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David: read my post to paxx. It smacks of opportunism when you guys start ranting the moment a bomb drops, and never present an alternative to the bombs. If you want to show that you care about the victims of war, decide what should be done about Saddam Hussein's treatment of his people, or what he might do to others. Hell, if you can find a way to avert wars without aggression, why deny the world your wisdom? Don't waste your time talking about the past, pony up and work on the future! <

Reply to US is going to war tomarrow... dang... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

alo_cmr: There is always a lunatic in every discussion here. I would have put my money elsewhere. among all the other babbling, you said concerning the scud missiles: "Nop, everybody knew they have it, just the are short-medium range missiles and the have the right to have them." A scud missile has a range of up to 650 km, exceeding the 150-km maximum limit. They were banned there to prevent Hussein from hitting Israel or Kuwait. Surprise... Regardless Ira

Reply to US is going to war tomarrow... dang... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Dave: be serious, you sound like you are wearing an aluminum foil hat. I would have loved to hear your opinion on attacking Al Queda *before* 9/11. "Hey Dave! Whataya think about the US riding into Afghanistan and enacting regime change? Heck, they might attack us someday!" Can you imagine the statistics I would have had thrown at me? How small and outdated their military is, how far away they are, how we pumped them full of money... Who'd a thunk that 20 guys

Reply to US is going to war tomarrow... dang... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Paxx: I recall people *in the United States* claiming it wasn't a big deal and that we brought it on ourselves. US celebrities characterized the hijackers as 'brave'. Many parties in Asia, the Middle East and Europe claimed we deserved it, openly. I don't think it was much of a reprieve from the usual angst. I'm happy you are safe where you are, paxx, but I think your comfort is much more responsible for your ethos than logic is.

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davidk: "No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent peacekeeper. " When, exactly, have we ever been a considered a "benevolent peacekeeper?" When have we *ever* undertaken anything that wasn't harshly criticized or begrudgingly agreed to, in the last, say, 60 years? Where is this natural state of "peace" that we are foiling, DavidK? In Iraq, where Coalition planes protect people from genocide? Is it in the homes of people the Iraqi regime rapes, tor

Reply to US is going to war tomarrow... dang... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

"If anything, the fact that the US are far more likely to use military force in Iraq than they ever would in any of those other countries you mentioned makes a far better example of racism. " huh? gah, the babble... We would be just as likely to come to the military aid of the French, Austrian, or Australian people if they were being treated as Saddam Hussein treats his own, and we'd be just as functionally careful to prevent civilian deaths. War is war, people die. Dictator

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greyhaze: if you can stand by and say that ending the suffering of Kurds and other dissenting ethic and religious groups in Iraq by force is wrong, and the same time if happened in Australia, or Belgium, or Austria you'd actually feel more inclined to aid forcefully, then yes, that is a racist or at least discriminatory ideal. Immediate and decisive force is palatable to the world when the oppressed are Judeo-Christian, but not when they are of other races and religions. The holocaust

Reply to US is going to war tomarrow... dang... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I dunno why people talk out of their asses... the original great-granddaddy of the internet was called the ARPAnet. ARPA: "ARPA - DoD directive 5105.15 establishing the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was signed on February 7, 1958." ARPA later became: "DARPA - On March 23, 1972, by DoD Directive, the name was changed to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). DARPA was established as a separate defense agency under the Offic

Reply to US is going to war tomarrow... dang... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I wish i could remember the name of it, but I watched a documentary the other day. It was about how France was occupied by Germany, and how the process worked. After about 15 minutes i was scratching my head. It was a long series of interviews with teary-eyed French men and women, but they were teary-eyed because of the memories of their German friends. 'So-and-So was a perfect gentleman, and paid us well for the time he stayed with us'. It recounted how many french landowners actua

Reply to US is going to war tomarrow... dang... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

sig: my point was in reference to the many claims that the US has no moral authority, and is hypocritical because we bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic weapons. Those same people would never hint that we didn't have the moral authority to do *more* damage to the German people, under the same circumstances, and for the same reasons. Why? Because we see the WW2 Nazi government as a genocidal machine, and we see the WW2 Japanese as simple combatants on the other side. Such opinio

Reply to US is going to war tomarrow... dang... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Do you think that if even france's humble military came to Iraq's aid that we would engage them? Do you think we would face the russian or chinese military in our quest for Saddam? If the dissenting UN nations wanted to stop the US from attacking, they could, easily. If the world felt as strongly as it claims, there would be no end to the human shields and military support flowing into Iraq, instead of the hordes of antsy bureaucrats fleeing, and everyone else calculating their prof

Reply to US is going to war tomarrow... dang... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Ask me why I don't look in that often... Every other post alienates me and vilifies my beliefs, but sure crea, i'm all 'serious and stuff', i'll go away and let you guys have your circle jerk.

