless our nation."
Ninth step: Design propaganda to show that your soldiers Have feelings, hopes, families, and loved ones. Make it clear that your soldiers are doing a duty; they do not want or like to kill.
Tenth step: Create and atmosphere of fear, and instability Then offer the ruling party as the only solutions to comfort the public's fears. Remembering the fear of the unknown is always the strongest fear.
THIS IS HOW TO CREATE AN ENEMY! THIS IS HOW TO START A WAR! THIS IS HOW TO CREATE AN ENEMY!
We are not countries. We are not nations. We are not religions. We are not gods. We are not weapons. We are not ammunition.(enemy) We are not killers. We will NOT be tools.
Mother fuckers I will not die I will not kill I will not be your slave I will not fight your battle I will not die on your battlefield I will not fight for your wealth I am not a fighter I am a human being!!!
But to say that things in Afghanistan were *better* under the Taliban is either a pathetic F'ing joke, or proof you've jumped the shark.
Personally, I don't care if things are better or worse for the Afghans. They attacked my country, and AFAIC they're just damned lucky they're not a radioactive hole in the ground.
If Pakistan doesn't stop coddling the God Damned Taliban, we should attack them, too. Iraq, on the other hand, well, we have no business being there. Bush (and most of Congress) should be impeached and tried for treason for that clucterfuck.
Either something is really wrong with the internal architecture of Windows/Direct3D or MS is just being dishonest claiming that it can't be made available for XP.
Considering their history, my guess would be dishonesty. mcgrew's razor: never attribute to incompetence that which can be adequately explained by greedy self-interest.
"Blow" is the powdered form of cocaine. Most of the drug addicted hookers smoke crack cocaine, not powdered coke. Although some of the ones I know are heroin junkies, some are alcoholics, and some aren't addicted to anything except money (those are my favorites).
I pay 'em in cash, let 'em buy their own damned dope!
I'm 56, "georgeous" was a typooo (and you know what I meant by the misspelled word anyway), How do you know "George" isn't a woman (I know women named Sam and Charlie)?...and it's been a long, long time since I was with a woman that good looking!
Lets just put an ounce of it in his glove box, call crimestoppers, and nobody will see him for five to twenty years. I mean, if you really hate the guy...
I buy them at garage sales for fifty cents each; the rich dumbasses I buy them from pay tons of money fo rthem, wear them once or twice, and practically give them away.
Vista, much as we love to hate it here, isn't that bad with SP1 installed.
I don't hate Vista. Of course, that's because I've not used it. To hate it without having tried it would be rather illogiacl and irrational.
remember the people bleating about how they'd never put XP on their machines. How they were sticking with 98se forever.
I would have, too, if I hadn't lost the driver CD for my video card. They stopped supporting 98. If I can get Linux to read my second (large) drive, the one with the data, the one Mandriva (older distro) thinks subdirectories are files, I'm ditching Windows completely. The "activation" crap is the last straw for me.
If it's a hot 'n sweaty night with a someone you consider "love" then "yes".
Another word for sex is, after all, "making love". My newest girlfriend is great! Young (half my age), georgeous, great in bed, and costs less than dinner with a non-professional!
It could work if this is the company that did commercials for Pontiac, Ford, Chevy, and Schlitz.
"At Ford, quality is job one!" Poor quality, their work is cut our for them "Pontiac: we build excitement!" Bad brakes, poor handling "Chevy: Like a rock!" Damned thing won't start. "When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of beer." The stuff's so nasty that nobody will drink it if there's any other brand in the fridge.
So following these fine examples of truthful ads, I suggest to Microsoft:
"Vista: Bigger and badder than ever!" "Linux runs on supercompuers. Vista runs on your computer." "Macs are for rich little girls" "In your heart, you know Vista's right" (borrowing from Richard Nixon's sucessful right wing campaign ad "Vista: Because nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft!"
The procedure is a vitrectomy. The eye's vitreous is removed, and the floaters as well. It's a dangerous procedure that can cause total and irreversible blindness and very often causes a marked decrease in perepheral vision.
I don't think the wikipedia article is accurate; it says "the original purpose of vitrectomy was to remove clouded vitreous - usually containing blood" but if the eye bleeds internally, the blood will go away. I suffered a torn retina, and there was so much blood the eye was completely blind for a while. The doctor had to use a sonogram to determine if the retina was damaged.
It's performed to repair a detached retina. If the retina is somply torn, it can be repaired with a laser or a supercooled probe held to the sclera (white of the eye).
I would not wish a vitrectomy on anyone!!! It is an emergency procedure; a detached retina will always cause total and irreversible blindness if untreated.
