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Because now you get to chase down an intermittent outage issue caused by a renegade protocol.-Stoic Joker (May 02, 2011, 10:32 PM)
New Rule:
After you've been on dc for 6 months and/or made 6 posts.. You may not leave.. Ever.-mouser (May 02, 2011, 09:41 PM)
Scampering back onto the original topic.
Apple Sucks!
-Stoic Joker (May 02, 2011, 03:19 PM)
"He may be dead, but in a way, he won. We gave up our rights. We passed a PatriotAct. We spent trillions on needless wars. Fear now rules us."
I've never dealt with Oracle, but anything resembling an automated (generic) transfer tends to make me nervous.-Stoic Joker (May 02, 2011, 01:37 PM)
Even sadder though, is that a lot of it boils down to "'we' hate..."-wraith808 (May 02, 2011, 01:29 PM)
heheh, "they hate our freedoms"; i've not heard that one before.-nudone (May 02, 2011, 12:59 PM)
I sooo love my PS3. I guess I would even have bought it had it been from Apple-phitsc (May 02, 2011, 02:36 AM)
However, this episode confirms my decision to take some time off and cool my head.-housetier (May 02, 2011, 11:00 AM)
So, what would you advocate? I ask this not with any sarcasm, I am truly curious as to what you think the alternative should be. When one party launches a military assault on a country, inflicting heavy civilian casualties, what should be done? Should it go unanswered, which would invite more attacks?
I should also remind you that a lot of the collateral damage is caused by cowards who take refuge in population centers and who use women and children as human shields. One of the four killed last night was a woman that one of the men was using as a human shield. This weekend there was a bombing in Iraq against civilians where they used a 12 year old boy as the suicide attacker. Where is your outrage at that?-edbro (May 02, 2011, 10:46 AM)
I'm old fashioned in that way- never women or children.-wraith808 (May 02, 2011, 09:18 AM)
What would you have us do?-edbro (May 02, 2011, 08:16 AM)
Have him stand trial.-housetier (May 02, 2011, 08:40 AM)
How can I still talk with you with you people if you condone even appluad killing a person, even more so killing without trial? I mean where is justice without a justice?
I am so sad, I don't know what to do. This used to be the nicest forum in the world. But right now I find it more and more repulsive. This is actually the fifth attempt trying to express my feelings in a more or less coherent way.
Should I ragequit? Should I speak up in that forum? Should I stfu>fo?
Is this still my forum?
I go cry now...-housetier (May 02, 2011, 08:37 AM)
And I'll counter this by saying that sometimes people just need killing...-wraith808 (May 02, 2011, 07:26 AM)
<sarcasm>It's a travesty if one of "us" gets killed, and justice when "we" kill one of "them". </sarcasm>
The level of hypocrisy in some places is, well... I leave that alone.-Renegade (May 02, 2011, 07:10 AM)
How about 2,977 of "us" to 1 of "them"?-wraith808 (May 02, 2011, 07:26 AM)
I, for one, do not think that killing people is a good thing.-housetier (May 02, 2011, 05:11 AM)
Highly reliable sources (the voices in my head) are reporting that the death of Osama Bin Laden is entirely thanks to him owning an iPhone, allowing his location to be tracked.
Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, is dead.
US president Barack Obama said bin Laden, the most-wanted fugitive on the US list, has been killed on Sunday in a US operation in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, about 150km north of Islamabad.
"Tonight, I can report to the people of the United States and the world, the United States had carried an operation that has killed Osama Bin Laden, a terrorist responsible for killing thousands of innocent people," Obama said in a statement.
"Today, at my direction, the United States carried out that operation... they killed Osama Bin Laden and took custody of his body.
"The death of Bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date against Al Qaeda.
"We must also reaffirm that United states is not and will never be at war against Islam. Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader, in fact, he slaughtered many Muslims," Obama said.
To quote Jack from LOST, "Are you insane?"-Renegade (May 01, 2011, 01:29 PM)
While debatable it's really not the central point...-Stoic Joker (May 01, 2011, 01:56 PM)
