Talal Hussein, the local Hamas representative (in Syria): "Iraqis are losing the war because they don't have the real Islamic faith. If the situation requires it, the jihad against the Americans will continue," he said. "If the Iraqis asked us to stop fighting, we wouldn't because their request would be a result of American pressure. No-one would ask a fighter to stop a jihad against an occupier"
re: post #9 it should read "HTML-kit is a great app"...
Dave, I dig ya and all, but you really sound like a cornball when you say stuff like that. You make strings of little facts and then tie them together insider details. Anyone really thinking about what they read will see the leaps. Anyway, if people *did* imagine that terrorists might hijack planes and run them into buildings, what could have been done about it? *AFTER* 9/11 you couldn't get people to tolerate the kind of security it takes to prevent that. You think they would
Lexeyes is another desktop toy, and it is skinnable, too. http://www.steinke.net/lexeyes/ I have had fun with it.
Styl skinner: You'll connect to your database from whatever scripting language you are using, since database software is generally a seperate app. Your Apache config shouldn't have anything to do with it. In php with MySQL you would use the mysql_connect() function.
Don't use an app. I know it sounds all 'l33t' but honestly apps are for people who already know how to make pages. It saves them time, not the original education. HTML is a great app, I use it myself, but as a notepad/macro/template tool, not a drag and drop HTML creator. Go here: www.w3schools.com Once you have a grasp of HTML ( probably no more than an afternoon ) and can debug what an webdesign app screws up, you can comfortably use one. Dreamweaver's learn
LMAO... "We will welcome them with bullets and shoes." Substitute 'bullets' with 'handbags' and it would be a shopping Mecca!!
Economically, Iraq wasn't that bad off. Politically, on the other hand, if you weren't in, you were out. It wasn't their oil, it was Saddam's. He decided who was well-fed. With the second largest oil reserves in the world, poverty would pretty much have to be malicious intent. I think Iraq's problem was more of a lack of an economy... Even with the much-maligned 1% of Americans owning the majority of the wealth, no money is being withheld from anyone here. It flows freely. If you
i'm back... Everything that everyone does is 'in their own interest', or they wouldn't do it. Being responsible is deciding whose interest the action is *counter* to. If you pretend that oil is the point, the world is still bettered by removing Saddam Hussein. Those opposed to the war leave him in place and make him wealthier and stronger militarily... oh, and they get the oil, too. Why talk about it? That part is over. ** I really wonder if people know what the w
"can't even patrol the US or feed the US or babysit the US" I get so tired of statements like that. We are the fattest, laziest nation on Earth. People are *paid* not to work here, and even with that we only have around 5% unemployment. We have a national guard that dwarfs the military of most nations and a huge police population. Most of the world have no concept of 'minimum wage'. My family has lived in Eastern Kentucky since the late 1700's, and for most of that time it
Antifreeze in the bird feeder? Would teach those pesky squirrels a lesson, too...
Regime change!! Ah, give it a year and we'll be dragging his statue's head through the messageboard and whacking it with a sandal...
I sing the praises of the inexpensive, reliable BB gun!
paxx: legitimate!=popular. The UN simply allows a democratic facade to be imposed upon the same Machiavellian political scheming that prevailed throughout the 'courts of Europe' and elsewhere. If someone would have told me a year ago that I would be sitting here arguing with a peacenik about how Russia and China are right and Saddam Hussein should be left in power, I would have laughed in their face. Don't you feel odd finding yourself in a crowd like that, protecting a regime like
paxx: considering North Korea has the ability to produce weapons-grade material *now*, and they are happy to supply Iraq with other military equipment in defiance of UN sanctions, I would say that time and expense are well within a tolerable level. Regardless, it ignores the fact that material like this is deadly even if it isn't refined further. The whole 'holier-than-thou' thing is really, really weak and hypocritical.
The line "The Iraqis were allowed to keep the material because it was unfit for weapons use without costly and time-consuming enrichment." really creeps me out. It sounds as if highly radioactive material is harmless unless it can be made to explode... or that "costly and time-consuming enrichment" would be something that would dissuade someone like Saddam Hussein.
Thibaud: hrm, doesn't seem to jive with the fact that they detected the radiation hundreds of yards away and that the facility itself was to hot to safely move around in. Unless, I suppose, it was sabotaged by Iraqis on their way out. It still seems insane to me that "Tuwaitha contains 1.8 tons of low-grade enriched uranium and several tons of natural and depleted uranium." and that, other than twice-a-year inspections, they were allowed to police themselves. I'm not sure how the IAE
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83821,00.html maybe that one will work...
Hrm. Perhaps someone here is more 'in-the-know' than I, but this story confuses me: http://web.mid-day.com/news/world/2003/april/49683.htm It seems we have found a site in Iraq that has radioactivity 'off the scale' of the detectors that the Marines carry, and that would be deadly if people came in contact with it for a reasonable amount of time. I know that many here don't like Rupert's news, but their link has more detail: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83821,
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paxx: You are above this kind of thing. Just like I am not gonna re-post statistics for the guy above, I'm not gonna post them for you. The only thing I will say is that between the years 1983 and 2000, the US was 11th on the list of military support of Iraq. After an expenditure of almost a hundred billion dollars, we will be a bit higher on the 'clean up the world's mess' list than those nations that were both the *main* supporters of his regime and the most vocal members of the Secu
executioned = executed. spell checker slip
I'm sorry, paxx, have I said anything that wasn't clear? I think it is pretty clear what I think about the Hague. You do realize they arrested Milosevic in April, 2001 and his first day in court was Feb. 12, 2002? He refuses to take his blood pressure medicine, and they give him a 'few days off'. He has refused a lawyer, and hasn't shown up 40 times . Hasn't shown up??? for a trial??? I mean, gah, paxx, doesn't that seem wussy, even for the Hague? Do you think I could go on
lol... i still can't get over that. Why not say "Time magazine made Adolf Hitler their man of the year over a decade ago!!" OMG!!! If ya think about it there were slaves picking cotton in the south over a decade ago!! Heinous!!! Where'd those dinosaurs go??? This Bush fellah has some 'splaining to do. When people talk about the US government you'd think it was just one long administration. Oh, wait, since a shadowy group of corporate Freemasons rule the world I
grizz660: your points have been dealt with on another string. A decade is 10 years, 2003-10=1993. Do you suck at history or math? I'm getting to the point that I don't care if these MTV newsheads educate themselves or not. I could waste a half hour cutting and pasting all the statistics I have posted a dozen times before, but then some other loon would wander in and start it all over again. I'm beyond caring if they realize they are passing around ignorant opinions. Social
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