In the vitrectomy for retinal detachment, the vitreous is replaced ny a nitrogen bubble. You have to keep your head held down, looking at the floor, for a week or two after the surgery, with a ten minute break each hour. The nitrogen is gradually replaced by new vitreous.
I'm pretty sure your floaters would have to be VERY bad, with vision not correctable to better than 20/200, for a surgeon to perform it.
A detached retina has two causes: a blow to the head (boxers and auto accident victims get them) and extreme nearsightedness; a nearsighted eyeball is oblong shaped, putting stress on the retina from the vitreous when the eye moves.
I journaled about the ordeal of the vitrectomy. (harsh language in th ejournal; may not be sfw).
I was very lucky. My eyesight is so far excellent; I'm supposed to see Dr. Odin this afternoon. Howeve, one thing I need to ask him about is my iris doesn't seem to be working properly.
If your floaters seem to get worse, see your eye doctor immediately! Especially if you are nearsighted.
the only difference between the people running in my park and the Olympics is the speed. And the drugs
Oddly, runners ARE drug addicts. The drug they are addicted to is endorphins. Endorphins are the body's natural pain killers, and the only reason heroin works is because it fits the body's endorphin receptors.
Endorphins are endogenous opioid polypeptide compounds. They are produced by the pituitary gland and the hypothalamus in vertebrates during strenuous exercise [1],[2], excitement, and orgasm[3]; and they resemble the opiates in their abilities to produce analgesia and a sense of well-being. Endorphins work as "natural fever relievers", whose effects may be enhanced by other medications.
The only difference between a runner and a heroin addict is that a heroin junkie isn't likely to run out from behind a truck right in front of your car like the idiot runners do, and he doesn't shoot up in the middle of the street.
You're confusing the Chinese with the Taliban. The Taliban beheads people, while the Chinese shoot them in the head and charge their families for the bullet.
Considering I don;t really give a damn, and wont bother to invesitage further, I find it interesting that A: There's no Wiki, and B: On the MediaSentry wiki, it says they were hired for this, and C: http://www.mediasentry.com/ does not redirect to http://www.safenet-inc.com/ it only mentions that SafeNet now owns MediaSentry, but MediaSentry still exists as a company.
How do Chinese censorship laws differ from American drug laws? If the Chinese "thugs" punish innocent people, the American secret police (AKA "undercover agents" and "plainclothes police") and the masked thugs from the DEA also punish innocent people. I was one of their victimes last year; searched without warrant, made to stand in the July Illinois heat for an hour, and let go because there were in fact no drugs.
Glass houses, folks. If you're American, rather than working to free the Chinese, how about working to free us Americans?
I smelled gasoline, and started looking for a good place to check things out. As I started eyeing the shoulder, a "WOOMP!!" sound came out from under the hood, along with thick black smoke. The engine died at the same time, and I wrestled the car to the side of the road.
Power steering and power brakes are great... until you have no power.
There were flames licking around the hood, and I tossed the thermos out and got an old coat from the trunk to try and beat the flames out. I pulled the hood release- and it came out by a foot. I ran around to the front and started beating at the flames with the old coat.
A guy stopped, and had a fire extinguisher. I emptied it as he called 9-11. Which, the policeman later noted, were the last three digits of my vehicle identification number.
2 K is 2 Kelvin, not 2 thousand. The "damn n00b" was using the proper standard scientific units for temperature.
Well, if it had the degree symbol between the 2 and the K.
For those in the US, two degrees kelvin is roughly a bazillgian degrees below zero.
As I sat down one evening, 'teas in a small cafe A forty year old waitress to me these words did say: "Well I see that you are a logger, and not just a common bum, 'Cause nobody but a logger stirs his coffee with his thumb."
"My lover was a logger, there's none like him today. If you'd pour whiskey on it, he would eat a bale of hay! Well, he never shaved his whiskers from off of his horny hide. He'd drive them in with a hammer, and bite them off inside."
"My lover came to see me, upon one freezing day He held me in his fond embrace (which broke three vertebrae) Well he kissed me when we parted, so hard he broke my jaw I could not speak to tell him, he'd forgot his mackinaw."
"I saw my lover leaving, sauntering through the snow Going gaily homeward at forty-eight below. The weather it tried to freeze him, it tried its level best At a hundred degrees below zero, he buttoned up his vest."
"It froze clear through to China, it froze the stars above. At a thousand degrees below zero, it froze my logger love. And so I lost my lover, and to this cafe I come, And here I wait till someone stirs his coffee with his thumb"
It's cold. DAMN cold! How cold? Ask the guy with the frozen thumb!