Reply to US is going to war tomarrow... dang... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

*************** If you read any of this, read this part ********************* I am so sick of people who can mourn the dead in Nagasaki, and forget the untold numbers that were raped, tortured, experimented upon, and finally killed in mainland Asia by the Japanese; or the *children* the Japanese government were pressing into service and sending off to die. Did german soldiers man the bomb factories in Germany? Heck no, it was a civilian population churning out

Reply to How do you handle put-downs on your work? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I don't care that much about publicly posted comments. a) they are public, i.e. you don't have to have any qualifications to leave them beyond a valid email address. b) They are public, i.e. they are a form of grandstanding wherein someone can take the traffic headed to your work and do a little show for them, like people who clean your windshield at at traffic light. I have really, really good luck with comments most times. The paper I have here has a string

Reply to Rips - A discussion in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I think one has to separate concepts of material, shape, etc., from what we consider capable of being 'ripped'. Right now, if i went back and re-did a couple of my older skins, i would doubtlessly be accused of ripping newer stuff. I have an old skin that looks a lot like a site theme here. There is skin at devart right now that looks like about 3 of my old ones put together. How will I fare if i ever start skinning again and bring them back? In order for our rights to be taken seri

Reply to Important Statement in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

...and like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

Reply to The Skin Patch Debate in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

having pondered it a bit more... Mix and matching total works are just complex ways of delivering the content to the user. Nothing is really created, technically; it is just a 'serving suggestion', or packaging. Patching, on the other hand manipulates or changes the original work, even if it is "just" the skin settings or scripting. Lets not forget the scripting skill it takes to makes these skins work. Will the graphics be the only protected part? If the work, like Adobe Phot

Reply to Google Invading your privacy? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

§tatic : "an IP is not personnal never has been never will be" actually, that's not true. There are ongoing legal battles with US law enforcement and various commercial entities to force ISPs to cough up the user info for particular IP addresses. Even if you have a dynamic IP, your ISP will know who was using that addy. Verizon is appealing a court order to tell the RIAA who was swapping music on a particular IP. We'll see how it goes. but as i said, if you aren't doing any

Reply to Google Invading your privacy? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I would assume that selling *your* information is a bit overstated. No doubt that whenever it is compiled you are a simple, generic 'user', not associated with an IP. If they associated records with IPs in the final compilation of information, they would be in violation of COPPA, as i understand it. You have to *know* a user is over 13 to utilize records that include personally identifiable information (never mind that every server's logging does so, but then, what's a bit of reality

Reply to Oh Boy! Now I have a better chance of understanding all your discussions! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Cool!. Now if jafo can just get a strine-english/english-strine dictionary! lol Now if you want to be REALLY l33t, you have to bookmark this: http://www.logophilia.com/jargon/jargon.html The Jargon File has been around forever, and was created by Raphael Finkel at Stanford in 1975, and continues to be revised and updated to this day. You can find copies all over the place. I forget what the actual home of it is, but you can always google up a copy

Reply to Active Virus Alerts in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

lol. .com (internet suffix) != .com (file extension). easy to see why so many people fall for it, though.

Reply to The Skin Patch Debate in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

it's an enigma, shrouded in a mystery, wrapped in a tortilla, with some shredded lettuce and sour cream... I dunno. The concept of mix 'n match widgets is cool within a particular app, but when they start getting carted off to other apps the new skin is a derivative work, and only the original artist can authorize that. I could be misunderstanding, but this seems like more of a site/db issue. I don't think anyone is suggesting allowing the use of the original artist's graphics, so to

Reply to Can someone please make a wallpaper of a sax? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

hmmm, hot unbridled sax... no, wait. Nm, thought this was devart.

Reply to Must of been in a hole in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

My wife was plagued by one of her coworkers that was preaching the government recommendations: flashlights, batteries, food for three days, double checking the seals on your windows and doors. She, herself was going after work to buy duct tape to seal her windows. I was like, how farking stupid would you have to be? 3 Days worth of food? Have you seen the US government clean up *anything* in three days? As for power outages we have freak, terroristic thunderstorms and rogue, falling

Reply to The Monty Python thread in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Mousebender: You do have some cheese, do you? Wensleydale: Certainly, sir. It’s a cheese shop, sir. We’ve got. ... Mousebender: No, no, no, don’t tell me. I’m keen to guess.