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It would be very irresponsible for the police to elude details that would be 'leading' to the public. Heck, the average american with only a short glimpse probably couldnt' even guess the right continent, much less the right ethnic group. 'Dark skinned' is just causing people to assume. The AK-47 statement is leading, imho, and needless if it is the wrong caliber. If this goes on it might be very uncomfortable, again, for Arabic citizens in D.C. If I were the police I would try my b

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I am troubled. I jsut read an article that is very confusing to me: http://www.nydailynews.com/front/breaking_news/story/27522p-26160c.html Witnesses they are citing are convinced the weapon was an AK-47. The trouble is that that weapon is not produced in .223 (5.56mm) caliber. There is enough differece in the metallurgy and size of the two calibers that there would be no way that the bullets could be confused forensically, not even in fragments, imho. The odd push toward t

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Jafo: yup, you're right. So are the ten commandents, enforcement is the problem... What amazes me is that people understand that, though they are illegal, anyone can get drugs anytime they want them, anywhere in the world. Those same people, though, think that outlawing guns will make them impossible to get. I know people who would make the argument to legalize marajuana and outlaw guns in

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p.s. in reference to the terrorism thing, I just heard on the news that a witness identified a "dark-skinned" shooter, in the words of the reporter "arab or hispanic, but not black". this troubles me. Can a white guy not have a tan? I would really find it hard to believe that any arab terrorist would leave behing a Tarot card (which is a no-no itself) inscribed with the words "I am God". ignore me, I'm rambling. I've been staring at .maki files too long... like I needed ano

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Did a bit of research. It seems to be The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878: "Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both." I'm not sure how Kent State could have happened in light of that. Pehaps Viet Nam era scholars could c

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Jafo: i think that when all is said and done, we'll find that the weapon he is using is a bolt-action hunting or target rifle. The only spent case they have found, as I understand it, is the one that was with the Tarot card. That would classify as a 'non-self-loading' hunting firearm. That type rifle is legal in many countries with harsh gun laws (inclduing Australia, if I understand your laws), and would be one of the last ones to go if our nation adopted stronger laws. All those sold here a

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paxx: I think I go as far out of my way as I can to find alternative points of view. I know that some people in all these countries love America, but if their government and most-vocal citizens take an anti-american stance, I can't very well show any support for them out of faith. I know my original shopping comments irked ya, I'm sorry. If, though, it is in my nation's interest to fly warplanes from point a to point b, and a nation in between says 'no', I am probably not

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Kinrik: this is me taking breaks while skinning. Well, actually right now I am taking a break from writing content for my site ( a review of an H.P. Lovecraft biography ), but I've been skinning... I have a wallpaper I am itching to release, but I wanna wait til my site is up. I'm just painfully dissatisfied with the apps I am looking at, or I am painfully blind to their possiblities. For God's sake, I am actually desperate enough to be pondering Stardock apps... Most of u

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Lecrayon: you know you are making absolutely no sense, right? paxx: point taken, but my point was that it really makes no difference if the people are brainwashed citizens of a dictatorship or well-read citizens of free countries. As in your example, if you feel strongly about birth control, you can't just ignore the vatican's stance, that is your opposition. You're not suggest that I find out if people hate america by ignoring all the people who hate America are ya? If the silent

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Lecrayon: I see no honest rebuttal, just weepy tirades against reality. Things happen, regardless of your personal distaste. I can't help that. There are a lot of people in awful parts of the world living in conditions where they don't have the option of offering 'love' to terrorists. The people in Bali had no option to retreat. The innocent people being killed now are not making war. How do they practice your philosophy? What would you suggest? Die peacefully? People are screa

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paxx: I'm not gonna argue definitions with ya, but I think you are off a bit. I don't frequent terrorist news services, or even fringe services like al J. There are no muslim democracies, that I am aware of. China certainly controls the thoughts of its people. That said, it is possible that all the people that hate America around the world are brain-washed. How, though, does that change anything? You still have to live in a world that is boobytrapped with those opinions. Is a br

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Jafo: What OS are you using? Many of the cd's I burned on my old HP burner won't read well on 2000, and yet they read fine on 98se. If you can't read it on one, try the other.

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I doubt it is al qaida. If it were the standard 7.62 AK round that terrorists are usually trained with, I would be more apt to wonder. Last time I bought ammunition 5.56mm was much less available than 7.62 rounds, mainly because of all the chinese surplus SKS rifles and ammunition that flooded the US a few years back. I would assume whoever is using this caliber is doing so both because of its ballistics, moderate supressability, and the horrible damage it causes. I have fired hundreds of ro

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Paxx: Sadly, I don't just watch TV. I'm not getting uppity with ya, Paxx, but Americans have both a free press and the freedom to look for other sources of information. DOn't let your mistrust of the press allow you to make up reality. I have a good number of islamic news sites in my favorites right now. There are plenty of ways to guage opinion outside the press, as well. Sure, the people could be robots, or brainwashed, or whatever, but sooner or later you have to say, "yup, that was eno

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We had a cease fire agreement, he didn't keep his end of it. I'm not sure where the confusion is, or why weapons of mass destruction even need to enter into it. There were open celebrations in many countries in the middle east, though the one most talked about was in the Palestinian Authority. Chinese newspapers openly said that we were getting what we deserved. What really represented the tone against america, though, were the tons of interviews with educated, regular folks from all

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might this have been a pop-up advertisment? If you are connected to the internet, I would doubt that your computer could be making telephone calls at the same time, unless you had two modems and two lines.

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oooo, self-promotion AND pr0n... you lucky dog...

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japanese.about.com has a bunch of good lessons. If you can get the characters into a text box, you could use babelfish to translate them. congrats on the spotlight. Good to hear they are honest.

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paxx: You grant the people in question far too much intellectual and ethical credit when you project your own thinking on them. I read the Chinese news opinions of 9-11, I saw people celebrating in the streets, and I heard praise for the attack come from mouths that I could have tutored in college. I was an English tutor at a school that had a high number of students from the middle east, many from royal (read: fascist) families. That was during the the Gulf War, so this isn't the f

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I just think that people really underestimate the good will of the American people, even towards our 'enemies'. My anger comes from the fact that the 'man-on-the-street' opinion towards the American people seems a lot more bleak throughout the world... I have seen too many smug, post 9-11 polls, demonstrations, and flaming effigies to believe differently. I will be very choosy how I show my support for these places; vocally, or as a traveler/consumer. Paxx is wrong to say I co

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lol... and of course you can't show raw html... anyhoo... the link works

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That's according to www3schools ( http://www.w3schools.com/flash/flash_inhtml.asp ) . I don't remember doing it exactly like that, but whatever works.

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Paxx: As for what kind of attitude it is, it is a bad one. Forgive me, after years of listening to griping and whining about the America the Bully, America the destroyer of French (and however many other) Cultures, America the ruin of the third world; i am finally starting to feel the sting. I was born in 1970. It is all I have ever heard. My LANGUAGE is considered a destructive force in some nations... Man-on-the-street interviews anywhere in the world will get you opinions like the ones a

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