First, regular DVD's audio quality is good enough; I only have three way jensons with tewlve inch woofers. I can tell the difference between a CD and an MP3 but I can't tell the difference between DVD audio and the theater, in fact it sounds better than some theaters. Of course, with 56 year old ears my meatware may be the hardware limitation here (my eyes are different; I have a high tech implant that replaces the focucing lens in my left eye, and all the "floaters" were removed when I had the vitrectomy. That eye now has better than 20/20 vision).
Having the extras on one disk isn't a selling point for me; I rarely watch teh extras anyway, but when I do changing disks isn't a problem. Having to change disks in the middle of a movie would be problematic, but I've never seen a movie that needed that, not even Dune.
I'll have to take your word that the 90+ seconds is bullshit, but before I buy one I'll definitely have to see for myself.
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A soldier would rather not be doing his job and while they think they have to kill they do not think they are going to heaven because they are doing it. A suicide bomber believes that by *intentionally* killing a bus of women, kids, and elderly they are earning heaven.
But to say that things in Afghanistan were *better* under the Taliban is either a pathetic F'ing joke, or proof you've jumped the shark.
Personally, I don't care if things are better or worse for the Afghans. They attacked my country, and AFAIC they're just damned lucky they're not a radioactive hole in the ground.
If Pakistan doesn't stop coddling the God Damned Taliban, we should attack them, too. Iraq, on the other hand, well, we have no business being there. Bush (and most of Congress) should be impeached and tried for treason for that clucterfuck.
Either something is really wrong with the internal architecture of Windows/Direct3D or MS is just being dishonest claiming that it can't be made available for XP.
Considering their history, my guess would be dishonesty. mcgrew's razor: never attribute to incompetence that which can be adequately explained by greedy self-interest.
Flying drones from halfway-across the world used to be considered a cushy military job
I'm a flying drone and I can tell you, after flying all the way across the ocean your arms get tired pretty fast!
The guy at the controls is under stress, too.
(Damn it, I wanted to post anonymously but since I made a comment 17 minutes ago I can't)
"Blow" is the powdered form of cocaine. Most of the drug addicted hookers smoke crack cocaine, not powdered coke. Although some of the ones I know are heroin junkies, some are alcoholics, and some aren't addicted to anything except money (those are my favorites).
I pay 'em in cash, let 'em buy their own damned dope!
Hey, it's your planet too!
I'm 56, "georgeous" was a typooo (and you know what I meant by the misspelled word anyway), How do you know "George" isn't a woman (I know women named Sam and Charlie)? ...and it's been a long, long time since I was with a woman that good looking!
Lets just put an ounce of it in his glove box, call crimestoppers, and nobody will see him for five to twenty years. I mean, if you really hate the guy...
I buy them at garage sales for fifty cents each; the rich dumbasses I buy them from pay tons of money fo rthem, wear them once or twice, and practically give them away.
At least this is better than something dangerous to my person and my planet, like an SUV.
Microsoft ad
Bill Gates giving speech to Harvard class
Grabbit and Runne? They fired Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe?
Vista, much as we love to hate it here, isn't that bad with SP1 installed.
I don't hate Vista. Of course, that's because I've not used it. To hate it without having tried it would be rather illogiacl and irrational.
remember the people bleating about how they'd never put XP on their machines.
How they were sticking with 98se forever.
I would have, too, if I hadn't lost the driver CD for my video card. They stopped supporting 98. If I can get Linux to read my second (large) drive, the one with the data, the one Mandriva (older distro) thinks subdirectories are files, I'm ditching Windows completely. The "activation" crap is the last straw for me.
If it's a hot 'n sweaty night with a someone you consider "love" then "yes".
Another word for sex is, after all, "making love". My newest girlfriend is great! Young (half my age), georgeous, great in bed, and costs less than dinner with a non-professional!
It could work if this is the company that did commercials for Pontiac, Ford, Chevy, and Schlitz.
"At Ford, quality is job one!" Poor quality, their work is cut our for them
"Pontiac: we build excitement!" Bad brakes, poor handling
"Chevy: Like a rock!" Damned thing won't start.
"When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of beer." The stuff's so nasty that nobody will drink it if there's any other brand in the fridge.
So following these fine examples of truthful ads, I suggest to Microsoft:
"Vista: Bigger and badder than ever!"
"Linux runs on supercompuers. Vista runs on your computer."
"Macs are for rich little girls"
"In your heart, you know Vista's right" (borrowing from Richard Nixon's sucessful right wing campaign ad
"Vista: Because nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft!"
The procedure is a vitrectomy. The eye's vitreous is removed, and the floaters as well. It's a dangerous procedure that can cause total and irreversible blindness and very often causes a marked decrease in perepheral vision.
I don't think the wikipedia article is accurate; it says "the original purpose of vitrectomy was to remove clouded vitreous - usually containing blood" but if the eye bleeds internally, the blood will go away. I suffered a torn retina, and there was so much blood the eye was completely blind for a while. The doctor had to use a sonogram to determine if the retina was damaged.
It's performed to repair a detached retina. If the retina is somply torn, it can be repaired with a laser or a supercooled probe held to the sclera (white of the eye).
I would not wish a vitrectomy on anyone!!! It is an emergency procedure; a detached retina will always cause total and irreversible blindness if untreated.
In the vitrectomy for retinal detachment, the vitreous is replaced ny a nitrogen bubble. You have to keep your head held down, looking at the floor, for a week or two after the surgery, with a ten minute break each hour. The nitrogen is gradually replaced by new vitreous.
I'm pretty sure your floaters would have to be VERY bad, with vision not correctable to better than 20/200, for a surgeon to perform it.
A detached retina has two causes: a blow to the head (boxers and auto accident victims get them) and extreme nearsightedness; a nearsighted eyeball is oblong shaped, putting stress on the retina from the vitreous when the eye moves.
I journaled about the ordeal of the vitrectomy. (harsh language in th ejournal; may not be sfw).
I was very lucky. My eyesight is so far excellent; I'm supposed to see Dr. Odin this afternoon. Howeve, one thing I need to ask him about is my iris doesn't seem to be working properly.
If your floaters seem to get worse, see your eye doctor immediately! Especially if you are nearsighted.
Tough room!
the only difference between the people running in my park and the Olympics is the speed.
And the drugs
Oddly, runners ARE drug addicts. The drug they are addicted to is endorphins. Endorphins are the body's natural pain killers, and the only reason heroin works is because it fits the body's endorphin receptors.
The only difference between a runner and a heroin addict is that a heroin junkie isn't likely to run out from behind a truck right in front of your car like the idiot runners do, and he doesn't shoot up in the middle of the street.
You're confusing the Chinese with the Taliban. The Taliban beheads people, while the Chinese shoot them in the head and charge their families for the bullet.
Considering I don;t really give a damn, and wont bother to invesitage further, I find it interesting that A: There's no Wiki, and B: On the MediaSentry wiki, it says they were hired for this, and C: http://www.mediasentry.com/ does not redirect to http://www.safenet-inc.com/ it only mentions that SafeNet now owns MediaSentry, but MediaSentry still exists as a company.
That's why I prefer Uncyclopedia! Far superior for serious research! Here's the Safenet wiki!
These thugs punish innocent people.
How do Chinese censorship laws differ from American drug laws? If the Chinese "thugs" punish innocent people, the American secret police (AKA "undercover agents" and "plainclothes police") and the masked thugs from the DEA also punish innocent people. I was one of their victimes last year; searched without warrant, made to stand in the July Illinois heat for an hour, and let go because there were in fact no drugs.
Glass houses, folks. If you're American, rather than working to free the Chinese, how about working to free us Americans?
Would the Microsoft employees and other MS apologists explain to me again how Windows' insecurity is only due to its popularity?
Um, .... Did you not see the rest of the post? ;)
For those in the US, two degrees kelvin is roughly a bazillgian degrees below zero.
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Massive 911 coincidence? My life is full of coincidences. From a five year old K5 diary
2 K is 2 Kelvin, not 2 thousand. The "damn n00b" was using the proper standard scientific units for temperature.
Well, if it had the degree symbol between the 2 and the K.
For those in the US, two degrees kelvin is roughly a bazillgian degrees below zero.
It's cold. DAMN cold! How cold? Ask the guy with the frozen thumb!
First, regular DVD's audio quality is good enough; I only have three way jensons with tewlve inch woofers. I can tell the difference between a CD and an MP3 but I can't tell the difference between DVD audio and the theater, in fact it sounds better than some theaters. Of course, with 56 year old ears my meatware may be the hardware limitation here (my eyes are different; I have a high tech implant that replaces the focucing lens in my left eye, and all the "floaters" were removed when I had the vitrectomy. That eye now has better than 20/20 vision).
Having the extras on one disk isn't a selling point for me; I rarely watch teh extras anyway, but when I do changing disks isn't a problem. Having to change disks in the middle of a movie would be problematic, but I've never seen a movie that needed that, not even Dune.
I'll have to take your word that the 90+ seconds is bullshit, but before I buy one I'll definitely have to see for myself.